MediaWiki-l July 2008

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Garbled / Corrupted Text
by Thomas Rice 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi, I have a private wiki setup, and in the last week or so I've noticed that some of the text on some of the pages is getting garbled. This is a big problem, and I was hoping someone could help me diagnose (and hopefully fix) it! I've put together some screenshots to illustrate the problem at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d9x2r5n_28g9n6gwdw Screenshot #1 shows what one of the pages looks like -- this page hasn't been updated since September 2007, but as you can see the formatting and text is all garbled, as is the table of contents (which reflects the garbling of headers below). Screenshot #2 shows what happens when I click "edit" on that page -- the wikitext that is displayed looks fine, which suggests to me it's some sort of parsing problem rather than the underlying data being corrupted. Screenshot #3 shows me copying the top bit of that previous page, going to a new "Sandbox" page and pasting it in there. Scerenshot #4 shows the "Sandbox" page after I've saved it -- as you can see it gets garbled again. Screenshot #5 shows a bit of the "View Source" output of that Sandbox page -- note that the html tags like <p></p> seem to be in odd spots, chopping headings in half etc. Regarding my MediaWiki set up, I think I'm using 1.12.0. The only extension I had installed was FCKEditor (recently disabled). I haven't made any changes to it for many months, but just noticed this problem appearing on some pages (but not all) in the last week or so. Anyone have any ideas what I can do to further diagnose or fix this? And whether it's likely to be a database problem or something else? Thanks! - Thomas.

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Current date - is there a way to get this?
by Alex Le Bek 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi, I think this is a MW rather than SMW question : Is there a way to pick up the current date? ( I want to save the date a page is created/updated through a semantic template so as I can sort page results from an inline query. ) Thanks Alex

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RSS Feed takes too long to load
by Andre Bonhote 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi I have a problem here with my wiki (again). I have to say that it's not running on real server hardware (no budget). Instead, we're using some dual core intel with 3.2 Ghz. We're a company of around 200 users, of which only a few will use the wiki, so I guess we didn't underestimate the load. Coming back to the issue I have: I'd like to use the RSS feed feature, but it takes way too long to load. In fact, it doesn't load at all. In the logs, I see this line: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /data/www/wiki.ch.eu.colt/htdocs/includes/DifferenceEngine.php on line 1870 Sometimes it's line 1871, but that's it for the difference. When it loads the page successfully, my Firefox complains about empty lines before the XML content. I expect that some extensions are not properly written, but that's another problem. I am running 1.12.0, according to the release notes. Any hints? Cheers André

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Fwd: Large Pages
by Jon Welters 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

All, After some more looking into it it doesn't seem to just be large pages anymore. It would seem that random pages won't actually save after clicking save just displays a white page. At first I made the assumption that the pages were very large as we've had the problem before. That just isn't the case even on short pages often when you click save it takes a very long time and then gives you a nice white screen. This is very frustrating..... any advice would be a big help ! Thank You, Jon Welters

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Large Pages
by Jon Welters 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

All, We just migrated a rather large wiki to use mediawiki and we are running into problems with the larger pages that we haven't experianced before. I've just embedding 1/2 the page to solve the problem and that works but the users 1. Don't know how to do that and 2. Don't want to do that as they've never had to do it before. From what I can tell the issue stems from the browser level as most documentation says. Is there a known work around for this problem. It's a very large issue as people are typing a lot into a page then saving it and they end up with a white screen .......... and no data is saved. -- Thank You and Sincerely, Jon

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] 2-table update using Database.php?
by Giuseppe Briotti 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:36:24 -0400 > From: Daniel Barrett <danb(a)VistaPrint.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] 2-table update using Database.php? > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <9445EBEE35E2D148921D2550399D1D3715CB321E(a)vpmail102.vistaprint.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Is there a way to perform a two-table SQL Update statement using > functions in Database.php? > > update table1, table2 > set table1.x = table2.y > where table1.foo = table2.bar > > Function Database.php::update() appears to accept only a single > table name. (This is in MW 1.12.) > > Thanks. > DanB > mmm... this seems a SQL issue :-) well, you can update joined table, but you must select the PK. as example: update ( select table1.id, table1.x as x, table2.id, table2.y as y where table1.foo = table2.bar ) set x=y G. -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)mclink.it "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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MySQL 5 requirement?
by David Gerard 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

I understand Wikimedia plans to move to MySQL 5.something. Any idea when MediaWiki will require 5.something rather than 4? - d.

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layout differences in IE and FF browsers
by Derrick Farnell 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hi Is there any way that the layout of this front page: http://www.chainsofreason.org/wiki/Home can be made to look the same in IE and FF browsers? In FF, the separation between the two vertical sections, and between them and the top horizontal section, is how I want it, but in IE there is much less of a gap and I think it looks cramped. The code in the wikitext is simply adapted from another wiki and I don't know enough to know if it is possible to wrtie the code in such a way that the separation is the same in both browsers. Best wishes Derrick

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 17 Jul '08

17 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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spamblacklist add data to page
by Martin S 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

When adding and activating the spam blacklist extension and the list from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist , I get a lot of data from the extension before the actual content. I am probably missing something as noone else has seen this, but how do I get rid of it. Regards, Martin S

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