MediaWiki-l November 2008

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've created some custom namespaced on one of my wikis, Botwiki (previously known as pywikipedia). I've put these lines in my LocalSettings.php file: - --- #Custom namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Manual", 101 => "Manual talk", 102 => "Python", 103 => "Python talk", 104 => "Php", 105 => "Php talk", 106 => "Perl", 107 => "Perl talk", 108 => "AWB", 109 => "AWB talk", 110 => "IRC", 111 => "IRC talk", 112 => "Other", 113 => "Other talk" ); $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112; - --- However, I have a big problem: when I go to a page in one of these new namespaces (not the discussion, the main ones), for example http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot , I found the red link to the discussion page. It's right, as there is no discussion page for that article. But if you click on it, it brings you to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… correct, of course. But have a look of the article and discussion tabs: they are both red! The first, "article", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot and the second, "discussion", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_… , when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… . It's the first time I deal with custom namespaces :-( but I have some ideas of what it can be. Can the problem be with the $wgContentNamespaces settings? So it detects everything as ns0? (don't think so). Or can it be the fact that I haven't used an underscore in the $wgExtraNamespaces definition? Snowolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWhk7sdafW5NQMtERAuX+AKDQ7QLNjXv9cu+ZbSLXidMzgi/vNgCaA7VT +VTgR3iI/BI7FVDqcyRZVJ0= =a4yP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Moving lots pages to a different namespace?
by Mark London 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

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Troubles after upgrade
by Bovo 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

I upgrade wiki.irkutsk to 1.12 version but after this: I make updating process as in rules. I run the update.php maintenance script * MediaWiki version: 1.12.1 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler) * MySQL version: 4.1.22-log * URL: http://wiki.irkutsk.ru 1. I miss all pages in Help (Справка - in russian) 2. Error on several pages: «Database::select». MySQL возвратил ошибку «1267: Illegal mix of collations (cp1251_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (koi8r_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)». 3. When I try to create a new page (create a link, turn it on and edit new page) - it is not recorded, and an error «Database::select». MySQL возвратил ошибку «1267: Illegal mix of collations (cp1251_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (koi8r_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)». What's wrong? Help!!!! -- best regards, Dmitry

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Video about MediaWiki
by Brianna Laugher 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi all, Earlier this month I gave a talk at my local Linux users group meeting about some of the "advanced" functionality of MediaWiki, and how it could be modified on the "wiki side" without needing a site administrator's assistance. I thought it might be interesting to some people on this list. There is a video of it here: <http://blip.tv/file/1504861> It goes for 55 minutes. You can also download the video source file from that page. And you can view the slides here <http://www.slideshare.net/pfctdayelise/hacking-mediawiki-for-users-presenta…> or download them from Wikimedia Commons here <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hacking_MediaWiki_%28For_Users%29_s…>. The slides and the video are both licensed CC-BY-SA. I would be happy to receive feedback, if you found it useful, or if you found I said something incorrect, or if you know some useful trick that I didn't mention. cheers, Brianna [[user:pfctdayelise]] -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Mysql 5.1
by techman224 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Mysql 5.1 was released some days ago, and I have been able to install mediawiki on it. http://techwiki.techman224.com/techwiki/index.php/Special:Version See for yourself.

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LdapAuthentication - check for group membership?
by John Oliver 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Is there a way to only allow members of certain groups to log on, or to only allow members of one or more groups to edit certain pages? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * ***********************************************************************

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New install - skins directory not found
by Patrick Sefton 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi I installed a new wiki (MediaWiki 1.13.2 on Linux/Fedora9/Apache/MySQL) using the built-in web-config. The content works fine, but pages are 'unstyled' - skins don't seem to be working at all. I haven't changed the default file layout (ie install in /usr/share/mediawiki/ and site at /var/www/html/wiki/ ). Looking in the Apache log, I see errors like this: [Mon Dec 01 05:50:15 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wiki/skins, referer: http://127.0.0.1/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I have tried including the following line in LocalSettings.php: $wgStyleDirectory = "/usr/share/mediawiki/skins"; but I still get the above error. Any suggestions? Should I move the skins directory (currently in /usr/share/mediawiki/skins/) to somewhere within the site ie move it into /var/html/wiki/skins/ ? Thanks Patrick.

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HTML email from UserMailer.php
by Andrew Thornton 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Has anyone on the list had any luck sending html email from mediawiki instead of plain text? Is it as simple as changing the content type to text/html? Does anyone have any direction or know of any extensions for this? I appreciate it.

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