MediaWiki-l January 2007

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query.php (Commonist)
by ac＠1&1 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Without success I tried to install the extension query.php into my own mediawiki application. For the installation I did as described in the documentation but struggled to translate 'ln -s ..' into Windows XP. With 'junction points' there seems to be something similar in XP but nevertheless I did not get it to run. Do you have any tips? Regards Albert Cremer P. S. I tried the installation because there is a tool that requires a path to the extension. This tool is called commonist and can be used to mass upload files into a wiki application. It took me a while to get it running because you need a special editor (like vi) on Windows systems to edit the .family and .site files.

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send bulk email to certain user groups
by ac＠1&1 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hi there, I would like to know if it is possible to send bulk email to defined user groups (e. g. when a certain article has been changed). Regards A. Cremer

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki as a Wikimedia project
by Erik Moeller 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

FYI On 1/6/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I'd like to reopen the discussion about whether we officially consider > MediaWiki a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently, the > position of the Foundation on this issue appears somewhat ambiguous. > While we run the Subversion repository, the website, the mailing > lists, and pay the two lead developers, MediaWiki is listed, for > example, on: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects > > not as a Wikimedia project, but as a "related project." It is also not > part of our usual list of projects. On the other hand, mediawiki.org > carries the "A Wikimedia Project" button. > > My view is that we should make this the consistent, official view and > consistently promote and list MediaWiki as a Wikimedia Foundation > project wherever other Wikimedia projects are listed. My hope is that, > in doing so, we will make MediaWiki more prominent and attract more > volunteers to work on it, just as on other Wikimedia Foundation > projects. I also believe that this will help in making MediaWiki > strategy a key part of the Foundation's general project strategy. > > What are other people's thoughts? The only downside I can see is that > this might be seen as a move to exercise additional control over the > direction of development. But already, all major code changes to the > core have to be approved by Brion, who is a Foundation employee. I > actually think it will be easier to identify our responsibility > towards outside users if we consider MediaWiki to be a key part of the > free culture movement that the Wikimedia Foundation must support. > > -- > Peace & Love, > Erik > > DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of > the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees. > -- Peace & Love, Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.

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Can't Delete Page & Corresponding Category - MySQL
by Wayne Marsh 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hey everyone, Sorry to be a pain but I have a problem, and I almost thought I had fixed it, following the instructions you can get by following this: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-September/014816.html. If you go to next message a few times you get 2 commands, and later 1 command, for a total of 3 commands to run. So I read it, and not being the MySQL, or SQL anything for that matter, expert I can assume some MediaWiki users are, I need some assistance converting this solution into something usable for MySQL. The problem is, there is no "drop constraint" in MySQL. There is "add constraint", but no drop. So this leaves me in a kind of a pickle. If I go to the page that I want to delete, it deletes all of the content but if I revisit it, it says: "This page has no text, you can search for the page or edit it" or something to that effect. Also mentioned in the article above, is this issue has been resolved in subversion 15672. Although it doesn't mention what version the issue is in anyway. Seeing as I got my version last week, Friday, December 15th 2006 I do believe, I think I should at least have that. For arguments sake, I have MediaWiki 1.8.2..... Assuming that subversion 15672 is 1.8.15672, it looks like it isn't resolved, unless, I have a different version altogether. So I'm stuck with an empty page and a Special:Categories reference to a page that doesn't even have a [[Category:name]] to reference it. It's completely blank. What I'm really asking is: What can someone with MySQL do to resolve this issue? Since it gives me a syntax error at "constraints" when I tried the solution provided in a response to the link above. (The solution is linked from there but that is the parent message) Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated. I thought about dropping foreign keys but like I said, I'm no SQL expert and you usually make constraints on foreign keys.

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Create an article using an extension
by Erhard Rainer 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hi MediaWiki-User and Developer, I'm using an extension for parsing an external document. This works fine, but now I want to insert the content of a variable as a new article. So I took a look at maintenance\importTextFile.php as recommended and tried to write a new article using > require_once( 'importTextFile.inc' ); > .... > insertNewArticle( $title, $text, $user, $comment, $rc ); after testing if the article exists and the user is allowed to write new articles. But I receive the following message: > Fatal error: Call to a member function exists() on a non-object in > importTextFile.inc on line 24 What does this mean? Or is there a other way to create new articles using an extension. Thanks in advanced Erhard Rainer

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primitive user question in regard to choosing software
by Richard Freeman 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Please excuse an elementary question. I'm at the beginning of a project that will require a wiki (or other editable web-page). Eventually we would like to be able to link to various data-bases -- though we're not sure which data-base approach we'll go for. (Whatever is compatible with the GIS we're using, which will be Manifold System). We would also like to link with PDF files and with Word and similar file formats. Is this possible with Wikimedia? In general, are these objectives mutually feasible? Again, excuse the level of the question. I'm just diving into all this (understanding servers, wiki, spatial sql, vbscript, currently). Any help I would appreciate greatly! -- Richard Freeman -- Dr. Richard Freeman Comprehensive Forestry and Land-Use Planning P.O. Box 853 Hot Springs, MT 59845 rbfree(a)montana.com 406 239 1171 Watershed Planning Forest Assessment and Restoration Fuels Management Wildlife Habitat Improvement Recreation and Natural Interpretation Planning Eco-Wise Residential Planning M.S., Environmental Studies Ph.D., Forest Management

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Extensions on wikipedia.
by Luis Zarrabeitia 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello. I'm trying to maintain a local/internal copy of wikipedia (english and spanish, no images, non editable as I don't want to create a fork) ¿what extensions should I install to mediawiki? So far I've found that I need math and inputbox (for the spanish version's frontpage). Do I need any other? Thanks, -- Luis Zarrabeitia Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie

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Transferring wiki to another machine?
by Ken McDonald 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Is there a not insanely difficult way of transferring an entire wiki from one machine to another? Thanks, Ken

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UTF-8 problems in Mediawiki
by Christian Lerrahn 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, my Mediawiki 1.7 can't display any UTF-8 characters. My MySQL server defaults to UTF-8 and my tables usually have collation latin1_bin. This is exactly how things were set up when I installed Mediawiki. However, my interwiki links did not work until I changed the collation of column iw_prefix to latin1_swedish_ci. Even now I cannot use any UTF-8 characters in Mediawiki. I have another install that runs most columns (not all) on latin1_swedish_ci and there UTF-8 seems to work fine. I'm now wondering if I have to manually change my columns on the non-working install to latin1_swedish_ci or if there is also a way of getting this to work with the latin1_bin columns. Any hints on this? Cheers, Christian

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Mass uploading protected (read-only) "include-only" pages
by Kelly Jones 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

I need to mass-upload and protect (so normal users have read-only access) about 200 small pages to my MediaWiki. Is there an shortcut way of doing this that doesn't involve uploading them one at a time? These small pages will really only be included {{:PageName}} in other pages. Is there a tag that tells users "if you reached this page, you probably wanted page [[X]], which includes this page"? I don't mind users seeing the small protected pages, but worry they'll just be confused. For example, if the search for a phrase and hit the small protected page, I'd like to tell them "this is really just a piece of a much bigger page"-- perhaps some sort of redirect that doesn't break {{:page}} style including? Any thoughts? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

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