MediaWiki-l October 2008

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by Samuel Richardson

Hello List, Is there a good article on how to setup MediaWiki installs to share username/password access between them? (Similar to Wikia) Thanks, Samuel Richardson Freelance Web Developer www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748 Have you added your business to the Melpedia yet? http://www.melpedia.com.au

15 years, 6 months

Create a page without first going to edit page?

by Dave Clements

Hello all, I want to use Inputbox, Createbox, or CreateArticle extensions to create a page from a template, but I want the new page to be created directly without first dropping the user in the edit window. I am hoping to use things like templates and the ProtectSection extension to prevent them from changing some things in the page. If I drop them in the edit box for an as-yet-unsaved page, they can change anything they want. Thanks, Dave C

15 years, 6 months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] exporting page with images

by Jan Steinman

> From: "Russell, Elizabeth" <earussell(a)tva.gov> > > Is it possible to export a page that has multiple images and somehow > get > all the images to drag along with it? What is your purpose? You can use wget to scrape up a page and all its links to a specified depth, but the result will be HTML. :::: The Earth isn't a pizza. You can't dial up and have one delivered! -- Alf :::: :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::

15 years, 6 months

mediawiki1.7 to mediawiki 1.13.1

by Alessandra

Hi all, I'm starting to transfer a mediawiki 1.7 database in new version mediawiki 1.13.1 I look that there are new tables and any fields are lightly changed. I think that I can not use old database (about mediawiki 1.7 version).. so Is there script/other to convert old database (about mediawiki 1.7 version) to new database (about mediawiki 1.13.1 version) ? Can you help me about it? Thanks, -- Alessandra Bilardi, Ph. D. ---- CRIBI, University of Padova, Italy http://www.linkedin.com/in/bilardi ---- La semplicità è la più alta forma di perfezione (Leonardo Da Vinci) Keep simple, stupid (KISS, IT) ----

15 years, 6 months

Lost EDITING new page

by Dave Sigafoos

Version Info * MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.10.0 * PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.0-8+etch11 (apache2handler) * MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.32-Debian_7etch6-log In the last week we have somehow lost the ability to 'edit' a new page. You can go to a page and edit the whole page or a section of the page. But If you enter "FOOBAR PAGE" in the search then click on edit new page you will get a blank page with no header/footer .. nothing (guess that is what 'blank' means) Has anyone seen this before? Ideas on what could change in a system (outside of mediawiki) to do this? tia DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com

15 years, 6 months

Install MediaWiki with a SSL-Proxy

by Raul B=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=hm

Hello, I want to install a MediaWiki 1.13 an a machine with a SSL-Proxy, but I can not figure out how. The wiki works fine under without SSL under: http://mydomain.de/wiki/. The URL of the SSL-Proxy is https://ssl.webpack.de/mydomain.de/. The SSL-URL to the wiki is https://ssl.webpack.de/mydomain.de/wiki/index.php. The scriptpath is set to /wiki. On loading the wiki with SSL it redirects to http://mydomain.de/ every time. (The $wgServerName is set to mydomain.de.) It does not work to set the scriptPath like this: /mydomain.de/wiki. (If so it redirects to http://mydomain.de/mydomain.de/wiki. It does not work to set this three variables in Localsettings.php: $wgProto = 'https'; $wgServerName = 'ssl.webpack.de/'; $wgServer = $wgProto.'://' . $wgServerName;*/ -> Result is an infinite loop) Does anybody knows a solution to this problem? Thanks a lot, Raul

15 years, 6 months

Exception.php

by Guesnier, Thomas

Hi, i've got a probleme & i can't find the solution anywhere on the web. Here is the message: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php on line 140" and my mediawiki1.7 is installed on a debian etch, last version. and my Exception.php file is over there : <?php class MWException extends Exception { function useOutputPage() { return !empty( $GLOBALS['wgFullyInitialised'] ) && !empty( $GLOBALS['wgArticle'] ) && !empty( $GLOBALS['wgTitle'] ); } function useMessageCache() { global $wgLang; return is_object( $wgLang ); } function msg( $key, $fallback /*[, params...] */ ) { $args = array_slice( func_get_args(), 2 ); if ( $this->useMessageCache() ) { return wfMsgReal( $key, $args ); } else { return wfMsgReplaceArgs( $fallback, $args ); } } function getHTML() { global $wgShowExceptionDetails; if( $wgShowExceptionDetails ) { return '' . htmlspecialchars( $this->getMessage() ) . 'Backtrace:' . nl2br( htmlspecialchars( $this->getTraceAsString() ) ) . "\n"; } else { return "Set <tt>\$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;</tt> " . "in LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information."; } } function getText() { global $wgShowExceptionDetails; if( $wgShowExceptionDetails ) { return $this->getMessage() . "\nBacktrace:\n" . $this->getTraceAsString() . "\n"; } else { return "Set <tt>\$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;</tt> " . "in LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information."; } } function getPageTitle() { if ( $this->useMessageCache() ) { return wfMsg( 'internalerror' ); } else { global $wgSitename; return "$wgSitename error"; } } function getLogMessage() { global $wgRequest; $file = $this->getFile(); $line = $this->getLine(); $message = $this->getMessage(); return $wgRequest->getRequestURL() . " Exception from line $line of $file: $message"; } function reportHTML() { global $wgOut; if ( $this->useOutputPage() ) { $wgOut->setPageTitle( $this->getPageTitle() ); $wgOut->setRobotpolicy( "noindex,nofollow" ); $wgOut->setArticleRelated( false ); $wgOut->enableClientCache( false ); $wgOut->redirect( '' ); $wgOut->clearHTML(); $wgOut->addHTML( $this->getHTML() ); $wgOut->output(); } else { echo $this->htmlHeader(); echo $this->getHTML(); echo $this->htmlFooter(); } } function reportText() { echo $this->getText(); } function report() { global $wgCommandLineMode; if ( $wgCommandLineMode ) { $this->reportText(); } else { $log = $this->getLogMessage(); if ( $log ) { wfDebugLog( 'exception', $log ); } $this->reportHTML(); } } function htmlHeader() { global $wgLogo, $wgSitename, $wgOutputEncoding; if ( !headers_sent() ) { header( 'HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error' ); header( 'Content-type: text/html; charset='.$wgOutputEncoding ); /* Don't cache error pages! They cause no end of trouble... */ header( 'Cache-control: none' ); header( 'Pragma: nocache' ); } $title = $this->getPageTitle(); echo "<html> <head> <title>$title</title> </head> <body> <h1><img src='$wgLogo' style='float:left;margin-right:1em' alt=''>$title</h1> "; } function htmlFooter() { echo "</body></html>"; } } /** * Exception class which takes an HTML error message, and does not * produce a backtrace. Replacement for OutputPage::fatalError(). */ class FatalError extends MWException { function getHTML() { return $this->getMessage(); } function getText() { return $this->getMessage(); } } class ErrorPageError extends MWException { public $title, $msg; /** * Note: these arguments are keys into wfMsg(), not text! */ function __construct( $title, $msg ) { $this->title = $title; $this->msg = $msg; parent::__construct( wfMsg( $msg ) ); } function report() { global $wgOut; $wgOut->showErrorPage( $this->title, $this->msg ); $wgOut->output(); } } /** * Install an exception handler for MediaWiki exception types. */ function wfInstallExceptionHandler() { set_exception_handler( 'wfExceptionHandler' ); } /** * Report an exception to the user */ function wfReportException( Exception $e ) { if ( $e instanceof MWException ) { try { $e->report(); } catch ( Exception $e2 ) { // Exception occurred from within exception handler // Show a simpler error message for the original exception, // don't try to invoke report() $message = "MediaWiki internal error.\n\n" . "Original exception: " . $e->__toString() . "\n\nException caught inside exception handler: " . $e2->__toString() . "\n"; if ( !empty( $GLOBALS['wgCommandLineMode'] ) ) { echo $message; } else { echo nl2br( htmlspecialchars( $message ) ). "\n"; } } } else { echo $e->__toString(); } } /** * Exception handler which simulates the appropriate catch() handling: * * try { * ... * } catch ( MWException $e ) { * $e->report(); * } catch ( Exception $e ) { * echo $e->__toString(); * } */ function wfExceptionHandler( $e ) { global $wgFullyInitialised; wfReportException( $e ); // Final cleanup, similar to wfErrorExit() if ( $wgFullyInitialised ) { try { wfLogProfilingData(); // uses $wgRequest, hence the $wgFullyInitialised condition } catch ( Exception $e ) {} } // Exit value should be nonzero for the benefit of shell jobs exit( 1 ); } ?> Thanks a lot for your help because I don't understand anything in it... Thomas.

15 years, 6 months

Version number incorrect in latest releases

by Tim Starling

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The MediaWiki version number, $wgVersion in includes/DefaultSettings.php, wasn't updated in the release of 1.12.1 and 1.13.2. So these releases will report themselves as being 1.12.0 and 1.13.1 respectively, in [[Special:Version]] and other places. A new, corrected tarball has been uploaded. New SHA-1 checksums: c6f6e404ee9152deeec63cdc3278a2a57d556efe mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz 046206b342904cb729fd076ddd101534e23b6c07 mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz 4500cde3e60351ae2fc0382b8e91654f4cb6a0ff mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz 6f315f88a481daa1a92b1a409e92e036aaca610b mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz 1aed1e8083ebe98e884c924dad174c2fb1537d8b mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz 71fb3d06c1fe331fecf25cca92ea50bb07ce7465 mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz New MD5 checksums: e10f791ba9ecd02dd751a5676cc84405 mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz 2e33ed21c5e889f546556066a2b53806 mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz db1e3b46e04a2608ea5429d73465ad03 mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz 00229272c5e1881ff36a07ca95891ca2 mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz 885c6dc5bce177563c3d7a14e5167411 mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz 82f874b72a65e71e41f4dadf410e0eec mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz - -- Tim Starling -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI5QTtdWgrCOij/sQRArsGAJ9LxmlBwMVhnj2oPaE3WydOGEFi0wCeO5dL ZudvdYX82fMDt1Gkdyv5wwI= =J5XS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 6 months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Urgent: Erase all user options preferences

by Jonah Bossewitch

Hi, I have had to bulk update user options in the past as well and wrote a short python script that iterates over all the users and sets the options. It's not generalized yet (this was a one-off), so you would need to change the code slightly to connect to the db and set specific options, but its simple enough that this isn't too cumbersome. I guess its goofy to have rewritten the de/coding in another language, but the user option blob was simple enough and I just needed to do this once. hope that helps, /Jonah #!/usr/bin/python """ simple script to deal w/ bulk modifications of mediawiki user options, which are blobs This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. """ import sys import re import MySQLdb DB_USER="xxxxxxxxx" DB_PASSWD="xxxxxxxxx" def getConnection(): conn = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user=DB_USER, passwd=DB_PASSWD, db="susdev_wiki") return conn class UserOptions: def __init__(self, conn, name): self.name = name self.optionsDict = {} self.loadOptions(conn) def loadOptions(self, conn): c = conn.cursor() c.execute("SELECT user_options FROM user WHERE user_name = '%s'" % self.name) optionsBlob = c.fetchone()[0] # print optionsBlob self._decodeOptions(optionsBlob) c.close() # return self.optionsDict def setOption(self, name, value): print "Changing %s's %s->%s\n" % (self.name, name, value) self.optionsDict[name] = value def saveOptions(self, conn): optionsBlob = self._encodeOptions() c = conn.cursor() c.execute("update user SET user_options = '%s' WHERE user_name = '%s'" % (optionsBlob, self.name)) c.close() def _encodeOptions(self): blobList = ["%s=%s" % (i,k) for i,k in self.optionsDict.items()] return "\n".join(blobList) def _decodeOptions(self, optionsBlob): """ ripped from the User.php functions that do this in teh mediwiki """ pattern = re.compile("^(.[^=]*)=(.*)$") optionPairs = optionsBlob.split("\n") # import pdb; pdb.set_trace() for pair in optionPairs: m = pattern.match(pair) if m: name, value = (m.group(1), m.group(2)) self.optionsDict[name] = value def main (argv=None): conn = getConnection() cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute("SELECT user_name from user") usernames = [row[0] for row in cur.fetchall()] cur.close() for user in usernames: print "Processing %s" % user u = UserOptions(conn, user) u.setOption("skin", "<NEW VALUE>") u.saveOptions(conn) conn.close() print "Done\n" if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())

15 years, 6 months

MediaWiki 1.13.2, 1.12.1 security update

by Tim Starling

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.12 and MediaWiki 1.13. A vulnerability has been discovered which allows arbitrary HTML injection and thus possible user account compromise. The vulnerability is only present when $wgUseSiteCss is turned on, which is the default. Versions 1.11 and earlier are NOT vulnerable, nor is development branch later than July 28, 2008. Also, there was the potential for a subtle user error while editing $wgGroupPermissions in LocalSettings.php to cause all restrictions to be disabled. This has been rectified. Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_2/phase3/RELEASE-NO… http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_12_1/phase3/RELEASE-NO… See below for downloads. ********************************************************************** MEDIAWIKI 1.13.2 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.13.1), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html SHA-1 checksums: b05bc48d3d0959f2954c0f1f8a17c2d28bbf2f30 mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz a0c49a51190c129fc47d226352cb4fa720151921 mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz 837c7d26e9957ee4e8cd952777809cb8dbe2aea8 mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz MD5 checksums: 74f1877802b663ade2b25ae9e35eef94 mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz f3fb6f268f82b9a2287a64d739cdf76f mediawiki-1.13.2.patch.gz c9593580018eb54f5bd5cf6b1f88331e mediawiki-i18n-1.13.2.patch.gz ********************************************************************** MEDIAWIKI 1.12.1 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.12.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html SHA-1 checksums: 652e4de6be737d26938041e406fb523713104724 mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz 402dd9161bd8d12871210aacc5080a9c775b44b4 mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz 1cd7f13cfa1d33ba38fdbd5ba390b78b742cad78 mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz MD5 checksums: 032cce49559e406ce8890608484cc610 mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz c35ab55de943287bb9d81bd2f47e65a7 mediawiki-1.12.1.patch.gz e674e4f3e096a14c56273d715d895be5 mediawiki-i18n-1.12.1.patch.gz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI5PDMdWgrCOij/sQRArC8AJ9DWwmViFF645RJmSJww6EWlmVhVQCgq3vz 3GLLAXxRjUw3lJiTJzxWf7U= =F/Zo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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