[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Small comments on 1.4.9-3

[Romain Beauxis]

Kai Hendry wrote:

>Built mediawiki from http://www.rastageeks.org/mediawiki for my sarge
>system at work. Planning to use it for holding documentation.
>
>Some small comments to an otherwise good looking package.
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>Typo in control description. maner should be manner
>
>The mediawiki-math's description could be be better. I was wondering do
>I really need this math thing? What is it for? I guess math fonts. So
>probably no.
>
>I'm not fond of capitalised letters in the middle of words. Wikipedia,
>not WikiPedia.
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Ok, this should be fixed in next releases.
BTW MediaWiki is indeed called with this case by the original authors, 
and words with capitalised letters in the middle are a very common thing 
in the wiki world, and this was the spelling that triggered a link in 
the original wiki, WikiWikiWeb: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JoinCapitalizedWords
But Wikipedia is spelled Wikipedia on their website so this should be fixed.

>When I edit a page and I click on Help:Editing, there is no
>documentation of Wiki syntax. I remember Moinmoin having this, so I
>don't see why this package shouldn't.
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This seems to be a feature from upstream release.
We are making a package for easy install, and we do not extend the 
software to any kind of way.
If you really miss this feature, maybe you should ask upstream directly.

>The images directory should be writable by default. That would save me
>from: debian$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/lib/mediawiki/images/
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Well, this should be the case, we have worked on it.
BTW chmod 777 is a bit -- hu -- unsecured: our choice was to chown to 
www-data and then chmod 700 the directory.
Did you have trouble with this after having it installed?


Romain