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.
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
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.
>
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Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
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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.
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
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
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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,
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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
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?
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