MediaWiki-l December 2008

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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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MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page
by Skoffer.com Team 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi everyone on the list, I contribute to the Skoffer project, and like to point you to my Skoffer MediaWiki plugin (GPL). Skoffer is a free uncommercial project which lets you build in a screencast recorder into your website. Since MediaWiki is great to make sofware documentations, the ability to to record screencasts (in unlimited resolutions and lengths) without installing a software (it´s Java based) could be interesting for some of you. If your website could make use of it, please have a look at http://www.skoffer.com and/or on my blog post http://www.stefanschulzesteinmann.com/skoffer-mediawiki-plugin/ If you want to see a demo: There are two screencasts in my blog post which I recorded as a demonstration. The one shows how I create the other. A happy 3. advent, Stefan Schulze Steinmann PS: By the way, you are the first persons who know about Skoffer. This mail is the project´s starting shot.

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inexistant page
by Klaus Becker 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi, I use last MW version. My problem: While working on local version of my wiki-site I make a little pause and I rebegin work 30 minutes after. I create a new page, but this page does not exist. The link to it is read, when I click on the link, it opens the page in edit-mode. The page content is not lost, but MW will not memorize it as an existing page. I can save it again, but the link is still read. I disconnect and I reconnect as user Klaus, but this does not help. cheers Klaus

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day of the year
by david 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, is there a way to obtain the day of the year in wiki pages? Like ... date('z'); ... in PHP. I want a number starting from 0 through 365. Thanks (and have a happy new year); dvdgmz

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Wiki Main Page Does Not Load on First Attempt
by Rebecca Lee 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, I will preface the email by saying that I'm a beginner --please forgive if I haven't included any necessary information to solve my problem! I've just started my wiki project using media wiki 1.13.3, IIS 5.1, PHP 5, and mySQL 5.1. I had everything up and running smoothly, but today, I noticed that whenvever I tried to access my wiki from a remote computer (not the one that I've been developing from), the main page does not load on the first try. I type in the address of the wiki and I get the standard wiki "There is currently no text on this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page." But everything else, including the logo and the links in the side bar, are as they should be, and I have to click "main page" on the side bar, before everything loads normally. I have not been able to reproduce this error on my own machine, but I get it on three other machines. Recent extensions I installed are: Lockdown, Wikiscript, and Wikiwidget. Anyone have any ideas of what is going on? Thanks in advance for the help! Rebecca

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I can't edit a page
by Klaus Becker 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, on my own site http://katalogdeutsch.free.fr/index.php, I can't edit a page. The site tells me that he can't memorize the modification because he lost informations about my session. It invites me to disconnect and reconnect, but this does not help. This happens when I am connected as "Klaus". When I am not connected, I can edit pages. So I deleted user "Klaus" in the database and recreated it on the site, but the problem is still the same. I tried to create this wiki by importing files and db from http://katalogdeutsch.oxyweb.com where user "Klaus" can edit pages. Any hints ? cheers Klaus

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Page links with national characters disappeared after database migration
by Giuseppe Briotti 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Did you use the phpMyAdmin tool for export import? I had a similar problem and I solved it when I noticed that phpMyAdmin showed a wrong charset for the database engine (you can set charset for database engine, database and table). Verify by mysql console, if possible, what is the charset setting. Hope this help Giuseppe > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:34:16 +0100 > From: "Mateusz Sobczak" <sobczak.mateusz(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Page links with national characters disappeared > after database migration > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <ea2080e10812281234g7d0b47adtf857e72ebbb43a3b(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 > > Hello, > > I need some help with the following problem (described also here: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk/Sections/Database). > > I am moving a MediaWiki based webpage from one server to another. > After exporting the database and importing it to the new server I got > the message "1271: Illegal mix of collations for operation ' IN ' > (mysql.extremefaith.info)". So I updated MediaWiki to the newest > stable version (1.13.3) which caused the change of the $wgDBmysql5 > variable value to "true" and that solved the problem. > > Yet another one appeared. Although the content of the present pages > remained unchanged (all the national characters were present) all the > links with national characters became "red" (f.ex. "?nie?nobia?e > ?wiat?o") and I can't access the content of those pages. What's more > when I add the content manually some pages still remain "red". When I > click on this kind of edited-"red" page I can see the content but it's > being opened in "edit" tab by default. All the tables have > "latin2_general_ci" collation set. > > Could you please help me to fix the "red" links with national characters? > > (You can see the red links f.ex. here: > http://mat.extremefaith.info/kpk/mediawiki-1.13.3/index.php?title=Teksty_pi… ) > > server1: > * MediaWiki: 1.10alpha > * PHP: 5.2.6 (ucgi5) > * MySQL: 5.0.66a-log > * URL: http://www.krokpokroku.pl/wiki/index.php?title=Inspiracje > > server2: > * MediaWiki: 1.13.3 > * PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi-fcgi) > * MySQL: 5.0.67-log > * URL: http://mat.extremefaith.info/kpk/mediawiki-1.13.3/index.php?title=Inspiracje > > > Regards, > > -- > Mateusz Sobczak <>< -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)gmail.com "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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registered users
by Farkas, Illes 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hi Platonides, Thanks for the list of robots at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=bot I just checked the list of all user groups at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_groups . Are "registered users" available at the site above? I maybe wrong, I couldn't find them in enwiki-latest-user_groups.sql.gz . Thanks for your patience, Happy New Year

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