MediaWiki-l January 2009

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by Jim Hu

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

12 years

Custom namespaces and discussion pages

by Snowolf

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've created some custom namespaced on one of my wikis, Botwiki (previously known as pywikipedia). I've put these lines in my LocalSettings.php file: - --- #Custom namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Manual", 101 => "Manual talk", 102 => "Python", 103 => "Python talk", 104 => "Php", 105 => "Php talk", 106 => "Perl", 107 => "Perl talk", 108 => "AWB", 109 => "AWB talk", 110 => "IRC", 111 => "IRC talk", 112 => "Other", 113 => "Other talk" ); $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112; - --- However, I have a big problem: when I go to a page in one of these new namespaces (not the discussion, the main ones), for example http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot , I found the red link to the discussion page. It's right, as there is no discussion page for that article. But if you click on it, it brings you to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… correct, of course. But have a look of the article and discussion tabs: they are both red! The first, "article", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot and the second, "discussion", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_… , when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… . It's the first time I deal with custom namespaces :-( but I have some ideas of what it can be. Can the problem be with the $wgContentNamespaces settings? So it detects everything as ns0? (don't think so). Or can it be the fact that I haven't used an underscore in the $wgExtraNamespaces definition? Snowolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWhk7sdafW5NQMtERAuX+AKDQ7QLNjXv9cu+ZbSLXidMzgi/vNgCaA7VT +VTgR3iI/BI7FVDqcyRZVJ0= =a4yP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

12 years, 10 months

Moving lots pages to a different namespace?

by Mark London

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

14 years, 2 months

display author

by Helmut Schneider

Hi, is there an extension or similiar to automatically display the author of an article (not the history button)? Thanks, Helmut -- No Swen today, my love has gone away My mailbox stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn

14 years, 10 months

Tex-less Math via Dynamic Images

by backspaces

My mediawiki installation is on a hosting service, Joyent, which does not provide the latex tools necessary for the Math extension enabled via Texvc. But, there is an online Tex render, CodeCogs, that I use for my blog. See this post: http://backspaces.net/tutorials/32/math-on-the-web The blog post simply creates a dynamic image which I render with an img HTML tag. The img contains this url as its source: http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mathtex.cgi?{c=\sqrt{\alpha^2+\beta^2}} ..you can cut/paste this into your browser to see what it looks like. Is there a way for me to also use this online latex rendering within mediawiki? Basically this translates into being able to generate an img tag within mediawiki which looks something like: img src="http://www.codecogs.com/eq.latex?\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}e^{-x^{2}}dx=\sqrt{…" Thanks! -- Owen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tex-less-Math-via-Dynamic-Images-tp21766967p21766967.… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

14 years, 10 months

Default Namespace

by elc pub

Hello ! Here is what I would like to do : 1. When a user logs in, I would like to put him in a Namespace called FOO by default instead of "MAIN". Is that possible ? 2. When a logged in user wants to create a new article, I would like to place that article in a Namespace of my choice. Is that possible ? Any help/pointers would be appreciated to this newbie. Regards, elcpub

14 years, 10 months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] License information

by Daniel Kinzler

Magnus Manske schrieb: > The better way (IMHO) is to store all used > "page:template:parameter:value" tuples in a wiki in a separate > database table, which could be queried by the MediaWiki API. This has > been suggested time and again by me and others. It would then be much > easier for a third-party API to get the relevant data for a page. The > functionality is part of Semantic Wikimedia, but would actually scale > as a project on its own ;-) Indeed. Here'S my take on it: <http://brightbyte.de/page/WikiData_light>. I have proposed this as a project to the German chapter, maybe it'll actually be taken on... > No need for screen scraping. > > Yes there is. Not for the license name (which I get using categories > in my experimental API), but for things like name of author etc. These > are only available as either HTML tag IDs (which I use) or raw > wikitext. Yes you are right, i was only thinking of the meta-info about licenses themselves. For authorship info, you'd need screen scarping -- or stored page:template:parameter:value tuples. I REALLY want that. It would be extremly useful for a LOT of things. And it's not hard to do. CC-ing mediawiki-l. -- daniel

14 years, 10 months

FW: Install errors

by Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)

Hello, I'm attempting to install mediawiki on hp-ux. I'm receiving the following errors when using the quick install page. I do not see an issue with the file permissions. Any help on resolving the issue is appreciated. -Adam MediaWiki 1.13.3 Installation Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list <http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce> . Checking environment... Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. PHP 5.2.2 installed Found database drivers for: SQLite PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. Couldn't find Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net> , eAccelerator <http://eaccelerator.sourceforge.net> , APC <http://www.php.net/apc> or XCache <http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/> ; cannot use these for object caching. GNU diff3 not found. Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled. Installation directory: /opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/testwiki Script URI path: /testwiki Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Generating configuration file... Database type: SQLite Loading class: DatabaseSqlite Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir <http://sandbox.idx.com/testwiki/config/function.mkdir> ]: Permission denied in /opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/testwiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php on line 25 Attempting to connect to database "wikidb" as "wikiuser"... Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir <http://sandbox.idx.com/testwiki/config/function.mkdir> ]: Permission denied in /opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/testwiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php on line 25 Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfPrintError() in /opt/hpws/apache/htdocs/testwiki/includes/Exception.php on line 283

14 years, 10 months

centos RPM

by Robert Hagens

14 years, 10 months

GroupPermissionsManager extension conflict with UserRightsList extension?

by Evelyn Yoder

Greetings all - I installed the UserRightsList extension last month and it worked as expected, until today, when I installed the GroupPermissionsManager. It's odd, because login to the wiki is permitted, but the [edit] button is now hidden. I tried appending "&action=edit" to the URL, but the response is: "Permission Error You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested." According to Special:ListGroupRights page, I am Sysop and have edit rights. The good news was that I was able to restore [edit] by disabling the UserRightsList, however the [history] request now gives the same error response. Version info here: http://lj.platformatyourservice.com/~platfor1/wiki/index.php?title=Special:… Thanks, Evelyn

14 years, 10 months

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