MediaWiki-l August 2007

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Main Page?
by rek2GNU/Linux 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

How do I remove the ugly "Main Page" tittle? I am searching around but when I put Main Page on google obviosly I get every wiki in the world with the works "Main Page" so not helpful at all. Thanks

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Show SVG files without PNG render
by Javier Valcarce García 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi I would like to know if is possible to show in Mediawiki SVG files directly without first render it in a raster file like PNG. I plan to do this because my wiki is in a shared server hosting plan and the administrator can't install librsvg for me. Is possible to do a static compile of librsvg and install it a my home directory?. Thanks, Javi

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Problem Converting SVG Images to thumb with imagemagick
by Schmid, Wolfgang 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hello list, I've Installed several wikis on unix and linux servers. With Sun Servers (Solaris 9) I've a problem to build png thumbnails from svg images with imagemagick. Some thumbs are ok, some are disordered, in some cases the result is only a white/transparent picture. My configuration: mediawiki: 1.9.3 mysql: 5.0.41 apache: 2.0.59 gd: 2.0.34 php: 5.2.3 imageMagick: 6.3.0 To simplify system adminstration I prefer to install precompiled packages from SunFreeware if available. I tried to convert some images manually, i.e. /usr/local/bin/convert -background white -geometry 200 image.svg image.svg.png The result is the same as with mediawiki. Older versions of imageMagick (i.e 6.2.3 on Linux) work fine. Does anyone know if version 6.3.0 of imageMagick is buggy? Is it a better solution to compile the newest version from source or compile any of the other tools like Sodipodi or Inkscape? Which tool is used in MediaWiki/Wikipedia? On http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows#ImageM agick you can read: "PHP now comes with GD enabled by default. This will work for thumbnailing, and will not require any configuration or modification. Therefore t's highly recommended to not install ImageMagick, since it is known to be unstable." I think this should be valid for unix too. Is this a joke? Thanks for your help Wolfgang

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Special:Statistics - NUMBEROFARTICLES
by Jason Spirko 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I have a question regarding the method MediaWiki counts the articles in the wiki. I have setup several custom namespaces in my wiki. I would like to display the number of articles using the "Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}" parameter. But when I invoke this on a page it only shows one article, even though I have about 100 pages throughout the wiki. Is assume this is only counting pages in the NS_Main namespace since I only have one page in NS_Main. Is this correct? If so, how do I display the count of *all* pages in the wiki? ----------------------------------- Jason Spirko Systems Administrator Xoran Technologies .................................................................................... This message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail, and delete this message and attachments from your system. If you have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender immediately. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of law.

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Need Mediawiki to log users out at browser closure
by Paul Coghlan 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I am noticing an irritating situation whereby my users are falling out of sync with their login status between Drupal and Mediawiki. The AuthDrupal extension is working A OK but we have Drupal setup so as to use session based cookies. Once the user closes their browser they are logged out. Mediawiki does not, currently, act this way. So, when a user re-opens their browser they are still logged in with Mediawiki but not with Drupal. I have looked throughout Wikimedia but not seen any references to this type of configuration. Does anyone know where this can be changed/configured? I am not sure if it is configured within Mediawiki or AuthDrupal. I did find the $wgCookieExpiration page and am wondering whether this can be used by perhaps setting to zero? As always, many thanks for any input. Paul

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customizing search results
by elton levi schroder fenner 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi All! I would like to customize de search results. I have a wiki up and runnig. When I type a word for search it returns 2 blocks of results: "Article title matches" and "Page text matches". In both cases, under every single title, the wiki shows the lines where the word I searched apear. My question is: Is it possible to configure wiki to show only the titles? Thanks. Elton S.Fenner Analista de Rede e Hardware Assembléia Legislativa do RS +55 51 3210-1206

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Colleen Robledo is no longer with the company
by crobledo＠ocregister.com 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I will be out of the office starting 08/07/2007 and will not return until 09/30/2007. For assistance, please contact David Medzerian at dmedzerian(a)ocregister.com

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special:Statistics - NUMBEROFARTICLES
by Jason Spirko 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Woohoo Thanks! Works perfect... ----------------------------------- Jason Spirko Systems Administrator Xoran Technologies -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Schneelocke Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:37 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special:Statistics - NUMBEROFARTICLES 2007/8/7, Jason Spirko <jspirko(a)xorantech.com>: > I have a question regarding the method MediaWiki counts the articles in the wiki. I have setup several custom namespaces in my wiki. I would like to display the number of articles using the "Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}" parameter. But when I invoke this on a page it only shows one article, even though I have about 100 pages throughout the wiki. > > Is assume this is only counting pages in the NS_Main namespace since I only have one page in NS_Main. Is this correct? If so, how do I display the count of *all* pages in the wiki? {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} should be what you're looking for. :) -- schnee _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l .................................................................................... This message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail, and delete this message and attachments from your system. If you have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender immediately. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of law.

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User page formatting
by Nancy Dailey 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

I'm designing a "skill repository" for a corporate management team to know who has expertise in some task. Instead of designing a custom SQL database, I've been trying to use a wiki to allow them to log on and edit their user page, which should contain a list of skills and associated ratings. I've set up a sample user page, but it's proven too complicated for them to copy the wikiText from the sample and paste it into their own user page. Is there a way to inject my wikiText into the user page space in the database when they create an account? The primary functionality I'm looking for is: A) when they open their user page, they see the sample text [not an edit box] and; B) they can edit the skill set and add numbers representing skill level on their individual user page [excludes templates]. Any thoughts on good extensions/workarounds would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Nancy Dailey

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Recentchanges RSS Feed breaks due to blank line
by David_S_Green＠Dell.com 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

All, We are trying to use the RSS feed from Special:Recentchanges, but when we try to pull the feed in we get the following: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity Location: http://wxp-5ppg211/gecwiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rs s Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ^ It appears Mediawiki is putting in a blank line above the "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>" line, when that line should be first. Any ideas on how I can get Mediawiki to change that behavior? Thanks, Dave Green

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