MediaWiki-l March 2007

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Fixing bullets and 'float: left' images?
by Ken McDonald 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Under our version of MW (1.6.9 IIRC), lists displayed in Firefox (haven't yet tried IE) on the right side of a 'float-left' image have their bullets (or numbers) positioned layered under the image, and are hence invisible. Presumably this is a margin or indent or similar problem, and I could hack CSS to fix it, but thought I would check first to see if there is an "approved" fix. Thanks, Ken

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access controls in 1.9.3
by Frederich, Eric P21322 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello, I have just upgraded our corporate Wiki to MediaWiki 1.9.3. Almost a year ago when I first installed the Wiki here, I was looking around for some access control solutions. I was wondering if any work has been done recently to have per-page access controls or if the situation is still like it was before. If nothing is built into 1.9.3, are there any good compatible extensions to use for this? What my users are looking for is a way for some pages themselves to be only editable by a handful of people but the discussion page is editable by anyone. I think I heard once before about a plug-in or extension that would mark off certain pages as approved. This doesn't fit the request above but seems like it could be nice. I'm not sure how this compares to the "Patrolled" thing built in. It would be real nice to have both of these kinds of controls if they don't step on each other's feet. I can picture a real nice "Approval" extension where a page that is under this kind of control always displays the current version but has a block on the top of the page telling you that the page may contain unapproved information and provide a link to the latest approved version. Of course, the block telling you all of this should not be able to be removed. If someone is aware of either of these kinds of extensions, please let me know. ~Eric

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article::doEdit with user rights
by Gunter 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello, I am writing an extension, that edits articles. Surprisingly, the funciton article::doEdit does not check user rights. I set $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; so only logged in users can edit. Using my extension, even anons can now edit. So I tried to prevent this with $x_title = title::newFromText('Main page'); $allowed = $x_title->userCan('edit'); but this always returns true. $x_title->userCan('move'); works fine. For curiosity I set: $wgReadOnly = "Update in progress. Wiki is set to read only."; so the whole wiki is locked. But even then the extension can edit articles and userCan returns true. MW 1.10, trunk about a week old. Any hints, or is it a bug? GunterS

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wfGetDB() how to use it?
by aretai aretai 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, As there is not much info on wfGetDB() on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page#wfGetDB.28.29 maybe someone could help me with my problem: I use MW 1.6.7. (MySQL 4) (Yes I know it won't be supported soon so for now just assume I use any version that is supported;)). I try to get the list of the pages with a given text so I use a query like: SELECT page_title FROM page, revision, text WHERE old_text LIKE '%test%' AND page_latest = rev_id AND rev_text_id = old_id; To get results for search string Text. It works when I use it within MySQL environment. However there are some problems with pulling it to Wiki. To have "SELECT page_title FROM page" I used: $dbr =& wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE ); $res = $dbr->select( 'page', array('page_title') ); $wgOut->addHTML ("<table>"); $wgOut->addHTML ("<tr><th>Page Title</th>"); while ( $row = $dbr->fetchObject( $res ) ) { $wgOut->addHTML ("<tr><td>" . $row->page_title"</td>"); } $dbr->freeResult( $res ); However I'm not sure how to handle more advance queries. thx in advance for help Regards, Aretai

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Nested Groups
by Russ Lavoie 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello All, I know this isn't a default plugin for MediaWiki, but I am sure that others are using LDAP authentication. I am using the Ldap plugin on the mediawiki site and I am unable to get nested groups working. I can authenticate when a user is part of a specific group, but when a group is added to the required group it does not work. Below is my nested groups array in my Localsettings.php file. $wgLDAPGroupSearchNestedGroups = array( "domain.com"=>true ); Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks! Russ

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Three Letter Searches with MediaWiki
by Shannon Adams 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I finally got this working. Here are the steps: 1. edited /etc/my.cnf and added ft_min_word_len=3 to [mysqld] section. 2. mysql --user=root --password=***** <wiki dbname>, then "repair table <wiki_dbname>.searchindex;" 3. edit LocalSettings.php and add $wgDBmysql4 = $wgEnablePersistentLC = true; 4. edit AdminSettings.php to fill in admin username and password. 5. run php maintenance/updateSearchIndex.php. 6. restart mysqld and httpd.Thanks for all the advice. Shannon ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] simultaneous edition
by Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

>>> Jim Wilsonwilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> 22/3/2007 02:07 >> >Why is this a problem? If editors are working on different sections, they _shouldn't_ conflict too much. > >-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw) They do! During this very last week, they have been complaining about save doesn't work. We frequently have several users copy-editing, adding, removing text, tables or figures to an article/report that must be shortly delivered. We will find useful some kind of warning as "be careful, another user is editing this section!" or "this section is blocked for edition by user xxxxxxxxx". Anybody else having this problem? Any workaround other than a chat system to avoid conflicts? Could this be a feature request? Thanks! Cheers, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] simultaneous edition
by Your EPEC ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

>>> Frederik Dohrfdg001(a)gmx.net> 22/3/2007 09:56 >> > >I thought there was such a warning on Wikipedia - but I might be wrong!? > >Well, I'd been thinking of a page-specific shoutbox, which might also >contain a automated log, sort of like > 2007-03-22 09:50 editing started by anonymous > 2007-03-22 09:55 editing completed by anonymous >But I'm not enough of a programmer to code something like that... > >-- F. Neither am I! But I think we must be into this trouble waters to help MediaWiki guys with this or any other issue! In any case, any new about work in progress on this topic will be extremely welcome. Thanks. Best, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team

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simultaneous edition
by Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi all out there, People in our small group is increasingly involved in collaborative edition using MediaWiki software. That is great and pay any former effort to get them involved! BUT, I am facing a new and, as far as I can view, challenging issue: each day is more frequent that two or more persons simultaneously work on the same article. As far as I can see, there is no built in utility/feature to manage/prevent this to happen. I found Synchroedit quite interesting, but it is not an obvious solution and it will required some time playing around. I've also read something about another extension that implements kind of chat within MediaWiki but it is not clear to me yet if it is ready to be used or is an in development initiative. Thus, please, could you please point me to the present/possible solution to workaround this issue? Thank you very much for your help, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team

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custom
by revansx＠cox.net 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Folks, I would like to customize my mediawiki (1.6.10) such that it displays the wikidb database pageid value at the top of every page. This is important to us (my company) because we wish to use the page ID to label various equipment in the field. The question is: What is the "right" way to make this edit such that it does not introduce compatibility issues with the various skins let alone the wiki itself? Also, how can I create a link in an external document (like an email or a PDF) that points directly to a wiki page referenced explicitly by the pageid with no knowledge of the page's title? thanks! - Rich (revansx)

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