MediaWiki-l December 2005

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Re: How do I change the default skin for...
by Jan Steinman 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> > > Jan Steinman wrote: >>> From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> >>> This snippet appears to be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks... >> >> Since this is used for copying *one* user's preferences to all the >> other >> users... > > That's a lot of assumptions -- *that* is the first problem. Well, the first assumption was clearly stated in the part you cut out! But the rest of your reasons are well taken. :::: I see and admire your manner of living, your warm houses, your extensive fields of corn, your gardens, your cows, oxen, work-horses, wagons, and a thousand machines, that I know not the use of. I see that you are able to clothe yourself, even from weeds and grass. In short you can do almost what you choose. You whites possess the power of subduing almost every animal to your use. You are surrounded by slaves. Everything about you is in chains, and you are slaves yourselves. I hear I should exchange my presents for yours. I too should become a slave. Talk to my sons, perhaps they may be persuaded to adopt your fashions, or at least to recommend them to their sons; but for myself, I was born free, was raised free, and wish to die free. -- Big Soldier, 1820 :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.IslandSeeds.org ::::

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templates
by judi chen 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I am running MW 1.5.3 on Fedora 4. I try to use two templates. In the first templates, I opened a block with <div style="display:block; border:1px solid {{{border}}}; vertical-align:top; background-color:{{{background}}}; color:{{{foreground}}}; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0em; padding-top:.3em; "> But I donot close this block in the first template. Then in the second template I tried to close the block opened in the first template with </div> But the MW 1.5.3 I am using would not allow me to close the block. The block got closed prematurely in the first template. However the wikipedia.org can do the feature described above. Any suggestion on the fix. Thanks jc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] How do I change the default skin for users that areboth logged in as well as not logged in?
by Alistair Johnson 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Here's a script we use to copy preferences from one user to all users for MW 1.4.x. YMMV. mysql_connect($wgDBserver,$wgDBuser,$wgDBpassword); @mysql_select_db($wgDBname); $query="SELECT * FROM " . $wgDBprefix . "user WHERE LOWER(user_name) = '" . strtolower($name) . "'"; $result = mysql_query($query); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); mysql_close(); mysql_connect($wgDBserver,$wgDBuser,$wgDBpassword); @mysql_select_db($wgDBname); $query="UPDATE " . $wgDBprefix . "user SET user_options = '" . $row[user_options] . "'"; $result = mysql_query($query); mysql_close(); Al. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Church [mailto:robchur@gmail.com] Not a quick one, that I know of. A custom PHP script might do it. On 20/12/05, Isaac Gonzalez <youngi(a)comcast.net> wrote: > is there a way to change to user preferences for all users?

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Customizing an extension
by Nicholas Anderson 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I want to use an extension on my wiki, the automatic wikification extension, of which a version can be downloaded at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2336. This extension automatically adds wikilinks to words in an article that need them. However, the extension normally runs on page save. Since I don't want to go through all pages and save them only to run the extension, I wanted something to go through all the pages and run the extension. Unfortunately, I realized that my knowledge of php, mysql and the mediawiki code is inadequate to create something like that. So I am begging someone, anyone, to help me with this. I've used whole days and only learned that the method I wanted to use was wrong. If you can help me with this, please email me at jediarchives11(a)gmail.com. Thanks.

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AW: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar
by Vasiliadis, Thomas 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

No, he doesn't. I think it I made a mistake in my eMail. Sorry, but my english is a bit improofable... I understood Tibor well and his adwise works well as well :-) The thing abaut the DefaultSettings was somthing completly different. Thince I am working with wikis, which is only a short time, I heard some people saying, that modifiing the DefaultSettings isn't a good idea, but nobody could tell me why, so I asked. Thats all. And by the way, whats an OP? Have a nice day TV -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Rick DeNatale Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2005 17:45 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar On 12/19/05, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ...but, yes; changing DefaultSettings.php shouldn't be done, as these > aren't preserved upon upgrading. It's also bad practise... I don't see where Tibor was advocating changing DefaultSettings.php, he was talking about editing MediaWiki:Sidebar page which is a new feature of 1.5 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigation_bar I was a little unsure why your link to this page was to a specific pre-1.5 edition when the OP clearly said that he was using 1.5.3 -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Pointing broken links elsewhere than "edit"
by Jeremy G Byrne 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi All-- I'm trying to hack whatever functions produce the "&action=edit" style defaults for broken links, but despite trawling Linker.php and Skin.php (and a couple of less-likely candidates), googling randomly and looking through the list archives here, I can't work out what to change. Can someone please point me in the right direction, or suggest a better way to go about this? (My intention is to allow a setting in LocalSettings.php to specify where broken links point--which could be onsite or offsite, eg. to the wikipedia page of the same name)? Thanks. CYa, JEREMY

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Re: Two new extensions
by Jan Steinman 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> From: ben wiseley <wiseleyb(a)gmail.com> > > the show hide thing is pretty cool - thanks! I'll second that! I've installed it and added a test/demo page; now I just have to think of some situations to use it for... :-) > On 12/18/05, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote: >> >> I made two new MediaWiki extensions... >> >> 2) ShowHide Extension. A bit more complex extension, which enables >> you to >> make >> a portion of wiki page which could be shown or hidden, as ToC >> could be >> now. >> Its page is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ShowHide_Extension :::: Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? -- George W. Bush :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van ::::

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Re: How do I change the default skin for users that are both logged in as well as not logged in?
by Jan Steinman 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> > > Alistair Johnson wrote: >> Here's a script we use to copy preferences from one user to all >> users for MW >> 1.4.x. YMMV. > > This snippet appears to be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. A > cleverly > written signature or other option on the model row could probably > be used to > overwrite everyone else's passwords or such. Since this is used for copying *one* user's preferences to all the other users, and assuming you'd be pretty careful about selecting that one to copy, and also assuming that this script would only be run by trusted individuals in a trusted environment, what's the problem? I'm not being facetious; I just want to know if I missed something important. (BTW: I just ported my static HTML "Van" pages, below, to MW 1.5.3.) :::: You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it in the first place. -- Albert Einstein :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>

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AW: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar
by Vasiliadis, Thomas 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi Rob, if you talk abaout me as him, you are absolutly right, sorry for this confusion. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Rob Church Gesendet: Montag, 19. Dezember 2005 19:46 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar My link *should* have been to the finished version of it which applied to 1.5.x - I cleaned it up myself a while back, and a few others have added to it/corrected typos etc. Basically, I linked to that clean version, minus the template clutter; apologies if I clicked on the wrong revision or absentmindedly copied the wrong URL or whatever. I think the confusion over DefaultSettings.php comes from him not removing this thread's subject before responding to some other query. Rob Church On 19/12/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/19/05, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > ...but, yes; changing DefaultSettings.php shouldn't be done, as these > > aren't preserved upon upgrading. It's also bad practise... > > I don't see where Tibor was advocating changing DefaultSettings.php, > he was talking about editing MediaWiki:Sidebar page which is a new > feature of 1.5 > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigation_bar > > I was a little unsure why your link to this page was to a specific > pre-1.5 edition when the OP clearly said that he was using 1.5.3 > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site > http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Two new extensions
by Nikola Smolenski 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I made two new MediaWiki extensions. 1) Poem Extension. A very simple extension, which only adds a line break at the end of each line between <poem></poem> tags, which can be truly useful for, err, poems. Its page is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Poem_Extension 2) ShowHide Extension. A bit more complex extension, which enables you to make a portion of wiki page which could be shown or hidden, as ToC could be now. Its page is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ShowHide_Extension Please tell me what do you think of them :)

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