MediaWiki-l May 2009

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wiki versus Word
by McHale, Nina 05 May '09

05 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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don't post through Gmane please, Platonides
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 05 May '09

05 May '09

Platonides (and others) don't post through Gmane! Just mail directly to the WMF lists, please. Of the $ w3m -dump -cols 222 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2009-April/author.html |grep -c Platonides$ 17 articles you posted, only $ w3m -dump -cols 222 'http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Platonides%40gmail.com&group=gmane.o…'|grep -c Platonides.*2009-04 5 are visible on Gmane, the remaining 12 met the fate of http://gmane.org/spam-control.php , meaning they are invisible to normal Gmane users, unless you know their secret URLs, like $ lynx -dump -width=222 -nolist http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/30592/raw |grep -A 5 X-Spam-Report X-Spam-Report: 5.9 points; * 0.9 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (Split IP) * 4.5 SPF_HELO_FAIL SPF: HELO does not match SPF record (fail) * [SPF failed: Please see http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=rima-tde.net&ip=88.4.227.135&receiver=…] * 0.5 DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS RBL: Envelope sender in whois.rfc-ignorant.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:30592 gmane.spam.detected:4359838 But from a non-marked-as-spam article of yours: $ lynx -dump -width=222 -nolist http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/30712/raw |grep X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 22.red-83-51-57.dynamicip.rima-tde.net $ host -t txt rima-tde.net rima-tde.net TXT "v=spf1 mx:rima-tde.net -all" Hmmm... http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework#SPF_FAIL_rejection http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39228023-39001093c-20049704o,0… http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html Etc. I give up. Anyway, let this be a warning for others who don't post directly. Now let's turn to people reading lists via Gmane's NNTP interface. To be able to see Platonides's messages, one needs to not have any filter group=gmane.spam.detected action=discard etc. in their readers.

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Migrating mediawiki site to mediawiki catagory
by Russ Lavoy 05 May '09

05 May '09

I am in the process of migrating all our our mediawiki installations into one installation. In order to do this I need to export all of the site data and re-import it into a category on a different site. Is there any tool I can use to do this? If not, what is the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks!

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Images repository via http
by Russ Lavoy 04 May '09

04 May '09

Is there anyway we can set the images directory to be a URL and not a local path on the Hard Drive or shared mount point? Images upload directory is fine, its when the users browse the site and render the images is when I have an issue. The issue only presents it self when an images is updated. I am having issues with NFS caching and would like to mitigate it using a URL GET instead of going through NFS. Any suggestions with this? Thanks!

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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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Confused about $wgScriptPath
by Theodore D. Sternberg 03 May '09

03 May '09

I'd like to change $wgScriptPath from the default of "/wiki", but I'm having trouble. If I want to change it to, say, "/mfqzww", do I need to create a directory called "mfqzww" somewhere? (Didn't think so; there's no directory called "wiki".) Generally, I don't understand where things are. When I point a browser to localhost/wiki, I get redirected to localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. I see I have an index.php in /srv/mediawiki (same as the directory with LocalSettings.php). But where is Main_Page? There's no such file. Is Main_Page just something in a MySql database? My goal is quite simple. I'm trying to set up a wiki for myself and a few friends (we're not all on the same network though), and I'd like to rely on obscurity to keep the material reasonably invisible to the rest of the world. Unwanted visitors might guess http://tedsserver.net/wiki, but probably not something like http://tedsserver.net/mfqzww. So that's all I want to do; change "wiki" to "mfqzww". And unfortunately, just changing $wgScriptPath doesn't seem to be enough.

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Invito personale da Alessandra Bialrdi
by Alessandra Bialrdi 03 May '09

03 May '09

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$wgSharedUploadPath
by Ekompute .info 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi, can anyone help me interprete the following passage from Mediawiki.org:$wgUseSharedUploads<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseSharedUploads> : If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload path using $wgSharedUploadPath<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSharedUploadPath>. If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the shared repository if no file of the given name is found in the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this directory. Uploads to the wiki will NOT be put there - they will be put into $wgUploadDirectory <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUploadDirectory> . Presently, I am operating multiple wikis and I think this is a good idea, but the above instructions assume some background knowledge and are incomprehensible for a novice like me. Supposing I create a new wiki and database just to upload images and article categories (as in Wikipedia). How should I go about doing it? PM Poon

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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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Extension:TitleKey
by Ekompute .info 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi, I am tyring to use the TitleKey extension for Version 1.14. It works perfectly for articles that exist but returns the following error for articles that do not exist: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "TitleKey::exactMatch". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'aseanped_dummipedia.titlekey' doesn't exist (localhost)". What a waste! I find this a really good extension for the search function. Does anyone knows how to tweak the extension a little so that it ignores articles that don't exist? PM Poon

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