Morning!
I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process
of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use
as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is
always important :-)
Two questions:
1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages.
Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language
identifier to the page title eg:
here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]].
Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg
"English CV" rathern than "CV.en"?
2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent
access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I
need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible
to do wildcards eg internal*
TIA
James
The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be
deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy
references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell
out of the software.
MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.
Rob Church
I have two problems with functionality of "in other languages" box on my MW
server. I would like to point from my articles to related articles on
Wikipedia using standard interwikis. In this context I would like to:
1) Change the text from "in other languages" to something like "in other
wikis"
2) My MW is localized as Czech (CS) and so when I add [[cs:something]]
interwiki to an article, it is hiding it from in other languages box. I would
like to switch off this language filtering.
Does anybody know how to solve point 1) or 2)?
(MW 1.7.1)
Thanks in advance
Jakub
Thanks to the helpful comment of another group user, I tried placing the
following in the "main.css" file of the monobook skin folder:
#privacy { display: none; }
My skin is definitely set to monobook, and my browser is Firefox 1.5.0.4
on OS X. From viewing the page source and reading my CSS book, I've
concluded that this should indeed hide the "display" link--but it
doesn't. Anyone know what might be going wrong?
Thanks,
Ken
I've been able to enable uploading of files and set the $wgFileExtensions[]
line in LocalSettings.php to enable me to upload pdf files.
My problem is how to set this to enable different types of files to be
uploaded e.g. pdf's and word docs and Powerpoint etc.
Does anyone know the correct syntax for specifying multiple file extensions
for files that can be uploaded.
Thank
Chris
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Hi,
I run a website based on Mediawiki. After I have upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.1, users on my wiki can no longer talk on the pages!
Local settings have the following
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['talk'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['talk'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true;
#
// Implicit group for all visitors
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = true;
$wgDisableAnonTalk = true;
# and also
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
I know this is very limited information. If somebody can at least point in the right direction for checking for what is causing this ....
Thanks in advance
I noticed that things don't get listed in Special:Lonelypages if they
have an image on them.
I realize this is a link to [[Image:SomePicture.jpg]] but shouldn't that
really qualify as an orphaned page?
Is this configurable at all?
Thanks,
~Eric
I'm trying to install MediaWiki 1.7.1 and the process hangs partway
through. After the "Initializing Data..." part, it just cuts off. My
Apache error logs report nothing, and when I did some debugging, I
found that it hangs on line 820 on config/index.php:
$u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName() );
Delving into that, the problem was specifically in the newFromName()
function...
A bunch of delving into that led me to line 461 on
include/Database.php . Oddly enough, if I change the new_link part of
mysql_connect() to be false, the install finishes (but then I get
blank screens whenever I try to use the resulting wiki).
It's entirely possible that there is some setting in php that is
causing this problem, but I don't know where to look. As said before,
nothing shows in my error logs, and I do have display_errors set to
on.
As is the norm, here is the text of the install page:
Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.
* PHP 5.1.4 installed
* Found database drivers for: MySQL
* PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
* Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
* PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
* Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
* Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't
use object caching functions
* GNU diff3 not found.
* Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be
enabled if you enable uploads.
* Installation directory: /home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki
* Script URI path: /wiki
* Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
* Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand().
Consider changing it manually.
Generating configuration file...
* Database type: MySQL
* Loading class: DatabaseMysql
* Attempting to connect to database server as wheeloft_wikiuse...success.
* Connected to 5.0.24-standard
* Database wheeloft_wiki exists
Warning: mysql_query() [http://www.mysql.com/doc]: Table
'wheeloft_wiki.wot_cur' doesn't exist in
/home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 620
Warning: mysql_query() [http://www.mysql.com/doc]: Table
'wheeloft_wiki.wot_revision' doesn't exist in
/home/wheeloft/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 620
* Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs... done.
* Initializing data...
Hi,
For some time I've been using the following syntax successfuly on
Mediawiki 1.5.x:
[[Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]] which used to produce the
following output as a link to the "Image:" page:
My document XYZ
Now this doesn't work anymore, at least with mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.5.7
and for the same syntax I just see this link as if no alias had been
given after the pipe:
Image:document-xyz.pdf
Is there any reason why I should observe that ? I have noticed that the
following alternative syntax works as I want it to work but I wonder if
this is the right way to do it (I added a colon at the beginning):
[[:Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]]
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
--
Nicolas STRANSKY
Équipe Oncologie Moléculaire
Institut Curie - UMR 144 - CNRS Tel : +33 1 42 34 63 40
26, rue d'Ulm - 75248 Paris Cedex 5 - FRANCE Fax : +33 1 42 34 63 49