MediaWiki-l August 2004

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Question 1: Copyright of content created in a private installation of Wikimedia?
by Wisdom Project 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

The Wikimedia Foundation website, the mediawiki software page says: "MediaWiki development The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit foundation registered in the state of Florida which operates Wikipedia (a free encyclopedia in over 50 languages), Wiktionary (a free dictionary), Wikisource (a collection of public domain or FDL-licensed texts), Wikibooks (free textbooks for schools and universities), and Wikiquote (a collection of notable quotations). All these projects are based on wiki technology: they are open knowledge bases which can be improved by anyone. This is the homepage of the underlying open source wiki engine, MediaWiki, which is developed here on SourceForge via CVS, and is available under the GNU General Public License (the contents of the Wikimedia wikis themselves are licensed under the GNU FDL). " I was wondering if anyone can clarify the last line of this page. Is it saying that any content created on any installation of the Wikimedia software is automatically licensed under the GNU FDL? Specifically, if I wanted to install and use Wikimedia software privately to write a book or whatever, is that content immediately licensed by the GNU FDL or am I free to copyright content on a private installation however I wish? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Matt

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upgrade causing errors (1.2->1.3.1)
by Ashami 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

I had to do a manual upgrade. I put in all the relevant info, and double-checked accuracy. When I try to run the wiki, I get the following errors: __________ Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../includes/User.php on line 90 90 foreach ($wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault as $nsnum => $val) { 91 $this->mOptions['searchNs'.$nsnum] = $val; 92 } Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .../includes/Setup.php on line 254 254 foreach ( $wgExtensionFunctions as $func ) { 255 $func(); 256 } Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ...includes/User.php:90) in .../includes/OutputPage.php on line 329 327 if( $this->mRedirectCode == '301') { 328 if( !$wgDebugRedirects ) { 329 header("HTTP/1.1 {$this->mRedirectCode} Moved Permanently"); 330 } 331 $this->mLastModified = gmdate( "D, j M Y H:i:s" ) . " GMT"; 332 } __________ The Wiki was working just fine before all this. What the hell is going on? Thank you for your assisstance. Ash

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google and navigation -- figured out work-around
by Sterling D. Allan 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Good news. Thanks to the input from mediawiki group, I got google adsense installed and working, and I was able to add the navigation links I wanted at www.peswiki.com The links are a temporary work-around and will not work with the other languages. So I need to figure out how to configure the whole thing beginning to end. Can be another day. Sterling

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error: "Unexpected character in input"
by Greg Rundlett 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

I'm having problems with a brand new installation of mediawiki (v 1.3.1). I'm getting the following error: *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=1) state=1 in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=26) state=1 in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Warning*: Unexpected character in input: ' in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58* *Parse error*: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in */tmp/tpl_0_7_0_67ce1c01a1d29790ffaa24acf1ad38a2.php* on line *58 * Based on my research, it may be a MySQL-related issue, or a browser issue. It seems obvious that the wrong characters are getting put into template files. But, checking the database using phpMyAdmin to browse records, it 'seems like' I was the last one editing the site, so I'm puzzled to find there errors about 24 hours later. I am using Mozilla 1.6 (actually Mozilla Debian Package 1.6-5) on Debian, and may have also used Firefox 0.8 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8). I would guess that these browsers work correctly with wikimedia. Is there some way to delete the tmp folder files to have the application regenerate the templates in cache? This is hosted, so I can't just delete everything in /tmp Thanks, Greg

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Way to recover from corrupt databases?
by Nick Triantos 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi, I just installed mediawiki a week ago. I love the product, but something seems to be very wrong with the sql databases on which the wiki is driven. I've gotten corruption about 5 times already. Now, when I browse to the wiki server, Firefox doesn't even return an empty page, it looks like php is hanging or crashing (not sure which). Is there any way to somewhat manually recover data from the databases? Is there any way to meaningfully export and re-import the data? Thanks, -Nick Triantos p.s. - I'm running mysql 4.0.18 on FreeBSD 4.10. Really no idea why the databases keep going corrupt. I just updated to mysql 4.0.20 in hopes that that'll prevent future problems.

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CSS madness
by Matias Pelenur 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi, I have wikipedia 1.3.1 running on my site. Everything looks great on Firefox, but when I try it with IE 6, the main logo (which I have changed from the original MediaWiki logo) appears at the very top of the page, with no padding on top as it appears on Firefox. The funny thing is that if the page loads slowly, the logo first appears correctly, with space on top, and then it actually moves up. I figure from that that it happens when the extra CSS are loaded, maybe IE60Fixes.css, but I couldn't find anything on those CSSs that would affect p-logo, the class used for the logo. You can hopefully see this at <http://seattlewiki.org> Any CSS gurus out there that can elucidate this purely cosmetic issue? Thanks, matias

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Customizing, import / export data
by Sylvain Viart 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to import / export data with mediawiki. I'm thinking to do that in php at database level. Where should I start ? It there any mediawiki extension programming information somewhere ? Or any related development which could help me ? Regards, -- Cordialement, Sylvain. France

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Mozilla improperly displaying
by Oliver Lineham 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi Peter, Mozilla isn't accepting the stylesheet at: http://www.invariant.org/media/stylesheets/monobook/main.css The reason for this is your webserver is sending that file with a content-type of "text/plain", not "text/css". I have tested this on my own installation, and causes the same problem. I notice your webserver is Apache 1.3.26. There should therefore be a "mime.types" file - probably in the same place as your httpd.conf. This should have the line: text/css css Have a look to see if there is any other line ending with the "css" file extension already, and change it to look like the one above. Otherwise, add the above line to mime.types. Regards, Oliver Peter Gerdes wrote: > So I feel quite foolish asking a basic question like this on the list > but I can't seem to find answers on google or any other documentation > I have looked at...perhaps someone will point me at the documentation > I need. > > Anyway, I installed MediaWiki on my site (www.invariant.org/media) and > it works great in IE, unfortunatly mozilla displays a simple text page > instead of the navigation bar and so forth. I'm sure I'm missing > something really simple as Wikipedia handles mozilla just fine for me > but can someone tell me what it is?

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Way to recover from corrupt databases?
by Nick Triantos 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

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modifying navigation links
by Sterling D. Allan 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

As I study the code in the template/xhtml_slimt.pt document, I'm stumped as to how the syntax relates to how the files are named for the end user. The file [[Main_Page]] for the end user, in the wiki, points to the home page of the wiki. But in the xhtml_slimt.pt file, that page is defined as follows: <li id="n-mainpage"><a href="${nav_urls/mainpage/href}" i18n:translate="string:mainpage">Main Page</a></li> What I want to do is add more links in the navigation box to the main departments at peswiki.com To wit: *[[Main_Page|Main Page]] *[http://pureenergysystems.com PES Home] *[[Top10]] *[[News]] *[[Current events|Events]] *[[OS|Open source energy]] *[[Directory]] *[[PowerPedia|Encyclopedia]] *[[Academy]] *[[Store]] *[[Classifieds]] *[[Latest]] *[[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]] *[[Special:Randompage|Random page]] Your assistance in helping figure out how the syntax works would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Sterling

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