MediaWiki-l September 2004

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Re: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3
by Jimmy Apple 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Regarding Title not Displaying Thanks Brion Got it fixed! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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rewrite and htaccess
by Saurav Pathak 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

hi, i have nearly got it to work, except search is not working. i have tried different combinations of rewritrules, but to no avail. what i use is given below, based on the entry in meta.wikipedia. obviously i don't know mod_rewrite well enough to go much beyond. i am using mediawiki 1.3.1 installed in /wiki/. the .htaccess file is in /wiki/. The LocalSettings.php variables are: $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1"; Thanks in advance for your help. saurav ----- # .htaccess file. # first, enable the processing RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /wiki # Verifying if user forgot to put trailling slash. If so, we'll rewrite to Main_Page RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wiki$ RewriteRule ^(.*) /wiki/index.php [L] # Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories, # MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/(stylesheets|images)/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt # Make sure there is no query string. /Adrian # This gives "badly formed search query". # gets /wiki/Special:Search?search=somequery&go=Go instead of # /wiki/index.php?search=somequery&go=Go RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wiki/Special:Search # Rewrite any article as wiki/index.php/article and stop RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [L] ------------

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help!
by Gaurav Chaturvedi 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I need help with the search feature and creating new pages. On wikipedia.com there is an option to "Create a new article" or "submit a request for the article", I would like this to be displayed in my search results as well (as that is the only way I understand that articles can be created through the webpage). Also, is there anywhere that a command is there like: "Create New Entry Page" or something? Would be much easier...thanks. -- Gaurav Chaturvedi Web/Graphic Designer JAVA Programmer

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] User List
by Richards,Michael 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Cameron, To remove users, just start up a mysql session and entered commands like delete from user where user_name = 'username'; Before you do this, make sure there are no contributions by the user. If there are, then either the username is actually valid after all, or they have created another username and you need to move their contributions from the old username to the new one with statements like: update old set old_user_text = 'newusername' where old_user = 99; update cur set cur_user_text = 'newusername' where cur_user = 99; update recentchanges set rc_user_text = 'newusername' where rc_user = 99; update archive set ar_user_text = 'newusername' where ar_user = 99; update image set img_user_text = 'newusername' where img_user = 99; update old set old_user = 88 where old_user = 99; update cur set cur_user = 88 where cur_user = 99; update recentchanges set rc_user = 88 where rc_user = 99; update archive set ar_user = 88 where ar_user = 99; update image set img_user = 88 where img_user = 99; where 88 is their old user_id and 99 is their new user_id. I think there is a script for this somewhere but I can't remember the name. Anyone else know? Michael Richards -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Cameron Stephen Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:00 AM To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] User List Greetings, This my first post, so I would like to thank the developers of MediaWiki, it is great. I have set up a Wiki for my workplace and I was wondering if there is an easy way to remove users from the user list (some incorrect names were entered with account creation) I am a newbie to php and database stuff (my server uses MySQL) so please bear with me. Regards Cameron C. J. Stephen notReality ~ http://www.notreality.biz/notreality.php Photoblogring.org ~ http://photoblogring.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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navbar modification again
by Cameron Stephen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Apologies for any groans of "not again" this question may generate :-) I have tried to follow previous threads regarding modifying the navigation links in the wiki sidebar, but it all seems to be rather complex to me. I wish to check with more experienced people than I prior to doing anything silly and completely stuffing things up on my wiki ~ To make a link in the nav bar to Special:AllPages (ie make a link to an index of all pages in the wiki) do I insert this (below) into SkinPHPTal.php code? $nav_urls['allpages'] = array('href' => htmlspecialchars( $this->makeSpecialUrl('Allpages'))); and also in xhtml_slim.pt: <li id="n-allpages"><a href="${nav_urls/allpages/href}" i18n:translate="string:allpages">All Pages</a></li> ?? Also what is the difference between: makeSpecialUrl and makeI18nUrl? - Should I have one or the other in the SkinPHPTal.php code? Would this work or have I got it wrong? Are there any other files I need to modify? (This next bit is probably more complex, so I understand if there is not a straightforward answer) - How does one make external links using all the syntax above? Or even say a link to a php page sitting just above the wiki directory on my server? I see that the topic of modifying links in the nav bar has come up a few times. Is there a tutorial or a step-by-step walkthrough anywhere, say at MetaWiki or somewhere? Thanks in advance for any help anyone may be able to give. C. J. Stephen notReality ~ http://www.notreality.biz/notreality.php Photoblogring.org ~ http://photoblogring.nfshost.com

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User List
by Cameron Stephen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Greetings, This my first post, so I would like to thank the developers of MediaWiki, it is great. I have set up a Wiki for my workplace and I was wondering if there is an easy way to remove users from the user list (some incorrect names were entered with account creation) I am a newbie to php and database stuff (my server uses MySQL) so please bear with me. Regards Cameron C. J. Stephen notReality ~ http://www.notreality.biz/notreality.php Photoblogring.org ~ http://photoblogring.nfshost.com

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User Preferences not saved
by Bruce Rafnel 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi, My user preferences are not getting saved. It's unlikely that it's a browser refresh problem, because I don't see any changes occurring in the "user" table in the DB after saving. This happens with both the admin user and another user. Both also have user_rights: sysop,bureaucrat Manually changing a user's record, in the DB, does show up in the browser, when it is refreshed. This is a first time installation, so I don't think this ever worked after I installed. In the DB, I'm using the 'root' user with no password, because that is the only thing that works. So it is unlikely that it is a DB user permission problem. Other things seem to be working as expected (page creating, editing, etc). For details about my install process and versions, see my earlier post: Date:08/20/2004 11:16 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Install problems with MediaWiki 1.3.1 Best regards, Bruce

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Title not appearing correctly
by Jimmy Apple 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi Brion, Thanks for the insights. Sorry for asking basic questions, but how do I edit the Special:Allmessages page? > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jimmy Apple wrote: > Do you know how I can change that? Where are the > interface messages that I have to edit? See [[Special:Allmessages]] on your wiki. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush

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Upgrades from 1.2.x originally installed from install.php
by Brion Vibber 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Thanks to those who narrowed down the source of this problem: if you're getting the database error when it's trying to convert the link tables, this is because it's mistakenly switching from the root connection to the database down to the less-privileged account which is unable to alter the table structures. Here's a patch which will keep it using the root login during this step: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/2004-September/003424.html Note that if you don't have MySQL root access _at all_, you may need to provide the old $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpass as the database username and password to the new installer. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: Arabic language file updated
by Mohammad 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Here is the file GZipped for better download http://iwiki.dyndns.org/mydownloads/LanguageAr.php.gz Regards, Mohammad -- Mohammad salemoh(a)fastmail.fm

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