Thanks for the help. I've installed a packaged version of WAMP from
Devside.net and that seems to have fixed the problem.
I believe I had a problem with the way I had manually installed MySQL.
- Ashley Toscano Office: 310-309-6431
Edmunds.com "where smart car buyers start"
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Can you please post the whole output?
On 4/26/05, Toscano, Ashley <atoscano(a)edmunds.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a LocalSettings.sample file?
>
> I'm getting an installation error on Windows ...
>
> === Error Message ===
> Converting links table to ID-ID...
> Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot
> contact the database server.
> === end ===
>
> Thanks.
> - Ashley Toscano Office: 310-309-6431
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MediaWiki v1.4.0, MySQL v4.0.21...
I have NO entry in my cur table with cur_title="De Ossibus".
I do have a cur table entry with cur_title="De ossibus"
Yet, entering "De Ossibus" in the search box and clicking Go takes me
to "De ossibus"
A little experimenting shows that, if I create a page with the title
"The new york times", entering "The New York Times" in the search box
and clicking Go will take me there. But, if I make any of the letters
besides the first upper case, such as "The new York times", then I have
to match the title exactly by case to get to the page.
I thought the titles were supposed to be completely case sensitive, but
it seems as though they are sometimes but not others.
Is this supposed to be the normal behavior? If so, is there a reason
why it works this way? If not, is this a known issue or has anyone else
experienced this behavior?
John Blumel
Does anyone have a LocalSettings.sample file?
I'm getting an installation error on Windows ...
=== Error Message ===
Converting links table to ID-ID...
Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot
contact the database server.
=== end ===
Thanks.
- Ashley Toscano Office: 310-309-6431
Edmunds.com "where smart car buyers start"
Using MW v1.4.0...
I've been testing my submission of articles from external sources using
the Perl bot I wrote. Right now I have two primary sources, both of
which have roughly 1000 articles that are generated from them. During
article generation the articles are added to various categories (a
"bottom" level category and one or more "parent" categories) depending
on what categories it is decided they should show up in. I've also
generated category page stubs for each category that specifies the
category's parent categories (one or more parents per category and each
parent may have one or more parents, all the way up to a top level
wiki-wide category).
I've finished uploading one set of entries to my test wiki (the
category pages were uploaded first) and am in the middle of uploading
the second set. While browsing the category pages, I noticed that the
subcategories for a particular category don't always show up on the
category page when there are more than 200 articles in the category.
Specifically, in a category of roughly 1000 entries, all of which show
up in that category (200 at a time), the subcategories do not show up
on the first page of articles listed, they appear on the second page,
and then they disappear again on all the subsequent pages of articles.
The categories are correctly specified in the category page source.
Is this a known issue with a fix available?
John Blumel
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
On 4/25/05, Jason Davies <ucgajpd(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Confirm that the right file's being used.
>
> as you will have seen...this incredibly obvious step was one I missed.
> (the architecture of the directories is a little illogical - I didn't
> set it up).
> >
> >Confirm that the spam you're seeing is actually forbidden by the
> >settings (eg, is it from logged-in users already existing?)
>
> I've deleted all users in php admin that I didn't know.
This is generally a bad idea, because if you look at the history of a
page where a deleted user edited, there will be no matching ID for
that user in the user table (I don't know how MediaWiki deals with
this.)
It is generally prefered to do something else, like scramble the
password, so that the user is no longer operable.
> I notice that Firefox doesn't allow people to type in a log-in
> though....
That's odd. FireFox works fine for me on every wiki I've tried.
> I can now create users in php admin? I will have to look into it...(I'll
> try not to post more daft questions...)
There may be a mechanism to do it through the software, since there is
an option for only sysops to create users.
-- Jamie
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I'm learning/using MediaWiki for a storm-chasing-related wiki that I'm creating:
http://stormwiki.unk.edu/
My immediate question is: How does one make the separate blocks of
editable info like on EVOwiki?
http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Main_Page
I know that making a Subhead gives one the separate "edit" link, but
how does one organize the page in multiple columns (boxes) like that?
Ironically (for such a product) I'm having a hard time finding
well-organized documentation for various modifications that I'd like
to make. If anyone can suggest the best documentation sites for
MediaWiki, perhaps I could send fewer questions to this list.
: )
I'd also like to create an an alphabetical index that I could include
on each page (Just the letters of the alphabet as links that would
then create a list of pages beginning with that letter). Is that
possible (or built-in somewhere)?
Are there any good examples for how people are using the Community pages?
Feel free to answer only part of any of the above questions.
: ) Thanks in advance!
Darren Addy
Kearney, NE
When I try to install mediawiki it gets stuck on "Initializing MediaWiki
namespace"
I am using Godaddy and MediaWiki 1.4.2.
What is wrong?
How do I fix it?
Brion,
I don't think there are enough ways to say thanks! I did a quick dive on
the patch man page before your email. Your message gave me more confidence
though.
Thanks for the help and rapid response. Servers are patched and all is
working again.
Jeff
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Awesome! I'm going to ask an embarrassing question. What's the fastest way
to apply the patch? I've been around a while, but have managed to avoid
patching thus far.
Thank you so much.
Jeff
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