MediaWiki-l March 2007

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A very short url and the ampersand
by Vernon Thommeret 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi, I'm using the very short url method (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Using_a_very_short_URL) and, overall, it seems to work. However, any article that uses an ampersand doesn't work. E.g., for an article like "First & Last Tavern", MediaWiki interprets it as "First ". The link shows up as: http://. . ./First_%26_Last_Tavern With Wikipedia, it interprets ampersands correctly, and it doesn't change to %26 in the url. I tested another wiki, which I think uses the same method and it also has the problem of the truncating ampersand, but it doesn't convert the & to %26. Hrm. How can I fix this problem? Thanks! Vernon

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Remove Main Page Title
by Richard Kurz 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hi, I just upgraded from 1.5 to 1.9.2, and I can't remove the words "Main Page" from the home page as I could in the last version. Previously, on this mailing list, the following instructions were given to remove that title: In monobook.php change : <h1 class="firstHeading"><?php $this->text('title') ?></h1> into <?php if($this->haveData('title') != wfMsgForContent('mainpage')){ ?> <h1 class="firstHeading"><?php $this->text('title') ?></h1> <?php } ?> In 1.9.2, the MonoBook.php file looks a bit different, and I'm hoping someone can help make a similar hack for this newest version. Again, I'd only like to remove the page title for the Main Page, but no others. The code in MonoBook.php is listed below: <h1 class="firstHeading"><?php $this->data['displaytitle']!=""?$this->html('title'):$this->text('title') ?></h1> Thanks for any help! -Rich

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Wikimedia DB dump - encoding in categorylinks/imagelinks
by KimToner 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hello, I make some select from wikimedia categorylinks table on a local DB. "SELECT cl_from FROM categorylinks WHERE cl_to = $catname;" For categories with accents in the name, i cannot get any results. I've tried to encode the $catName in latin1, utf-8 and even tryed to URL encode both versions. No luck... The MySQL instance is configured with default values for the encoding. Am i missing something here? Would someone have a hint? thanks, Kim -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wikimedia-DB-dump---encoding-in-categorylinks-imageli… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 42, Issue 3
by Dhruba Bandopadhyay 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Our manuals for customers/clients are in Word and specially laid out (every odd page has a wide left margin, small right margin.. and vice versa for the odd pages. the styles/fonts, title page). Word2MediaWikiPlus only converts the basics (section headings, tables, lists, images, colours). It's very hard to replicate the Word page-design layout in Wiki. The reason why for the wiki is that documentation/manuals always get repeatly updated, by multiple people. Plus the Word files were decentralised, Wiki is centralised. > From: "Fernando Correia" <fernandoacorreia(a)gmail.com>> 2007/3/1, Jan Steinman <Jan(a)bytesmiths.com>:> > I think the "single writer, multiple readers" argument applies here,> > better known as, "The man with one clock always knows what time it> > is; the man with two is never quite sure..."> >> > I would strongly advise against maintaining writable copies of a> > document in both Word and MediaWiki.> > As far as I could understand, Dhruba wants to have read-only,> formatted-for-printing copies of the documents.> > It seems he wants to use the wiki to create the documents and Word to> deliver them. To me it seems like a sensible idea.> > That's why I think HTML-export and PDF printing are viable solutions.> It is not necessary to be able to change the offline documents and> them to upload them back.> _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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mediawiki 1.9.3 sticky forbidden directory
by Amir Tahvildaran 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

I have a strange problem that I hope someone can provide some pointers for. I installed media wiki on RHEL4 up to the point that the web-based configuration needs to be run. A few weeks later (after leaving it alone) the same page gives "403 Forbidden". When I copy the entire media wiki folder to a new name it works in the new location. I swapped the directories back and forth and you can see below and the broken one isn't tied to the URL but to the actual files. To sum up the troubleshooting I did: #starting off in /var/www/html 701 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ #403 Forbidden 702 cp -r vmtwiki/ vmtwiki2 703 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ #index.html.8 downloaded fine 704 mv vmtwiki vmtwiki.bad #show its not an URL problem 705 mv vmtwiki2/ vmtwiki 706 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ #index.html.9 downloaded fine 707 wget http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ #403 Forbidden #exact session copied below I tried bouncing apache at various points but can't seem to shake the "403 Forbidden" error on the original directory. I also found some other posts on the list without resolution: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/mediawiki-l/2006-November/016027.h… Versions are: Red Hat EL4 Update 4 php 5.1.4 mediawiki 1.9.3 Thanks for any tips or suggestions, -Amir [root@copper html]# ll total 84 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 16 14:44 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:32 index.html.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:34 index.html.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 795 Mar 2 11:35 index.html.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 787 Mar 2 11:35 index.html.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:38 index.html.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Mar 2 11:48 index.html.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 787 Mar 2 11:48 index.html.7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 11:27 test drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 17:41 vmt_example_template drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Mar 2 11:11 vmtwiki [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ --11:49:31-- http://localhost/vmtwiki/ => `index.html.8' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 11:49:31 ERROR 403: Forbidden. [root@copper html]# cp -r vmtwiki/ vmtwiki2 [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ --11:49:47-- http://localhost/vmtwiki2/ => `index.html.8' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 787 [text/html] 100%[============================================================================================================================================>] 787 --.--K/s 11:49:47 (125.09 MB/s) - `index.html.8' saved [787/787] [root@copper html]# mv vmtwiki vmtwiki.bad [root@copper html]# mv vmtwiki2/ vmtwiki [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki/ --11:50:30-- http://localhost/vmtwiki/ => `index.html.9' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 785 [text/html] 100%[============================================================================================================================================>] 785 --.--K/s 11:50:30 (93.58 MB/s) - `index.html.9' saved [785/785] [root@copper html]# wget http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ --11:50:33-- http://localhost/vmtwiki.bad/ => `index.html.10' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 11:50:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

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Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.
by Dr. Johannes Zellner 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hello, after upgrading from 1.4rc1 to 1.6.8 I get the following message when I try to edit pages: Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in. I still can edit the pages w/o any trouble but the above message is somewhat annoying. What's the problem here? -- how can I get rid of the message? (I can't upgrade to something above 1.6.10 as I can't upgrade mysql and php on the server). Best regards, -- Johannes

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] File access restrictions
by Kaman Lee 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Thank you so much for this information. Its really appreciated. Kaman ----- Original Message ---- From: Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:54:55 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] File access restrictions On 28/02/07, Kaman Lee <kaman_lee(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Mediawiki is running on my linux box via apache. I've tried moving the default uploads directory outside the installation dir, into a directory (owned by group "nobody") not served by apache, but that didn't work. I was hoping that Mediawiki would access the files directly from the file system instead of via a hyperlink to the file on the server. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2007-February/018470.html Rob Church _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki2Word... (I know, totally hilarious!)
by Jan Steinman 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

I think the "single writer, multiple readers" argument applies here, better known as, "The man with one clock always knows what time it is; the man with two is never quite sure..." I would strongly advise against maintaining writable copies of a document in both Word and MediaWiki. You can produce PDFs from the wiki that are A4. I suppose you could even embed those PDFs in a Word document, if this is to fulfill the spirit of some organizational mandate. :::: I think our [energy] policy is called "aircraft carriers." -- Irwin Steltzer, 1987 :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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Namspace and Default Page based on domain name
by Laith 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, thanks to all of you guys i was able to do a lot with my project, I need to do some kinda special case change and wonder if its possible. I want to set different default page basedon the domain name the user have accessed the application through, in fact not the defaul page as much as the name space. for example if the user access http://www.mydomain.com then it should go to http://www.mydomain.com/Main_Page but if they access it through http://ABC.mydomain.com<http://abc.mydomain.com/>then it should go to http://ABC.mydomain.com/ABC:Main_Page<http://abc.mydomain.com/ABC:Main_Page>of course i would have a Namespace defined as ABC also if they access it through http://ANY.mydomain.com<http://any.mydomain.com/>then it should go to http://ANY.mydomain.com/ANY:Main_Page<http://any.mydomain.com/ANY:Main_Page>of course i would have a Namespace defined as ANY. your help will be trully appreciated. thanks a lot Laith

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Wiki2Word... (I know, totally hilarious!)
by Dhruba Bandopadhyay 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Many of you have heard about Word2MediaWikiPlus macro that easily converts Word documents + images into wiki & auto-uploads all the images. This is all great. However most of the time we keep the Word documents because of the A4-page-layout designs... used for printing customer/client manuals, etc. So am wondering, how does people keep Word & Wiki files in-synchronized? If changes are made to the wiki version by 3rd-party people, how does the owner of the original Word document sync up with the wiki changes? Especially when there are dozens or hundreds of these documents? If it doesn't exist, I might write a Word2Wiki2WordSync.... _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx…

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