MediaWiki-l February 2009

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$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

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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

-----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-----

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Moving lots pages to a different namespace?
by Mark London 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

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.

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remove sitenotice from main page only?
by Derrick Farnell 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi I'd like a sitenotice to appear on all pages but the main page - is this possible? Thanks in advance Derrick

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{{REVISIONID}}? Or an alternative?
by Chris Watkins 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

It seems like {{REVISIONID}} doesn't work<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12694>. I've tried it on Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Appropedia, and it comes out blank. Is there another way that I can insert a revision ID into a document? I want to do it with a bot, rather than manually for each page. It should probably be the last revision id, as I need to "subst:" the value, and I'm guessing that won't work with the current value. But I'll try anything, and I'm not so concerned whether it's the current or previous revision ID. I asked on Pywikipedia-L, and got this response. Unfortunately it requires coding, and I don't understand it - so I'm wondering if there's another option. You're looking for the Page.latestRevision() function here: nicdumz@host:~/pywikipedia$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:24:49) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import wikipedia Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. >>> mainpage = wikipedia.Page(wikipedia. getSite('en', 'wikipedia'), 'Main Page') >>> mainpage.latestRevision() Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:en... 260905624 But you'll have to code yourself in python to insert it somewhere... It's sort of a "custom" use. Thanks! -- Chris Watkins (a.k.a. Chriswaterguy) Appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. identi.ca/appropedia / twitter.com/appropedia blogs.appropedia.org I like this: five.sentenc.es

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Limiting use/visibility of special-pages
by Peter Velan 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello, I installed the extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NamespacePermissions>. After defining new groups and granting rights to some users, these rights are shown in detail on Special:ListUsers. How could I remove this information from page Special:ListUsers? Could I declare every Special:<page> to be a "Restricted special page" (a page beeing shown in bold on "Special:SpecialPages" )? TIA Peter

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Redesign of media for my thesis
by Adam Meyer 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hey guys. For my thesis project I am doing a ground up redesign of mediawiki's interaction. (blue prints, not construction) Ill be looking at how people use it, from a user / contributer / administrator role and how we can help make it batter and easier. From the many wikis I have run, It seems most people are afraid to edit/ contribute to it because it is so complicated. (or seems so) Would anyone be interested in talking to me about what they do/don't like, and what they have a hard time with as an administrator? Also what your users have issues with. Thanks, Adam Meyer ameyer(a)g.risd.edu Industrial + Interaction Designer http://www.adam-meyer.com

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Extension:FileIndexer has issue with accented characters
by Francois Piette 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi ! I have installed the Extension:FileIndexer new variant (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:FileIndexer#New_Variant) from Ramon Dohle (raZe) on my version 1.12 and it works well for english text. When I upload a PDF file containing french accented characters such as e-acute ("é"), those are wrongly indexed and show on the file upload page. I've looked inside the wiki database (table wikiprefix_searchindex, column si_text) and found that an e-acute is represented as the string "u8c3a9" for any standard page while it is represented by "u8efbfbd" for the uploaded PDF entry. Actually any accented character is represented by "u8efbfbd" ! Of course searching doesn't work with such caracter substitution. "u8c3a9" is actually the code for UTF-8. I'm not sure about "u8efbfbd" but it seems is it a kind of placer holder. Any advice appreciated. -- francois.piette(a)overbyte.be Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be

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