MediaWiki-l November 2006

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Namespaces v Categories
by Tim Ware 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

I am building a wiki for an author and will have alphabetical guides to 4 of his novels. I have read about namespaces and categories and wonder what is the best way to do this. It appears that creating a namespace for each novel would be the way to go. I understand that I'll have to add them in the LocalSettings.php file. I understand that I can use numbers 100+ in the array of new namespaces, and that even numbers are for regular pages and odd numbers are for discussion pages. Then, to create the alpha page "A" for the novel "GR" the link would be: [[GR:A|Gertrude's Dilemma - A]] (that's a pipe after the A) If someone could point me to what the additions would be in LocalSettings.php, that'd be great. I understand that the default search would search all 4 novel's namespaces. Also, registered users would be able to edit pages in any of the 4 namespaces. I already created an A-Z menu of links, eg GR_-_A, GR_-_B, etc. I assume that after I've added the namespaces in LocalSettings.php, I can move/rename these pages to GR:A, GR:B, etc., yes? Finally, if I've created a discussion namespace for a novel and I want to add a discussion link after one particular entry on an alphabetical listing page, what is the syntax for this? 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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Installation help!!!!!!!
by Sindhu.Subramaniam＠iflexsolutions.com 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Hi, I am trying a new wiki installation. I plan to use MediaWiki 1.8.2, MySQL 5.0.27 and PHP 5.1.6. I have tried the installation over 5 times but I keep getting some error or the other. The first time, I got the error at the last stage while I was told to configure the wiki. I got an error that said Type InnoDB .... TEXT/ BLOB.... the parameter user_password cannot have the default value. I even tried the workaround of changing the tinyblob NOT NULL default " , parameter to tinyblob NOT NULL and so on, as was suggested on some forums. But the problem persisted. Since I was on a test setup, I formatted my server and now, I have tried a fresh installation and now I get an error that says that the PHP 5.1.6 cannot find an appropriate SQL driver. Can someone help me here please? I have been working on this for a long time, with no breakthroughs whatsoever!!!!! Best regards, Sindhu Subramaniam -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:53 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hide IP Raquel wrote: > There's supposed to be a setting (for LocalSettings.php ... I think) > that allows the IP number of non-logged in visitors to not be shown > in the upper right-hand corner along with "Login". I can't remember > what it is though. Could someone help by reminding me? In DefaultSettings.php: $wgShowIPinHeader = true; # For non-logged in users So you'd want to override that to false in LocalSettings.php. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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manual deletion of user
by Tom Brown 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

I created a user that I now want to remove. The FAQ says I cannot delete a user (why?) but I can block the user. So, I tried to block the user and got this error: Query failed: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type cidr I entered a username instead of an ip address to block. The username was used in place of the ip address and the php code tried to put the username into the ipb_address field of the ipblocks table which, is of type cidr. So, the insert fails. Any ideas on fixing this? I did not see a bug for this in bugzilla. It is a postgresql backend, if that makes a difference. I found the user record in the mwuser table. Is it possible to delete this record without causing problems elsewhere in the application? Thanks, Tom

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Data Extension
by Nikola Smolenski 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

I made a new MediaWiki extension, called Data Extension. Its meta page is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Extension and you can see it in action at http://www.rastko.net/~nikola/ . The extension enables getting and setting data in articles, with some neat possible uses. It offers the solution for making sorted lists and an alternative solution to mass article import. To give an example, in an article on Paris, you could: <setdata> is a=city population=2144700 is in=France </setdata> which would write the data in the database. And then in Template:City you could have: Population: {{#data:population}} which would display it, and the List of cities of France by population could look like this: <data condition="is a=city and is in=france"> * [[{{#data:}}]] ({{#data:population}}) {{#sort:{{#data:population}}|desc}} </data> It is somewhat redudant with Semantic MediaWiki, because I didn't knew that it was so developed while writing it. But I think it also offers some things SMW doesn't have.

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Installation Problem!
by Gerard Marcel 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I am a new user of mediawiki and I am having a hell of a time installing it. I keep getting this error - - PHP 5.1.6 installed Could not find a suitable database driver! - For *MySQL*, compile PHP using *--with-mysql*, or install the mysql.so module - For *PostgreSQL*, compile PHP using *--with-pgsql*, or install the pgsql.so module and I am baffled because I am an experienced administrator. I am using apache 2.2.3, mysql 5.0.27, FC4, and php 5.1.6. All of the software were installed from source. I have installed xwiki and others with no problems. What am I missing here? My research has not turned up anything. the docs at mediawiki do not help either. Appreciate any help! TIA, GM

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Adding Google adsense below toolbox menu
by Matthew Falk 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Which skin file do I have to edit to add a small Google Adsense ad under the toolbox menu? Also where in this file do I have to add the code? Any info will be helpful

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Images with accented characters
by Fernando Correia 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I have MediaWiki installed and working on a Windows Server. But I have a problem with images that have accented characters in the name. This is what happens: 1. I upload a image with a special character, like: façade.gif 2. MediaWiki assumes this name: Façade.gif 3. In the file system, it is saved as: FaÃ§ade.gif 4. In MediaWiki, in the details page for the image, the link is: http://pegasus/wiki/uploads/c/c1/Fa%C3%A7ade.gif 5. When I follow this link, I get HTTP Error 404 For images with only ASCII characters in the name, there is no problem. Although I searched a lot, I couldn't find any information or post about this. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

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Chages to Firefox interface?
by Logan Andrews 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

All of the sudden the Recent Changes pages for the Wiki we use looks different on Firefox than it does on IE. Any clues? Logan _________________________________________________________________ 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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Character encoding on the database
by Fernando Correia 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I'm new to MediaWiki and I'd like some help about character encoding. I followed the MediaWiki installation instructions I was able to find on the Web. They said to use latin-1 encoding on MySQL. MediaWiki actually works with this configuration. But there is a strange behavior. If I open the table in the MySQL administration tool, the accented characters do not display correctly. They seem to be stored in some other encoding. Maybe UTF-8? If I insert data on the table using another program, the accented characters look good in the MySQL administration tool, but don't display correctly in MediaWiki. It seems that although the database is using latin-1 encoding, MediaWiki is internally using some other. I'm concerned about two things: 1. That MediaWiki encoding will conflict with MySQL encoding and some corruption may occur. 2. That I will not be able to insert data on the tables using programs that I write. I need to do this to fill the user table. I will appreciate any help about this. Thanks!

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wiki in diffrent browsers
by Logan Andrews 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Does anyone know of any changes to either wiki or firefox that would change the way the wiki looks? I recently noticed that our wiki Recent Changes page looked substantially different in Firefox, but still looks like it used to in IE. It also looks as normal in SeaMonkey which is the same people who do FF. I'm at a loss. I do know that our wiki was not updated and that our monobook was not changed. I also know that I didn't purposefully do any updates to FF which is ver 1.5.0.7 but with some programs doing auto updates nowadays, I can't be positive. Any info will be helpful _________________________________________________________________ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.live.com/partnerredirect.aspx

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