MediaWiki-l April 2009

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '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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Monobook.css and Common.css not loading in Firefox
by Bobby S 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I have an odd problem - it seems the monobook.css and common.css aren't loading for Firefox (but they are for IE and Chrome). I have tried CTRL + F5 to reload the cache, and I have even noted this problem on a few different PCs, so it isn't isolated. Has anybody every noticed this issue before? I am on 1.14, and the only thing that is different about my installation is that it is behind a username and password to get to the site right now. Below is the portion of the page source that has the CSS calls. <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/skins/common/shared.css?195" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/skins/common/commonPrint.css?195" type="text/css" media="print" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/skins/monobook/main.css?195" type="text/css" media="screen" />     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&usemsgcache=yes&ctype=text%2Fcss&smaxage=18000&action=raw&maxage=18000" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Print.css&usemsgcache=yes&ctype=text%2Fcss&smaxage=18000&action=raw&maxage=18000" type="text/css" media="print" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&usemsgcache=yes&ctype=text%2Fcss&smaxage=18000&action=raw&maxage=18000" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/index.php?title=-&action=raw&maxage=18000&smaxage=0&ts=20090413150731&gen=css" type="text/css" />

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Account Creation error after upgrading from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0
by Philip Beach 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Ever since I upgraded late last night, all new user accounts are being created twice. At least it appears this way on the Recent Changes page and account creation log. This happened for all new users since the update. Here is a sample entry: # (User creation log); 00:01 . . FooBar (Talk | contribs | block) New user # (User creation log); 00:01 . . FooBar (Talk | contribs | block) New user I upgraded using the usual (WITH shell access) method, first extracting the files into the wiki root with the "strip-components" option, then running php update.php in the maintenance directory. I've been upgrading ever since 1.9 like this and never had an issue. Any ideas? Thanks

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svn update mediawiki and extensions at same time
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

How does one update mediawiki and installed extensions at the same time? The best I can come up with is: $ svn update . extensions/NewestPages At revision 49225. At revision 49225.

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Changing the sidebar in Monobook
by Claus Juhl Knudsen 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi all, I'm working on a new stylesheet based on Monobook and I want to move the 'p-personal'-portlet to the bottom of the sidebar. 'Moving' the portlet from the top-left corner of the screen is no problem, but it displays above the navigation and toolbox portlets in the sidebar, and it can't be moved via 'Mediawiki:Sidebar'. What to do? Please? Thanks! /Claus

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How is Wikipedia's redirect structure set up?
by Bobby S 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Here is an example: Fort Wayne TinCaps If you type "fort wayne tincaps" in to Wikipedia you will get to "Fort Wayne TinCaps" without having to set up a redirect. However, with a typical Mediawiki installation you have to set up those redirects if there is either different capitalization within a word or at the beginning of one word but not the other.

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Separate databases for text and images
by Ekompute .info 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi, I would like to implement Wikipedia's image feature where it can automatically link to Wikimedia Commons without downloading another copy of the image. However, I do not want to link to Wikimedia Commons but to my own separate database. The reason why I intend to do this is because my webhost has suggested that I do not exceed 200MB for my database. At present, I have already exceeded this proposed limit because of all the images that I have downloaded. I was thinking of breaking up Dummipedia.org <http://dummipedia.org> into a few subdomains, but then realized that since text files do not occupy much space, I might as well transfer all the images into a separate database. This will avoid both linking and category problems. Any advice will be helpful. PM Poon

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Permissions in Mediawiki v. 1.17
by Tim Ware 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Where can I view a good resource on setting permissions in MW v.1.17? I'd like to somehow set them by category, if that seems the best way. Thanks. Tim ......................................................... ! ............................................................. Tim Ware .. HyperArts .. 201 4th Street, Ste 404 .. Oakland CA 94607 t: (510) 339-6084 .. f: (510) 339-6086 .. e: tim(a)hyperarts.com http://www.hyperarts.com Map

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How to remove sitenotice from all the category pages
by Ekompute .info 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi, I am trying to remove sitenotice from all the category pages. How do I go about doing it? PM Poon

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Adding Get Satisfaction widget to Mediawiki
by Jeremy Baron 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Can I have a link to your wiki to see it myself? On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Bobby S wrote: > Jeremy, > > Hey - I tried what you wrote re: Get Satisfaction's widget, but what I > end up with is a text FEEDBACK link at the bottom of each page. It > should be a feedback graphic like the one on the right of this page: > > http://getsatisfaction.com/widgets > > Also, with regard to the capitalization issue - that actually is my > point, that Fort_wayne_tincaps has never existed, but when you type in > fort wayne tincaps it goes to Fort Wayne TinCaps. On my Mediawiki > install I created a page called "Fort Wayne TinCaps", but when I type > in "fort wayne tincaps" it says the page doesn't exist - basically I > would have to set up a redirect. > > Bobby > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jeremy Baron > <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote: >> I forgot to mention that you'll need to load the script and wait >> until the >> JS is finished loading before calling it's functions. >> >> So try this: >> common.css: >> @import >> url('http://s3.amazonaws.com/getsatisfaction.com/feedback/ >> feedback.css'); >> >> common.js: >> importScriptURI("http://s3.amazonaws.com/getsatisfaction.com/ >> feedback/feedback.js"); >> addOnloadHook(function importGSFN(){ >> var tab_options = {} >> tab_options.placement = "right"; // left, right, bottom, hidden >> tab_options.color = "#FFF"; // hex (#FF0000) or color (red) >> GSFN.feedback('http://getsatisfaction.com/jetblue/feedback/topics/ >> new?display=overlay&style=idea', >> tab_options);}); >> >> The thing about adding the container still applies with this code. >> >> On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: >>> >>> There's no need to write an extension or modify any php. >>> >>> You can accomplish that just by modifying common.js and common.css >>> ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Common.js , >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Common.css ) >>> >>> It looks like part of it is just a floating iframe w/ position >>> fixed + >>> absolute so it might be fine out of the box but you might end up >>> having a >>> piece placed at an undesirable location. (possibly changing from >>> page load >>> to page load or browser to browser) >>> >>> If there are any problems you can use an undocumented feature of >>> their JS >>> (at least not documented at getsatisfaction.com/widgets ): >>> add this line before GSFN.feedback: tab_options.container = >>> "mycontainerid"; >>> add a div somewhere on your site with that id >>> Then the getsatisfaction html will be placed in that container >>> div instead >>> of just document.write'ing. "mycontainerid" can be whatever you >>> want >>> (assuming no conflicts with Since it's an undocumented feature >>> there's no >>> guarantee that it won't break without notice. >>> >>> On Apr 12, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Bobby S wrote: >>>> >>>> I am trying to add the Get Satisfaction widget to Mediawiki. >>>> Here is >>>> some sample code: >>>> >>>> <style type='text/css'>@import >>>> >>>> url('http://s3.amazonaws.com/getsatisfaction.com/feedback/ >>>> feedback.css');</style> >>>> <script >>>> src='http://s3.amazonaws.com/getsatisfaction.com/feedback/ >>>> feedback.js' >>>> type='text/javascript'></script> >>>> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> >>>> var tab_options = {} >>>> tab_options.placement = "right"; // left, right, bottom, hidden >>>> tab_options.color = "#FFF"; // hex (#FF0000) or color (red) >>>> >>>> GSFN.feedback('http://getsatisfaction.com/jetblue/feedback/ >>>> topics/new?display=overlay&style=idea', >>>> tab_options); >>>> </script> >>>> >>>> Does anyone know how I could do this? I assume there are two >>>> routes - >>>> one directly in Monobook.php and another as an extension. I'm >>>> actually surprised there isn't an extension for this, but could >>>> anyone >>>> help me out on what to do? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> Bobby

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