MediaWiki-l February 2006

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Deleting old versions
by JuergenL 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi, how can I delete old versions of articles in my mediawiki installation? I know that I can delete all versions and restore the latest. But I have to to this on about 500 articles. greetings Juergen

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Re: I'm getting email on minor edits
by David J. Biesack 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I filed a bugzilla report on the problem I reported on this mailing list on Fri Feb 3 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4918 There is a fix for that available. Here is an rcsdiff -w UserMailer.php for the suggested fix (base64 encoded so the mailinglist does not wrap/corrupt it) UkNTIGZpbGU6IFJDUy9Vc2VyTWFpbGVyLnBocCx2CnJldHJpZXZpbmcgcmV2aXNpb24gMS4xCmRp ZmYgLXcgLXIxLjEgVXNlck1haWxlci5waHAKMjA3LDIwOGMyMDcsMjEwCjwgCQkJCQlpZiAoICgg JGVub3RpZndhdGNobGlzdHBhZ2UgJiYgJHdhdGNoaW5nVXNlci0+Z2V0T3B0aW9uKCdlbm90aWZ3 YXRjaGxpc3RwYWdlcycpICkgfHwKPCAJCQkJCQkoICRlbm90aWZ1c2VydGFsa3BhZ2UgJiYgJHdh dGNoaW5nVXNlci0+Z2V0T3B0aW9uKCdlbm90aWZ1c2VydGFsa3BhZ2VzJykgKQotLS0KPiAJCQkJ CSMgc2FzZGpiIDA4RmViMDYgcGF0Y2hlZCBhcyBwZXIgaHR0cDovL2J1Z3ppbGxhLndpa2ltZWRp YS5vcmcvc2hvd19idWcuY2dpP2lkPTQ5MTgKPiAJCQkJCSMgU2VlIGFsc28gaHR0cDovL2N2cy5i ZXJsaW9zLmRlL2NnaS1iaW4vdmlld2N2cy5jZ2kvZW5vdGlmd2lraS9lbm90aWZ3aWtpL2luY2x1 ZGVzL1VzZXJNYWlsZXIucGhwP2Fubm90YXRlPTEuMTAKPiAJCQkJCWlmICggKCAoICRlbm90aWZ3 YXRjaGxpc3RwYWdlICYmICR3YXRjaGluZ1VzZXItPmdldE9wdGlvbignZW5vdGlmd2F0Y2hsaXN0 cGFnZXMnKSApIHx8Cj4gCQkJCQkJKCAkZW5vdGlmdXNlcnRhbGtwYWdlICYmICR3YXRjaGluZ1Vz ZXItPmdldE9wdGlvbignZW5vdGlmdXNlcnRhbGtwYWdlcycpICkgKQo= -- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

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salted hashed hashed passwords
by Paul Sanderson 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi I am trying to create a program to automate the transfer of users from an existing forum into my wiki. As far as I can see I could get away with adding the following to the users table username e-mail address password (the list is password protected) I ma not a php programmer so I thought ity might be easier to do this in C++ and gave written the basic elements to do the above. The problem comes when adding the password. As far as I can see mediaWiki expects a salted hash of the hash of a password, the salt is the userID. i.e. if I create a user who has a random password (say 123abc) and a userID of say 357 then I would do the following Create a random password (123abc) Hash it prepend the user ID and a dash(-), so we would have, some thing like 357-abc343acde... etc. We then hash this string again, giving the final hash When I do this on a test case I do not get a matching hash - what am I doing wrong?

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problem with $wgGroupPermissions
by Thomas Tschoellitsch 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hello, I've got a little problem with disabling read and new user registrations in LocalSettings.php - I've got the following settings from Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights): $wgShowIPinHeader = false; # For non-logged in users $wgWhitelistRead = array( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css" ); $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; What I expected to happen was, that... - new user registrations shouldn't be possible - no one except the sysops can read/edit the Wiki (including talk pages) I'm not sure whether this would also include Google et al not indexing the pages, but that'd be another thing I'd like to have for now. Unfortunately the result is, that I can't log in anymore (via Special:UserLogin). Any ideas? :) Thanks in advance, Thomas Tschoellitsch

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Relocating to a virtual domain
by Dennis Carr 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

OK, so I have this wiki: http://chez-vrolet.net/octawiki ...but, if I try to direct to this using http://octa.chez-vrolet.net, I get...well, undesirable results - namely, a 404. Changing $wgScriptPath to "/" will get the text only version of the main page, but little else, and the login URL will direct to something like "http://login.php/morestuffhere". Since the former URL works just fine, I'm leaving it as is for now, but if I intend to move this to the latter URL, what do I need to alter to get it to behave correctly? Thanks, -Dennis Carr

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Save upload based on file extension
by Ricardo Tafas 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Is there any patch or configuration to place uploaded files inside different directories depending on file extension? Something like: all PDF in /wiki/pdf all DOC in /wiki/DOC and so on. Best Regards, Tafas

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How to Install the Help Documentation in a mediawiki instance?
by Blog Zeal 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Hi, I just installed the MediaWiki in my website. Everything works fine. However, I found that the Help:Contents is empty. Is there a way to easily install all Help Documentation with this mediawiki installation? This will be quite useful for the user of my wiki. Because a lot of them can not access the mediawiki offical website to read the help. (MediaWiki is blocked in some countries). Thanks very much.

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Trouble using external smtp server
by Matt Morgan 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I have a little wiki set up on a home server that is connected to a typical consumer ISP account. Lots of smtp servers reject mail that comes straight from this server, so I usually set things up to mail through another smtp server I have smtp-auth access to. I found this page: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/2004-February/000414.html which explains that I can set up $wgSMTP as an array, like so: $wgSMTP = array ( "host" => "smtp.wherever.com", "IDHost" => "mail.wikipedia.org", "port" => "25", "auth" => true, "username" => "mailID", "password" => "mailPswd"); (example only; I used real values for my setup) and then UserMailer.php should send via the server that I specify. Wherever I set $wgSMTP (I tried LocalSettings.php, DefaultSettings.php, and in the function itself in UserMail.php--I realize they should all have the same effect and that LocalSettings is preferred), mail seems to break. For example, when I try to mail myself my password on the login/create account page, I just get a blank page (after clicking the "mail me a new password" button) and no mail ever arrives. Any thoughts? Where can I look for errors, etc., or how else can I test easily? Thanks, Matt

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about captcha.py image generator
by FxParlant 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Don't expect too much from a guide for dummies made by a dummy. For windows. About the captcha.py generator. TABLE OF CONTENT - what it does ? - where to find it ? - how it works ? - The image generator - "No module named image" error - "empty range" error - credits 1) WHAT IT DOES ? The captcha system written by Brion Vibber and published under GNU licence (unlike most of the captcha system to be found in php on the net which are copyrighted) doesn't build the captcha images on the fly. Instead, you have to produce a bunch of images. The generator take a word in a wordlist. Creates an image with the word on it. It encrypts the word using a key. Stores the image in a directory, with the encrypted as filename (png image) 2)WHERE TO FIND IT ? in the ConfirmEdit extension: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ (for the html access) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_CVS (for indications on the cvs access, I intend to create a tutorial on using CVS with Eclipse) Download the three files: ConfirmEdit.php FancyCaptcha.php captcha.py 3)HOW IT WORKS ? (only as much as I understand) Apart from the explanations provided in the php files itself, you can find some indications in the post from Brion: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/10179/match=fancycap… Mainly, you have to fill some of the variables in the fancycaptha.php file, with : $wgCaptchaClass = 'SimpleCaptcha' becomes $wgCaptchaClass = 'FancyCaptcha'; $wgCaptchaDirectory the directory where the images are stored at your webhost (NO EXAMPLE yet) $wgCaptchaSecret by the key used to encrypt the words of your list ex: $wgCaptchaSecret='turtle'; 4)THE IMAGE GENERATOR The file captcha.py is a file written in python to produce the images, encrypt them and store them with the encrypted filename. As it is written in python, you will need a python interpreter. You might already have one installed with some Apache-Mysql-php kits. Check your Apache folder, and your c:\ folder. Search your computer for the file python.exe If not found, download and install a brand new one from: http://www.python.org/download/ You might use this opportunity to get a newer one if yours is too old, because we will have to add some "plugin" which can't use python versions prior to 2.1 The command line I used is (can be used as .bat): c:\python24\python.exe C:\pytest\captcha.py --wordlist C:\pytest\w.txt --output C:\pytest\ --key turtle --count 10 --fill 2 --font Arial Where: c:\python24\python.exe is the newer interpreter I installed (there is an older one attached to my apache, and if I just call python.exe on command line, the old one comes up. To check which one you are using, type: python -v ) C:\pytest\captcha.py is the path to the captcha.py file I downloaded from the ConfirmEdit extension. As you can notice, to avoid problems with space in windows paths like "my document", I created a filed called "pytest" (less than 8 letters) directly at the root of my system. --wordlist C:\pytest\w.txt is the path to a text file I created with a list of words. Each word on a line, which means: I type a word, and I hit Enter. On my first attempt, I created only five of them. This might be too short. Use a longer list: 10 to 20 --output C:\pytest\ path to the directory I want the images to be stored. Not sure if the ending \ is necessary. It worked with it. --key turtle this is the key used to encrypt the words. It has to be the same as the $wgCaptchaSecret variable in the fancycaptcha.php file, otherwise it won't be able to decrypt it. Just use a secret word: be creative. --count 10 really, I haven't got a clue what it is, and how it must be set up. I tried 3, it didn't work. Hopefully, someone will tell us if there is a minimum and a max for this --fill 2 same as before, no idea what it is for and what the inferior and superior limits are --font Arial At first I didn't use this parameter. I tried this, and maybe it helped this working... 5) NO MODULE NAMED IMAGE error At first, you might get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\pytest\captcha.py", line 26, in ? import Image ImportError: No module named Image DIAGNOSIS: you don't have the image module, which can be found in a library for python. SOLUTION Download and install PIL from the middle of this page: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Beware, you have to choose the PIL corresponding to your version of python 6) EMPTY RANGE error After you have installed the PIL, something can again be wrong: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\pytest\captcha.py", line 145, in ? word1 = words[random.randint(0,len(words)-1)] File "c:\python24\lib\random.py", line 216, in randint return self.randrange(a, b+1) File "c:\python24\lib\random.py", line 192, in randrange raise ValueError, "empty range for randrange() (%d,%d, %d)" % (istart, , width) ValueError: empty range for randrange() (0,0, 0) As long as I tried, I believe this is due to an error in the --fill or --count parameters of the command line. And in the end: IT WORKED FOR ME image_e920d182_6ea824a00198ed4f.png image_b18fd5f0_bb1e8e848697c902.png image_0206469a_889d0b2dab698f4d.png image_d360bf03_ab8400fd4dfc4b9d.png image_7ae15d3e_aca3a3ea9d4c36a4.png image_ccc4294b_e9db09ebf2dd58d7.png image_b00e56fb_bd1657b6488424dc.png 7) CREDITS Thank you very much to Brion Vibber for developing extensions for "advanced dummies" like me, only able of rewarding him by grinning about having to understand python and finding out by themselves what on earth the parameters for command line might be. Ingratitude has no depth :-) Hope this will help. please do tell me what is missing. Hopefully, there will soon be a page created in mediawiki for this extension (no search on meta.mediawiki came up with something like fancycaptha). As soon as the creator puts it on, I might add this participation to it. Be free to add what I omitted, and correct where I was wrong or unclear. François

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Huge output in Site statistics
by sakura.i8i＠gmail.com 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I was looking at our site statistics but I was surprised with the result. Its says: --- There are *1,542,401* total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikology, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are * 18,446,744,073,709,551,615* pages that are probably legitimate content pages. There have been a total of *26,075* page views, and *592* page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to *0.00* average edits per page, and *44.05*views per edit. --- The total pages is quite accurate but I wonder where *18,446,744,073,709,551,615 *came? I tried to look at the codes and google but i cant find any explanation of such huge number. Can anyone tell me?

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MediaWiki-l February 2006