MediaWiki-l January 2010

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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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