MediaWiki-l November 2005

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Cannot solve my problem
by Maia Rui 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hi, I'm new at MediaWiki and after installing it in my website, when i go to my webpage there's an error there and i don't know how to solve it: Warning: dir(/home/sgsantos/public_html/p@p/skins): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/papuser/public_html/revista/includes/Skin.php on line 23 Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/papuser/public_html/revista/includes/Skin.php on line 26 That's the damn error...where could the problem be? Thank you for helping.... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com

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blue links for nonexistent special pages
by Jillian Waldman 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

I noticed that, while mediawiki by default creates red links for nonexistent wiki pages and blue links to existed ones, links to special pages are always blue. Is there a way to have the wiki check to see if a special page exists, and display a link of a different color (gray? green? or whatever) so it's easy for the user to tell when they preview the page, that they've mistyped a link to a special page? Thanks, Jillian

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Turn off wiki for a morn?
by Ed Jones 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Is there a way to disable the entire wiki for a few hours? This is drastic, but the site is not really getting much use and I fear the bi-weekly spamming from the cool-host idiots is due in the morn. Thanks Ed

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] External links rendered in parens
by Wolfe, Jeff 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Thanks. I did find a defect in the background setting for external links. I had "url(none)" instead of just "none." if nothing else that nixes an annoying error from the logs. I didn't see anything else, so I suppose I'll wait and see if there are other reports. If this fixes it, then that implies the links were the work of the browser. Do you, or anyone, know of a mode where MediaWiki renders external links in this manner? BTW, I should have said that the issue only shows up in IE. Thanks again, Jeff Wolfe, Jeff wrote: >> Given: [http://some.external.site <http://some.external.site> my text to >> show] >> Renders in browser: my text to show (http://some.external.site >> <http://some.external.site> >> >> For those that have the problem, it appears after a ctrl-f5 and has only >> shown up in Firefox. We recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.0, and did not >> have any reports like this before the upgrade. We came from 1.4.10. > > Check your stylesheets. Make sure you've got the correct paths in > LocalSettings.php. If it's a custom skin, make sure it's updated for > current 1.5 bits. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External links rendered in parens _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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External links rendered in parens
by Wolfe, Jeff 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi All, I'm having a weird problem all of a sudden, and it's intermittent (it seems) to boot! I've had two users report that external links are rendered with the external link in parens. It looks like this: Given: [http://some.external.site <http://some.external.site> my text to show] Renders in browser: my text to show (http://some.external.site <http://some.external.site> For those that have the problem, it appears after a ctrl-f5 and has only shown up in Firefox. We recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.0, and did not have any reports like this before the upgrade. We came from 1.4.10. Any ideas? Is it possible that this is not a MediaWiki issue? I have not yet been successful at getting a user to send me the page source when they see this behavior, so I'm not sure if it's bad browser mojo or not. Thanks in advance, Jeff

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Installation complete - connection refused
by Steve Allan 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hello, I installed MediaWiki 1.5.2 with no apparent error, but when I try to connect by following the link from the installation page, I get this: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- While trying to retrieve the URL: http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page The following error was encountered: Connection Failed The system returned: (146) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:07:23 GMT by proxycache (Squid/2.4.STABLE6) Here is the ouput from the mediawiki installation MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... PHP 4.4.1: ok PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP is configured with no memory_limit. Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions GNU diff3 not found. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: /opt/mediawiki-1.5.2 Script URI path: /mediawiki PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root... Connected as root (automatic) Connected to 3.23.53 Created database wikidb Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs... done. Initializing data... Granting user permissions... Created sysop account WikiSysop. Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. Creating LocalSettings.php... Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki. I moved LocalSettings.php up one level to the root of the mediawiki installation and deleted the config directory. I've tried typing in different urls, with no luck. One suggestion I found when googling was to use this url: http://build.chq.ei/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page but that didn't work either. Can anyone suggest how to fix this? Thanks. -- -- Steve

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template parser problem
by judi chen 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi Rick, Thanks for your time and the wonderful explanation. But If you tried {{t2|{{{1}}}|anything...}} on the following site http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template where {{t2}} is pre=efined. You will find the template parser on meta.wikimedia.org seems to understand that {{{1}}} is the parameter and template call is ended with the last }} So can you look into this for me. thanks again jc > > > >> Hi, > >> Thanks for the reply. Here is my problem. > >> > >> I have a template: t2 with the following code > >> start-{{{1}}}-middle-{{{2}}}-end > >> > >> An if I do {{t2|{{{1}}}|a}} to call the Template:t2 > >> > >> I suppose to get this as output, > >> start-{{{1}}}-middle-a-end > >> > >> But rather I got this on my wiki > >> > >> start-{{{1-middle-{{{2}}}-end}|a}} > >> > >> That is my problem > >> > >> Any suggestions > >> thanks > >> jc It seems to me that you might be confused about the syntax for invoking a template (the m:Help:Template pages calls the text used to invoke a template a tag) vs. the syntax within the template itself. To expand the template T2 we use {{T2}} (or {{t2}} since the normal capitalize the first character of a title rule appllies), and if we want to pass a positional parameter we use {{t2|parm1}} INSIDE a template {{{1}}} will expand to the first positional parameter (assuming one was passed, see below). When a TEMPLATE is being parsed, those triple brace bracketted strings will be seen as tags to "invoke" the parameters. OUTSIDE a template {{{1}}} has no special meaning, it's just text. The template T2 as you give it expects two parameters. What you are seeing is the effect of passing it less than two parameters. If a parameter is NOT passed to a template then {{{n}}} (where n is 1, 2 etc) will simply output {{{n}}}. Try these invocations of Template:T2 {{t2|a|b}} -> start-a-middle-b-end {{t2|a}} -> start-a-middle-{{{2}}}-end because no second parameter was passed. {{t2}} -> start-{{{1}}}-middle-{{{2}}}-end Now if we have: {{t2|{{{1}}}|anything...}} outside of a template, the parser sees the {{ as the start of an invocation of a template. Everything up to the next occurence of }} is the invocation, so the template invocation is {{t2|{{{1}} Which passes ONE parameter with the VALUE "{{{1". T2 then produces (the following with line breaks and commentary added: start- // text from the template {{{1 // this is the expansion of the first actual positional parameter -middle-{{{2}}}-end // text from the template The last {{{2}}} comes out unchanged since no actual second positional parameter was passed. The rest of what you see: |{{{2}}} is just text from the article which invoked T2. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Images not showing, replaced by strange code??
by Morten Blaabjerg 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I have run into a strange problem on our wiki : All images have all of a sudden been replaced by strange codes such as : NaodW29-item4289a2b76c693a3 etc. Nothing in the wiki or mediawiki setup have been changed, to cause this problem, and the image functionality has worked flawlessly since we started the wiki last winter. I wonder if anyone knows what may have caused this problem? The images are intact and so are their image description pages. You can see the problem on this page, for instance : http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Opslagstavle I would be very grateful for any help. I am running the following versions of MediaWiki : MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4beta5 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.4.1 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge1-log Hentet fra "http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Special:Version" 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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"old mySQL" versions message during install of v1.5.2
by Mark Furst 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Greetings, I'm attempting to install MediaWiki 1.5.2 on an OpenBSD 3.8 with Mysql 4.0.24, Apache 1.3.29 and PHP-5.0.4 and I'm hoping someone on the list has dealt with this or can point me in the right direction for solving the issue. I can connect without any problem to mysql on the console or via ssh session: # mysql -u root -pmypassword Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 74 to server version: 4.0.24 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> SELECT Host, User FROM mysql.user; +-------------------+------+ | Host | User | +-------------------+------+ | myserver.mydomain.com | | | myserver.mydomain.com | root | | localhost | | | localhost | root | +-------------------+------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> I even tested with php: <html> <head> <title>PHP MySQL connection test</title> <body> <?php $connect = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'mypassword'); // if no connect then die if (!connect) { die('something went wrong' .mysql_error()); } echo 'It is time to enjoy your new OpenBSD Apache PHP MySQL powered web server.'; // good form to close the connection mysql_close($connect); // close the php ?> </body> </html> This works fine and returns "It is time to enjoy...". BUT when I run the installation, I get this: MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 5.0.4: ok * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions * GNU diff3 not found. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /htdocs/mediawiki * Script URI path: /mediawiki * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. * PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. * Trying to connect to MySQL on localhost as root... o MySQL error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) I follow the steps for old client libraries and that didn't help. I changed the Mysql server from localhost to the FQDN of my server then I got this: MediaWiki 1.5.2 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 5.0.4: ok * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions * GNU diff3 not found. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /htdocs/mediawiki * Script URI path: /mediawiki * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. * PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. * Trying to connect to MySQL on myserver.mydomain.com as root... o Connected as root (automatic) * Connected to 4.0.24; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. * Created database wikidb * Creating tables... using MySQL 3/4 table defs... done. * Initializing data... * Granting user permissions... OurWiki has a problem Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: ) Does anyone have any idea on to fix/troubleshoot the installation? Should I try an earlier version of Media Wiki or PHP? Thanks in advance.

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all mediawiki-l Emails are posted on gossamer-threads.com
by mitderzeit＠googlemail.com 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi Rob, i found another site which posts all the mediawiki-l Emails on the Web. Look at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/ Plz tell theese morons not to post the mails on the web, otherwise i have to unsubscribe. regards eke

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