MediaWiki-l January 2009

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

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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External Authentication trouble
by Jim 22 Jan '09

22 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. Do I need to do only pieces of it? Everything? I'm just not following. SO, I'm hoping someone can spell it out for me. Let's say I have a PHP script (lets call it ourmethod.php) that puts up a web page and authenticates a user using our method. Exactly how do I get MediaWiki to display ourmethod.php for the login and what exactly do I need to do to ourmethod.php to have it tell MediaWiki "this guys ok"? Thanks!

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Method to remove history of reverted revisions?
by Jeff Lane 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Can anyone think of a method to completely remove edit revisions that have been reverted from the database, or even just the revision history? Before implementing spam prevention measures, we had a large number of edits created by spam bots that flooded the revision history of a fairly large number of pages. All of the edits were reverted (almost always by the very next edit), but the revision history remains. In some cases, it's very large and obscures the true authors of the page and makes diffs cumbersome. I've seen the revision hiding option in MediaiWiki, but it isn't really designed for what we need, because it makes the revision inaccessible, but the entries are still logged in the history. And it's an edit-by-edit process (which makes sense for its intended purpose). I know we could wipe the edit history altogether, and we may end up doing that on some pages, but ideally we could remove these "zero sum" edits and the credits of the original edits would remain. Ideas? -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.

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Customizing the main page of Mediawiki.
by Ajay Dalal 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

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

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting images/files
by Jim Sutton 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

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

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Trouble Building texvc on RHEL 5
by Nathaniel Frissell 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi. I'm trying to install LaTeX support on my MediaWiki installation, but I am having trouble building texvc on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine. I am using OCAML 3.10.1. When running "make" from ../wiki/ math/, I get the following errors: ocamlopt -c util.ml /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:62: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:80: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:128: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `call' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:164: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:181: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:199: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:206: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:212: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s:219: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push' Assembler error, input left in file /tmp/camlasm82bc9f.s make: *** [util.cmx] Error 2 I have done a substantial amount of internet searching and could not find help. I also do not have any experience with OCAML. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! ~Nathaniel

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Illegal mix of collations and Extension:DynamicPageList
by Alessandra 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi all, I have got install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList I'm using it into two wiki web site: gbrowse.org and other internal site. wiki version is 1.13.1 and DPL version is 1.7.4 I'm testing some tips about dpl as {{#dpl: |category=Animalia{{!}}Plantae{{!}}Archea{{!}}Fungi{{!}}Bacteria{{!}}Protista |notnamespace=Category |ordermethod=title |mode=userformat |includepage={Shortcut}:image |format=, {{OrganismsList{{!}}name=[[:%NAMESPACE%:%TITLE%|%TITLE%]]{{!}}image=,}}, |count=1000 }} it works in http://gbrowse.org/wiki/index.php/GBrowse:Organisms but it doesn't works in internal site and I have got this error: The DPL extension (version 1.7.4) produced a SQL statement which lead to a Database error. The reason may be an internal error of DPL or an error which you made, especially when using DPL options like titleregexp. Query text is: SELECT DISTINCT `page`.page_namespace as page_namespace,`page`.page_title as page_title, REPLACE(REPLACE(CONCAT( IF(`page`.page_namespace=0, , CONCAT(CASE `page`.page_namespace WHEN 1 THEN 'Talk' WHEN 2 THEN 'User' WHEN 3 THEN 'User_talk' WHEN 4 THEN 'CRIBI_Genomics' WHEN 5 THEN 'CRIBI_Genomics_talk' WHEN 6 THEN 'Image' WHEN 7 THEN 'Image_talk' WHEN 8 THEN 'MediaWiki' WHEN 9 THEN 'MediaWiki_talk' WHEN 10 THEN 'Template' WHEN 11 THEN 'Template_talk' WHEN 12 THEN 'Help' WHEN 13 THEN 'Help_talk' WHEN 14 THEN 'Category' WHEN 15 THEN 'Category_talk' END, ':')), `page`.page_title), '_', ' '),'♣','⣣') as sortkey FROM `page` INNER JOIN `categorylinks` AS cl0 ON `page`.page_id=cl0.cl_from AND (cl0.cl_to='Grape_Genome_Team') WHERE 1=1 AND `page`.page_is_redirect=0 ORDER BY sortkey ASC LIMIT 0, 500 Error message is: Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) and (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) for operation 'concat' (localhost) unique difference about wiki site is that gbrowse.org was born with 1.13.1 wiki version and internal site was upgraded to 1.13.1 wiki version. I observed that others have got egual problem: after upgrade, http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Issue:DPL_SQL_Error_with_MediaWIki… after mistake, http://mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8707 .. can you help me about? thanks, alessandra.

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nowiki tag not working for me
by Dave Derry 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I don't have much experience with MediaWiki, so this may be a dumb question, but ... I'm writing a tutorial for our team. In it I reference example URLs, which, since they are just examples, don't go anywhere. When I enter something like http://test.efx.com:8080/sample I get a link. What I want is just plain text. I found the nowiki tag, which seems to be what I need. However, when I enter <nowiki>http://test.efx.com:8080/sample</nowiki>, what I get is a link surrounded by nowiki tags. In other words, the tags are displayed rather than being interpreted. Is there some configuration setting that needs to be made? Or something else that I'm missing? Using the latest stable MediaWiki on Solaris 10, running under Resin 3.1.7a. Thanks, Dave Equifax, LLC

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Allow only certain users to edit page
by Rowe, Dolores A 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

What is the best way in MediaWiki 1.10.0 to allow a small group of certain users to edit page A, and a different group of certain users to edit page B ? I did see the extension that might work when I am able to upgrade to 1.11.0 sometime, although I was worried about the big pink warning on the top of it. (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Group_Based_Access_Control_Extension) Any help for version 1.10.0 ?? thx, Lori

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Image map for circles
by Ekompute .info 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi, I have a square border on the green button imagemap<http://dummipedia.org/Free_Simplified_Online_Encyclopedia>when it is clicked. It is very unsightly. How do I modify this code in Monobook.php: <A HREF="http://dummipedia.org/Special:Random"> <IMG SRC="http://dummipedia.org/images/c/cf/Button.png" HEIGHT="55" WIDTH="55" ISMAP USEMAP="#monkareas"></A><br /> <A HREF="http://dummipedia.org/Special:Random"><font face="Times Roman">random pick</font></A></small> It seems that I have to add it in the html page but where is the html page, since it is not in the text area but in the panel on the left. PM Poon

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