MediaWiki-l July 2004

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search 'wrong datatype for second argument' (FulltextStoplist.php) warning
by Dan Kelley 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Do other folks get this error? I've had to turn stoplists off to prevent all searches resulting in this text being placed on the page. My system has php Version 4.3.3 and mediaWiki: 1.3.0beta4 Dan E. Kelley, Associate Professor phone:(902)494-1694 Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University fax:(902)494-2885 Halifax, Nova Scotia mailto:Dan.Kelley@Dal.CA Canada B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/Kelley_Dan.html

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PEAR error
by John Ingleby 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

I ran into the same problem and found the answer on the mediawiki.sourcefore.org bug list by searching for "pear_error". The solution is to alter the file PHPTAL-NP-0.7.0/libs/PHPTAL.php and replace the line: define('PHPTAL_DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR', '/tmp/'); to point to a new /tmp directory I made within the wiki's file tree. At first it didn't work, until I remembered to make my local /tmp directory writeable... John Ingleby ************ Webmaster - www.schoolforge.org.uk Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:15:44 +0200 > From: Thomas Rother <t.rother(a)netzwissen.de> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] PEAR error > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <40FE5E70.7090407(a)netzwissen.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Hi, > does anyone know what this PEAR error means: > > [pear_error: message="failed to open stream: Permission denied" code=0 > mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""] > > I saw this with a fresh installation of 1.3 CVS (20.7.04) > > Any ideas??? > > Bye, Thomas > -- > -- > THOMAS M. ROTHER * n e t z w i s s e n * D-73728 Esslingen > F.R. Germany, European Union * mailto:t.rother@netzwissen.de > http://www.netzwissen.de * GPG Key from http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net > Fingerprint B208 E204 4249 4635 19B9 B691 3E73 C8B9 1229 DE4C > --

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Extending login cookie lifetime
by Matias Pelenur 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi, I've noticed that the login cookie does not last very long -- usually no more than a day. I can see how for security reasons you may not want it to last forever, but I'd like to extend its life a bit, maybe to a week or so. I noticed that in include/DefaultSettings.php there is a line $wgCookieExpiration = 2592000; which if it's in seconds would be 30 days. However my login cookie never gets set for that long. Any ideas why that may be? Thanks, matias PS: I know that be default the cookie is set so that if you set it at seattlewiki.org it won't be sent for www.seattlewiki.org. However this behavior happens even if I always use on or the other. I've also just now set the cookie domain so that it works for both cases above.

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uploaded image file/dir names?
by Dan Kelley 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

I've posted a question at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_file_usage which reads as follows. Any hints on this? The webpage seems to be incorrect. (My reason for looking into this is that I want to do multiple file uploads, but the 'bot' scheme isn't working for me so I'm trying to read the code and docs to learn how to automate this a bit better.) I'm confused about the image filename hashing. Is the following statement correct? Filenames are MD5-hashed, and since many filesystems don't handle large directories well, uploads are broken into subdirectories with the first and first two hex digits of the hash, eg: upload/7/79/Wikicontestlogo598932.jpg. I tested this by downloading the linked-to file. The result was ee3fe2bfeffd646b0bee15265af96c37 Wikicontestlogo598932.jpg which should have gone into a directory e/e3 instead of the directory 7/79 as indicated. --DK 18:52, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC) Dan E. Kelley, Associate Professor phone:(902)494-1694 Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University fax:(902)494-2885 Halifax, Nova Scotia mailto:Dan.Kelley@Dal.CA Canada B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/Kelley_Dan.html

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Skins / HTML?
by Jeff Hope 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hello, I've looked through the MediaWiki User Guide & everything else I could find, but I've either missed or just don't understand something. How/where do I create a new "look" to a local copy of a Wikipedia? By that I mean where do I put my HTML if I want to duplicate my current site's look & layout? I've seen the skins doc., but still don't understand where my HTML will go. I assume I combine my desired HTML with MediaWiki "tags", but can't find the info on that. Is there a "Special" page where I can create a new template? Any help to get me started is appreciated! Thank you, Jeff

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WYSIWYG
by Nick Bell 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

I know this is probably anti-Wiki too, but is there any way of incorporating a WYSIWYG editor (a la htmlarea) into mediawiki? Nick

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What do the TPL files do?
by Jimmy Apple 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, Looking at the templates directory in Media Wiki, there are two, paddington.tpl and montparnasse.tpl What do these do, and if we modify them, or make new tpl files, then how can we specify which one MediaWiki uses? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Help Customizing Media Wiki
by Jimmy Apple 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Hello, I'm very new to PHP and CSS, so I was hoping someone could give me a hand! I managed to install Mediawiki, and for some test data, I uploaded the WIkiquote info into the Cur tables, so far so good! Now, how do I start customizing? Where are the template files or css files? How can I change the mediawiki logo to my logo? How can I customize which elements of the menubar appear? For example, if I wanted to remove the menu that says "discuss this page" how would I do that? Also, what does [[Template:Gnunote]] mean? I tried to edit my wikipage/Template:Gnunote to add a GNU note there, but at the bottom of every page [[Template:Gnunote]] appears. And, what is {{qotd}} and How do I insert my own Quote of the Day? Thanks for all your help!!! Jimmy APple __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Is there a way to upload images from the commandline?
by Dan Kelley 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

I have many images to upload, so the web-based method is too slow. I'm hoping I can do the work with a shellscript instead. (It's dozens of times faster to use the unix system and a good text editor to generate a list of filenames and content for the corresponding webpages, than it is to upload things one by one.) Is there a standalone script to do this, or should I write one, based on the includes/SpecialUpload.php file? Dan E. Kelley, Associate Professor phone:(902)494-1694 Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University fax:(902)494-2885 Halifax, Nova Scotia mailto:Dan.Kelley@Dal.CA Canada B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/Kelley_Dan.html

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Upgrading from 1.26 to 1.3 - best way?
by Nick Bell 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

1. 1.26 is great, but I want the latest! I would rather not have to reenter all my wiki data - what's the best way of transferring it across? I've managed to get the XML export to work, but how to I _import_ it to the new site? 2. I don't find it very easy to search for support on the metawiki using the search What's the easiest way of finding whether somebody has answered my question about mediawiki previously? Thanks as ever Nick

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