MediaWiki-l October 2004

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How to enable word wrap of long line within <pre> </pre>?
by Kiss All 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

This is a very big problem for me. I often copy & paste stuff into wiki page using tag <pre> </pre> to maitain the original looking. But the long line cannot be wrapped into several shorter lines. The final results are very ugly. How can I achieve word wrap within <pre></pre>? Thanks in advance. -- Be good....

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RSS aggregator for MediaWiki + executing PHP
by Dheo Design 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Hi all, I have done a fair bit of searching for this, but I apologise if this is answered somewhere else. - I am looking for a mod for MediaWiki so that I can have a little panel that gets RSS feeds from other sites. Does something like this exist? - Is there any kind of mod that allows for php code to be placed in wiki text, maybe only by admins and such? Thanks. Regards, Taneem Talukdar

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upload non-image files
by Carola Schirmer 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Hi All! When I try to upload files of type .pdf or .ppt I get the warning: not a recommended file format (in german). Is ist possible to enable the upload of non-image files at all? Thanks! Carola Schirmer -- Dipl.-Soz. Carola Schirmer Frauenforschung und Technik Universität Bremen, FB03 Informatik Tel. 0421/ 218-4914

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Sub-categories not grouped in alpha order
by Michelle 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

We've noticed that sometimes sub-categories are not grouped alphabetically on category pages. For example, on this page: <http://wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/index.php/Category:Characters> note the L, R, and T entries after the U entries. None of them have separate search keys specified, not that that would explain the incorrect grouping behavior anyway. We're not sure, but it seems the problem started occurring after we upgraded from a 1.3.0 beta to 1.3.5. All of the out-of-order sub-categories were created or modified after the upgrade. However I also see it on at least one older page so I'm not sure. Any ideas on why this may be or how to fix it would be appreciated! Michelle

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User-less wiki?
by Paul Fierro 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

We want to use the Wikipedia database in a public project, wrapping it in our own skin using MediaWiki as (more or less) middleware. In order to keep our MediaWiki customizations to a minimum, we've been focusing on modifying index.php to do the dirty work. What we're looking for is a simple way to have a user-less, read-only wiki. Since our content comes from the Wikipedia database, and we don't want to be involved in accepting submissions or moderation, we will be directing all edits and contributions to wikipedia.org. Because of this, we have no need for users and such. We expect to direct a fairly high amount of traffic to wikipedia.org as our project will be deployed on a network of very high traffic sites. I've stripped out the login box from the template and prevented such pages as [[Special::Userlogin]] from displaying, even if one knows enough about MediaWiki to munge our URLs. Furthermore, no pages that are not in the Main NS will display. I have this functioning with MediaWiki 1.3.6, but I've been working on it since 1.2.5. Unfortunately (for me), as MediaWiki matures, I find myself coding around its changes - for example when $wgValidSpecialPagesEn disappeared from Language.php in 1.3.0, I could no longer rely on this array. What I'm proposing is one or more settings in LocalSettings.php (or something equally straightforward) that will enable MediaWiki to operate in a read-only, no-user mode. Naturally, I will offer any help to achieve this. What do you think, MediaWiki developers? Paul

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Search results paging
by Jack Baty 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

First, if there's a searchable archive of this list somewhere, please show me the way before I ask too many faq-type questions. But until then... On the search results page, the paging links (Next 20, etc) are displayed no matter how many results there actually are. Seems like those links should be somehow related to the actual number of results. I end up with 1 or 2 search results and a dozen links surrounding them which don't actually do anything. Any way around that? Thanks. -- Jack Baty Fusionary Media - http://fusionary.com/ Weblog - http://jackbaty.com "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife" --Douglass Adams

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Uploaded files borked after installation. Please help!
by David Coppit 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

After upgrading my version of MediaWiki, my images directory was somehow corrupted. I tried replacing the files from backup, but that didn't work for some reason. (Sorry, this was a while ago.) I re-uploaded all my files, but now the links in my wiki pages don't point to the same paths in my upload directory. How can I fix this? Do I have to run md5sum on all my files, and update the md5 in the database? Thanks, David _____________________________________________________________________ David Coppit david(a)coppit.org The College of William and Mary http://coppit.org/ "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson

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MediaWiki 1.3.7 released
by Brion Vibber 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.3.7 is a security update, which contains a fix for an additional cross-site scripting vulnerability discovered during a code review. All MediaWiki users are strongly urged to upgrade to this latest release. (Users already running 1.3.6 need copy in only the updated DefaultSettings.php and Title.php. Versions before 1.3.6 are vulnerable to a number of other security bugs, so please upgrade!) Changes from 1.3.6: * Fix protected-page related security issue. Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=275934 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.7.tar.gz?download Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBcw5CwRnhpk1wk44RAjs3AJwJcvnjjLH654zNtguzIkCvXyvKigCeLOe8 LN26AopYLxkAV0BRpWKv8Bs= =F9jb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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17 Oct '04

Is there any recognised way to remove the Copyright affirmation from Special:Upload, or will I have to hack it out? (like the copyright notice on the Edit page). Cian

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Customize a MediaWiki template for me for $150
by Shanti Braford 17 Oct '04

17 Oct '04

Hi, I'm willing to pay someone $150 for them to modify the default MediaWiki to something very simple. Trust me, I'm looking for a very basic site look. But, I have no idea of how to do this and it looks like a huge pain. So... if there's anyone out there who wants to make a quick $150, drop me a line. Thanks, Shanti

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