MediaWiki-l May 2006

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] getParentCategoryTree()
by a＠kid 24 May '06

24 May '06

Thanks Ashar ... i had missed that method entirely in my explorations.

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Installation with Oracle Database with app stored in AFS?
by Alan Hoyle 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hey all, For various reasons, my organization won't support MySQL as a database. I noticed that as of the release notes for 1.6.0, MediaWiki is claimed to support Oracle though it's not well tested. However, I don't see any documentation that mentions this in any other context. Is this something going to pop up during the install which lets me choose? What do I need in terms of an oracle instance? Do I need a dedicated tablespace? Also, I hope to be able to install the application files on a shared filesystem (AFS) and I don't have direct access to the PHP server on the web cluster without jumping through some hoops. Will this present a problem for installation or continued running? -alan -- Alan Hoyle - alanh(a)unc.edu - http://www.alanhoyle.com/ "I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG Get Horizontal, Play Ultimate.

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Download Mediawiki from SVN
by Brian Carpenter 24 May '06

24 May '06

I'm still struggling with SVN concepts and want to make sure upgrades can be handled well before taking this wiki to 'production'... Could someone answer a few questions, or better yet add some info to the article http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN 1) Is a repository required on my server, or is MW just download from an SVN repository? 2) If a repository is to be created on my server, what is a good folder structure? Right now MW is on c:\wiki\MediaWiki\MediaWiki 1.6.3. Should the SVNRepository folder be created under c:\wiki? 3) Once SVN (and maybe a repository) is setup and MW downloaded, how are existing modifications to localsettings.php, any added extensions in /extensions and any peer folders, such as wiki/SSOLogin incorporated? This is related to an earlier 'TortoiseSVN' post but the same questions applie for SVN Commandline too., Any help would be appreciated, Brian

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(Temporarily) changing the domain name that MW knows for itself to IP number?
by Ken McDonald 24 May '06

24 May '06

Our domain name is currently being updated, but may not be fully registered for another couple of days. In the interim, is there any way to tell MW to supply an IP number, rather than the domain, in the URLs it returns? I did the obvious and looked for a setting for this in LocalSettings.php, but didn't see anything. Is this info stored in the database? Thanks, Ken

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How to remove the 'Message name filter' in Special:Allmessages?
by Wang Jerry 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, everyone. I just found my feet in the mediawiki world and I met a problem: In the Special:Allmessages page, there is an input box for 'Message name filter' by default. As long as I try to enter anything in the input box, even before I press Enter key, the browser go inactive-dead. I wonder why and how to remove the input box in this page. Thanks very much. Best regards

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Default text for a new category
by Dan Davis 23 May '06

23 May '06

On 5/8/06, Dan Davis <hokie99cpe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > The latter is the easier option and involves a quick patch to > > OutputPage.php. Find the addCategoryLinks function, circa line 220 and > > look for the line > > > > $this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeLinkObj( $title, $text ); > > > > Replace this with > > > > $this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeKnownLinkObj( $title, $text ); > > Is there a similar change that can be performed to change this behavior for normal links as well? Personally, I'd link to see blue links for known articles and red links for unknown articles, but with both links pointing to the article rather than unknown links pointing to the edit page. Is this possible without too much hacking of the code? Dan

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Very slow Special:Newimages in MW 1.6.X
by Juanma Barranquero 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi. I recently upgraded a very small wiki (< 1000 pages, < 100 images) from 1.5.8 to 1.6.5. I simultaneously upgraded MySQL from 4.X to 5.0.21. Now, accessing Special:Newimages is very slow, as if something were not being cached. Clicking on the "Gallery of new files" specialpage link causes a delay in the order of 20/30 seconds or more, when it was a few seconds before (in case no new image had been recently uploaded, of course). After upgrading the software, I ran "php upgrade.php" and "php refreshLinks.php", BTW. Can anybody shed light on this? Thanks, /L/e/k/t/u

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MediaWiki: Namespace messages, via file.
by Elliott F. Cable 23 May '06

23 May '06

I am trying to find a function that pulls a message from the file rather than the database; but wfMsgNoDB() and wfMsgNoDBForContent() don't work because they don't parse links and wiki markup within the content. I guess I'm looking for a cross between wfMsgNoDBForContent () and wfMsgWikiHtml() - is there such a thing? I really need this to make it easy to maintain skin messages across some 15 wikis, more coming every week...

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Incomplete GD library configuration:
by Arjun Jacob Thomas 23 May '06

23 May '06

I re-compiled PHP, working great now, thanks a ton for the help! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rotem Liss Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:28 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Incomplete GD library configuration: Look here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-May/012257.html Arjun Jacob Thomas wrote: >Hi, > Sorry, cant seem to find it... would appreciate it if you could send >again... > >Thanks much, >AJ >-----Original Message----- >From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org >[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber >Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:28 PM >To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list >Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Incomplete GD library configuration: > >Arjun Jacob Thomas wrote: > > >> i'm currently running mediawiki 1.6.5. Everything is working great, >>cept i'm having problems with images. I can upload them and view them >> >> >in > > >>their original size, however if i try modifiying the view using thumbs >>etc i get the following error message ( Incomplete GD library >>configuration: missing function imagecreatefromjpeg ) . This happens >>with all picture formats.... HALP!! >> >> > >Please read the response you received to your first message before >sending >another. Thanks. > >-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org >http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > -- #define Name RotemLiss #define Mail mailSTRUDELrotemlissDOTcom #define Site www.rotemliss.com

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Mathematics not being rendered to images
by Andrew Lowe 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi all, I have recently installed Mediawiki here at work and everything is going fine. During the install I thought that I wouldn't need maths formula rendering so didn't install imagemagic etc. Now it's a case of "silly me" as there is a mathematician here who used Tex when doing his PhD and would like to enter maths formula's on his pages. I've subsequently set $whUseTex to true and then installed imagemagick etc. I next loaded one of his pages and get in red text: Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): If I fire up a shell, I'm running Gentoo Linux with the version of Mediawiki being the latest, and type in: latex I get: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) ** ----------------------- dvips I get: This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) Missing DVI file argument (or -f). Try --help for more information. ----------------------- gs I get: GNU Ghostscript 8.16 (2005-05-09) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. GS> ----------------------- convert I get: Version: ImageMagick 6.2.6 05/18/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2006 ImageMagick Studio LLC Usage: convert [options ...] file [ [options ...] file ...] [options ...] file Where options include: -adjoin join images into a single multi-image file -affine matrix affine transform matrix -annotate geometry text annotate the image with text -antialias remove pixel-aliasing ..... .... ... .. . ----------------------- If I go into the ....../mediawiki/math directory view the README file and grab the bit of example code for texvc and run it: texvc /tmp /home/samba/public "y=x+2" iso-8859-1 I get a nice *.png file with y = x+2 rendered on it. I think I have all of the appropriate apps in place and within the PATH, all of the above was entered from /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki, although texvc is in the ....../mediawiki/math dir and I had to explicitly go into this dir for it to run. Can anyone think of what could be wrong and in turn point me in the right direction so that I can make the mathematician happy. Either a fix to my problem or where to look to start debugging would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Andrew Lowe

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