MediaWiki-l January 2008

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Extension to restrict editing rights of some pages
by Benct Philip Jonsson 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Is there any extension to restrict editing rights of some pages to the page creator + admins? /BP

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local files listed as external links
by Boris Epstein 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hello all, I have a MediaWiki installation which I am trying to migrate to a different machine. Migration seems to work fine except for one small detail: a whole lot of files which are local to the Wiki and thus should only be referenced as local URL's (i.e, by using the relative path) are listed in the mw_externallinks database table, and listed by the full path (http://... ) to boot. So , my questions are as follows: 1) Why did this happen? What is misconfigured in my Wiki? 2) How to avoid this in the future. Thanks in advance. -- Boris Epstein http://www.dogandponny.org/ http://dikayasobaka.livejournal.com/ (Russian)

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Noob's question about the weight of the data caused by a lot of revisons
by Dr JFBurté 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

> That's because you're going through your webserver, which is > configured not to allow direct access to that folder (which is > correct). You need to load a terminal/command prompt and run the php > file from there Hi Thomas, .. and how to install that kind of terminal on my **personnal** PC running Windows XP + WAMP ? I believed it was'nt any right pb with any php program running at home with XP. .. Any idea about the way to deal with that for me ? n00b I am, n00b I'll die too ;O)) PS : for my distant wiki, the hoster just answer me that's no solution for me because I'am hosted through a "mutualised" server (that does not allow any ssh) and not a private server, @+ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> To: "Dr JFBurté" <burtejf(a)orange.fr> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Noob's question about the weight of the data caused by a lot of revisons >> Hi thanks Thomas >> .. but one strong problem happens when I try on my local PC >> when I type : >> "http://localhost/archive.mw1.11-briey/maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php" >> I get a great and strange message (I'm naturally the owner of localhost >> ;O) >> "You don't have permission to access >> /archive.mw1.11-briey/maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php on this server." > > That's because you're going through your webserver, which is > configured not to allow direct access to that folder (which is > correct). You need to load a terminal/command prompt and run the php > file from there (just go to the folder and type "php > deleteOldRevisions.php"). > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1214 - Release Date: > 08/01/2008 13:38 > >

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SVG rendering (was: Is there a way to limit the size of images uploaded)
by David Gerard 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

On 11/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ImageMagick also does SVGs, but it's crap at them. librsvg is the only > sane way IMO. This too has a ridiculously long string of dependencies > (probably all the way down to the original .au of the Free Software > Song) so you really don't even want to attempt it unless it's in the > repository system of whatever you're installing it on. (again, fine on > CentOS 4.5.) By the way, I just updated the SVG section in the manual: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Administration#SVG Is anyone here actually using Inkscape or Sodipodi for SVG rendering in MediaWiki? What's the performance like? Has anyone tested this? (I was also surprised to discover Safari on MacOS X does SVGs natively. I haven't tested with my personal favourite bastard SVG from Hell ...) - d.

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restrict anonymous user
by sharmishtha gupta 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

We wish to restrict anonymous views to our mediawiki installation. Every unauthorized user is to be redirected to a particular page. This page may not be a wiki page. Can we do this using LocalSettings.php? If not, do we have any extension/hook for the very purpose? Thanks in advance

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Bilder Import
by Thomas Dräger 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hallo, ich bin stolzer Admin einer mediawiki. Nachdem ich das Importieren meiner 6000 Seiten per xml fast im Griff habe, möchte ich nun den Upload der dazugehörenden Bilder angehen. Geht das auch per xml? Ich habe die wiki bisher auf meinem Rechner, kann also auf die Dateistruktur und die Datenbank direkt zugreifen. Gruß Thomas

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Strange DB error
by Craig White 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I'm starting to get an increase of database errors when editing random pages. This is the error I am getting: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "SearchMySQL4::update". MySQL returned error "1034: Incorrect key file for table 'searchindex'; try to repair it (localhost)". ----------------- Any ideas on how to resolve and why this is suddenly happening out of the blue? Thanks, Craig On 1/9/08, mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org < mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Links to files (Kilian Evang) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:00:14 +0100 > From: Kilian Evang <winkelklammern(a)texttheater.de> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to files > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <1199876414.1535.6.camel@ptah> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.01.2008, 08:21 +0000 schrieb Charlie Markwick: > > Yes the locallink extension is working. The webserver \\webserver01 that > > I am working on is local and part of my domain. However you have got me > > thinking that this may after all be a permission thing. I will get back > > to you. > > > > Charlie > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Kilian > > Evang > > Sent: 08 January 2008 21:31 > > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to files > > > > Oh. In that case, do you access your test HTML file through a web > > server? Because if it is local, > > Sorry, I meant "Because if Firefox accesses it through the file system > (rather than a web server, local or not)..." > > Kilian > > > that's why Firefox doesn't block the > > local link. In that case, the LocalLinks Firefox extension is probably > > not working. > > > > Am Dienstag, den 08.01.2008, 20:59 +0000 schrieb Charlie Markwick: > > > Kilian > > > > > > Sorry I should have been more accurate. The HTML sources is where I > > > copied the link from in the first case, that is the HTML source for > > > the Wiki page the link is correct it just doesn't work!! > > > > > > > > > Charlie > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Kilian > > > Evang > > > Sent: 08 January 2008 20:41 > > > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to files > > > > > > Charlie ~ > > > > > > Am Dienstag, den 08.01.2008, 12:58 +0000 schrieb Charlie Markwick: > > > > I'm not sure what I would be looking for. As mentioned before the > > > > links are identical, in fact I copied the link bit form the source > > > > of the wiki page to create the simple html file I tried. > > > > > > HTML in the wiki source is parsed and modified by MediaWiki, and local > > > > > links don't survive that as MediaWiki doesn't understand them. Open > > > the wiki page in Firefox, press Ctrl+U and look for the link in the > > > HTML source to see what I mean. > > > > > > ~ Kilian > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 52, Issue 15 > ******************************************* >

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searching page titles
by Charles Sprickman 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi all, Need to get this one out, the other main complaint I'm seeing is that searching page titles is somewhat weird. The PHPWiki behavior allowed for partial matches. For example, if I had the following page titles in the wiki: FooFoo FooFooBar FooFooBlah FooFooArgh And then I searched for "foof", I'd get title matches on all of the above. The list would contain all of those and I could click on whichever I was interested in. We very, very regularly navigate around like this. If I search on the same terms with the same pages available in mediawiki, I get no page title matches, just full-text matches. Is this the expected behavior? Additionally, it seems like the search is not grabbing some of the new pages we've added. Have I missed a cron job or similar needed to keep the search index up to date? Thanks, Charles (last question for the night) ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net spork(a)bway.net - 212.655.9344

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.ts.wikimedia.org 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscribe to mediawiki-announce[1] instead. MediaWiki development discussion, and all Wikimedia technical questions, should be directed to the wikitech-l[2] mailing list. Several other MediaWiki-related lists exist: - mediawiki-api[5] for API discussions, - mediawiki-enterprise[6] for discussion of MediaWiki in the enterprise, - mediawiki-cvs[7] for notification of commits to the Subversion repository, - mediawiki-i18n[8] for discussion of MediaWiki internationalisation support, - wikibugs-l[9] for notification of changes to the bug tracker. List administrivia (unsubscribing, list archives). To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit [12]. Archives of previous postings can be found at [3]. This list is also gatewayed to the Gmane NNTP server[4], which you can use to read and post to the list. Posting to the list. Before posting to this list, please read the MediaWiki FAQ[10]. Many common questions are answered here. You may also search the list archives to see if your question has been asked before. Please try to ask your question in a way that enables people to answer you. Provide all relevant details, explain your problem clearly, etc. You may wish to read [13], which explains how to ask questions well. To post to the list, send mail to <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>. This is a public list, so you should not include confidential information in mails you send. When replying to an existing thread, use the "Reply" or "Followup" feature of your mail client, so that clients that understand threading can sort your message properly. When quoting other messages, please use the "inline" quoting style[11], for clarity. When creating a new thread, do not reply to an existing message and change the subject. This will confuse peoples' mail readers, and will result in fewer people reading your mail. Instead, compose a new message for your post. Messages posted to the list have the "Reply-To" header set to the mailing list, which means that by default, replies will go to the entire list. If you are posting a reply which is only interesting to the original poster, and not the list in general, you should change the reply to only go to that person. This avoids cluttering the list with irrelevant traffic. About this message. This message is posted to the list once per week by <river(a)wikimedia.org>. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns about this mailing. References. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/ [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ [4] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api [6] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise [7] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs [8] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n [9] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l [10] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Inline_replying [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l [13] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is there a way to limit the size of images uploaded
by Norbert Hoeller 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I figured out how to install ImageMagick on my shared web server - actually, the support team at 1&1 provided instructions at http://www.faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/ssh_secure_shell/9.h… . Aside from a warning that the '--without-ttf' option was not valid (running ImageMagick 6.3.7) and tons of configuration/make warnings, the install went smoothly. After enabling ImageMagick support in LocalSettings.php, my thumbnail problems have disappeared. I have not tested to see where ImageMagick runs out of memory - the largest image I had on hand was 2400 x 3000 pixels, 24-bit color. Supposedly, the uncompressed size is 20.1MB. Norbert

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