MediaWiki-l August 2006

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down...
by Arjun Jacob Thomas 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Nice idea... tried running the following simple code... http://the-good-food-guide.com/test1.php . And tested the time taken to return a results, less than 5 seconds !!! so I guess its' probably the time spent on the DB. I know this is a long shot but any chance I can improve the speed of access??? Thanks, AJ -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Guy Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:53 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down... Forget what I said your other pages take almost as long Special Pages =  You should turn on page caching this is available in localsettings.php, this can help a lot. Also you should try running a couple of non database driven php pages to see what is causing the slowdown. Arthur arthur(a)assys.net -----Original Message----- Have you tried removing the Google map, these can take a long time to load especially if it is drawing data from else ware. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down...
by Arjun Jacob Thomas 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Thanks, That was really useful, seems that zend optimizer has been installed and is listed as enabled. I use the free speed test service to check its speed, and it shows me anywhere betweeen 30-50 seconds ( which is huge ) to open up the main page. http://the-good-food-guide.com Now my main page is pretty large, I figure that's probably why , but when I try testing some of the content pages inside the site. It still comes back with a time for 15-20 seconds... It might be coz there's another process running on the same CPU hoggin resources.... Thoughts? Thanks for the help..... AJ. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Prior Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:21 PM To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down... You can easily check if Zend Optimiser is running, with the following PHP program: -------------------------- <?php phpinfo(); ?> -------------------------- My guess is that your provider is just sloooooooow (maybe sharing too many hosts per machine? or maybe has a CPU-hog on the shared machine?). Can you be more precise about how slow? Does it affect all operations? View? Edit? Just large pages? My site, http://en.chainki.org has over 10000 pages, is on a shared server, and is so far pretty fast (except when generating massive "disambiguation" pages) without any optimisation software. "Arjun Jacob Thomas" <Arjun.Jacob(a)mphasis.com> wrote in message news:309CDD73907E434AA459450DC69690BA0110CBC5@MPBAMLEX01.corp.mphasis.co m... > > > Thanks!! My hosting service offers zend optimizer.... I'm trying to > check if this has been configured or not... If it hasn't I'll get on it > right away , if they have, any pointers on how I might improve the > performance of the site... its reaallly slow right now. > > Thanks much, > AJ > > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of LDB > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:29 AM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down... > > Arjun Jacob Thomas wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm sure as the size of the database ( number of articles ) >> increases the wiki will slow down. Are there any ways I can help speed >> it up? I remember looking at an application that allowed you to delete >> all versions in the history except the most current one . Will this >> help? Right now I'm running the app on a shared system. >> >> Thanks for any info.... >> AJ. >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > Are you caching? > > LDB > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down...
by Arjun Jacob Thomas 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Thanks!! My hosting service offers zend optimizer.... I'm trying to check if this has been configured or not... If it hasn't I'll get on it right away , if they have, any pointers on how I might improve the performance of the site... its reaallly slow right now. Thanks much, AJ -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of LDB Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:29 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Wiki slowing down... Arjun Jacob Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I'm sure as the size of the database ( number of articles ) > increases the wiki will slow down. Are there any ways I can help speed > it up? I remember looking at an application that allowed you to delete > all versions in the history except the most current one . Will this > help? Right now I'm running the app on a shared system. > > Thanks for any info.... > AJ. > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > Are you caching? LDB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Undefined variable: skin in .../includes/ChangesList.php on line 52.
by Webmaster Comunitatea Română 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Sorry, it was the "Related changes" feature and not the History link (wrong translation on my part). It was a wrong variable name. I renamed the variable from $skin to $sk and I don't get an error anymore. > _____________________________________________ > From: Webmaster Comunitatea Română > [mailto:webmaster@comunitatea-romana.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:58 AM > To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' > Subject: Undefined variable: skin in .../includes/ChangesList.php on > line 52. > > I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6.3 to 1.7.1. Everything went fine overall, I > didn't see any error and I can see the articles. > > When I try to see the history for an article, that's when I get this error > Undefined variable: skin in .../includes/ChangesList.php on line 52 > > Any ideas what's wrong? > Thanks, > Adrian >

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Undefined variable: skin in .../includes/ChangesList.php on line 52.
by Webmaster Comunitatea Română 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.6.3 to 1.7.1. Everything went fine overall, I didn't see any error and I can see the articles. When I try to see the history for an article, that's when I get this error Undefined variable: skin in .../includes/ChangesList.php on line 52 Any ideas what's wrong? Thanks, Adrian

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How To Set Up SVG ...
by wikimedia＠nospam.dnsalias.org 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Ok, I've googled, I've search the mediawiki and wikimedia websites, and all I can find on the above topic are blunt statements like "SVG is supported in wikimedia" ... but it apparently doesn't work out of the box, at least not in 1.7.1. So how do I turn it on? I have managed to deduce that I need to add "svg" to the list of accepted upload file types, and I've checked the configuration setting for which program to use to convert, and I've verified I have that program (ImageMagick's convert) installed. But any SVG images I upload still show up not at all. What's the trick?

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Configure MediaWiki to show relevance in search results
by RanmaSaotome＠gmx.de 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello, I've had installed the 1.6 version of Mediawiki and imported an XML-Dump of the german Wikipedia to do some queries (and not to annoy the Wikipedia Servers to much ;-). I was hoping to get a sorted list of relevant articles as result of a "search" (by relevance in percent). This is the case in all Wikipedias. Instead I get a list grouped by "found in title", "found in article" etc with no relevance information. Therefor I upgraded to the most recent version (1.7.1) and ran the update.php script. This didn't change the behaviour. I tried to find an option for that but had no luck. How can I achieve search results sorted by relevance (in percent)? Thanks in advance for any help! Regards, Peter

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: Wiki slowing down...
by Arjun Jacob Thomas 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi, I'm sure as the size of the database ( number of articles ) increases the wiki will slow down. Are there any ways I can help speed it up? I remember looking at an application that allowed you to delete all versions in the history except the most current one . Will this help? Right now I'm running the app on a shared system. Thanks for any info.... AJ.

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Mediawiki 1.7.1 & Apache 2.2.2 - error 20024
by Jean-Lou Dupont 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

I tried upgrading to MediaWikia 1.7.1 and Apache still crashes, mainly when accessing "Special Pages". HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/"MediaWiki: 1.7.1 HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/"PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler) HYPERLINK "http://www.mysql.com/"MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt Apache 2.2.2 [from XAMPP 1.5.3a] [Mon Jul 31 22:03:26 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: [Mon Jul 31 22:03:39 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.1.4 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Server built: May 9 2006 14:08:48 [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3052 [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Child process is running [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Acquired the start mutex. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting 250 worker threads. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on port 443. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on port 80. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: Any clue, anyone?? Help!! jld. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 28/07/2006

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] pam and problem with history editing
by Jan Steinman 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

> From: elisa.cooper(a)breakingranks.net > > I just took a look, and I can't find a button that says "rollback" on > either the History screen or the Edit screen, though. :-( It's on neither of those. Do the "history" tab, THEN you MUST press "Compare selected versions" before you will see a textual link: "[rollback]" on the right. :::: Think outside the box! The problem is now "How do you get different fruit from the same Bush?" :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AN10>

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