MediaWiki-l October 2009

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '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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Probleme variable ?
by Hervé COLIN 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Bonjour, Depuis plusieurs semaines j'ai ce probleme http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4993/problemeaudowiki.jpg Quelqu'un à une solution ? Merci.

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Internalization for non-Special-Page extensions
by Tim Cronin 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello all, I have some extensions that I wrote for a project that is moving forward. The final task is internalization. For special page extensions I was able to find documentation at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Special_pages and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Internationalization that was able to get me through without a problem. However, I have some tag and hook extensions that I would like to add internalization for and I can't seem to load them properly. I have used $wgExtensionMessagesFiles and wfLoadExtensionMessages, but I am not sure if I used them properly. Any help in pointing me to documentation for this or any pointers would be great, I've begun looking through extensions in the matrix, but a lot of them don't use i18n in the same way I would like to. Thanks, Tim Cronin

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Add fields in the registration of a wiki
by Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

You can add fields in the registration of a wiki? How? Thanks! -- Guilherme Monteiro Webmaster Casa das Ciências Rua Campo Alegre 687 / 4169 - 007 PORTO GAB./SALA 351 TEL.EXTERNO 220402543 webmaster(a)casadasciencias.org

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Info on WikiTeX
by Javier Bezos 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hi all, Where can I find info on extending WikiTeX? We want to use latex in our wiki as such (not only math, or chess or greek, etc., but general text). Thanx Javier ------------------ www.wikilengua.org

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Upgrade from 1.10 on Ubuntu to 1.15 on CentOS
by Matthew Richards 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi All, My Ubuntu server running mediawiki 1.10 died and I am moving to mediawiki 1.15 on CentOS. Both installations use mysql. I have temporarily resurrected my 1.10 install so that I can recover the wiki content from the mysql database. Can I simply export the mysql database from my 1.10 install and merge it with my fresh 1.15 install (assuming no table prefixes), or do I need to keep both versions the same to migrate the mysql data and then upgrade the new install afterwards? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Matthew

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Restricting user rights
by Daniel Mendes 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hello everyone, I'm looking to create a wiki in which two sets of people have different rights to the pages. For example, one group has rights to create and modify the original content but a second group is only allowed to write a summary about the original content. Is this possible in mediawiki? -- Daniel Mendes A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. - Albert Einstein

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insert wiki text into a skin
by Oded Haim Breiner 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

im trying to render wikitext inside monobook.php, at the footer right inside the skin. i would like to put something like this between "" and "": <?php $this->html("text and [[link]]") ?>

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Announcement: Semantic MediaWiki Camp 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany Nov. 7-8
by Yaron Koren 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hello everyone, I wanted to announce the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki Camp, or SMW Camp, which will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany just about a month now, on the weekend of November 7-8. This event is the successor to previous meetings of the SMW community (though it's the first with the "SMW Camp" name), and it will feature many of the developers of SMW and its related extensions, including Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, the team behind the Halo extension, myself and others. Even for those who have never used SMW but are simply curious about it, I think this will be a worthwhile event: the first day will feature tutorials about the SMW system, including how-to demonstrations and SMW's place in both the wiki and semantic-web worlds; so newcomers will be able to get a full hands-on understanding of the system. The registration fee for the entire event is 15 euros. You can see more information about the event, and register, here: http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/SMW_Camp_09 I hope to see some of you in Karlsruhe! -Yaron

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Is it possible to copy pages
by Tony Molloy 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

HI, I'm new to wikis and mediawiki in particular. In order to learn how mediawiki and wikitext works I'm building a "Wiki Primer" wiki for our students to use with lots of examples and have two problems. 1. I've seen that you can move and rename pages but is it possible to copy pages copy pageX to pageY and have them separately editable afterwards. 2. If I have a big page ( way too big ) with several sections. Is it possible to make each section into it's own page. Now I know I can do both of these with cut-and-paste but I was just wondering if there is an easier way. Thanks, Tony -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.

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