MediaWiki-l October 2010

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

21 Oct '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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Maps 0.7.1: images as layers
by Jeroen De Dauw 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Hey, Maps 0.7.1 [0] and Semantic Maps 0.7.1 [1] are now available for download [2]. The main new feature in this release is the long awaited images as layers [3]. It allows you to display images with OpenLayers, so users can pan and zoom around, and markers can be placed to draw attention to certain area's and provide additional information. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_0.7.1 [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps_0.7.1 [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Download [3] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Images_as_layers Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! --

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Category search
by Rudolf Henze 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

I like to find all pages which are in category X and category Y. I need this often, so I dont like to do this manually. Do I need a extension for this? And if so, which one? Best regards Rudolf -- http://rettedeinefreiheit.de/ Gegen Freiheitsberaubung in Deutschland

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about requiring PHP 5.2
by Ashar Voultoiz 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello, Looking at INSTALL it seems we are still supporting PHP version 5.1 which is 5 years old in a couple of weeks. This is getting old and prevents developers from using some new features. Ideally we could raise it to 5.3 to get Namespace support, closures but that might be to early since most webhost probably still use 5.2.x. Would it be possible to consider raising the requirement to at least 5.2.0 ? This would give us native JSON support and most probably the filter extension enabled by default. The later can be used to speed up the input validation. cheers, -- Ashar Voultoiz

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Fixing numbered lists
by Daniel Barrett 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

I've proposed a small addition to wikitext to fix the most common problem with numbered lists. I welcome comments. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25587 DanB

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Main Page
by Graham 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hello, There is a wiki that is setup without Ldap authentication, and when you go to the page it doesn't of course prompt you for Login. I could create a page with the login, and have it as the main page, however, I was questioning if that is the recommend method. Thanks

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"Go" doesn't search for article title first
by Ross Xu 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hi there, As we know, the difference between "Go" and "Search" buttons beside the search box is that "Go" first looks for article's title and first lists search results found in titles, and immediately goes to the indicated article if one is found. If "Go" fails to find an article, it then automatically executes "Search" which is a full-text search for the given words. However, it only works well for default namespaces. If the given keywords string is in articles under a customized namespace, the "Go" doesn't look for (or list) article titles first, which means there is no difference between "Go" and "Search". Is there any way to do to make the "Go" to work for customized namespaces? BTW, in case there is something to do with the search engine, I am using Lucene-search/MWSearch. Thanks in advance, Ross Xu

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Benefits of using wiki in a corporate environment-how to convience?
by Tech Geek 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Well, so being a mediawiki savvy I realize how using mediawiki can benefit a small to medium scale enterprise. Recently I have being asked task to convience my executive management team about benefits of using an internal corporate mediawiki in the organization (say 60 to 80 people). What are some good pointers/resources that I can point them to? I would like to avoid the route of me telling them as to why I think it will be useful. Rather it would be good if I can give them a 3rd party resources or even testimonials from this mailing list which explains in general that how can mediawiki benefit an organization. Your inputs will be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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Book to PDF not updating automatically
by Raymond M 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Upon saving a book, I can find it in User:username/Books/bookname and there are links to each page but no buttons, menu items, or links to regenerate the .pdf output nor to get back to the manage book window. It appears that the "Download" button of the Manage Books page does not go out and fetch the latest versions of the book's selected pages. I see no indication that a re-rendering occurs and I am getting the same .pdf returned. It seems that the entire book saving mechanism is mis-implemented; even when it lets me save a book, it's weird trying to get back to a saved book; trying to modify a previously saved book seems impossible. I have added these to my LocalSettings.php $wgAutoConfirmAge = 1; $wgAutoConfirmCount = 1;

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Retrieving a thumbnail of an image file
by Gabriel Sandor 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi everyone, Is it possible to retrieve via the Wikipedia API (or index.php) a thumbnail of a picture given its file name ? All i know currently is that there's the ...index.php?title=Special:FilePath/<FileName> page but i do not know how i could use it to get in my application a thumbnail with the specified dimension instead of the full resolution picture.

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