January 2010 - 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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Easy creation of page sequences
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi, I have been trying to create a maintainable way of grouping pages together and allowing readers to page through them in sequence. Most samples I've seen use templates that require you to supply the 'previous' and 'next' page. This however results in three page edits to insert a new page between two existing pages and does not guarantee that your prev-sequence is identical to the next-sequence... Being a programmer, that is way too much duplicate and error-prone work for me ;-) There must be a better way to do this and I was hoping to solve it with a plain MW installation (with ParserFunctions and DynamicPageList at the moment). Given an 'index' page that holds a list of all page titles in the preferred order, isn't it possible to create a template that selects the correct previous and next page title given the current page title? I get stuck in getting the correct lines from the index page. DPL can select based on section name (= page title), but then the contents of that index section must be the prev/next links themselves: =First Page= Prev [[Second Page|Next]] =Second Page= [[First Page|Prev]] [[Third Page|Next]] =Third Page= .. etc. This works, except that it is still a lot of duplication of page names (but the edits are contained in a single page, big plus). I hoped to simplify the index page by creating a template that writes the section header and prev/next links, but then DPL no longer recognizes the sections :-( Apparently DPL 'sees' the page text before the templates are called ({{Page|Prev page|Page title|Next page}}: {{Page||First Page|Second Page}} {{Page|First Page|Second Page|Third Page}} {{Page|Second Page|Third Page|Fourth Page}} Basically my questions are: 1. Am I completely off track here? 2. Can DPL be coerced to evaluate templates before looking at the page 3. Can DPL (or another extension) select the text from a section before/after a matched section? 4. Is it possible to determine the section sequence number given the section name (so 'Second Page' results in 2, allowing me to use DPL to retrieve the name of section 2 -/- 1 and 2 + 1 to create the prev/next links? Apologies for the long post, hopefully someone can point me to some good resources (I've been to Meta, Wikibooks, Medawiki.org but could very well have overlooked something there as the amount of info is a bit overwhelming and it is difficult to judge how up to date it is). -- Regards, Jean-Marc

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (3)
by Giuseppe Briotti 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi all, hi Bernard... probably, my response is a bit late, but I spent time reading (hopefully!) carefully all the answers... Thus, my 0,02$: I think that probably the correct question is: "Please convince me to make my business model" :-) I agree with others that probably, the SaaS business models require closed source. Thus, probably, no choice... IMHO the open source software implies a different business model, something similar to "partnership". Good luck, honestly, Giuseppe Briotti. -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)gmail.com "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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wiki family and shared resources
by Mij 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hello everyone, We want to implement a MW-based WikiFamily with a reserved "pool" instance, very similarly to Wikipedia, but we're encountering some problems with the media sharing. We followed this process: 1) we started from - three language instances - containing about 1000 images altogether - configured with Wikipedia-style URL scheme: http://<lang>.domain.com/wiki/<Node> 2) we installed and set up one "pool" wiki instance, according to "Scenario 5" of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family 3) we modified maintenance/importImages.php to import automatically from any language instance to the "pool" all images along with metadata (description, author etc) The pool contains all medias of all language instances, and the "Upload file" link in the toolbox of each wiki points to the pool's Special:Upload correctly. The relevant configuration for the language wikis is as follows: === $wgUploadNavigationUrl = "http://pool.domain.com/wiki/Special:Upload"; $wgUseSharedUploads = true; $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://pool.domain.com/wiki/File:'; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/var/www/wikis/wiki-pool/images/'; $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgEnableUploads = false; === However, trying to enforce the "pool fallback lookup" documented http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseSharedUploads we tried moving away the instance's own images/ directory. Doing this, all images result into a broken link. We suspect the problem is in a misconfiguration of $wgSharedUploadPath , which isn't quite clear from the WikiFamily example or its own documentation, but cannot track down the problem more specifically. Notably, we observed that none of the includes/filerepo/* files is loaded. Can anyone help out with nailing down this problem? Thanks!

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Making only a part of the content visible for a group of users
by Maximiliano Milicich 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hello, We've recently installed a wiki for IT dept usage but came to the conclusion that it would be very useful to let end users see some of the articles. The thing is we don't want them to see all the content mainly because it would confuse them. For instance, if they search for "Accounting" we want to provide definitions and troubleshooting on the Accounting system that might help them, but not every server list, SQL code and tech spec that we have. We've been looking around and found a couple of options based on namespaces, which we're still not sure will work the way we need (for one thing, limiting search results for end users) and seem kind of hard to maintain. The simplest option seems to be keeping two separate wikis, but I don't want to disconnect the end users documents from our wiki because it's valuable info for us too. What we're thinking about is having both wikis but maintaining them in sync with some batch process that could export and import all articles that belong to a certain category or even backup and restore the entire database and afterwards delete non-end user articles. That way, the end user wiki would be read-only and get updates every day. In both cases we'd have to know how to deal with images (seems easy with the backup/restore option but no so much with the export / import). Do you think we're on the right path with any of these? Any other suggestions? Here is our version info: Product Version MediaWiki 1.15.1 PHP 5.2.10 (isapi) MySQL 5.0.22 Thank you in advance!!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Image files too big for the thumbnail program
by Jan Steinman 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

> From: Ron Laufer <gonzoron(a)hotmail.com> > > I've had a couple images uploaded to my wiki that are so big, it > seems they make my thumbnail program crash. Are you using ImageMagick? We've had no problems using the biggest files a 12 megapixel camera can produce. ---------------- An American is a person who demonstrates against a new power plant, then goes home and flips on all the lights, turns up the air conditioner, puts a tape in the stereo, opens the refrigerator door, plugs in the coffee maker and sits down to see if the television cameras caught him protesting. -- Wendell Trogdon :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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api.php action=edit problem badtoken
by Tim McKenna 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, I went through the sample steps in the API example<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Create%2526Edit_pages#Example> on using the api to edit a page: 1. login your bot: ( I just used my admin login) - it succeeds 2. get a token - it suceeds 3. post to api.php - this is the form I use<http://pathboston.com/forms/mw/append21.html>- after I get the token I replace the +\ with %2B%5C Alas, I get this error: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <error code="badtoken" info="Invalid token" xml:space="preserve"> my form code is: <form id="form1" name="Update" method="post" action="../../hum310/api.php?action=edit"> <label>title: <input type="text" name="title" id="textfield" value="Talk:Main_Page" /></label><br /> <label>section: <input type="text" name="section" id="textfield" value="new"/></label><br /> <label>summary: <input type="text" name="summary" id="textfield" value="Hello%20Worldwide"/></label><br /> <label>text: <input type="text" name="text" id="textfield" value="Hello%20everyone!"/></label><br /> <label>watch: <input type="text" name="watch" id="textfield" /></label><br /> <label>basetimestamp: <input type="text" name="basetimestamp" id="textfield" value="2008-03-20T17:26:39Z"/></label><br /> <label>token: <input type="text" name="token" id="textfield" value="96a50d37e6c48e6d0def3dd64dc9450d%2B%5C" size=50/></label><br /> <input name="" type="submit" value="send" /> </form> <a href="http://pathboston.com/hum310/api.php?action=query&prop=info|revisions&intok…">get token</a> Thanks, Timothy S. McKenna Humanities teacher Parkway Academy of Technology and Health, a Boston Public High School 1205 VFW Parkway, Boston, MA 02132 rm404 tim(a)sitebuilt.net, http://sitebuilt.net exp. course news on twitter, id: mrtmckenna class wiki sites: http://pathboston.com/hum Humanities 3 http://pathboston.com/poets class159 (857)498-2574 (mobile), (617)524-0938 (home)

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Please help to make a rewrite rule
by Michael Wozowoy 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Hello! I have Mediawiki 1.15 installed with Apache 2.2. I have created some virtual namespace (similar to categories) called Rubric. The articles can belong to one ore more rubrics. I want to use this namespace instead of Categories by some reasons. And I need to show these Rubrics' content. For example: http://mysite.com/wiki/Rubric:Economy/ should open a list of articles under Economy rubric. I've created a special page which does that. So, now I can open http://mysite.com/wiki/Special:Rubric/Economy and view Economy's content. It works, no problem. But I want to get rid of Special namespace in the URL! Can I do that? I've tried several RewriteRules in the apache's .htacces, but failed so far... The last try is: ============================================================================= RewriteEngine On RewriteRule wiki/Rubric:(.*)$ wiki/Special:Rubric/$1 RewriteRule wiki/(.*)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [L] ============================================================================= It does not work. When I'm opening http://mysite.com/wiki/Rubric:Economy/ this rule still opens "Rubric:Economy" instead of "Special:Rubric/Economy" and says "there is no text on the page blah-blah-blah..." What do I do wrong? NOTE: I need an internal redirect. The external one works, but that's not what I want. I mean, this one: RewriteRule wiki/Rubric:(.*)$ wiki/Special:Rubric/$1 [R,L] works great of course, but it results in that the Special namespace presents in the URL. Best regards. Michael Wozowoy e-mail: strannik(a)cnt.ru

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Style pages based on category, possible?
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Bernard, On 28 January 2010 14:58, Bernard(a)bernardHulsman.nl <bernard(a)bernardhulsman.nl> wrote: > Jean-Marc, you have to use > http://handleiding.wikiation.nl/MediaWiki:Common.css . That is where it is > defined. It is no standard MW feature. There is no LocalSettings involved. The Common.css is only the part where you define the background color depending on the category you use. I.e. you specify that .cat-Timecode-future results in a background: #fff7e7 That part is entirely clear to me, I use Common.css extensively. But in my mediawiki installation (1.13.3, and neither on mediawiki.org which uses 1.16alpha), there are no cat-[category name] classes being output. I see a ns-xxx and a page-yyy part in the body class, but no cat-zzz part. That is what confuses me. -- Regards, Jean-Marc -- . ___ . @@ // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" . (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN . \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control . /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net

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Add parameters to a internal Search across a internal link
by Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi! I'm triying to create a Internal Link which result will be a search. Until now, I've written this: [[Special:Search *|* the_word_I_search]] I want that this link do not go to Special:Search else the result of the search. Thanks!!

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The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver
by Massimo Canonico 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi, I got this error even if I followed the instruction on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upload First of all, that "public" means that wikimedia is expecting to use a directory called "public"? I have installed mediawiki from tgz file, without change the default values. How is it possible? If it is related to images directory, that error messagge should be fixed. -- I set"755" for folder images: dcs:~/dcs.di.unipmn.it/mex/mediawiki $ ll | grep ima drwxr-xr-x 2 mex mex 4096 2010-01-28 11:20 images -- I have enabled upload: $wgEnableUploads = true; -- I have checked Apache aliases -- I have checked file_uploads on php.ini but still the same error message appear. Any suggestion? Thanks, Massimo

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Reference don't appear when user is not logged in
by Ekompute .info 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi, after 4 years, I just discovered that a user will not be able to see my references with <references /> if he is not logged in! However, Wikipedia can display the references without the need for a user to log in. How can I accomplish it? -- PM Poon * http://dummipedia.org The 5-Minute Concise Encyclopedia * http://dummipedia.com The Dummipedia Amazon Online Store

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

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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LocalSettings.php empty
by Massimo Canonico 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, I just downloaded and installe the last MediaWiki. The installation and configuration went well, but now I cannot see anything in config/LocalSettigs.php. I've tried to use "chmod 777 config/LocalSettigs.php" to exclude permission problem, with lo luck. Maybe the problem is related to apache that is the owner of the file: dcs:~/dcs.di.unipmn.it/mex/mediawiki/config $ ll total 92 -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 4158 2010-01-27 12:03 LocalSettings.php -rw-r--r-- 1 mex mex 76239 2009-05-08 07:51 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 mex mex 68 2007-07-11 09:55 index.php5 If is this the problema, what can I do? Thansk, Massimo

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Style pages based on category, possible?
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, What is the best approach to support styling MW pages based on the category (categories) the page belongs to? I was hoping the category name could be inserted in the class attribute just like the namespace and pagename appear there, but I did not find any configuration setting indicating that this is possible at the moment. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. -- Regards, Jean-Marc -- . ___ . @@ // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" . (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN . \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control . /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net

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updating wiki internal data after importDump
by dan nessett 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

I have imported a daily dump of 121,000 pages from a wiki running 1.13.2. The importDump took 80 hours and when I ran rebuildAll, the resulting job queue was about 250,000 jobs. It took 10.5 hours to process them. After doing this, I downloaded a subsequent daily dump (from 6 days subsequent to the original daily dump) and imported it. That took about 30 minutes. Now I want to update the internal data structures so my personal copy of the wiki is complete. I decided not to use rebuildAll again, since the daily dump has no images. Also, the wiki is postgres based, so rebuildtextindex doesn't work (it is only for MySQL). So, I thought I would use refreshLinks. However, that is running almost as slowly as the original importDump. After processing 2200 pages and interpolating forward, I estimate it will take about 40 hours to complete. I have several questions: + Are there any settings that might make both importDump and refreshLinks do their work more quickly? + Is it necessary to run refreshLinks after an incremental importDump? + Are there other maintenance scripts I should run? Thanks, Dan Nessett

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Wikipedia like tables
by Florent Georges 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, I've create a table at http://www.expath.org/wiki/Engines, and I would like to use Wikipedia-like cell features, like for instance the green and red cells for yes and no in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems I've tried to use the same syntax (using {{yes}}) but that does not work. The string "Template: Yes" is displayed in red instead. I guess I must install some templates? I looked for into both Mediawiki and Wikipedia sites, but I did not find anything. Any clue? Thanks in advance, regards, -- Florent Georges http://www.fgeorges.org/

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Still Template Problems
by Christian Rumpf 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi there, i've got still problems with some Templates. I download the needed styles and Java Script's but i didn't get a correct screen of it. I allways see the Source on the side when i use an Infobox. I use MediaWiki 1.15.1. Is there anything that i have to do, to get those Infoboxes running? best regards Christian

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Google Summer of Code 2010
by jeroen De Dauw 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hey all, Google Summer of Code 2010 [0] has been announced [1] by Google's open source team. I'm assuming Wikimedia Foundation will again apply as mentoring organization this year. Can anybody confirm this? Also, who is (or will be) coordinating GSoC efforts? I have several suggestions to improve how things are done compared to last year, and am willing to help :) I'd also like to point out that WE NEED MENTORS. Last year the amount of students that could be accepted, and therefore projects that could be done, was limited by the amount of available mentors, and currently only Yaron Koren has signed up. I'm fairly certain there are a lot of awesome people in the community who would want to mentor a student though. If you are one of them, please add your name to the list of the GSoC 2010 page [2]. Also, please add any idea's you have for projects to this page. [0]http://code.google.com/soc/ [1]http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_threa… [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Wiki: wiki.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * 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!

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Looking for an extension which suppresses all older page revisions in Recent Changes
by Thomas Gries 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Re: Recent Changes list - improvement for certain mediawiki applications I am looking for an extension for a _modified output of Special:RecentChanges_ which - suppresses all older revisions of a page and _only shows the most recent change_. - the previous edits are irrelevant for my application as they can be retrieved on page history panes if needed. Before you point me to that: - neither the well-known user option "Use enhanced recent changes (requires JavaScript)" [1] is what I am looking for - nor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tim_Laqua/monobook.js/doc . [1] only "merges" article changes on day per day. Article changes on previous day(s) are still listed if any, but I am only interested in the single appearance of the last change. Who can help by posting a solution? Tom

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[[File:MediaWiki:Example.jpg|frame|50px]]
by Matthias Korn 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi, did sizing images with a frame (as in [[File:MediaWiki:Example.jpg|frame|50px]]) stop working in recent MediaWiki (i.e. 1.15.1)? You can actually see the faulty behavior on mediawiki.org as well at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Size_and_Frame (if the template would work...). Images do not get resized when with a frame. The others (thumb, border, frameless, ...) work as expected. Thanks, Matthias -- Rock in China http://wiki.rockinchina.com/ http://www.rockinchina.com/

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user access log
by Edorta García González 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi there! How can i know when the users have loged-in in my wiki? There is a "log"? where? thank you! -- "If there is a shell, there is a way"

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