MediaWiki-l July 2005

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Multiple languages
by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Morning! I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is always important :-) Two questions: 1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages. Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language identifier to the page title eg: here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]]. Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg "English CV" rathern than "CV.en"? 2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible to do wildcards eg internal* TIA James

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imitating commons on private mediawiki installations
by Yongho Kim 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document under meta explaining this, I can't find any. Yongho

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RSS ?
by David J. Biesack 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Is there any RSS support for MediaWiki - i.e. generating a .rss stream for a site? I am aware of an extension that parses/embeds rss files within MediaWiki pages with <rss>url</rss> but I want the inverse: to allow others to use RSS to see what's new on my MediaWiki site. -- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption
by Arthur Guy 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

I have had another go with this today but the same message keeps coming back about permissions I can't see what other permissions the maintenance scripts need Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Guy [mailto:arthur@astarsolutions.co.uk] Sent: 29 June 2005 19:48 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption Thanks for replying, I hadn't filled out the details in adminsettings.php. I created a new database user and put the account details in that file and re-ran the rebuild script, it came back with a message saying the user I had created didn't have permission. I gave the user the following privileges SELECT INSERT UPDATE DELETE INDEX ALTER Are there any other privileges it needs? Thanks Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- Make sure AdminSettings.php is present and contains correct username and password settings as per AdminSettings.sample. Note that rebuildIndex.php requires ALTER TABLE permission (iirc) to drop and re-add the fulltext index. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) 'a star solutions' disclaimer The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. We believe that this communication is free from viruses and other potentially dangerous programmes, but the recipient opens this communication at their own risk. We assume no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use of this communication

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Uploading Word documents
by Marcel de Ruiter 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi There, How can I have the Wiki upload Word / Excel / Powerpoint documents? It appears not to be supported. Thanks. Best regards, Marcel --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Apparently this is what I'm referring to - I just set the title via editing Mediawiki:MySpecialPage - thankyou! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:14 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page Are you refering to SpecialPage::getDescription()? (Which, by default, calls wfMsg() with the lowercase version of the page name. So if your special page is called SomeSpecialPageIWrote, you would want to look at [[MediaWiki:somespecialpageiwrote]].) On 6/21/05, Bart Q. Simon <bqs(a)bluefang.com> wrote: > Yeah I'm aware that special pages are php (I made one that's working > beautifully). > > I'm just trying to figure out a way to give a new special page a title > without hard-coding it in PHP. I'm pretty sure there is a way to do it > (I looked through my old custom-made special page, and there isn't a > title in there - yet it still has the right title when I browse to it). > > I recollect it being something like this, but not quite like this: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pagetitle That appears to be for the HTML <title> tags. I assume you're talking about the title at the top of the page. > > Maybe I'm losing it :). That's entirely possible. However, this is not an authoritative source in the areas of mental stability. ;) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] sql error
by Zain Memon 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

>From what I understand, your wiki works fine, except it throws that error. If this is the case, then you can turn off the errors by setting $wgShowSQLErrors=false; in LocalSettings.php. The error won't be shown any more (though it will still happen). -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Graham Chiu Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:08 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] sql error Can anyone help here? I talked to the company hosting my site, and they said that they do not know if, or when, they will be upgrading their mysql version. Graham On 7/9/05, Graham Chiu <compkarori(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is there some change I can make to the mysql statement so that it > becomes compatible with this ealier version of mysql? > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4
by dankohn.8523763＠bloglines.com 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

I documented the steps to add AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4, as I suspect others will also find this useful. If you're not familiar with it, AdSense pays you ~70% of the click-though revenues Google receives by placing ads on your page. http://www.dankohn.com/archives/000338.html You can see the results at http://www.pwsnotes.org - dan -- Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com> <http://www.dankohn.com/> <tel:+1-650-327-2600>

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Moving from one server to another
by Jason Lixfeld 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hello, I had mediawiki 1.4.6 installed on a machine which just had the mediawiki directory hanging off the webserver documentroot. I moved this to a production server and onto a vhost and changed my LocalSettings.php over, but all my links are still broken and I'm not sure why. I copied the database as per http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ How_to_move_a_MediaWiki_Database without issue. I can get to the main page of my installation, no problem but whenever I try to click on any of the links which were copied with the database from the old server, the URL has /mediawiki in it, even though LocalSettings.php has: $wgScriptPath = "";. I'm somewhat stumped. From what I've read, it should be as easy as making sure the $wgScriptPath variable is set correctly, but I may be horribly wrong and there may be something else quite involved that I'm missing. Any ideas?

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