You can't just re-run the installer anymore. As it says in the UPGRADE file: From the command line, browse to the "maintenance" directory and run the update.php script to check and update the schema. This will insert missing tables, update existing tables, and move data around as needed. In most cases, this is successful and nothing further needs to be done. Michelle On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Lyndie Chiou wrote:

After much finagling I ran the update script (I don't have command-line access so I had to set up a cron job). My wiki works again! Thanks for the tip - I guess I have to run the update script from now on instead of re-installing. Lyndie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Lees Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:07 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Database error msg? On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Michelle <michelle.sg1(a)gmail.com> wrote: I believe you are mistaken. The selection you're quoting has been in the UPGRADE file since 1.6. Also in there: "You can use the web-based installer wizard if you first remove the LocalSettings.php (and AdminSettings.php, if any) files;[...]" On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Lyndie Chiou <lyndie(a)researchpipeline.com>wrote;wrote: Do you happen to have the output from when you re-ran the installer? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Ok, thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of K. Peachey Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:32 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Database error msg? On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Lyndie Chiou<lyndie(a)researchpipeline.com> wrote: You need to do both, the installer updates the files and the update script corrects the database schema. -Peachey _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

PL> I have receive today a request : is it possible for this generic user to PL> view ONLY the pages in ONLY one category ? Well, in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7897 you can see how I stopped users from _edit_ing categories. So you would probably make three different usergroups etc...

Wich would be interesting would be to make like in Knol: possibility of having signed pages : ie with the title : "Page Tilte (Name of the owner)". We are using it at Design Platform because this is a way to encourage participation and for the user, to filter wich pages are synthesis content and wich are personal stories from autors (well, we host stories also, that's the point), all the deal is with the search engine : user sould have the possibility to exclude thoose pages. If not the results in the search engine would be... well, like in Knoll : it is impossible to find anything. We have not looked at technics about pages protection, for the moment this is based on admins control, so it is not a question, more a remark on how an encyclopedia can benefit from some CMS abilities. 2009/7/7 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>

Yes, I tought about this too, does it provides possibility to restrict thoose pages editions specificly to user that own this namespace ? 2009/7/9 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>

Lyndie Chiou wrote: Updating is done by replacing the old files with the new ones (don't remove uploaded files or extensions in the process) and running update.php Rerunning the installer can usually substitute running update.php though. Something failed in your case.