Hello -- I stumbled upon your ArticleComments extension -- very nice. I'm looking for essentially the same thing, only I'd like the comments to end up on the main page, not the Talk page. Do you know of such an extension? If not, do you think it would make sense for me to start from your extension and modify it for what I want?

Thanks, paul at mike-schwartz dot com

--[mike-schwartz.com Paul Schwartz] 10:28, 16 March 2007 (MST)

I unfortunately don't know of one that already does this, but it would not be terribly difficult to add this to the existing extension.

The best way to do it is probably to add another configuration variable/parameter which controls whether comments are added to the page which contains the <comments> tag, or always to the talk page (default).

If you'd like to take a stab at it, feel free - I'm not sure when I'd get around to doing this myself.

--Jimbojw 12:18, 16 March 2007 (MST)

Just installed KeepYourHandsToYourself on lunarpedia.org and the even more fledging marspedia.org. On first glance the extension seems to work very well, will let you know if I experience any problems. Am sure my users will be as grateful to you as I am. Cheers and thank you.

--Mike Delaney 07:14, 19 March 2007 (MST)

Hi Mike, glad you like it! I'll be happy to troubleshoot if you should run into any issues.

--Jimbojw 08:06, 19 March 2007 (MST)

Hey Jim, I've been stumbling about the net looking for information on creating mediawiki themes as I'm in the slow process of setting up my own MediaWiki driven site. I was wondering if you would post an article, maybe just a few resources and tips, on how you created yours. Thanks a bunch!

--Charlie 09:20, 27 April 2007 (MST)

Hi Charlie,

I'm glad you're interested in skin development - it's certainly something for which there's a dearth of good documentation.

I'm currently finishing up a skin for another site which I plan to launch soon. After that, it's on my TODO list to refactor this skin. After that, I plan to write a "how to use MediaWiki for your blog" article, part of which will discuss BlogLike skins (this being one of them).

Stay tuned - it's coming, slowly but surely!

--Jimbojw 14:46, 27 April 2007 (MST)

hello, I am trying to get gtalk emoticons to work in gmail and for the life of me cannot figure it out.

I use firefox and gmail.

Could you list out the steps to take in getting them to work?

thanks xnman01<at>gmail.com

--hardie Logan 11:44, 6 June 2007 (MST)

Hi Jimbo, here are a couple tweaks for your awesome extensions, please keep the good work up. :-)

ArticleComments: Changing the SpecialPage::addPage call to SpecialPage::addPage(new SpecialPage('ProcessComment', , false, 'specialProcessComment', false)); removes the Special:ProcessComment from Special:Specialpages. You might also want to bump the version to 0.4.2 or 0.4.3, since version param to $wgExtensionCredits is still 0.4.1 even though 0.4.2 is released according to the changelog on the page. ;-)

And changing the normal $wgExtensionFunctions line to something like this helps a lot for parser hook extensions (like ShareThis) on modern (1.12+) MWs:

//Avoid unstubbing $wgParser too early on modern (1.12+) MW versions, as per r35980
if ( defined( 'MW_SUPPORTS_PARSERFIRSTCALLINIT' ) ) {
	$wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfShareThisExtensionSetup';
} else {
	$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfShareThisExtensionSetup';
}

It avoids unstubbing $wgParser on setHook() for MediaWikis with the ParserCallFirstInit hook present...and thus makes the wikis a bit faster.

Thanks again!

--Jack Phoenix 21:35, 19 June 2008 (MST)