MediaWiki-l December 2006

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mediawiki newbie
by Alexander Nervedi 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi! I am just trying to get started with media wiki. I used WAMP 1.6.6 to get a packaged version of Apache, PHP, and MySQL going and have also downloaded MediaWiki 1.8.2 I have been able to configure things so that I now have MediaWiki running seamlessly on my desktop <http:/localhost/mywiki>. I would like to port this to my website and I am not sure exactly how this would work. Also I am keen on ensuring synchronization between my remote (website) and local versions so things stay backedup and I can pretty much work on it all the time. I am hoping someone here can point me to docs, resources, or send me pointers on how to get going to do this. My problem is I am also pretty much of newbie on everything in WAMP suite and dont have ideas. Also, I was wondering if the mediawiki list is searchable, and what the website for that is. thank you, alnuddy _________________________________________________________________ WIN up to $10,000 in cash or prizes enter the Microsoft Office Live Sweepstakes http://clk..atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0050001581mrt/direct/01/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Page tracking (statistics) code
by Travis Kiger 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

That's correct. Add the JavaScript snippet right before the "</head>" section of /skins/MonoBook.php. You should probably add it to any other skins that you allow your users to select. Google Analytics works just as expected if you install it like this. ----- Original Message ---- From: Fernando Correia <fernandoacorreia(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2006 9:26:14 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Page tracking (statistics) code Maybe on the skins (eg. MonoBook.php). 2006/12/3, Yusuf M <yusufm(a)hotmail.com>: > > Hi,I'm trying to figure out where I can add the little snippet of code > that a web statistics site like google analytics provides, to track visitor > usage of the site. Should it be somewhere in the footer? Would appreciate if > someone else has found where to add it to.Thanks. > _________________________________________________________________ > Search from any Web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows > Live Toolbar Today! > http://get.live.com/toolbar/overview > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Page tracking (statistics) code
by Yusuf M 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi,I'm trying to figure out where I can add the little snippet of code that a web statistics site like google analytics provides, to track visitor usage of the site. Should it be somewhere in the footer? Would appreciate if someone else has found where to add it to.Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Search from any Web page with powerful protection. Get the FREE Windows Live Toolbar Today! http://get.live.com/toolbar/overview

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Hacking CategoryPage.php
by Mario Aeby 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hello again I had a look at some of the PHP scripts in the includes-Directory today and did manage to "hack" the column listing of category pages to display section titles with two instead of one char. My customer has another wish: He would not only like to have links to the corresponding pages of a category, but also to have their whole body included in the category page. Question: Which object/function do I have to call to get the body of an article (similar to the manual way {{:article}}) rendered as HTML? Article::view() seems to be a candidate, although I fear it would be a real mess to make it work that way. Thanks for your suggestions! Kind regards Mario -- Mario Aeby Stritenstrasse 47 CH-3176 Neuenegg Mobile 078 690 50 11 Fax 031 741 28 93 http://www.eMeidi.com/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] strange 500 internal server error
by BruceMount＠aol.com 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

I had the same 500 server error a few weeks back and I eventually heard from 2 other people that were having the same problem. Turns out that all 3 of us were using HostMonster.com as our hosting service (overall, I had been very happy with them up to this point). Steve Jones found the following reference, look up item #153 on that list of issues at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk ....he tried it and it solved his problem. I had already switched hosts at that point so I have not yet tried it myself. Are you using HostMonster.com? --Bruce

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Checking and "marking" content
by Veronica Lopez Diaz 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hello, >Kasimir Gabert wrote: > $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol = true; > >Note that this one is not necessary (and won't work) in Wikimedia sites and >installations of 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x and trunk. You can use $wgGroupPermissions, >but only sysops can patrol by default anyway. I tried this out, but then I needed to login in order to see any article...is there any other possibility, or did I do something wrong? Thanks a lot and best regards, Veronica -- 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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Incorporating blog-like "Comments"
by Colleen Robledo 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hello, I run an internal MediaWiki wiki for our company, and we're now looking at using the software to develop a public wiki for our customers. What my future team of public wiki admins would like, however, is for each Article to include a blog-like Comments tool (comments form, and comments posts, all on the Article page) to encourage public discussion of each Article. They do not like the Discussion tab option because it breaks the conversation flow. Has anyone successfully used any type of plug-in for this type of feature? Or do you have other suggestions? The other side of this request, is that they would like anyone (not just registered users) to be able to Comment, and for those Comments to be able to sit in a moderation queue for approval.... in other words, exactly what blogs do with Comments. Thank you! -- Colleen Robledo http://www.colleenrobledo.info

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blank screen after login
by Arthur van der Graaf 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

When I login into Mediawiki, I get a blank screen. When i change any variable in the url, i'm logged into mediawiki and everything seems to work fine. Anyone familiar with this problem? I'm using IIS on windows2000, mediawiki 1.6.8., php 4.x and mysql 4.x You would make al lot of people here happy with the right answer. Thanx, Arthur van de Graaf

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] strange 500 internal server error
by Harald Groven 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Thanks Taylor. Of course I have sql backups of my (previously working) MW182 and MW15 databases. The problem is that if I upgrade from the MW15 or if I reinstall MW using the MW182 backup, the MW installation is broken. Pages are either empty, or result in a "500 internal server error". So, some of the tables must be inconsistent. Anyone who know how to check table consistency in MW? If I run the php maintenance scripts (upgrade.php), I get errors unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR Backup are not exactly useful, if they can't be used for restore :-) Harald On Mon Dec 4 03:39:53 Taylor Ralston wrote: > Harald, I had the same exact problem before. I believe it has something to > do with pages that have been "edited" (special pages can't be edited, and > the main page was probably the default). After pulling out my hair for a 2-3 > weeks, I installed MW 1.7.1. In order to keep your current stuff, backup > your database, and make sure you remember all the settings you used when you > first installed MW. > > If your server doesn't have a MySQL backup utility, you can do it directly > in PhpMyAdmin. On the left choose "Export", select your database in the > list, check the box to save it to file, then click Go or Proceed (can't > remember its caption). Save that file. You might also consider downloading > all the files from your wiki folder to your local computer, especially if > you've modified the code of any of them. Then delete all files in the wiki > folder. Restore the MySQL database (unless you somehow were able to keep it > intact) and start over with 1.7.1. Hopefully your server will be as > understanding as mine was! Good luck. > > Taylor On 12/3/06, Harald Groven <harald at groven.no> wrote: >> >> Anyone experienced this problem? >> >> My MW182 installation throws a "500 internal server error". Some of >> the special pages work fine, but none of the regular content pages are >> displayed. The Main_Page shows up with navigation elements but no >> content. Following any m-wiki links results in 500 error pages. >> >> To test the server configuration I made a fresh MW install with a new >> database (w other namespace), and it seems that that empty MW is >> working fine. That should mean that the problem that creates the 500 >> messages are in the database not in the php code. I can access all the >> tables from PhpMyAdmin, so its probably an inconsistency in the >> database tables that cause the problem. >> >> Is it possible to repair the MW database tables without doing harm to the >> data? >> >> -- >> Harald Groven >> University of Tromsø >> >> link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is turned off) >> http://www.groven.no/mediawiki182/index.php?title=Main_Page >> >> link to broken wiki (when mod_rewrite is on) >> http://www.groven.no/harald >>

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MathTEX revealed!
by Taylor Ralston 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

This message is to inform all of those unfortunate folk out there like myself who have had so much trouble trying to get the MathTex rendering engine up and going. My server didn't have OCaml installed, so I couldn't compile the texvc executable. After many days of frustration, I found an answer! (I can't say it'll work for everyone but it's worth a try...) Go to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enable_TeX and follow the directions. If you don't have ocaml (try typing "ocaml" into your server's shell client) then here's a simple solution (hopefully): Download the texvc program from the wiki project http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34373&package_id=1116… place it in the /wiki/math folder. Then follow the rest of the directions and cross your fingers.

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