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
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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
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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.
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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
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.
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
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
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: Façade.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!
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
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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!
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
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