MediaWiki-l January 2010

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Interwiki search.
by Corneel Booysen 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hello all, I have a few wikis I that I configured together in a wiki family (farm). I also created the Interwiki links and the links work correctly when I create articles with links to other members in the family. I added the wiki namespaces to the LocalSettings.php as in: $wgExtraNamespaces[100] = "semmw"; $wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "semarch"; $wgExtraNamespaces[102] = "semlang"; And they actually show up in the advance search name spaces page. But when I select additional members' namespaces to have them included in a search - it does not work. I only get results for the local wiki and not for the others. What else do I need to do to get the Interwiki searching to work? Thanks Corneel Booysen.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Strange string (UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU) in front of headlines?
by Jan Steinman 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

> From: "Christensen, Courtney" <ChristensenC(a)battelle.org> > > From: Claus Juhl Knudsen Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:15 AM >> The following string (UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU) is appended >> right in >> front of an 'h1'-tag on my wikis homepage (see: >> http://www.wikisilkeborg.dk/index.php5/Forside) and again below, >> where I'm >> using the extension "NewPages" to display a list of the 10 most >> recent >> articles. Does anybody know what the problem might be? Any thoughts >> are more >> than welcome as this problem relates to the mainpage. >> >> UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU >> -- >> Claus Juhl Knudsen > > That string is a place holder that the parser puts in under certain > circumstances. Sometimes it only shows up the first time the page > is parsed (try hard refreshing). Other times you are stuck with > it. It usually has to do with how text is rendered through an > extension. Aw man, I struggled with that for DAYS a few months ago! I was using the <tasks>...</tasks> extension, and using it in an indented list of any sort would break indenting, which rendered it useless for us. I finally this "UNIQ-QINU" crap, which was inserting a newline BEFORE indented lists were being parsed, which of course re- set the indentation level. I commented it out of includes/parser/Parser.php, and that doesn't seem to have broken anything else, and now <tasks> work properly in indented lists. > By the way the UNIQ--QINU problem is mentioned a lot in the mailing > list archives and is probably also mentioned in the MediaWiki site > if you care to Google a little. ---------------- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. -- George Bernard Shaw :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 21 Jan '10

21 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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customizing appearance of a custom namespace?
by Jim Tittsler 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Is there a standard way of customizing the appearance of one of my custom namespaces (and its associated talk namespace)? I would like to change the logo, and ideally override the user's preferred skin (or at least have some additional CSS added) when in this custom namespace.

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Image files too big for the thumbnail program
by Ron Laufer 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

I've had a couple images uploaded to my wiki that are so big, it seems they make my thumbnail program crash. If you just display them on a wiki page as is, it's fine, but if you try to |thumb them, the page won't load and give a blank white screen. Similarly, if you try to go to the image's page to upload a new version, you get the white page again (because of the automatic thumbnail created for each version of the image) 1) Is there any way to delete these files without going to their own page? 2) Is there a way to set a file upload size limit to avoid this in the future? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Laufer

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MediaWiki for user documentation, including partner company branding
by Evelyn Yoder 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hello all - We use MediaWiki for user documentation. As the sole author, I can build and manage new versions of the wiki in order to support software version releases. The issue is that we now have partner companies who want to create their own support pages, and use a custom skin (with their own logo/skin). Is there a practical way to allow me to continue to make regular updates to the base wiki, without overwriting the partner content? Can we provide each partner with a space they control, individually? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Best, Evelyn - - - - - - - - Evelyn Yoder Technical Communications www.LongJump.com <http://www.longjump.com/>

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Meta-Tags in MediaWIKI - (Text in German and English)
by Holger Schr＠der 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hello list, I've set up a Mediawiki on the Internet. It's called www.apfel4blind.de. But it is not found by google.de. I registered it on google. What can I do? How can I add meta tags in the WIKI. How can I add extension: metatags - please step by step explanation. Thanks Holger from Germany translated by google Hallo Liste, Ich habe eine Mediawiki im Internet eingerichtet. Sie heißt www.apfel4blind.de . Aber sie wird von google.de nicht gefunden. Ich habe sie bei google registriert. Was kann ich noch tun? Wie kann ich Meta-Tags in die WIKI einbinden. Wie kann ich Extension:MetaTags einbinden – bitte Schritt für Schritt Erklärung. Danke Holger

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Please convince me to make my software open source
by Bernard＠bernardHulsman.nl 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

We have build many extensions to improve the functionality of MediaWiki. It is for Enterprise use as Knowledge management infrastructure. The name of the extensions and additional functionality is Wikibox Blue. The software is propriety. It can be hosted as SAAS Today there has been a request if automatic signing of thread is possible in the discussion page. This is standard functionality in WikiForum. Which can be used in the talk namespace. But it is propriety software. So it can not be used. My question is here : Please convince me I have to make my propriety software open source. With some conditions : *I decide if I make Wikibox Blue Open source *I decide when Wikibox Blue will be Open source *I decide on which conditions Wikibox Blue will be open source. If you respect these conditions please try to convince me I should do it. Keep in mind it is a mayor step for me and my company. Bernard Hulsman

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Wiki Main is not at home of Web Server
by Toshi Esumi 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hi, I can imagine this had been asked many times in this list. But I don't seem to be able to find the same question in the archives. I installed v1.15.1 into my OpenSuSE 11.1 under /srv/www/wiki directory. It works fine if I point the Document root of httpd(apache2) to /srv/www/wiki. But it doesn't work if I point it to somewhere else, like /srv/www, and create an index.html there then set a link <a href="./wiki">. It gives me "Object not found" because it tries opening /localhost/index.php5/Main_Page, instead of /localhost/wiki/index.php5/Main_Page. I assume I just need to adjust some PHP variables in LocalSettings.php but I don't know which ones and how. Can anybody point me to the right direction? Thanks, Toshi

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Strange string (UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU) in front of headlines?
by Claus Juhl Knudsen 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hi. The following string (UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU) is appended right in front of an 'h1'-tag on my wikis homepage (see: http://www.wikisilkeborg.dk/index.php5/Forside) and again below, where I'm using the extension "NewPages" to display a list of the 10 most recent articles. Does anybody know what the problem might be? Any thoughts are more than welcome as this problem relates to the mainpage. UNIQ3e6d296734fe3fa4-h-0--QINU -- Claus Juhl Knudsen IT-arkivar Silkeborg Arkiv www.silkeborgarkiv.dk Tlf.: 87 22 19 27

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