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Calendar

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Does anyone know how to cycle repetitive codes without the use for copying and pasting for every day of the calendar? please email me back rjs397@psu.edu

LaTex to Wiki

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Diacritical marks and special symbols/characters: how is a hacek/caron symbol created? In LaTex, such a symbol over a lowercase "s" would be Bene\v{s}.

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Sri Kosuri 17:01, 4 April 2006 (EDT): Here are two resources you can look at

1. Mediawiki markup - You can directly encode characters using mediawiki's markup language.
2. If you need to do math equations, you can directly use LaTex format using the math markup. For example, see this page

Hope this helps... if it didn't, update it here, and I'm sure there will be other ways to solve the problem.

• One option is to cut and paste from a caron/hacek Wiki page. However, the result depends upon the character size in a browser: Beneš

Password protection

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• Pdextras 13:05, 24 March 2006 (EST): Does anyone know if it's possible to restrict access to a document to specific users?

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• RS 14:12, 24 March 2006 (EST): Sorry but we don't have a way of doing this on OpenWetWare. You can put the document in your own public directory and restrict access to it using htaccess and just link to it from OpenWetWare if you like. You can read more about the debate over whether to permit restricting access to certain pages on OWW at the ideas archive.

Uploading pdfs

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• RS 13:10, 19 March 2006 (EST): I tried several times to upload this pdf to OpenWetWare but every time it gave me the following error message "The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the file name. Please check whether you really want to upload this file." I've tried resaving the file using Adobe Acrobat and Preview as well as remaking the file by printing to pdf from Microsoft Powerpoint but nothing works. I was able to successfully upload another pdf file just fine. A quick google search reveals that you can get this message if you are approaching the maximum file size or the maximum http request size (see Mediawiki on uploading file). (My file size is 2 MB.) Anyone have a good solution to this?
  • Jasonk 16:38, 25 March 2006 (EST):Getting the same problem with a 3MB powerpoint file.
  • BC 14:10, 25 April 2006 (EDT):Same problem, 2MB image.

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• Sri Kosuri 17:05, 19 March 2006 (EST): I believe we set the upload limit to 10MB. For example, see this PDF. I don't know about the maximum http request size. Maybe something broke on one of our upgrades? Anyone else have a clue?
• Ilya 13:28, 28 April 2006 (EDT): This was caused by a change of server configuration after upgrade to PHP5. I'm working with Biosupport to resolve this.
• Ilya 14:51, 1 May 2006 (EDT): I have implemented a workaround to increase the file size limit. It is now set to 20MB but you'll receive a warning if you upload something larger than 10MB.

Image links

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• Nikolai.windbichler 05:05, 10 March 2006 (EST): I have this small problem: On this site I want the image to link to the .doc file which can be found when clicking on the link above the image. How would I do that? I searched a little bit through oww and wiki help sites but couldn't get ot done. If you have any ideas please let me know.

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• RS 09:22, 10 March 2006 (EST): Have you tried looking at the code for the Main Page? The icons under the OWW logo do something similar. It looks something like this {{Click || image=MainPage LookChange.jpg | link=Highlights:Considering_a_new_look | width=50px | height=50px }}. By replacing the link= field with your link, I assume you would get what you want. Hope this helps.
  • Nikolai.windbichler 17:25, 10 March 2006 (EST): Thank you. It is very close to what I want but now not the whole area of the image links to the file but only the left half of it. I'm not sure why that is tough. Well 50% is not bad when you start at 0. ;)
  • BC 19:48, 3 April 2006 (EDT):Sorry this is so late, but you should be able to fix this by reading the discussion on this page - Template talk:Click. If you have any problems getting this fix to work, let me know.

Printable Subsections

• smd 12:58, 26 April 2006 (EDT):

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• Anyone know of an extension/patch that has been written to display a printable version of a subsection of a wiki page? It would be great for printing protocols or other partial documents if (for example) next to the [edit] link there was a [printable] link, which took you to a URL that looked something like:

http://openwetware.org/index.php?Help:Wiki_questions&printable=yes&section=5                                 

If anyone has interest in this, I could possibly just write it myself, but I'm a little busy these days. I thought I'd check here first. Thanks.