MediaWiki-l December 2006

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Moving lots pages to a different namespace?
by Mark London 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

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Database error
by Veronica Lopez Diaz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hello everybody, When I search after some terms, which have not been defined yet, or after editing an entry (but not always???), I get the following error message: Database error >From MiWiki For query "sales" Jump to: navigation, search A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "". MySQL returned error "1030: Got error 127 from storage engine (localhost)". Has anybody had this error before? How may I fix it? Thanks a lot in advance for your help and best regards, Veronica P.S: I found a similar message at the The Wikitech-l Archives, but in my case no table name was written, so what shall I do???? -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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Multiple languages
by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Morning! I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is always important :-) Two questions: 1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages. Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language identifier to the page title eg: here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]]. Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg "English CV" rathern than "CV.en"? 2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible to do wildcards eg internal* TIA James

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Re: Never delete users !
by Rob Church 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell out of the software. MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will. Rob Church

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how to manage "in other languages"
by Šerých Jakub 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I have two problems with functionality of "in other languages" box on my MW server. I would like to point from my articles to related articles on Wikipedia using standard interwikis. In this context I would like to: 1) Change the text from "in other languages" to something like "in other wikis" 2) My MW is localized as Czech (CS) and so when I add [[cs:something]] interwiki to an article, it is hiding it from in other languages box. I would like to switch off this language filtering. Does anybody know how to solve point 1) or 2)? (MW 1.7.1) Thanks in advance Jakub

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shoutbox extension
by Frederik Dohr 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hello guys, I think it might be helpful to have a very simple chat module on our corporate wiki. A shoutbox might be a good thing here, as it wouldn't require any additional plug-ins. However, I couldn't find any such extension. Does anyone know whether something like this is in development? Or maybe we could use a non-MW-related module for this? Thanks in advance! -- Frederik

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Inputbox: Directly create
by Ingmar Heinrich 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hi there! With the inputbox extension, is there a way to directly create a page without having to submit the edit form that is displayed after clicking inputbox's create button? Cheers, Ingmar

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intra-page templates
by FDG001＠gmx.net 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hey guys, While I don't think this is possible (yet?), I still think it's worth discussing: It'd be great if you could define variables on a page that could be included in the text and which would then be expanded when displaying the output. Here's an example of what I mean (syntax arbitrary):  @status_done = canceled @status_inProgress = canceled @status_canceled = canceled @document_manualEN = ''User Manual and Usage Notes'' @document_manualDE = ''Benutzerhandbuch und Anwendungshinweise''  This is an overview of current tasks: * Install MediaWiki %status_done% * Create Help pages %status_inProgress% * Go on vacation %status_canceled% * Create manuals: ** %document_manualEN% ** %document_manualDE% ** ensure consistency between %document_manualEN% and %document_manualDE% (sorry for the lack of creativity in this example, but it should suffice to get my point across) I believe this could enhance consistency within structured pages, and would probably be easy to implement - and learn - as well (too bad I'm not very experienced with PHP). While I guess the same could be achieved with regular templates, it can be quite bothersome having to create a new template page for each tiny element - not to mention the issue of coming up with unique names for a large number of templates that are each only used on one particular page... Any thoughts? -- Frederik -- "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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Still can't get rid of "privacy" policy link at bottom of page.
by Ken McDonald 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Thanks to the helpful comment of another group user, I tried placing the following in the "main.css" file of the monobook skin folder: #privacy { display: none; } My skin is definitely set to monobook, and my browser is Firefox 1.5.0.4 on OS X. From viewing the page source and reading my CSS book, I've concluded that this should indeed hide the "display" link--but it doesn't. Anyone know what might be going wrong? Thanks, Ken

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