MediaWiki-l December 2009

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Renaming customized/extra Namespaces
by Hans-Peter Brügger 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi List What do I have to consider, if I rename "ExtraNamespaces"? For example: $wgExtraNamespaces [100] = " Foo" ; rename to $wgExtraNamespaces [100] = " Bar" ; Thank you for references -- Hampa Brügger ---- www.hpbyte.ch hampa(a)hpbyte.ch PS: Is a german mailinglist available? My English is extremely bad. ;o)

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Injecting Javascript / Styles from Tag Extension
by Stephen Earl 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi, I'm developing a tag extension on MediaWiki 1.13 and I need to inject javascript and style tags into the head element only on pages where my tag extension is used. I've discovered how to do this with a parser extension and my javascript and style tags are included on every page, however I can't seem to figure out how to accomplish this with a tag extension. Can anyone point me to an example of how to do something like this? Any help is much appreciated. Steve E.

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blocking drug spam
by Helmut Hullen 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Hallo, mediawiki-l, I have a lot of problems with drug spam on my wiki http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/delete http://arktur.de/Wiki/Spezial:Logbuch/block The spammer (who uses a bundle of IP adresses) first creates a user with a name including the drug, and then he creates a user page with a contents like Benutzer:Order Pletal Cilostazol No Prescription Order Pletal Cilostazol No Prescription. Discounts and Bonuses, For women Drugs. Purchase Fast and Discreetly Online No Questions Asked! ***** Click This for Order Pletal Cilostazol No Prescription ***** ----------------------------------------------- I may not block signing up users (does mediawiki allow blocking new users?), and therefore I have to look at least daily for new users. The drug spammer changes round about every hour the user page, and because the user has signed up the spammer can feed the user page from everywhere. Now I have more than 500 spammer users (exactly: I had). I delete the page, I block the user, I block the IP address range. It's a nasty job. And I delete the user in the database using "phpMyAdmin"; that's the way the spammer has to sign up again and show the IP address of his actual system. That's a very ugly way. ========================= * (Aktuell) (Vorherige) 2009-12-03T00:08:43 74.74.249.248 (Diskussion | Sperren) (809 Bytes) (Zurücksetzen | rückgängig) * (Aktuell) (Vorherige) 2009-12-03T00:00:24 Order Pletal Cilostazol No Prescription (Diskussion | Beiträge | Sperren) (796 Bytes) (Die Seite wurde neu angelegt: "<h3><font color=blue>Order Pletal Cilostazol No Prescription. It's much cheaper than ordering at your local drugstore! No prescription is needed! <br><br> [http:/.") ========================= And I block some IP address ranges via ".htaccess" - there is some strange inconsistency (?) within mediawiki; I have seen it especially with the address 76.245.246.55. I had blocked the range (at least I believed having blocked it), and the spammer used the address nevertheless. ------------------------------------------------- Is there any chance a) to block such spam in a simplier way? b) to delete the user pages and the user entries in a simplier way? Viele Gruesse! Helmut

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collapsed tables broken
by St. Laurent, Steven 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

I've got a older mediawiki install (1.11.0) that uses NavFrame a great deal. I am moving the wiki to new hardware and trying to use collapsed tables as I understand navframe is depreciated. While the example code renders as expected.. {| class="wikitable collapsible" ! Simple collapsible table |- | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet |} Except It does not display the hide/show option. Oddly neither does the old navframe code either. Currently all extra includes are disabled and the install is as plain vanilla as it gets. My best guess is something is amiss with the javascript.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] blocking drug spam
by Helmut Hullen 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Hallo, Jan, Du meintest am 08.12.09 zum Thema AW: [Mediawiki-l] blocking drug spam: > do you have phpmyadmin or only the comando line tool "mysql"? Both possible. Viele Gruesse! Helmut

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category
by oscar 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

forwarding a reply which somehow did not come through to this list, from a long-time listmember: >Can I get a list of all the articles in category A and C, in one list? My response is a bit late. What you want is a AND function of categories. That is possible. OR functions are also possible, and summery of content etc. My company needed that functionality to. Gabriel Wicke did write some Open Source code "catfeed" I needed additional functionality, paid for it, Gabriel did develope futher. I agreed that my paid additions for this specific extension is also Open Source. So you are free to use it. See http://manual.wikiation.nl/Level_3_mediawiki_extension_catfeed for the documentation and you can play with it on http://experimenteer.wikiation.nl (login and change your preference language to English may be easy for you.) This is an experimental wiki so do not be afraid you destroy something. Localization has to be completed, and some minor changes. Just an idea as an possible alternative. Bernard Hulsman *end of forward* all the best, oscar [[m:User:Oscar]] -- *edito ergo sum* ****************** The information contained in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. The message is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or reproduction is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by return e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ******************

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falling back to local database
by asaf＠lingnu.com 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

in case the user is not found on LDAP, I'd like to try normal authentication. I tried : $wgLDAPUseLocal = true; but it just writes the debug line : "Allowing the local domain, adding it to the list." and doesn't log in. (when disabling the plugin, I can login using same user/pass) was that the purpose of wgLDAPUseLocal ? thanks

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Re-Writing page titles
by Anne Wilson 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

While considering what we can do to make translated pages more accessible we come up against the fact that by default page names remain in English, with only the langcode appended. This makes things difficult for, for instance, readers of Cyrillic or Chinese scripts. One experiment has been to use redirects, so that the blahblah_(uk) page goes instead to one with a translated title. For an example, see http://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Utilities_(uk). The only snags we see there are that there must be an awareness of the two-parts of the translation job, and that it will result in very many pages which contain only a redirect. Please correct me if I'm wrong in thinking that this will not put a significant extra load on the server. There is a further problem, though, if we wish to avoid the English+langcode title. Some pages consist of only an application name, which will not, of course, be translated. At the moment we can't see any way other than using the langcode to separate them. There is even the possiblity of other pages, particularly in Scandinavian languages, having the same page-name, due to similarities in the languages. This seems to open up a huge can of worms. We had a brief moment of hope when we saw {{DISPLAYTITLE:DesiredTitle}}, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name seems to say that it can't help us. Has anyone tackled these problems? Or does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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Multiple wikis with GoDaddy's sharedhosting
by Ekompute .info 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi, I have been scouting the internet for how to have a common set of Mediawiki files (in one common folder) for all my wikis. Because of the way GoDaddy creates the IP address for each wiki, I believe I have to have the specific LocalSettings.php file inside each individual subfolder (unlike some examples that are available in the internet). I don't know whether my problem is more than linking the subfolder to the common folder (containing the Mediawiki files). Anyone knows if there is a writeup somewhere which I may have missed? I have written to GoDaddy but apparently, well, they ask me to upgrade to dedicated computer or something like that. -- PM Poon

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Backup/Restore with large database
by beachboy4231 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hello all, After dumping and restoring to a fresh wiki install a fairly large database (over 2GB) the main page fails to load, all I get is a white page. I'm assuming the backup/restore failed, but I'm not sure which one. Are there any special considerations to take when working with large databases that could be causing my backup and/or import to fail? Thanks!

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