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
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>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
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
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.
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Best regards,
Freerk mailto:freerk@gmx.net
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
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)
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
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)
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?
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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
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