Hi,
I am installing mediawiki for first time.
The version of software being used is:
Mediawiki - 1.19.2
PHP - 5.3.18
MySQL - 5.5.28
The OS is Cent OS 5.3 (final version), 64 bit.
I am able to install mediawiki and configure it. I have run the scripts to
populate the MySQL database tables with values of wikipedia dump.
When I access the mediawiki site, there are no pages to view and queries
returns no results even though
http://10.155.8.142/mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages lists many
links under headers like Maintenance reports, Lists of pages, Login /
create account etc. When I click the link "Categories" under header "List
of Pages" no page opens. I tried other links under this header but it is
not returning any results.
Please note that the URL can't be accessed from outside as this is a
internal IP and there are no public IP available to use it.
My goal is to set up mediawiki and then use it to extract/fetch song
related information by specifying the category. Could you please let me
know what I may be doing wrong as I am not getting the results back.
Thanks and regards,
Venkatesh
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I'm happy to announce the availability of the first stable release
of the new MediaWiki 1.20 release series.
MediaWiki 1.20 is a large release that contains many new features and
bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.
You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 file for the full list of changes
in this version.
Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing
the beta release and submitting bug reports.
== What's new? ==
MediaWiki 1.20 brings the usual host of various bugfixes and new features.
* Minimum PHP version is now 5.3.2.
* New diff view, greatly improved in clarity especially for
whitespace and other small changes and color-blind users.
* New special page Special:MostInterwikis.
* New magic word {{PAGEID}} which gives the current page ID.
* The info action has been reimplemented.
Internationalization:
* New languages supported: Emilian (egl), Tornedalen Finnish (fit),
Mizo (lus), Santali (sat), Turoyo (tru)
* New Cyrillic-Latin language converter for Uzbek (uz)
== What's next? ==
=== Next Release ===
Since the Wikimedia Foundation has successfully switched to a biweekly
release cycle for their sites, making releases of MediaWiki available
on a more regular basis makes sense. As of this release, we plan to
release a new version of MediaWiki every six months. This means that
version 1.21 of MediaWiki will be released in April or May 2013.
=== Long Term Support ===
We're working closely with Linux distributors to make sure that the
MediaWiki bundled in Linux is something that we feel more comfortable
supporting. In this vein, MediaWiki 1.19 is being targeted for "long
term support". Since Debian (the Linux distribution with the longest
release cycle) has a two year cycle between each freeze and we've
gotten MediaWiki 1.19 into Wheezy, we'll support MW 1.19 for the next
two years. (Thank you especially to MediaWiki developer Platonides
for his help in working with the Debian developers.)
Full release notes:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE…https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20
Frequently asked questions about upgrading:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Upgrading
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Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.0.tar.gz
GPG signatures:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.0.tar.gz.sig
Public keys:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html
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I'm using MediaWiki 1.16.2. (Yea, I know. But it's running so well, and every time I've upgraded, it's cost me a couple days of mop-up.)
I have a number of pages in the format "Something, YYYY" or "YYYY something," such as "Budget, 2012" or "2012 harvest".
I have a number of #REDIRECT pages like "Current budget" that point to (for example) "Budget, 2012". Presently, I manually update them at year-end.
I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as:
#REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]
Why not? Such links work elsewhere!
When I do so, the redirect no longer works, and someone clicking on "Current budget" (for example) ends up on the redirect page, rather than the page being pointed to by the #REDIRECT.
Is this a bug I should report? Is there some work-around? Does it work properly in newer versions? (Could be what I need to upgrade... :-)
Any other hints to get it to do what I want?
Thanks!
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Howdy. I sent the message below to the wikitech-I list, but I didn't get
any response. Sumana recommended I post it here as well, so here you go!
Hi all. When working on a wiki extension I came across this thread
(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-January/051437.html)
regarding the purpose/history of setFunctionTagHook() and where/when to use
it.
Daniel Friesen wrote:
"setFunctionTagHook was added so that you could expand variables inside
tags. Then setHook() got added $frame and the need for such hook type
disappeared. I'd like to kill it, although it has been there for some
time (if any list reader uses it, please stand up)."
I started using the hook in a Firebase extension
(http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Firebase)
in order to replace <firebaseraw> tags with responses to HTTP requests
/before most other wiki text is parsed/.
It works great for me because I can insert data into chunks of code like a
google street view widget:
{{#widget:Google Street View
|lat=<firebaseraw url="http://gamma.firebase.com/SomeAccountName/lat" />
|lng=<firebaseraw url="http://gamma.firebase.com/SomeAccountName/lon" />
|yaw=370.64659986187695
|pitch=-20
|zoom=0
}}
I'm new to extension writing, though, so maybe there are other, better ways
to accomplish this?
If not, consider this a vote to leave in setFunctionTagHook()!
--Benny
Dear All,
I am very new to MediaWiki, just started using.
I need to create a global constant variable and save one URL as value. I
must be able to use this variable in any page in the mediawiki.
But I don't know, How to create a global variable and use the variable in
different page.
This is a very common usage.
Please somebody help me to do this.
Thanks in advance..
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Thanks &Regards
Albin Joy
hello!
I want to create a wiki (either local or web)
my main goal is to be able to organize alot of data very nicely and to
edit it easily (not looking for ability to be edited by others etc)
however, I want to be able to do these:
1) create and edit rich text (wiki can already do that)
2) create and edit flowcharts, diagrams, etc of as many as possible
types (can it do it?)
3) create tables, sortable, filterable, searchable, etc (can it do it?)
please advise if it can and how to do it!
thanks!
Hello,
I am making an application in Python which will make heavy use of Wikipedia data. I've downloaded the 10.4GB .zim archive of Wikipedia's English articles, so that I can run this applicaiton offline, and so I don't have to rely on extensive hits to Wikipedia's API or website.
Perhaps my google-fu is very rusty, but I can't find any documentation or tools for accessing the zim file from python. I've found pyzim (https://code.launchpad.net/zim/pyzim), but this appears to be a python build of the zim reader and writer, not a python library to allow me to search and access information in the zim file from my own code. If does include a library of such functions, I can't find them, or any documentation or examples, etc. Ideally, I'd like to be able to search the zim file just like searching wikipedia (the zim file is already indexed as I understand it?), and I'd like to be able to pull out articles, in json form for example.
Can someome point me to a resource to get me started with this?
I hope this is an ok question for this mailing list. If not, any suggestions for a better place to ask this question would be most welcome!
Thanks in advance!
On Mon, November 5, 2012 21:00, Martin Å imko wrote:
> I am searching for some plugin/extesion for MediaWiki, that will be sending
> emails with all changed articles once a week for example (not at every
change). I've tried various plugins (Recent Activity Notify, Auto watch,
...) but none works under my MediaWiki 1.19.
>
> Do you have any tips for working extension?
You will probably have to do rework on it to get it working outside of
Wikia, but it is in active production at over 100.000 Wikia wikis:
GlobalWatchlist[1]
[1] https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/GlobalWatchlist
Cheers!
Siebrand