MediaWiki-l April 2006

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converting ugly url to pretty with rewrite
by Michelle 08 May '06

08 May '06

Sorry to bug everyone again... I want to use mod rewrite to convert ugly url's (index.php?title=Main_Page) to nicer ones (index.php/ Main_page). The ugly URL is enabled in my LocalSettings.php. I've created this .htaccess file: RewriteRule ^index.php?title=(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] And put it in my root directory. But it seems to have no effect (the provider says rewriting is enabled). Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Michelle

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How to upload bigger files
by MediaWiki-l.20.stefan817＠spamgourmet.com 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I run a wiki and like to upload bigger files (no matter what file type or extension). When I try to upload e.g. pdf- or zip-files with a size of 4 MB with the image upload function I got an error message "the uploaded file is empty". Is there a special parameter, which I have to configure? I did not find that in the docu... Here my only settings, which are out of the standard: DefaultSettings.php $wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf' ); $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; $wgUploadSizeWarning = 5000 * 1024; LocalSettings.php $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; #$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; My version: 1.5.6 on apache 1.3.33, php4.3.10-16, MySQL 4.0.24, ImageMagick version 6.0.6, PHP imagick version 0.9.11, debian 3.1. Cheerio Stefan -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++

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Problems with my PageCreateOrder extension after upgrading to 1.6.3.
by Mark Krenz 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, after I upgraded to mediawiki 1.6.3 recently, an extension I wrote broke. Actually, it broke the whole wiki and all I get is this error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfrunhooks() in /home/blgpedia/www/dev.bloomingpedia.org/mediawiki-1.6.3/includes/QueryPage.php on line 44 The extension that I wrote is based on the Ancientpages Special page and is basically a special page that will list the articles according to when they were created and now also shows who created them. This extension was working fine under 1.5.6 and I followed the instructions for how to make a special page on the mediawiki site. I've been trying to figure out how to fix this and found that if I comment out the line: wfRunHooks( 'wgQueryPages', array( &$wgQueryPages ) ); in the includes/QueryPage.php file, that the wiki and my extension will work again, but I can only imagine that doing this would cause other problems. I also tried adding this line to my LocalSettings.php file thinking that maybe I needed to include my extension in that array that is in the QueryPage.php file: $wgQueryPages[] = array( 'PageCreateOrderPage', 'PageCreateOrder' ); But that didn't work. So this leads me to think, did something change in the way Special page extensions need to be writting in 1.6? Any ideas? You can find the source code to my extension and the include page for it: http://www.bloomingpedia.org/code/extensions_SpecialPageCreateOrder.php.txt http://www.bloomingpedia.org/code/includes_SpecialPageCreateOrder.php.txt Then of course I put this in my LocalSettings.php file: require_once('extensions/SpecialPageCreateOrder.php'); Thanks for any help you can provide. -- Mark Krenz Bloomingpedia - A City Wiki for Bloomington, Indiana. http://www.bloomingpedia.org/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Best strategy to populate User data from Single Sign On?
by Lane, Ryan 04 May '06

04 May '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- > bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brian Carpenter > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:39 PM > To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Best strategy to populate User data from Single > Sign On? > > I would like the common name (Bobby Jones) to appear on MediaWiki pages as > Username. But to account for duplicate names (200,000+ employees here) it > would be acceptable to have the Username be > Commonfullname_Uniqueemployeenum > (Bobby Jones 395234). > > What happens when Roberta Jones gets married and becomes 'Roberta Chang' > a.k.a. 'Bobby Chang'? > The next time she visits the wiki, 'Bobby Chang 395234' will not be found > in > the user table and the AutoLogin script will create a new user. Poor > Bobby > will now have to manage a double identity. Or worse, she will email me and > ask if I can move all her old history/data/pages to her new name. > > A) I don't know how to do that > B) there are 200,000+ potential wiki users here. About half of them could > all get married, divorced, widowed and remarried, > > Best to figure this out before we release this to production, > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l There was an extension for mediawiki 1.5: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Renameuser Not sure if it still works. Otherwise, you may have to use some kind of login that will never change (not terribly easy with people getting married). If you use LDAP, you can extend my LDAP Authentication plugin to incorporate the code from the rename user extension, and some tracking mechanism in LDAP to tell when a user has changed names, and automatically rename their old account. If you verify the rename user code works, I may be able to help you with adding it to my plugin. Also, my plugin supports pulling preferences from the LDAP server. So you can have their "Real Name" and "Nickname" preferences updated automatically if it is changed in LDAP. If you aren't using LDAP, then sorry for the bother :). V/r, Ryan Lane

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Page rendering on mediawiki 1.6.x
by Hans Oesterholt 03 May '06

03 May '06

L.S., I'm using mediawiki 1.6.3 and I've hooked in an RSS feed on page level. However, the feed icon (firefox) only shows when I do something with the page: Edit it e.g. Does anyone know how can I change this behaviour? Thanks in advance for your answers, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema Code follows: ************************************************************* <?php ######################################################### # Configure here ######################################################### $wgBlog_MaxRSSEntries=10; $wgBlog_RSS_Location="/feeds/rss"; $wgBlog_RSS_Prefix="http://sample.sa/rss/"; $wgBlog_RSS_Title_Prefix="Sample Intranet - "; $wgBlog_RSS_Prefix="/rss"; $wgBlog_HTTP="http://"; ######################################################### $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfBlogExtension"; $blogEntries=0; $blogRSSFile="NoFile"; $blogRSS_URL=""; function wfBlogExtension() { global $wgParser; global $wgHooks; $wgHooks['ArticleSave'][]='blogEntries'; $wgParser->setHook("blog-entry",'blogPEntry'); $wgHooks['ParserBeforeTidy'][]='blogRSSLink'; } function blogPEntry($input,$argv,$parser) { global $blogEntries; $blogEntries+=1; return "<A NAME=\"$blogEntries\"></A>"; } function blogRSSLink(&$parser,&$text) { global $wgOut; global $blogRSS_URL; global $wgBlog_HTTP; global $wgBlog_RSS_Prefix; global $wgBlog_RSS_Location; global $_SERVER; $mTitle=$parser->getTitle(); $title=blogTidyTitle($mTitle->mTextform); $host=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; $filename="$wgBlog_RSS_Location/$title.rss"; if (file_exists($filename)) { $blogRSS_URL="$wgBlog_HTTP$host$wgBlog_RSS_Prefix/$title.rss"; $wgOut->addLink(array('rel' => 'alternate','type' => 'application/rss+xml', 'title' => "RSS 2.0", 'href' => "$blogRSS_URL")); } } function blogTidyTitle($title) { return preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/","_",$title); } function blogEntries(&$article,&$user,&$_text,&$summary,&$minoredit,&$watchthis,&$sectionanchor) { global $wgBlog_RSS_Location; global $wgBlog_HTTP; global $_SERVER; $text=$_text; preg_match_all("|[{][{]blog[^}]+[}][}]|",$text,$blogs,PREG_SET_ORDER); $count=0; if (count($blogs)>0) { $mTitle=$article->getTitle(); $title=$mTitle->mTextform; $title=blogTidyTitle($title); $urlTitle=$mTitle->mUrlform; $fh=initRSS($title); $request_uri=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //QUERY_STRING']; $vars=explode('?',$request_uri,2); $request=$vars[0]; $host=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; foreach($blogs as $blogentry) { $entry=$blogentry[0]; $vars=explode("|",$entry); $header=""; $dt=""; $link=""; $text=""; foreach ($vars as $v) { $vv=explode("=",$v,2); if ($vv[0]=="h") { $header=trim($vv[1]); } else if ($vv[0]=="d") { $dt=trim($vv[1]); } else if ($vv[0]=="t") { $text=trim($vv[1]); } else if ($vv[0]=="l") { $link=trim($vv[1]); } } $count+=1; blogEntry($fh,$header,$dt,"$wgBlog_HTTP$host$request/$urlTitle#$count"); } endRSS($fh); } return true; } function blogEntry($fh,$header,$dt,$link) { $xml=" <item>\n". " <title>$header</title>\n". " <link>$link</link>\n". " <pubDate>$dt</pubDate>\n". " </item>\n"; fwrite($fh,$xml); } function initRSS($mTitle) { global $wgBlog_RSS_Location; global $_SERVER; global $wgBlog_RSS_Title_Prefix; global $wgBlog_HTTP; global $wgBlog_RSS_Prefix; global $blogRSS_URL; $host=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; $dt=date("r"); $xml="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n". "<rss version=\"2.0\">\n". " <channel>\n". " <title>$wgBlog_RSS_Title_Prefix$mTitle</title>\n". " <link>http://$host</link>\n". " <lastBuildDate>$dt</lastBuildDate>\n". " <generator>MediaWiki Blog RSS Generator v0.1</generator>\n". ""; $blogRSSFile=fopen("$wgBlog_RSS_Location/$mTitle.rss","wt"); fwrite($blogRSSFile,$xml); $blogRSS_URL="$wgBlog_HTTP$host$wgBlog_RSS_Prefix/$mTitle.rss"; return $blogRSSFile; } function endRSS($blogRSSFile) { $xml=" </channel>\n". "</rss>\n". ""; fwrite($blogRSSFile,$xml); fclose($blogRSSFile); }

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Authenfication with Identd
by Olivier Hanesse 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hello, I would like to create an extension to automatically identify (and create account at 1st login) for mediawiki using the IDENTD info. Any ideas ? _________________________________________________________________ Tout savoir sur la sécurité de vos enfants sur Internet ! http://go.msn.fr/10-channel/80-security/protection/default.asp

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading images suddenly denied
by RedleX 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hi to all the experts here, I am running a wikimedia server at http://www.oriredler.com For some reason, unknown to me, WM stopped allowing me to upload files. Any image file I try to upload, including files formerly uploaded to my server, is invariably ending with a "uploadcorrupt" message and the upload does not come through. I did not change on my own accord any of the parameters. The last changes are: A. Switched database server a few weeks ago (did not upload images since). B. Upgraded to MW 1.6.3 C. Installed the "cite.php" extension a few days ago. None of those should affect the uploads, in my view. Any advise on this? Ori Redler

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New parser extension: RomanNumerals
by Jimmy Collins 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hi, I wrote a little parser extension to MediaWiki called "RomanNumerals". It converts arabic numerals into roman numerals. Example: "1976" into "MCMLXXVI" For more details and download see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RomanNumerals This is my first extension and it may not be perfect. So I'm really looking forward to your feedback. Cheers, Jimmy ... from Germany

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info about writing bots
by FreeAll Support 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Hello all... Does anyone knows where can I find information about writing (or copying) some VERY SIMPLE bots? (Like switching common spelling mistakes and so on...) Thanks! Peleg.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading images suddenly denied
by RedleX 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

On 30 Apr 2006, at 13:12, mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:03:35 -0700 > From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading images suddenly denied > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4453D4A7.5030607(a)pobox.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > RedleX wrote: >> I did not change on my own accord any of the parameters. The last >> changes are: >> A. Switched database server a few weeks ago (did not upload images >> since). >> B. Upgraded to MW 1.6.3 > >> From what? > > See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting in particular > if from 1.4 > or older. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) Thanks for responding. I've updated from version 1.5.8, so this shouldn't be it. I've tried to add, just to test this, to "LocalSettings.php" the following: 1. "$wgMimeDetectorCommand = "file -bi";" -- tested this. Didn't work. 2. Lines like: $wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf'; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'jpg'; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'png'; This didn't work either. BTW, I did not have a list of allowed extensions in my LocalSettings.php. The problem seems to be somewhere else, anyway. Ori

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