MediaWiki-l December 2006

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Adding memcached to an existing installation
by Jashank 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

G'day, How would I go about adding memcached configuration to an existing MediaWiki 1.8 installation? I have scrounged config/index.php, and it seems I haven't found it (even though it probably was in front of my face all the time). TIA, Jashank

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E-mailing functionality
by Eric K 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Does Mediawiki HAVE to use the Pear:Mail functions? The forum software on the server doesn't require the PEAR:Mail functions. It uses simple SMTP stuff. Is there any way to get the E-mail functions to work without using Pear:Mail? thanks Erik __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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how to export to html?
by Ittay Dror 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi, I've asked this question more than a year ago and got two suggestions: * use 'printable=yes' * use saveHTML.py using 'printable', the page formatting is not right (it looks different, e.g., preformatted text). also, the footer is still there. i couldn't make saveHTML work on my local site. it seems it has too many assumptions about the url paths used (in getting, and in regural expression searching) Any other alternatives? I'd like to mediawiki to render the page exactly as it does for viewing (and previewing), but not add the decorations I tried extracting just the section of the content from the page, but because it is not proper XML, i failed) Thanks, Ittay P.s., Happy new year -- =================================== Ittay Dror, Chief architect, openQRM group leader, R&D, Qlusters Inc. ittayd(a)qlusters.com +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841 www.openqrm.org - Data Center Provisioning

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how can i create a template that includes pages in relative format?
by Ittay Dror 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

so {{Include Relative|../Another page}} will work. -- =================================== Ittay Dror, Chief architect, openQRM group leader, R&D, Qlusters Inc. ittayd(a)qlusters.com +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841 www.openqrm.org - Data Center Provisioning

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Transclusion problem - Changing template doesn't refresh target
by Tim Ware 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I tried editing the source template ("Help"). The edits aren't showing up in the target wikis, even if I delete the transclusion code {{pwiki:Help}}, save and then re-enter it. There must be some additional step? Thanks. Tim That did the trick, changing "?action=$action" to "&action=$action" in /includes/Parser.php. So the values in phpMyAdmin: iw_prefix = pwiki iw_url = http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=$1 iw_local = 0 iw_trans = 1 Then, in the target wiki, I just did this: {{pwiki:Help}} ("Help" being a template I created in the source wiki) and voila! Thanks so much for the assistance! Tim > Tim Ware wrote: > > If I have this for iw_url: > > http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/$1 > > > > and this code on the target wiki page: > > > > {{pwiki:Help}} (Help is a template I created) > > > > I get this in the preview: > > > > [Template fetch failed for http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/ > > wiki/Template%3AHelp?action=render; sorry] > > Well failure there isn't surprising, since that URL appears to be > wrong. :) > > > If I have this for the iw_url: > > http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=$1 > > > > it pulls in the whole page, styles and all. Doesn't work at all. > > The old transclusion code will break on foreign URLs using query > strings. > > Fix is on trunk (for 1.9) in r18684. > > You can either try to apply that change to the 1.8 code, or just do a > quick hack to change the "?action=$action" to "&action=$action" in > interwikiTransclude() in Parser.php > > > > For some reason, the colon is getting read as "%3A". > > That's normal and harmless (but also fixed, I believe).

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Transclusion problem
by Tim Ware 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

That did the trick, changing "?action=$action" to "&action=$action" in /includes/Parser.php. So the values in phpMyAdmin: iw_prefix = pwiki iw_url = http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=$1 iw_local = 0 iw_trans = 1 Then, in the target wiki, I just did this: {{pwiki:Help}} ("Help" being a template I created in the source wiki) and voila! Thanks so much for the assistance! Tim > Tim Ware wrote: > > If I have this for iw_url: > > http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/$1 > > > > and this code on the target wiki page: > > > > {{pwiki:Help}} (Help is a template I created) > > > > I get this in the preview: > > > > [Template fetch failed for http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/ > > wiki/Template%3AHelp?action=render; sorry] > > Well failure there isn't surprising, since that URL appears to be > wrong. :) > > > If I have this for the iw_url: > > http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=$1 > > > > it pulls in the whole page, styles and all. Doesn't work at all. > > The old transclusion code will break on foreign URLs using query > strings. > > Fix is on trunk (for 1.9) in r18684. > > You can either try to apply that change to the 1.8 code, or just do a > quick hack to change the "?action=$action" to "&action=$action" in > interwikiTransclude() in Parser.php > > > > For some reason, the colon is getting read as "%3A". > > That's normal and harmless (but also fixed, I believe).

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Merging two Users into one user(-account)
by Jan 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello! I want to merge two user-accounts on my wiki (currently 1.6.8, will be updated in februar to 1.9.x). I searched in archives of this list, and found a description by Michael Richards from 10/2004. I dont now, which version he describes, but afaik the DB-layout has changed. I have quoted the old description from 2004 below. Is there any extension to merge user-accounts? Or could anyone give me the current (updated) SQL-Statements to merge to user-accounts? Best regards ... and a happy New Year, Jan ----------------------------- Citation from archiv: Richards,Michael Michael.Richards at gartner.com Mon Oct 4 20:11:15 UTC 2004 Chuck, First, find the user_id for the account you wish to delete e.g. select user_id from user where user_name = 'old_user_name'; Assuming they have no contributions, you can just delete the user record. e.g. delete from user where user_name = 'old_user_name'; However, if the reason you are deleting is because you have two user accounts for the same person, and the old user account has already been used to make edits, and you want to merge the two accounts, you also need to fix several other tables to point to the new username e.g. lets say the old user_id is 66, and the new user_id is 99: update old set old_user_text = 'old_user_name' where old_user = 66; update cur set cur_user_text = 'old_user_name' where cur_user = 66; update recentchanges set rc_user_text = 'old_user_name' where rc_user = 66; update archive set ar_user_text = 'old_user_name' where ar_user = 66; update image set img_user_text = 'old_user_name' where img_user = 66; update old set old_user = 99 where old_user = 66; update cur set cur_user = 99 where cur_user = 66; update recentchanges set rc_user = 99 where rc_user = 66; update archive set ar_user = 99 where ar_user = 66; update image set img_user = 99 where img_user = 66; Note that the user_id and user_name fields are duplicated in each of these five tables (for performance reasons). There may be a script to do all this that I am unaware of. If so can someone please mention it. If you just want to change the user name, then just update the user_name on the user table and the user_text on the other five tables. Again, there may be a script for this. Michael Richards

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Special characters not working
by Martin G. 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I installed MW 1.8.2, English, utf-8 but can only use chars from ASCII. I cannot use Umlauts nor all others special characters not in ASCII. When i try to seach or edit with them i get a blank page or the error: Bad title The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. It may contain one more characters which cannot be used in titles. my page source reads: meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" How can i get rid of it? This is a major problem for me, I cannot use my wikisite otherwise. Somebody help me please :( Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Die neue MSN Suche Toolbar mit Windows-Desktopsuche. Suchen Sie gleichzeitig im Web, Ihren E-Mails und auf Ihrem PC! Jetzt neu! http://desktop.msn.de/ Jetzt gratis downloaden!

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short names in subpage links
by Ittay Dror 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Is there a way so that when i link using [[../Some Page]], the link's text will be 'Some Page' (now it is 'parent/Some Page') -- =================================== Ittay Dror, Chief architect, openQRM group leader, R&D, Qlusters Inc. ittayd(a)qlusters.com +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841 www.openqrm.org - Data Center Provisioning

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disable "contents box"
by Philip Beach 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello all, Occasionally while I am editing my Wiki a "contents" box will appear at the top of the page I am working on. It seems that it is triggered by inserting things in-between the heading codes (==,===,====, etc.). I don't know exactly what is triggering this box (obviously) but I need to disable it for certain pages (Main Page, etc.). Does anyone know exactly how this thing is triggered or how to disable it? Thanks!

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