MediaWiki-l July 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 15 Sep '09

15 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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Per-namespace categories
by Kenneth Porter 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I'm using a site which covers multiple related games and there are topics that have the same name for each game. These topics are then gathered into hierarchies of MediaWiki categories. Is there any way to use some kind of namespace mechanism to allow the same category name to be used for multiple games? For example, given the game prefix names WoW and WCIII, could I have WoW:Categories and WCIII:Categories? More discussion here: <http://www.wowwiki.com/Forum:On_dropping_the_World_of_Warcraft_prefix>

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Help debugging Warnings
by Bill Traynor 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Any idea what would cause and how to fix the following Warnings? Warning: file_get_contents() [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /var/www/mediawiki-1.14.0/includes/HttpFunctions.php on line 116 Warning: file_get_contents(http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Title_blackli… [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: Success in /var/www/mediawiki-1.14.0/includes/HttpFunctions.php on line 116 The warnings are triggered when I Edit a page. Thanks Bill

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Visite mon profil Netlog
by sebastien bracq 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Salut, J'ai créé un profil Netlog pour y mettre mes photos, vidéos, un blog et les événements auxquels j'assiste. J'aimerais t'ajouter dans mes amis pour t'en faire profiter. Il te suffit d'abord de t'inscrire pour y créer ton propre profil ! Jette un coup d'oeil: http://fr.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=389815698&id=1&url=-L2… A plus, sebastien ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tu ne veux plus recevoir d'invitations de la part de tes amis ? http://fr.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=389815698&id=2&url=-L2…

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dynamic Pages in a Wiki
by Charlie Markwick 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Yes there are just the two of us and security inside is not an issue in this context. This looks very interesting. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jan Steinman Sent: 30 July 2009 17:53 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dynamic Pages in a Wiki Are your users trusted? If so, you might try the SQL2Wiki.php extension. Not sure where I found it, but it's probably on the MediaWiki site in Category:Extensions. I don't think it will do exactly what you want -- it displays everything in HTML tables -- but we're experimenting with using it for project management and inventory, and it looks promising. In any event, if you can do some PHP programming, the SQL2Wiki.php would probably be a good place to start to make your own custom extension. But don't put this on a site with public access. Hate to think of all the trouble that could be caused! :::: Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? -- George W. Bush :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com :::: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dynamic Pages in a Wiki
by Jan Steinman 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

> Currently we hold our company procedures and process on a wiki. Our > other systems have links to the relevant pages in the wiki. Thus our > inventory system might have a link to standard text that needs to be > sent out... > > As the Inventory system knows both these values, are there any ways of > building a more dynamic wiki page so we can populate the text. Are your users trusted? If so, you might try the SQL2Wiki.php extension. Not sure where I found it, but it's probably on the MediaWiki site in Category:Extensions. I don't think it will do exactly what you want -- it displays everything in HTML tables -- but we're experimenting with using it for project management and inventory, and it looks promising. In any event, if you can do some PHP programming, the SQL2Wiki.php would probably be a good place to start to make your own custom extension. But don't put this on a site with public access. Hate to think of all the trouble that could be caused! :::: Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? -- George W. Bush :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::

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