MediaWiki-l December 2005

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Problem uploading images
by Martin Baumann 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi, I am logged on as sysop of my wiki. The directories images and subdirectories archive, temp and thumb exist and all have 777 mode. I try to upload an image and the following error is shown: Internal Error: Could not copy file "/tmp/phpjf0ODv" to "/<mywebspace>/wiki/images/test.png". No other information or comment. I have no idea what could cause this problem. The site is hosted by a computing center of a university. Probably they made some options on their servers that lead to this error? Anyone any idea to find out what goes wrong? Thanks, Martin

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Last chance to participate in survey of corporate wiki users - win an iPod Nano
by Yates, Nathan David (Dave) 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

CORPORATE WIKI USERS - THIS IS FOR YOU. ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT TO WIN AN iPOD NANO! If you are an active user/contributor to a company wiki, consider taking this survey by December 6th and have your name entered into a raffle for an iPod Nano! We have already raffled off one iPod and are holding a second raffle just for new survey participants. http://emarshall2.usc.edu/ultimatesurvey/takeSurvey.asp?surveyID=419 Take a moment and read these questions: * Have you thought about how your use of corporate wikis compare to other people using corporate wikis? * Have you wondered if other people contribute to their company's wiki for the same reasons you do? * Have you wondered why some people are comfortable editing others' stuff on wikis and others are not comfortable doing it? * Is there anything about your company's use of wikis that bothers you? * Have you ever been interested in contributing to research that is going to help identify lessons learned about how to enhance corporate use of wikis? * Do you have any interest in winning an iPod Nano? If you answered any of these questions "yes", then consider taking this survey by December 6th and be entered into a drawing for a free iPod Nano. Why not give it a try? This survey is being conducted by Dr. Ann Majchrzak, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Dr. Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong. We've been asked by the Society for Information Management's Advanced Practices Council (a professional society of Chief Information Officers in the U.S. (see http://simnet.org)) to conduct a survey of active (contributing) corporate wiki users. We will use your responses to identify lessons learned about how to enhance corporate use of wikis. By corporate wiki, we mean a wiki used in a company to further the goals of that organization. Such a wiki might be used for tasks including R&D, project management, helpdesk activities or knowledge sharing. Thank you for your time! Ann Majchrzak, PhD Professor of Information Systems Marshall School of Business University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 majchrza at usc.edu <http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l>

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re: upload directory changes
by WikiPlant 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

the images are stored in .../wiki/images/ _and_ in upload.otherdomain.net/.../...... the already resized versions in the thumbs-folder can be displayed now, but the warnings are still coming - and when i want to resize them e.g. to 400px (which isn't yet there), it doesn't work any more :( also i made the directory on the other domain writable, but on the upload-page is the warning "The upload directory (/www/htdocs/.........) is not writable by the webserver." -- the shared images aren't working yet, but i'm trying my best... greetings -- flo

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Prevent caching the Main Page
by jaro 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hello again! How can i prevent the mediawiki to cache my Main Page. I added some part of the Special:Recentchanges page there so I need it to have the actual data everytime i make a refresh, not hard refresh. Actually I added a code that forces the page to purge when it is trying to view the Main Page. But Is there some other way? The code that i added already is working but im thinking that i will be able to save some processing time if i can disable the caching of the Main page. Im not familiar with the caching system of mediawiki as of now so im a bit clueless.. Im using MW 1.5.2. Thanks :) --jaro

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using mySQL 5.0
by Harris, Mike 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Does anybody know if you can install a wiki using mySQL 5.0. Are there any issues with this? Thanks. Mike

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is this a bug? behaviour of oldid has changed
by gangleri 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hallo! Some days before you could use ?oldid=nnnn / &oldid=nnnn with an *arbitrary* title. This has changed (today?). There are scenarios where this is quite strange. I created http://test.leuksman.com/view/Refer_by_oldid as http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Refer_by_oldid&oldid=9974 I moved the page to http://test.leuksman.com/view/Refer_by_oldid_moved as http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Refer_by_oldid_moved&oldid=9975 I deleted http://test.leuksman.com/view/Refer_by_oldid What happens: see a) http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Refer_by_oldid&oldid=9974 b) http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=oldid=9974 c) http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Refer_by_oldid_moved&oldid=9974 Another scenario: Namespaces get changed and the titles do not match any more. This was irrelevant in the past. Not it is *not*. Should we open a bug? regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]] irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki irc://irc.freenode.net/wiktionary ICQ: 317732084

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Google search on nav bar
by Ben Arnold (DSLWN) 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Thanks Alistair. In the end I implemented it as a separate search box and it works well. I inserted this HTML in our /skins/MonoBook.php after the existing search box. <div id="p-search" class="portlet"> <h5><label for="searchInput">Google search</label></h5> <div class="pBody"> <form name="searchform" action="http://www.google.com/search"> <input name="ie" value="UTF-8" type="hidden"/> <input name="oe" value="UTF-8" type="hidden"/> <input id="searchInput" name="q" type="text"/> <input type="submit" name="go" class="searchButton" id="searchGoButton" value="Google"/> </form> </div> </div> Technically I think I shouldn't be re-using the "p-search" and "searchInput" IDs, because IDs are supposed to be unique. It seems to work though (at least in IE and Firefox). Thanks again, Ben -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Johnson Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 4:03 p.m. To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Google search on nav bar Hi Ben, We hacked up a custom skin for our Intranet mediawiki installation which includes code to easily search MediaWiki or Google. There are probably prettier ways, but this worked for us. Hope it helps. Cheers, Al.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Google Analytics in a Mediawiki wiki?
by ben wiseley 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I got it to work on http://mudabone.com/wiki by putting their code in skins/monobook.php Note: Analytics takes a while to "work". I think it told me I had an error the first few days but then it started working. They sent out an email talking about this a few days ago, so it's a known bug. -ben On 12/1/05, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > > I have tried to incorporate Google Analytics in some wikis (Mediawiki > 1.5.2) without success. Any ideas how to do this? > > http://www.google.com/analytics/ > > A small script segment has to appear in all the pages that you want > Google Analytics to monitor. > > -- > Gordo (aka LoopZilla) > gordon.joly(a)pobox.com > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ > http://www.loopzilla.org/ > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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re-install from scratch
by Richard Gravois 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I have some damages on my install: logo and icons do not show upload fails... maybe a few other things. I want to re-install it. I renamed the wiki as wiki_old and moved a new copy of mediawiki_1.5xx to public_html and renamed it wiki, but access is forbidden? Should I kill the mysql database also? How intertwined is wiki in my site? Thanks in advance

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Are there any restrictions for a MediaWiki running on MS IIS?
by Vasiliadis, Thomas 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi there, Im running an MediaWiki 1.5.1 with PHP 5.0.5 (isapi) and MySQL 5.0.15-nt on an MS IIS (InternetInformationServer). I have some troubles with it: If I try to use a "Umlaut" (german special character like ä,ö,ü) in the articel name, the articel will be saved if I hit the save button, but Wiki doesn't react anymore. If i try to load such an article, it is the same. In the Database on the server are funny characters instat of the Umlaute I have used. If I take a lock with phpMyAdmin from my PC the characters seems pretty OK. The tabels are all utf8-gerneral_ci and the database itself latin1_swedish_ci (don't ask me why swedish). The type of the tables are mostly "InnoDB". Searchindex is "MyISAM" an hitcounter is "MEMORY" (with a unknown amount of datasets inside). Ive tryed to update the whole wiki to 1.5.2, since then i am unable to delete an articel (which worked fine before). Downgrading to 1.5.1 makes no change to this. Have anybody any suggestions? TV

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