MediaWiki-l December 2008

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PEAR_Error for Email Problems
by Vivek Ayer 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hey guys, How would tackle this php error: Catchable fatal error: Object of class PEAR_Error could not be converted to string in /w/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 521 I can send out emails as a result of this. Help appreciated, Vivek

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Media Wiki log files and querying MySQL
by Jan Steinman 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

> From: Linda Rose <lnr(a)qad.com> > > I'd also like to query the MySQL database to see if the image files > are > actually being deployed to the database. I'm probably misunderstanding, but image files are not stored in the database. They are in a hashed directory structure, with a file path in the database. :::: Of course I don't have all the answers -- I don't even have all the questions! :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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JFusion MediaWiki plug-in
by Erlend Heggen 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

*Greetings to all MediaWiki developers,* My name is Erlend "Sadr" S. Heggen, and I am a project manager for the JFusion <http://www.jfusion.org/> project. A while ago I did some brief inquiries on your IRC-channel in order to figure out what would be the best way to get in touch with MW's developers and have my voice heard, and this mailing list seems to be what I was looking for, so pardon me if I'm mistaken. * **About JFusion*: *"JFusion is a free GPL Extension for the award winning Content Management System (CMS) Joomla! <http://www.joomla.org/>. JFusion provides universal user integration, by extending the Joomla 1.5 user authentication framework without any core hacks. With JFusion your users can login to both Joomla and the software(s) integrated by JFusion using the same username/password. No core hacks are made to either Joomla or the integrated software(s) which has the advantage that you can upgrade your software normally without any tedious reconfigurations.*" In case that didn't project a big enough image, the big advantage here would be how JFusion handles *all* bridges on a site that's using several different softwares (e.g. Joomla! + MediaWiki + SMF + Coppermine Gallery) at once, making sure there are no conflicts in between each bridge. There's also the unique slave/master function, which allows the admin to select which software should act as the master of the user database. So my question is simple: Are there any MediaWiki developers / MediaWiki adepts, who could be interesting in aiding us with making a plug-in to support MediaWiki as one of JFusion's growing range of bridges? For proof of concept, see joomlawiki.org <http://www.joomlawiki.org/> and joomla.anezi.net <http://joomla.anezi.net/en/awiki-demo.html>. The developers of these extensions will be contacted shortly after the sending of this message. I hope you can see that there's a considerable demand for this type of solution, and I dear say what JFusion offers is a revolutionary way for the end-user to make his favorite picks between (what we hope will become-) a wide range of high quality open source projects to bring them together as one, all without hardly any technical insight at all. For the record, JFusion is currently closing in on a beta-version<http://www.jfusion.org/index.php/119-Video-preview-of-1.1-Beta.html>, scheduled for release December 25th. Starting any work on a plug-in before that time would probably be a bad idea, seeing as a lot of changes will have been made. Should anyone be interested in helping us out, you should simply get in touch so that we can start discussing and we'll take it from there. Any technical questions should be directed to the creator and main contributor of this project, Marius <mariusvr(a)gmail.com>, to whom I'm sending a copy of this mail as well. *I hope you'll get back to me with positive response shortly. Sincerely, ~ Erlend* *JFusion Project Manager*

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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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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscribe to mediawiki-announce[1] instead. MediaWiki development discussion, and all Wikimedia technical questions, should be directed to the wikitech-l[2] mailing list. Several other MediaWiki-related lists exist: - mediawiki-api[5] for API discussions, - mediawiki-enterprise[6] for discussion of MediaWiki in the enterprise, - mediawiki-cvs[7] for notification of commits to the Subversion repository, - mediawiki-i18n[8] for discussion of MediaWiki internationalisation support, - wikibugs-l[9] for notification of changes to the bug tracker. List administrivia (unsubscribing, list archives). To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit [12]. Archives of previous postings can be found at [3]. This list is also gatewayed to the Gmane NNTP server[4], which you can use to read and post to the list. Posting to the list. Before posting to this list, please read the MediaWiki FAQ[10]. Many common questions are answered here. You may also search the list archives to see if your question has been asked before. Please try to ask your question in a way that enables people to answer you. Provide all relevant details, explain your problem clearly, etc. You may wish to read [13], which explains how to ask questions well. To post to the list, send mail to <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>. This is a public list, so you should not include confidential information in mails you send. When replying to an existing thread, use the "Reply" or "Followup" feature of your mail client, so that clients that understand threading can sort your message properly. When quoting other messages, please use the "inline" quoting style[11], for clarity. When creating a new thread, do not reply to an existing message and change the subject. This will confuse peoples' mail readers, and will result in fewer people reading your mail. Instead, compose a new message for your post. Messages posted to the list have the "Reply-To" header set to the mailing list, which means that by default, replies will go to the entire list. If you are posting a reply which is only interesting to the original poster, and not the list in general, you should change the reply to only go to that person. This avoids cluttering the list with irrelevant traffic. About this message. This message is posted to the list once per week by <river(a)wikimedia.org>. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns about this mailing. References. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/ [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ [4] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api [6] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise [7] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs [8] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n [9] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l [10] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Inline_replying [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l [13] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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texvc problems in mediawiki on openbsd/sparc64
by Vivek Ayer 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hey guys, So I managed to compile texvc on openbsd/sparc64 4.3 inside the /mediawiki/math/ folder using 'gmake texvc.bc' I enabled TeX in Localsettings.php and created directories for math and tmp under /mediawiki/images. However, to my dismay, I get the error "Failed to parse (unknown error):" I enabled logging in mediawiki and the output I get during the parsing is: Unstubbing $wgParser on call of $wgParser->firstCallInit from MessageCache::transform TeX: ./math/texvc '/w/uploads/tmp' '/w/uploads/tmp' 'E=mc^2' 'UTF-8' TeX output: --- I should some output after TeX output, but nothing instead. I tried running the command manually and png ended up in my directory, so I know texvc is working. Someone on RHEL had the same problem and they found out SELinux was causing the problem, so I figured there's something in OpenBSD that does a similar action. The math and tmp folders are chmoded to 777 for now. Should I change something in Localsettings.php? I literally have no clue as to what to do next. Help appreciated, Vivek

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Cooperation-iws 0.7.0 : Open Source Mediawiki Live USB
by Olivier 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi, I am pleased to announce the release of Cooperation-iws 0.7.0: http://www.cooperation-iws.eu Mediawiki 1.13.0 is included in several release of Cooperation-iws with multilingual plugins. For a short introduction about Cooperation-iws this is here: http://www.cooperation-iws.eu/CMS/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/downl… For a complete presentation this is here: http://www.cooperation-iws.eu/CMS/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/downl… Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009 to Mediawiki Open source community, Olivier

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missing a page after mediawiki update
by Josh Greenberg 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I've just finished migrating and upgrading my mediawiki server from 1.8.2 to 1.13.2. I also migrated it to another server so I have the old version to refer to if needed. I got a complaint today that there was a page missing. I checked it and it just comes up completely blank with no 404 error or permissions error or anything like that. Its just a blank page. When I did the upgrade I did a random spot check of a bunch of pages to make sure everything looked ok. I did that again today and everything I've checked other than this page looks fine. I'm not familiar with the layout of the database but I went through and looked at the tables to see if there was anything that looked promising. Between the two servers/versions, everything for this entry seems to match in searchindex, pagelinks, page, categorylinks, and archive from what I can find just searching for the text string or the id numbers that I'm getting but I'm really going at this blind. Is there a better way to verify a broken link for this? Would re-running the update.php script do anything? I'd be happy to just re-create the page since its just this one but I don't know how to delete the page thats there without being able to get to it through the web. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Josh

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Strange behaviour on user pages whose usernames contain a "+"
by Wikimini 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, First sorry for my poor english. I'm running Mediawiki 1.13.0 on a production web site for children and noticed a (big) problem on users pages whose names contain a "+". Here is an example with user P6++ When I access : > http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Utilisateur:P6++, I'm redirected to : > http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Utilisateur:P6 (without ++) !!! I've just created a similar account on Wikipedia fort testing purposes. When I access : > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Z6++ I get the page : > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Z6++ (with ++) !!! Actually the problem seems to be specific to the "+" sign. For example, http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Utilisateur:!!!$$zOuzOu$$!!! is working fine! This problem is really annoying as the http://fr.wikimini.org/wiki/Utilisateur:P6++ page shows an empty page even if there is some content on it! Could someone help? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTACCESS info: In the root, I have an htaccess file with the following content: RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] Options -Indexes In the fr folder, I have another htaccess file with the following content: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your help! Laurent

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Add HTML text to every page
by Uwe Baumbach 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

> Uwe Baumbach wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some advice for adding HTML text to every page. >> MW 1.13.2 >> >> In MediaWiki:Common.css we already prepared style so only remains to add >> some static <div> ... </div> text to the skin. >> >> We want to avoid changing skin code itself. >> >> Where ist the best place to do this ? >> MediaWiki:Common:js ? >> >> When there: is somewhere a template or pattern how to do this the >> correct way with JavaScript? > > If you need to apply a CSS to all the pages you don't need a div for > that. You need to make a better CSS selector. Our first goal is to add HTML text (a horizontal menu bar on top) to all pages CSS is already added (formatting with another selector may be better, of course, but that isnŽt my problem - at this moment ;-) ) We are lookiong for the best way to add that text without changing skin itself. Once more: Is JavaScript at MediaWiki:Common.js an accepted way and if yes, how to output not confusing rendering of "the rest" ? Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach(a)web.de ____________________________________________________________________ Psssst! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123

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