MediaWiki-l August 2009

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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 25 Aug '09

25 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 24 Aug '09

24 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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