August 2009 - MediaWiki-l - lists.wikimedia.org

Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '26

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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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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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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RSS Feed on Category
by Verhoeven, Peter 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi, It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages. Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages within a specific category? Regards Peter Verhoeven This message and attachment(s) are intended solely for use by the addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or agent thereof responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and with a 'reply' message. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Replacing Newline
by Waseem Sayegh 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

How can you replace a newline with a line break? I tried {{#replace:{{{1}}}|\n| }} but it doesn't seem to be picking up the '\n' at all. Is there a way, or even a workaround?

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !
by Cetateanu Moldovanu 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:45 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd(a)gmail.com>: > > > I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. > Please > > respect us. > > > If by "respect" you mean "agree" and "do what I say" ... then I'm not > surprised you have no insight as to why no-one cares about your > request. > Please don't change my words. It was already promised http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html that it will change, this mail is a remind of that promise that we remember. Today is one of the biggest and most important national moldavian holiday ! And just want let you know about that, and about the fact that there is some anomaly on the very influential and biggest encyclopedia in the world, Wikipedia. And to my surprise, Wikipedia move very very slow to do anything, even if was already promised. >Cyrillic Moldovan is at best inaccurate and at worse understandably highly offensive. Indeed. Usually moldovan people are very shocked when they discover the actual version of mo.wikipedia, read your own ( http://apps.facebook.com/causes/39775 - Delete "moldovan" Wikipedia 2805 members) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1639/31082009163401.png (page the comment of the users)

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !
by Cetateanu Moldovanu 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

>the world the language that you claim to be "your own" is written in I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. Please respect us. "The Moldovan language has often been successfully identified as and called Romanian." That's very true, that's why I'm asking, that's why I'm (and others too) iritated to see "Молдовеняскэ" on your front page, just like in the soviet occupation times. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hoi, > French, English, German, Tamil and many other languages are not only spoken > in the "country of origin". The Moldovan language has often been > successfully identified as and called Romanian. When in this other area of > the world the language that you claim to be "your own" is written in > Cyrillic then it must be tough on you. > > Given that for all kinds of reasons the wikipedia you refer to may be > removed makes the argument that the language is not yours anyway any less > potent. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd(a)gmail.com> > > > Hello everyone, > > > > 20 years ago on 27 august 1989, 700 000 of moldovans (of a 4 millions > > popoulation) went to the center of Chișinău (the capital of Moldova) to > the > > *Piața Marii Adunări Naționale*, the biggest square in the city, and > shout > > "limbă alfabet" (language and the alphabet) and for country independence, > > that event is called "Great National Assembly" (Marea Adunare Națională) > > which declared it's language "Moldavian" and it's script "LATIN". > > (here are a documental movie about this event > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSfmhLOxO0, in the 4th part you can find > > that declaration) > > > > Please respect that wish and delete the cyrllic mo.wikipedia.org that > > claims > > to be our language, and remove/change the name of our language written in > > cyrllic "Молдовеняскэ" on your first page wikipedia.org. > > > > Thank you wikipedia. > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >

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31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !
by Cetateanu Moldovanu 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hello everyone, 20 years ago on 27 august 1989, 700 000 of moldovans (of a 4 millions popoulation) went to the center of Chișinău (the capital of Moldova) to the *Piața Marii Adunări Naționale*, the biggest square in the city, and shout "limbă alfabet" (language and the alphabet) and for country independence, that event is called "Great National Assembly" (Marea Adunare Națională) which declared it's language "Moldavian" and it's script "LATIN". (here are a documental movie about this event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSfmhLOxO0, in the 4th part you can find that declaration) Please respect that wish and delete the cyrllic mo.wikipedia.org that claims to be our language, and remove/change the name of our language written in cyrllic "Молдовеняскэ" on your first page wikipedia.org. Thank you wikipedia.

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Left-hand panel or right-hand panel?
by Ekompute .info 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi, I was just wondering whether it is better to have the panel of the Mediawiki skin on the left or on the right. I understand that panels on the right-hand side facilitate search engine optimization (SEO) but I have not seen any difference at all to my Alexa ranking after I changed the panel to the right a month ago. Personally, I am so used to the panel on the left. Moreover, I am left-handed and that makes it so much harder for me to access the panel on the right. I believe that right-handed users would find WordPress layouts more friendly since the panel is located at the right. Opinions greatly appreciated. I am thinking of returning the panel to the left. -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store

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Special Page: Executing SQL query with a browser click
by Eric K 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

(sending again, my last message didnt appear in the list) ------------------- In my own special page, I've made a custom query (e.g., DELETE * from table). I want to display an HTML link, which when clicked by the user viewing that page executes that SQL query. How can I do that?

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RecentChanges in DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
by Blome, Christian 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi, is there a possibility to show a list of pages with recent changes with the extension "DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)"? After reading the documentation and some stuff about this extension, I have the impression that only pages which are categorized can be recognized by this extension. The output of this extension is better than the view I can get with {{Special:RecentChanges}}... Thanks for any hint, Christian

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Strange error that shouldn't theoretically happen
by Juliano F. Ravasi 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi everyone, I'm the author of the Wikilog MediaWiki extension. Today, a user contacted me about an error that MediaWiki is reporting concerning the extension: Detected bug in an extension! Hook WikilogHooks::UnknownAction failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort. Backtrace: #0 ...\includes\Wiki.php(526): wfRunHooks('UnknownAction', Array) #1 ...\includes\Wiki.php(63): MediaWiki->performAction(Object( OutputPage), Object(WikilogMainPage), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest)) #2 ...\index.php(116): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(WikilogMainPage), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest)) #3 {main} The error message seems really obvious, except that there should be no way for the reported function to finish without returning a value. You may check it near the bottom at this address: http://svn.juliano.info/svn/mediawiki/extensions/Wikilog/tags/0.7.2/Wikilog… static function UnknownAction( $action, &$article ) { if ( $action == 'wikilog' && $article instanceof WikilogCustomAction ) { $article->wikilog(); return false; } return true; } I can't see any way that this function would not return either true or false. Needless to say, I can't reproduce this behavior on my own installation. Does anyone have experienced something similar, or have any idea that could enlighten the situation? The user's versions: WinXP with IIS 5. MediaWiki 1.15.1 PHP 5.3.0 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL 5.1.37-community Wikilog 0.7.2, no other extensions Regards, Juliano. -- Juliano F. Ravasi ·· http://juliano.info/ 5105 46CC B2B7 F0CD 5F47 E740 72CA 54F4 DF37 9E96 "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." -- Erin Majors * NOTE: Don't try to reach me through this address, use "contact@" instead.

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eAccelerator installed, not recognized by MW
by contact＠64north.net 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

PHP 5.1.6, Centos 5.3 x64 MW installed via ATrpms, mediawiki-1.15.1 eAccelerator installed via 'yum install php-eaccelerator' which installed eaccelerator-5.1.6_0.9.5.2 phpinfo() shows: Quote: eAccelerator eAccelerator support enabled Version 0.9.5.2 Caching Enabled true Optimizer Enabled true Memory Size 33,554,376 Bytes Memory Available 28,066,960 Bytes Memory Allocated 5,487,416 Bytes Cached Scripts 33 Removed Scripts 0 Cached Keys 0 MW shows: "Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching." Yes, I did restart httpd, no joy. There are number of occurrences of this issue in the IRC channel logs, but unfortunately the answers are difficult to find (if there are any). Google wasn't all that helpful just yet, so I figure to give this a shot. If anyone has any ideas at all, I would much appreciate some feedback. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Peter

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Mediawiki and proxy pass
by John Mcauley 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hey everyone, I have a proxy from one machine - first.domain.com/site serving a wiki on a second machine - second.domain.com/wiki. The wiki serves perfectly untill a user logs in and then the /site is dropped and the wiki does not display. Has anybody come across this before? I've searched about and it appears to be a common problem but I can't find a solution. Any help is very appreciated. J

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Special Page: Executing SQL query with a browser click
by Eric K 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

In my own special page, I've made a custom query (e.g., DELETE * from table). I want to display an HTML link, which when clicked by the user viewing that page executes that SQL query. How can I do that?

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php 5.2.10 and MW 1.6.5: bad characters
by parker yao 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

I have been using MW 1.6.5 and PhP 5.2.3 for some time and it works fine. I just installed PhP 5.2.10 and my wiki pages are totally unrecognizable. Each page has many boxes and letters. See the following for example: Does anybody know why? Thanks!!!! eH�A䤯�s%JT�y��{��?b?-SK pv�� uj*ad��Ww�ʃ��J�>i�_R_��Rn!��E�4Z�d��PvD�-�a�� X��_R��?k%l1UK�?)��;��TD�"�Y݌�4w�:�� dy]�~�=T��D �wO&h��vc�u��v/��ãq��4<��BH�xr��=\t ��z��Po�8��ȋ�h�NR Wl@UQ��!�5��:$'y�-�Z��V�`��O�ID�6ͦ�9��L��l5`��dѬ�1 s!

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MediaWiki Developers
by Marcus Whitney 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Greetings all, Are there dev shops or freelancers with great reputations who work primarily on the MediaWiki platform? If so, can anyone suggest some? I need a resource because my parent company has a strong desire to create a Healthcare based wiki with extra features. Thanks, Marcus Whitney

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '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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'contains' search
by Robert Carter 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi everyone, I'd like to make a custom search box for our wiki that will do a 'contains' search. I have tested using the mediawiki API and that gives a 'begins with' search. The format is just what I need, but how to do a 'contains' search? - using API or some other method. Rob

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension with some page-dependent data
by CW Dillon 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Gabor, You might want to look at this extension. It may already give you want you're looking for. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:R -CW

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension with some page-dependent data
by Gábor Csárdi 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Dear All, I'm writing a MW extension that runs R (www.r-project.org) code and displays the results. More precisely, the code is run by another program on another machine, the extension only passes the code to it, receives the results, formats and displays them. I defined a custom tag for this, everything between <rcode>...</rcode> is evaluated as R code. So far so good. Now, what I would like to do is having a single R session for the whole page, instead of creating an R session for every <rcode> tag. Where should I store the extra data for the R session? Optimally, the first <rcode> tag on the page would create the R session, store it, and the rest of the <rcode> tags would just use it. Then, when the page was rendered (or there was an error), the R session would be closed, its associated data deleted. I am sure that there is a good solution for this, as it is a quite general problem. If you can point me to some extension that uses a similar technique, that is also fine. Thanks a lot, Gabor -- Gabor Csardi <Gabor.Csardi(a)unil.ch> UNIL DGM

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Change logo according to namespace
by Haim (Howard) Roman 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I'd like to change the logo (set by $wgLogo) according to the current namespace. But how to get the current namespace? The only way I can see is to call getNamespace(), e.g., in the Wiki.php of my wiki: $ret = Title::newFromURL( $title ); ... $ret->getNamespace() != NS_SPECIAL Is that the way? If so, how would I set "$ret" (in this case) to be the title of the current page? Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)

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Extension:News
by Anna CASTILLA 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Bonjour à tous, Je viens vers vous vous demander de l'aide. Mon problème est le suivant : J'ai installé l'Extension:News (version 14) - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News. Lorsque j'écris la syntaxe permettant d'utiliser l'extension une erreur apparait : Fatal error: Call to protected method ChangesList::insertDateHeader() from context 'NewsRenderer' in .../extensions/News/NewsRenderer.php on line 494 Savez-vous comment corriger cette erreur ? Je vous remercie. Cordialement, Anna Castilla annacastilla959(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez toutes les possibilités de communication avec vos proches http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx

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language link
by j.p.bx＠web.de 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hallo together, after searching unsuccessful for a solution I hope to get some help from you ... I would like to have a link in my sidebar to change the language of the menu (sidebar, instructions etc.). I will not have another wiki in other language. Thank you Jörg ______________________________________________________ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de

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Multilingual Magic Words?
by John Thomson 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hi all, I manage a private wiki for an organization whose users are both English and French. They would like to be able to use some of the Date & Time variable Magic Words, having the results displayed in the users' language of choice. So, using {{CURRENTDAY}} would produce either "Monday" or "Lundi", depending. I was rather surprised to see that just changing my user's preferences did not force this translation automatically, as it does for the interface and navigation links. When my language preferences are set to either "En" or "Fr", using the Magic Word {{LOCALMONTHNAME}} produces "August", invariably. Do I have to create a new extension to handle this kind of functionality, or should this just work and I am suffering from some unknown pilot error? Thanks, John

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Mediawiki using excessive CPU on shared server
by Francesco Petracca 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

I have a shared server account with Lunarpages that I have been using for the past three years to host a fan wiki for a tv show. Everything was running smoothly until about a month or so ago. It was a couple of weeks after I had updated to Mediawiki 1.15 (I had been using 1.13 previously). I got a message from Lunarpages that index.php was using too much of the server's processor power (spiking from 1.3% - 2.5% cpu, the allowable limit on the shared server is 1% ). They disabled the script until I could find a solution. There was a fatal error that I noticed in my php error log: [20-Jul-2009 16:57:40] PHP Fatal error: require() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '{EDIT}//w/includes/parser/LinkHolderArray.php' (include_path='/{EDIT}/w:/{EDIT}/w/includes:/{EDIT}/w/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /{EDIT}//w/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 582 Shortly before the incident, 1.15.1 had come out and it did have some bugfixes so I upgraded, figuring the error may have been the cause of the spike. After the upgrade, I noticed no more fatal errors. The issue seemed to go away for a bit, until I got a notice a couple of days later of another spike: Average %CPU usage - 1.35 Average %Memory usage - 0.82 Average %MySQL usage - 0.1 {EDIT} 1.35 0.82 0.1 Top Process %CPU 50.0 [php-cgi] Top Process %CPU 43.0 [php-cgi] Top Process %CPU 34.0 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi /{EDIT}/public_html/w/index.php Is my wiki just outgrowing the shared host? In the past 6 months my daily averages have been ~15-31k hits amongst 500-1000 visitors. Any ideas what I can reasonably expect Mediawiki to support while staying under my host's 1% load (I'm not sure of their hardware....) Are there certain questions I should be asking the tech support people to try to narrow down where the issue lies? Are there any configuration settings I should know about that could minimize the load? I've already turned off all the ajax functions. I really can't afford a dedicated server just for a hobby site, but I'd hate to have to bring the wiki down. It'd also be a pain to find a new host since I just this month paid for the next year of hosting. Thanks for all the help you can offer. -F.t. Petracca

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Mediawiki- and Xampp-Upgrade
by Katharina Wolkwitz 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hi all, at the moment I've got my wiki running with mediawiki 1.14.0 and Xampp 1.7.1 (PHP 5.2.9 (apache2handler), MySQL 5.1.33) When I tried to upgrad to Xampp 1.7.2 last Friday, I ran into some problems with the SelectCategory- and CategoryTree-extensions, so I made a new test-clone of my production-machine (easy, because I'm using VMs), to get a clean test-machine before trying again. Xampp 1.7.2 comes with Apache 2.2.12, MySQL 5.1.37, PHP 5.3.0 and now I'm wondering, wether it would be better to - upgrade Mediawiki to the current version before upgrading Xampp - upgrade Xampp first and get the extensions-problems solved before upgrading Mediawiki - upgrade Xampp first and get the extensions-problems solved without upgrading Mediawiki - upgrade Mediawiki without upgrading Xampp (at least for the moment) - leave the whole system as it is ??? Has anyone here upgraded to Xampp 1.7.2 yet and are willing to share their experiences with me? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katharina Wolkwitz Fachhochschule Südwestfalen Hochschulbibliothek Haldener Straße 182 58095 Hagen Tel.: 02331/9330-607 FAX: 02331/9330-608

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Favicon and Special:SpecialPages
by Katharina Wolkwitz 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hi all, I've got two wikis running on two different servers which are essentially the same (one's the production-version, one's the test-version) for which I've defined two different favicons. The lines in LocalSettings.php are: $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; #$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/fhbwiki2.jpg"; #$wgFavicon = "$wgStylePath/common/images/fhbwiki2.ico"; #der Wiki-Testserver bekommt ein anderes Logo; kawo 11.10.07 $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/fhbwiki-test.jpg"; $wgFavicon = "$wgStylePath/common/images/fhbwiki-test.ico"; So far so good - the test-version of my wiki displays the test-version-favicon on every page - exept Special:SpecialPages where the production-version-favicon is used. I've got no idea, where this favicons comes from. I've even deleted the production-version-favicon, restarted xampp, killed the cache, killed the browser - nothing works. Does anybody have an idea where I could look? Thanks! Katharina

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
by jeroen De Dauw 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hey, Those services are indeed impressive. Thanks a lot for the awesome suggestion! I'm going to try to add a handler for this service right away :) Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ________________________________ From: Joel Natividad <joel.natividad(a)gmail.com> To: jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> Cc: semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:30:17 PM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Jeroen, Have you looked at geonames? They have an impressive list of free web services (http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html). I used them myself for a project 2 years back and its pretty good. Best, Joel On Aug 23, 2009, at 8:12 AM, jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, > >I see your point. Would you find the geocoding approach acceptible if an open source service was available next to the ones of Google and Yahoo? I've been seraching for such an altternate and open source service before the 0.2 release, but simply was unable to find a decent working one. If you know one, please let me know! > >I'm going to poke Yaron about your suggestion to add the DMS notation, if he thinks it's a good idea, I'll implement it before 0.4. Of course, if someone feels like doing that, feel free to do so, but give me a poke to avoid double work. > > >Cheers, >Jeroen De Dauw > > >Forum: code.bn2vs.com >Blog: blog.bn2vs.com > >Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs > >Don't panic. Don't be evil. >70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > > > > ________________________________ From: Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> >To: jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> >Cc: semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:47:14 PM >Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released > >Jeroen: > >Geocoding means using a proprietary service, and getting a license that could easily be revoked. I don't know how acquainted you are with American politics, but let me tell you this: Google.com has been playing politics with their search engine, their tools, everything. They have rigged their searches to push politically conservative and religiously oriented sites to the bottom of the rankings--which is why my wiki never bears mention in any search on Google, but they bear plenty of good mention on other search engines. > >If they have demonstrated their willingness to play politics with their search engine, what is to stop them from playing politics with any of their other /proprietary/ APIs? A /proprietor/ reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason or no reason. > >I don't want to be held at the mercy of any /proprietor/. That rather defeats, even violates, the purpose of open-source. I want to be able to do all my maps on OpenLayers, and stay away from Google, if I can. I'm not even sure that our license (the GFDL) would even /allow/ us to do anything else. That aside, we have a policy to stay a million kilometers away from anything that even hints at a legal encumbrance. > >Besides: some of my sites are ancient, and might not even exist anymore. For such sites, geocoding, even /open-source/ geocoding, would be flatly impossible. > >Temlakos > >jeroen De Dauw wrote: >> Hey, >> >> >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a >> map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and >> seconds? >> No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is pretty low. >> Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with coordinates all together. >> >> [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding >> >> Cheers, >> Jeroen De Dauw >> Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> >> Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> >> Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs >> >> Don't panic. Don't be evil. >> 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> >> *To:* jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> >> *Cc:* semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> *Sent:* Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released >> >> Dear Jeroen: >> >> Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a >> map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and >> seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use >> floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, >> and that seems rather pointless to me. >> >> What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a >> landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the >> immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified >> coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. >> >> A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it >> would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place >> markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write >> an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, >> minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? >> >> Temlakos >> >> jeroen De Dauw wrote: >> > Hey, >> > >> > First of all, let me introduce myself. >> > I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation >> > this year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping >> > extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki >> > <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki> [0] with Yaron >> > Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about >> > this at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2]. >> > >> > The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are >> > the extensions: >> > >> > Maps >> > Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an >> > extension that provides the ability to display coordinate data, using >> > multiple mapping services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] >> > and Yahoo Maps [6], and allows users to geocode addresses. >> > >> > Semantic Maps >> > Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> >> > [7] is an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps >> > extension, and therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit >> > coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using >> > multiple mapping services. These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and >> > Yahoo Maps. Semantic Maps and Maps are based on Semantic Google Maps >> > and Semantic Layers, and are meant to replace these extensions. For >> > this extension to work, you need to have both Semantic MediaWiki and >> > Maps installed. >> > >> > You can download both extensions via their documentation pages. >> > Suggestions and feature requests are welcome. >> > >> > [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki >> > [1] http://yaronkoren.com/ >> > [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/ >> > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps >> > [4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ >> > [5] http://openlayers.org/ >> > [6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ >> > [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps >> > > Cheers, >> > De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen >> > > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> >> > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> >> > Xfire: bn2vs ; Skype: rts.bn.vs >> > >> > Don't panic. Don't be evil. >> > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Semediawiki-devel mailing list >> > Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >> Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july_______________________________________________ >Semediawiki-devel mailing list >Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > -- Joel Natividad joel(a)natividads.com Think Different!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
by jeroen De Dauw 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hey, >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and seconds? No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is pretty low. Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with coordinates all together. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ________________________________ From: Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> To: jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> Cc: semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Dear Jeroen: Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, and that seems rather pointless to me. What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? Temlakos jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > First of all, let me introduce myself. > I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation > this year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping > extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki > <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki> [0] with Yaron > Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about > this at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2]. > > The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are > the extensions: > > Maps > Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an > extension that provides the ability to display coordinate data, using > multiple mapping services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] > and Yahoo Maps [6], and allows users to geocode addresses. > > Semantic Maps > Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> > [7] is an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps > extension, and therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit > coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using > multiple mapping services. These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and > Yahoo Maps. Semantic Maps and Maps are based on Semantic Google Maps > and Semantic Layers, and are meant to replace these extensions. For > this extension to work, you need to have both Semantic MediaWiki and > Maps installed. > > You can download both extensions via their documentation pages. > Suggestions and feature requests are welcome. > > [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki > [1] http://yaronkoren.com/ > [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/ > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps > [4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ > [5] http://openlayers.org/ > [6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ > [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps > > Cheers, > De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen > > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > Xfire: bn2vs ; Skype: rts.bn.vs > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released
by jeroen De Dauw 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hey, I see your point. Would you find the geocoding approach acceptible if an open source service was available next to the ones of Google and Yahoo? I've been seraching for such an altternate and open source service before the 0.2 release, but simply was unable to find a decent working one. If you know one, please let me know! I'm going to poke Yaron about your suggestion to add the DMS notation, if he thinks it's a good idea, I'll implement it before 0.4. Of course, if someone feels like doing that, feel free to do so, but give me a poke to avoid double work. Cheers, Jeroen De Dauw Forum: code.bn2vs.com Blog: blog.bn2vs.com Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! ________________________________ From: Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> To: jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> Cc: semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:47:14 PM Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released Jeroen: Geocoding means using a proprietary service, and getting a license that could easily be revoked. I don't know how acquainted you are with American politics, but let me tell you this: Google.com has been playing politics with their search engine, their tools, everything. They have rigged their searches to push politically conservative and religiously oriented sites to the bottom of the rankings--which is why my wiki never bears mention in any search on Google, but they bear plenty of good mention on other search engines. If they have demonstrated their willingness to play politics with their search engine, what is to stop them from playing politics with any of their other /proprietary/ APIs? A /proprietor/ reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason or no reason. I don't want to be held at the mercy of any /proprietor/. That rather defeats, even violates, the purpose of open-source. I want to be able to do all my maps on OpenLayers, and stay away from Google, if I can. I'm not even sure that our license (the GFDL) would even /allow/ us to do anything else. That aside, we have a policy to stay a million kilometers away from anything that even hints at a legal encumbrance. Besides: some of my sites are ancient, and might not even exist anymore. For such sites, geocoding, even /open-source/ geocoding, would be flatly impossible. Temlakos jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > >Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a > map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and > seconds? > No, they do not support that notation. It would not be that hard to implement, but no one has asked for it before, so I guess the demand is pretty low. > Is simply geocoding the actual addresses with the build in #geocode parser function [0] not an option? That way you can avoid having to work with coordinates all together. > > [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps#Geocoding > > Cheers, > Jeroen De Dauw > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > Skype: rts.bn.vs ; Xfire: bn2vs > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> > *To:* jeroen De Dauw <jeroen_dedauw(a)yahoo.com> > *Cc:* semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net; mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > *Sent:* Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:18:19 AM > *Subject:* Re: [SMW-devel] Maps and Semantic Maps released > > Dear Jeroen: > > Does either Maps or Semantic Maps provide a means by which to display a > map with a marker at a set of coordinates given in degrees, minutes, and > seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use > floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, > and that seems rather pointless to me. > > What I would like to do is design a template for a settlement, or a > landmark (e.g., mountain, hill, valley), that will include a map of the > immediate region and automatically place a marker at the specified > coordinates in the article on that settlement or landmark. > > A query formatted as a map with many points on it looks great. And it > would be wonderful for an article on a country, because I could place > markers for every city and/or landmark in that country. But when I write > an article for a city or a mountain, I annotate coordinates in degrees, > minutes, and seconds. Or must I get used to specifying them in floats? > > Temlakos > > jeroen De Dauw wrote: > > Hey, > > > > First of all, let me introduce myself. > > I'm Jeroen De Dauw, one of the GSoC students for Wikimedia foundation > > this year. During the last 2 months I've been working on 2 new mapping > > extensions for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki > > <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki> [0] with Yaron > > Koren <http://yaronkoren.com/> [1] as mentor. You can read more about > > this at my blog <http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/> [2]. > > > > The first version of both extensions has just been released. These are > > the extensions: > > > > Maps > > Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps> [3] is an > > extension that provides the ability to display coordinate data, using > > multiple mapping services, including Google Maps [4], OpenLayers [5] > > and Yahoo Maps [6], and allows users to geocode addresses. > > > > Semantic Maps > > Semantic Maps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> > > [7] is an extension that adds semantic capabilities to the Maps > > extension, and therefore provides the ability to add, view and edit > > coordinate data stored through the Semantic MediaWiki extension, using > > multiple mapping services. These include Google Maps, OpenLayers and > > Yahoo Maps. Semantic Maps and Maps are based on Semantic Google Maps > > and Semantic Layers, and are meant to replace these extensions. For > > this extension to work, you need to have both Semantic MediaWiki and > > Maps installed. > > > > You can download both extensions via their documentation pages. > > Suggestions and feature requests are welcome. > > > > [0] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki > > [1] http://yaronkoren.com/ > > [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/semantic-maps/ > > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps > > [4] http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ > > [5] http://openlayers.org/ > > [6] http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ > > [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps > > > Cheers, > > De Dauw '[RTS]BN+VS*' Jeroen > > > Forum: code <http://code.bn2vs.com>.bn2vs.com <http://code.bn2vs.com> > > Blog: blog.bn2vs.com <http://blog.bn2vs.com> > > Xfire: bn2vs ; Skype: rts.bn.vs > > > > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > > 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > > Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Maps and Semantic Maps released
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

T> seconds? All your examples for simple display of a single point use T> floating-point degree quantities. This would force me to hand-convert, T> and that seems rather pointless to me. Hmmm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord can take both formats for example.

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Wikimania Codeathon in Buenos Aires next week
by Brion Vibber 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Wikimania’s classic “Hacking Days” event is back, and better than ever as the Wikimania Codeathon will be open throughout the entire conference this year: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Codeathon Based on the success of April’s Developer Meet-up in Berlin, we’re starting with an “unconference”-style planning session to let attendees break out into common working groups. The fun begins at 10am Tuesday, August 25 (note — this is the day before the main conference begins). The coding room will remain open throughout the rest of the conference, so folks can pop in and out between other sessions. We’ll be in Room F at the Centro Cultural, which should be nicely spacious. Non-developers are welcome during the conference if you just need a quiet place to sit and check on your sockpuppet accounts. ;) There’ll be a wrap-up presentation in Room 3 at 14:00 Friday, August 28 to give folks a chance to do mini-talks on what they’ve been working on. If you’re planning to attend, either in person or virtually via IRC, please add yourself to the list on the wiki to help coordinate: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Codeathon#I.27m_interested -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco

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Mapping svnrepository on linux server to a local drive on windows
by sirisha mosalikanti 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hi, I have installed svn on my mediawiki server. I'm able to access the svn repository through the browser. However, what are the settings that are required to map a local drive to the svn repository? I have a linux server. How to map a local drive on windows OS the svn repository( on the linux server) using the "map network drive" option. I guess I have to set the svnrepository to share. I am not so sure how to do this. Can anyone provide me with directions to achieve this? Thanks Sirisha -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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

20 Aug '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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Segmentation fault with php5.2, OK in php5.3
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Just want to let the reader know a problem that occurs in MediaWiki 1.16alpha (r55306) if one has not upgraded to php5.3. Browsing http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=桃園縣消防局&action=history gives in /var/log/apache2/error.log: [Wed Aug 19 13:46:24 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ALERT - possible memory corruption detected - unknown Hashtable destructor (attacker '127.0.0.1', file '/home/jidanni/mediawiki/includes/Linker.php', line 1025) 1022 $linked = preg_replace_callback( 1023 '/^:?(.*?)(\|(.*?))*\]\]([^[]*)/', 1024 array( $this, 'formatLinksInCommentCallback' ), 1025 $line, -1, $count ); 1026 if( !$count ) { // No valid link found, put the brackets back 1027 $linked = '[[' . $linked; 1028 } Adding a uselang=en gives [Wed Aug 19 13:55:34 2009] [notice] child pid 3502 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /tmp Using the methods of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535770 I only get (gdb) bt full #0 0xb77ebd2f in ?? () No symbol table info available. Oh well (That was all on my home machine. On the public Dreamhost edition of my wiki you will just see a 500 HTTP error. And I will just see "Premature end of script headers: php5.cgi" in error.log) Anyways, when it doesn't coredump, it makes a curious mixture of Chinese and English dates: • (當前) (先前) ( )(*) 2009年8月16日 (日) 16:21 123.195.169.35 (108位元組) (取消由Luyichi (對話)所作出的修訂 4331) (undo) • (當前) (先前) (*)( ) 09:11, 9 July 2009 Luyichi (Talk | contribs) (93 bytes) (取消由Luyichi (對話)所作出的修訂 4330) (undo) • (當前) (先前) ( )( ) 16:43, 2 July 2009 Luyichi (Talk | contribs) (108 bytes) (undo) P.S., it would be neat if the owners of this mailing list would let Google index it, for the next person that encounters a Segfault. Conclusion: one should upgrade to php5.3... Wait: Special:Preferences will Segfault in php5.3 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535770 .)

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SubWiki
by Helmut Schneider 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hi, can I somehow create subwikis? I have a wiki where everyone (with access to the webserver) has access to. I would like to create a new "zone" where I can put other content. Some special persons (that may not have access to the "root" wiki) should have access here. Is that possible? 2 webservers with two different wiki installations but the content of the second wiki can be accessed/displayed/embedded in the first wiki not only as a link but as full content? Thanks Helmut -- No Swen today, my love has gone away My mailbox stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn

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sortable problem
by Lennie Jarratt 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Any suggestions? I have been looking for a solution, but nothing is working. http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/User:Ljarratt# Lennie -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ljarratt Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lennie_Jarratt/1182350486 "The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance." - Samuel Adams

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Utilisation de MediaWiki sur un réseau local
by Anna CASTILLA 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Bonjour, J’aimerais savoir si vous savez s’il est possible de faire des liens hypertextes vers des répertoires et fichiers en local. J’ai essayé mais manifestement, cela ne fonctionne pas. Je vous remercie. Cordialement, Anna Castilla annacastilla959(a)hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Vous voulez savoir ce que vous pouvez faire avec le nouveau Windows Live ? Lancez-vous ! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx

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WAMP and Uploads
by Rob Isakson 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hey Everyone, I've been looking around all day and all the solutions I have tried did not work. My issue is a fairly common one. After uploading a file I get: Internal Error Could not rename file "C:\wamp\tmp\php16F.tmp" to "public/c/c7/test.png" media wiki creates the folders "c" and "c7" inside of the images folder, but fails to move the image. During the upload i can see the file "C:\wamp\tmp\php16F.tmp" being created, then disappearing. I tried changing directory permissions in windows, changing the upload dir for mediawiki and changing the the mediawiki upload permissions. file upload is enabled in PHP. This is a wamp virtual host, the sites are located on the D: and wamp is installed (obviously) to the C:. The windows issues I found seemed to be related to IIS, which doesn't apply here since apache runs under whatever user opens wamp. Any help would be great, Thanks! -Rob

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Content no longer visible
by Rob Davis 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hello, A group of people and I recently started using Mediawiki for a large set of study notes. We started with the standard installation, users began creating content, etc. I then took my first stab at editing localsettings.php to restrict user privileges. Ever since doing so, all of the content that had been created is no longer visible. I have tried going back and commenting out the lines in localsettings.php that I remember modifiying, but the content remains invisible. Can anyone help? There is a large group of people who are ready to kill me because they think I erased all of their content. I sincerely hope that this is not the case! Best regards, Rob

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How do you remove edit buttons from the toolbar?
by Claus Juhl Knudsen 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi all, I've added a couple of buttons to the toolbar by adding some javascript to Mediawiki:Common.js, but is it possible to remove some of the default buttons? Thanks. Claus

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math funtions and another cuestions
by Enrique 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

Hi all! I planing migrate mi local offline wikipedia to another more powerfull server it have centos5.2 x64 installed by now i can copy compilled math funtions /math directory of old server (debian lenny based) to my new server(centos) to skip the steep of imstalling ocaml and compilling textvc.?? to see math formulas on the wiki i need some recomendations abaut the more ideal linux distribution to run mediawiki thanks

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What is the ideal width for a Mediawiki skin?
by Ekompute .info 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Hi, I was just wondering... supposing I decide to fix my skin width. What would be the ideal width? 800px or 1024? The reason why I ask is I do not know what width I should set for my top banner. If I have a choice, I rather prefer to have a flexible width that fills up any browser up to 1024px. But then again, how about the banner? Won't it look awful if I set it at 1024px according to my present screen resolution and someone uses another resolution? -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store

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^<nowiki></nowiki>{{#myparserfun:...}} (Adventures in MediaWiki)
by Brian 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

I created a simple parser function that inserts a one line div into the page. It worked as expected except in the case where it was the first bit of wikitext in the article. In that case, the parser inserted into the page just before the div creating an ugly gap that wasted space. I then discovered that if I wrote <nowiki></nowiki> just before my parser function that this paragraph block was ommitted and I got the expected behavior. So I ended up wrapping my parser function in a template of the same name that also inserts the nowiki code, and voila, problem "solved." ! /brian

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CategoryTree, show and hide - Java Script Errors
by David Price 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Dear All, I have recently downloaded the CetegoryTree Extension and also been working on the show/hide buttons and capabilities documented. Whilst these two are perfect when working correctly I have Java Issues. When trying to expand the views in the tree view they do not expand. Also the show hide doesn't work, content is always show which lead me to believe their is a Java issue. I have downloaded the latest version of Java from Sun and ensured it is enabled in the browser but still no joy? Does anyone have any pointers? Many Thanks David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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Prevent template parameter from being parsed
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Hi, Is there a way to force a template to use the literal value of a parameter instead of the parsed result? For example, if I pass [[Main Page]] to a template, I want it to output that text, not a hyperlink to the Main Page of the wiki. My workaround now is to add <nowiki></nowiki> in the call to the template, but that defeats my purpose: I want the template to be able to display both the literal text as the processed text. This forces me to pass two parameters, one with and one without the <nowiki></nowiki> tags: {{Demo|[[Main Page]]}} should render: If you use <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>, it will show up as [[Main Page]]. BTW: The Wiki is at version 1.11.0 at the moment. -- Regards, Jean-Marc -- . ___ . @@ // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" . (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN . \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control . /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net

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MediaWiki Hacks: Troubleshooting
by Taja Anand 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Hi all, I'm an enthusiast in MediaWiki Development and I'm having some troubles starting off. I have been administering MediaWiki installation on my website for quite some time but for the past 4 days I'm struggling to get a hack. Please help me out. I've read the material given in the Manual, How to Become a MediaWiki Hacker, how to Debug and all the other relevant pages related to development. Till now, I've tried the following, but the wiki on my localhost functions as though no changes have taken place (I've not tried all this on my website yet) : 1) Applied the first hack given on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customizing_edit_toolbar [not even the table icon appears] 2) Set the predicate (preg_match) to zero in Parser.php (689) [it still parses it as a table] 3) removed all the content of index.php !! [it runs] and a lot of things were tried out, but no success. However, wiki does respond when I switch off the MySql service or move a file (such as WebStart.php). I've not had any progress due to this unexpectedly weird stuff going on. Please give a hint or a pointer in the right direction. Thanks Taja

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MediaWiki/LDAP Authentication/encryption problem
by Marc Noguera 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hi all, I have just installed mediawiki at my site and I would like to use LDAP authentication in order to centralize user management. We have a LDAPs server up and running and I am trying to use LDAP authentication extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication). The system is a Fedora Core 10 on a x86_64 I have followed the instruction on the web, at least I think so, and can't login with a valid LDAP user. I ahve enabled LocalSettings.php in order to get debug info with: $wgLDAPDebug=3; $wgDebugLogGroups["ldap"]="/tmp/debug.log"; but the debug.log file is not created The configuration in LocalSettins.php is: -------------------------------------------------------- require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" ); $wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin(); $wgLDAPDomainNames = array( "domain" ); $wgLDAPServerNames = array( "domain" => "127.0.0.1" ); #$wgLDAPPasswordHash = array ( "domain" => "ssl" ); $wgLDAPSearchStrings = array( "domain" => "uid=USER-NAME,ou=People,dc=genomica,dc=imppc,dc=org"); $wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array( "domain" => "uid" ); $wgLDAPBaseDNs = array( "domain" => "dc=domain,dc=foo,dc=org" ); $wgLDAPEncryptionType = array( "domain" => "ssl" ); ------------------------------------------------------ I am quite lost at the moment and don't know what have to do next. Any advice? Thanks in advance Marc ------------------------------------------------------ Marc Noguera i Julian, PhD Genomics unit / Bioinformatics Institut de Medicina Preventiva i Personalitzada del Càncer (IMPPC) B-10 Office email: mnoguera_at_imppc.org web: http://klingon.uab.es/marc Tlf/Phone: 00 34 935543076 -------------------------------------------------------

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '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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Asp.net & Vikipedia API
by çetin ufuk 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi! I want sample code vikipedia api with asp.net. about sending search request and taking response from vikipedia on xml format please! Thanks!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 71, Issue 14
by çetin ufuk 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi Jan Luca ASP.net C# i am using. 2009/8/12 <mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. (no subject) (?etin ufuk) > 2. Asp.net & Vikipedia API (?etin ufuk) > 3. Re: Asp.net & Vikipedia API (Jan Luca) > 4. main page change (Code) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:15:29 +0300 > From: ?etin ufuk <demonsfall(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject) > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <bc1a90940908110915q1344e570l958e3bf5cde3a051(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:19:13 +0300 > From: ?etin ufuk <demonsfall(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Asp.net & Vikipedia API > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <bc1a90940908110919n48f1779fkdbfbabd7e55a609d(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi! > I want sample code vikipedia api with asp.net. about sending search > request > and taking response from vikipedia on xml format please! > Thanks! > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:56:31 +0200 > From: "Jan Luca" <jan(a)jans-seite.de> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Asp.net & Vikipedia API > To: "'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'" > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <000001ca1aad$0fd397b0$2f7ac710$@de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> can be multiple language (e.g. C#, VB.NET<http://vb.net/>), > so you must which > language you specially mean. > ? > Viele Gr??e, > Jan > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von ?etin ufuk > Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. August 2009 18:19 > An: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Betreff: [Mediawiki-l] Asp.net & Vikipedia API > > Hi! > I want sample code vikipedia api with asp.net. about sending search > request > and taking response from vikipedia on xml format please! > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:35:11 -0300 > From: Code <ignacio.code(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] main page change > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <fdaadc740908111335n22fb5eb8xdd222d72153d369a(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello mediawikiers, > I 've got a question for you... > I'm a newbie with mediawiki and I have recently intalled my own. > When I 've changed the mainpage at "MediaWiki:Mainpage" everything goes > well > but i 've noticed that my new main page is listed on "Special:Lonelypages" > now... is this normal? can i avoid that? Because of course, this is a > orphan page, but it is the root of the tree! > > Many thanks in advance, > > Ignacio > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 71, Issue 14 > ******************************************* >

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main page change
by Code 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello mediawikiers, I 've got a question for you... I'm a newbie with mediawiki and I have recently intalled my own. When I 've changed the mainpage at "MediaWiki:Mainpage" everything goes well but i 've noticed that my new main page is listed on "Special:Lonelypages" now... is this normal? can i avoid that? Because of course, this is a orphan page, but it is the root of the tree! Many thanks in advance, Ignacio

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(no subject)
by çetin ufuk 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] icons for internal links
by Sumurai8 (DD) 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

> > am 10.08.2009 00:53 schrieb Platonides: > > Peter Velan wrote: > >> --- Still differences between internal/external --- > >> > >> I changed the iconic images for pdf, audio, video, (and added some > >> more for .odp, odt, .zip, etc.), but the new CSS-setting in > >> "MediaWiki:Common.css" is used for styling of internal links only. > >> external links are still styled with data found in main.css. > >> > >> Only after completely commenting out "a.external ..."-section in > >> /skin/modern/main.css the internal and external links are styled > >> identically. > > > > The declarations with .external are more specific, that's why they're > > being used, > > You can make your define work for both, ie. #bodyContent a.external[href > > $=".pdf"], #bodyContent a[href $=".pdf"]... > > Works - thanks! > > >> --- Works not in monobook --- > >> > >> My own prefered skin is "modern" (but the majority of our users goes > >> with monobook standard). I was not able to achieve my goals in > >> monobook :-( Whatever I tried, not one link is shown with epected style. > >> > >> I took a deeper look to the brwoser output with Firebug and I see that > >> in "modern" the content of MediaWiki:Common.css is read, but in > >> monobook it looks like there's no MediaWiki:Common.css and even after > >> I copied the news stuff into /skins/monobook/main.css I don't see the > >> expected result. > >> > >> What I'm doing wrong? > > > > Bypass your cache. > > Whatever I tried to eliminate cache-related things, I failed! Then I > discovered this: > > In modern/main.css the related styles defined like ... > > #mw_content a[...] > > ... in all *other* supplied skins (including monobook) the definitions > look line ... > > #bodyContent a[...] > > I duplicated every "#mw_content a[...]"-definition (needed for modern) > in Common.css as "#bodyContent a[...]" (needed for all other skins) > and finally it works :-) > > Could somebody explain, why there's different style definitions > (#mw_content vs #bodyContent)? > > Peter > First there was nothing... ...and then MediaWiki showed up. ;-) I can't find the link where I read first about all the skins, but possibly it is somewhere on MediaWiki.org actually; Monobook was created far before modern was. 'myskin', 'monobook' and some more skins looks pretty the same, but modern was created in 1.12 < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultSkin> and uses other id's; therefore, modern uses it's own common, print and such .css'es. See also en-wikipedia's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gadgets and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-modernskin-thunks.js Your's faithfully, D.D. (Sumurai8) http://www.wikikids.nl -- De Nederlandstalige encyclopedie door en voor kinderen

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Debugging: Checking the value of a variable
by Eric K 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Suppose I have a variable called $Test_int, somewhere in the mediawiki extension that I'm trying to make. Whats the easiest way to know what value that variable has been assigned? I've tried $wgOut but in this case, it probably outputs wgOut but its all gone in the blink of an eye when the page refreshes or when other codes executes. I need a more permanent method of tracking the variable value. Any hints? thanks! Eric

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deleting pages slow, database lock blocking
by Nathan Kinkade 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi all, We have been having some problems where deleting pages takes a ridiculously long time -- something just less than minute. I tracked it down to a particular SQL statement that is getting held up due to another process holding a lock open. I can't figure out what created the lock, and why it's hanging. Could this possibly be a Mediawiki issue, or is this definitely a separate MySQL problem? I see that this is query that is being blocked: UPDATE /* 127.0.0.1 */ `page` SET page_counter = page_counter + 1 WHERE page_id = <page id> Here is the Innodb status while the process hangs: http://pastebin.com/m1afe0b2 I'm not sure how to figure out what opened the lock and what that process was doing. It could be that my MySQL debugging skills are just woefully lacking. But I figured I'd post here to see if anyone else had seen something similar or had any ideas. Thanks! Nathan

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MediaWiki math - problem with one symbol
by Clayton 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Take a look here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Entering_a_formula#Example_2:_.CF.… The wild spacing is being caused by an incorrect rendering of /simeq in WikiMath in several places in this section. Anyone have any ideas why this one symbol is broken? or how to correct it? C. -- Clayton Cornell ccornell(a)openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany

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icons for internal links
by Peter Velan 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, it would be nice to have the same icons following an internal media-link as the ones displayed behind external links: e.g.: * [http://localhost/Example.pdf doc.pdf] {pdf-icon-15x15.gif} * [[Media:Example.pdf|doc.pdf]] {**same as above**} How could I achieve this? TIA for any hint, Peter

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Call for translations: translatewiki.net August 2009 Translation Rally
by Siebrand Mazeland 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

As of today, and up to and including next Monday, http://translatewiki.net is having its second ever Translation Rally[1]. As an incentive to our translators, we are dividing 1,000 Euro over all translators that contribute 500 or more new translations to MediaWiki or its extensions. This Translation Rally has kindly been made possible by a grant from the International Projects fund of the Dutch Wikimedia chapter Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland[2] to Stichting Open Progress[3], that coordinates the financial aspect of the Translation Rally. We call on all non-English speakers to take part in this Translation Rally and make it as big a success as possible, so that MediaWiki can stay one of the best localised pieces of software in the known universe. The first Translation Rally ended with 35 translators meeting the requirements[4], and some 20,000 new messages were translated over the regular stream. A success we could not have imagined. We dare you to do even better this time. Cheers! Siebrand Mazeland translatewiki.net staff [1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Rally-2009-08 [2] http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mainpage [3] http://openprogress.org/Open_Progress [4] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Language_project/500claim

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page appears in both NS_MAIN and NS_PROJECT
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On http://radioscanningtw.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Allpages do you see the page台描:頻率間隔 ? Well, this is a rare case of a page that was created with a prefix that would later match NS_PROJECT. I.e., not waiting for them to change $wgSitename first, I created that page as if it was already in that namespace anyway. Now no matter how much I delete it, I can't get it out of Special:Allpages. So I suppose I should ask them to change $wgSitename to something else, create, then delete the page, then change $wgSitename back? Then later I can recreate the page so that it only will appear in Special:Allpages/Project:, instead of both namespaces. Is that how one deals with pages like this?

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REGEXP for wiki tables
by Matthias Korn 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi, can someone come up with a Perl-like regular expression for wiki tables? I just want to throw away all wiki tables in a given string (e.g. a page). Haven't been successfull so far.. Thanks a lot, matsch -- Rock in China http://wiki.rockinchina.com/ http://www.rockinchina.com/

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Administration User x Grup
by Leandro da Silva de Souza 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Good afternoon. My name is Leandro and I am using MediaWiki for the first time. The instalation was very peaceful and successful. I am encountering problems in the administration of users x groups of the system. Using the option Special: Userrights I managed to create new groups. There are some extensions to facilitate the display/administration? It is possible to have support in Portuguese? If some using Brazil level will be able to help to mine msn is: lsouza_rj(a)hotmail.com thanks Leandro Souza

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Unknown column 'img_sha1' in 'field list'
by nicolas goguey 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hello, I am trying to update my mediawiki 1.10.2 in 1.15.3. I just try to put my Database in the newinstallation but i have this error : « LocalFile::loadFromDB ». MySQL a renvoyé l’erreur « 1054 : Unknown column 'img_sha1' in 'field list' (localhost) ». Can you help me to upgrade please ? Thanks you.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special:Statistics and wikiFactor.
by Chad 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

If there's a hook there then sure somebody can write an extension. Not a bad place for a hook really, people should be able to add their own stats to the table. -Chad On Aug 5, 2009 11:11 PM, "K. Peachey" <p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chad<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This doesn't seem to be a t... Maybe a extension for the wikifactor stuff that hooks into stats page without editing the code? -Peachey _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '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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Special:Statistics and wikiFactor.
by carl 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Dear MediaWiki developers, I am wondering if it is possible to add the value of the wikiFactor for a MediaWiki site to the Special:Statistics page? Unfortunately I have no php programming experience, so I am unable to suggest a modification myself, although I suspect that a simple do-wile loop with the correct parameters would suffice. =Background= The wikiFactor is a measure of the interest that a wiki site has received. For details see the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3439 Its calculation is rather simple; one visits (for MediaWiki) the Special:PopularPages page. The wikiFactor (wF) is the page that has had more than 1000 x wF views. For example: here is an extract from a Special:Statistics page, the wikiFactor is 7: 6 Models (10,455 views) 7 Hard sphere model (10,447 views) 8 Computer simulation techniques (7,728 views) 9 Classical thermodynamics (7,621 views) i.e. page 7 has had more than 7,000 views, whilst page 8 has yet to reach 8,000 views. Presently the wikiFactor is being rolled-out on the wikiIndex site, a compendium of over 4,000 wiki sites. see: http://www.wikiindex.org/Category:WikiFactor All the best, carl >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dr. Carl McBride Grupo de Termodinamica Estadistica de Fluidos Moleculares Departamento de Quimica Fisica I Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid Spain www.ucm.es/info/molecsim/carlmcbride.html www.SklogWiki.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Private notepad extension?
by Jan Steinman 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

> From: Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> > > Yahoo mail has a great feature of Notepad which I like. Is it > possible to have a private notepad extension where I can save stuff > right there on the wiki? Maybe a User/notepad thing where only the > user can see and edit that page. Any easy way of doing this? I'll add my "ya, hey!" to that request! But perhaps the best way would be client-side, with javascript. It seems it might otherwise present a caching challenge to the server. :::: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon :::: :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality: http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/User:Jan_Steinman ::::

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upgrading to 1.15
by sirisha mosalikanti 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi all, I currently have mediawiki 1.13 on my ubuntu server. After copying all teh extensions to the new unzipped mediawiki forlder, when i try to run the following command "php update.php --aconf ../AdminSettings.php" I get the error, MediaWiki 1.13.3 Updater Going to run database updates for mediawiki Depending on the size of your database this may take a while! Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfOut() in /var/www/mediawiki/maintenance/updaters.inc on line 233 Please help me fix this error. Thank you, Sirisha. -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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Private notepad extension?
by Eric K 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Yahoo mail has a great feature of Notepad which I like. Is it possible to have a private notepad extension where I can save stuff right there on the wiki? Maybe a User/notepad thing where only the user can see and edit that page. Any easy way of doing this?

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Unable to upload files after migrating wiki from Windows to Linux
by Chris Lieb 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I recently migrated my wiki from Windows to Linux. Apache, PHP, MySQL, and MediaWiki were the same versions on both computers. I am running MediaWiki 1.15.1, Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.2.10, and MySQL 5.0.70. I want to upload a new version of an image, so I navigate to it's page and click "Upload a new version of this file". This takes me to the upload page, where the "Destination filename" is already populated. I enter the path to the file to upload and a brief description and click "Upload file". The file is submitted to the server, but then I am sent to Special:Upload instead of the file's page. I have tried following the "How to debug" article at MediaWiki's website, but I don't see any error being output anywhere. I have enabled logging and watched it as I upload a file, but it seems mysteriously void of any output looking like an upload. The only hint that an upload happened is due to the multipart request sent to the server. The images directory is owned by both the apache user and the apache group and is 755 for directories and 644 for files. I can save revisions to articles without problem. Images show up just fine on the wiki. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks, Chris Lieb - --------------------------------------------------------------- debug stuff in LocalSettings.php (directly after if $wgCommandLineMode): - --------------------------------------------------------------- error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set("display_errors", 1); $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; $wgShowSQLErrors = true; $wgDebugDumpSql = true; $wgDebugLogFile = "/tmp/mediawiki.log"; - ---------------------------------------------------------------- log output: - ---------------------------------------------------------------- see attachment -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKeafGAAoJEJWxx7fgsD+Ce8IIAMfrKTmgXHpCSkH1BJQzjy2y dcoJvQp+yUfKTScS5wru4/Vvtp4RgTf3U7qa3b18E5tzJl0TrlLa480lbbNgjKwA u9yWQwwYV2E3HBk7xQhauQg7nxyJ5rOAmgKdt4kL5uimIgsy2FQoQ/n5S48sbcM6 fbhkzSSSC5M5wPKi2RQmtHQXdnAy9nfmDotRpwHtKfABU8k52WkHGFRgJqgWWtS8 oBGYkDWc5ybMVAtnMqlnElespma0+sAxjcFAQXFWVBCnLv8IvJRNpv+PjDIkk/1S CGqW19Fsnno85/XruGO0Y9YI8BYhf+6j09mM02f+HDE5NuYNwdCMdhO0TPdmdtI= =Oa9q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Start request POST /wiki/Special:Upload Host: opc-app User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 600 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://opc-app/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=JRE-6.exe&wpForR… Cookie: sessionid=b810d1ee7792b753c204218d5052af97; wikidbUserName=Clieb; wikidb_session=7f494f300dc1b57be8837b8e32b0ffeb; wikidbLoggedOut=20090804203106; wikidbUserID=3 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------180232076911715 Content-Length: 16669552 Main cache: FakeMemCachedClient Message cache: FakeMemCachedClient Parser cache: FakeMemCachedClient session_set_cookie_params: "0", "/", "", "", "1" Fully initialised Unstubbing $wgContLang on call of $wgContLang::checkTitleEncoding from WebRequest::getGPCVal Language::loadLocalisation(): got localisation for en from source Unstubbing $wgOut on call of $wgOut::setArticleRelated from SpecialPage::setHeaders Unstubbing $wgMessageCache on call of $wgMessageCache::get from wfMsgGetKey Unstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::getCode from wfGetLangObj Unstubbing $wgUser on call of $wgUser::getOption from StubUserLang::_newObject Cache miss for user 3 Connecting to localhost wikidb... SQL: SET /* Database::open */ sql_mode = '' Connected SQL: BEGIN SQL: SELECT /* User::loadFromDatabase */ * FROM `user` WHERE user_id = '3' LIMIT 1 SQL: SELECT /* User::loadGroups Clieb */ ug_group FROM `user_groups` WHERE ug_user = '3' Logged in from session SQL: SELECT /* MessageCache::loadFromDB Clieb */ page_title FROM `page` WHERE page_is_redirect = '0' AND page_namespace = '8' AND (page_title not like '%%/%%') AND (page_len > 10000) SQL: SELECT /* MessageCache::loadFromDB Clieb */ page_title,old_text,old_flags FROM `page`,`revision`,`text` WHERE page_is_redirect = '0' AND page_namespace = '8' AND (page_title not like '%%/%%') AND (page_latest=rev_id) AND (rev_text_id=old_id) AND (page_len <= 10000) MessageCache::load: Loading en... cache is empty, loading from database Unstubbing $wgParser on call of $wgParser::firstCallInit from MessageCache::transform User::isBlocked: enter User::getBlockedStatus: checking... IP: 10.192.205.124 Block::load: '', '3', 1 SQL: SELECT /* Block::load Clieb */ * FROM `ipblocks` WHERE ipb_user = '3' Class SkinMonobook not found; skipped loading SQL: SELECT /* LinkBatch::doQuery Clieb */ page_id, page_namespace, page_title, page_len, page_is_redirect FROM `page` WHERE (page_namespace=2 AND page_title='Clieb') OR (page_namespace=3 AND page_title='Clieb') SQL: SELECT /* User::checkNewtalk Clieb */ user_id FROM `user_newtalk` WHERE user_id = '3' LIMIT 1 SQL: SELECT /* Interwiki::load Clieb */ * FROM `interwiki` WHERE iw_prefix = 'metawikimedia' OutputPage::sendCacheControl: private caching; ** SQL: SELECT /* Job::pop Clieb */ * FROM `job` WHERE job_id >= 0 ORDER BY job_id LIMIT 1 Request ended normally

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Limit length of page titles
by Philip Beach 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Is there any way to limit the length of a page title? Similar to $wgMaxNameChars, but for page titles. Thanks

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avoid deleted pages in smw ask queries
by sirisha mosalikanti 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I have th efollowin gconfiguration. MediaWiki Version 1.13.3 Semantic MediaWiki Version 1.4.1 UBUNTU 2.6.27-9-server Is there any way to avoid deleted pages in the ask queries results? -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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editing protected pages
by sirisha mosalikanti 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I have the following configuration. MediaWiki Version 1.13.3 Semantic MediaWiki Version 1.4.1 UBUNTU 2.6.27-9-server There are some pages in wiki, which have been protected a few years ago. Even the sysops are not able to edit them. I have found on google search that only users from "autoconfirmed" group can edit them. that too who are registered for more than a configured time. I have added myself to autoconfirmed group. But could someone please let me know what the configured time is? And in which file this period can be changed? Thanks in advance, Sirisha -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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CSS help for new skin
by Ekompute .info 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I just shifted my left panel to the right and am facing a problem with the floating footer. It floats immediately after what is now the right panel. I tried to create a block for the text area and the panel so that it works as one monolithic piece such that whatever is the height of either, the footer will always be below these 2 sections. However, it did not work. I then tried to add clear:all to the footer CSS but it didn't work either. I also tried to add for footer in my php file for the new skin but nothing seems to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store

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Possible SQL Injection
by Liz Kim 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

This may be more of an Apache question but was wondering if any other MediaWiki users have seen this... There was someone who we assume has been trying to break into our web system request URLS such as /index.php?title=%53%70%65%63%69%61%6C%3A%52%65%63%65%6E%74%63%68%61%6E%67%65%73&d ays=14&limit=100&hidepatrolled=1%27%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F%6F%72%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F1%3D1%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F%61%6E%64%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F1%3D1%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F%61%6E%64%2F%2A%4E%2A% 2F2%3D2%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F%61%6E%64%2F%2A%4E%2A%2F%27%61%27%3D%27%61 which in turn really is... /index.php?title=Special%3ARecentchanges&days=14&limit=100&hidepatrolled=1%27%2F*N*%2For%2F*N*%2F1%3D1%2F*N*%2Fand%2F*N*%2F1%3D1%2F*N*%2Fand%2F*N*%2F2%3D2%2F*N*%2Fand%2F*N*%2F%27a% 27%3D%27a Some requests look like possible SQL injections.. /index.php?title=Special%3ARecentchanges%2F*N*%2For%2F*N*%2F(select%2F*N*%2Fcount(*)%2F*N*%2Ffrom%2F*N*%2FINFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables%2F*N*%2Fwhere%2F*N*%2Fadmin_loginname%3Dadmin_loginname)%3D-1%2F*N*%2Fand%2F*N*%2F0%3D0&hidepatrolled=1&days=14&limit=100&hideanons=1 We haven't seen this happening in a while now but we cannot be 100% positive that the visitor was not successful in getting in.. Thanks!

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What killed MS Word? MediaWiki.
by David Gerard 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Heh. We win. Even without a good WYSIWYG editor! http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-word-1983---2009-re… - d.

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unable to access the server from browser after reboot
by sirisha mosalikanti 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, I have the following configuration: MediaWiki Version 1.13.3 Semantic MediaWiki Version 1.4.1 UBUNTU 2.6.27-9-server After I had rebooted the wiki server from putty, I'm unable to connect to the server from the browser. I could however, log in to the server from putty. Please help, Thanks, -- Sirisha. Everyday is an oppurtinity to make a new happy ending :)

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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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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong IP using Forum extension
by clausvb.wikipedia＠mailnull.com 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

> The Wiki runs on a server machine and I use the variable > $wgServer to switch the ip from 10.1.1.x to www.example.com. You should use a different approach. To map "10.1.1.50" to "www.your_intranet.gis" you should NOT use any PHP or Apache setting. This is solved with your DNS or for a local test your "hosts". If your DNS is configured correctly enter "ping www.your_intranet.gis" in a DOS-Box (or shell) and you should get an answer from "10.1.1.50". To use "www.example.com" (you really do?) is not advised because it really exists. Regards, Claus PS: Greetings from Sankt Augustin to Sankt Augustin. I live in Niederpleis. :-) ---------- This message was sent from a MailNull anti-spam account. You can get your free account and take control over your email by visiting the following URL. http://mailnull.com/

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Visite mon profil Netlog
by Jan Luca 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hallo, can you please write you Mail in English. Gruß Jan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von sebastien bracq Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Juli 2009 19:08 An: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Mediawiki-l] Visite mon profil Netlog 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=-L2d vL3JlZ2lzdGVyL2lkPTExNTE1MDIxODQmaT10OTE_ 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=-L2d vL25vbWFpbHMvaW52aXRlL2VtYWlsPS1iV1ZrYVdGM2FXdHBMV3hBYkdsemRITXVkMmxyYVcxbFp HbGhMbTl5WndfXyZjb2RlPTEwMjMxODk0JmlkPTExNTE1MDIxODQmaT10OTI_ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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