MediaWiki-l September 2005

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the 'nogomatch' msg
by Pini Gorelick 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

hello. I have changed the value of the nogomatch msg as explained in the folowing link. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_show_a_link_to_create… I have found that msg in my local language file. but the change did not take efect. any idea why? other changes are compiled sucsesfuly into the DB. Pini

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xhtml to wiki ?
by Jonathan Underwood 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Dear All, I am in the process of trying to build a wiki starting from some legacy word documents with heavy amounts of mathematical content. I have succesfully exported to xhtml with equations represented in mathml (using MathType), but am now stuck with converting the xhtml to wiki markup. Suggestions, anyone? Many thanks, Jonathan.

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Install: is putting www in front of URL
by Coombes, Andrew 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Actually, it only seems to be happening when I edit a page, links from the tabs at the top, the navigation bar or page links are OK Thanks -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Coombes, Andrew Sent: 30 September 2005 14:00 To: MediaWiki List (E-mail) Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Install: is putting www in front of URL Hi, I have just installed on a local intranet with URL http: //cad.ha...etc The install went perfectly. However, now, every time I try to go anywhere a "www" is prefixed to the URL, so http: //www.cad.ha... With the www the link fails, where can I get rid of this please? I have looked in the documentation, but cannot see the fix anywhere. Thanks, Andrew MediaWiki: 1.4.10 PHP: 4.3.10 (cgi) MySQL: 4.0.25-standard _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Wiki upgrade
by Jani H. Lahtinen 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I upgraded my wiki from what was 1.4.6 running on RHEL 3 Linux, or something close as damn. I now had 1.4.10 on FreeBSD. I made a test install in a directory called testwiki and then installed some extensions, such as Graphviz and Timeline. I also checked that LaTeX formulas worked. Everything seemed fine, so I renamed the site to its original form. Then I rebooted. Now the main page is gone and the extensions stop working. I even renamed the thing back to testwiki and the main page and the extensions work again, but latex is gone for good. What the?

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Filtering content on a wiki page
by Mark Cunningham 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I have a article on my wiki where I would like to be able to provide controls to a read to filter content on the page. To be more exact, it's a calender of events but spread across several countries. Some readers will only be interested in one country and I'd like to be able to add a simple control to hide the others. (http://irishgamingwiki.com/wiki/Convention_Calender for those really interested). Is this doable in a MediaWiki way? Thanks Mark

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All Pages only showing through letter R
by Bass, Joshua L 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I am trying to edit some of the Mediawiki: pages, but when I try to show all pages from the Mediawiki NS, the list gets cutoff at letter R. How can I see the rest of the pages?

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Re: groups
by Benoit Brosseau 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:37:00 -0400 >From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] groups >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org> >Message-ID: <deb2337a050929123775c93531(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau <brosseaub(a)mancomm.ca> wrote: > > >>ok i am new to this so bare with me >> >> > >If you want to strip, feel free, but I'll keep my clothes on thanks. > > > >>i have a class that i want to use mediawiki for >> >>i have 4 groups of students >> >>how do i set it up so : >> >>anyone can read all the content >> >>only members of the group can edit the group pages >> >>only members can leave comments >> >> > >You really can't. It sounds like you are looking for a contents >management system and not a wiki. > >Mediawiki (like Ward Cunningham's wikiwiki web, and all the wikis in >between is designed around the philosophy that anyone can edit, and >everyone will police the result. It only supports very broad sets of >capabilities for users, and doesn't really support a permissions model >on individual artifacts. > >Such questions come up here often, because users always want to warp >software to meet their own ends. But as neat as mediawiki is as a wiki >implementation, it's really not a good base for a restrictive content >management system. > >-- >Rick DeNatale > >Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site >http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ > > > First let me apologies in advence for any typo since i am not a native english speaker second WOW if what you say is true its very wierd ... while i am new to mediawiki i am not new to wikis. i have implemented wiki with 700 nurses using pmwiki and its easy (well not really) to do groups and implement ownership of pages so pepole can only edit a restricted set of pages. i understand the wiki philosophy and i runed completely open wikis for years but the probleme is that spam is getting so bad its rough to manage. The content would get replace, new page get created with links to porn site and while this is ok for most technology oriented pepole because they know they can just rool back to the last good version its confusing for the users and down right no acceptable in a school contexte. i really like mediawiki but if it can support basic groups i will have to convince them to switch to pmwiki or usemod or sommething that support groups thanks for your help

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Anyone seen this error with a local installed Wiki?
by Gibbons, David 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

When selecting special:watchlist.... A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "wfSpecialWatchlist". MySQL returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'UNION SELECT rc_namespace cur_namespace, rc_title cur_title, rc_cur_id cu' at line 9 (localhost)". Retrieved from "http://david.dashing.com/index.php/Special:Watchlist"

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ORACLE_WORK
by Kate Turner 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

i have just merged the ORACLE_WORK branch into CVS HEAD, now that 1.5 is branched. this may create problems with MySQL, as i haven't tested MySQL support extensively. so, please be aware that things may not be working correctly (and let us know, so they can be fixed :-) on the other hand, MediaWiki now supports Oracle out of the box (including installer support). kate.

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Difference in SQL statements b/w 1.4.6 and 1.5
by Ryan Hudy 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I am running a wiki using version 1.5 and the below SQL statement outputs the correct information. I am trying to develop the same functionality with a wiki runiing 1.4.6. I know the database schema is different among the two versions and I have seen the table name comparision in the mediawiki site, but I'm still having troubles determing what table names I need to change in the SQL statement to achive the same result. What tables in version 1.4 will create the same SQL statement result in version 5? Any help would be greatly appreciated! "select old_text from text, page, revision where page_latest=rev_id and rev_text_id=old_id and page_title='$pageTitle' and page_namespaced=$ns" Ryan

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