Hi,
I've set up a mediawiki installation with users authentication via the
LDAP Authentication Plugin. Unfortunately I have to use the "cn"
attribute in our directory to search and login users. So the "cn"
Attribute is used as the mediawiki username and further mediawiki
attributes (like RealName, Nickname, email) are retrieved from LDAP upon
user creation/login. So my wiki-users have really nice and consistent
NickNames throughout the company and it's ensured that there are no
double-users (because cn is unique in our LDAP tree).
But: It's quite uncomfortable if you look at the recent changes or
change history of a page. By default mediawiki will display the username
of the user who changed the file and not the RealName or NickName.
In my case that would be something like AKxxxxxx (our employee-ID).
Apart from that using an employee-ID as Common-name in LDAP is really
bad in my opinion (but i can't change that), it might be a good feature
if there was an option "$wgUseRealNameInUserLinks" so that the Real Name
is shown in the changes history.
I have hacked that into my installation (1.8.2) and it's only a minor
change in includes/Linker.php:
*** 761,767 ****
* @private
*/
function userLink( $userId, $userText ) {
! $encName = htmlspecialchars( User::whoIsReal($userId) );
if( $userId == 0 ) {
$contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL,
'Contributions' );
return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage,
--- 761,767 ----
* @private
*/
function userLink( $userId, $userText ) {
! $encName = htmlspecialchars( $userText );
if( $userId == 0 ) {
$contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL,
'Contributions' );
return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage,
I think my case is not that unique and this feature would help using
mediawiki in enterprises.
What's your opinion?
Reinhard
Hello!
Sorry for my poor English!
I want to sync some media wiki for specific things:
I want to provide Bulgarian laws (for free without fees) via MediaWiki
software. This is good software for this - can include pictures etc.
1. I don't want anybody to edit the laws. Must be registered and permited
by me. But I want anybody who wants to edit the discussion. And this is my
first question - how to set this?
2. I had a secondari wiki for building the pages (production server).
MediaWiki had a problem with long text like the bg's laws. The text will
be written by catches (this procedure makes no needed history for primary
server).
Only last version must copy to the primary wiki, only the tekst, no
user/ip info. Good is if the primary had changes history for every sync.
I can sync with perl scripts (I not understand PHP), but how to get the
last page, links.... I dont know how is the database is structured and how
to apply the info.
Can anybody help with database info and/or ideas?!
Best Regards
Rossen Karpuzov
--
Confidential Information Technologies
www.cointech.net
How complex is the LDAP Authentication to setup?
I'm pretty much a PHP noob. How can I check if my installation of PHP
supports LDAP?
Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-enterprise-bounces(a)mail.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-enterprise-bounces@mail.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Alexander Wait Zaranek
Sent: 12 novembre, 2006 01:49
To: mediawiki-enterprise(a)mail.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] LDAP integration
On 11/11/06, Utkarshraj Atmaram <utcursch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You can try the Mediawiki LDAP Authentication extension:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication
>
My understanding is that Mediawikis can also share all User
account/preference information. So a user on "meta" can also use the
same preference info on English wikipedia, German Wikipedia and so on.
Did I get that right?
Sasha
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Hi,
Just found out about this list today.
I run about 5 Wikis at the office. Quite useful.
What I find annoying is that we have to create a login on each Wiki. Is
there a way to consolidate all the logins or having the Wikis use the
windows credentials of the users?
My Wikis are running on Windows 2003, IIS 6, PHP 5.0.5 and MySQL 5.0.22.
Thanks!
Simon
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