MediaWiki-l January 2007

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MediaWiki JOB - in LA
by Mark Jeffrey 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hello all ... I have a newly-funded company located in Los Angeles, and we're very actively seeking a mediawiki expert -- someone familiar enough with the source code to modify / extend it. If you're interested, send me a resume. Offices will be in Westwood (moving in Feb 1), competitive salary / benefits etc. - Mark

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Wrong spanish page titles or ugly urls with non-ascii
by Luis Zarrabeitia 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hello. In my attempt to use mediawiki for my faculty's intranet, a new obstacle just caught my attention. I guess this would happen with most languages, not only spanish. Question in this message: *) Is there a way to make somthing like the Wrongtitle template, that instead of showing the "technical restrictions" message, would just render the right page title? I'm not afraid of digging into the code if necesary, I just need pointers on where to begin. Rationale: Most of my page titles have accents, tildes or other non-ascii characters. For instance, a link to the page about Logics ([[Lógica]]) would be http://mywiki/wiki/Lógica, wich in turns would get rendered by the browser as http://mywiki/wiki/L%C3%B3gica. Not only that url is near-to-impossible for our users to learn, but also to type if they know that "%C3%B3" is "ó" but don't have an spanish keyboard available (very common, as most people in my faculty find the english layout a lot easier for programming). So I proposed the idea of using either [[Logica|Lógica]] or rewriting the [[]] parser code, so that the [[Lógica]] link would get rendered as "Lógica" in the text, but link to "/wiki/Logica". So far, no problems... except that when the user visits the now /wiki/Logica link, the text reads "Logica" as the page title (I know it is parsed directly from the URL, so it wasn't unexpected). Is there any way to make the page display the right title instead of the one parsed from the url? (something like the {{Template:Wrongtitle}}, but instead of rendering a "technical restrictions warning", just fixing the title). I'm not afraid of digging into the code, but I just don't know where to start. On a related note, I would like to be able to correct some misstypings on the url, i.e, if the url does not exist and there is another very similar (levenshtein distance), return a redirection page pointing to the right article. This seems more complex, so I won't dig into it just yet, but if you know of an extension that would let me do this, please tell me.

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openshowcategory bug?
by Sandy Rozhon 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Everytime I try to use/edit categories on my WIKI pages, I get a fatal error to undefined function openshowcategory. Is this a known bug in v1.6.4? Sandy

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Template problem: Sometimes some aren't working anymore.
by Denise Signer 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi! I noticed this problem one or two days ago. It seems like all of a sudden, some or even all templates in my wikis aren't working anymore. I updated one wiki to MediaWiki 1.9.0 a week ago and yesterday I updated another one to 1.9.1. I didn't come around updating the other wikis, which are still running on MediaWiki 1.7.1. All wikis have the same problem and all wikis have ParserFunctions installed. I'm on a shared hosting, so I don't know if some server software has been updated. Example pages: MediaWiki 1.9.1: http://fi.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Etusivu <- {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} and a template on the bottom of the page not working http://fi.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/User:Denise <- two templates not working, others are MediaWiki 1.9.0: http://de.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Benutzer:Denise <- big mess, some templates seem to be working, others aren't http://de.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Jesus-Wiki:Über_Jesus-Wiki<http://de.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Jesus-Wiki:%C3%9Cber_Jesus-Wiki><- Templates on top and bottom not working http://de.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Jesus-Wiki:Aktuelles <- {{SITENAME}} not working on navigation bar and on browser title bar MediaWiki 1.7.1: http://media.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Main_Page <- Language navigation on top not working http://media.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Jesus-Wiki_Media:Copyright_tags_visual <- again, some templates are working, others aren't http://media.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Category:Main_Category <- everything is working here http://meta.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Main_Page <-everything is working here http://meta.jesus-wiki.org/wiki/Category:Main_Category <- template working here too Meta was first installed with MediaWiki 1.8.2 and then I went back to 1.7.1because of the PHP 5.2 problem. Media was wirst installed with 1.6.8, so maybe there's a problem there... All wikis except Meta were first installed before PHP 5 and MySQL 5. When I update the wikis, I go through the whole installation process every time. Server info: OS: Linux Apache 1.3.36 (Unix) PHP 5.2.0 MySQL 5.0.27-standard PERL 5.8.7 (in case PERL if of relevance...) Could you please help me? I don't know much about these things, so I need your help... Thank you! GBY! Denise

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multi-server distributed MediaWiki
by Addady 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

> > > >> We do lots of database load balancing, with replication. It still has single >> master for write requests, though. Will master to master mysql replication will work on MediaWiki? It it work it can give you redundancy and the read load will be split. Addady

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Web service API
by Fernando Correia 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

I've seen this on the release notes for 1.9.1: > * (bug 8673) Minor fix for web service API content-type header What is the web service API? I couldn't find information about it on Google and on MediaWiki.

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links through template
by aretai aretai 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi, Maybe someone knows how to create links using template? I'm trying to make a template like this: [{{{link}}} {{{title}}}] So the external link and let user specify both link and title while using template. It may seem to be more diff than just pressing a button, but it may find a good use in some cases. I thought about using absolute html extensions http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Joncutrer/Extensions/absHTML and making template: <abshtml><a href="{{{link}}}" target="_blank">{{{title}}}</a></abshtml> This way it should be also possible to link to network drives. However it's not working. It makes a link to: http://wiki/{{{link}}} ;( or maybe there is other way to achieve such results? thx in advance. Aretai

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Preventing users from editing Talk pages
by Vernon Thommeret 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Is there a way that I can make it so that only admins/sysops can edit Talk pages? I'm slowly trying to edit the Talk/Discussion/Comments system so that it works a little more like on a blog. E.g. time stamps and signatures would be automatic, each comment would be formatted appropriately, and no one person can edit or change all the previous comments. So basically, I want to make it so that if a user tries to access "User:Somebody&action=edit", it isn't allowed; but if they access "User:Somebody&action=edit&section=new", it is. Is this possible? Thanks.

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Re : PageSecurity and 1.9
by dennis Wang 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hi! I don't understand why these people sent me th email and I can't answer them. Why my kid brother applying for reserve air force and been exploited, and by the way he is a very good student , one of those highest grades in us high school graduate. I know, I know your Darwinists would fishly take over the infro and stabbing them in the back. meidennis ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Air Force CGOC Webmaster <webmaster(a)afcgoc.org> À : MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 25 Janvier 2007, 19h02mn 18s Objet : Re: [Mediawiki-l] PageSecurity and 1.9 Rob Church wrote: > On 25/01/07, Air Force CGOC Webmaster <webmaster(a)afcgoc.org> wrote: > >> Is there any word on when PageSecurity will work with MediaWiki 1.9? I >> now have a need for the extension, but I've already upgraded my wiki. >> > > The name alone implies this is one of those wonderful > false-sense-of-security extensions that will never fully work with > MediaWiki and should not be trusted to secure data, ever. At all. Well, I'm not looking to protect data, just set permissions on edit pages, which PageSecurity is more than adequate for. If you have a better way, please let me know. Otherwise, I was just trying to get feedback on timing - since I've seen the author post on this list. -- 1st Lt Wayne "Mike" Straw Air Force CGOC Webmaster webmaster(a)afcgoc.org http://www.afcgoc.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com

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link resolving context
by Ittay Dror 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I'm editing pages in which all of my links are to sibling subpages. Can I define this somehow in mediawiki, so all [[page]] links are resolved as [[../page]]? thanks, ittay -- =================================== Ittay Dror, Chief architect, R&D, Qlusters Inc. ittayd(a)qlusters.com +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841 www.openqrm.org - Data Center Provisioning

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