MediaWiki-l November 2006

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Organizing Department Wikis (Namespaces, Access Control)
by Reinhard Brandstaedter 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Hi, I'm currently trying to organize a common wiki for multiple departments with the following requirements: 1. Parts of the wiki should be restricted to different user groups (departments), so that only these users can edit or read them. 2. maybe some single pages sould be restricted so that only a few users can read them 3. There should be a common area all authenticated users can access (read/write) Now I've come to two possible solutions (A and B) how to solve this: A.) 1.) I can use some custom Namespaces and restrict those Namesapaces to predefined user groups. Described here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Setting_permissions_for_a_… The caveat is that if I place these articles into categories the category page always shows the article (alphabetically ordered) under "Z" (if the namespace starts with Z). Furthermore even though I've access to the Namespace (and article) the Article is not found in a search? $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault is set correctly It only seems that the article is found as soon as i put a link into it. Is this normal? 2.) I could use the PageProtection extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PageProtection 3.) this would be all pages in the Default Namespace "Main" B.) 1.) I create a wiki family with one wiki for each department and use interwiki linking. For each wiki I would use a group configuration that allows/disallows edit/access. What I haven't found out so far is: - is it possible to search across a wiki family? (e.g. if someone enters a query in the department wiki, would he get results from the other departments?) - how can a single sign on be realized, so that users that sign on to one department don't need to authenticate in another one again? Can a common wiki user/groups database be used? 2.) same as in solution A. 3.) This would be either a pool wiki (as used for media files) described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family or not necessary at all (all articles go into department wikis) Thanks for you ideas on this, Reinhard

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Behavior and configuration of searching
by Uwe Baumbach 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Hi around, can someone give me a hint where to find a _correct_ description of (title and text) search behavior? Particularly: - AND, OR, NOT - active or not? configurable? - Wildcards - active or not? configurable? - text search finds "Houses" in "[[House]]s" - in one version does in other not?! Depends this on the used search engine? Thanks. Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach(a)web.de ______________________________________________________________________________ "Ein Herz für Kinder" - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel der 1. deutschen America's Cup-Yacht!

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Rollback & deleting spam
by Gerald Vogt 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Is it possible to completely erase edits from a wiki running mediawiki 1.8.1? If someone edits a page and puts some spam on it, is there a way to completely remove this edit from the revision history? I know I can revert/rollback changes but the spam still remains accessible in the revision history. I want this to disappear completely as if it never happened. Is this possible through the web interface or do I have to go into the database directly? My head is buzzing after an hour of browsing through manuals and searching in various lists and sites... Thanks a lot! Gerald

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: scrolling text and change tracking
by Sindhu.Subramaniam＠iflexsolutions.com 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Hi, I'd like to know if there is some way to add scrolling text to a mediawiki page? I am presently running mediawiki 1.8.2 with Php 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.2.27. I want to add something like a banner that advertises some new feature or addition. Also, what is the way to track changes on a certain page in a wiki. I have not enabled SMTP on the wiki server. Any available inputs will be great. Thanks. Sindhu

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Icon in Wikipedia-Link & Printing a page
by mediawiki-1＠wikiplant.org 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Hi! How is it possible to show a little Icon next to a Wikipedia-Link? And how can you define a page's print view? Greetings from Berlin! flo

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Upgrade from 1.6.x to 1.8.2
by khuffman＠NGS.ORG 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Just a quick question. I read through the documentation on the upgrade and just wanted verbal email confirmation from the experts -- looks like upgrading from 1.6.x to 1.8.2 is okay. I can skip going from 1.6.x to 1.7.x and then to 1.8.2. Right?

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Backup restoration issues
by Anderson Schulle 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

Hi, I had mediawiki running on my server, on 6 subdomains (e.g. en, es, pt...languages) on my server. It was running on wikimanagerzone.com, which was also an addon domain of my main account falafelipao.com Due to performance issues, I was recommended to make a switch, making wikimanagerzone.com my main host account and falafelipao the addon domain. I did a complete backup, and now that I'm trying to make mediawiki work again, I'm getting the error message: [an error occurred while processing this directive]. To make the backup restoration work, what else do I need to change besides the LocalSettings.php file (connecting it to the databases)? The only big changes that I know of from before and now, is that my databases have a different name and login now (which I adjusted in the LogalSettings file), and of course the change I mentioned in the second paragraph above. Did I miss anything? Are there other manual changes I need to make? The issue kicks in when I do an import of the old database into the new one, after mediawiki is installed. I'm running: Operating system Linux Kernel version 2.6.17-11_1.BHsmp Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix) PERL version 5.8.7 PHP version 5.1.6 MySQL version 4.1.21-standard-log Thanks, Anderson

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Premature end of script headers in index.php??
by BruceMount＠aol.com 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

I'm sorry if this is a newbie question. Last week I set up a wiki for the first time and everything worked for several days. I was able to edit pages, etc. During the work week I did not use the wiki and it's unlikely anyone else did, unless someone just tripped over it. Yesterday, my site was down and I got the following server error: "Premature end of script headers: /home/xxxxx/public_html/wiki/index.php Failed loading" ...when I try to go to the home page. The browser gives a "500 server error" message. Given that I have not touched the site in days, does anyone have any ideas what would cause this error in index.php? Thanks, --Bruce

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wiki
by Skorupski, Bartlomiej 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

Hi all, I set up few wikis before but lately we've made mysql update and it seems something must have changed in its configuration, because i encounter problem during installation of wiki (doesn't matter which version i install: Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '', user_password tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default '', user_email tinytext NOT NULL default '', user_options blob NOT NULL default '', user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default '', user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default '', user_email_authenticated CHAR(14) BINARY, user_email_token CHAR(32) BINARY, user_email_token_expires CHAR(14) BINARY, user_registration CHAR(14) BINARY, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_password' can't have a default value (localhost)". Do you have any idea on that? Regards Bartlomiej Skorupski

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Removing auto-blocking
by Sy Ali 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

One of my users cannot edit a page. He is being automatically blocked. How do I remove this auto-block? Un-blocking him won't work.. he is still re-blocked at every edit attempt. He is using a shared IP with some other users, none of which have been editing pages. I don't see a whitelist feature in 1.6.5's Special pages. I'd rather just kill this feature since the site is private anyways. It's odd, since the user is being blocked because that same user has used the same IP before. Some items have been removed for privacy: --+ User is blocked >From (wikiname) Jump to: navigation, search Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Sy. The reason given is this: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "(user)". The reason given for (user)'s block is: "'" You may contact Sy or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. Note that you may not use the "e-mail this user" feature unless you have a valid e-mail address registered in your user preferences. Your IP address is (ip). Please include this address in any queries you make. Return to Main Page.

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MediaWiki-l November 2006