MediaWiki-l December 2004

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MediaWiki 1.4beta2 released
by Brion Vibber 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.4beta2 is an experimental release, to help flush out remaining major problems in the code prior to a final public 1.4.0 release. It is not recommended to use this beta on a public site unless you're familiar with MediaWiki innards and are willing and able to help diagnose and fix problems that come up. All beta1 users should upgrade as soon as possible. This release fixes separate input validation issues with image gallery rendering and PostgreSQL. Other fixes include Recentchanges in PHP5, whitelist-edit mode, table prefixes, page renaming, and other issues. Additionally, startup time for cached page views is slightly faster. Full release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=288858 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta2.tar.gz?download Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce 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 v1.2.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBuUi/wRnhpk1wk44RAsIAAKCEVcU4a/SmYEvt1FbWQV3mQwBWvQCfbdqP SufxRgGfzpUaKOwdwAy7akI= =HXor -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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1.4-beta1 bug?
by John Yu 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I installed 1.4-beta1 for a small-scale trial. When I go to [[Special:Allmessages]], it gives this error: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT cur_namespace,cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace IN (8, 9) from within function "". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'johnyu.cur' doesn't exist". "johnyu" is my database name. I'm using the new table prefix feature. Not sure if it's related. -- John Yu

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Modifying footer and Mediawiki:Fromwikipedia
by John Yu 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

If I'd like to do very simple modification to the footer (e.g. Add a <br> before the "about" link), which file and in which section of that file should I look at? Another unrelated question. Wikipedia.org has a line "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." displayed on every page. But I don't see such message displayed on my wiki, even I've customized the Mediawiki:Fromwikipedia. Is there a flag I have to turn on? I couldn't see anything in LocalSettings.php. Thanks -- John

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downloadable doc ?
by Baeckeroot alain 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

hi again Is it possible to download all the docs in the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents (because i have a very bad connection, and only one or twice a week, when everything goes fine) Thanks Alain

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] custom extension including <script> tags
by Alistair Johnson 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Thanks Jamie, that works a charm! You don't have any idea how I can resolve my css issues as well by any chance? "2. I also need to include some custom css code for this extension. I've done this by adding it to the monobook css file, but I'd prefer an option that wont get broken whenever MediaWiki is updated. Is there an approved method of adding custom content within the <head></head> section?" ;-) al. -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Bliss [mailto:astronouth7303@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 8:54 a.m. To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] custom extension including <script> tags Try placing the code in a seperate file and referencing it in a single line. This works for me: function renderRandomQuote( $input ) { $output = '<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/xml/spotlight_js.php"></script> <a href="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/" title="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/"><img src="http://furc.zapto.org/wiki/stylesheets/monobook/external.png"></a><span class="urlexpansion"> (<i>http://www.chiefdelphi.com/</i>)</span>'; return $output; } (This is actually in use on "http://furc.zapto.org/wiki/", using the tag <randomquote>) I think the code that handles the output doesn't preserve things within <script> tags, but it will preserve attributes. On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:26:19 +1300, Alistair Johnson <johnsona(a)rembrandt.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Jamie, > > I have done exactly that, but to no avail - the code I have that is called > by a custom tag <CalendarPopUp> is: > function renderCalendarPopUp( $input ) > { > $output = "<pre>" . "<script language=\"JavaScript\" > type=\"text/JavaScript\">\n\n</script>" . "</pre>"; > return $output; > } > > If I remove the <pre> </pre> tags from this code then when it is passed back > to mediawiki it gets mangled as outlined below. Am I taking an incorrect > approach? > > Regards, > > al. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Bliss [mailto:astronouth7303@gmail.com] > > MediaWiki, for obvious security reasons, will treat scripts as random > text (meaning it will mangle it). What you have to do is make a tag > (say <popup>) that is translated by a simple extension into the needed > code. so > <popup> > is replaced by > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> >  > </script> > > This is too protect wikis from more serious attacks than they already are. > > <johnsona(a)rembrandt.co.nz> wrote: > > > > We're using MediaWiki for a corporate Intranet and have developed a number > > of extensions which display dynamic data. I'm currently having a couple > of > > problems integrating a php calendar (www.easilysimplecalendar.com/): > > > > 1. I have to include the following code in the page: > > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> > >  > > </script> > > > > However MediaWiki is converting this to: > > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> > > <p> > > </script> > > </p> > > > > If I manually wrap the code in the <pre> tags I can get it processed by > > MediaWiki in a non-mangled state, but then I end up with an ugly box on > the > > screen: > > ---- > > | > > ---- > > > > Any idea how I can work around this problem? I'm probably missing > something > > obvious ... > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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WikiTeX: Extending the Zend Engine
by Peter Danenberg 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Salvete, I've spent the better part of two weeks refactoring WikiTeX in C, and we're primed to start hacking Zend. Would it hinder our efforts to get WikiTeX on Commons if we packaged it as a stand-alone PHP extension? -- Peter Danenberg . wikisophia.org ..:

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Export Wiki to DocBook??
by Florian Taeger 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hy everybody. I just found this site: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DocBook_XML_export But I am not able to find such a option in mediawiki? Is there the possibility to export the wiki to docbook format? Regards Florian

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie : full text search
by Adam Edwards 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

If you look in LocalSettings.php, the mysql password the wiki uses is in the variables $wgDBuser and $wgDBpassword. You should be able to use those. -----Original Message----- From: Baeckeroot alain [mailto:al2.baeckeroot@laposte.net] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:53 PM To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Newbie : full text search Le Jeudi 2 Décembre 2004 20:45, Adam Edwards a écrit : > > Did you make sure that in the AdminSettings.php file $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword were set correctly for your database user? I guess that is the problem. AFAIK i put the good name/passwd , _but_ i was asked so many admin/passwd (apache, sql, mediawiki) that i'm not sure i put the right username. (for the passwd i put the same everywhere ;) I left the default names everywhere (on debian sarge) here i said : $wgDBadminuser = "mysql"; $wgDBadminpassword = XXXXX is that the good user ? thanks alain _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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ACL in mediawiki
by Vani Bhat 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hello, I would like to restrict certain users in modifying certain pages or links in mediawiki. Is it possible to implement ACLs. Can someone tell me how can I do this ? Thanks in advance Vani

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Page Ranking, Collab. Filtering, Multilingual Templates, Im-/Export?
by Martin Post 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

I'm in the process of building two (non-commercial) sites. Both are not strictly Wikis, but I think MediaWiki would be a great platform for them due to its enormous flexibility and the elegance of the whole concept. These projects, however, require features that might not be available or difficult to implement in MediaWiki. I have browsed the documentation, but the following questions remain. So - how would you approach the following problems/situations: 1) Ranking: Is there a mechanism to let users rank a page and display "top ten" lists of pages based on this ranking? I'm aware of "Popular Pages", but explicit ranking would be a welcome addition (see next question). 2) Collaborative Filtering: Is there a way to give users a list of pages "similar" to those they have given a high ranking - based on the rankings of other users? 3) Multilingual Templates: If I want to present multilingual content: Can I have language-specific templates, i.e. is there a way to tell MediaWiki that it should use template "Content_IT" when the content of the page is in Italian? 4) Importing and exporting pages: How can I (mass-)import or export pages as e.g. plain XHTML files or in CSV format? For example, I might want to add a huge DMOZ-style categories tree from an external source. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Administration says "[...] you'll have to write appropriate scripts on your own. As far as we know, there are no general-user ready-to-run scripts available for this purpose." Does this means I have to fiddle with the actual database? Say it ain't so ... :/ And finally, a slightly exotic wish: 5) Mail Gateway: Is there a way to for users to request pages from the server via E-Mail (e.g. by putting the topic you are looking for in the subject line), so these pages are sent back to them via mail as plain text messages? (I'm aware this is far from the core functionality, but it would be useful for the project I have in mind. Maybe someone can suggest an add-on to do this.) I am not a developer, but maybe you can point me in the direction of people or technologies who can achieve what I am looking for. Thank you for your help.

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