MediaWiki-l August 2007

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Way to redirect all pages to new server?
by David_S_Green＠Dell.com 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

I am about to move our wiki to a new server, and I think I've got the whole moving the database part down, but is there a way to redirect all pages (links) to the new server? I know I can redirect index.php with just a normal redirect...so no worries there....but that will just bounce them to the main page. What about if they are coming straight to an article they have bookmarked or linked to? Example...say a page link was: http://originalserver/gecwiki/index.php/Acronyms but will now be: http://newserver/gecwiki/index.php/Acronyms Thanks, Dave

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Wiki Farm Common Page
by Sowmya Dhanasekaran 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Hello all, I have a small wiki farm set up with separate tables for each. We would like to have a "Welcome Page" that is common to all the wikis, so that editing it from one of the wikis would reflect the change across all the wikis. Is there any way to do this ? Thank you, Sowmya

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Own templates not parsed from mediawiki
by Marco Balmer 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi all I am using MediaWiki 1.9.3 and have a strange problem. >From time to time, on some pages the integrated templates will not parsed and displayed als normal text like {{Template:xy}} Temporary I can solve the problem with a restart of apache2. I have also some own extensions with sql connections to other databases. Maybe there is the problem? Could anyone give me a hint? Thanks Marco

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Short URLs with PHP as CGI, CSS mangled
by azurite＠seventh-star.net 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

I finally managed to get the Short URLs working with my installation of MW, which is located in public_html/wikific. PHP5 is being run as a CGI module. So the Short URL loads, but as I've read if something's "not done properly" with the .htaccess file (in public_html) or the LocalSettings.php, the skins/CSS files won't properly load. Can anyone point me at what I've done wrong? >From LocalSettings.php: $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; ## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgScriptPath = "$wgScriptPath/wiki"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1"; $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wikific_logo.png"; >From public_html/.htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] Help? -Azurite

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Unexpected <p> and <br /> from a template
by Emanuele D'Arrigo 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi everybody! Given the following template use: {{MonthListing |month=July |2=Manu.d birthday (1974) |9=Goofy.g birthday (1932) |15=Mickey.m birthday (1928) |17=Siggraph start |24=Siggraph ends }} and given the following template code: {| |- |Day |Event {{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}1 {{!}}{{{1}}}}} {{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}2 {{!}}{{{2}}}}} {{#if:{{{3|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}3 {{!}}{{{3}}}}} {{#if:{{{4|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}4 {{!}}{{{4}}}}} |} I obtain the following HTML: <table> <tr> <td>Day </td><td>Event </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td><td>Manu.d birthday (1974) <p><br /> </p> </td></tr></table> which all looks nice and dandy except for that <p><br /> </p> I have no idea where those tags come from. I mean, they come from: {{#if:{{{4|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}4 {{!}}{{{4}}}}} because they are not there if I remove that snippet. But why 1 and 3 don't do the same? Is it because I'm using numerical parameter names and there's an ambiguity between parameter "4" and the fourth parameter? Are there workarounds? Manu

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Need to change domain name of wiki site
by Leon Kolchinsky 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hello All, I'm going to change domain name in our dns for one of our wiki sites. What should I change in the configuration of wiki site itself so all pages and data are intact? Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky

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$user->isLoggedIn()
by Jim Hu 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

From what I can tell, $user->isLoggedIn() tells whether a user object is an anonymous one or one with an id in the user table. Is there a function that actually can tell if a user is logged in? I'm not trying to display this in the wiki, I'm trying to integrate logging into the wiki into the login system of a blogging package I have. I realize that most authentication packages do it the other way, but I'd like to try making the blog treat users as logged in if they are logged into the wiki. I'm guessing that there must be session info that I can use somewhere. My thought is to have the blog send a query on a private port or via the shell to something that responds if the username matches someone who is logged in. My first attempt: <?php require_once("./includes/WebStart.php" ); require_once("./includes/Wiki.php" ); $mediaWiki = new MediaWiki(); $wikiUser = User::newFromName($_REQUEST['user']); if($wikiUser->isLoggedIn()){ echo "y"; } else{ echo "n"; } ?> returns Y whether the user is logged in or not, for the reason described above. Jim ===================================== 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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Intro to template syntax?
by David Gerard 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

I want to do evil things with templates, just like the cool kids on English Wikipedia do. But the programmable template syntax looks like a sea of braces to me. Is there a comprehensible intro anywhere? - d.

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Configure Watchlist
by a. cremer 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi, every time I load an image to my wiki this image is added to my watchlist. I checked the configuration in mypreferences but could not find anything to stop it. Any hints? Regards Albert Cremer

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Collapsible article sections extension?
by Azurite 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi, I'm looking for some extension (or something) that allows me to have parts of a page, or perhaps templates embedded in a page always display as collapsed, and allow the user to maximize/show/expand them when they want. For example, a template would be included and have a title, and text to the title might be something like [+] or [show] or [expand] or similar. Is there something that does this? (I'm thinking it would be Javascript, but I'm not sure.) -Azurite

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