MediaWiki-l July 2008

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Open in Application/new Window
by Dan Sinclair 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Hi, On my wiki, I have a lot of links to files which are all located on a local server. However, when I click on them in the web browser, they open up in the browser. So my question is, is there any way to make them either open up in the correct application on the PC or in a separate window in the browser? Cheers, Dan

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Toolbar problems in edit mode.
by John W Foster 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I recently did an upgrade to 1.12 and decided I wanted to also add some buttons to the toolbar. I have already added the TexBox extension and that button was installed and working. I then proceeded to add a slew of other buttons using the ones from other users and following the instructions, I added them to Mediawiki:Common.js & they worked fine. However after a few other upgrades i.e. Apache2 and a few others, now the buttons do not appear on my machines, inside my intranet. I have been told, and have seen myself, that they do appear when the pages are viewed from outside my internal network. I figure I have crapped up something with my system, but can not tell what is wrong. Any ideas are appreciated. BTW; I am very much in a learning mode, so pointing to any resource is great. Along with the disappearing buttons the left menu panel is now below the page and the decorations at the very top of the page disappeared. Is this normal in 1.12 or did I alter something. I am using the CologneBlue skin. This is a non-production site that I am learning on. http://www.physicswiki.net Thanks!! - John Foster

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customizing account creation & user preferences pages
by Reid Priedhorsky 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Dear all, We are running MediaWiki 1.12. We would like to change the account creation page, and the user preferences page, so that e-mail address is required and the real name box does not appear. Is this possible? Many thanks, Reid

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Main Page then redirect
by Dan Sinclair 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hi, I want to set my main page of my Wiki to be a different page than the main page, but then after 10 seconds I want it redirect to the Main Page. However, when the other page is shown, I don't want there to be anyway to navigate away from it. Does this make sense? Cheers, Dan

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '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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Mediawiki Development
by Andrew Thornton 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Does anyone know of a site or list where experienced mediawiki developers can be hired for side work? I have tried Odesk but I haven't had much luck. Thanks

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Always having edit conflicts
by Joel Penner (Volt) 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I'm writing a new database abstraction layer for the new sqlsrv php driver and am having datetime issues. Whenever I make an edit, the timestamp that gets returned for the revision is the same as the timestamp for the edit, always. I thought it was a timezone issue so I formatted the DateTime object that gets returned from the driver to be GMT since I'm using TS_ISO_8601 but that didn't seem to make a difference. Ideas? Joel Penner Volt Microsoft Open Source Software Lab<http://port25.technet.com/>

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Magic word for date of first revision of a page
by Jan-Paul＠jpkoester.de 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Hello everyone, I am looking for a way to include the date that a page was first created on the page. I have already found the magic word {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and the other related magic words. Are there equivalent magic words that return the timestamp for the first revision of a page? If not, is there a way to add this information through an existing extension? Thanks and kind regards, Jan-Paul

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Text search performance and postgresql
by Greg Sabino Mullane 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Marc Cousin wrote: > The plan is this one [explain analyze plans] Those are pretty bad plans - you might benefit from some simple tuning. Try lowering random_page_cost and boosting effective_cache_size. Or come round to #postgresql on freenode, for more free tuning help than you can shake a stick at. The query you gave ran in 56 ms for me on what I'm guessing is a larger wiki (~ 400K rows in pagecontent) (and a pretty busy box). You should be seeing a Bitmap Index Scan on "ts2_page_text", If you find yourself using the same namespace restrictions a lot, you can create some custom indexes as well, e.g. CREATE INDEX page_index1 ON page(page_title) WHERE page_is_redirect = 0 AND page_namespace IN (0,9,11); > Is there a reason we index every version of every content ? We don't. Or at least, we were not intending to. You can grep for UPDATE in SearchPostgres.php. I just changed (r38184) the code to double-check we nullify *all* old revisions: this may explain part of what you were seeing before. You can check on individual pages and see if they are all null-but-latest like so: SELECT CASE WHEN textvector IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS isnull, COUNT(*) FROM pagecontent WHERE old_id IN (SELECT rev_text_id FROM revision WHERE rev_page = (SELECT page_id FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_title = 'Foobar' LIMIT 1)) GROUP BY 1; (mostly for the benefit of other people reading this thread, since you said you already manually updated the database) Brion Vibber wrote: > Hmm; a fundamental problem here is that text.old_text is opaque to the > database -- it may contain compressed text, text in an alternate > encoding, or a reference to another table or database at the > application level. Right: $wgCompressRevisions is not recommended for a Postgres backend. Should probably document that somewhere. Postgres will compress automatically anyway. Not to say that we might not want to change the way things are done, but the easiest solution to the original poster's problem is to get the query optimized first, and figure out why the old revision are not being nulled. Platonides wrote: > The postgresql backend is not too well maintained, people wanting to > postgre appear from time to time and give it a kick. > I don't remember who is currently supposed to be taking care of it, but > i interpret that as he hasn't commented on this, he doesn't oppose ;) Wow, that's a bit harsh - not too well maintained? Hardly. :) Myself and others have put in a lot of work to get it working and keep it so, including paving the way for other database backends by discovering and addressing lots of mysqlisms in the code. I apologize for not replying: I somehow got recently unsubscribed. -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)turnstep.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200807291126 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8

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WikiTimeLine Extension possibly a good idea for implementation on Wikipedia or sister projects
by M Sz 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi! The MediaWiki extension WikiTimeLine version 1.0 is released. It displays events, people, and such on an interactive timeline. Its working with JavaScript (client side, so it doesn't but load on the server) and its pretty interactive (moving around, zooming, clicking on events on the timeline). If you add WikiTimeLine tags with a start and end date to an article, you'll get a link in that article, and if you click on that link you'll add event to the timeline. So its totally real-time. Unlike easytimeline which is creating pictures when the article is created, WikiTimeLine is controlled by the reader of the article, not the writer. So everyone can put together their own timeline to see how things went in history. It also allows ongoing events (that have not yet stopped) and alternative begin or end dates. I think this would be a great extension for Wikipedia or one of its sister projects. Any interest in that? greetings, Markus _________________________________________________________________ Sie haben nie Platz in Ihrer Inbox? Mit Windows Live Hotmail haben Sie jetzt 5GB Speicherplatz - gratis! Holen Sie sich hier Ihren neuen Windows Live Hotmail Account! http://get.live.com/mail/overview

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