MediaWiki-l November 2010

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How to figure out wherer the link red or not?
by Juriy Katkov 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hello, everyone! I'm writing an extension now where I have to know for the given link whether it's red or not. How can I easily do that? I read some articles like that : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_existence and see how can I check existence as user. Is there any function to check page existence from my php-code? Thanks in advance! Yury

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...
by WJhonson＠aol.com 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

In a message dated 11/23/2010 8:19:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 2007(a)gmaskfx.com writes: > My wiki was vandalized recently and there is a huge amount of edits and > new pages that I need to remove. Is there a way to do this without doing > them all at once? > What is your MediaWiki version

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Dieser Benutzer hat keine gültige E-Mail-Adresse angegeben.
by uv22e Alcott 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

hi, now I got it with the Contact form but now its saying something like this "this user has not provided a guilty emailaddeess" where can I change this? I set the Localsettings already $wgEmergencyContact = "info(a)mydomain.com"; $wgPasswordSender = "info(a)mydomain.com"; The ContactPage.php # Configuration // Name of a registered wiki user who will receive the mails $wgContactUser = myusername; // E-mail address used as the sender of the contact email, if the visitor does // not supply an email address. Defaults to $wgEmergencyContact. $wgContactSender = null; // The name to be used with $wgContactSender. // This will be shown in the recipient's e-mail program $wgContactSenderName = 'Contact Form on ' . $wgSitename; // If true, users will be required to supply a name and an e-mail address // on Special:Contact. $wgContactRequireAll = false;

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/Special:Contact
by uv22e Alcott 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

hello, I installed the Extension:ContactPage so I did the following: downloaded the files extracted them on my computer uploaded the directory into my extension folder changed the localsettings but what do I need to do now? Sorry I am really new to this

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MS SQL
by Gary Roush 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I am trying to install my first Mediawiki site and have a problem. My system settings on ReadyHosting.com indicates that it is running MySQL version 4.1.22 which meets Mediawiki requirements; however, when I try to install Mediawiki I get the error message "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'VMSSQL01'." Checking to see if I had the database set up properly, I discovered it is actually MS SQL. Will Mediawiki work with MS SQL? I have not been able to find a reference to MS SQL in any of the help files. Thanks, Gary Roush

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Database import / export breaks page titles with non-ascii characters, but not page contents
by Sulka Haro 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I'm trying to move a MediaWiki 1.16 instance from one hosting provider to other, and the move is breaking all page titles that have non-us ascii characters in them, in what looks like an UTF decoding problem. Strangely the page contents are fine after import, and I can create new pages that have scandinavian characters on the new provider without any issues, so I'm slightly baffled as to where the problem is. I'm doing the move using mysqldump / import, since the MediaWiki's importDump.php barfs on the new server when trying to import an XML dump ("XML-tuonti epäonnistui jäsennysvirheen takia. rivillä 1, sarakkeessa 1 (tavu 3; "<mediawiki"): Empty document" - gotta love localized error messages). I tried reading the SQL and it looks to me like the database contents are encoded by MediaWiki to some "safe" format, so the problem should not be with Mysql? I can't find anything related after reading all the documentation I could find. The encoding issues that I can find refer to global encoding problems, not just with page titles. Any pointers where to look? Other system details: apache2, ubuntu, PHP 5.2.3. Thanks, sulka

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Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
by uv22e Alcott 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hello, I love this kind of how the banner is integrated into the site. Is there a chance to do that also on my wiki (with my message and my photo banner?)

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] MS SQL
by WJhonson＠aol.com 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

In a message dated 11/23/2010 9:06:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, groush2(a)earthlink.net writes: > I know. That is why it was such a surprise to me. On the Control > Panel under Scripting and Add ons it clearly says "MS SQL Database" > and the way you set up the database is different than with the > typical MySQL database. I submitted a support ticket to ReadyHosting > and so far they have not been helpful. I am trying to get MS SQL > replaced with MySQL, but I doubt if they will do that. > > On this page http://www.readyhosting.com/readyhosting/hosting.bml if you look at the differences between the $198 plan and the $99 plan it *implies* that for $198 you *also* get MS SQL Not that it's the only thing you get. You have mySql and MS Sql then. For $99 you only get the mySQL So I'd say it's there, but you're looking at the wrong button.

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Page in delete category that does not have {{delete}}?
by Clayton 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

I've been puzzling over this one for a while. There is a page on the OOo Wiki that is in the Category:Candidates for speedy deletion: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/Improving_OOo_Defa… http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_del… Normally, that means someone has added {{delete}} somewhere in the page. The problem is... I cannot see the {{delete}} anywhere in the page in question... nor does it seem to be in a template the page uses... yet somehow the page has landed in the delete category (and it's been there a long time). It's possible I'm blind... :-) Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions why the page is showing up in the delete category? Is something broken on the database side that would do this? Or is there some way the {{delete}} can sneak into a page unintentionally (eg from transcluded content, which as far as I can see the page does not have)? C.

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Server Migration Issues
by trueskew 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Yesterday I set up a new server and migrated my site from MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.10-pl0-gentoo (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.70 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 to MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.3.3 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.52 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5PAE (CentOS 5.5 i386) For the most part things have worked, but so far I've found 2 exceptions (I'm using monobook): - Code in Common.css doesn't seem to be running. Some style changes that were init failed, for the moment I've had to update some monobook skin files directly. - When I typed a term in the previous sidebar searchbox, it would show a dropdown list of items matching the pattern I typed in. On the new one, no pattern shows up. Has anyone else seen similar behavior, and have you figured out why? I'm not sure how to deal with this, and I'd hate to have to downgrade PHP if I can avoid it. I did the same migration to an Ubuntu 10.04 machine, it transferred over and ran fine. Thanks for any feedback, I appreciate it. - skew

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