As I discovered this morning, with MediaWiki 1.5.7+, if you attempt to put a <pre> wraped block of code within a numbered list, the indentation breaks and the numbering starts over after the <pre> block. This was pretty annoying, as I was trying to document a procedure including …

As you may know from former posts, this blog (WordPress-powered) and a few MediaWiki sites that I have use the excellent PHP-based GeSHi syntax highlighter. Today I was writing a post that includes some Icinga (Nagios) configuration snippets. After a quick search, I found a Nagios language file …

Both my last and current jobs use MediaWiki for internal documentation. As always happens, some of this documentation will inevitably get out-of-date, or totally deprecated. As is also the case, many times when we’re looking for docs in the middle of an incident, we don’t have the time …

This blog is run on wordpress, and I also do quite a bit in PHP, so I’m familiar with the GeSHi syntax highlighter. It’s PHP-based, and can run both as a Wordpress plugin (WP-Syntax) and as a PHP module. It also works quite well with the …

While working on a particularly long documentation page in MediaWiki today, I came by a convenient little extension:

Section Link To Top

It adds a nice little “top” link next to the “edit” link in each section header. Very useful for long pages.

As you may have noticed, some Firefox 3 buttons have popped up not only here on my blog, but also on my wiki. While adding the buttons to Blogger was a simple addition to the template, getting them in the sidebar of MediaWiki wasn’t exactly as easy (yeah, I …

Well, finals season is upon me. That’s probably why I haven’t been posting much lately (I haven’t even been checking Google Reader - I’ll have to delete a few thousand entries when I get back into the swing of things). I’ve been pretty busy, between studying …

Website - In personal news, I’ve finished migrating all of the information content of JasonAntman.com to a wiki, based on MediaWiki. I’m still getting some kinks ironed out, and working on customization, but it seems to be coming along very well. It’s wonderfully easy to update information …