MediaWiki-l September 2006

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MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
by Tom Purl 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any help you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated. I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use the MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker within it. Here's basically how it works: * Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a particular prefix in its name * Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something like this: * StatusOpen * StatusClosed * StatusPendingDefect * The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page, contains macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on its status. Here's basically what it looks like: Browse Issues ============= Open Issues ----------- 1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A 2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B Pending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue Closed Issues ------------- 1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues * This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced by "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically appear under the "Open Issues" header. This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off from the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page. So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for MediaWiki with which anyone is familiar? If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of this (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros, which are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar functionality available within MediaWiki? Thanks in advance for all of the help! Tom Purl

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Sorting categories
by Gabe Stein 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hey, Is there a way to sort an entire category by date created, instead of alphabetically? I saw the sort order for individual articles, but that's for names and I need something that works for the entire category. I'm doing this because we have a series of regularly added articles that everyone reads, and need to be browsed without keeping track of the titles, since we currently have over 300 of these. Thanks so much, Gabe Stein gabe(a)ghscommunications.com

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Deprecated function isSysop()
by Borut Tomažin 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hello everyone, in new version of MediaWiki the $user->isSysop() function is deprecated. Can anybody tell me, what can I use instead of this ??? Thanks. Borut

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Dynamic page list
by Andy Roberts 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

DynamicPageList2 is an extension with plenty of potential for wikis which make good use of categories. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DynamicPageList2 Can anybody help to find a way to produce counts and totals as well as or instead of lists please? EG: Total number of pages with both category "this" and category "that" = 492 -- Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net/blog/

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$wgNoFollowNsExceptions ?
by Jérémie Bouillon 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi I can't find any reliable doc on $wgNoFollowNsExceptions. Could anyone with some knowledge of it give me an example on how to use it ? Let's say I would like to add two exceptions, toto.com and tata.net so that any links to these domains aren't tagged with rel="nofollow". What would be the syntax for that ? I've tried several things, can't seem to get it to work (or it work but for *any* outgoing link) :-( Thanks

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Problem with Starting page
by Daniel Wetzler 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Dear mediawiki experts, I have a very trivial problem but I didn't find the appropiate solution yet. I have a running mediwiki, which works very well if I have on the same webserver a forwarding webpage which appoints to the mediawiki Start-page. If I access that webpage I get the mediawiki main-page. On the same webserver I created a virtual server which appoints directly to the mediawiki main page. If I try to access the main page via that virtual server I get an error from the mediawiki ( The requested URL /mediawiki/index.php/Hauptseite was not found on this server. ). Does someone know what's the problem with my configuration ? Best regards Daniel Wetzler

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.1 Setup Keeps Going back to Config Page without errors
by Zachary T. Wilson 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Thanks Martin, unfortunately that left me in the same place. I don't get what's wrong with this...no php errors, no mysql errors, nada! Anybody else? -Zach Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 3:53:15 PM, you wrote: MA> I had the same problem (see below). As the installation got as far as MA> "created sysop account" I took a wild guess and commented out the next MA> piece of the installation file, just to see what would happen: MA> /* MA> $titleobj = Title::newFromText( wfMsgNoDB( "mainpage" ) ); MA> $article = new Article( $titleobj ); $newid = $article->>insertOn( $wgDatabase ); MA> $revision = new Revision( array( 'page' =>> $newid, 'text' =>> wfMsg( 'mainpagetext' ) . "\n\n" . wfMsg( 'mainpagedocfooter' ), 'comment' =>> '', 'user' =>> 0, 'user_text' =>> 'MediaWiki default', MA> ) ); $revid = $revision->>insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $article->>updateRevisionOn( $wgDatabase, $revision ); MA> print "<li><pre>"; MA> initialiseMessages(); MA> print "</pre></li>\n"; MA> */ MA> And - lo and behold - the installation went on without reporting a bug. The MA> LocalSettings.php file got written, I moved it to its directory and the wiki is MA> working. MA> Does anyone know what the missing piece does? I have no idea. Somehow MA> I am afraid that the world will explode soon. MA> Martin MA> Am 11 Sep 2006 um 16:25 schrieb Zachary T. Wilson: >> Setting up media wiki is driving me crazy! >> >> I have tried it a couple different ways, once in my base dir and >> another in the wiki sub dir. Either way it keeps going back to the >> config/index.php page without any errors or anything and it doesn't >> create my LocalSettings.php file. >> >> My permissions for the entire dir are set to user.user 777 on all >> files! >> >> The setup says it is ok to run: >> >> Checking environment... >> >> Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. >> >> * PHP 5.1.6 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 >> * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. >> * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. >> * Installation directory: /home/httpd/html/wiki/wiki >> * Script URI path: /wiki >> * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. >> >> >> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! >> >> >> -Zach >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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[Extensions] DynamicPageList2 0.6.4 released
by Cyril Dangerville 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

DynamicPageList2 0.6.4 released. Changes: * New 'minoredits' parameter to ignore minor edits (or not) in the result. More info: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DynamicPageList2 Brief description: MediaWiki parser extension. Enhancement of DynamicPageList. Generates dynamic article list using logical operations on categories/namespaces and much more display options. Release notes: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DynamicPageList2#Improvements_and_Changes Download: [Main file] http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/DynamicPageList… [Internationalization file] http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/DynamicPageList… Bug report: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org (MediaZilla) (Select Product: MediaWiki extensions, Component: DynamicPageList2.) Feature request: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:DynamicPageList2 SVN repository: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/DynamicPageList2 -- Cyril Dangerville

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File delete error
by Simon Renshaw 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi, I tried to delete a file that was uploaded on my Wiki and got the following error: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Article::doDeleteArticle". MySQL returned error "1364: Field 'ar_text' doesn't have a default value (localhost)". Any idea what is causing this? That DB was originally running on MySQL 4 so maybe I forgot to do something when I imported it to version 5. But everything else is working fine on the Wiki. I'm running: MediaWiki: 1.6.6 PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 5.0.22-community-nt Will update to 1.7 soon :) Thanks! Simon

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Installation help needed
by Martin Auer 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi all, tried to install mediawiki 1.6.8 but cannot get beyond this stage: PHP 4.3.11 installed Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can. MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 64M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator 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/froozle/yopedia.froozle.net/docs/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 PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. Attempting to connect to database server as froozle...success. Connected to 4.0.24_Debian-4woody1 Database froozle_yopedia exists There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... [List of tables follows] I am not sure what else should follow. Anyway, although I set config folder to world writeable the LocalSettings.php does not get created. I am stuck. Thanks for helping Martin

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MediaWiki-l September 2006