MediaWiki-l March 2007

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MimeMagic detects image/png as text/plain
by Sebastian Raible 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Dear list, a quick search through the list archives didn't bring up a result so please excuse me if this issue has been solved already. I am currently using Mediawiki 1.9.2. and experienced problems uploading PNG images. Although my test image shows an 'image/png'-mimetype with 'file -i', Mediawiki keeps saying the file was corrupted. Monitoring /tmp/php* while uploading the image again shows the uploaded file to be image/png, too: while(usleep 1); do file -i /tmp/php*|grep -v "ERROR"; done /tmp/phpksjpPO: image/png Mediawiki debug says MimeMagic::detectMimeType: magic mime type of /tmp/phpcDoKKE: text/plain amongst other things, so I guess MimeMagic isn't working correctly.. Searching the meta wiki gives me the hint to add $wgMimeDetectorCommand = "/usr/bin/file -bi"; to LocalSettings.php as a workaround, which actually does the trick. But still I wonder: What's the problem with MimeMagic? Thanks, Sebastian

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how to manage "in other languages"
by Šerých Jakub 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

I have two problems with functionality of "in other languages" box on my MW server. I would like to point from my articles to related articles on Wikipedia using standard interwikis. In this context I would like to: 1) Change the text from "in other languages" to something like "in other wikis" 2) My MW is localized as Czech (CS) and so when I add [[cs:something]] interwiki to an article, it is hiding it from in other languages box. I would like to switch off this language filtering. Does anybody know how to solve point 1) or 2)? (MW 1.7.1) Thanks in advance Jakub

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Google Summer of Code
by Brion Vibber 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wikimedia's been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2007 Google Summer of Code program. Here's our organization page: http://code.google.com/soc/wikimedia/about.html I put up an initial project list here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007 It's semi-protected so it won't be too vandalized ;) but additional suggestions are welcome. I'd like to ask that people who aren't directly involved in development not add too much to the main page directly, though; last year we ended up with lots of project submissions for things that weren't really considered high priority, so I'd like to keep the list a little more ordered this time. We don't know for sure how many projects we'll get assigned, so we'll see. :) At least Tim and I will serve as mentors for the student projects; if a couple more experienced developers would like to help out with that too that would be super. Last year's projects went really well up to the public demo stage but never quite got integrated into the mainline; I'm hoping that this year we can stick with projects that will be easier to slip in and take live much earlier in the process, which should help keep the students interested and the projects active. - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+UgqwRnhpk1wk44RAhh9AKCPp/5MJd8OICbdMM79DdzCP7WsywCfSIbn jNizZK1TYIBpSlxZ9Ph6R0o= =uAms -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Email notification with per-edit raw diffs
by Christian Kreibich 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi there, I'm looking for an email notification solution for page updates. I'm aware of the included enotif, but it is unsuitable for our needs for various reasons: - I don't care about the changes since I've last visited the page, I want to see all incremental changes from version to version. - I want notifications to be continuous, not one-off until I next visit the page. - I'd like a raw wikitext diff of the most recent change included in each email. In short, I'm looking for something that is closer to commit messages when using revision systems like SVN or CVS. Since unfortunately the time I can spend on this is limited, I'd like to ask whether anyone has hacked up similar functionality? Cheers, Christian. -- ________________________________________________________________________ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cpk25 http://www.whoop.org

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bug in MW 1.9.3?
by Chuck Harding 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

External links in pages are not being handled properly. The external hostname in the url is being removed when the page is rendered into html, thus causing an erroneous URL to be substituted in. Has anyone had this problem before and if so, how was it fixed? -- Charles D. (Chuck) Harding <charding(a)llnl.gov> Voice: 925-423-8879 Senior Computer Associate LC Operations Fax: 925-423-6961 B453 R2253/2131 Pager: 00500 Ops Room: 925-422-3743 Ops: 925-422-0484 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Computation Directorate Livermore, CA USA http://www.llnl.gov GPG Public Key ID: B9EB6601 -------------------- http://tinyurl.com/5w5ey ------------------------- -- Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. --

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Table of Contents to include subpages?
by Frederik Dohr 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hello all, Is there an elegant way to have the automatically created Table of Contents also take into account headings from subpages? Let's say we're composing a manual, which consists of several chapters (and maybe even sub-chapters): 1. Introduction 2. Basics 2.1. Installation 2.2. Setup Now each of those (sub-)chapters has its own subpage: Manual Manual/Introduction Manual/Basics Manual/Basics/Installation Manual/Basics/Setup The resulting ToC might then look somewhat like the following: = Introduction = == Legal Disclaimer == == Copyright Notice == = Basics = == Installation == === Requirements === === Download === === Installation Process == == Setup == === Network Configuration === === User Configuration === I figure this wouldn't be easy (also because of the order in which to include the respective subpages) - but maybe someone has thought of this before!? If not, we'll just create the ToC manually (maybe making use of transclusion to include the subpages in an extra page, which would then contain the ToC). Thanks, F.

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PHP warnings in page headers and update.php after updating from 1.8.2 to 1.9.3
by Thomas Boehne 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

I updated our Intranet wiki from 1.8.2 to 1.9.3 using the shell based update.php script. It ran through all the way but printed some warnings: [...] Checking if pagelinks index pl_namespace includes field pl_from... ...index pl_namespace on table pagelinks has no field pl_from; adding Deleting old default messages..."" is not a valid magic thingie for "special" Warning: array_slice(): The first argument should be an array in /var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/languages/Language.php on line 1105 "" is not a valid magic thingie for "defaultsort" Warning: array_slice(): The first argument should be an array in /var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/languages/Language.php on line 1105 Done Purging caches...done. Done. linuxsrv1:/var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/maintenance# cd .. The Wiki does now run with version 1.9.3, but on every page I get 3 warnings in the header: Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in /var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/languages/Language.php on line 1105 Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in /var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/languages/Language.php on line 1105 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/mediawiki-1.9.3/includes/SpecialPage.php on line 199 As a temporary workaround, I set error_reporting(0) around those lines, but that's obviously not a proper solution. There seem to be other users with the same problem, but I did not find a solution anywhere on the net. Why do these messages occur and how do I fix this? This error can also be observed on http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Main_Page I reported the error on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#PHP_warnings_in_page_hea… but did not have any responses so far. Any ideas? Best regards Thomas Böhne -- ************************************************************************** * Jäger Computergesteuerte Messtechnik GmbH * Thomas Böhne * Rheinstraße 2-4 * 64653 Lorsch, Germany * http://www.ADwin.de * Phone: +49 (6251) 9632-0 Fax: +49 (6251) 56819 ************************************************************************** * Responsible: C.E.O. Hubert Morgenstern * Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Bensheim, Register no.: B24717 **************************************************************************

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background color change
by aretai aretai 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hi, I tried to find sth on how to change the background for some of the pages in my wiki (talk, discussion, etc) and also special pages, but I couldn't. I tried to do some css stuff, but only achieved changing the background of the wiki itself. Maybe anyone knows how to do it? I'm not interested in changing part of a wikipage (by for example placing a table), but the entire wikipage. Or just point me where it is discussed. Regards, Aretai

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Structured wiki
by Rajendra Prasad Murakonda 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Hi, Is it possible to structure the pages hosted by MediaWiki? I mean, the page has fixed layout and users should not be able to change the layout. But they can edit the content inside. Is it possible? Already extensions are there for it? Any help is much appreciated, Thanks & Regards, -- Rajendra Prasad Murakonda, http://prodizy.livejournal.com/

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Red category link is unhelpful
by Virgil Ierubino 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Seen as category pages work even if they DO contain no text, treating them in the same way as a nonexistent article is unhelpful (especially to newer users who only think they see a broken link). I was thinking that perhaps category links could be red if they contain only the page they are linked from, blue otherwise. Text on a category page is largely unneeded. Just an idea. Thanks :).

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