http://mwusers.com/blog Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:12:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new site running on the MediaWiki platform, Sportiki covers the world of sports. Drop by and give them a look… this one has potential to become a very interesting site, and another positive step toward mainstreaming the Wiki platform. http://mwusers.com/blog/sportikicom-launched/ ReefPedia, a mediawiki-based site dedicated to the reef aquarium hobby, was launched earlier this week. Following the WikiPedia model, the site is the first wiki launched for the Reef Aquarists to collaborate on fish, coral and invertebrate species profiles, DIY projects, plumbing information, and more. http://mwusers.com/blog/reefpediacom-launches/ Today brings news announcements of a site set up for a class action lawsuit against the WikiMedia Foundation. Here’s an excerpt stating their intentions: There is a problem with the operation and functionality of Wikipedia. The basic problem is that none of the Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., nor any of ... http://mwusers.com/blog/and-the-vultures-step-in/ Over the last week, WikiPedia has come under increasing fire and criticism after issues of not only incorrect - but defamatory - content were raised. Today, WikiPedia announced that they will only allow registered members to post new articles. Edits to existing articles, however, can still be performed by anyone. Now ... http://mwusers.com/blog/it%e2%80%99s-a-good-start-wikipedia/ Using the Yahoo! Publisher Network instead of Adsense in the MWads hack is very simple. Just place the YPN ad code where the instructions tell you to place adsense code. Remember: Running Chitika with either YPN or adsense is fine. Running Adsense and YPN together… very, very bad. http://mwusers.com/blog/yahoo-publisher-network-with-mediawiki/ I have moved the Chitika and Adsense for MediaWiki hack here for posterity. http://mwusers.com/blog/mwads-hack-info-page/ I have tested the hack on a fresh install of MediaWiki 1.5.2 HERE and everything worked fine. One note: The Adsense Button ad unit won’t function unless you have replaced the default MediaWiki logo. If necessary, you can put an invalid URL for $wglogo in your LocalSettings.php document. Then no ... http://mwusers.com/blog/mwads-hack-update/ After having looked at the tutorial for using adsense with mediawiki, I adapted the changes to accommodate Chitika e-minimalls. While piecing that together, it made sense for me to add Google Adwords codes in the appropriate areas as well. What I ended up with was an all-in-one advertising solution ... http://mwusers.com/blog/hello-world/