MediaWiki-l September 2009

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Special:SearchByProperty
by sirisha mosalikanti 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi All, Is there anyway to have a dropdown menu where we can display the list of properties available for the field "Property" instead of a plain text field? I have Mediawiki 1.15.1, Semantic Forms:1.8.2 and SMW: 1.4.1 Thanks in advance, -- Sirisha. Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending :)

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '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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Installation errors with postgresql 8.3.7
by Madhav Ancha 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi, When trying to run the configuration script from the browser, I get the following error. Doesn't look like its connecting to postgres. But from a shell, I can successfully do a psql -U wikiuser -d wikidb. Did anyone else encounter this issue? Thanks, Madhav. MediaWiki 1.15.1 Installation - *Don't forget security updates!* Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list<http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce>. Checking environment... *Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. * - PHP 5.2.9 installed - Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite - PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs ( index.php/Page_Title) - Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. - Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) appears to be valid. - PHP's memory_limit is 32M. - Couldn't find Turck MMCache <http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/>, eAccelerator <http://eaccelerator.sourceforge.net/>, APC<http://www.php.net/apc>or XCache <http://trac.lighttpd.net/xcache/>; cannot use these for object caching. - Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. - Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. - Installation directory: /var/www/html/intrakgp - Script URI path: /intrakgp - Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions - Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. - *Generating configuration file...* - Database type: PostgreSQL - Loading class: DatabasePostgres - Attempting to connect to database "wikidb" as "wikiuser"... error: No database connection - Checking the version of Postgres... *Warning*: pg_version(): supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in */var/www/html/intrakgp/includes/db/DatabasePostgres.php* on line *1078* *FAILED*. Required version is 8.1. You have 7.3 or earlier

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Problem with reCaptcha extension: Additional tag in HTML source
by Paul Fels 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi, due to repeating spam attacks against my wiki I tried the reCaptcha extension. Somehow, the extension screws up the HTML source of the pages. Now, the source of each page from my wiki begins with </pre>, followed by the DOCTYPE definition and the rest of the page. Most browsers ignore that tag, however, the RSS feed don't work anymore, since the XML cannot be interpreted correctly if this tag is at the begin of the feed. I've tried to update the underlying ConfirmEdit extension, but with no success,the problem still persists. MW is version 1.15.1, the reCaptcha Plugin is version 1.7 Any hints? Paul New Email names for you! Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/

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Image Upload Error
by A Chan 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hello Everyone, I have an older instance of MediaWiki (v1.4.5) running with PHP 5.0.3, MySQL 4.1.9, Redhat Linux. We need to upgrade to PHP 5.2.3 to enable another application to run on the same server. I wanted to test compatibility of PHP 5.2.3 with MediaWiki 1.4.5, so installed MediaWiki 1.4.5 on a test machine running PHP 5.2.3. Some images are uploaded successfully, while others generate the error: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg() in /data/app00063/htdocs/mediawiki-1.4.5/includes/Image.php on line 578" Googling on this error points to PHP not being built with the GD library. However: * Image uploads work fine on the live instance of our wiki running with PHP 5.0.3. * phpinfo() on the PHP 5.0.3 does not list the GD library as enabled. Is GD library the likely problem? Are there any known incompatibilities between MediaWiki 1.4.5 and PHP 5.2.3? Eventually we should upgrade to a newer version of MediaWiki, but so far have not had the resources to do so. Thanks for your help! -Amy

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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|<br />}} 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] Replacing Newline using Extension:StringFunctions
by Waseem Sayegh 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Regarding what this would be used for, from my personal experience with running http://www.shawshara.com inexperienced users or non tech-users tend to edit the wiki thinking that a new line will automatically translate into a line break. Some more experienced users with HTML knowledge have modified our pages and have appended <br /> to the end of the lyrics lines. Both ways are not valid. Now, I'm sure that most of you are techies so you're familiar with how the wiki works, but think about it from the point of view of a person that has never seen code. We've been trying to make the site as user friendly as possible. To do so, we're now in the processes of converting the whole site to use Semantic Forms to allow users to easily edit a page's contents using a form instead (ex:http://www.shawshara.com/wiki/Ya_Rayah click edit with form). With the introduction of these forms we've learned that the way to go for us is not to ask users to enter two new lines, but instead to handle this conversion ourselves. At any rate, the Poem extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poem) really does the trick for us.

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