MediaWiki-l December 2004

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Custom namespace
by Amgine 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

I'm trying to create a custom name space, or three, on my wiki. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces gives great instructions, but only once you've copied $wgExtraNamespaces from /wiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php. 1.4beta3 DefaultSettings.php does not contain $wgExtraNamespaces. Can I simply add to LocalSettings.php: <pre>$wgExtraNamespaces = array( 100 => 'Foo', 101 => 'Foo_talk'); $wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array( -1 => 0, 0 => 0, 1 => 1, 2 => 1, 3 => 1, 4 => 0, 5 => 1, 6 => 0, 7 => 1, 8 => 0, 9 => 1, 10 => 0, 11 => 1, 100 => 1, 101 => 1); $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array( -1 => 0, 0 => 0, 1 => 0, 2 => 0, 3 => 0, 4 => 0, 5 => 0, 6 => 0, 7 => 0, 8 => 0, 9 => 1, 10 => 0, 11 => 1, 100 => 1, 101 => 1);</pre> And get a Foo: and Foo talk: namespaces? Amgine

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Administrative rights
by Jeff Blain 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Hello, I have a fresh install of wikimedia and having issues with giving sysop rights to users. Following the Documentation, I recieve errors when trying to run the following command. mysql> update user set user_rights='sysop' where user_name='jblain'; ERROR 1054: Unknown column 'user_rights' in 'field list' Any help would be appreciated. Debian unstable MediaWiki 1.4beta3 MySQL 4.0.23 Thanks, Jeff

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howto setup MW for a SourceForge project?
by Thomas L Roche 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

My boss setup an MW for our team to use, and I'm hooked: I've used several wikis in the past, and this is my favorite. I also have an OSS project, also hosted on SourceForge, that is underdocumented. So I'd like to setup an MW for my project ... but I note Greg Kulczycki Mon Dec 20 21:49:29 UTC 2004 >>> I set up a MediaWiki on SourceForge. It seems that anyone with an >>> account on SourceForge has read access to my LocalSettings.php >>> file, which contains my database password. Brion Vibber Tue Dec 21 06:56:26 UTC 2004 >> SourceForge runs PHP as an Apache module, with all users' scripts >> running under a single user ID which is different from the user and >> group IDs of the individual projects. It is impossible for your >> script to read a file unless all scripts are given permission to >> read the file. >> For more information please see: >> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_id=1#security >> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14267&group_id=1#websha… This presents several problems for me (and the giant corp for which I slave), mostly of the form "how do I allow an insecure connection inside the firewall protecting the boxen to which I have access to install stuff on?" OTTOMH this seems easiest to resolve by also putting the database in my project's SF web space: as long as I back it up regularly, the damage that can result from the insecurity is limited. But I note mediawiki-1.3.9/INSTALL > Required software: > * Web server with PHP 4.1.2 or higher (4.3.x is preferred) SF provides this, but ... > * A MySQL server. 4.0.x is preferred, but 3.2.x should > work as well. ... does SF provide that? If not, how best to provide a backend suitable for running an MW on SF? Can I just install MySQL in my project's webspace?

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automatic recognition of linked words
by Rik Serpentier 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Hi, As newbie to wiki's, and MediaWiki, I am searching how to make words that were linked once appear as links everytime someone enters them. I found this feature in "VoodooPad", a notepad-like application based on wiki on Mac OS X. For instance : A user marks the word "wiki" as internal link. Is it afterwards possible to let MediaWiki mark every occurance of "wiki" automatically, and point to the corresponding page ? Or is it necessary to create every link manually ? Met vriendelijke groeten Rik Serpentier adjunct-afdelingschef Informatica Gewestelijke Directie West-Vlaanderen Roggelaan 2 8500 Kortrijk +32 (0)56 23 17 43 (rechtstreeks nummer) Bezoek onze website : www.vmw.be

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Timestamp problem on MediaWiki 1.4beta3
by admin＠goobergunch.net 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I recently installed MediaWiki 1.4beta3 on the NSwiki (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php). This was an upgrade from MediaWiki 1.3.9. Although I'm overall quite pleased with the upgrade, I have noticed that the ~~~~~ code used to give timestamps is not working properly; instead, it is returning one's signature and timestamp followed by a tilde (example: Rechze (talk) 12:35, 28 Dec 2004 (GMT)~). How do I remedy this? Thanks, Goobergunch

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Wiki requires "zero" cookie protection in ZoneAlarm firewall
by Sterling D. Allan 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

On my system, I am not able to log in anew unless I set my ZoneAlarms firewall cookie setting to its lowest point, in which it does not block any cookies. This seems to be a newer bug that was not in place when I first was using the mediawiki program. I've not upgraded since installing back in June. Planning upgrade in Jan. Will the upgrade address this bug? I'm running on Windows XP (VGA setting due to monitor issue); IE6.0; ZoneAlarm 5.5 with latest updates. Sterling

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adding_links_to_navigation_menu
by Abel Gonzalez 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi everybody. How can I add items to the navigation menu in the 1.4 version? I used to know how to do it back in the 1.3.8, but the 1.4 doesn't use template. Thanks in advance Abel

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automatic recognition
by Rik Serpentier 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

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rewrite and image uploads
by Jochen Witte 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Hi, I managed to set up mediawiki with URL rewriting. But whenever I want to upload an image, I just end up in the upload page itself and the image is not uploaded. Without rewriting, everything works just fine. Any hints? Jochen

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Local Mediawiki running too slow
by udi 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

We have MediaWiki 1.3.7 running on Windows XP, but pages are displayed too slowly. What is the procedure to speed up the process?

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