MediaWiki-l November 2008

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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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 15 Sep '09

15 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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