MediaWiki-l June 2005

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Template usage
by rouble 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I just started using mediawiki, and it is pretty cool. Often time I want to create many pages with the same outline, so I'd like to use templates. To do this I went to http://example.com/wiki/Template:Project, and created a page. Now everytime I want to start a new page I want to create a new project page I want it to inherit everything from Template:Project. I tried calling {{Project}} from within the newly created page, but this sort of creates a link to the Template:Project. If I modify something in this page it modifies Template:Project. I just want the new page to inherit everything from project, so I can continue to edit the new page. I don't want to modify the template. Any ideas ? TIA, rouble -- "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." - Ogden Nash

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MediaWiki Image Uploader
by Graeme Canivet 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I hope this creates a little bit more hype about MediaWiki. I have just finished modifying Ilya Haykinson's <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:IlyaHaykinson> Commonplace. Now, this image uploader can be used on anyones wiki, not just the commons. It's a fantastic tool to get all your images uploaded and archived. It is now in use on my wiki, at http://fubar.graemecanivet.com/index.php/Uploader. I have done very little testing, so please let me know if there is problem with it. Requires Windows XP & .NET Framework. Thanks Everyone, especially Ilya, Graeme.

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Error in customizing navigation tool
by Ext-Munish.Mittal＠nokia.com 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi I have solved this problem.For this you just create 2 new pages with names [[MediaWiki:anyname]] [[MediaWiki:anyname-url]] Remember same entries should be added in LocalSettings.php file I mean with the name anyname and anyname-url. Now click MediaWiki:anyname link and it will ask to create a page.In Edit box write what u want to display in navigation menu. Now click MediaWiki:anyname-url link and it will ask to create a page.In Edit box write what u want to display on top of page. Now ur new menu is ready. -Cheers > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of ext > Rowan Collins > Sent: Sunday, June 05. 2005 18:34 > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error in customizing navigation tool > > > On 05/06/05, Carlton B <carltonb(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > > Were you able to resolve this problem? I get the > <Something> as > > well. > > Please read > http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-May/005288.html > and > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_change_t he_contents_of_the_navigation_toolbar.3F Basically, the "<Something>" means "I can't find the page called MediaWiki:Something which you've referred to". The "mem caching function" you're seeing is probably the function to fetch this from the database. To summarise once again, the "something" refers not to the literal text "something" but to "whatever the page MediaWiki:Something currently contains". It's *supposed* to make reconfiguring *easier*, because changes can be made by any user with "sysop" status through the normal wiki interface. I may, of course, be wrong, in which case I apologise, but it seems many people have reawl trouble getting the hang of this. -- 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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Error in customizing navigation tool
by Ext-Munish.Mittal＠nokia.com 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi In order to add new link to navigation tool, I did the following steps. 1. Add a line of the form array( 'text'=>'something', 'href'=>'something-url' ) in LocalSettings.php It is showing me <Something> in navigation tool instead of something I dont know why? when I click this link I get error -Link target missing. 2. Then it is written in FAQ to edit (create) the pages in your wiki (substituting the names you chose); the first should contain whatever you want the link's text to be (e.g. "Contact us") (Blue above), and the second either the name of a wiki page (e.g. "Project:Get in touch") or the full URL of an external document . I did'nt get it clearly.How many pages should i create here. How will I create new pages with what names and how will they be linked in namespace. Please help me here. Thanks and Regards, Munish Mittal

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Enhancements to SpamBlacklist extension
by Rick DeNatale 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

After the rash of wikispam attacks on mediawiki sites a week or two ago, I started playing with the SpamBlacklist extension. I've got a comment and a couple of contributions. 1) I'm not sure if there is a bug here or not. When I first set the extension up I put the blacklist file downloaded from meta first in $wgSpamBlacklistFIles followed by my own Spam blacklist article. For some reason it never saw my article. Reversing the order fixed this. I didn't try to analyse this any further. 2) I wrote a linux(bash) shell script which converts the blacklist downloaded from chongqed.org to theformat expected by the extension. I documented this in meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SpamBlacklist_extension) 3) Someone asked on this list how we would know how effective this and other measures are. During my debugging of the first problem, I modified the code to e-mail me when the trap was sprung. I tested by deliberately trying to introduce spam links when I did this a week or so ago. After being quiet since then, I was notified by e-mail about several attempts in the wee hours last night. I've since cleaned up and generalized the code to allow others to use this. It introduces a new global $wgSpamBlacklistMonitors which is an array of email addresses to be notified when the blacklist is tripped. The email is sent from $wgEmergencyContact and includes the username and ip address of the suspect, the link which triggered the blacklist and the full text which the suspect was trying to save. While this might be a bit much for a big site like wikipedia, it would probably be useful for smaller sites like mine. Here are my changes in patch format against the current CVS versions: diff README.new README (CVS version 1.1) 24,30d23 < $wgSpamBlacklistMonitors is an optional array, each value is a string < containing the email address of someone who will be notified by email (from < the email address contained in $wgEmergencyContact) whenever the SpamBlacklist < is triggered. The email body will contain the string which matched the reg exp, < the user name and ip address of the user attempting to save the article, and < the full text which the user attempted to save. < 41,44d33 < $wgSpamBlacklistMonitors = array( < "spamhandler(a)myWikiDomain.com", < }; < diff SpamBlacklist.php.new SpamBlacklist (CVS version 1.1) 4a5 > 11d11 < $wgSpamBlacklistMonitors = array(); diff SpamBlacklist_body.php.new SpamBlacklist_body.php (CVS version 1.7) 48a49 > 53,54d53 < < 59d57 < 61d58 < 87d83 < 91,100c87,88 < global $wgUser, $wgIP, $wgSpamBlacklistMonitors,$wgEmergencyContact; < $userName = $wgUser->getName(); < $artTitle = $title->getFullText(); < foreach ($wgSpamBlacklistMonitors as $recipient) { < mail ("$recipient","Alert from SpamBlacklist.php", < "SpamBlacklist caught $matches[0] by $userName from $wgIP\n\nArticle title=$artTitle\n\n$text", < "From:$wgEmergencyContact"); < } < EditPage::spamPage( $matches[0] ); < $retVal = true; --- > EditPage::spamPage( $matches[0] ); > $retVal = true;

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media wiki + mysql 4.0 under fedora core 3
by Pablo Chamorro C. 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

After some problems installing media wiki 1.4.x + mysql 4.0 under Fedora Core 3, finally I managed it, using only RPM binaries in this way: 1. I installed MySQL-server and MySQL-client-4.0.24-0 from http://dev.mysql.com 2. I installed MySQL-shared-3.23.58-1 from http://dev.mysql.com + php-mysql from FC3. MySQL-shared-3.23 provides the /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10, required for php-mysql-4.3.9-3. And so far, it works! That php-mysql was compiled for the FC3 people to work with mysql-3.23 but it seems it also works well with mysql 4.0. Thanks, Pablo Chamorro C. -- Tel: +57 (2) 7314752/3222/2595 - Fax: +57 (2) 7310514 Carrera 31 #18-07 Parque Infantil - PO Box 1795 - Pasto

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php.ini session.save_path error
by Bill Smith 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

I had my php.ini session.save_path completely messed up - not pointing to an existing directory and I think the syntax was also wrong. I had three symptoms * If I would log in and return to the previous page, I wouldn't show up as logged in (This is a documented symptom in the mediawiki.org help) * If I was logged in and tried to save an edited page, the Wiki would act as if I'd pressed Preview. If I wasn't logged in, the edit could be saved. * If I used the Wiki in IE, many pages would be blank. View page source showed nothing between <BODY> and </BODY>. When I would preview an edit in IE, it also would have an empty body. Once I fixed the php.ini setting, everything was happy. My setup was MediaWiki 1.4.4, Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4 and MySql 4.1.12. Is this of enough general interest that I should elaborate on the section about session.save_path in the mediawiki.org's help? Bill Smith

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Re: <dear>
by giftoftongues＠giftoftongues.co.uk 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

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MediaWiki 1.5alpha2 released [SECURITY]
by Brion Vibber 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 includes a lot of bug fixes, feature merges, and a security update. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE FOR TESTING ONLY. Public or in-production servers should use the stable MediaWiki 1.4.5 release. Incorrect handling of page template inclusions made it possible to inject JavaScript code into HTML attributes, which could lead to cross-site scripting attacks on a publicly editable wiki. Vulnerable releases and fix: * 1.5 prerelease: fixed in 1.5alpha2 * 1.4 stable series: fixed in 1.4.5 * 1.3 legacy series: fixed in 1.3.13 * 1.2 series no longer supported; upgrade to 1.4.5 strongly recommended For a relatively full list of changes since 1.5alpha1, see the changelog in the release notes. Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=332229 Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5alpha2.tar.gz?download Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCoHg3wRnhpk1wk44RAgK2AKCUiTvJ7fKmlwfy1ICpShBMFYNGvACgkiGn oBhbMAqlYR9q0v9Q+vylRsY= =N4ka -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Weird behavior with image displays
by Matt Johnson 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Hey guys, I'm running MediaWiki 1.4.4, on FreeBSD 4.8 with PHP 5.0.4, Apache 1.3.33 and MySQL 4.1.12. It's largely the stock install. I changed a few options here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. So here's the problem. I upload an image, and it works fine. Then I whip up a quick page which includes the following wiki markup: [[Image:Corwin-field.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Image caption]] It should display the image at 200px, with a border around it, right- aligned, right? Well, all it does is show it right-aligned, at uploaded size, with no border or caption at all. If you want to see what I mean, check it out: http://weswiki.broadlatitude.com/index.php/Corwin_Stadium I've tried tweaking everything I can think of (I had older versions of Apache and PHP running, and upgraded those. I even upgraded mysql to a more recent version). The weird thing is that I installed MedaWiki on the -exact- same environment (PHP 5.0.4, Apache 1.3.33, MySQL 4.1.12) except on Mac OS X (only that's my workstation, not my server :) It works fine, strangely enough. Has anyone experienced this behavior? Any suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks! - Matt

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