MediaWiki-l November 2005

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Domain name overlay
by Ed Jones 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hey, all. I set up a new wiki...and then I got the additional domain name complete. So that what was ed.com/wiki now has mysite.org pointed to the wiki directory. The redirect works fine... http finds the folder and starts the wiki...but then things fall apart. It wants files in mysite.org/wiki which of course doesn't exist (=ed.com/wiki/wiki). Do I have to run the installer again, losing the pages already created in the Wiki? Thanks, Ed

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Eror installing: Specified key was too long
by Willem 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I just tried to do a clean install on a new server and got the following error: Quote: MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... PHP 5.0.5: 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 apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /home/data/www/willem/mediawiki Script URI path: /willem/mediawiki Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root... MySQL error 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Trying regular user... ok. Connected to 4.1.14; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements Database wikitest exists Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE categorylinks ( cl_from int(8) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', cl_to varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_sortkey varchar(86) binary NOT NULL default '', cl_timestamp timestamp NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY cl_from(cl_from,cl_to), KEY cl_sortkey(cl_to,cl_sortkey), KEY cl_timestamp(cl_to,cl_timestamp) ) TYPE=InnoDB" failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes". any idea what is wrong ? Regards,

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iso-8859-1 conversion to UTF-8 failed during upgrade from 1.4.0 to 1.5.2
by Andre Oliveira da Costa 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi, we are running mediawiki v1.4.0 with a iso-8859-1 DB, and as we tried to upgrade, locale conversion from iso-8859-1 to UT-8 didn't work as all latin1 chars like çéõ etc. got replaced by ",". This would be "only" a PITA if we had to manually convert accented chars by hand, but it turned out that the converstion of URLs with latin1 chars sent some pages into a blackhole -- they simply seem to disappear. I filed a bug about this (bug #3898 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898), please check the link for more details. But I was hoping anyone on this ML would know how to work around this... Any of you guys had to do such conversion? If so, did it work 100%? Until I can successfully convert the DB locale, we're stuck with 1.4.0 = ( Any help will be much appreciated. TIA Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa (costa(a)tecgraf.puc-rio.br)

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unable to find any "convert" command on Ubuntu 5.04
by Frames 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

*Hello I installed Unbuntu 5.04 and now I obtain this error message instead mathematical formulas: Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): f(x,y,z; \alpha, C) = (x-x_C)\; e^{-\alpha (\vec{r}-\vec{r_C})^2}* α and *Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): x_C, y_C, z_C I checked **latex, dvips, or gs but I do not know how to obtain "convert" from synaptic or apt-get. Could you help Thanks Francois Colonna *

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Email authentication?
by Sy Ali 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Is there the functionality to disallow editing until a user responde to the authentication request? I tested what email authentication functionality I saw, but it allows any anonymous user to sign up and edit without them caring about the email notice. I hope I'm just missing something..

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image folder permissions
by jdd 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello. I have a question, not really a problem. I've seen in the doc (don't remember where) that to have the upload of images allowed, the image folder should be writtable by all (chmod 777). When looking at my config, I see that at an unknown moment (I think I was tired and forgot to document the change) I made this foder "wwwrun:www" and chmod 755 rwxr-xr-x 14 wwwrun www 392 2005-10-13 20:07 images I beg wwwrun is the apache user on my suse linux 9.0. this works ok. thus a reader gives me as a clue to use suphp with an unix user and a chmod 700 what do you think of this? what is the best method? second, I plan to upload my wiki on my ISP server, but there I will not have any chmod available, however php is commonly used and is said to have the necessary permissions. Do you think there may be a problem? thanks jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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SpamBlacklist extension
by Hamish 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello Having been hit quite badly by a spammer (bot?) similar to what others are describing, I have tried to put some anti-spam measures in place, but I'm getting confused with the SpamBlacklist extension (using with mediawiki 1.5.0). I got the files from cvs and put them in extensions/SpamBlacklist/, then after having a tricky time getting the raw list from mediawiki (does it still need to use a cron to fetch this, the "load_lists" file did not seem to be in current cvs), I got the chonqued list as so: wget -O chongqed_blacklist_raw 'http://blacklist.chongqed.org' cut -d? -f3 chongqed_blacklist_raw > chongqed_blacklist I then added the include for SmapBlacklist in Localsettings.php: require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" ); $wgSpamBlacklistFiles = array( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/wikimedia_blacklist", // Wikimedia "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/chongqed_blacklist" // database title // "DB: wikidb My_spam_blacklist", ); wikimedia_blacklist is a zero size file. Now when I try to edit a page, I can add a pattern from the chonqued_blacklist and still save the page with no warnings or blocks. Here is a section of the tail of chonqued_blacklist (I have prepended "1" onto all urls): 1zytemp\.com\.cn 1zzdh\.com 1zzdx\.com This seems similar to the wikimedia format, but when I edit a page and add for example http://1zzdx.com, the page saves fine. Am I missing something? Thanks for any suggestions, H

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How to activate trackback?
by G.Bierens＠fontys.nl 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I'm using MediaWiki 1.5, and I'm trying to activate the trackback-function. As far as I understand all I need to do is add this code to localsettings.php: $wgUseTrackbacks = true; Did that, but now what? I thought I would see a trackback-url at the bottom of the page, or in the toolbox, but that is not happening. Did I miss something? -Gerard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Editing multiple pages at once
by Mike Stukalov 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello, Just came up with another question - is it possible to edit many pages at once to change one exact string to another? For example, I need to change category of 20 articles; do I have to edit them all one by one or is it possible to just replace category name in some different convenient way? Thanks, Mike

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increasing size of upload + export/import
by Jeff Webb 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I am trying to import the contents of one mediawiki site into another using the export/import function. The problem is the size of the export is about 4mb which is causing an import error on upload (Upload of import file failed; perhaps the file is bigger than the allowed upload size). I have broken the export into chunks but this still fails when I try to upload an export XML file greater than 2mb. Is there anyway to increase the size of an import? I have tried messing with the image import but this does not seem to work. Another question is how does the import handle conflicting pages? I am trying to figure this out in my testing but if anyone knows it would be helpful. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Webb jeff(a)boowebb.com http://boowebb.com/

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MediaWiki-l November 2005