MediaWiki-l September 2007

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Category permission
by rajkumar subbarayan 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi All, Is there anyway to restrict access to category using user groups. One more i have added the user groups in DB manually,but the user groups are not shown in user right management list box Regards, Raj S

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easy way to delete all articles (namespace 0) / no images
by HeinzJ 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hey What is the easiest way to delete all articles. I want to set up a small wikifarm an want to use an existing wiki with pictures for a commons like wiki. Therefore i have to delete all articles within that existing wiki. Does there exist allready a script (php or sql) ? Thx. HeinzJ

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Wikitext
by Emanuele D'Arrigo 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi everybody, I need a bit of advice. I'm going to give a demo about mediawiki to a few people used to deal with WYSIWYG type of editors. They are all smart enough to pick up wikitext no problem, but I'd like to be able to mention a few reasons about why they will have to deal with wikitext directly and not its formatted representation. A few people who have gone through the same transition have told me that there is a bit of an initial code-phobia obstacle to overcome and I'd like to motivate the newcomers to go through that first obstacle to enjoy what's on the other side. Any suggestion? Thank you! Manu

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Dublin Core metadata?
by Sean O'Connor 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hello everyone, After scouring the mediawiki.org site, I can't seem to find any way to add/manage dublin core metadata for my pages. I found something about RDF, but it seems both still in development, and not particularly friendly to implement/use. Surely *someone* had come up with a solution for this? Any assistance appreciated. Thanks -- Sean O'Connor - "BIID, just another disability" http://biid-info.org http://transabled.org

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disposableWebPage: page-access restriction via key (password)
by Frederik Dohr 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hello all, I've just come across disposableWebPage, an interesting website service powered by MediaWiki: http://disposablewebpage.com Seems like they provide page-access restrictions via an automatically generated key. I haven't been able to figure out how they're doing it, and there's no contact info either. Nevertheless, it might be of interest to some people around here. -- F.

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Small paying project: new semantic extension to MediaWiki
by Kelly Jones 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

I've sort of given up on writing a new semantic MediaWiki extension myself, and instead would like to hire someone to do this. More info below. Any takers? This is guru.com project 333404, but since guru.com requires (free) registration, I'm reproducting the project details below: == BEGIN PASTE == Subject: MediaWiki extension for semantics + to add data to other pages I'd like an extension to MediaWiki that lets me do two things: % Add text to another page. For example, if I'm editing a page "Lucy" and say: Lucy has a younger brother Linus, who [[Linus!!carries a "security blanket"]]. the text 'carries a "security blanket"' will be added to a special section of the Linus page. If the Linus page doesn't exist, it will be created. On the Lucy page, it will read: Lucy has a younger brother Linus, who carries a "security blanket". % Add semantic information to page similar to what http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page does. For example, if I edit the Charlie Brown page to say: Charlie Brown has a sister, [[sister::Sally]]. the RDF/semantic triple relation "Charlie Brown","sister","Sally" will be stored in a MySQL table and displayed at the bottom of both the Charlie Brown and Sally pages. On the Charlie Brown page, this will read: Charlie Brown has a sister, [[Sally]]. In other words, "Sally" will just be a regular link to the Sally page. % These features should be combinable and nestable. If I edit the Charlie Brown page to say: Charlie Brown has a sister, [[sister::Sally]], who [[Sally!!has a crush on [[loves::Linus]], who [[Linus!!carries a "security blanket"]]]] this would: % Create the Sally and Linus pages, if they don't already exist % Add the phrase 'carries a "security blanket"' to a special part of the Linus page. % Add the phrase 'has a crush on [[Linus]], who carries a "security blanket"' to a special part of the Sally page. % Create/store the semantic triple "Sally","loves","Linus", and display it at the bottom of both the Sally and Linus pages. % Create/store the semantic triple "Charlie Brown","sister","Sally" and store it on both the Charlie Brown and Sally pages. % On the Charlie Brown page, the text would read: Charlie Brown has a sister, [[Sally]], who has a crush on [[Linus]], who carries a "security blanket" Notes: % This is just an overview. More details on request. % I've written code to do some of the above. You're not obligated to use it, but it might help. % The extension should use only open source technology, and comply to MediaWiki's extension standard to the extent possible: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions Please let me know how much this would cost, thank you. == END PASTE == -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Extension Inclusion Question [was:Not exactly a Mediawiki question]
by Nelson A Li 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Thank you for your response. I found some information about the error from the Installation section of Help:ParserFunctions document and solved the problem. Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Christensen, Courtney" <ChristensenC(a)BATTELLE.ORG> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/27/2007 11:34 AM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Extension Inclusion Question [was:Not exactly a Mediawiki question] What does your LocalSettings.php file say on 130? You could try include_once instead of require_once, I seem to remember that not quite causing a fatal error. On your title=Special:Version page what version does it say you are running? -Courtney -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:55 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Not exactly a Mediawiki question Hello, I was installing some extensions and got puzzled by this problem. Can someone help to see why do I get the error message?!!! I have relaxed the permissions even to the world (rwxrwxrwx) for /var/www/neowiki, /var/www/neowiki/extensions, /var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions, and the three phps (Expr.php, ParserFunctions.i18n.php, ParserFunctions.php) under /var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions directory. I got the following error messages: Warning: require_once(/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions .php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/neowiki/LocalSettings.php on line 130 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' (include_path='/var/www/neowiki:/var/www/neowiki/includes:/var/www/neowi ki/languages:.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /var/www/neowiki/LocalSettings.php on line 130 I don't see any reason that '/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' can not be accessed. I don't know where the include_path got set either!!! Thank you for your help. Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikitext
by Dave Sigafoos 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Please don't take this as a direct hit but .. I have seen similar in many postings and have to say that it is just not true. There is no reason that a WYSIWYG editor would not give the same control. The fact that there is not a good answer now is one thing .. but thinking that all users *should be* programmers is .. well not right (to my way of thinking). wikiText does give you a little *simpler* method over straight html but a good editor would be much preferable even to a coder like me. It is great to SEE what it is you are doing. Some coders use syntax checking, code complete etc. Just more tools. thanks DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Christensen, Courtney Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:45 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikitext Hi Emanuele, When I am teaching people HTML or wikitext, I like to let people know up front that it will require a little more brain-power than they are used to with Word and similar, but that they will have a ton more control over the final outcome if they stick to the slightly more technical method. <snip>

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Not exactly a Mediawiki question
by Nelson A Li 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hello, I was installing some extensions and got puzzled by this problem. Can someone help to see why do I get the error message?!!! I have relaxed the permissions even to the world (rwxrwxrwx) for /var/www/neowiki, /var/www/neowiki/extensions, /var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions, and the three phps (Expr.php, ParserFunctions.i18n.php, ParserFunctions.php) under /var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions directory. I got the following error messages: Warning: require_once(/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/neowiki/LocalSettings.php on line 130 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' (include_path='/var/www/neowiki:/var/www/neowiki/includes:/var/www/neowiki/languages:.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /var/www/neowiki/LocalSettings.php on line 130 I don't see any reason that '/var/www/neowiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php' can not be accessed. I don't know where the include_path got set either!!! Thank you for your help. Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Refering to another page in a wiki article
by Gisle Sælensminde 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Refering to another page in a wiki article I have made an extension for writing scientific papers, with support for references in bibtex format via extra tags, one tag for refering to an external reference file (currently refering to a URL), a tag for putting references in the text, and one for placing the reference section. This is set up as a tool for cooperation with my colleagues. There are several resons that I don't want to use the Cite extension package, the most important being that it interleaves the comments in the text which make it hard to reuse the biblography later, and because I and most I work with use external tools using the bibtex or endnote format for handling references, which don't work with inlined/interleaved comments. Now I import the biblography via a URL, like <nowiki><bibtex src="http://www.somesite.com/biblo.bib"/></nowiki>. This works, but I would really like to get the biblography from another wiki page on the same server. I can use the URL-fetch method for that as well, but it would be a better idea to get it from within Mediawiki. I have not found any wikipedia extensions that does that. How would you do that. -Gisle

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