MediaWiki-l March 2009

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$wgForeignFileRepos confusion
by Tim Larson 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I wanted to experiment with a "commons" site, so I created two sites, uploaded one file to each, and got the first to pull media from the other if it didn't exist locally. Yay! I also set up my wikishare to use MW Commons. This works nicely, insofar as it loads images from MWC. But the description of this feature said the files were supposed to be fetched once then cached locally to save on bandwidth. So...shouldn't the MWC image now be available to wiki1, as well? Perhaps this "chaining" wouldn't work if it was _first_ requested from wiki1 (I can understand the request methods might be different so it wouldn't work quite the same), but at least after requested from (my local) wikishare since it should be cached there? Where is it cached? Thanks, Tim

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MediaWiki developer meeting is drawing close
by Daniel Kinzler 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

The meet-up[1] is drawing close now: between April 3. and 5. we meet at the c-base[2] in Berlin to discuss MediaWiki development, extensions, toolserver projects, wiki research, etc. Registration[3] is open until March 20 (required even if you already pre-registered). The schedule[4] is slowly becomming clear now: On Friday, we'll start at noon with a who-is-who-and-does-what session and in the evening there will be an opportunity to get to know Berlin a bit. On Saturday we have all day for presentations and discussions, and in the evening we will have a party together with all the folks from the chapter and board meetings. On Sunday there will be a wrap-up session and a big lunch for everyone. We have also organized affordable accommodation: we have reserved rooms in the Apartmenthaus am Potsdamer Platz[5]. Staying there is a recommended way of getting to know your fellow Wikimedians! I'm happy that so many of you have shown interest, and I'm sure we'll have a great time in Berlin! Regards, Daniel [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-base [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009/Registration [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009#Outline [5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009#Apartmenthaus_…

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LDAP- and File-Authentication
by Marc Patermann 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, I first set up Mediawiki with LdapAuthentication extension, which worked fine against my OpenLDAP server. On another wiki I had to include file based user authentication (or "non-ldap" authentication). The is a WebDAV dir next to the wiki, so there is Apache httpd basic auth implemented on the server. The basic auth uses ldap and as a fallback file auth and - as far as I can see for now - works. So I switched to Auth_remoteuser instead of LdapAuthentication. This works for the ldap users. But it does not for the file users. I can see the authenticated user in Apache's access log. But if try to make any changes (which require auth) with a file user, I get the http auth dialog in the browser, cannot auth again and cannot save the wiki changes. ldap user "bar" submit: 10.49.9.139 - bar(a)ofd-sth.niedersachsen.de [06/Mar/2009:11:26:05 +0100] "GET /wiki/index.php5/Diskussion:Hauptseite HTTP/1.1" 200 12005 "http://xxxs165/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&action=submit" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)" file user "foo" is logged in: 10.49.9.139 - foo [06/Mar/2009:11:45:13 +0100] "GET /wiki/skins/common/images/button_sig.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://xxxs165/konsens_I/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&action…" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)" file user "foo" can not edit: [Fri Mar 06 11:45:18 2009] [warn] [client 10.49.9.139] [32120] auth_ldap authenticate: user foo authentication failed; URI /wiki/index.php5 [User not found][No such object], referer: http://xxxs165/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&action=edit How do I get ldap and file user auth work side by side? Marc

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki guide in swedish
by Micke Nordin 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org skrev: > > Is it online-only or are you also printing some? I'd love to get my > hands on a copy for the Wikimedia Foundation office; we've got a > nice little collection of Wikipedia and MediaWiki-related books. For now it's online-only, but they've actualy asked me yesterday if I could redo some of the screen shots so that they would be in an high enough resolution if they would want to go ahead and print at a later stage. /Micke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmwM1cACgkQzdNqVVhZvLw3YwCeKZIeWsFI2wjnwdRnjx4bQBjI JS4AoIA75mrV8lue0lgblLRkRfPtrUrN =s+zi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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{{REVISIONID}}? Or an alternative?
by Chris Watkins 06 Mar '09

06 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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MediaWiki guide in swedish
by Micke Nordin 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, folks! My self and David Öhlin have written a guide to MediaWiki for the Swedish Internet Infrastructure Foundation (http://www.iis.se/about). It is titled "Create a Web Site with Mediawiki" (rough translation) and can be found here: http://webbstjarnan.se/images/stories/documents/mediawiki.pdf It is released under GFDL v.1.3 and we did use some of the help texts from sv.wiki as the base for the guide. We (that is Brion Vibber :) have also set up a swedish mailing list (mediawiki-sv(a)lists.wikimedia.org) in order to be able to give support in swedish. Just to let you know what is happening in Sweden :) /Micke Nordin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmvjvQACgkQzdNqVVhZvLxTBACePrdUaYa1EJjjoOb+6Lryi1ba t+kAnjoE6vpiI/rGK7ffOFczVVmGyefR =43fu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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What is best Forum extension
by Lainie Hoverstad 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

What is the best forum software that can be integrated with Mediawiki? Is there an extension for a good Forum. This one looks good; anyone tried? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AWC%27s_Forum

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Best way to handle subdomains
by Ekompute .info 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, how do I copy all the category pages form one Mediawiki website into another? It is really time consuming to do it manually. Suggestions deeply appreciated. PM Poon

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Perte des mots de passe/Lost passwords
by Julien Pedrono 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Bonjour, J'ai un souci avec mon wiki: L'installation date d'il y a quelques mois, je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de travailler dessus depuis, et je n'ai noté nulle part les mots de passe admin ou utilisateurs. Je me demandais s'il existe une procédure officielle pour récupérer ces mots de passe, ou s'il est possible de connaitre le format des mots de passe afin de les modifier directement sans mysql. Merci d'avance. Julien ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, I'm in trouble with my wiki: I installed mediawiki a few months ago, I since didn't have time to work on it, and I never wrote down my admin or users passwords. I wonder if I could find a "howto" to recover thoses passwords, or if it's possible to know mediawiki password format so that I can change it with a mysql query. Thanks by advance. Julien

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

05 Mar '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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MediaWiki-l March 2009