Recent changes to feature-requests

different sidebar for different namespaces

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:28:58 -0000

I'd like to have two projects in the same wiki, but each of them needs an own sidebar with different links.

If possible individual monobook.css would be cool, too!

Improve the support for unload file other than images

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:39:09 -0000

We are trying to use 1.3.2 as internal communication
and documentation writing and file sharing platform so
upload is an important feature for us.

But,the link [[image:file.ext]] doesn't work for those
files. We have to find the real URL link for that file
manually and add the right link for it.

MediaWiki may be extened to handle image files and
other downloadable files separately.

I know somebody concerns the safety problem, but it
would be nice to provide more functionalities and give
users more choices.

Line spacing // MonoBook Skin

Sat, 04 Sep 2004 04:58:47 -0000

Using MonoBook skin:

(1) The spacing between lines is too large,

(2) and the spacing between paragraphs is too small.

It is difficult to see the separation of paragraphs, due to a
combination of the above.

Also, the current font, Helvetica for me in my Mac, it is not the
optimal font.

There used to be a time when Verdana was used, which was
fantastic! I believe there were complaints about Verdana, and
that's why it was replaced.

Can you make it an option to choose Verdana in the MonoBook
Skin preferences? Verdana is really pleasant for reading.

Thank you.

--Cantus.

Set up: Macintosh G4 / Safari / Mac OS X 10.3

Category redirect

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:49:40 -0000

In german there are two possibilities to write "Geographie" or
"Geografie".

Now, we have a discussion in the german langauge Wikipedia,
which spelling should be used. Unfortunately there are a lot of
variations in german language, especially in case of f or ph.
Therefore a Category redirect would be great, because this could
stop the discussion about the "correct" spelling, because both
are correct.

The traditionalists want ph, the others want f. A solution seems
to be impossible.

"Kategorie:Geographie" could include "#REDIRECT
[[Kategorie:Geografie]]" and it would be the same, if someone
uses the one or the other Category in a text. Is such a category
redirect possible?

Supporting

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:17:19 -0000

I know, that I can use http://.....xxx.jpg for implementing
pictures, instead of using [[Image:xxx.jpg]], but it would
be really great to implement Pictures with the html-tag
<img border="0" src="xxx.jpg" width="627" height="717">
for creating image-maps.

Fork branch & merge support

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:52:39 -0000

Provide support for branch & merging forks -- see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Branching_support for
explanation

Compare working copy with previous versions

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:28:36 -0000

The page "history" shows the available versions for an
article. The comparison is possible between them.
If I edit and perform a couple of changes, I would like
to see the differences from a stored version.
How do you think about to add a button "diff"
besides "display preview"?

Change from template maximum to no "cycles"

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:44:28 -0000

On Wikipedia, my signature was a little long, so i
decided to make a subpage of my user page for it, and
just set my sig to display that. Unfortunatley due to
the template maximum this means I can only display my
signature 5 times on a page now.

Since the 5 instance maximum for a template on a page
is meant to make sure that the templates cannot recurse
on a page, why not just make it such that a template
cannot call a template that is an ancestor of it? ie,
cannot call itself, cannot call a template that called
it, etc. This could be checked for during each page save.

This would allow as many instances of one particular
template as were necessary on a page without having to
worry about recursion.

Render UML diagrams from XML

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:52:19 -0000

Hi,

It would be really cool to have an XML notation that
could render UML diagrams. Something like:
<UML>
<Class Name="MyCustomClass">
<Property Name="Enabled" Type="Boolean" />
<Operation Name="AddSomething" ReturnValue="Integer"/>
<Parameter Name="somethingID" Type="Integer" />
</Operation>
</Class>
</UML>

This would produce a class called MyCustomClass, with a
property called "Enabled" which is a boolean. The class
has an operation called "AddSomething" which in c#
would look like this:
public int AddSomething(int somethingId);

Thanks,
Luke.

support for smileys / emoticons

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:33:49 -0000

what about auto-replacing sequences in the text like

:-)
:0|

.... (you know these)
with little images. Some email prgramms (mozilla-mail)
do this. It would help to express emotion e.g. on
discussion pages.