MediaWiki-l April 2007

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How long will ImportDump.php take
by Waleed Meligy 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello All, I am using the 20070402 english wikipedia dump. And importing it into a MediaWiki-1.6.10 [ cause we only have PHP4 on the server ] Any idea about how long it will take to import the whole thing ? importing 3,637,700 took around 31 Hours. How many Pages are there in this dump ? Thank you all for your time and help, Waleed A. Meligy

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keeping my mirror in sync
by Waleed Meligy 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello All, We are setting up a mediaWiki with wikipedia dump imported into it. And we were wondering, how do we keep this instance in sync with new changes in wikipedia ? do we have to download the whole dump every month and run iomportDump.php or is there another easy way ? Thank you for your time, Waleed A. Meligy

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need help with skin edit
by revansx＠cox.net 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

I am a new to CSS and am a wikiSkin novice and have become dizzy trying to figure out how to make a simple change to my default mediawiki skin. Could someone please help me with a (hopefully) simple skin modification..... ...using the Monobook (default) skin (mediawiki 1.6.10), I look at the "view source" of one of my articles and I see each of the "editable" sections is contained with the "<div class="editsection" style=""...><h#>...</h#></div>" tags. what I wish to do is make the background of this DIV section a color which is determined by the heading depth...i.e. <h1> is darkest and <h2> is lighter than <h1> and so forth. between all the .tpl files, .js files, .css files and everything else that goes into one skin...i am lost. Could someone give me some pointers, please. thanks, - rich (revansx)

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MYISAM or InnoDB best for Mediawiki?
by Rolf Lampa 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

(didn't seem to get through to the mailing list, trying again) Hi all, I didn't find any informative help or discussions on whether to set up the database for MediaWiki with MYISAM tables or InnoDB. Any differences for local win32 machines (XAMPP) compared to "real" web servers (using Debian & Ubuntu). Any links to read, or do you have any suggestions to give right here? General advice regarding "optimal" settings (which of course takes some context, but some contexts may be typical... no?). Etc. (well, data import (sql, extended inserts) seems to be way much faster on MYISAM, but that's of course not all there's to it) Regards, // Rolf Lampa

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] A more advanced editing toolbar
by Azurite 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Thanks Jack for the instructions; though I followed them to a tee, the problem I'm having is the same, even though I cleared my cache. Here's the common.js: http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js And I still don't see any additional editing buttons on the toolbars when I go to some article's editing page. I don't have JavaScript disabled or anything strange that I can think of that would be preventing it on my end... so I wonder if someone else could look at it and see if there might be something I'm overlooking that might be on my end, and not a problem with my implementation or my version of MediaWiki. That is, if someone else DOES see the buttons and I can't, then it must be something with my end, rather than the installation or my MediaWiki. Thanks, -Azurite

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SQL error
by Thomas, Arjun 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

All, Sorry, I'm not sure if my last message went through... I'm trying to install 1.9.3 and I'm getting the following SQL error msg. Would anyone know what this is about? " failed with error code "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1024 bytes (h41mysql1.secureserver.net)". Thanks!!! AJ

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16 Apr '07

Hi. My apologies if this is an old problem - I wasn't able to find a solution in the archives. I have installed MediaWiki 1.6.10 because it doesn't require PHP 5.0 (my host still has version 4.42), and set it to require user login to edit, by having this in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; The problem is, when someone tries to log in, they get the error: "Login error: UHMFSwiki uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again." The error is spurious - the user is actually logged in - but is very effective at discouraging edits!! The error appears even if the user has cookies enabled. I found some bugzilla (3990) and mediawiki-l archive postings that sound similar. However, they say the solution is to disable session.auto_start in php.ini, and it is already disabled in my set up. Any advice welcome! My apologies if this is a well-known issue with an obvious solution. Kim.

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configuring localhost
by Sandy Rozhon 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Does anyone know exactly where Mediawiki gets the value for localhost? Can it be configured in LocalSettings.php? What would a typical line defining it look like? Why would Mediawiki be inserting into an e-mail address a value that includes the www. part of $wgservername? Shouldn't it trim that off if it is present? Sandy

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SpecialPages inquiry
by Steve Finkelstein 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hi all, Hope this is the correct mailing list for issues with writing SpecialPages. I'm looking to get the rudimentary concepts down so I can continue to write internal tools for my team revolved around Special Pages. Currently as aforementioned in prior posts, I have internal LDAP tools written in PHP to assist employees in basic necessities such as changing their passwords. I'd like to extend that functionality through simple HTML forms + PHP using Special Pages. Before bothering getting the tools ported, I'm having issues with the basic templates. Here are the three files I have created: http://stevefink.net/mediawiki/ This is as per: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page When I include the extension in LocalSettings.php, the following error is being generated by PHP: Apr 15 15:38:37 argon httpd: PHP Fatal error: Non-abstract method ldaptools::SpecialPage() must contain body in /www/wikidev.medlime.net/extensions/ldaptools/ldaptools_body.php on line 11 Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks folks! - Steve

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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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MediaWiki-l April 2007