MediaWiki-l January 2010

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.png image text font mis-scaled
by Mike 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

I've run into a problem with images I'm converting from another source. The most accurate intermediate format seamed to be .png, however; I've run into a repeated problem with some images display. On certain images, some of the text rendered has been misscaled and is inconsistant with the surrounding image. The text is correctly located on the displayed image. At first, I thought this was a problem with the software generating the .png file from its source. These are ChemDraw format images and are being converted by ChemDraw. In further looking at the intermediate, I find I can correctly view the .png file with other windows utilities without the font scale problem. These utilities Paint and Windows Photo Gallery also have no problem scaling the image. I have also attempted enabling .svg image format hoping it would be a convenient intermediate, but; the added work to support browsers without native .svg gave me pause. Can anyone familiar with the .png scaling process comment on why (only certain) text in .png files does not scale properly? I'm using MediaWiki 1.15.1. Thanks for any help.

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download a database dump
by OrzzrO 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

I want to download a database dump of wikipedia in English version from http://download.wikipedia.org/. But it's to large. I have not enough resource to download and process it. And I only need part of the database. Where can I download a subset of the database dump ? Thanks.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Recent Changes shows nothing!
by Daniel Bishop 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

First question: What is your $wgRCMaxAge set to? By default changes are only kept in the recentchanges table for 7 days. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCMaxAge Second question: Have you recently changed any settings on your wiki or run any of the maintenance scripts? Otherwise I would suggest checking your server logs. Regards, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bill Taylor Sent: 09 January 2010 04:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Recent Changes shows nothing! When I click on Recent Changes as of this morning, I see only today's activity. a new user added joined the wiki, and a page was updated. No matter what I do to look back in time, I don't see anything, even when I tell it to look back 300 days and 500 edits. There should be a full year worth of edits there. I could see them yesterday, but not today. I am running Mediawiki 1.15.1, PHP 5.2.6, and MySQL 4.1.16 Did the new user hack me somehow, or what? He looks like a spammer, but a very mild one. Bill Taylor _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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extract user account from database
by HKairpost 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Hello, I'm planing to copy my mediawiki user accounts to another system. I'd need to get the passwords either in md5 hash or in clear. I checked out the manual [1], password aren't stored as simple MD5 hash, an additional string is added. Is there a way I can convert them into regular hash of the password? Many thanks, HKairpost [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_table

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accessing wikipedia
by OrzzrO 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Hello, In my project, I need to access and get the contents in Wikipedia,and then build a inverted index using these contents. But I don't know how to get the contents in Wikipedia efficiently and easily. What can I do ? Are there any APIs ? Thank you for your time and help. ===================== best wishes!

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memory size exhausted while diff
by Florian Effenberger 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Hello, I have a problem with the following wiki page: http://www.oxidforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Languages/Slovenian&curid=180… It always throws an error message at me. I tried raising the PHP limit to 128 MB and 60 seconds, as well as disabling all extensions, but to no avail. The script seems to run forever, consuming lots of CPU power. I also tried activating the debug log file, which didn't work out neither. The original page at http://www.oxidforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Languages/Slovenian is a bit large, but I doubt it is too large. Did I hit a bug? Is it a misconfiguration? Thanks for any advice, Florian

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Recent Changes shows nothing!
by Bill Taylor 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

When I click on Recent Changes as of this morning, I see only today's activity. a new user added joined the wiki, and a page was updated. No matter what I do to look back in time, I don't see anything, even when I tell it to look back 300 days and 500 edits. There should be a full year worth of edits there. I could see them yesterday, but not today. I am running Mediawiki 1.15.1, PHP 5.2.6, and MySQL 4.1.16 Did the new user hack me somehow, or what? He looks like a spammer, but a very mild one. Bill Taylor

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 07 Jan '10

07 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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Two styles of patches for bug 4421
by Rob Lanphier 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Hi folks, I've included what I'm hoping is the final version of my patch for bug 4421 ("Image file extension should not be part of the name"): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421 Its a rather large patch, so I've included two versions of it: 1. Big hairy patch with everything in it 2. Broken up into smaller independent patches as best that I could in a tarball w/README Any strong preference for one over the other (or a third option)? Also, if it's appropriate to request svn access and it's still a good time to check stuff in, I'm happy to start checking in the safer portions of this patch. Rob

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Subcategory list not showing on Category first page
by Obsessive MathsFreak 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

My current wiki uses categories extensively to organise images. However, if the number of images in a category exceeds the page limit, then the subcategories of that category will not appear on the first page of the main category. Example here http://wiki.evageeks.org/Category:Images_%28Screenshots%29 In order to get the subcategory list to display, you have to go to the second category page http://wiki.evageeks.org/index.php?title=Category:Images_%28Screenshots%29&… I should mention that the main category is itself a subcategory of another category, in case this might be affecting things. Is there a resolution to this issue? Some magic word that can be called? I'm using Mediawiki 1.15.1 -- May The Maths Be With You

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