MediaWiki-l December 2003

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki Farm for MediaWiki
by Paul Studier 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

At 04:00 AM 12/9/2003, you wrote: >From: Fabrice Philibert-Caillat <fphilibert(a)realink.org> >Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki Farm for MediaWiki >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> >Message-ID: <3FD585E4.8050507(a)realink.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Paul Studier wrote: > > > I am trying to set up a special purpose wiki where only members of a > > special interest group can edit. I really like the MediaWiki that > > Wikipedia uses, and Wikipedia is an excellent example to show people > > how a Wiki works. Does anyone know of a Wiki Farm that uses mediaWiki? > > >I am not sure about what a "wiki farm" is: perhaps could you explain it? >Nevertheless, C-Arbre (a GPLed project on which I am working with a >friend) uses the Media Wiki engine for handling wiki (although still in >a crude way) : http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/c-arbre/ >It also adds permissions and ownership to the wiki pages, so that only >people of a given group can edit the pages. A wiki farm is a host for many wiki's. Sometimes they are commercial and charge a fee. An example is http://www.editme.com/. I am looking for one that hosts MediaWiki based Wikis. I have a shared hosting website and have been unable to install MediaWiki on it. I probably could install it on a dedicated host, but that would cost $200/mo. Or I could buy a Linux based computer and use my DSL line. This would be slow, and I could not provide 24/7 support to make sure the system stayed up. Paul Studier <Studier(a)PaulStudier.com> When you work, you create. When you win, you just take from the loser. For an explanation, see http://paulstudier.com/win

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Wiki Farm for MediaWiki
by Paul Studier 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

I am trying to set up a special purpose wiki where only members of a special interest group can edit. I really like the MediaWiki that Wikipedia uses, and Wikipedia is an excellent example to show people how a Wiki works. Does anyone know of a Wiki Farm that uses mediaWiki? Paul Studier <Studier(a)PaulStudier.com> When you work, you create. When you win, you just take from the loser. For an explanation, see http://paulstudier.com/win

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Why run rebuildlinks.php after database update?
by Freerk 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello mediawiki-l, On http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Download and other wikipedia download sites I found a tutorial on updating my local database with the wikipedia mysql dump. It says afterwords you have to do a "php rebuildlinks.php". But why? Well, I assume it rebuilds some links but which ones? I thought everything is dynamic in the database, and the only links are in the cur_table, which I updated with a mysql command. I didn't understand the php source, either. Or isn't it necessary? Thanks for your answers in advance. -- Best regards, Freerk mailto:freerk@gmx.net

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Linkable mathematical expressions
by Mark Krueger 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hi, I am absolutely new here but was wondering why the miraculous Wikipedia does not enable symbols like ? (א) which is "aleph". When I progress I would like to enforce (or do appreciate if someone knows how to do) that complete mathematical expressions like series, sequences etc. and formulas in general can be included as keywords (and thus as linkable entries) into Wikipedia. Is there someone thinking/working on that? Cheers, Mark Mark Krüger Fichardstrasse 50 60322 Frankfurt am Main T: 069/95530009 E: mark(a)kruegerbrothers.com

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MediaWiki 1.1.0 release
by Brion Vibber 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

After a couple weeks of breaking it in on Wikipedia, the MediaWiki 1.1.0 release is now available. Various bug fixes, wiki-friendly table markup, and localization improvements top user-visible changes over the previous stable snapshots. Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=202383 Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.1.0.tar.gz? download The previous stable branch snapshots may be thought of as 1.0.x. Or, you know, not. Main development will continue in the trunk; the 1.1 branch is now for bug fixes only. In CVS, the new release is in the REL1_1 branch, tag REL1_1_0. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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UTF-8 Conversion
by Evan Prodromou 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

So, Wikitravel uses the default ISO-8859-1 encoding, and we're starting to need UTF-8 characters. I think the process for converting might be as follows: 1. Shut down the site. 2. Backup the database with a data dump. 3. iconv the dump file to UTF-8. 4. Twiddle with mysql till it knows to use UTF-8. 5. Twiddle with PHP's php.ini till it knows to use UTF-8. 6. Change the encoding in LocalSettings.php to use UTF-8. 7. Delete everything in the database. 8. Import the data dump back in. 9. Turn the site back on. 10. Hope for the best. Does this sound about right? Have any other MediaWiki installations switched encodings midstream like this? ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org> Wikitravel - http://www.wikitravel.org/ The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide

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New MediaWiki stable release coming soon
by Brion Vibber 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Now that the dev branch is pretty well broken in on Wikipedia, it's my intention to branch and release a new 'stable' version in the next day. If there are any real show-stopper bugs remaining, please say something! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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configuration and mod_rewrite
by Tim M. Sanders 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

I run on Redhat 9.0 with Apache 2.x, PHP 4.2.2 (old I know). The problem is with the sample LocalSettings.sample (cp to LocalSettings.php) I believe. I have the following in my LocalSettings.php file: $wgSitename = "Synergypedia"; $wgMetaNamespace = FALSE; # will be same as you set $wgSitename $wgServer = "http://sledge"; $wgScriptPath = "/synergypedia"; $wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}?title=$1"; $wgEmergencyContact = "tsanders(a)synergymicro.com"; However, when I access some of the links on the Main Page (via http://sledge/synergypedia/wiki.phtml), the links contain /wiki instead of /synergypedia. I seems that the php vars in DefaultSettings.php are not getting set appropriately based on the settings in the LocalSettings.phph file. Do I need to copy the entire block of corresponding links from the DefaultSettings.php file to override all of them? I don't know the variable substituion rules for php. If I copy the block of vars it works. $wgSitename = "Synergypedia"; $wgMetaNamespace = FALSE; # will be same as you set $wgSitename #$wgServer = "http://sledge" . getenv( "SERVER_NAME" ); $wgServer = "http://sledge"; $wgScriptPath = "/synergypedia"; $wgScript = "{$wgScriptPath}/wiki.phtml"; $wgRedirectScript = "{$wgScriptPath}/redirect.phtml"; $wgStyleSheetPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/style"; $wgStyleSheetDirectory = "{$IP}/style"; $wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}?title=$1"; $wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/upload"; $wgUploadDirector = "{$IP}/upload"; $wgLogo = "{$wgUploadPath}/jungle.png"; $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp"; $wgPasswordSender = "Wikipedia Mail <tsanders(a)synergymicro.com>"; #$wgPasswordSender = "Wikipedia Mail <apache(a)www.wikipedia.org>\r\nReply-To: webmaster(a)www.wikipedia.org"; $wgEmergencyContact = "tsanders(a)synergymicro.com"; Next I am trying to use the RewriteRule in Apache. I have the following: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/synergypedia/(.*)$ /synergypedia/wiki.phtml?title=$1 [L] So if I access http://sledge/synergypedia/Main_Page I get the Main Page, or http://sledge/synergypedia/New_Page I get the New Page (with the text that no content is present for the page). In any case all of the links on the pages (i.e. 'Edit this page') look like the following http://sledge/synergypedia/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=edit. Seems ok but when I click it I get Wiki.phtml From Synergypedia, the free encyclopedia. (There is currently no text in this page) Thus it is trying to find a page titled wiki.phtml. How do I get it to not try to create a page for wiki.phtml? -- ==================================================== Tim M. Sanders tsanders(a)synergymicro.com Synergy Microsystems Phone: 520.690.1709 x323 3895 N Business Center Dr. Fax: 520.690.1796 Suite 100 Tucson, AZ 85705-6906

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Status of documentation
by Agon S. Buchholz 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi, I'd like to know who is *currently* working on the documentation for MediaWiki, and where the intended central place for this is, if there's na. If there's need, I'd like to volunteer to help out, if I can. I think, the intended starting point is http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User's_Guide, but I found lots of relevant information scattered around somewhere else on the web (e.g. about importing database dumps), in the installation archives, and on Wikitech-L, which is not accessible (meaning linked) from the User's Guide. Also, I found some information missing at all, e.g. "To update from one version of MediaWiki to another" just says "do these steps...", or the section about properly configuring the Rewrite Engine in Apache httpd in somehow short ;) Last but not least, I think the naming "User's Guide" might be somehow confusing; to me, this suggests a manual directed primarily towards the (end) *user* of a running MediaWiki installation, giving help how to *use* the Wiki (e.g. conventions on how to edit, how to link, etc.). IMHO, it'd be more clear if the documentation would start on http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docs or http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation; this would spread into four sections, targeted at different persons: (1) General Information and Overview (e.g. What is it? How does it work? Who's using it? Architecture, etc.), (2) Installation and Administration Guide (current sections "Installation" and "Configuration" [missing]), (3) User's Guide (current section "Using MediaWiki"), and (4) Developer's Guide (maybe current "http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker", but mostly missing atm). Greetings, -asb

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