MediaWiki-l May 2009

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Styles sheets
by Greg Webb 23 May '09

23 May '09

17/05/2009 13:01:48 This seems like a dumb question but I can't locate the answer from the page source. In which CSS file is the styles 'mw-headline' stored? Thanks ___________ Greg

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 20 May '09

20 May '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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Wiki volunteers needed for site.
by Sitesponsor 20 May '09

20 May '09

Looking for experienced Wiki volunteers to help launch a social project. Various levels needed to help organize a format and build content. Please check out the site and let me know. We quickly learned that our project needs a way to associate topics on a single page, above my level to figure out. This and many other job functions are needed. I suppose I need to upgrade software and extensions, looks complicated. We are using MW 12. Please contact me at support(a)sunrisewiki.org. Does anyone know another place where I can recruit wiki volunteers; setup techs, moderators, editors, etc. ? Thanks, Sitesponsor -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-volunteers-needed-for-site.-tp23646834p23646834.… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Authentication
by Soriano, Melissa 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi Mediawiki folks, I am trying to set up authentication for our existing wiki against an external database. I currently do this successfully for my subversion database using Apache's mod_auth_pam module. For our wiki, I would like to use a similar approach. I tried to use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HttpAuth. Does this make sense? I am using MediaWiki 1.14.0 PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny3 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny1 I downloaded the HttpAuth module, added the following lines to LocalSettings.php: session_start(); if ((!empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) && !empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])) || $_COOKIE['fpwiki_en_UserID']) { require_once("$IP/extensions/HttpAuthPlugin.php"); $wgAuth = new HttpAuthPlugin(); $wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = array($wgAuth,'autoAuthenticate'); } I then added the following lines to http.conf: <Location /w/Special:UserLogin> AuthType "basic" AuthName "wiki" AuthPAM_Enabled on AuthPAM_FallThrough Off SSLRequireSSL Require valid-user </Location> The result is that when users visit Special:UserLogin, they get a pop-up screen and must authenticate using PAM. They can then see the Special:UserLogin screen and must login again (which isn't compared to our external database). This isn't quite what I wanted. I am new to Apache and web administration. Does anyone have any advice? Thank you. Regards, Melissa Soriano

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Authentication question
by McHale, Nina 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi, all! Back with an authentication question. I set up Tom Mollerus' single sign on method yesterday: http://www.mollerus.net/tom/blog/2008/09/single_signon_to_mediawiki_113_usi… ...and before that I'd set the following in the LocalSettings.php settings file: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; Per staff request, we also have an .htaccess file that restricts access to campus IPs (apparently, we're the freaking CIA). I know some of this may be redundant now, but I'm still trying to sort out the best way to set up authentication. However, the single sign on seems to have negated those $wgGroupPermissions settings in LocalSettings.php. As in, I can log in with my network password, then log out, but still see and edit pages. Any ideas? So basically, I'm looking for the best method to provide single sign on that requires network password to view and edit. (I think I can lose the IP settings in the .htaccess file now that we're hooked in to LDAP, as long as I don't let anyone create new accounts.) Yours in authentication ineptitude, :) Nina

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UserRightsList 0.52
by Jim Hu 20 May '09

20 May '09

I just updated UserRightsList to version 0.52. Key changes: - works in 1.14 - searches for users who are not assigned to a group. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserRightsList Jim ===================================== 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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Placement of robots.txt-file
by Claus Juhl Knudsen 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi. Where is the robots.txt-file to be placed? In the root-folder: ...Apache2.2/htdocs/my-wiki-name/? -- Claus Juhl Knudsen eArkivar Silkeborg Lokalhistoriske Arkiv www.silkeborgarkiv.dk Tlf.: 87 22 19 27

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Password fail after upgrading 1.6.10 > 1.14.0
by Django Boy Eijgensteijn 19 May '09

19 May '09

Password fail after upgrading 1.6.10 > 1.14.0 - MediaWiki version: 1.14.0 and 1.6.10 - PHP version: Php 5 - MySQL version: 5.0.77 - URL: I'm upgrading directly from the 1.6.10 to 1.14.0. I unpack the script from the site. Erase LocalSettings.php. Everything works after commenting some extensions. But, here is the problem. When trying to log in as SuperUser, the password don't match. Ryan_Lane tryed to help me with IRC. I tryed : $wgPasswordSalt = false; But doesn't work either. I'm wondering if you know where i can change this. I think the password could be crypt differently during the upgrades. Kind Regards ---------------------------------------- Django Boy Eijgensteijn @ : djangoboy(a)gmail.com Skype : dj.ango23 Visseringstraat 91 1051 GM Amsterdam The Netherlands M : +31 (0) 6 14 777 842 Van Bossestraat 84-b 1051 KC Amsterdam The Netherlands Quartier Condon 26400 Grane France M: +33 (0) 6 78 50 61 10 ----------------------------------------

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MediaWiki release candidate 1.15.0rc1
by Tim Starling 18 May '09

18 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1, a release candidate for the 2009 Q2 branch of MediaWiki, is now available. Please try it out and tell us if it works for you. This is a beta release and is not recommended for use in a production environment. SQLite support has been re-enabled. SQLite is a lightweight serverless database engine. All you need is the client library (which comes with PHP), and a place to put files. It should be great for small personal wikis and resource-limited shared hosts. Please try it out. A new user preference has been added, allowing the user to specify their gender. This is primarily for the benefit of localising interface text in languages which have gendered second person pronouns, such as Russian. A user's gender is currently only available via the {{GENDER:}} parser function. More applications may be added later. Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_0RC1/phase3/RELEASE… ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0rc1.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.14.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0rc1.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.0rc1.patch… GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0rc1.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.0rc1.patch.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.0rc1.patch… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoOSnEACgkQ8F4kYQ4+MpOxlwCfUGd4zFVHYZ7JSIXVYntcwS/t 2n0An0Fbhth3p2fIgMjx1k6g0KcgPCcY =p6Lw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Iframe in mediawiki
by s c 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello, I am a relatively new user of mediawiki. I am trying to embed an iframe in a wiki page. Can you please let me know how I can go about this? Thanks so much for your help. -SC

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