MediaWiki-l March 2006

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Problem with GoogleSitemap Script
by Robert Pfau 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hi I tried to use the generateSitemap.php script It is working, it just gives out the wrong timestamp According to Google a timestamp should look like this (ISO8601) <lastmod>2004-10-26T08:56:39+00:00</lastmod> But it looks like this <lastmod>1135341616</lastmod> I tried it in an 1.5.4 and in a cvs environment. Both times the same result. An obviously correct sitemap with wrong timestamps. i used this cvs-version cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia checkout -P phase3 what could it be ? anyone got a similar effect ? thanks in advance .robert

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How do I modify the link "create and account or login"?
by Wesley Mason 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi, I am using MediaWiki version 1.5. I want to have users email a sysopt to request a login account. I want to modify the link "create an account or login" to read "please email blah(a)blah.com to request a login" or something similar. I did a quick grep to see if I could find where this is stored but didn't find any obvious locations. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Wesley Mason System Administrator University of Kansas

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To develop a plug-in for Wikipedia
by Apeksha Bhambhani 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hii all , We have developed a web mapping application . And would like to integrate it with Wikipedia . Our mapping application uses MapServer,Php/Mapscript , as the scripting language and MySql as the database. Our application accepts user clicks on the image provided by us .And points are plotted .We have developed a Php file to accomplish this. Could anybody tell us how to go about for creating a plug-in for Wikipedia ? Thanks a lot for your help, Apeksha --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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can't connect to database on the last step of the installation (osx 10.4.5)
by Jiri Prazak 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hello all, I'm installing MediaWiki on an OS X 10.4.5 system and am running into a problem during the last step of the installation. Everything goes well until --------------------------------------------------------- ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards Already have pagelinks; skipping old links table updates. ...image primary key already set. The watchlist table is already set up for email notification. ...watchlist talk page rows already present ...user table does not contain old email authentication field. Logging table has correct title encoding. ...page table already exists. revision timestamp indexes already up to 2005-03-13 ...rev_text_id already in place. ...page_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...ar_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...rc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...wl_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...qc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...log_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...already have pagelinks table. No img_type field in image table; Good. Already have unique user_name index. ...user_groups table already exists. ...user_groups is in current format. Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Can't contact the database server: ) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tried reloading, tried dropping the database and recreating it but the problem wont go away. I looked around and folks mentioned recompile of php but that was only when using new versions of MySQL. Here are versions of all the components php 4.3.11 apache 1.3.33 mysql 4.0.21 (Complete MySQL) mediawiki 1.5.7 Thanks for any insight you can shed on this issue. -Jirka

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Problems with images after upgrading from 1.4.14 to 1.5.7
by Patrick Pucholt 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hello, I've just upgraded from 1.4.14 to 1.5.7 and now all the image links are shown as simple links ... what could have gone wrong? Was there any change with the namespace? the site: http://www.abi02.de/capcarap/mt-wiki/ Thanks for your help Patrick

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Google's crawlers
by Mauro do Carmo 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi all, Someone knows about any program (crawler) which I could install in my PC/win XP in order to get a look of whatsoever Google's crawlers are getting from my website? Thanks a lot, mauro. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/257 - Release Date: 2/10/2006

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Language configuration setting
by Malcolm Lawrence 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Quick question about language configuration settings. When you're configuring MediaWiki to use a language which is not one of the languages selectable by the drop down menu on the configuration page, which one should be used? Or is that what the "converter" setting is for? Malcolm Lawrence Editor-in-Chief Babel: The multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas. http://towerofbabel.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Babel wonders: Are there any lingering doubts that the US is now controlled by unelected, war-mongering fascists hiding behind Jesus and funded by corporate interests? ------------------------------------------------------------

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mysqli
by adrian 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello, Quick question. I have checked the FAQ and the documentation. Why doesn't mediawiki use mysqli? It's actually not that hard to switch from using mysql to mysqli. Also, mysqli supports a few nice things. thanks, adrian

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Unwanted tags from the parser in my extension, can they be turned off?
by LJ 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Howdy, So tonight I set off writing a short little extension for mediawiki, and got in a fight with the parser. My extensions characteristics, in short, are that: it takes arguments from my defined tags and the content between the tags, and inserts them into a javascript function. To make my javascript 'pretty', I like to stick a few \n's in the $input strings (the content between the tags). Of course the parser is more then happy to turn these into: <pre> (for 5 \n's), which really busts up the javascript. :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_can_I_avoid_mod… ... implies the parser would have to be mucked with to prevent conversion of the newlines. But!!!!... a section or two above, it's stated that when you forcibly render text with the parser, you can turn off the tags with a simple 'false': http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_do_I_render_wik… I'd think it'd be a short step to allow the extension to set a variable, or call a method, essentially giving the parser the same 'false', as when it is called directly: $wgOut->parse('text', false); That sure would make life easier. E.g. $wgParser->setHook( "MyExtension", "renderMyExtension", 'false'); ... or maybe $wgParser->setPtag('false'); Hopefully somebody can tell me if I've missed some easy answer, or this functionality is already there (no, I haven't read through Parser.php yet). Or a second best: that there would be interest into adding this into nearby release? I'm aware there is probably a 'long way' around this problem, i.e.: set a hook for ParserAfterTidy, then find my tags+content, strip my tags and their args, re-insert my args+content, and finally dump all of the page again... bleh... Thanks, Luke

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Recent Popular Pages Extension
by Harris, Mike 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I like the special page that lists popular pages by their views, and was wondering if there if functionality in the mediawiki software that would let you see the number of views of a page in the last week or so. This would be used to create a list of high use pages that are currently being worked on. Does anybody know if this functionality exists, or if there is already an extension available the accomplishes this. Thanks

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