MediaWiki-l April 2005

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hosting my wiki on sourcefroge.net
by P. Barthelemy 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, Is there any guide or how-to on how to set up a mediawiki site on a Sourceforge.net server ? trying hard myself without success.... --p

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Stat counter
by Namrah 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Greetings everyone, I'm sure that this has come up before but I can't find it. I want to add a stat counter from one of the external services to the footer of my mediawiki, so that it is on all pages. I can't seem to find which files or where I would put this. Any help would be appreciated. -- Lisa Jill http://www.eewiki.com

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haloscan-like comments and trackbacks ?
by P. Barthelemy 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, I'd like to add Haloscan comments and trackbacks ( or something like haloscan, at least ). How can I do it ? TIA, --Philippe

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problem with session hijacking detection
by Hanno Braun 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi! I'm running MediaWiki 1.4.0 and have some problems: * Editing doesn't work properly: If I hit "Save page" I get the preview page instead. If I try often enough it will work. This problem occurs only when I'm logged in. * Rollback doesn't work properly: I get a message saying that there is a problem with my login session and that it was cancelled as a precaution against session hijacking. This problem can also be solved by trying often enough. * Same for uploading. * If I log in and don't activate the checkbox saying that the wiki should remember me across sessions I'm instantly logged out again if I load the next page. I think the editing and logout problem are also related to the anti-session-hijacking mechanism, even if there's no error message saying this. I'm not familiar with php or web programming in general but I figured out what the problem might be: The wiki is hosted at Sourceforge.net. sf.net uses multiple apache-servers to serve web pages. When a page is requested an apache is selected by some kind of load balancing mechanism. My theory is that the wiki thinks someone tries to hijack my session anytime the apache that serves my pages chances. This would also explain why retrying very often helps: If the same apache that processed my "edit page" request also processes my "save page" request the wiki detects nothing unusual and lets me save the page. Has someone else experienced this problem and found a solution? Maybe it is possible to deactivate the session hijacking detection somehow? I would be very grateful if someone could help me. regards, Hanno _____________________________ Elrador - Ein Onlinerollenspiel http://elrador.de Elrador Engine - create your own online game http://elrador-engine.sf.net

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Implementing case-insensitive links on a new wiki
by Ryan Rempel 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

I'm starting a new intranet-style wiki, and I'd like to make the wiki links fully case-insensitive. I've read various discussions about the pros and cons of case-sensitivity. What I'm not entirely clear about is what would need to be changed (at the technical level) to achieve it. From what I've read, it may be that the chief technical problem is dealing with existing pages whose title differs only in case. Since I'm starting from scratch, that wouldn't be a concern for me. Is there some well-known bit of code that needs to be modified to achieve case-insensitive links for a new wiki? Or is this something that needs to be figured out yet?

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wiki exploding my frames
by FxParlant 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

hello, I've got a page which opens an url in frame 1 and the same url translated by bablefish in frame 2. Whenever I try with a wikipedia (or my wiki), the frameset explodes and there isn't any frame. Is that the effect of a special php or javascript, that I could disconnect on my wiki? http://www.fxparlant.net/static/bilingual/ (the two frames are by default set on a german newspaper translated to french) François

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displaying localtime - customized variables
by Pablo Chamorro C. 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Is it possible that CURRENTTIME shows localtime instead of UTC? I'm using $wgLocalTZoffset = -5, and I see it works but only for editing times. Is there some way of defining customized variables? Thanks, Pablo -- Tel: +57 (2) 7314752/3222/2595 - Fax: +57 (2) 7310514 Carrera 31 #18-07 Parque Infantil - PO Box 1795 - Pasto

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head and meta tags
by Adam Julius Angel 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

where can i edit the <head> <meta= ..... tags robots etc.? thank you!

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Make popularpages display other namespaces?
by Morten Blaabjerg 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Have been trying to insert other namespaces into the SQL query of SpecialPopularPages.php, and pages in other than the main namespace do appear, except that their titles and proper links don't take effect. I want userpages, image pages and other namespace pages to appear on the list, and in the future I want to include a dropdown menu similar to the ones on the log pages, so that the user can pick the lists themselves and sort them in different ways. I'm running MediaWiki v1.4 beta5 (still need to do the final update to v.1.4 stable) I'd be grateful for any insights, you might have :-) Best Wishes, Morten -- Crews Cut Community http://www.crewscut.com Morten Blaabjerg Dronningensgade 4B, DK-5000 Odense C. Tlf. +45 65 90 60 88

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1.4.0 works but texvc doesn't (FreeBSD 5.3)
by David Gerard 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

I've installed the prerequisites for 1.4.0 and then 1.4.0 itself as per http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_FreeBSD on my FreeBSD 5.3 box. The wiki is working just fine, but texvc isn't. make ran clearly and there's what looks very like a binary there, but it isn't working. The symptom is that you put a piece of text in the page, e.g. <math>a \over b</math> and, instead of a nice PNG, you get: "Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): a \over b" What I have here: * latex, dvips, gs and convert are all present in /usr/local/bin . * Per the README, I put putenv("PATH=".getenv("PATH").":/usr/local/bin"); near the top of LocalSettings.php . * The web server runs as user www:www, and the /usr/local/www/data/mediawiki-1.4.0/ directory and everything under it has permissions 644 or 755 and is owned by www:www. * images/tmp exists and contains TeX files, so it's generating those, just failing to render them. But we could have guessed that. * no errors generated by this in /var/log/httpd-error.log . * Brion suggested on irc to make sure PHP safe mode is off. I *think* it is, looking at the config files. Any clues? Is there some obvious newbie 'duh' I've missed? - d.

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