MediaWiki-l June 2008

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problem creating accounts
by Kimberly Begley 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hi I have just installed Mediawiki 1.12.0 on a Centos 5 machine,it says the install was successful but when I try to add a user I get the database error message: "A database syntax error has occurred... from within function "RequestAccountPage::doSubmit". MySQL returned error: "1146: Table wiki.mw1account_requests' doesn't exist (localhost) I went through the database diagram in the documentation and could not find this table listed as well as in the tables created in mysql by media wiki - all other tables did appear though. I am assuming this is some kind of temporary table that gets created - just wondering if someone could point me to where I may be ableto troubleshoot this further. Thanks, Kimberly

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Image too large
by The Gadget Doctor 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

I (stupidly) uploaded a large image to the Wiki. Now I get php fatal errors anytime I try to display it. How can I delete the image from the site if any page that involves the image just gives me a white screen! Gadgetdoctor

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search requests with or without accent
by Stéphane ANCELOT 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi, My french collegues have problem searching items, because sometime they type words with accents and sometimes not(the search result is not the same). A way to resolve words with or without accents would be neeeded is there a way doing this ? Best Regards Steph

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How to move MYSQL from windows to godaddy.com
by Saar Machtinger 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi all, Been trying to move a MW database that we have stored in our LAN over to godaddy.com hosting services (I am not promoting, it just that this is the service I ue, and if anyone has prior experiance with it, id love to hear it) Anyway, my original tables and the ones on the auto install are different. And I can not figure out how to direct the web to access my old names. I have copied my tables to the new names strucutre. This seems to be a bad idea, as there is also a version difference between the 2. I am not a php guro, but where in the script does it start to mention to which table to connect? I have looked all over in icnludes, setup, maintenance , can't find anything. Would love to hear your advise. Thanks, Saar -- Saar Machtinger - CIO OptiTex Ltd. | www.optitex.com | saar.machtinger(a)optitex.com Tel: +972-3-904 9979 | Fax: +972-3-904 2710 * Think green before you print

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How to create automatic content in User: page
by Alex Le Bek 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi, Is it possible to initialise the User: namespace pages with content such as a standard welcome template and links to forms etc? Thanks Alex

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '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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Re: [Mediawiki-l] backup advice wanted
by roger＠rogerchrisman.com 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

How can I see what character set my MediaWiki's mysql database is using? The following tip from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set did not work for me: "You can see which character set your tables are using with a statement like SHOW CREATE TABLE text. The last line will include a DEFAULT CHARSET clause." Here's my attempt to do that: -------------------------------------------------- [roger@cpanel68 ~]$ mysql -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 5295221 Server version: 5.0.45-community-log MySQL Community Edition (GPL) Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE text -> --------------------------------------------------- I know little about mysql. Do you see what I did wrong? I'm worried that my database might be in character set "latin1" and that mysqldump may corrupt my backup database by auto-converting it to "UTF-8". I don't know what character set the database actually is in and don't want to mess it up setting it to "latin1" if it is not already that. How can I check the character set of my MediaWiki's mysql database (it is on a Redhat Linux server)? Thanks! Roger * MediaWiki: 1.9.2 * PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi) * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log

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Solved (RE: Upload PDFs, Visios?
by Laws, Peter C. 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

(sorry for the Outlook-y reply) "NTSB says pilot error to blame" Apparently, if you edit the LocalSettings.php file in the directory you made when you untarred your backup tarball instead of the real one in $wgScriptPath it doesn't take. My bad. Sorry for the bandwidth. [slinks off in shame] -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Remote University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws(a)ou.edu ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu [jimhu(a)tamu.edu] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 19:38 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upload PDFs, Visios? I figured you had, but I've forgotten to turn those back on when updating before... So... more detail about what you see when it "doesn't work"? Jim On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Laws, Peter C. wrote: > >> Let's start with the obvious...can you upload other file types? In >> localsettings. > >> $wgEnableUploads = true; > >> set permissions so apache can write to the images directory. > > > Yes. Been doing that for some time and now have users that want to > put other files up. > > > -- > Peter Laws / N5UWY > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center / Remote > University of Oklahoma Information Technology > plaws(a)ou.edu > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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link to chapter at another page
by Patrick DUBAU 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hi, i just want to have a link in one page to another with an anchor. Example : page1 i have a link to page2 but i want to go to - say- chapter 2.1 directely Is it possible ? I have v1.12 with fckeditor (the one found here)

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Upload PDFs, Visios?
by Peter Laws 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Y'all were so fast and helpful with my upgrade issue, that I'm coming right back to the well. The reason I upgraded was because I went to modify my group wiki to allow uploading of PDF and Visio diagrams. I've looked at the relevant docs and tried the several ways to add types, namely: (mind the wrap) $wgFileExtensions = array('png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'doc', 'xls', 'mpp', 'pdf'); and $wgFileExtensions[] = 'doc'; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'xls'; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf'; $wgFileExtensions[] = 'mpp'; (these are right from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads - I've adjusted mine for just pdf and vsd). Neither seem to work. I tried restarting httpd, but realized that really has nothing to do with it and it's a php thing, surely. I did go into /etc/php.ini and update my allowable upload size as well. Clearly, I'm missing something ... MediaWiki 1.12.0 PHP 5.1.6 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.45 All on RHEL 5.2. -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws(a)ou.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Feedback? Contact my director, Craig Cochell, craigc(a)ou.edu. Thank you!

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