MediaWiki-l August 2009

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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 17 Aug '09

17 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 <p><br/></p> 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

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