MediaWiki-l September 2006

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 31
by Jasmin Hannemann 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hi Brion, I import the dump into a local wiki for the case that the server will crashed. So I have to import the data. It doesn't matter what is in the local wiki, every changes in the local wiki could be overwritten or deleted. Has anybody an idea, what I should do, so that the ibdata file don't grow so much? Cheers Jasmin Message: 6 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:40:30 +0200 From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [MediaWiki-l] ibdata grows with every dump To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4510015E.2090005(a)pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Jasmin Hannemann wrote: > every night I import a dump of wiki into my wiki. Now I realize, that my > /var/lib/mysql/ibdata file grows with every dump import. Has anybody an idea > what the problem is? You're importing more and more data into the database, thus the database gets bigger. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________

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Box potral skeleton problem
by Šerých Jakub 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

I'm trying to create portal on my MW server using box portal skeleton used on many portals on wikipedia (for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Education) I have copied all the templates needed, I followed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. All is working well, but the texts of portal sections are not closed in the section boxes. Each section has good formated box heading, than existing "box body" but only with height of aprox one text line. But all the text of article is below that box body and not inside it. The width of the section texts is responding to the width of each box. When I open the template Portal:Box-header, it looks good with the example latin text inside the box. I'm unsuccessfuly trying to find the error for the days... Has anybody any idea where could be the problem? Or at least some tip to procedure, how to debug such pages, where you have many templates encapsulated inside each other. I tried to preview the source code of the page in FireFox and compare it for example with the Education portal, but I'm totaly lost in the code :-((( Thanks in advance for any help Jakub P.S. I cannot give you URL to my problematic server, because it is not yet world published (I have access to it only from intranet at this time)

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understanding shared uploads
by Hugh Prior 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

I am trying to create a 3-wiki site, http://www.treekee.com where each wiki is a separate language, and I would like to have a single place to keep all images. I have read the pages on mediawiki.org about shared upload directories, for example: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgSharedUploadDirectory What I don't quite understand is: do I need to allow each site to have access to each others directories? That is, must I set up apache for each site to point to a root which will include each of the other sites? Let me try and explain. Please try and follow! I will show the current setup with two languages, en and fr. Each wiki is defined in the "w" directory below for the given language: /tee/ /tee/en/ /tee/en/w/ /tee/fr/ /tee/fr/w/ The web server is told that the directory root for that website is the language directory, i.e. http://en.treekee.com/ has the root directory "/tee/en" (I actually redirect here with an .htaccess file from "w" to "wiki") http://fr.treekee.com/ has the root directory "/tee/fr" Now, I imagine, that a shared directory should be something like: /tee/shared/ HOWEVER, and this is the question, how can I give each of the sites access to this? I cannot simply say that the directory is "/tee/shared/" since to the "en.treekee.com" website the root directory is "en" and cannot go higher in the directory structure. It will not be allowed access to a directory outside its root. Do I therefore have to say that each site has the root directory "tee" and within that set things up so that the index.php file is found in, for example, "tee/en/w". Thanks for any help on this. Hugh

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by Atef AlQashqish 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

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[MediaWiki-l] ibdata grows with every dump
by Jasmin Hannemann 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi, every night I import a dump of wiki into my wiki. Now I realize, that my /var/lib/mysql/ibdata file grows with every dump import. Has anybody an idea what the problem is? Cheers Jasmin -- Jasmin Hannemann jasmin.hannemann(a)macd.com http://www.macd.com Tel.: +49 (0)241 44597 29 Macdonald Associates GmbH Fax : +49 (0)241 44597 10 Lothringerstraße 52, D-52070 Aachen

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Auto Response
by Atef AlQashqish 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

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Continuing a List
by Caplan, Hillel (US - New York) 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

On a related note, is it possible to include auto-numbering inside each row of a table? For example in column 1 of a table like this: +--------+---------+ | 1 | data | +--------+---------+ | 2 | data | +--------+---------+ Where 1 and 2 are actually generated based on using #. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Filip Maljkovic Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:13 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Continuing a List Frederich, Eric P2173 wrote: > Is there a way to have a list pick up where the last list left off? > > Lets say I had a list with 3 items. Then I wanted to have a table or a > picture or something, and then I want the list to pick up again with 4 > rather than starting over with 1. > > Can I do this? > > Thanks, > ~Eric See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. [v.E.1]

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Graph extension updated
by Tels 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Moin, I would like to announce the latest updates of the <graph> extension for Mediawiki. This extension takes graph/flowchart descriptions written either in the easy and human friendly Graph::Easy language, or the popular DOT language, and turns them into inline scalable "drawing" (HTML, ASCII, Unicode Boxart, SVG), or uses dot to render PNG images. The underlying software has improved quite a lot, now sporting features like: * color scheme support * more formatting options * many bugfixes * support for graphviz parsing * etc. One example input: [ Graph description ] == parse ==> [ Parser ] ==> [ Output ] { border: bold; } That would be rendered in ASCII (HTML/SVG/PNG etc look of course much better :) like so: +-------------------+ parse +--------+ ########## | Graph description | =======> | Parser | ==> # Output # +-------------------+ +--------+ ########## Here are some handy links: Download and install these: http://search.cpan.org/~tels/mediawiki-graph http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Graph-Easy Then read the projects page and the manual: http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/ http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/manual/ Or look at the wiki page source: http://bloodgate.com/wiki/Graph Or try it directly on the demo page: http://bloodgate.com/graph-demo Please send feedback, report bugs etc. so I can improve my work. Hope you find this usefull, Tels - -- Signed on Tue Sep 19 11:08:41 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Retsina?" - "Ja, Papa?" - "Warp 3." - "Is gut, Papa." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRQ+3zHcLPEOTuEwVAQLkPAf+NUNb2/0NOXAaF+0xDrqUmrFsuSuqEhFr aD8aiFL3GEkaimOY/eCLfwKgPFsYWvZiR1ByGL2t2NtiPvZC2xpdZ9t0eMBGVuUf uVheH/O1T5KKb7DsiTmfCBEVnvwcsBwAA2X/rT0Bo5iShSbYT9wDkA0yjVqw5/O1 bB4fSyn3sivwb61s9c3UBFA7U2cgpsBOYQgY0k94yuSJcyC51KN082PJomUZ/B72 jXJgwkQ+BKy/5SSsJMPA99zxTtXMBtoPjPUE8uuOO0J6fmZjR65v3/wP4Tj3hE+M sHdng+uu9j5e2WT9417FzO6706XmHqx07865QKv68MyrkBz2sHfFOQ== =YcdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Continuing a List
by asselarain-mediawikil＠yahoo.com 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Sorry I don't have a solution for you, only a comment: My observation is that whenever you are forced to use a new-line, the list is broken. Presently I am trying to find a solution for having pre-formatted text between list items. That used to work in older versions, but not any more. Even the meta's examples are broken! See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing_FAQ#Q:_Can_I_put_preformatted_t… ----- Original Message ---- From: "Frederich, Eric P2173" <eric.frederich(a)siemens.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:37:01 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Continuing a List Thanks, I have read through that before. That is how I am able to put screen shots inside of a list. It doesn't work so well when you want to put thumbnails in there. If you want thumbnails you need to put the "none" option on the picture otherwise the page renders real silly. # Step 1 # Step 2 #: [[Image:Screen Shot 01.jpg|thumb|200px|none]] # Step 3 #: [[Image:Screen Shot 02.jpg|thumb|200px|none]] # Step 4 #: [[Image:Screen Shot 03.jpg|thumb|200px|none]] # Step 5 I am now having problems putting a table in a list. Could someone provide me with a small working example? I have some templates for notes, warnings, and tips. These templates are tables. When I try to use one of these inside a list, the list gets renumbered. -----Wiki Markup----- # one # two #: {| | A || B |- | C || D |} # three -----Rendered Page----- 1. one 2. two A B C D 1. three -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Filip Maljkovic Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:13 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Continuing a List Frederich, Eric P2173 wrote: > Is there a way to have a list pick up where the last list left off? > > Lets say I had a list with 3 items. Then I wanted to have a table or a > picture or something, and then I want the list to pick up again with 4 > rather than starting over with 1. > > Can I do this? > > Thanks, > ~Eric See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List Filip _______________________________________________ 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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Fw: Pre-formatted text within lists - don't work in 1.7.1!
by asselarain-mediawikil＠yahoo.com 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

I have posted the following mail a number of days ago. No replies. Please, isn't there any comment on this?????? ################################################################################################# I am posting this message again. Sorry, but does anyone have a comment? If one just use <pre> </pre> tags (or indentation implying the same!) between list elements, the list continuity is lost. (e.g. Numbered list will be broken here and will start at 1. in the next item!). There used to be a work around for this: # one # two <nowiki> </nowiki><pre><nowiki> TMP </nowiki></pre> # three Until recently this worked flowlessly. But not any more in > 1.7.1 versions!! Does anybody know why? I have been using this construct a lot and now things suddenly look ugly! Is this a known bug? Have a look at : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing_FAQ#Q:_Can_I_put_preformatted_t… before commenting please!

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