MediaWiki-l February 2008

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Fwd: Overweight Wiki Page
by drew einhorn 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: drew einhorn <drew.einhorn(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM Subject: Overweight Wiki Page To: library <Library(a)lists.laptop.org>, devel(a)lists.laptop.org Hi, I've got a couple variations on a way overweight wiki page. It began as a MS Word file, and it's been through Open Office, shell, sed, perl, awk, python and the result is not too shabby. Should publish it, but really ought to rewrite it all in python first. Is there a way to use the command line to open a .doc file in Open Office and save it as html an can add to my polyglot assortment of scripts, in the meantime? The first version at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VistA_Monograph_Wiki gets: WARNING: This page is 246 kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections. I've been looking at breaking it up and reassembling it using templates and there is a partial version at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WV_VM Is there a easy way to transfer all 70 some pieces at once, instead of doing them one at a time using http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Upload But wait that's only for Images not for Pages. And when the templates all get reassembled it's going to be just as big, if not a little bigger. What I really need is a syntactic variant, that builds a combined Table of Contents, but does not put all the pieces together into a combined wiki page, the links in the Table of Contents take you the right spot in one of the component pages. Does that capability exist, or am I just dreaming? -- Drew Einhorn Seems like it would only take tweaking a few lines of code. But where are they? * All we want to do is suppress output of the combined page. * And, use the original instead of the trasformed link in the TOC. I'm new at this and don't have the jargon down. I know I should have transclude several times, but I am not yet fluent with wikimedia terminology. Sorry. -- Drew Einhorn

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Automatioc E-Mails
by Thomas Dräger 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi ML is there an extension, which automatically mails when new sites are created? Sorry, my last mail had the wrong title. Greetings Thomas

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Newest pages
by Thomas Dräger 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi ML is there an extension, which automatically mails when new sites are created? Greetings Thomas

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with export feature
by Addady 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hello Brion, > a problem with some incorrect > gzip encoding of the output, apparently a double-encoding. You are right beside apache mod_deflate. LocalSetting setting enable compressing. Remove it solve the problem. Thank You Addady

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problems with recovery (Debian)
by rex 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

> Basically, here is my story - was running a remotely-hosted Debian > (Etch) dedicated server with latest PHP5/Apache2/MySQL5 installation, > as well as MediaWiki 1.11.0 (i'm 99% sure this was the on the server, > but it could have been 1.10.x). The wiki page uses the SQL database > named "wikidb". Daily, at 4am, we've had a cron job that took all the > files in an SQL folder (for example, /var/lib/mysql/wikidb ), which > were .MYI, .MYD, and .frm files of the various tables and bzipped > them, and my computer at home connected every morning at 5am via FTP > to download them. I've kept a week's worth in constant rotation for > over a year. So, I figured if we ever had a bad crash, we'd be > covered. Not the .SQL files that would have been nicer to have, but > at least something. MYISAM or InnoDB? Unfortunately, copying the .MYI, etc, files will not work with InnoDB tables: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/backup.html "You can also create a binary backup simply by copying all table files (*.frm, *.MYD, and *.MYI files), as long as the server isn't updating anything. The mysqlhotcopy script uses this method. (But note that these methods do not work if your database contains InnoDB tables. InnoDB does not store table contents in database directories, and mysqlhotcopy works only for MyISAM tables.)" Here's a thread where someone learned this the hard way: http://www.nabble.com/MYISAM-or-InnoDB-best-for-Mediawiki--to9950685.html > Is it possible to recover a database in this method? > Even if I recover, do I actually have data in there? The file sizes > and table structure seem to indicate that my data is bunk, but maybe > since it's all text, itmakes sense that it's so small. I was unable to do so after backing up an InnoDB by copying the files (as you did) instead of using mysqldump. Now, I use mysqldump. > How could I ensure that I am better backed-up in the future? Are >there ways I can improve what is backed up, and methods to recover it? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki Good luck. Perhaps someone who knows more can help you recover. -rex -- Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary.

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Parser Function Question
by Lennie Jarratt 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

I want to use the #if statement in a template to display or not display a row if no data is being sent into the template. Are there some easy examples out there showing how to do this? Thanks. Lennie

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OAIRepository extension
by Jack Eapen C 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, I would like to make my mediawiki an OAI data provider. Is the OAIRepository extension meant for that? I downloaded it from cvs. But how to use it? No info available.. My MW is 1.11. I added the OAIRepo.php file to localsettings.php and it's showing in the Special"Version page. But no special page is available. Plz help me with this... Regards, Jack Eapen C SunTec Knowledge Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things" This electronic mail (including any attachment thereto) may be confidential and privileged and is intended only for the individual or entity named above. Any unauthorized use, printing, copying, disclosure or dissemination of this communication may be subject to legal restriction or sanction. Accordingly, if you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this email immediately and delete this email (and any attachment thereto) from your computer system...Thank You

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with export feature
by Brion Vibber 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Addady wrote: > Hello Brion, >> a problem with some incorrect >> gzip encoding of the output, apparently a double-encoding. > > We do use apache mod_deflate. The is no other gzip encoding beside that. > > Please note that other wikis on the same server with the same > configuration don't have this problem. Compare the LocalSettings.php files (or equivalent configuration settings) between the various wikis; there's _something_ different. :) -- brion

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(no subject)
by Patricia Marin 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi, When I create a group on the Group Administration page does not show on the User right list page or user rights management page. Has somebody experience this problem before. Any idea what I can be missing. I need to assign rights base on groups and I would like to administer the user with the User right list page. Thank you for your help and all the previous help, this the first wiki I work on and everything is new. Patty

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files
by Frank Fulchiero 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

> From: <65s.mg(a)atlas.cz> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files > To: <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > If you don't to restore them, then you can delete the whole archive > directory. Thanks, will do a complete backup then delete them. > From: "Herta Van den Eynde" <herta.vandeneynde(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files > > I do not really know, though it would seem logical that you can remove > them. But if you're sure you don't need the content anymore, and your > main concern is disk space, I suppose a safe way to deal with this is > to replace the content with an empty string. > Still, if the images/archive folder is only a few GB in size, I > wouldn't bother. Disk space isn't that expensive. Hi, no my concern is not disk space, I have a 250GB drive, and apache/ documents is only 2.6 GB. However, I have to reboot from an external drive to create an image with NetRestore, and then the wiki is down. NetRestore is asymmetrical, it can restore from a image in 5-10 minutes, but takes 40-50 minutes to create that image. So, I was trying to minimize down time. The smaller the amount of data, the shorter the duration. Thanks for your feedback, Frank Fulchiero Digtial Media Specialist Connecticut College

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