MediaWiki-l September 2007

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Equivalent of Rubygems
by Harshal Ganpatrao Hayatnagarkar 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Dear All, I am a user of mediawiki, having my personal content management site running on Mediawiki since last two and half years. I have several extensions installed (typically 30+) that I am finding difficult to keep track of their updated versions, dependencies and so on. Since I am familiar with Rubygems concept, I am curious if we can have similar mechanism for Mediawiki and if possible for PHP in general. This would definitely help everyone. Despite I am not familiar with PHP, I would like to make myself available for any other kind of contributions. Thanks. With regards, Harshal

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Update.php to 1.11 didn't work?
by Azurite 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

After some finagling with my host, I finally figured out how to run the maintenance/update.php script from the command line using PHP5 as CGI. It seems to run smoothly, but then when I look at the Special:Version page (even after clearing my cache), it still says I'm running PHP 1.10.1. What's going on here? Did the update not take, or do I need to manually edit something somewhere? Also, after an update, what are other good maintenance scripts to run, or folders that should be deleted? I keep hearing different things from non-Wikimedia sources, so I thought I'd ask here. -Azurite

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Quick check on Permissions of groups on namespaces
by Rich Evans 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi folks, I am studying-up on how to implement edit and view permissions for individual namespaces and the following link is the only method I have found so far: [Mediawiki-l] Permissions of groups on namespaces: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/mediawiki-l/2006-May/012359.html My Questions is: Is this the most up-to-date method recommended by this forum? If so, any additional advice? If not, what then? Thanks all.... - Rich (revansx) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/

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Trouble using phpshell to run maintenance scripts
by The Gadget Doctor 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

I'm trying to use phpshell to run maintenance scripts as I'm on a shared host with no shell access. I can execute most usual commands (ls, cd, cp, mv and even php -h) but if I try to run any of the scripts I get the following: $ php -f cleanupTitles.php This script must be run from the command line I've tried looking in the php and even commenting out the test for the command line but to no avail. Am I missing something obvious? Any help appreciated! Brian London

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how to get all page titles from within a script
by Christensen, Courtney 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

(Hope this doesn't post twice I sent it to the bounce address the first time.) Hi again, I'm using mediawiki 1.9.2 and I am writing an extension. This extension is supposed to take a list from several wiki pages and put information from the list into an infobox on a calling page. I tried looking at the all pages special page, but I was rather intimidated by the way it was requesting the list of pages. I tried looking at the list of Hooks on the mediawiki site. It is entirely possible that I am just dense, but I don't seem to be able to find a way to get an array of titles to process. I feel like there should be an easy function getAllTitlesInNamespace(). But I haven't found it. Does anyone have a suggestion for getting all the page titles in the Main namespace? Thanks very much! Courtney Christensen

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] SMTP settings in LocalSetting.php
by Monahon, Peter B. 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

> Earlier: "... I have been working on > Ubuntu Server LAMP with Postfix to > try to get this working (but not > successful yet) ... I do plan to > document whichever of these I > manage to get working first ..." Peter Blaise responds: Thanks! I presume most people have automatic success with most parts of their MediaWiki installation, so documenting all the details isn't a high priority. It's only when something doesn't work that we might write down the right and wrong steps as we try to get it working. And then maybe share them. As I mentioned, I think there are probably 4 types of SMTP, and each requires different setup: - private: SMTP server directly accessed in the same computer as the MediaWiki installation - local: SMTP accessed via networking Intranet on another computer in-house - remote: SMTP via ISP or web host remote access - public: SMTP via external such as GMail et cetera over the Internet Your setup looks like it will be in the first category above - you'll have private internal access to the SMTP server inside the same computer as your MediaWiki installation. I might explore that as it would give me ultimate control over SMTP without turning over control of any wiki features to someone else. I look forward to your link to your working SMTP configuration documentation. Thanks again! Does anybody have a working SMTP setup that they could share the details of, so those of us with SMTP failure might learn from it? Thank you! - Peter Blaise

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Open source MediaWiki parser released
by Brion Vibber 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

I'm happy to announce that as part of an ongoing partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress.com, PediaPress has agreed to release as open source a MediaWiki parser library written in Python: http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki The library is released under a BSD license. It supports rendering mathematics and timelines, provided the correct dependencies are installed. It could be used for purposes such as offline readers or desktop applications. Please contact the developers at mwlib <at> googlegroups.com if you have technical questions about the library. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

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wfElements Problem
by Michael Heyder 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi, the following problem: htmlcode is ignored $body.=wfElement('label',array(),wfMsg('naw-page-1-label-1')); Output: Gib hier Bitte einen <strong>aussagekräftigen</strong&gt a.s.o. regards mic

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MediaWiki Wikitext MIME type?
by Jean-Lou Dupont 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi - is there a MediaWiki wikitext MIME type? jld.

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SMTP settings in LocalSetting.php
by Monahon, Peter B. 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi fellow MediaWiki admins, (Ooops, sorry for the duplicate post to wikitech-l - I've not written in a while and my email "To..." field auto filled in the wrong address - my bad!), I'm having difficulty setting up SMTP email notification under MediaWiki. Does anyone have any leads or links to a checklist, a sequence of criteria for successful MediaWiki SMTP email setup? If I could see a successful MediaWiki SMTP setup, then I could emulate it and troubleshoot my non-successful setups. Even a successful example using Google GMail SMTP, or other external freebie, would at least allow me to confirm if I've got the underpinnings in order. When I click on a user name from "Special:Listusers", and then click on "E-mail this user", then "Special:Emailuser/(username)" returns: "No send address. You must be logged in and have a valid e-mail address in your preferences to send e-mail to other users." ... but I am logged in, and both the username and my current log-in have legitimate, working email addresses entered into and saved in each of their preferences (unverified, of course)! I click on "My preferences" ("Special:Preferences") then select "Confirm your e-mail address" ("Special:Confirmemail"), and it then displays: "A confirmation code has already been e-mailed to you; if you recently created your account, you may wish to wait a few minutes for it to arrive before trying to request a new code." ... but of course none has ever been sent. Then I click on "Mail a confirmation code", and it returns a blank screen, and no email ever arrives. -- My background searches: - I've had no luck finding how to turn on PHP error logging (where I presume the email is handled) and then reading error logs (if any?) so I can see where it's stuck - does anyone have a link to samples of PHP error logging? This may not relate to email. - I had no luck searching Google or MediaWiki for "gmail smtp in php" or equivalent, plus or minus any of these and related words, so I'm hoping someone here will have a successful sample to share. I appreciate there are at least 4 types of SMTP, and each requires different setup: - private: SMTP server in the same computer as the MediaWiki installation, directly accessed - local: SMTP accessed via Intranet on another, in-house computer - remote: SMTP via ISP or web host - remote access - public: SMTP via external, such as GMail, et cetera, over the Internet Have I got those alternatives right? Anyway, even successfully testing with a public SMTP server would help! I can then search through my local settings to make changes, or try to install a private SMTP server if I find no satisfactory alternative. I'd just like to see it work at all, ever, any way, at least once! Would anyone who's had success with MediaWiki SMTP in any form please cut and paste their successful settings into examples at http://www.mediawiki.org/ in a sample SMTP page - and include a link to it in a response here? -- Here are some sample "LocalSettings.php" elements that may relate, I've played with these using a variety of settings to no avail: $wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoconfirmed'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['emailconfirmed'] = true; $wgSMTP = array( 'host' => "smtp.gmail.com", or "mail.google.com", or ... 'IDHost' => "google.com", or "mail.google.com", or "gmail.com, or commented out ... 'port' => 25, or 465, or commented out ... 'auth' => true, or false, or commented out ... 'username' => "myaccont(a)gmail.com", 'password' => "********" ); -- "Special:Version" returns the following, for your information: Version - MediaWiki: 1.10.0 - PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler) - MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt Extensions - Special pages - LastUserLogin (version 1.0.6) Parser hooks - DynamicPageList2 (version 1.2.1) - Subpage List 2 Extension functions - wfLastUserLogin, wfUpdateUserTouched, wfDynamicPageList3, wfDynamicPageList2 and efSubpageList Parser extension tags - <dpl>, <section>, <subpages> and <pre> Parser function hooks - dpl, int, ns, urlencode, lcfirst, ucfirst, lc, uc, localurl, localurle, fullurl, fullurle, formatnum, grammar, plural, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofarticles, numberoffiles, numberofadmins, numberofedits, language, padleft, padright, anchorencode, special and defaultsort Hooks - LanguageGetMagic wfDynamicPageList3_Magic - LoadAllMessages wfDynamicPageListSPloadMessages -- ... I see on other wikis: Hooks - PrefsEmailAudit logPrefsEmail (from SpecialPreferences.php, not documented) - UserCanSendEmail wfUserCanSendEmailExt ... but I can't find a reference to see if they matter to my situation or how to engage them anyway! -- Thanks in advance for sharing your successful MediaWiki SMTP setups, - Peter Blaise

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MediaWiki-l September 2007