MediaWiki-l July 2005

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MediaWiki Installation question
by S. Morgan Friedman 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi Everyone - I just installed the Mediawiki on my (Debian) server. The installation & configuration went perfectly, without a hitch. But, upon completion, when I went to the main page, I saw this error: Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly. This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive. For more information as to why this behaviour exists, see the manual page for CGI security. For more information about changing this behaviour or re-enabling this webserver, consult the installation file that came with this distribution, or visit the manual page. I know little about PHP (but lots about some other languages!) and I'm not quite sure how do go about fixing this. A Google search wasn't useful and I wasn't able to find a search function on the mailing list archive so I can see if someone has asked this before. What do you recommend I do? Thank you so much for your help!!!! -morgan

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Re: category displayed on Main Page
by Jan Steinman 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

> From: antilyrical(a)spamcop.net > > How can I make > that category listing show up on the Main Page? Have you tried #REDIRECT [[Catgegory:My only category]] on your Main page? :::: Dateline: April 15, 2020: President Jenna Bush announces foreign terrorist cells have been located near the Edmonton oil fields, and offers "assistance" to Canada in the form of 150,000 US troops, now massing along the border. :::: :::: Jan Steinman, http://www.IslandSeeds.org ::::

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phpSuExec
by john s. 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hi everybody, phpSuExec was recently installed on the server I was using for security reasons. Unfortunately, this crashed the MediaWiki installation. I think I read somewhere about the incompatibility, but is there anyway to make suexec and mediawiki work together? Thanks for your help! John S.

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image thumbnails
by Jake Gordon 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hi all, I can't get image thumbnails to work at all. I get 404 errors for them. I see the correct directories exist but the actual thumbnail files themselves don't. I'm using 1.5rc3 on Windows with Apache, Mysql, PHP. GD2 is enabled for gif, jpg and png. I've also tried with ImageMagick. Neither work. I get 404 errors e.g: "The requested URL /w/images/thumb/8/85/image.jpg/300px-image.jpg was not found on this server." The full size images are uploaded successfully. Just the thumbnails that aren't being created. I presume normally they're created on the fly when a thumbnail doesn't already exist? In which case, the 404 page should instead by handled by mediawiki to create the thumbnail, no? Well, this isn't happening. Replies much appreciated! Jake.

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MediaWiki 1.5beta4 released
by Brion Vibber 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. == Changes since 1.5beta3 == * Fix talk page move handling * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese ~ number notation * (bug 2749)   would appear as a literal in image galleries ~ for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause ~ some interesting errors with signitures. * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German ~ language. * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian * Fix nohistory message on empty page history * Fix fatal error in history when validation on * Cleaned up email notification message formatting * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing * Nynorsk numeric format fix * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ ~ enotif off * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' ~ match * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]] * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to ~ [[Special:Listusers/sysop]] * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements * Some shared upload fixes * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading * support preload= parameter for section=new * show comment subject in preview when using section=new * use comment form when creating a new talk page * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block. * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category ~ sort * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed ~ inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing. * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost ~ due to bogus optimization * (bug 275) Section duplication fix * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions ~ to add their own logtypes, see ~ extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an example of this. * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections * (bug 796) Trackback support * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in ~ enhanced RC are now suppressed as before. * New skin: Simple * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when ~ viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page ~ respectively. * Skins can now be previewed in preferences * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook, ~ patch from robla * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late ~ edit conflict. * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's ~ content language * Removed useless protectreason message * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output ~ for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash. * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken. Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=345894 Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5beta4.tar.gz?down… MD5 checksum: 3cc4509799b6fbc8bf877db74468fbae 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.wikimedia.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 iD8DBQFC6+8AwRnhpk1wk44RAliwAJ97KnmmttOhioWRohUiM1S8hi+OQACgnN2T b7+i4SqzGjmYX6yuOnm+PdA= =Ddgb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reclaiming space by making images smaller
by =James Birkholz= 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

A user has run me out of disk space on my hosted wiki with huge jpgs. I've been making them smaller and re-uploading them, but the disk space remaining is shrinking, so the old large images aren't being replaced, they are being pushed aside. How can I get them deleted? The old images directory location shows the new image. Or is this some problem with the the host? James Birkholz administrator (Betreuer der), Posen-EN mailing list & website http://www.Posen-L.com & http://www.birchy.com/GenWiki

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conditional transclusion?
by Scott Morrison 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hi, I've looked around the help on meta about templates, but I can't seem to find anything on this. I would like to be able to 'conditionally transclude' a page, based on whether the page is empty or not. Specifically, I'd like to have something like {{conditional transclude | page_name}} which transcludes the content of page_name if it is nonempty, but *does not* put at edit link to this page if it is empty. A useful extension of this (for me) would be {{ctp | prefix | page_name}} which produces "prefix {{page_name}}" if page_name is nonempty, but nothing if it is empty. Any pointers? Has this been done somewhere before? Is it possible? Thanks, scott morrison

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category displayed on Main Page
by antilyrical＠spamcop.net 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Most of my articles of my wiki are in one category. I like the way the category page alphabatizes all of the entries of that category. I want to use that alphabatized listing on my Main Page as a table of contents. How can I make that category listing show up on the Main Page? Mario

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external links open in new window
by Brandon 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I would like the ability to have all external pages by default open up into their own window. Any suggestions?

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Attachments
by Chris McIntosh 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Is there a facility to upload arbitrary attachments. I know I can use the Image upload feature, but I would like to be able to upload any type of document, and have a simple syntax that I can use to reference that document. Not sure if there is something there or if I need to build it in myself. -- Thanks, Chris McIntosh

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