MediaWiki-l March 2007

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Table editing
by Jim Hu 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

I've been working on making a set of extensions to make a table editing helper, which I'm tentatively calling TableEdit. The help page for the prototype is at: http://colimod.org/colipedia/index.php/Special:TableEdit ...with screen captures! The basic idea is that you can put <newTableEdit/> in your markup, and an extension will replace it on save with a link to a special page that can create the table by adding and deleting columns and rows. These are stored in an external mysql db with two tables. One keeps track of the tables in each page and the other keeps track of the content of each row. The row data is just a string of values delimited by '||' so it can be dropped right into the table markup. In the prototype, you can put a list of column headings between <newTableEdit>list</newTableEdit>, or you can specify a location for a list of column headings in a Template page. Individual rows can be editable by all or only by the creator and admins. This doesn't stop editing in the page itself unless you combine it with ProtectSection or some other protection mechanism. What I don't have working yet is: - Sorting - Inserting between existing rows and columns - Parsing the data back out of the wiki text. and as usual, the code could probably be cleaned up a lot. I'll try to post it to mediawiki as experimental this weekend, but I wanted people to see the doc page. Jim p.s. The wiki it's on doesn't allow anonymous registration or editing, so you won't be able to test drive it in place. ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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how to show a nsbp
by Fernando Correia 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

How can I show a " " in source code? If I try something like this, the "nbsp" is not shown; a whitespace is shown instead. <pre><nowiki> test = " " </nowiki></pre> <pre> test = " " </pre> Results: test = " " test = " " Obviously the " " is being interpreted as a HTML char; maybe the "pre" tag should html-encode it.

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Mediawiki 1.9 & Forums
by Ramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hello, I am running mediawiki 1.9.0 on mysql 5.0 and php 5.2.1, and is working fine. I would like to expand the wiki site (internal) to have forums for our users to post questions. Are there extensions available? What do I need to do to get that setup.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 42, Issue 6
by Lisa Ridley 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Jim, I tried that, but unless I'm just way off base, that method greatly increases the amount of code that has to be maintained in the extension, which increases the chance of compatability issues with future MediaWiki versions. I'd prefer to keep it as simple as possible. Lisa Ridley > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:31:46 -0500 > From: Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hook request for EditPage.php > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <6FDD1233-DE0B-4821-A53E-71EF339A458D(a)tamu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Can you just Hook at AlternateEdit and put your functionality in a > class that subclasses EditPage? > ===================================== > Jim Hu > Associate Professor > Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics > 2128 TAMU > Texas A&M Univ. > College Station, TX 77843-2128 > 979-862-4054 > > > On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Lisa Ridley wrote: > > >> I'd like to request a hook addition for EditPage.php. >> >> I'm working on some extensions to modify the user interface for the >> edit >> page in MediaWiki (specifically, to present the user with data form >> fields in addition to the standard Mediawiki free-form edit box. The >> information captured in the data fields will be saved in the article >> created in a template format and displayed using a template >> specific for >> the data). EditPage.php has a hook at the very beginning of the >> source >> code; however, I'd like to leverage the existing code as much as >> possible without having to use an "include" statement or recreate the >> code in my extension. I'm currently modifying EditPage.php to place a >> hook at the end of the EditPage::edit() function, right above this >> line: >> >> $this->showEditForm(); >> >> That is similar in function to the one at the beginning of the >> function: >> >> if ( ! wfRunHooks( 'AlternateEdit', array( &$this ) ) ) >> return; >> >> but calling it 'AlternateEditForm' instead. It functions in a >> similar >> manner. This allows me to leverage the existing code in >> EditPage:edit(). >> >> Ideally, I'd like to place this even further down, but I haven't >> found a >> better place for it yet. >> >> If this could be formally added to the MediaWiki source code without >> requiring users to modify it, that would be wonderful! >> >> Thanks for your consideration . >> >> Lisa Ridley >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > >

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Updating the table "redirect" on demand?
by Rolf Lampa 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Hi all, I notice that 1.9.2 added a new table "redirect", which is populated during upgrade / reinstall. Now, how do I update the redirect table on demand? (to do so would, I presume, be recommended after importing new data into the "big three" tables page,revision,text). Or, how important is it to keep the redirect table up to date? Regards, // Rolf Lampa

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wgDisableCookieCheck
by Fernando Correia 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

What would be the ill effects of disabling cookie check? Like this: $wgDisableCookieCheck = true; It seem I'll have to do this on a special scenario. We need to provide a way to open a specific wiki page from a desktop application (context-sensitive help on the wiki). We also need to authenticate the desktop user on the wiki. What we're doing now is to redirect to an auxiliary web page that in background fakes a post to Special:Userlogin and outputs the HTML returned by the login form. This trickery works well, with the exception that apparently the login cookie is not set, or is set on a different context. Anyway, in function processLogin(), hasSessionCookie() returns false and this causes a redirect to the home page of the wiki. We're circumventing it by disabling cookie check. The end result is that the user is authenticated, his user name appears on the wiki, and everything seems to work well. But I wonder if there is any side effect of not having the cookie set.

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Uploading new images sets mime type to application/x-archive and dimensions to 0x0
by Thomas 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

After opgrading to php 5 my imageupload wont work. The MIME type is set to application/x-archive and the height width to 0x0. If I change these settings manually in the database it works fine. Any solutions ? MediaWiki: 1.9.3 PHP: 5.2.1 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.0.17-log

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Generating a sitemap through backlinks
by Ger Apeldoorn 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi all, I would like to generate a sitemap using a hierarchy deducted from the links to each document. Example: Document A contains links to B and C. Document C contains a link to D I'd like the sitemap to be generated like this: + A ----B ---+C ---D Does anyone know of an extension or something that provides such a sitemap? Any help is very much appreciated!! Many thanks, Ger Apeldoorn

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Import data to create articles?
by Michael Dreimiller 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I've got a Excel spreadsheet containing two columns of data - the first is a list of names and the second is plain text data associated with each name - that I would like to import into my MediaWiki database, creating articles for each name with the data in the second column as the content for each article. Is there a way to do an import like that? All I've been able to find is Special:Import which only works with the XML files created using Special:Export. I thought about reformatting my data in the XML format used by the Special:Export function but I don't know how I would handle some of the fields like ID and Revision ID which I assume are unique and automatically assigned. -McD-

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Hook request for EditPage.php
by Lisa Ridley 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I'd like to request a hook addition for EditPage.php. I'm working on some extensions to modify the user interface for the edit page in MediaWiki (specifically, to present the user with data form fields in addition to the standard Mediawiki free-form edit box. The information captured in the data fields will be saved in the article created in a template format and displayed using a template specific for the data). EditPage.php has a hook at the very beginning of the source code; however, I'd like to leverage the existing code as much as possible without having to use an "include" statement or recreate the code in my extension. I'm currently modifying EditPage.php to place a hook at the end of the EditPage::edit() function, right above this line: $this->showEditForm(); That is similar in function to the one at the beginning of the function: if ( ! wfRunHooks( 'AlternateEdit', array( &$this ) ) ) return; but calling it 'AlternateEditForm' instead. It functions in a similar manner. This allows me to leverage the existing code in EditPage:edit(). Ideally, I'd like to place this even further down, but I haven't found a better place for it yet. If this could be formally added to the MediaWiki source code without requiring users to modify it, that would be wonderful! Thanks for your consideration . Lisa Ridley

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