MediaWiki-l May 2009

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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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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

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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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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Browsing wiki page in Mozilla FireFox opens the FIle Open Dialog Box
by Uniyals 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Hi, I have created a wiki site for my project documentation. Its running on Windows XP, IIS5.1 and MySql and PHP 5.2. Now When I open the wiki site in IE 6 or greater the site works perfectly fine. All the links works. But when I open my wiki site on Mozilla Firefox the Main Page load fines but after clicking on links it starts to show up the Open FIle Dialog box (shown in the attached file.). Need help in fixing this problem. Thanks for the help in advance.

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extension template feedback
by Rich Evans 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hello, I have just finished my first official third-party mw-extension and wanted to get some advice. My extension is called "MCCP" and is specifically designed to help people who are tasked with configuration management (CM) of any complex collection of systems. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mccp I am witting to the mediawiki-l group to ask for some feedback/advice from anyone who has been successful in making their extensions well known and widely-used. Specifically, I'm hoping someone can tell me if I have posted the extension correctly on the http://www.mediawiki.org for public-use and if there is anything specific I should do to let people know that it exists. The extension requires other components such as WGET, PEAR and SSL and a custom skin which I have bundled in with the extension. Since this extension has all these other dependacies, I though it would be most helpful to provide a complete "Installation Walk-through" on the discussion page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Mccp Please take a peek and let me know if this effort has a credible place in the mediawiki extension collection and how I could best let it be found by the people who might best be served by it. truly, - Rich (revansx)

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Looking for help with Extension GoogleSiteSearch on v1.14
by Jake Ford 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

I am trying to install the extension GoogleSiteSearch. On Mediawiki v1.14 The extension page has several example sites using it, but they all seem to be using older versions. Has anyone had success using this extension on v1.14? Jake Ford Cell: 615.418.3858 Office: 931.648.8414 Strobe Tech, LLC PO Box 31594 1812-B Alpine Drive Clarksville, TN 37040 www.strobetech.com www.Kiva.org - Loans That Change Lives

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TasksExtension & Parser interaction breaks lists
by Jan Steinman 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

We've been using the great Tasks Extension to put lite (extremely lite) project management in our wiki. Unfortunately, where we '''really''' want to use <tasks> is within lists, which is how we format meeting minutes, which is where action items are assigned, formatted individually as <tasks>...</tasks>. Tasks are run through the parser, which apparently is putting extra line breaks in, which then messes up the list formatting. You can see a good example here: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Minutes:20090503 If you scroll down to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th bold ACTION text, you can see that they are embedded in a level-2 bullet list, but that they are causing the list to be re-set with an extra line feed. I know it's the parser that's doing this, as I can edit extensions/ Tasks.php and replace "$parserOutput->getText()" with "$summary", which is what is being sent through the parser. In such a case, the $summary is not parsed, and the bullet list looks like it is supposed to. I have a copy of Tasks.php (modified to do agreements, rather than tasks) that you can see behaving in this non-parsed manner, in our Sandbox: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Sandbox I've looked at ParserOptions, hoping to find something like $mDontAddExtraLinefeeds but to no avail. :-) If I replace parse($summary...) with the private method replaceInternalLinks($summary), it looks like it is supposed to, except of course that wikitext formatting and internal links are lost. (And I don't really want to be sending private methods nor hacking around in Parser.) Any thoughts on what's going on, and how best to fix it? Thanks for whatever advice you can offer! :::: Magic: using envisioned intent and directed action to select your desired future path from among the infinite ones available. :::: :::: Jan Steinman, Communication Steward, EcoReality: http://www.EcoReality.org ::::

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Problem installing nath - Was: (no subject)
by Platonides 30 May '09

30 May '09

Henny Savenije escribió: > I installed a wiki for my son and since he's crazy about math, I > tried to install the math extension. I followed the instructions > > * Change to the "math" sub-directory of your MediaWiki install > * Run 'make' (or 'gmake' if GNU make is not your default make). > This should produce the texvc executable. > * Enable $wgUseTeX and $wgEnableUploads in your LocalSettings.php > and everything should work. > However if I run make I get the following. > ocamlopt -c util.ml > make: ocamlopt: Command not found > > Anybody any ideas. You need ocaml installed. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Enable_TeX

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