I was recently doing some cleaning on our Read/Write Book Club website and ran into an interesting challenge. All of the books in the wiki are in a couple of categories, but I wanted them sorted right ignoring A, An and The beginning of the title. MediaWiki supports this in the …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: MediaWiki Template Filter TitleI have been doing a lot of exploration using MediaWiki and the Semantic MediaWiki suite of extensions. I’ve deployed a number of wikis doing a wide variety of things. For a few months I had been pondering the idea of hosting my own bookmarking site using Semantic MediaWiki. I …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Bookmarking with Semantic MediaWikiI ran this command in the wrong directory!
sudo find . -type f -print -exec rm '{}' \;
luckily the damage is repairable, but plenty bad… and if anyone gives me crap for not using xargs, I’m ignoring you… meant to run that in /srv/www/wordpress/fastcgi_cache. Instead arrowed up and hit return in /opt/etc/nginx. Yeah.
MinneBar 7 was just a little over a month ago and the videos the two sessions I did are now online. Running a Virtual Server with Confidence I gave one talk on Running a Virtual Server with Confidence. I got a lot of really good feedback from this session, people found it really …
Keep reading · 1 minute: My Sessions at MinneBar 7Just created my very first MediaWiki bot! It’s working like mad for me right now. 😊
My Running a VPS with Confidence session from Minnebar just got online.
Just sent a diff to add two Tag Cloud features to Semantic Results Format extension for Semantic MediaWiki.
I feel a growing desire to learn LaTeX.
Infinite scroll is torture for OCD types like me. You can never finish!
I was working on a template for one my personal wikis and needed to get the hostname for a given URL. Using the capabilities of the Parser Functions extension for MediaWiki I whipped up this template. I figured others may find this useful so here it is. The first version has a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: MediaWiki Template Get Hostname