MediaWiki-l November 2008

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deploying MediaWiki the easy way with new ubuntu based live CD
by Liraz Siri 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Hi guys, I am one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, an opensource project that aims to develop high-quality software appliances that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and free. Our motto is "everything that can be easy, should be easy!" We recently released TurnKey MediaWiki, an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD of MediaWiki that can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines. It is designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, turn-key operating system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum components needed to run MediaWiki with maximum usability, efficiency, and security. Features: * automatically updated on a daily basis with latest security patches * Mac OS X themed web management interface * configuration and installation console (written from scratch in Python) * based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS I'm announcing it here so you guys can try it out, give us some feedback and help us spread the word. For further details see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TurnKey_MediaWiki http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/mediawiki http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ Cheers, Liraz -- Website: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~liraz-siri

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Google accesses through Special:RecentchangesLinked
by Rene Bakker 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

I noticed that the Googlebot does not use the exact article path from the sitemap files but uses Special:RecentchangesLinked instead to access the articles. So instead of /www.mysite.com/wiki/My_Article/, Google uses /www.mysite.com/wiki/Special:RecentchangesLinked/My_Article/. Why is that? I ran into this because I disallowed //wiki/Special:RecentchangesLinked/ within robots.txt. This was to prevent the bots from indexing all revisions. Regards, Rene Bakker

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CSS not being applied on unix firefox
by Schuh, Peter 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Hi, I'm having an odd problem that I haven't been able to solve with google and forum searching. Sometimes when viewing my wiki with unix firefox (I've tried with various versions--1.5, 2.16, and 3.0) the page is unformatted; it looks like the css isn't being applied. I'm using monobook, but the problem happens under different themes as well. I've never seen this problem on windows firefox or IE. Clearing firefox's cache and reloading fixes the problem. Has anyone heard of this happening? I'm using mediawiki 1.13.2, php 5.2.4, mysql 5.0.45, apache 2.2.6. Thanks, Peter

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page abstracts for Yahoo: produced by humans or machine ?
by Farkas, Illes 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Dear All, Is the dump file containing the page abstracts for Yahoo produced by human or machines ? Thanks

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Category Question
by Phillip Baker 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Greetings, I have a template that includes a category on the featured page that calls that template but not on the template <noinclude> works great. Now the featured page that calls the template, is called into the Main Page. Now the Mina Page shows the category from the template. I would like to be able to suppress the inclusion of the that category from the Main Page. Is there a way to do that while keeping it on the -- Blessed Be Phillip

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Extension to remove nofollow
by Andrew Miller 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Does anybody know of a MW extension that removes the rel="nofollow" attribute from external links after a set number of days? I want to encourage RichmondWiki.org users to contribute content and don't feel that it should be a "walled garden" to hog all of the PageRank. At the same time, I don't want to completely remove the nofollow from new links to discourage spamming and gratuitous links. Thanks! andrew(a)richmondwiki.org > >

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DPL usage: Squelch some headingmode headings?
by Ted Osborne 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

I am using <code>headingmode</code> with <code>ordermethod=category,title</code> to generate a categorized list of articles: <dpl> category=Database programming cookbook recipes ordermethod=category,title headingmode=H3 columns=3 </dpl> But I want to omit some category sections (like "Database programming cookbook recipes", or utility categories like "Pages with custom CSS") from appearing in my list. I.e. I want to select ''all'' "Database programming cookbook recipes" articles, but I want to show only ''some'' of the category headings, and hide others. Any thoughts on how to do this?

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TeX with dvipng and Linux
by Javier Bezos 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Here is an alternative for the default math using dvipng: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows I've tried it out in my Windows box and it worked. Unfortunately, I haven't managed to get it to work on Linux (both TeX and dvipng work in the server when called in the terminal). Any hint or pointer would be appreciated. (fyi, what I intend is to use TeX as a typographical tool and not only for math formulae, and the dvipng approach seems more convenient for our purposes.) Javier -------------------------- http://www.wikilengua.org

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Listing all articles that use a parser tag?
by Daniel Barrett 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Is there an easy way to list all articles that contain a given parser tag, such as <cite> or <foobar>? I took a look for extensions like this (e.g., a special page that lists the articles) but didn't find anything. If there's no existing extension, what would be the appropriate method to do this in code? Thanks, DanB

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extraction of wikimedia
by ganesh gajre 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

hi, does any one know how to extract the wikipedia dump. It is downloaded from the following link: http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-06/en. i tried to extract the above 15 GB compressed data which is in tar.7z format, but after extracting upto 33GB it reports an error. please give me the solution. Regards, Ginovation.

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MediaWiki-l November 2008