MediaWiki-l January 2009

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installation help/advice
by Robert D. Crawford 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hello all, I want to install mediawiki on a site I manage. I am pretty sure about most of the steps but I really want to ask a few questions and get some guidance before I break things. As I understand it, there is only one mysql database on the site I can use and it currently has a wordpress blog installation. I have mediawiki-1.13.3.tar.gz downloaded to the server but not yet unzipped. I also have a sql dump from a old mediawiki install that existed on another server. I cannot tell the version of mediawiki from the dump, as far as I can tell. Perhaps someone can tell me where to look. I know it is old as it would be impossible for me to install on the old server because of the php version (4.x). The versions of php and mysql on the new server are as follows: PHP 5.2.1 (cli) (built: Jul 23 2008 05:57:56) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.38, for pc-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 I am not certain, but as I mentioned before I believe I have to use the one db I currently have. Having only a little db experience, I might be mistaken about databases and tables. As I understand it, I have one db and can create more tables in that db. Here are the steps I know about concerning the install: * unpack the tarball to $HOME/public_html/<MediaWiki-folder> then chmod 755 $HOME/public_html/<MediaWiki-folder>/config * run the browser-based script at http://www.example.com/<MediaWiki-folder>/ * fill in the fields in the form Database host: localhost Database name: same as account name DB username: same as account name DB password: see host-details.txt on HDD Superuser details: leave as-is DB Table Prefix: <wikiname_> DB Port: leave as-is Schema: leave as-is DB Character set: UTF-8 * Move files mv LocalSettings.php $HOME/public_html/<MediaWiki-folder>/ chmod 600 LocalSettings.php chown is unnecessary, I believe, since the creator/owner of the site are the same person. Am I wrong? rm -rf config/ * restore old DB This is really where I have some problems. I know the commands necessary to restore the db mysql -p <dbname> < dump.sql but the names of the tables and the db are not the same as they need to be on the new installation. Changing the name of the db in the dump file should not b a problem as far as I can see, but the table names could be problematic. Will I have to do a search and replace of the table names in the dump file to make them correspond to what I need them to be e.g. <wikiname_><tablename>? Considering this is a 75MB file with over 90K lines, surely there must be a better way. Sorry this has been so long and thanks for reading this far. Any more information I'll be happy to provide. Links to relevant documentation is always appreciated. Thanks for your help, rdc -- Robert D. Crawford robdcraw(a)gmail.com Only a fool fights in a burning house. -- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

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local wikipedia wiht remote images
by Enrique 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hello all a have a copy of wikipedia in may local intranet for user offline reading. i;t work fine whith formula ect.ect.. i need if is possible show the images of original wikipedia to my users and cache they for future use and reduce my internet access maybe trougth my proxi server, if some one has made that please telme how regards sorry abaut my english

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External Authentication that uses company URL
by Jim 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I'm trying to setup external authentication with MediaWiki. I've gone over http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:External_Authentication time and time again but it's not exactly clear. Here's how our company authentication for web access works. - I check to see if a cookie exists. If so, decrypt it and get user info. - If cookie doesn't exist, redirect to the company authentication URL. In that redirect, I specify a "return to" URL so after the user authenticates, it knows where to send the user back to. - Go back to first step. Since the cookie should now exist, I have user info. I figured I would use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to redirect index.php?title=Special:UserLogin to say index2.php. index2.php would get the cookie and be the return point for the redirection if needed. But now that index2.php has the user info, I need it to login, creating the userid if needed, to mediawiki. This is where I'm totally lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Way to embed ListServe Archives
by Lainie Hoverstad 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi, Is there a way to embed ListServe archives into a wiki? Someone asked me to check that out. Thanks again http://www.twitter.com/LainieH _____________________________________________ From: Lainie Hoverstad Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:13 AM To: 'mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org' Subject: Voting/Polling/Survey tool for Wikis? Does anyone have a suggestion for a voting/polling/survey functionality within a wiki? I'd like to be able to have users rate ideas or take a small survey.. any advice on extensions or methods appreciated. Thanks!

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Voting/Polling/Survey tool for Wikis?
by Lainie Hoverstad 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Does anyone have a suggestion for a voting/polling/survey functionality within a wiki? I'd like to be able to have users rate ideas or take a small survey.. any advice on extensions or methods appreciated. Thanks!

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If else statement
by Ekompute .info 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi, I am trying to have 2 sitenotices, one for the main namespace and one for ALL the rest. I tried: {{#if: {{ns:0}} | xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx }} {{#if: !{{ns:0}} | xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx }} but it is not working. Your assistance is deeply appreciated. PM Poon

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Prevent punctuation in folder names (web paths)
by Onur Safak 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hey Guys, My server can't access files with paths with dots in their names and returns 404. So I can't see thumbnails for images with dots in their names, which are placed into folders like "image.jpg". Is there a way to prevent using "." and probably other punctuation in paths? Thanks Onur

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single sign-on in Postgres
by Tim Larson 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hello list, I've been trying to find out how to set up a shared user table using Postgres. The references to $wgSharedDB and $wgSharedPrefix that I've found seem specific to a MySQL solution. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim -- Tim Larson

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 64, Issue 30
by Ajay Dalal 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Thanks Poon. Ajay On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM, <mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Method to remove history of reverted revisions? (Jeff Lane) > 2. Re: Trouble Building texvc on RHEL 5 (Joshua C. Lerner) > 3. Re: Method to remove history of reverted revisions? (Platonides) > 4. Re: Method to remove history of reverted revisions? (Jeff Lane) > 5. Re: Deleting images/files (Jim Sutton) > 6. Customizing the main page of Mediawiki. (Ajay Dalal) > 7. Re: Customizing the main page of Mediawiki. (Ekompute .info) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) > From: Jeff Lane <jeffl(a)valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Method to remove history of reverted > revisions? > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <21573851.post(a)talk.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Platonides wrote: > > > >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight ? > > > > As I understand it, Oversight only removes the revision from viewing, it > doesn't actually remove it from the database, or hide the summary entry > from > the revision history. Is that not the case? > > -Jeff > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Method-to-remove-history-of-reverted-revisions--tp215… > Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:36:11 -0500 > From: "Joshua C. Lerner" <jlerner(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trouble Building texvc on RHEL 5 > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <24a58cbd0901201536yf3eb008u2e8bc2cbfdef8fb0(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Nathaniel Frissell <nafrissell(a)vt.edu> > wrote: > > Hi, Joshua. That didn't seem to work for me. Were you running a 32 > > bit or 64 bit version of Red Hat? > > Centos 5 running on Opteron (64-bit). Maybe try adding > > http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/ > > to your yum.conf? > > Joshua > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:19:15 +0100 > From: Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Method to remove history of reverted > revisions? > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <gl5pm3$t66$1(a)ger.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Jeff Lane wrote: > > > > Platonides wrote: > >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight ? > > > > As I understand it, Oversight only removes the revision from viewing, it > > doesn't actually remove it from the database, or hide the summary entry > from > > the revision history. Is that not the case? > > > > -Jeff > > It isn't removed from the database, but it can, for all effects, make it > disappear. No entry on history, no page to view... > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:32:04 -0800 (PST) > From: Jeff Lane <jeffl(a)valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Method to remove history of reverted > revisions? > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <21574873.post(a)talk.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Platonides wrote: > > > > Jeff Lane wrote: > >> As I understand it, Oversight only removes the revision from viewing, it > >> doesn't actually remove it from the database, or hide the summary entry > >> from > >> the revision history. Is that not the case? > > > > It isn't removed from the database, but it can, for all effects, make it > > disappear. No entry on history, no page to view... > > > > OK, thanks. I must have misunderstood it based on the description, and this > (apparently mistaken) discussion page comment: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Oversight#Hiding_the_revision_… > > We'll look into modifying Oversight or Oversight2 to automate the process > based on a given set of rev_id numbers. > > -Jeff > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Method-to-remove-history-of-reverted-revisions--tp215… > Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:41:28 +0000 > From: Jim Sutton <jimsuttonuk(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting images/files > To: MediaWiki <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <18e87a7e0901210141p2024dd5cx3f6606ba34937c9e(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi there > > Does anyone know how to permanently delete images/files from MediaWiki. I'm > running version 1.13.1 . The files are taking up space on the server and I > need to free this space up. Is it just a case of adding a line of code to > the LocalSettings.php file? I won't need the images/files after they are > deleted so will not need to undelete them. Can anyone help me or recommed a > possible solution? Thanks. > > Jim > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:36:19 +0530 > From: Ajay Dalal <ajay.bojam(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Customizing the main page of Mediawiki. > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <30f56b8d0901210206q56ee1b33qff962795d782bd1f(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Friends, > > I want to change the main page of Mediawiki to my customized page thats > totally different in look and feel to that of the wiki main page. I am > having the html page and I want to extract that page out of Mediwiki. > > How should I start? where I can find the html or php file representing the > main page so that I may alter it. > > Friends, any type of help is highly appreciated. Please provide me any link > for such material on web. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Ajay > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:00:31 +0800 > From: "Ekompute .info" <ekompute(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Customizing the main page of Mediawiki. > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <1c13c3ab0901210300v460709f7s7624f002f2746e8b(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Ajay, try this HTML to Wiki > Converter<http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/>and see if it > helps. > > PM Poon > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Ajay Dalal <ajay.bojam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Friends, > > > > I want to change the main page of Mediawiki to my customized page thats > > totally different in look and feel to that of the wiki main page. I am > > having the html page and I want to extract that page out of Mediwiki. > > > > How should I start? where I can find the html or php file representing > the > > main page so that I may alter it. > > > > Friends, any type of help is highly appreciated. Please provide me any > link > > for such material on web. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Ajay > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 64, Issue 30 > ******************************************* >

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MediaWiki plugin to record screencasts directly from the edit page
by Skoffer.com Team 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi everyone on the list, I contribute to the Skoffer project, and like to point you to my Skoffer MediaWiki plugin (GPL). Skoffer is a free uncommercial project which lets you build in a screencast recorder into your website. Since MediaWiki is great to make sofware documentations, the ability to to record screencasts (in unlimited resolutions and lengths) without installing a software (it´s Java based) could be interesting for some of you. If your website could make use of it, please have a look at http://www.skoffer.com and/or on my blog post http://www.stefanschulzesteinmann.com/skoffer-mediawiki-plugin/ If you want to see a demo: There are two screencasts in my blog post which I recorded as a demonstration. The one shows how I create the other. A happy 3. advent, Stefan Schulze Steinmann PS: By the way, you are the first persons who know about Skoffer. This mail is the project´s starting shot.

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