MediaWiki-l October 2006

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What is XAMPP actually for?
by Richard Cooper 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

I installed XAMPP whilst trying to set up a MediaWiki wiki on my website, but I don't actually know what it's for. I found the instructions for setting up my wiki quite confusing and I think I was looking at the wrong page for what I wanted to do. It also seems to have slowed down my PC a great deal. Can someone explain what XAMPP does so I can judge whether I need to keep it or not, as if not I'd like to uninstall it. Thanks Richard www.thoughtcat.com

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"Not logged in" in red near the "Save button"
by Eric K 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A few years ago I had strongly protested (like some other people) how easy it is to inadvertently have our IP revealed on Mediawiki. Finally a text was put in at the top which says now "You are not logged in". This text is still hard to see. What should really be there in addition is "Not logged in" in bold RED right below the "Save Box". THATS the most crucial time when we need to know if we are not logged in. Any idea of how I can do this on my wiki? And yes, I inadvertently just now put on my IP address on one of the MW websites for all the World to see. Great. Eric --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates.

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Getting a re-direct link to the Original page
by Eric K 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

My wiki requires a login. If I'm seeing an article and am not logged in and click any Edit link, it takes me to another page and says "you are not logged in". Then I login but I lose the link of the page I was seeing. It only gives me the option to go to the Main page. If we click Login directly, then it does give me a redirect to the page I was seeing. But I dont want to click "Login" first because that is not my first instinct when I want to edit an article. My first instinct and that of other people as well is to click "Edit". So my question is: If a user is not logged in, how do we create a redirect to the original page after the user has clicked the "Edit" link and has logged in? This redirect would be placed along the "Main page" link which is seen after the user has now logged in. thanks Eric --------------------------------- We have the perfect Group for you. Check out the handy changes to Yahoo! Groups.

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Changing the login page
by Tim Ware 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

I have successfully changed, in the top right, "login / create an account" to just login, and then put a link on the home page to create an account, utilizing captcha to filter out abusers. However, if you click on what now says "login" it pulls up the page which has the login fields, but also a link the "create an account" which bypasses my nicely devised system. Can the content of this page be edited (it's Special:Userlogin)? Thanks! Tim ......................................................... ! ............ ..................................................... Tim Ware .. HyperArts .. 201 - 4th Street Ste 404 .. Oakland CA 94607 t: (510) 339-6084 .. f: (510) 339-6086 .. e: tim(a)hyperarts.com http://www.hyperarts.com

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Twiki or Wiki???
by Nicholas Buttle 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi, Overall I'm happier with the mediawiki system than the Twiki. But I'm being asked to investigate the Twiki system as the powers that be think it will be better as a corporate knowledgebase (more control over user access and better suited to a categorised information resource). What I would like to know is... How much control can the admin exert over user access to pages? ie can certain pages be locked down once they have been created? And, can I create something with mediawiki that has the categorisation of the Twiki system? I thought about modifying the navigate menu to correspond to the 'webs' menu on twiki... Any suggestions welcome. TIA Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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multiple wikis sharing ONLY images
by HeinzJ 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hey I would like to set up multiple wiki sharing only images. I see that different wikis can make use of images uploaded to the commons. Thats waht i would like to have. The problem imho is (?), that they have to share some parts of the database regarding images. How is that possible? Thx. HeinzJ

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki from Backups...
by John Hawthorne 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Hi. Well, I no longer need help with the UNIX side of backups and such. I have just recently converted everything over to Windows Vista. Things are going good so far, but I can't get MediaWiki 1.8.1 to even consider reading the old database. This is the same database that 1.7 wouldn't read either from the backup. Am I reinserting the database to the system wrong or something? MySQL, Windows Vista RC1, MediaWiki 1.8.1 and Apache WebServer.

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Frage
by Nassim Hasan 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Kann ich hier jetzt so fragen stellen? Gruß

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 37, Issue 59
by Nassim Hasan 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org schrieb: > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)Wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Multiple wikis using same directory (Robert Leverington) > 2. Re: Multiple wikis using same directory (Joshua Yeidel) > 3. Question about some html tags (Nassim Hasan) > 4. Re: Question about some html tags (Dan Davis) > 5. Re: Question about some html tags (Dan Davis) > 6. How to let people stay logged in (rev 2) (Dave Yost) > 7. Re: Email password not working for some users (Rotem Liss) > 8. Re: Frage (HeinzJ) > 9. multiple wikis sharing ONLY images (HeinzJ) > 10. Active Directory Integration (J Wolfgang Goerlich) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:55:26 +0100 > From: "Robert Leverington" <lcarsdata(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple wikis using same directory > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" > <mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <8a3c9ee0610271455t1eda1199g6971565a65ef826c(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for :) > > On 27/10/06, Luis Zarrabeitia <kyrie(a)uh.cu> wrote: > >> Ah, some other parts of the LocalSettings.php should be made dependant on the >> $db_lang in my solution, like the upload directory. Sorry about that... and >> don't forget to point me to a better solution if there is one :D >> >> Cheers, >> >> Zarrabeitia. >> >> On Friday 27 October 2006 12:39, you wrote: >> >>> I hope you are not referring to my message "Mediawiki as a CMS." (I mean, >>> what I did there was a hack, and though it worked for my (en|es).wikipedia >>> mirror, I wouldn't exactly recommend it). >>> >>> Still, if you are referring to my hack, here it is: >>> >>> I installed a mediawiki in, for instance, >>> /var/www/sites/wiki >>> and pointed the en.wikipedia and the es.wikipedia virtualhosts to that >>> folder. >>> >>> On my localsettings.php, >>> >>> ============== >>> >> (...) >> >>> ================ >>> >>> And that seems to work. (the ifs and the $db_lang variable were added by >>> me). There are some problems with the maintenance scripts in this setup >>> (they obviously don't define the _SERVER variable so they don't load the >>> configuration properly so I have to work around that) >>> >>> But given my 0 expertise with mediawiki, I'm sure there is a better way to >>> do it :D >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Zarrabeitia. >>> >>> On Friday 27 October 2006 05:48, Robert Leverington wrote: >>> >>>> Someone on here was talking about how to run multiple wikis using the >>>> same wiki directory, I have a vague idea of how this could be done >>>> (using a index.php file with exactly the same contents but with a >>>> different name). But I don't know how I could set up the local >>>> settings file. When the person said about it I think he used an if >>>> statement but I don't know how to form one of those which has more >>>> than two possibilities. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >> -- >> Luis Zarrabeitia >> Fac. de Matem?tica y Computaci?n, UH. >> http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> > > > Thanks Dan! Great help!

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Email password not working for some users
by Imtiyaz S. 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Hi all, I get the email with new password when i do "Email forgotton password" on the login page of teh wiki, but old users are not getting emails about forgotton passwords. i created a new user and tried, the email worked. But all old users before i moved to a new server, it does not send teh password. i am runnign mediawiki 1.6 on linux. thanks imti _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://sp…

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MediaWiki-l October 2006