MediaWiki-l April 2009

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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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Tell maintenance scripts our URL via LocalSettings
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 04 May '09

04 May '09

Several maintenance scripts wish to use the URL of the server, but of course this is not available, as we are running a maintenance script: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18274 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18362 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Fix_for_Maintenance_Scripts Would the solution be to officially say that if the user intends to use maintenance scripts, he should have something like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18274#c6 in LocalSettings.php? Also maybe maintenance scripts should bomb out instead of guessing we meant http://localhost and hoping for the best.

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wiki versus Word
by McHale, Nina 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey, all, Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we ought to be entering information into wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes it a wiki... I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated that it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form that's meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state that do not need further editing. Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as I can tell, does not support uploading of Word docs. Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian Auraria Library http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/ Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672599042> | MySpace<http://www.myspace.com/ninermac> Serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the Community College of Denver 1100 Lawrence Street Denver, CO 80204 303-556-4729

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wiki versus Word, part 2
by McHale, Nina 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey, all, Thanks for your quick and fantastic responses! I am loving this list. :) I take the excellent point about looking at whether this is the right tool for the job. However, the decision to use a wiki comes out of two consultant recommendations to use a wiki and reactions to a failed Sharepoint intranet installation (dating to around 2000) that people hated because it required use of proprietary software, in that case, Microsoft FrontPage. Moreover, the specific decision to use MediaWiki was vetted through all of the proper channels, and no one raised any objections. Thanks again, everyone! Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian Auraria Library http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/ Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672599042> Twitter: ninermac Serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the Community College of Denver 1100 Lawrence Street Denver, CO 80204 303-556-4729

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Raw HTML works in Preview but not when Saved
by Andrew Coe 02 May '09

02 May '09

I originally posted the following on www.mwusers.com and couldn't get a solution. Can I please get some assistance? ------- I am trying to embed the following into a mediawiki page, and it works in the preview but not when saved. It keeps saying "Screen Creation Failed. File May Be Corrupted." The RawHTML setting is properly set to 'true' in LocalSettings.php. Obviously the filename and location are okay if mediawiki can render it in preview, but something is off if it can't do it after clicking Save Page. This, btw, is an embedded object using Right Hemisphere Deep View (3D image viewer), which is properly installed on my computer. Any ideas? <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <H2 align="center"></H2> <P align="center"> <OBJECT ID="Right Hemisphere_obj" TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CLASSID="CLSID:1110E0D7-D33E-438C-88A4-1FA6A88F9A6B" CODEBASE=" http://www.deep3d.com/downloads/products/deepview/install/deep.cab#version=… " width="100%" height="100%"> <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="images/b/b2/XYZ.rh"> <PARAM NAME="LicFile" VALUE="/license.rhl"> <PARAM NAME="RenderMode" VALUE="8"> <PARAM NAME="AnimationMode" Value="2"> <PARAM NAME="ShowTextures" VALUE="1"> <PARAM NAME="RenderAPI" VALUE="1"> <PARAM NAME="SelectedMode" VALUE="2441"> <PARAM NAME="ShowGUIShowToolbar" VALUE="0"> <PARAM NAME="ShowHiddenGeometry" VALUE="0"> <embed src="images/b/b2/XYZ.rh" quality=high pluginspage=" http://www.deep3d.com/downloads/products/deepview/install/deep.cab#version=…" type="application/x-oleobject" height="100%" width="100%"></embed> </OBJECT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>

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Categorias
by Dipi Evil Danger 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

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Image Directory Issues
by Russ Lavoy 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I am running mediawiki 1.14.0 on CentOS 5 apache 2.2.3 I use to have my documentroot set to /var/ww/site but changed it to /var/www/differentsite Mediawiki is looking for images in /var/www/site/images instead of looking at the /var/www/differentsite/images New uploads work as expected, but all of the old images are broken since the documentroot change. Is there some type of data in the DB that holds this information? Because I need to fix this, but I am definitely not a DB so I do not know how to do that. But if I can get information on where in the DB the upload location is stored I can likely modify the entries there... Can anyone help me with this? Thanks

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

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