MediaWiki-l January 2007

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Moving lots pages to a different namespace?
by Mark London 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

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Database error
by Veronica Lopez Diaz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hello everybody, When I search after some terms, which have not been defined yet, or after editing an entry (but not always???), I get the following error message: Database error >From MiWiki For query "sales" Jump to: navigation, search 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 "". MySQL returned error "1030: Got error 127 from storage engine (localhost)". Has anybody had this error before? How may I fix it? Thanks a lot in advance for your help and best regards, Veronica P.S: I found a similar message at the The Wikitech-l Archives, but in my case no table name was written, so what shall I do???? -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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Multiple languages
by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

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

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Re: Never delete users !
by Rob Church 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

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

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Somewhat OT: wiki about corporate wikis?
by David Gerard 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

The topic of corporate intranet wikis seems to come up a lot. Does anyone know of a wiki about corporate intranet wikis? Both technical and social aspects. Of course, Googling "corporate wiki" produces commercial wiki engine sites and occasional news and blog posts ... - d.

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mass image upload (zip)
by aretai aretai 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi, Is it possible to mass upload images from a zip archive. If yes how? Regards, Aretai

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AJAX and Error 500
by Jan 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello! I wanted to try AJAX, so i switched it on in my MW 1.9.0: $wgUseAjax = true; $wgAjaxSearch = true; $wgAjaxWatch = true; Now, when I try to type the name of an article in the searchbox of my wiki, i get an error-message-popup: Error: 500 Internal Server Error Parser::replaceInternalLinks: $this->mTitle is null Whats wrong? Regards, Jan

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how to manage "in other languages"
by Šerých Jakub 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

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

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