MediaWiki-l December 2005

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Problem with Searchfunction
by Robert Pfau 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi Iam having problems with the search function. It looks like any words i type into the search box is just ignored. When i enter for example 'Special:Version' it shows me a search-result without results (not even "0 results found" or something like that) just blank... :-/ In the url it works fine http://www.dystopie.de/wiki/Spezial:Version Same with any other article or special site. You can try search for Searchtest - nothing and here it is... http://www.dystopie.de/wiki/Searchtest * MediaWiki: 1.5.3 * PHP: 4.3.10 (apache2handler) (SafeMode is Off) * MySQL: 4.1.10a I have no excessive customisation, its nearly the default settings after the install. DebugLogging gives me the following when searching ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Start request GET /wiki/Spezial:Search?search=Searchtest&go=Los Host: www.dystopie.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://www.dystopie.de/wiki/Hauptseite Cookie: wiki_dbUserName=WikiAdmin; wiki_db_mw_session=864e9b5ce8b526639f443d112c8d111c; wiki_dbLoggedOut=20051221211351; wiki_dbUserID=1 Main cache: fakememcachedclient Message cache: mediawikibagostuff Parser cache: mediawikibagostuff User::loadFromSession() unable to load from memcached Using reader #0: localhost... User::loadFromSession() successfully saved user ** private caching; ** Request ended normally ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The table Searchindex exists btw. Thx in advance for any help :) -robert (The Wiki is in german, but i think nearly everything is synonymic.Shouldn't be a problem)

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easy html formatting?
by Henry Ortega 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Is there an easy way to edit or create articles with proper HTML formatting? It doesn't make sense to me that we have put manual <BR> tags to get a break. Is there anything I can install extra that would let me display what I entered the way I entered it? If I put a line break after each line, it should distinguish it as a line break and insert a <BR> when displaying. Same with text formatting.. I am planning to have a team of people contribute articles to our wiki site, but I can't afford to train them that triple (') means bold, etc. I like how Wordpress (for e.g.) works as far as entering articles in concerned. That way there is no training required for non-computer savvy people to enter things in. Any ideas?

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Automatically deleted line breaks after section editing?
by Marcel de Ruiter 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi there, At work we still are using MediaWiki version 1.3.? We plan on migrating to 1.5 in January. My question is if somebody knows if a (minor) bug in version 1.3 has been solved in newer versions that automatically deleted extra line breaks between neighbouring sections after you have edited only the specific sections? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Marcel The Netherlands --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail

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auto-login in single-sign-on environments
by Domas Mituzas 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, I had to make mediawiki work in single-sign-on environment, so ended up with single hook and a small extension utilizing it, it just takes user parameter from environment, that is provided by HTTP server authentication. It completely removes mediawiki account/password layer, though does not clean accounts once they've been auto-created. Anyway, this is just the idea, than can be polished and used in intranets, instead of using AuthPlugin's interface. Moreover, it removes lots of mediawiki user object caching, so it would have to be moved somewhere in here, as well as sanitizing user names, etc. Cheers, Domas <? global $wgHooks; $wgHooks['AutoAuthenticate'][] = 'AuthServerMagic'; $wgExtensionFunctions[]="setupAuthServerMagic"; function setupAuthServerMagic() { global $wgSpecialPages; unset($wgSpecialPages["Userlogin"]); unset($wgSpecialPages["Userlogout"]); } function AuthServerMagic(&$user) { if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] == "") { return new User(); } $user = User::newFromName( $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] ); if ( $user->getID() == 0 ) { $user->addToDatabase(); $user->setToken(); $user->setEmail($user."@domain.yaddayadda.com"); $user->saveSettings(); } else { /* Should cache some day, I guess :) */ $user->loadFromDatabase(); } return true; } ?> -- http://dammit.lt/

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version info
by Nina Kerimi 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I know that this question might sound stupid but where and how can I check what verison of the wiki I am running. Sincerely Yours /Nina.K ________________________________________________ nina.kerimi(a)se.calyon.com ***"Age. Fac ut gaudeam! "*** Ce message et ses pièces jointes (le "message") est destiné à l'usage exclusif de son destinataire. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en aviser immédiatement l'expéditeur et de le détruire ensuite. Le présent message pouvant être altéré à notre insu, CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank ne peut pas être engagé par son contenu. Tous droits réservés. This message and/or any attachments (the "message") is intended for the sole use of its addressee. If you are not the addressee, please immediately notify the sender and then destroy the message. As this message and/or any attachments may have been altered without our knowledge, its content is not legally binding on CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank. All rights reserved.

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Problems at chongqed.org?
by Rick DeNatale 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Does anyone else use the spam blacklist at chongqued.org? I've noticed lately that I can no longer resolve the name blacklist.chongqed.org I also notice that the page served up from http://chongqed.org contains several instance of [an error occurred while processing this directive] mixed in with the content. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/

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Navigation bar 1.5
by Nina Kerimi 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I know that thisquestion was asked earlier this week, but I have read all the documents and I cannot manage to get it working. I want to change the nagivation bar so that it has the links that I want. I run 1.5.2 I copied the Navigation links array from the online manual into my localsettingsfile because it was not in there. I could also establish that these variable is not present in the defaultsetting. But changing this array did not make any change. So I thought that I could do a search in all wiki files and see where e.g the word "community portal" occured, I found that the only place it occures is in language.php but changing it in that file did not make any good either. Sincerely Yours /Nina.K ________________________________________________ ***"Age. Fac ut gaudeam! "*** Ce message et ses pièces jointes (le "message") est destiné à l'usage exclusif de son destinataire. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en aviser immédiatement l'expéditeur et de le détruire ensuite. Le présent message pouvant être altéré à notre insu, CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank ne peut pas être engagé par son contenu. Tous droits réservés. This message and/or any attachments (the "message") is intended for the sole use of its addressee. If you are not the addressee, please immediately notify the sender and then destroy the message. As this message and/or any attachments may have been altered without our knowledge, its content is not legally binding on CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank. All rights reserved.

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create, rename a user - external user data base
by Uwe Baumbach 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, is there a official of half-official way to rename a user _name_ ?! Because: We have to use an external user database with existing (about) 2000 users. With the first logon at our wiki a user record will be created with the name taken from the external table. Only now we realized that there were "bad" user names, e.g. "X0456" (formerly only a logon name - in MW a apparent name) or "kilroy" (first letter in lower case). Those user names are already in use with a lot of creatings/changes of articles. Furthermore in this external database a UserID is used - and copied into the MW user table too. Now we have two situations that claim renaming username: a) The user wants to do so (because of senseless user name). In that case we could suppress this feature for the future in our external application, but if would be nice to have it. b) Admins want to do so (because of user names with underscores in the name or first letter in lower case...) The way _I_ see is: changing all xyz_user_text fields in all tables and rename/redirect the user page article. 1. Would that be stable? 2. Is a way to do so transparently from the MW surface including a SQL script (for admins only)? 3. The function getCanonicalName in AuthPlugin.php can change the user name gotten from external. Is this change persistant in that way that a new created user record would get the "munged" user name? Thanks. Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach(a)web.de ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

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Get Mediawiki to read template variables within extension tags?
by Billy Covington 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello all! Thank you for your help! I am attempting to create a template in which all anyone needs to do to put a Google Map on a page is use a template with 3 variables (longitude, latitude, and description) using Evan Miller's Google Maps extension (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emiller/GoogleMapsExtension). The only problem is, Mediawiki won't read the variables if they're inside the <googlemap></googlemap> extension tags. Evan found this page: http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/08/23/using-template-variables-in-extens… Where, basically, Bas Westerbaan had created a "mod" or "patch" for Mediawiki that would allow it to read variables that are within extension tags. However, I tired it, and it is apparent that his patch no longer works with the current version of Mediawiki. I am definitely no expert or even novice at php, and when he started talking about "diffutils" and comparing the code line by line, my eyes glossed over. Does anyone know of any other patches or modifications I can make to Mediawiki to make it read template variables that are within extension tags? Thanks again in advance for any help you could provide. I appreciate it greatly. --Billy Covington http://www.thesteeps.net http://www.singletrackwiki.com

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AW: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar
by Vasiliadis, Thomas 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Thanks, this separation between default and local makes sense. TV -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Rowan Collins Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 15:47 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change the Navigation Bar On 20/12/05, Vasiliadis, Thomas <T.Vasiliadis(a)schlemmerblock.de> wrote: > 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. In case this is still unclear, DefaultSettings.php contains the original settings distributed with the software (which may change on upgrade), and LocalSettings.php contains your personalised values which over-ride these (and won't be touched on upgrade). Basically, keeping the two sets of settings separate makes keeping track of what you've changed easier, and ensures that you won't accidentally delete your settings when updating the defaults. > And by the way, whats an OP? "Original Poster" -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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