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outstanding

can we embedd Flash .swf file for display as per youTubes?


extensions

  • Quiz

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz

investigate


Quiz files installed

to test try

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Quiz http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Quiz-Simple http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Quiz

requires mediawiki 1.10


  • Slideshar

New embed Slideshare extension

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlideShare

Very simply, this extension permits authorship of real actual feeds. Until now the only feeds which were available from MediaWiki were those coming from Special:Recentchanges, or more recently article's history pages.

or WikiFeeds


http://cogdogblog.com/2007/03/16/floor-wax/


More extensions

extensions installed

DONE

  • search
  • favicon
  • YouTube + Googlevideo - Both done
  • the one for inputting a new page - decided we don't need it :-) done
  • RSS ( + magpierss ) done needs testing - works see sandbox
  • Adsense done but be careful with it

fixed

Enable upload of photos to wiki please? - done

Upload pdfs - Done

OK the rilgrey_01 is installed as an option under prefernces skins when you are logged in. It should be the default but isn't and may not be working properly or desired anyway.

task: find out why not default - fixed in localsettings

skins

http://demo.rilnet.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.ipbwiki.com/forums/index.php?dlcategory=12

logo

I like the one we've got. How about a favicon? Done

Feature Requests and issues

Categories - clicking on them returns an error message even if the page should exist

Pdfs - not quite sussed out linking yet, the link makes them look like image files and I can't get it to do a link to a name. (see Templates for examples) help?

Rss feed plug-in?

Add Comment ?

Creating a new page

the easy way...

Create an article - Type a title in the box below:


note that the current settings mean that you don't have to be logged in to create a new page.

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