MediaWiki-l October 2010

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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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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

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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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 06 Dec '11

06 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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editing the edition buttons
by André Meunier 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hello, I'd like to modify the edition buttons (the buttons you have above the edition frame when you modify a page), to remove the date from the signature button, and keep only the name. It works manually when removing one of the '~' from the signature added (the button adds --~~~~), so I'm trying to find where the javascript for the buttons comes from. -- *André Meunier*

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Mediawiki data base error
by wen miao 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi there: I got this error of my website recently: When I login and click "edit", the error message pop up: ---- A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "IndexPager::reallyDoQuery (LogPager)". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'nicawebsite.nica_tag_summary' doesn't exist (127.0.0.1)" ---- Then I google this error message and find out the solotion: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/170529 So I run "php update.php" in /maintenance, only get this : ---- MediaWiki 1.15.1 Updater A connection to the database could not be established. Check the values of $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword. ---- I am quite sure the values are correct in Localsettings.php How can i fix this?

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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 25 Jan '11

25 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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Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to widen the search suggestions box?
by Lukas Tanner 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Thanks for the answer. I just tested, and it only works if I disable the Extension:UsabilityInitiative in $IP/LocalSettings.php #require_once("$IP/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/Vector/Vector.php"); Do you know something about this bug and how to fix it? Greets

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Results and Reminder on SMWCon Spring 2011 Pre-Conference Survey
by Jesse Wang 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Dear all - If you are interested in MediaWiki, especially Semantic MediaWiki related stuff, you may be interested in SMWCon 2011 Spring<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011>, please take several minutes to finish this *_pre-conference_ survey*<http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BDFEKJWSB>to help us make it better for you, of you, and by you. For your convenience, we don't require you to log in or have an email address, so please do not take it multiple times. Please also note that, if we choose a *weekday *instead of weekend conference dates, we can save a lot on HVAC and admin fees. You can view the real-time results here<http://www.zoomerang.com/Shared/SharedResultsSurveyResultsPage.aspx?ID=L24L…> . Regards, Jesse Jesse (Jiaxin) Wang Project Halo, Vulcan Inc. *505 5th Ave. S, Suite 900* *Seattle, WA 98104* Direct Phone: (206) 342-2306 Direct Fax: (206) 342-3306 Twitter: @aiwang <http://twitter.com/aiwang> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaxinwang

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Escaping highlighting tags
by David Doria 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi all, I am trying to make a template which contains syntax highlighting. I made a template: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Template:VTKCMakeLists I then tried to use this template with: {{VTKCMakeLists|Thing1|Thing2}} But you can see here: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Sandbox/UseCMakeListsTemplate that it does not trigger the source code to be highlighted, but rather actually includes the source tag as part of the text on the page. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! David

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Announce one's wiki
by Bruce Whealton 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello all, So, I created a wiki and installed the Semantic Bundle. The last step involved announcing my wiki, which I did. I don't see it anywhere in any list though. It just started so there isn't much to see but I am curious about the smw submission process and how to get listed. Thanks, Bruce

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