MediaWiki-l September 2008

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job opening: web programmer for OpenCongress.org
by David Moore 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

To the MediaWiki list-serv, OpenCongress.org, a public resource website for tracking the U.S. Congress, is seeking a MediaWiki programmer to join our open-source development team. OpenCongress is going wiki. We’re excited to give our user community the ability to contribute wiki knowledge about Congress. The main purpose of this role is to integrate MediaWiki alongside our existing Ruby on Rails code. The ideal candidate would have significant working experience with both semantic MediaWiki and Ruby on Rails. Experience with a postgres database is good too, but not required. This is a part-time position lasting at least three months, with the potential to continue. Applicants can telecommute, but being based in either NYC or D.C. is a plus. Applicants can work for us days or nights – we’re open to various arrangements – but days are preferred. Salary will be negotiated depending on experience and availability. OpenCongress is a young project and growing rapidly. The site is a non-profit, non-partisan project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF). Our mission is to open up government, combat corruption, and increase civic engagement. We work with top-notch talent committed to building a new degree of transparency in government. Our development process is user-focused, collaborative, and agile. For more, please visit :: http://www.opencongress.org/ http://sunlightfoundation.com/ http://participatorypolitics.org/ ### To apply :: Send a brief note about yourself, why you want to work on OpenCongress, and some links to code you've written to David Moore, Project Manager: drm(a)ppolitics.org. Thanks! -- David Moore drm(a)ppolitics.org www.opencongress.org

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Simple way to scale monobook up in main.css?
by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Is there a simple way in the monobook.css file to "scale up everything". I'd like the default for all users to be what I see when I in my browser use CTRL and the "+"-key? kassoe

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error with wikifeeds extension
by city wiki 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

The wiki I manage has extension wikifeeeds and randomly shows this error exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'DirectoryIterator::__construct(/nfsn/content/ds-x/public/tmp/) [function.DirectoryIterator---construct]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory' in /var/www/html/w/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php:820 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/w/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php(820): DirectoryIterator->__construct('/nfsn/content/d...') #1 /var/www/html/w/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php(797): SpecialWikiFeeds->_getCacheFiles() #2 /var/www/html/w/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php(188): SpecialWikiFeeds->_cachePrune() #3 /var/www/html/w/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php(907): SpecialWikiFeeds->__construct() #4 [internal function]: wfWikiFeeds() #5 /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php(300): call_user_func('wfWikiFeeds') #6 /var/www/html/w/includes/WebStart.php(112): require_once('/var/www/html/w...') #7 /var/www/html/w/index.php(40): require_once('/var/www/html/w...') #8 {main} ¿¿any ideas?? thanks!

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MediaWiki search: fallback to Wikipedia.org
by Hannes H. 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hello, I have to setup a MediaWiki instance for my company for internal use. One of the requirements by the managment is, that there should be a search "fallback" to the "original" Wikipedia - that means that if there is no search result at the local installation the search result of Wikipedia should be displayed. Is there any possibillity to include the search of any other MediaWiki installations or is it necessary to write a search plugin for that? Thanks for your answers Hannes Halenka

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No mainpage aftter istalling DynamicPageList-extension
by Jens Risch 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hello everybody, I'm using: * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0 * PHP version: 5.1.2 * MySQL version: 5.0.26 My problem: I recently installed the SpecialTaskList-extension and the dependend extensions DynamicPageList and ParserFunctions. After that, i wasn't able to connect to my wiki mainpage (every other wiki site works fine if I use the direct link). I got an "Page can not be displayed"-error. If I comment (deactivate) the DynamicPageList-extension in the LocalSettings.php everything seems to work fine except the tasklist (because DPL is needed). How can I reactivate the DPL extension without getting this error? Maybe ther is a configuration faillure... I have made no changes to the extension's or the apache's configuration itself. Can anyone help me out? regards, Jens "50 erste Dates" mit Adam Sandler u. Drew Barrymore kostenlos anschauen! Exklusiv für alle WEB.DE Nutzer. *http://www.blockbuster.web.de* [http://www.blockbuster.web.de]

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '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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Hide specific/unused namespaces from « Search in Namespaces » box
by Wikimini 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi, First, sorry for my poor english. I've created a wiki for children and the « Search in Namespaces » box brings too much confusion for them. Namespaces like « MediaWiki », « MediaWiki_talk », « Template », « Portal », … are not of any importance to them. I would like some namespaces NOT TO BE SHOWN in the « Search in Namespaces » box. I've been looking all over the Internet but didn't find any solution. $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault>doens not seem to do what I need. I surely could do that by customizing the SpecialSearch.php page but I'm not sure what to do exactly. I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me manage that. I'm using Mediawiki 1.13 Kind regards. Laurent

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Release Notes for a jump from 1.4 to 1.13
by Trumble, Joyce 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hello, all. I am planning a revamp and upgrade of an enterprise wiki jumping from 1.4.4 to 1.13. Management would like a "summary of significant changes" that will benefit the users and administrators. It is a very subjective question and combing through each of the release notes documents to garner the requested information will be time consuming. That said, I don't know of a more effective way to tackle the request. Does there exist, for the major releases, a summary of user-facing improvements? Searching the archives for "release notes" or "upgrades," while interesting reading, did not quite hit the target for me. Best regards-- Joyce Trumble

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Release Notes for a jump from 1.4 to 1.13
by Trumble, Joyce 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

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Enotif by default
by david 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi; I want to define by default some Email notification settings in my MW-wiki. I want "user talk" and "watchlist" notifications to be checked by default in users preferences page. I have in Localsettings.php: $wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; $wgEmailAuthentication = true; $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO $wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO And in includes/DefaultSettings.php : $wgEmailAuthentication = true; # UPO $wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; Maybe I've something wrong? Thanks, dvdgmz

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