MediaWiki-l April 2005

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Requiring Valid Email Address for Users
by Madeleine Williams 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Is there an easy way to require a valid email address for users who register? I'm thinking the "Create New Account" button would act roughly the same as the "Mail me a new password" button, rather than allowing new users to provide a password immediately upon registration. Has anyone done this before? Any suggestions?

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Donations page link?
by Hínandil 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hello, everyone. I thought I would bounce out this non-urgent question while I put off doing actual work. :) I added the following line to my LocalSettings.php file: $wgSiteSupportPage = 'https://www.example.com/contributions/'; And I hoped that a link similar to the "Donations" link on the English Wikipedia site would automagically show up. Well, that was three days after 1.4.0 came out and there's still no link (I have not requested an upgrade from 1.4.0 from our security team yet, since will be no public access for some time). Assuming it's not a problem in 1.4.0, are there any ideas on what I'm missing? Hínandil

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many projects are using a broken link to Wikinews Template:Sisterprojects
by Reinhardt Wiewe 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Halló! Please read a detiled description at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/sandbox/Common_errors See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Sisterprojects-ang&… Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

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media wiki 1.4.2 under fedora core 3
by Pablo Chamorro C. 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I installed an static mysql-server 4.0 from dev.mysql.com as suggested on the installation docs (not 4.1 nor 5.0 beta) + php 4.3.11.2, but at install time a missing php-mysql notice appears. The problem is I can't get a binary php-mysql, not even do a rpmbuild --rebuild because it seem's there is no such php-mysql-x.x.src.rpm. On the other hand I see that that rpm 'only' contains: /etc/php.d/mysql.ini /usr/lib/php4/mysql.so what can I do? what am I missing if I work with mysql-server-3.23 instead mysql 4.0? (the version included with fedora core 3?) What else can I do? thanks, Pablo Chamorro -- Tel: +57 (2) 7314752/3222/2595 - Fax: +57 (2) 7310514 Carrera 31 #18-07 Parque Infantil - PO Box 1795 - Pasto

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] user setting password
by Rick DeNatale 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

On 4/28/05, Jason Davies <ucgajpd(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Can a user set their own chosen password when the wiki is set to only > allow logged-in users to edit and a sysop to create new accounts? You > only see the boxes to log in and mail a new password. This user is not > very technical, though she is sensible and pleaded password-fatigue, > she's already struggling to remember them. I don't have my wiki set up that way, but have you checked the user preferences/user data page also. It is normally the place where users change their passwords. In fact the login page doesn't have an option to change a password even when users can create accounts. This makes sense since you really need to be authenticated before you change your password, in other words you need to be logged in first.

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immediately logs out after login
by ben wiseley 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

The wiki I setup on my local box (Ubuntu) works great. I used a similar procedure to set this up on a linux host ( http://mudabone.com/sandBoxWiki ) and everything seems to work fine except for users. When you login in, it logs you right back out the very next click. Try logging on as WikiSysop/WikiSysop - the next link you click will log you back out. Any idea what would cause this? -ben

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user setting password
by Jason Davies 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Can a user set their own chosen password when the wiki is set to only allow logged-in users to edit and a sysop to create new accounts? You only see the boxes to log in and mail a new password. This user is not very technical, though she is sensible and pleaded password-fatigue, she's already struggling to remember them. But it seemed worth asking! I don't see an item in the FAQ. by the way, is the FAQ welcoming idiots like me drafting answers to questions and contributing, when suitably advised here by those who know? or is it preferred that only power users contribute? thanks. I'd be happy to convert my questions into items there once i've made every conceivable mistake and been corrected...

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template weirdness
by Jan Steinman 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Do templates force-close any opening tags? I'm trying to make templates for a simple hierarchical link list, something like {{menu top}} that opens a <div> and <font>, one or more intermedate {{menu this}} {{menu that}} templates that provide a second set of links, based on the same <div> and <font>, then a {{menu close}} that does the </div> and </font>. But it looks like the {{menu top}} is getting closed off with "</font></p></div>", even though I did no such thing. Is there any way around this sort of behavior? (MediaWiki 1.4) :::: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr. :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/003AA15>

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Why 'text'=>'mainpage', 'href'=>'mainpage'?
by Juanma Barranquero 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I mean, why isn't it array('text' => 'mainpage', 'href' => 'mainpage-url'), on $wgNavigationLinks? I'm asking because I'm doing a dynamic Main Page as a Special:MyProject module. - If I set MediaWiki:Mainpage to 'Special:MyProject', the Navigation menu entry changes to 'Special:MyProject', which I don't want (I still want the Main Page to show as "Main Page" on the Navigation menu). - If I modify $wgNavigationLinks to have array('text' => 'mainpage', 'href' => 'mainpage-url'), and set MediaWiki:Mainpage-url to 'Special:MyProject', clicking on the Navigation entry brings my Special page, but navigating to http://mylocalhost/wiki brings me back to http://mylocalhost/wiki/Main_Page (as the software has no way to know that my new main page is to be taken from MediaWiki:Mainpage-url) - Finally, if I do #REDIRECT [[Special:MyProject]] on Main_Page, it all works as expected, but the browser's navigation bar shows http://mylocalhost/wiki/Special:MyProject (which is correct but ugly). So, it'd be nicer if MediaWiki used a MediaWiki:Mainpage for the navigation menu entry title, and a MediaWiki:Mainpage-url for the page, and the software knew that the default page comes from MediaWiki:Mainpage-url. Or, is there a way to do that already that I'm missing? (as I suspect :) -- /L/e/k/t/u

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Re: how many links
by Moonlight Embrace 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Do you mean that mediawiki does not parse the page every time it is displayed? If so, I guess it is not a limitation. -ME On 4/26/05, Moonlight Embrace <moonlightembrace(a)acadine.org> wrote: > How many [[links]] can Mediawiki handle without starting to drag down the processor? I have a great idea for a new wiki, but it requires many, many, many, many links on every page. It's sort of an organic dictionary. > > -ME Don't know. Try it and see. You may want to setup templates to insert 5, 10, 100, etc. links at a time. Then you can just make a page using these templates then use the purge action (page_name?action=purge) to make it reparse. -- Jamie

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