MediaWiki-l January 2007

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importing from lotus/domino
by Jon Christensen 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I have a small documentation database (250 articles) that I would like to import into mediawiki. I realize that I could possibly link to this database but I am looking to convert all together. Has anyone done this or have any experience in this? I can export from lotus/domino in a few different text formats that I could write a script to parse but I don't want to re-invent the wheel if I don't have to. Thanks!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.8.2 after update: no creation of new user accounts possible
by Alexis Moinet 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Marcus Buss a écrit : > Now after the update the link to new-account-creation is missing on the > Special:Userlogin-Page. > anonymous users cannot create new accounts anymore, i couldn't figure out > how to do it as wiki-admin either. you can create a direct link to http://yourwiki.ext/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup > the rights in the localSettings file should be correct: > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = true; > > Has anybody an idea why the account-creation-link is not displayed anymore? No (I guess you already tried to force-refresh ctrl+F5)

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Lock Down User Pages
by Bill Taylor 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Is there a way to lock down the info on a User Page so that only the user can change it? Anyone wanting to pass a message to the user can put it on their Talk page. I'd like to make the User Page pretty much a Resume / CV controlled by the user alone. Bill Taylor

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ParserOut Error
by john Moorhouse 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I'm attempting to get the Stableversions extension working with version 1.9.1, I'm getting the following error when I try to change the state of the page either to stable from draft or from stable to draft:- Catchable fatal error: Object of class ParserOutput could not be converted to string in /home/johnmoor/public_html/wiki_2_policy/includes/Parser.php on line 2779 Help ? Ta John * * -----------------------------------------

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mediawiki 1.9 on bluehost.com?
by Andy Roberts 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Has anybody installed mediawiki 1.9 on a bluehost.com account yet? The install script is telling me "PHP 5.0.x is buggy on your 64-bit system; you must upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or higher. ABORTING. (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 for details) so I've opened a support ticket requesting PHP5.1x Meanwhile, or if they don't want to upgrade I wonder what workarounds may be available. -- Andy Roberts http://distributedresearch.net/blog/

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URL redirect
by Kemsley Eric 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello, I downloaded mediawiki today and installed it and it works! Running on fedora core 6 and is located in /var/www/html/wiki . But, I want the url to be http://wiki.mysite.org as it is now it's http://mysite.org/wiki I know mod_rewrite is working as I have 3 sites on this server and all are working fine. DNS is set correctly How do I do this with mediawiki? I don't see anything in the LocalSettings.php to this. Thanks, Eric

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Default Search Namespaces
by a. cremer 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, I added some additinal Namespaces to my wiki $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Test1", 101 => "Test1_Talk" ); and tried to add these namespaces to the default search. But neither $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array( -1 => false, NS_MAIN => true, NS_USER => false, NS_USER_TALK => false, NS_PROJECT_TALK => false, NS_IMAGE_TALK => false, NS_IMAGE_TALK => false, NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => false, NS_HELP_TALK => false, NS_CATEGORY_TALK => false, 100 => true, 101 => true ); nor $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array( -1 => false, NS_MAIN => true, NS_USER => false, NS_USER_TALK => false, NS_PROJECT_TALK => false, NS_IMAGE_TALK => false, NS_IMAGE_TALK => false, NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => false, NS_HELP_TALK => false, NS_CATEGORY_TALK => false, Test1 => true, Test1_Talk => true ); works. Does anybody has a tip what is going wrong? Regards Albert Cremer

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'Integrating' one wiki with another--how does this strategy sound?
by Ken McDonald 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

We have a private wiki, which will eventually become public. We would like to integrate the pages from our current public wiki into the private wiki. The wikis are in different databases. Also, the public wiki table names have a different prefix than the private wiki pages. Here's the strategy I've come up with for doing this, and I'd appreciate if anyone could point out potential problems, or an easier way of doing things. Fortunately, the amount of editing that will be done on the public wiki after a copy is integrated into the private wiki will likely be small; so we can handle such cases manually when we're ready to take the private wiki public. For simplicity, I'll call the private wiki I (for internal) and the public wiki P. Here's the strategy: 1) Dump P. 2) Do a simple text substitution on the dumped text file to change the table name prefix appropriately. 3) From that dump file, create a copy of P (with prefix names changed), I'll call it P2. 4) Check P2 to make sure everything is OK so far. 5) We have already copied a few pages from P to I, and modified them; so, write a SQL script to remove pages that already exist in I from P2. I'll have to figure out which tables are affected by this. 6) Write a SQL script to transfer all pages from I to P2 (this makes sure we don't screw up the current I). Here's a more problematic part; 7) Write a script (in python, for me) that will go through the images directory in I, and copy the images to the same locations relative to the P2 images directory. I'm guessing this will work, but don't know enough about image storage and indexing to be sure. Alternatively, I could simply not transfer image information over from I, and then use importImages.php to import all of those images; but again, I'm not sure if there might not be some table dependencies that would make this difficult. Comments here are very welcome! 8) P2 now becomes I. And that's it. Many thanks in advance for any comments you can give (and I also hope that some of the ideas in this might help others). Ken

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Moving images in transferred wiki
by Ken McDonald 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Having moved a wiki from one server to another using mysqldump (thanks for all the previous help, everyone!), I then moved the images directory over as well. Unfortunately, none of the images are displaying. This was a move from a 1.6.3 wiki to a 1.6.9 one, so I diffed the old LocalConfig.php file against the new one, and the only relevant change we'd forgotten to include was '$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'zip', 'mov', 'pdf' );', which I then put in to the new config file. Still didn't work, unfortunately. So I then tried creating a blank images directory, and using importImages.php to load all of the images. However, this gives me mostly 'no such file or directory' errors, presumably because I don't have the images/0, images/0/00, etc subdirectories in the images directory. I also get a few errors noting that a give file is already in the wiki. Any suggestions as to the best course from here? Any thoughts on what might have caused the images to fail to display on the initial attempt? Thanks, Ken

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banner on every page
by aretai aretai 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, Maybe someone knows how to place a banner on each page of wiki (even newly created pages, and in edit, show - preview sections). I thought about creating a template - Template:Banner and placing it on every page, but it would be quite tedious and would have to repeat it every time new page is added. Regards, Aretai

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