I'm running a wiki at work and a coworker asked me to require login
for any article editing so that he can see who created/modified the
article. my point is that the barrier to surf-by-editing is too high with
logins required. then he said that people can use Cookies to be
logged in always.
what do you guys think? I'm trying to form a well-informed opinion
for the discussion.
Thanks for the advice, I've created the table, but how do you then tell
the wiki to display the breadcrumbs?
Kind Regards,
Adel
> Using MediaWiki version 1.7.1 I'm trying to enable the breadcrumb
> feature... using the documentation on the MediaWiki site
The problem is that the bread crumb is looking for the CUR table, and it
isn't used/doesn't exist in later MW versions.
Rather than modify the BC extension, I just create the CUR table for
wikis I
host using a script and some SQL text. Works great.
mysql -uuser -ppass dbname < createcur.sql
Here's the createcur.sql text:
CREATE TABLE `cur` (
`cur_id` int(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`cur_namespace` tinyint(2) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_title` varchar(255) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT
NULL
default '',
`cur_text` mediumtext NOT NULL,
`cur_comment` tinyblob NOT NULL,
`cur_user` int(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_user_text` varchar(255) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin
NOT
NULL default '',
`cur_timestamp` varchar(14) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin
NOT
NULL default '',
`cur_restrictions` tinyblob NOT NULL,
`cur_counter` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_is_redirect` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_minor_edit` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_is_new` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_random` double unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`cur_touched` varchar(14) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT
NULL
default '',
`inverse_timestamp` varchar(14) character set latin1 collate
latin1_bin
NOT NULL default '',
UNIQUE KEY `cur_id` (`cur_id`),
KEY `cur_namespace` (`cur_namespace`),
KEY `cur_title` (`cur_title`(20)),
KEY `cur_timestamp` (`cur_timestamp`),
KEY `cur_random` (`cur_random`),
KEY `name_title_timestamp`
(`cur_namespace`,`cur_title`,`inverse_timestamp`),
KEY `user_timestamp` (`cur_user`,`inverse_timestamp`),
KEY `usertext_timestamp` (`cur_user_text`,`inverse_timestamp`),
KEY `namespace_redirect_timestamp`
(`cur_namespace`,`cur_is_redirect`,`cur_timestamp`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 PACK_KEYS=1;
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I have a wiki that is at 1.3.11 [1], and I want to upgrade to the latest
stable (1.7.1). Should I do one major version at a time, or can I just
take a giant leap? Any caveats to look out for? I have a backup of
the database, and no customizations beyond settings.
[1] I know, I know, but its an inside-the-firewall-vpn-only site,
amongst "trusted" users.
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Hello,
I'm trying to install the latest version of mediawiki on a redhat 4.0 AS server. I downloaded the install files from the website onto the server. I then followed the instructions in the install doc and extracted the files to /var/www/html/wiki and created a database called wikidb.
Then, I went to my browser and went to http://www.mywebsite.com/wiki and got this error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /wiki/moin.cgi/ was not found on this server.
So, I'm not sure why it's redirecting to moin.cgi, but that directory doesn't exist. Is there an install step I'm missing?
- jody
Dave, thanks for your input. I understand your point.
>>Mediawiki does not really permit one to eliminate a
user account entirely...
>>Deleting a user from the database is NOT advised.
If so, why the MW development team did NOT create
any reference constraint to the user table? And if so,
then the lack of database reference constraints mean a
glaring implementation oversight.
Anybody knows the real intention of MW team?
Thanks, David
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As I understand it, Mediawiki does not really permit
one to eliminate a
user
account entirely. Rather, it depends on blocking the
user from further
use
of the system. This preserves the account and
associated data, but
locks it
and keeps it from being accessed again.
Deleting a user from the database is NOT advised.
Others on this list
are
surely better informed than I, but I think that's the
short of it.
Dave Pace
On 9/5/06, David Zhang <david_q_zhang(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does MW have out-of-box feature for WikiSysop to
> remove a user account?
>
> If not, what happen if I manually remove a user
> account? Many dead links?
> non-functioning system?
>
> I am not sure whether other people have noticed that
> there are NO reference constraints
> to the user table from other MW tables. User
accounts
> are stored in the user table.
> Anybody knows why MW development team did NOT create
> references to user
> table? Obviously, many other tables have user
> information such as user_id, but
> why no database reference constraints to enforce
data
> integrity?
>
> Any info is really appreciated.
>
> Thanks, David
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I exported several XML pages from Wikipedia, and tried to import them into
my local Mediawiki installation. Each time, I get errors like this:
XML import parse failure at line 54, col 436 (byte 4898;
"�48.</ref>"): not well-formed (invalid token)
I can't see anything wrong with the XML --
Charlie
And now for something completely different. Sean Billig's Wikipedia
widget for Mac OS X (see http://www.whatsinthehouse.com/widgets/) is
very cool. I'm trying to modify it to read my own wiki (http://
www.dkosopedia.com, which is MediaWiki v 1.5.7), and am having a
problem.
I can search for an article on my wiki with the modified widget and
retrieve the article ok, but when I click on an internal link in that
article (for example [[Washington Post]]) I get an error like the
following:
There is no page titled ":Washington Post?dkuser dkosopedia
session=a5b3e0d963ea0fe29c9f8bc319743992".
where "dkuser" is the name of the account owning the wiki. Clicking
external links (for example [http://www.cnn.com]) work correctly
(they open cnn.com in Safari).
Obviously something is adding dkuser_dkosopedia_session to the query
string and I'm sure there's a very simple explanation, but it's
beyond me.
A possible clue... Note the ":" first character in the error message.
Internal links to pages with something in front of the
":" ([Special:Recentchanges]) DO work ok.
Hi,
I'm creating a new skin for my MediaWiki.
The HTML-Design-Stuff is finished - but what do I add to display the content/navigation?
I know where I want to have everything, but I didn't find how to make a Skin out of this HTML-Site :(
Thx for your help,
flo from Germany
This is already available.
You can get to these pages by going to the User's userpage and selecting
"User contributions" from the toolbox on the left, or link to pages with
the titles in this form: "Special:Contributions/Username"
Tim
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Creating a wiki page to report all user changes
> From: Aaron Axelsen <lists(a)frozenpc.net>
> Date: Tue, September 05, 2006 2:43 pm
> To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
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> We are using wiki's in an educational setting for class work. An
> instructor is looking for a way to create pages for each student which
> would list all their edits to the contents of the wiki. Is there an
> easy way to do this?
>
> If I recall, it is possible to get an rss feed of recent changes by
> user? But, I havn't seen any way to create a page which would show these.
>
> Any thoughts are welcome and appreciated. Thanks.
>
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