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Archive for August 23rd, 2019

Help:Links – MediaWiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

Since I needed to know how to formulate external hyperlinks on a Wiki page: [WayBack] Help:Links – MediaWiki.

Too many options, not even counting other sections on that page I did not quote, so I went for the first.

To create an external link, usually to a page at a different website, enclose the URL followed by space and the link text in single square brackets (see examples below). When you save or preview the page, you will see a link rendered slightly differently than an internal wikilink. It may be a different color and/or be followed by an arrow icon to show that it may lead to another site.

Description You type You get
External link with specified link text 
[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
 MediaWiki
Numbered external link 
[https://mediawiki.org]

This is what happens if you omit the link text. Multiple links of this type on the same page are numbered sequentially.

 [1]
Bare external link 
https://mediawiki.org

URLs beginning with “http://” and “https://” are automatically linked, even when no brackets are used.

 https://mediawiki.org
Avoiding auto-linked URLs 
<nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki>
 https://mediawiki.org
Protocol-relativeexternal link 
[//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

[//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org]

The link will be HTTP or HTTPS depending on the protocol of the page currently being viewed (which could be different for different users). This is only supported inside of square brackets [ ]. Using “//en.wikipedia.org” by itself does not result in a link.

 Wikipedia

//en.wikipedia.org
External link to the current server 
https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename
 https://www.mediawiki.org/pagename
External link to other host passing the pagename 
https://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}

See also: URL encoded page names, PAGENAMEE encoding

 https://google.com/search?q=Links
Mailto link 
[mailto:info@example.org email me]
 email me
Mailto named with subject line and body 
[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info]
 info
Custom URI 
[skype:echo123 call me]

Any URI you wish to add needs to be first declared through $wgUrlProtocols. (This example is not enabled on Mediawiki.org)

 [skype:echo123 call me]
External links with file-type icons 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ogg sound]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document]

See External link icons for currently supported icons and extensions. Note that this wiki is not set up to use such icons.

 video

sound

document

–jeroen.

Posted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MediaWiki, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some FindStr links

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

When searching text files on Windows, often FindStr is the only tool at hand. Given the MS-DOS ancestry, it carries quite a bit of history, so here are a few links on the quirks it has:

General references:

–jeroen

Posted in Console (command prompt window), Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Signal messaging downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

I forgot about the announcement that Signal had also become available on the Desktop, but it is via [WayBack] https://signal.org/download/:

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Debian based x64 Linux:

$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

I like the mix of echo and tee to update the [WayBack] /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder with the signal-xenial.list file.

These links will always give you the latest download filename:

The files you get there will be relative to the path https://updates.signal.org/desktop/ so will be similar to:

You can get the sources at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases

Via:

–jeroen

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