MediaWiki-l November 2008

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How to make an intranet nomad Wikipedia like Wiki with Mediawiki
by Olivier 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hi, Cooperation-iws howto with mediawiki is available here: http://cooperation-iws.gensys-net.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=howto_make_your_own_i… Cooperation-iws is a Live Operating system that offers web services of web applications like mediawiki. Demo CD /DVD as well as debian package or sources live-scripts are available here: http://cooperation-iws.gensys-net.eu Cheers, Oliv

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md5sums - mediawiki update
by mac honk 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

hi there, we wanted to update our mediawiki-isntallation with mediawiki 1.12.0. we noticed the patch file and the tar.gz have wrong md5 sums here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078… is there any "normal" reason for this ? we would like to get our mediawiki up-to-date, thankful for any help! greetings, elias ps: is it wiser / less hassle to backup everything (config, db, skins) and then reinstall with 1.13.2 ??

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Opening an article with minimized inventory?
by niklas.fleischer＠materna.de 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hello! I wanted to ask if there is any way to achieve that the inventory is minimized, when you open up an article the first time? This would be handy as our articles have many sections, so that the inventory is always quite big and unhandy. Thanks to all contributors! - Niklas Fleischer

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passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in
by Paul van Erk 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi guys, I just installed MediaWiki. I uploaded a .svg file which is scaled in my page. When i include the image I get the following error message. Error creating thumbnail: Warning: passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/bizproc/domains/bizproc.nl/public_html/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFun ctions.php on line 2030 I tried to change a couple of settings but nothing worked. Could you help me out? Thanks, Paul

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Database Deadlock Issue
by Russ Lavoy 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

I am getting the following deadlock issue and it comes back minutes and sometimes hours later... <snip> A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: from within function "SiteStatsUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1213: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction </snip> So it seems that multiple processes are trying to edit the same table at the same time which is causing this issue... How can this be prevented? Thanks for the help.

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Problem with LdapAuthentication
by John Oliver 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

MediaWiki 1.13.0, LdapAuthentication 1.1g I used http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication/AD_Configuratio… to set up a simple bind. But I cannot authenticate... the AD server never sees any attempt to authenticate (or at least doesn't log anything in the Event Viewer). With $wgLDAPDebug = 3; I get: Entering validDomain User is using a valid domain. Setting domain as: domain Entering getCanonicalName Username isn't empty. Munged username: Joliver Entering userExists Entering authenticate Entering Connect Using SSL Using servers: ldaps://10.0.0.4 Connected successfully Entering getSearchString Doing a straight bind userdn is: DOMAIN\Joliver Binding as the user Failed to bind as DOMAIN\Joliver Entering modifyUITemplate -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * ***********************************************************************

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Editing tool for MediaWiki
by Evelyn Yoder 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

I've recently started using the "It's All Text!" Extension in FireFox - it opens your favorite editor and lets you save edits into the MediaWiki page you're editing. We tried the Wikipedia plug in for Eclipse, but it didn't perform as expected - there was a lot of cutting and pasting. btw - this is a great forum, and a very helpful group. Thanks. Evelyn

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all hooks called when dumpHTML runs?
by Christensen, Courtney 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Does anyone know whether all the hooks (especially OutputPageBeforeHTML) are called when flat wikis are made with dumpHTML? We have clients that want html reports on CD from our wikis and we've added some extra display stuff with OutputPageBeforeHTML that isn't showing up in the flattened copy. Thanks! Courtney Christensen

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Two supportwikis, two skins, one instance of MediaWiki - is this possible?
by Evelyn Yoder 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi all - We're expanding our online help wiki, and we'd like to use the existing site to support two brands (for example, Brand A and Brand B). The wiki content is generic enough for both brands, so long as we can add a different skin to each. The brands would share the mediawiki content, and each brand would have has it's own skin and URL. The DynamicSkin extension seemed promising, but without more examples, I'm struggling to make it work. I need some guidance... is this the right tool for this situation? Can you tell me if this is practical, or should we just build two MediaWIki instances and push changes to both? (or is this worse?) I'm old at techwriting, but new to webstuff, and we don't have an IT staff at our startup. I'm figuring it out by myself, and hope you folks can point me in the right direction. Anyone have experience with this situation, or can offer other solutions? Evelyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Technical Communications LongJump Sunnyvale, CA www.longjumpsupport.com

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display md5sum/crc on files ?
by stephane ancelot 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, I would like being able to display c'rc or md5sum of each version of files in image history howto do this ? Best Regards S.Ancelot

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