MediaWiki-l October 2005

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Delete passive users ?
by GraphoPhile 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Jani : Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a bot that generates and register users. After some trillions of random users added the wiki is on its knees. GP : From Rob answer I understood that the problem is for links that are created in the system when a user is active. If a bot "just" adds trillions of users I guess he's got no time for creating pages. So these passive users could be erased ??????? The need is of an alarm indicator of "over registration of users".

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Problems with getting a wiki site running
by Kurt Haselwimmer 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Dear All, I've been trying to set up a mediawiki site for collaborative scientific instrument development. I have got through the install procedure, moved the LocalSettings.php file to the www.cmr.uk.com/wiki directory and then followed the link suggested by web installer (listed below) only to get the message "no input file specified". Q - is this a bug or am I being stupid - Do I need to make some content files before I start - I had assumed that once wiki had been installed I could add content purely through the wiki interface. Any help would be very useful. Many thanks Kurt Dr. Kurt Haselwimmer Director ------------------------------------------------------------- Cambridge Magnetic Refrigeration Britannia House, 19-21 Godesdone Road, Cambridge, CB5 8HR Tel +44 (0) 1223 473631 Fax +44 (0) 1223 474164 Web www.cmr.uk.com 'Cambridge Magnetic Refrigeration - the new standard' ------------------------------------------------------------- MediaWiki 1.4.10 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... • PHP 4.4.0: ok • Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. • PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) • Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. • PHP is configured with no memory_limit. • Have zlib support; enabling output compression. • Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions • Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. • Found GD graphics library built-in. • Installation directory: /content/StartupHostPlus/c/m/cmr.uk.com/web/wiki • Script URI path: /php-cgi/php • MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@cronos' (Using password: NO) • Trying regular user... ok. • Connected to database... 4.0.24-standard-log; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements • Database cmrukcomwiki exists • Creating tables... done. • Initializing data... • Created sysop account CMRadmin. • Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. Creating LocalSettings.php... Success! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

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How do I make Special:Popularpages contain other namespaces?
by Morten Blaabjerg 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

I want to make Special:Popularpages contain pages in other namespaces than the main one, i.e. userpages and some of my custom namespaces. If I remove the WHERE cur_namespace=0 from the database request in the Specialpopularpages.php file, other pages do show up on the list, but the wiki shows their titles without their namespace, and treats them as links to pages in the main namespace, apparently :-( Is there an easy workaround, that could make this work? - Possibly also for others of the speciallist pages? I'm running 1.4 for the moment - but with a plan to upgrade to 1.5 in the foreseeable future. Best wishes, Morten :-) -- Crews Cut Production Morten Blaabjerg Danmarksgade 97 - DK-5000 Odense C Tlf. 65 90 60 88 / 51 80 91 55 http://morten.crewscut.com morten(a)crewscut.com

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Attack of one user: Rollback of all changes?
by Karl-Otto Kirst 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hallo, in ZUM-Wiki we have had a massive attack of one user yesterday at night. - Now we have to make a lot of rollbacks of all the changes of this one user (calling himselve "Vova93). Is there an easy way to make a rollback of all changes of this one user together? Best regards Karl Kirst -------------------------------------- post(a)karl-kirst.de www.karl-kirst.de / www.schule-und-internet.de Mitarbeit am ZUM-Wiki: www.zum.de/wiki --------------------------------------

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upgrading problem to 1.5 (latin-1)
by Simon Wagner 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hello, iv've tried to upgrade from 1.4.9to the new stable release 1.5.0. Unfortunately my page was in latin-1. This seems to get a problem now. I've tried to upgrade like described in UPGRADE: 1) run upgrade1_5.php 2) remove LocalSettings.php 3) install again with same settings ok, seemed everything to run well, but when i open my page now, there are some unknown characters (IE couldn't even show the page, i had to set it to another charset [was UTF-8 had t set it to westeuropean (Windows)]). Some pages even don't exist anymore (i think that comes from the diffrent charset cause all of these pages have something like äöü in their titles). Now any suggestions? How can i convert my wiki to utf-8 ? Thanks in advance S.W.

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Link variable userpage
by Marjon 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hi, I'm wondering, does anyone of you know if it's possible to make a link to the userpage of the user that is at that time viewing the page? I mean like the link that is in the right upper corner, but I would like to put that link in a text, so I do not need to write "your userpage can be reached by clicking on your username in the right upper corner of your screen". A link would be far shorter ;-) Thanks, Marjon

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Enable TeX
by Raed AlHazme 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Do I need to compile texvc then install mediawiki, or the other way arround? Best regards, Raed

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Compiling texvc
by Raed AlHazme 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

I got mediawiki-1.4.11 installed properly, however, I have been through the steps for configuring TeX by installing the following: - OCaml (Objective Caml version 3.08.4) - LaTeX (TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)) and dvips (dvips(k) 5.92b) - ImageMagick (ImageMagick 6.0.7 10/11/04 Q16) - Ghostscript (GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)) And by default, my Linux server(Fedora Core 3) has GNU make installed. And they are all in the PATH, so when I write ocaml, make, gs, latex, dvips, convert…. from the command-line it work. That was according to the instructions in the following link: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enable_TeX And finally, when I move to <math> directory and run: make it gives me the following, without compiling texvc: ocamlopt -c util.ml <http://util.ml> sh: line 1: as: command not found Assembler error, input left in file /tmp/camlasm69e54a.s make: *** [util.cmx] Error 2 Is there any solution for this problem?

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Problem installing MediaWiki (third call)
by GraphoPhile 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

As I get answers out of scope I suspect that my explanation is not clear, I modify it in consequence 1. The problem : PHP memory not available on the server Message when installing MediaWiki on Ouvaton.org's server : "/PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M ... failed." The installation blocked. Ouvaton doesn't want to change the memory limit. 2. The solution tested to bypass the problem Make the installation on a local machine and then move the database and the LocalSettings file to Ouvaton's server, changing path variables (1). MediaWiki works OK on the local machine. After moving the database and modified LocalSettings file, when opening MediaWiki on the distant machine : http://wikisic.ouvaton.org/wiki/ the problem is : Warning: main(includes/SkinTemplate.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki/skins/MonoBook.php on line 17 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/SkinTemplate.php' (include_path='.;/data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki;/data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki/includes;/data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki/languages') in /data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki/skins/MonoBook.php on line 17 I suspect that one or more of the path I modified in LocalSettings are not OK. 1. How do these path look for a "direct" installation on a LAMP server ? 2. Could it be an other problem ? Thanks in advance for any help Christian http://www.rue-vico.com/clbois/ (1) The LocalSettings.php file with variables for path changed from local values to values for distant servers, changes on LINE 9 , LINE 29 and LINE 49 (in blue) <?php # This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer. # If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to # recreate them later. #LOCAL IP WAS $IP = "c:\\program files\\easyphp1-7\\www\\wikisic\\wiki"; CHANGED to ... L 9 $IP = "/data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki"; ini_set( "include_path", ".;$IP;$IP/includes;$IP/languages" ); require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); # If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail. # ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' ); if ( $wgCommandLineMode ) { if ( isset( $_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER ) ) { die( "This script must be run from the command line\n" ); } } elseif ( empty( $wgConfiguring ) ) { ## Compress output if the browser supports it if( !ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression' ) ) @ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' ); } $wgSitename = "WikiSic"; # LOCAL value for variable was $wgScriptPath = "/wikisic/wiki"; CHANGED TO ... L 29 $wgScriptPath = "/data/www/w/i/kisic.ouvaton.org/html/wiki"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; ## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript/$1"; # $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1"; $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wiki.png"; $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; $wgEmergencyContact = "admin@localhost"; $wgPasswordSender = "admin@localhost"; #LOCAL VALUE WAS "localhost" CHANGED TO ... L 49 $wgDBserver = "sql.ou-data.net"; $wgDBname = "wikisic"; $wgDBuser = "wikisic"; $wgDBpassword = "XXXXX"; $wgDBprefix = ""; ## To allow SQL queries through the wiki's Special:Askaql page, ## uncomment the next lines. THIS IS VERY INSECURE. If you want ## to allow semipublic read-only SQL access for your sysops, ## you should define a MySQL user with limited privileges. ## See MySQL docs: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/GRANT.html # # $wgAllowSysopQueries = true; # $wgDBsqluser = "sqluser"; # $wgDBsqlpassword = "sqlpass"; # If you're on MySQL 3.x, this next line must be FALSE: $wgDBmysql4 = $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; ## Shared memory settings $wgUseMemCached = false; $wgMemCachedServers = array(); #$wgUseTurckShm = function_exists( 'mmcache_get' ) && php_sapi_name() == 'apache'; ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then uncomment this: # $wgDisableUploads = false; $wgUseImageResize = false; # $wgUseImageMagick = true; # $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; ## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: # $wgUseTeX = true; $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp"; $wgLocalInterwiki = $wgSitename; $wgLanguageCode = "fr"; $wgUseLatin1 = false; $wgProxyKey = "217005cc64d7e6f72323d874d41c8ed2b9e4a515ba572012210c8256117b656"; ## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic ## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook': # $wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'; ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. $wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true; $wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"; $wgRightsText = "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"; $wgRightsIcon = "${wgStylePath}/common/images/gnu-fdl.png"; # $wgRightsCode = "gfdl"; # Not yet used ?>

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set the target of the image?
by Bakó Csaba 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hi! Is it possible to set the target of the image (to internal or external target)? How? Thanks, Csaba

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MediaWiki-l October 2005