MediaWiki-l July 2005

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security question
by ben wiseley 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

I wanted to make a mediawiki site completely secure. In other words you'd need to type in a username/password before you even could see the site? Is this kind of thing possible? I'm hoping it's a simple Apache setting. Thoughts? -ben

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Broken RSS Feed
by Mark Cunningham 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

I'm running a MediaWiki 1.4.6 and I've noticed that the RSS (and atom) feed from Special:Recentchanges has become invalid. As far as I can tell two blank lines are being inserted before the header and these seems to break any attempt to parse it using a newsreader. I've looked at the code and I can't see anything wrong with the headers. I haven't modified the code at all. The feed is @ http://irishgamingwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss and here is what a validator says about it: http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http%3a%2f%2firishgamingwiki.com%2findex… Thanks for any help Mark Cunningham -- http://thedeadone.net

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Hugh Scott
by pttsbsteve 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

What is with the article about former Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania? Can something be done to correct this kind of nonsense getting into print?

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Nearlyfreespeach.net
by Leonard Burton 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Greetings, I have a few wikis set up at nearlyfreespeach.net and had a problem with the url turing into something ugly. It would have several sub-domains and I fixed the problem by adding this to the top of Localsettings.php: $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] = "url of wiki"; Is this the best way to effect such changes? Thanks, -- Leonard Burton, N9URK leonardburton(a)gmail.com "The prolonged evacuation would have dramatically affected the survivability of the occupants."

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When does search index get built?
by Matt England 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hello, I inserted text into the body of an existing page on my site, and then I try to search for that text sometime later, and said page does not show up in my search list. However, other, pre-existing text does show up in said page when I search for it. This leads me to wonder: Does MediaWiki (in my case, 1.4.0) have to build a search index every so often? If so, when/how does it do this? (I don't see a cron anywhere...) And if not...why would my text not show up in the search? (The text in question is "chicago", without the quotes. In my wiki page it is nice and white-space separated. I don't understand...) -Matt

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How to install a second wiki
by tim marshall 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

I've managed to install Wikimedia and run a wiki on my own computer using the Saint WAMP package. But I'm stumped on how to create a second and subsequent wikis for the other projects I have. Can anybody suggest how I could do this?

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MediaWiki install question
by Matt Hampel 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

I've got (another) question about the MediaWiki 1.5 install process: does the install script try to create the database, or does it only create and populate the tables? Matt Hampel

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Sister project vs. two namespaces in bilingual wiki
by Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Hi, I installed MediaWiki a week ago and I'm tweaking it now just before starting to populate it with content. My issue is that I'm doing a bilingual Japanese-English wiki, where each page has its correspondent one in the other language (which would be only a translation). I've read all I've been able to find about having two namespaces or doing a sister project, but as it's extremely convenient to have only one user database I've opted for creating two namespaces. The problem is that the title of each page is now "English:Pagetitle" or "Japanese:Pagetitle". Is it possible to remove the namespace and colon there? Has anybody run into the same problem of setting a multilingual wiki that made mandatory the use of only one user database? Is it possible to share the two user tables across two different wikis? Thanks in advance... Alfonso

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Problem upgrading from 1.3.9 to 1.5b3 (Article names with german special Characters )
by Gigea Mircea Raul 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hi, I wanted to upgrade from an 1.3.9 Mediawiki to a 1.5b3 MediaWiki. All went well except all Articles which contained a german special character, were not imported at all. (Well at least from the user's point of view, cause i can find them in the Database). Is this a usual problem, where there also is a usual solution, or do i have to do it the hard way (debugging, analizing the database-article-name, the link-name, the article-name ... eventually run a script that replaces all theese with some 'correct ones') ? Thanx, Raul Gigea -- Weitersagen: GMX DSL-Flatrates mit Tempo-Garantie! Ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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multilanguage dictionary setup
by edward molasses 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hello everyone, I am trying to setup a dictionary using MediaWiki and I was wondering what the best way is to go about setting it up as a multiple language dictionary (i.e. each definition has translations in 4 other languages). I have heard about the Ultimate Wikitionary which would be perfect, but I have to set something up temporarily until that has been developed. From what I understand from Wikimedia MetaWiki pages, the way to do it is to have separate installations for each language and using inter-Wiki links to make definitions link to their corresponding translations. My questions are: am I correct about a multiple install being the recommended way to setup a multilanguage wiki? Is it okay to do it using multiple installations on the same server? Or is it necessary to have a domain name for each installation? Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated, thank you, Andrew.

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