MediaWiki-l January 2008

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Checking MediaWiki Health with Nagios?
by Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

[Resend from nagios-users(a)lists.sf.net -- I wanted to get opinions from the other side of the isle] --- All: Does anyone have a MW addon or Nagios Check (maybe utilizes the SOAP XML API) that queries the application-level health of MediaWiki. Something above & beyond simple check_http. Validate the backend database functionality etc.. A simple wiki-side addon could use HTTP return codes and relay performance data (count the articles, users, etc.) Thoughts? Discussion? ~BAS

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Problems with search
by Günter Gratzer 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well. Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work? We use * MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.11.0 * PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1 * MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37 thanks! Günter

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Funtion wfImageDir missing
by Günter Gratzer 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

hello, I upgraded MediaWiki from 1.9 to 1.11.0 on Windows. We use the wikipdf extension. After the upgrade the pdf conversion does not work any more because the function wfImageDir which was located in includes\ImageFunctions.php is missing. Anyone knows which function I can use instead? I didn't find anything about this function on the web. Thanks Günter

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Changing default TOC behaviour
by Rob Sharp 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Morning all, Is it possible to change the default TOC behaviour? I'd like for it to be added as a floating table on the right, as described on this page:- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29 If I manually add the code shown then it works fine, but I'd really like for this to be the default behaviour on my wiki. Rob

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to get support for your office wiki
by Jan Steinman 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

> From: Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> > > I need to > investigate whether/how it can be set up to provide limited access > to only > those inside the company (but possibly from their home office, without > requiring a VPN). This seems to me to be part of a larger problem. How do these people conduct other company business from their home office? I'd put it behind a firewall, then poke holes in the firewall for the home office users. But if the aversion to VPN is unwillingness to involve the corporate IT department... the VPN would probably be an easier sell. :-) :::: We're in a giant car heading toward a brick wall at a hundred miles an hour, arguing over who has the best seat. -- David Suzuki :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.ts.wikimedia.org 31 Jan '08

31 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] mime types
by Sean Branam 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hmmm.... So is there no way to get a new Office 2008 ppsx file to display correctly to a Mediawiki user? What I want to do is have my internal users click on the ppsx link and have it recognize it correctly and not as a text file. TIA! Sean No, because then MediaWiki won't let you upload the file because the system sees the ppt and xls files as msword mime type. The real problem is that all of those formats have the same magic number, so you have to do trickery. This may be different with older version of office, but the newer versions seem to do this. V/r, Ryan Lane

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to get support for your office wiki
by Gabriel Millerd 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Where does using rational $wgGroupPermissions, http/ssl, and basic/ntlm authentication fall short? Extending this out to partners / extranet doesn't seem too hard or removed as well. Especially if your doing Portals or other specific name spaces.

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Problem with uploading dump
by 65s.mg＠atlas.cz 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello. I have a problem with uploading dump mediawikiwiki-20080109-pages-articles.xml. When I write path to the file and click to Upload file it shows: Unknown import source type. What do I have to do to solve it? Thanks for any suggestions. -MGrabovsky

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Development space for programmers creating MediaWiki extensions?
by DanTMan 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I was wondering if there was any actual space for programmers who are creating MediaWiki extensions. I've been working on MediaWiki extensions for awhile. Unfortunately, I don't get to complete many, or show them off at all because I never really have the resources. Basically for a variety of reasons; I have no webspace to show off the working of extensions, I migrate between two family computers, and the local servers there are configured in two different ways, and it's tough to sync a database, so I can't really keep the stuff with me and work on them when I have the time. As a result, between the two computers I have a variety of extensions which are half complete, and are either waiting for me to get back to them, or for someone to get interested enough in them for me to actually continue. ((A short list would be: WikiVid [http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiVid] TransWiki [Allows for cross-wiki transclusions on wiki hosted together, better than Scary Transclusions does] (TransArticle got canceled, trying to do it in an article way didn't work out right RemoteMagic [Similar magic words to ones like {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} which grab data from a remote wiki] AJAXRC [External tool for doing lightweight live RC on multiple wiki, 99.9% client based] SpamDelete [Deletes individual revisions and moves them to a specified "Trash" title to avoid cluttering up the deleted history of an article with revisions which cause issues when a page needs to be partially deleted at a later date.] AggregatedAttributionTransposer [Similar to Extension:ChangeAuthor, except it's meant to use the JobQue to reattribute a large number of edits (ie: Every revision made by a single user), without causing a lot of server load by doing the entire thing at once.])) ^_^ but off my semi-programmed extensions list... I haven't been able to get a good place to work on any of them. Me and JaeSharp used to have a site (Wiki-Tools.com as listed in my sig), which is now unfortunately offline and probably won't come back. Local servers aren't working that well for me, and it's going to be ages before I get a Laptop. I have been doing some Wikia oriented things... Unfortunately, no-one is getting around to making the Wikia Volunteer Development server to work at all. So, my long e-mail cut short with the short version... Anyone know of a good way for me to find a place to develop MediaWiki extensions, test them, distribute them, and allow users to make use of them. I looked at the Wikimedia toolservers, but it looks like there was some notion of just Tools, not MediaWiki Extensions being done on there. -- ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

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