MediaWiki-l July 2009

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

30 Jul '09

Rolf Thanks for the speedy response. It looks as though it's just what the doctor ordered. Problem is that it produces an error when I install it:- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:UrlGetParameters#Error_when _installed.3F Charlie -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rolf Lampa [RIL] Sent: 30 July 2009 10:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dynamic Pages in a Wiki Have you examined Extension:UrlGetParameters? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlGetParameters // Rolf Lampa

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Dynamic Pages in a Wiki
by Charlie Markwick 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. EG an example is:- http://web01:2003/index.php?title=Our_Standard_Texts#LaptopRebuilds Which takes us to: "Please note that your laptop ########, serial number ++++++++, is scheduled for a rebuild. Please contact us to make the necessary arrangements." In this case we have to manually substitute a laptop hostname for ######## and serial number for ++++++++. 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. EG http://web01:2003/index.php?title=Our_Standard_Texts#LaptopRebuilds&Host Name=Developer01&SerialNumber=123456 To take us to the page and creates: "Please note that your laptop Developer01, serial number 1232456, is scheduled for a rebuild. Please contact us to make the necessary arrangements." Charlie

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

30 Jul '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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Fixing external links across a wiki
by Michelle 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQL query, but that data seems to be stored in blobs. I have no idea how to change blob contents, nor would I want to risk it! Thanks, Michelle

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Install Issue - MediaWiki 1.15.1
by Jonathan Fitzgerald (Nebusoku) 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

I have changed everything in the account for this setup to 777 and I have tried re-uploadeding everything to replace it, no change. * PHP 5.2.8 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL * Warning: PHP's register_globals <http://php.net/register_globals> option is enabled. Disable it if you can. MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. * PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under. * PHP's memory_limit is 32M. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net> , eAccelerator <http://eaccelerator.sourceforge.net> , APC <http://www.php.net/apc> or XCache <http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/> ; cannot use these for object caching. * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /home/naosu/public_html * Script URI path: * Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. . Generating configuration file... * Database type: MySQL * Loading class: DatabaseMysql * Attempting to connect to database server as naosu_parts...success. * Connected to mysql 5.0.81-community; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode * Database naosu_wiki exists * Creating tables... Warning: fopen(../maintenance/tables.sql) [function.fopen <http://naosu.cyexx.com/config/function.fopen> ]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/naosu/public_html/includes/db/Database.php on line 2212 Could not open "../maintenance/tables.sql". Backtrace: #0 /home/naosu/public_html/install-utils.inc(112): Database->sourceFile('../maintenance/...') #1 /home/naosu/public_html/config/index.php(1133): dbsource('../maintenance/...', Object(Database)) #2 {main}

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configure mediawiki to host wikibooks
by Jean Pierre Charalambos 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Dear all, I'm completely new to mediawiki software and I even don't know if this is the correct place to post my question (sorry if not). We want to setup a wiki (based on mediawiki software) to host a collection of books for an educational institution. We have just succesfully installed mediawiki (http://disi.unal.edu.co/wikiapuntes/index.php) and we thought it would be better to configure it to look more than wikibooks than wikipedia (which seems its default configuration), i.e., to configure it to have the special structure http://en.wikibooks.org has (with subject, books, modules, etc. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page_or_book) rather than a mere collection of articles. I just don't know how to twick it: is it an extension? is it a configuration option? Or is it simply the way pages are edited (meaning that pages=articles=modules)? Or something else? I have googled a lot without success; all the information that I got regards the wikibooks site itself rather than how to set up it. Any hint is really appreciated. Thanks in advanced! -- Jean Pierre

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Can maintenance/update.php be run on shared hosting?
by Ekompute .info 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, I have asked this question before and the answer seems like I can't. The alternative provided then was to reinstall Mediawiki. I tried doing that on GoDaddy but apparently, I faced the time-out. Is there any other method? Actually, it runs find on 1.14.0 but I thought I might as well upgrade it to 1.15.1. If everything fails, I will revert to 1.14.0 until such time when I am ready to go for VDS. -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store * http://aseanpedia.jbdirectory.com The Unofficial ASEAN Tourism Encyclopedia * http://webmasterteachyourself.com The Companion Guide for Newbie Webmasters and Bloggers

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Extension:Simple namespaces, The namespaces table empty error.
by sirisha mosalikanti 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi all, I have the following configuration: MediaWiki Version 1.13.3 Semantic MediaWiki Version 1.4.1 UBUNTU 2.6.27-9-server When I added this extension:Simple namespaces to the mediawiki, I expected the page Special:Namespaces should give me the list of all existing namespaces in my wiki. I do have a few custom namespaces defined in the LocalSettings.php and working fine, but still I get the following in the Special:Namespaces page. Please let me know what could be missing. ID Name Default Canonical The namespaces table is empty. -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki installation at Godaddy
by Ekompute .info 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi, I think I may have solved the problem. I used an empty database to do the installation and then linked it to the relevant one. I think I was facing a timeout error. Too early to tell yet as I am still in the midst of setting it up but it seems to look okay as you can see at Dummipedia.com<http://www.dummipedia.com>. Let's see how it goes after I copy in the image folder and customized skin. Am keeping my finger crossed. Was thinking of informing all of you after I test it and make sure it really works. GoDaddy has never been known for their technical support. What I am hoping is to keep my hosting cost down. My previous webhost, Maiahost, really do cost me a bomb. With only 2,550MB of traffic a month and starving for visitors, they insist I must upgrade to VDS. And I thought I was just using 5% of my monthly bandwidth allocation. They told me they could sell that amount to 20 people instead of my lousy $6.95 and threw me out, LOL. I asked GoDaddy for advice as to which plan I should go for and they suggested their Deluxe Plan which was exactly the same as the Maiahost plan, LOL. Same price even. But I don't want any more hassle for at least another year or two, so I opted for their Unlimited Shared Hosting Plan before I consider VDS. Thank you to everyone for the trouble caused to all of you. PM Poon On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Henny Savenije < webmaster(a)henny-savenije.pe.kr> wrote: > > >I'm not much into web developement, I don't really know if mediawiki > >uses any of Zend functionnality, perhaps am I totally wrong ;) > > If zend is installed, it will use it. Zend is only used to speed up php. > > > >Bye, > > > >Jules > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > > PM Poon > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Julien Pedrono <julien(a)pedrono.fr> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > It looks like a PHP configuration problem on the server hosting your > wiki > > > > at > > > > GoDaddy. You might have seen this message talking about problem while > > > > loading the Zend extensions... > > > > I think you should contact their support team if shared hosting, or > > > review > > > > your php configuration (try without Zend for instance). > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > Jules > > > > > > > > > > > > 2009/7/27 Ekompute .info <ekompute(a)gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > Hi, I am having a problem installing Mediawiki 1.15.1 at GoDaddy. > It > > > > says: > > > > > > > > > > The server encountered an internal error or > > > > > misconfiguration and was unable to complete > > > > > your request. > > > > > > > > > > Please contact the server administrator, > > > > > support(a)supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error > > > > occurred, > > > > > and anything you might have done that may have > > > > > caused the error. > > > > > > > > > > More information about this error may be available > > > > > in the server error log. > > > > > > > > > > *The server error log says:* > > > > > [Sun Jul 26 18:52:04 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client > denied > > > > by > > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/unknown.gif > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in > shared > > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > > Failed loading /usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so: > > > > > /usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so: cannot open shared object > file: > > > > No > > > > > such file or directory > > > > > Failed loading /usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so: > > > > > /usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so: cannot open shared object > file: No > > > > > such > > > > > file or directory > > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:00:55 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] FastCGI: > comm > > > > > with > > > > > server "/var/chroot/home/content/l/i/h/lihat88/html-x-httpd-php5" > > > > aborted: > > > > > idle timeout (60 sec) > > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:47 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client > denied > > > > by > > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/blank.gif > > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:48 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client > denied > > > > by > > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/unknown.gif > > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:48 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client > denied > > > > by > > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/back.gif > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > PM Poon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PM Poon > > > > > > * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia > > > * http://aseanpedia.dummipedia.org The Unofficial ASEAN Tourism > > > Encyclopedia > > > * http://webmasterteachyourself.com The Companion Guide for Newbie > > > Webmasters and Bloggers > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >MediaWiki-l mailing list > >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _ _ > (o) (o) > oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- > Henny (Lee Hae Kang) > ----------------------------- > http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Feel free > to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch > http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos Article about Witsen > and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary > http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Korea > through Western Cartographic eyes > http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon > http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures > http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan > (1797) > http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy > http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://aseanpedia.dummipedia.org The Unofficial ASEAN Tourism Encyclopedia * http://webmasterteachyourself.com The Companion Guide for Newbie Webmasters and Bloggers

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki installation at Godaddy
by Henny Savenije 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

>I'm not much into web developement, I don't really know if mediawiki >uses any of Zend functionnality, perhaps am I totally wrong ;) If zend is installed, it will use it. Zend is only used to speed up php. >Bye, > >Jules > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > PM Poon > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Julien Pedrono <julien(a)pedrono.fr> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > It looks like a PHP configuration problem on the server hosting your wiki > > > at > > > GoDaddy. You might have seen this message talking about problem while > > > loading the Zend extensions... > > > I think you should contact their support team if shared hosting, or > > review > > > your php configuration (try without Zend for instance). > > > Regards > > > > > > Jules > > > > > > > > > 2009/7/27 Ekompute .info <ekompute(a)gmail.com> > > > > > > > Hi, I am having a problem installing Mediawiki 1.15.1 at GoDaddy. It > > > says: > > > > > > > > The server encountered an internal error or > > > > misconfiguration and was unable to complete > > > > your request. > > > > > > > > Please contact the server administrator, > > > > support(a)supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error > > > occurred, > > > > and anything you might have done that may have > > > > caused the error. > > > > > > > > More information about this error may be available > > > > in the server error log. > > > > > > > > *The server error log says:* > > > > [Sun Jul 26 18:52:04 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client denied > > > by > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/unknown.gif > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > /web/cgi-bin/php5: Symbol `client_errors' has different size in shared > > > > object, consider re-linking > > > > Failed loading /usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so: > > > > /usr/local/zo/ZendExtensionManager.so: cannot open shared object file: > > > No > > > > such file or directory > > > > Failed loading /usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so: > > > > /usr/local/zo/4_3/ZendOptimizer.so: cannot open shared object file: No > > > > such > > > > file or directory > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:00:55 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] FastCGI: comm > > > > with > > > > server "/var/chroot/home/content/l/i/h/lihat88/html-x-httpd-php5" > > > aborted: > > > > idle timeout (60 sec) > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:47 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client denied > > > by > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/blank.gif > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:48 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client denied > > > by > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/unknown.gif > > > > [Sun Jul 26 19:01:48 2009] [error] [client 60.48.211.201] client denied > > > by > > > > server configuration: /web/icons/back.gif > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PM Poon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PM Poon > > > > * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia > > * http://aseanpedia.dummipedia.org The Unofficial ASEAN Tourism > > Encyclopedia > > * http://webmasterteachyourself.com The Companion Guide for Newbie > > Webmasters and Bloggers > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _ _ (o) (o) oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang) ----------------------------- http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos Article about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Korea through Western Cartographic eyes http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan (1797) http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies

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