MediaWiki-l February 2007

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 22
by support＠freeall.org 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hello all! One simple question that might have been asked already: what should I do in order to install a new wiki on my server, 1.7.1, but order it to read data from a previous version of an older wiki I had on a different subdomain, but on the same server? (the old version was 1.6.1) I believe it IS possible... am I right? Thanks! Peleg.

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Problems upgrading mediawiki 1.4.5 to actual versions
by Daniel von Garrel 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hello. My mediawiki database uses latin1. Now I want to update to 1.9 and the script to convert the database ("upgrade1_5.php") to UTF-8 fails with the error: Warning: fopen(maintenance/archives/patch-interwiki-trans.sql): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/mediawiki/includes/Database.php on line 1959 Could not open "maintenance/archives/patch-interwiki-trans.sql". The settings in AdminSettings.php should be correct. Can somebody help? Thanks, Daniel

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Importing alien documents
by ][ 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hi, Through the mlist archive, I learned that we can massive import files like plain text, html or picture files. I'm just wondering, is there any ready make scripts to import alien documents like Ms Word, or pdf into mediawiki? Since porting documents from other formats is a common task, seems the question should be a FAQ and sorry if it IS. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Allow users to requset an account.
by Jan Steinman 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

> From: "Anthony Smith" <anthony.smith(a)fedex.com> > > I would like to allow users to request an account and then someone has > to approve it before they get access. I thought this would be > something > in the FAQs or some other help guide, but I did not find it. That's what I did at http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Join It uses a web-based email form (which has it's own dangers -- know what you're doing, or use a good one) to send registration email to a human being who then directly adds a user record to MySQL and sends the new user a message, asking them to enter their assigned user name and click "Mail me a new password". I also modified "MediaWiki:passwordremindertext" to include a lot of help for first- timers, including a link to go to their user page and some suggestions for preferences. This works well for low-volume. I'd want something easier if there were as many as even one request a day. :::: Never argue with an idiot: a bystander can't tell the difference. -- Mark Twain :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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Multilang extension not working!?
by Frederik Dohr 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hello all, In a previous thread ("dynamic CSS for wiki pages"), Rob had pointed me to the Multilang extension* and gave a rough description of how to use it. However, after not getting it to work on MW 1.8.x, I just tried it again with MW 1.9.2 - and it's still not showing anything. I've added the following to my sandbox: == Multilang == <language code="en"> Some text in English. </language> <language code="fr"> Un peu de texte en Français. </language> <language code="de"> Ein wenig Text auf Deutsch. </language> <multilang/> -- EOF -- However, all I get is a couple of blank lines between the heading and the end. Has anyone (successfully) tried this extension before? If so, what might I be doing wrong? Thanks, Frederik * http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Multilang/ -- 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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Import a handful of files automatically
by Carlos Migueláñez 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

hi, I've some thousand of plain-text files and I would like to import all of them to my mediawiki. I know I have to format this plain-text with a xml syntax, but after that??? I just know a xml import method but not the way to do all in once (like a batch). Thanks in advance

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Touching LocalSettings.php break 1.9.2
by kent sin 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I just download the current 1.9.2 After setup, I move the LoalSettings.php and play around without problem. However, if I open the LocalSettings.php with NotePad and save it. (not changing anything), The site just return blank. I can delete the file and generate a new one. Then mediawiki works again. Can anyone help me? -- Sin Hang Kin.

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template variables in tag attributes
by Ittay Dror 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi, How can I create a template like: <some-tag attr="{{{1}}}"> ... </some-tag> ? 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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math renders only very simple formulae
by Laszlo Gal 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I went through all the steps of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_math_errors to set up mathematical formula rendering on my wiki: = Compiled texvc I've activated <math> support by 1. adding the following lines to LocalStettins.php $wgUseTeX = true; $wgUploadPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/images"; $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp"; and made the appropriate directories writable to apache user, then tested with the following simple examples: <math>1</math> <math>\sin(x) + \ln(y)</math> <math>F(x) - \epsilon </math> <math>E = mc^2</math> and it works by generating html where I can select the result on the page as character string. However when I tried to use a bit more complex example <math>\frac{x^n-1}{x-1}</math> or <math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math> It did not generate what I expected: created something that looks raw result. I've tried these formulae on Wikipedia as I've got these examples from there and it works there on the way that it creates an image. I can't figure out what can be missing part of my setup. OS: Mandriva Linux 2007 Installed all the latex related packages (wonder if Mandriva's latex is AMS-Latex or not and this can cause the problem but I don't know how to check) Any idea where to look for the problem and solution? Thanks, Laszlo

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Upgrade to 1.9.2
by zaydo 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi, I did it; cache problem will be solved later ;-) However, due to some webhoster limitation, I did it (as always before) using the web-based method (re-run installer). Up to now, the installation end was announced with the page mentioning to rename localsettigs.php etc. But not this time. The installation process ended in that grey box with all the messages after "There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...". Last message displayed: "Deleting old default messages..." Running the wiki, all seems to be fine. Special:Version confirms 1.9.2. But, is the upgrade completed and was it really successful? And, BTW, I still can't get rid of the old revisions using deleteOldRevisions :-( Thanks, zaydo -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Upgrade-to-1.9.2-tf3174660.html#a8807406 Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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