MediaWiki-l December 2004

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AWStats and Mediawiki
by Paul Johnson 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Using the new 1.4beta2, I can't seem to find a good place to put the <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/js/awstats_misc_tracker.js\"></script>\n line so that every page will call AWStats javascript. What's the trick in 1.4? -- Paul Johnson baloo(a)ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/

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MediaWiki 1.3.9 released [security]
by Brion Vibber 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

MediaWiki 1.3.9 is a security and bug fix release. A flaw in upload handling has been found which may allow upload and execution of arbitrary scripts with the permissions of the web server. Only wikis that have enabled uploads and have a vulnerable Apache configuration will be affected, but to be safe all wikis should upgrade. Wikis with uploads available should either disable uploads or upgrade to 1.3.9 immediately; if other files are customized and require merging changes, includes/SpecialUpload.php may be replaced individually to add the fix. (It is also recommended to configure your web server to disable script execution in the 'images' subdirectory where uploads are placed, which prevents most attacks even if the wiki fails.) Changes from 1.3.8: * Backported "Templates used in this page"-feature of EditPage * Allow "MySkin" as a default skin. * (bug 938) Parse namespaces correctly on self-interwiki links * (bug 1010) fix broken Commons image link on Classic & Cologne Blue * (bug 1004) Norsk language names for interwiki links changed, Nauruan language name changed * Fix upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable Apache configurations Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=289468 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.3.9.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)

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MediaWiki 1.4beta3 released
by Brion Vibber 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.4beta3 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. Users of the earlier beta releases should upgrade as soon as possible, particularly if uploads are enabled. A security vulnerability with uploads on some Apache configurations has been fixed in this release. === Beta 3 fixes === * Hide RC patrol markers when patrol is disabled or not allowed to patrol. * Fix language selection for upgraded accounts * (bug 1076) navigation links in QueryPage should be translated by wgContLang. * (bug 922) bogus DOS line endings in LanguageEl.php * Fix index usage in contribs * Caching and load limiting options for Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed * (bug 1074) Add stock icons for non-image files in gallery/Newimages * Add width and height attributes on thumbs in gallery/Newimages * Enhance upload extension blacklist to protect against vulnerable Apache configurations Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=289469 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta3.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) iD8DBQFBvNsRwRnhpk1wk44RAq4OAJ97aILWDHXV8b4jMbJNrHWvbsiG6wCfQjVS Y3FFGLESXFkLUfmHsDK8J4Q= =g/qo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How to open the letters of Brion?
by Plamen Gradinarov 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

I am using Outlook Express and there is no way to directly read the attachments. I have to use Forward and only then the attachments get clickable. Or to visit the web site of the list. Any hints from Outlook experts?

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MediaWiki 1.4beta1 released
by Brion Vibber 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.4beta1 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. === New features === * 'Recentchanges Patrol' to mark new edits that haven't yet been viewed. * New, searchable deletion/upload/protection logs * Image gallery generation (Special:Newimages and <gallery> tag) * SVG rasterization support (requires external support) * Users can select from the available localizations to override the default user interface language. * Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion support === Installation and compatibility === * The default MonoBook theme now works with PHP 5.0 * Installation on systems with PHP's safe mode or other oddities should work more reliably, as MonoBook no longer needs to create a compiled template file for the wiki to run. * A table prefix may be specified, to avoid conflicts with other web applications forced to share a database. * More thorough UTF-8 input validation; fixes non-ASCII uploaded filenames from Safari. * Command-line database upgrade script. === Customizability === * Default user options can now be overridden in LocalSettings. * Skins system more modular: templates and CSS are now in /skins/ New skins can be dropped into this directory and used immediately. * More extension hooks have been added. * Authentication plugin hook. * More internal code documentation, generated with phpdoc: http://www.mediawiki.org/docs/html/ === Optimization === * For many operations, MediaWiki 1.4 should run faster and use less memory than MediaWiki 1.3. Page rendering is up to twice as fast. (Use a PHP accelerator such as Turck MMCache for best results with any PHP application, though!) * The parser cache no longer requires memcached, and is enabled by default. This avoids a lot of re-rendering of pages that have been shown recently, greatly speeding longer page views. * Support for compiled PHP modules to speed up page diff and Unicode validation/normalization. (Requires ability to compile and load PHP extensions). === What isn't ready yet === * A new user/groups permissions scheme has been held back to 1.5. * An experimental SOAP interface will be made available as an extension * PostgreSQL support is largely working, but search and installer support are not complete. These are being actively worked on and should come in later betas. * E-mail notification of watched page changes and verification of user-submitted e-mail addresses is not yet included. If updates are available, this may make it into later betas. * Log pages are not automatically imported into the new log table at upgrade time. A script to import old text log entries is incomplete, but may be available by the time 1.4 finishes. * UI messages may be broken in Latin-1 mode in this release due to some minor breakage in the language selection module. Full release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=287326 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4beta1.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) iD8DBQFBsHrUwRnhpk1wk44RAmVjAKCS/S0DALe1b8F8OPBwp6POhDdmnwCgiY2n oXBwQheNUN0xPWUim5qs4FA= =mkWR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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tiny maintenance release for Enotif 135 (email notification) for mediawiki 1.3.7
by Thomas Gries 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

1. I updated my http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 with a small patch 2. The full file mediawiki 1.3.7 incl. Enotif 1.351 is http://www.tgries.de/mw/mw137+en135.tgz If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me directly. Tom P.S: I am heavily working on an very improved version for CVS HEAD (for Release 1.5, not 1.4)

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Categorial misbehaviour
by Plamen Gradinarov 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Categories started suddenly to behave chaotically, appearing sometimes on four places, like here, in the beginning and in the end of the page: http://www.francopedia.org/Bouddhisme.html The categorylinks_table is up-to-date (just imported the last dump). Nothing to do with the templates - everywhere one and the same picture. Nothing has been changed in the static files. Yesterday all categories were funcional. Any suggestions where to look for the causes? Thanks in advance, Plamen

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Updating Images
by Con Rodi 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I have a ton of images that need to be updated (change in resolution, new photo, etc.) Can I just replace the files in the "images" folder without harm? This would be so much easier than uploading the images through the web interface. Con Rodi Center for Human-Computer Interaction Virginia Tech

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Request for a new time variable
by Mario Benvenuti 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

In order to archive and rotate some of the Main Page contents, a {{WEEKOFTHEYEAR}} variable would be great. TY, M/

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Access control
by John Yu 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I understand that an overhaul of the current access control is planned, which can put users and pages in access control groups. But this won't happen until 1.5 or later. I'm wondering if I can easily implement access control based on Categories as an interim solution: pages belong to a specific category can't be viewed or edited without logon. Is this doable? If so, which php files are the starting point I need to hack? -- John

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