MediaWiki-l February 2009

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] The use of the word WIKI
by Jan Steinman 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

> From: "Sarel Wesssels (Agri Wiki)" <swessels(a)agriwiki.co.za> > > Is there a limitation on the use of the word WIKI? We registered a > website, and it includes the word WIKI in the name. "Wiki" is a Hawaiian word that means "fast." Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki concept (http://www.c2.com) originally called his Perl script "wiki wiki web," meaning (exact literal translation from Hawaiian... NOT) "really, really fast way of getting collaborative web content up." Given the difficulty of trademarking words in common use, I would be very surprised if anyone could do anything about any use you choose to make of "wiki." :::: Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? -- George W. Bush :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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batch removal of edits?
by Christensen, Courtney 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Hi MediaWiki-ers, One of our developers accidentally kicked off a script to auto-populate a wiki with test data on one of our production wikis. We don't actually want to keep any of his edits. Is there an easier way to remove all of his edits than going to each page the script touched and deleting or reverting it? This developer was using his own user-name and has never made an edit to the wiki that we want to keep (the script edited under his username). I thought there may be a spam removal extension that would do something similar to what I need, but I was unable to find one. Thanks! Courtney Christensen

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New extension announcement: MarkitUp editor
by Carlo Polisini 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Starting from this discussion http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=33953 I posted a new extension into mediawiki extension section. It's a simple bridge to load markitUp editor and replace the default toolbar. The default toolbar is simple hided with a Jquery hide() function and no changes are made to the mediawiki core. The Jquery library is bundled with markitup package and is 1.2.3 version. I think that is an easy customizable and alternative editor. The initial releases and the SVN repository is here http://code.google.com/p/markitup-mw/. If someone want to contribute to this extension feel free to email me and request a password for SVN account. Best wishes -- Carlo Polisini

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MW 1.13.3 not sorting Categories alphabetically?
by Clayton 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

This is odd. Pages listed in Categories are not sorting alphabetically. It is very very random looking. Look at this Category for example: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Documentation/BASIC_Guide Some pages are in the right place, but not many.. most are scattered at random through the various letter headings... Under M I see pages starting with D, J, Z, F and so on.. this isn't right. Anyone have any ideas what's up here? C. -- Clayton Cornell ccornell(a)openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠hemlock.toolserver.org 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '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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Repost: Setting default namespace for user other than "Main"
by elc pub 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Hello ! Here is what I would like to do : 1. When a user logs in, I would like to put him in a Namespace called FOO by default instead of "MAIN". Is that possible ? 2. When a logged in user wants to create a new article, I would like to place that article in a Namespace of my choice. Is that possible ? Any help/pointers would be appreciated to this newbie. Regards, elcpub

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Password hashes with or without salt
by Mordur Ingólfsson 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Dear list, Hi, I just moved a Mediawiki from one Debian server to another. In the database that I imported from the previous server the user's password hashes looked like this: :B:728d4f83:c0890522e6b9dfc8e3c55a45e5c05156 but now they look like this: a4c520344c6ce5b3e2dfea3d43301a99. And no authentication works. I have found out that this has got to do with salting the hash, but I cannot seem to make Mediawiki use the salted kind of hashes, so my users are having to change their passwords, which is a nuisance. Thanks, Mordur Ingolfsson

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Math error
by Philip Beach 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

I recently restored my db from a dump to a new server. When I tried to enable math after the whole ordeal I get this error on any page with <math> tags in it: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "MathRenderer::_recall". MySQL returned error "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)". I also get that error if I create a new page with <math> tags. How can I fix this? Thanks

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hierarchy of users, employees
by Farkas, Illes 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear All, Please, tell me, if other lists would be more appropriate for the following question. Thanks. We do non-profit research at a university and our goal is to learn more about how Wikipedia can produce high quality. So far we have used mainly the dump files from the Wikimedia download site. Does anyone happen to know whether the hierarchy of Wikipedia users is public? And maybe the same for the employees of the Wikimedia Foundation? Thank you very much in advance.

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Editing message
by Tom Moitie 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

> Hi there, > > I'm looking for a way to display a message imbetween the Editing {1} > (MediaWiki:Editing) section and the textarea editbox for a logged in > user. Is this possible? > > Thanks, Tom

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