MediaWiki-l November 2010

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Cannot Disable "RecentChanges" Special Page
by Tech Geek 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, I want to disable the "RecentChanges" special page on my Mediawiki 1.16 version even for user that are logged in. I have tried two different methods: 1. Using Lockdown extension I added the following in my LocalSettings.php require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" ); $wgSpecialPageLockdown['RecentChanges'] = array('sysop'); $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = array('sysop'); With the above I was able to disable the "Export" special page but not the RecentChanges special page. 2. As per [1] I did the following in my LocalSettings.php: function disableSomeSpecialPages(&$list) { unset($list['RecentChanges']); unset($list['Export']); return true; } $wgHooks['SpecialPage_initList'][]='disableSomeSpecialPages'; but even that does not help. Any ideas? Thanks! [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Special_pages#Disabling_Special:UserLo…

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Touching a page programmatically?
by Daniel Barrett 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

I want to "touch" an article by performing an empty edit, as if someone clicked "Edit" followed by "Save Page". Does anyone know why this code works sometimes and has no effect other times? function touch($page) { $title = Title::newFromText($page); if ($title) { $article = new Article($title); return $article->doEdit($article->getContent(), '', EDIT_UPDATE); } Thanks, DanB

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Modify Categories Layout
by Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi! Exists some meaning to modify the layout of a category page? For example, put two columns instead three. Thanks

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Section formatting problems
by Darby Vicker 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hello, We've been using mediawiki for internal documentation of various projects for some time now. Many of our pages use sections, subsections and sub-subsections to document compilation settings for the various codes we use. Sometime relatively recently (~months ago) the formatting of these pages broke. Our current configuration is: CentOS 5.5 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Jul 14 07:07:49 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux php-5.1.6-27.el5 httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3 mediawiki-1.12.0 mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.4 To be more specific, the problem appears to be with "empty" sections. For example, the following wiki text: ==Section 1== ===Subsection 1.1=== ====Sub-subsection 1.1.1==== ==Section 2== ===Subsection 2.1=== ====Sub-subsection 2.1.1==== Doesn't format correctly when I save and view the page. Its as if the wiki engine doesn't recognize the section headings and I just get one big string of text like this (all on one line) Section 1=====Subsection 1.1=======Sub-subsection 1.1.1======Section 2=====Subsection 2.1=======Sub-subsection 2.1.1== Although its odd to me that there are only 2 equal signs at the end of the string and none at the beginning. Also, the TOC doesn't show up, which makes sense if the wiki engine isn't recognizing the sections. If I put any non-whitespace character in the sections example above, the page formats as you would expect and the TOC appears. The specific formatting I'm trying to fix looks more like the example below. Apparently a pre-formatted section (<pre>) doesn't help as none of the section headings below are recognized either. I have to put text (just one character will do) under each code section as well as before and after each pre-formatted block in order for all the sections to format correctly and show up in the TOC. So my questions: - can anybody else reproduce this? - is this expected behavior? - if not, any ideas for tracking down where the error is occurring (mediawiki, php, mysql, apache, ...)? Some help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Darby === Code A === ==== GCC ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre> ==== PGI ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre> ==== Intel ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre> === Code B === ==== GCC ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre> ==== PGI ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre> ==== Intel ==== <pre> cd /some/path wget http://... tar xvzf ... ./configure ... make install </pre>

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how to upgrade running 1.9 to 1.16 with all the extensions
by Uwe Brauer 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hello As I wrote in an earlier email I might be forced to upgrade from 1.9 to 1.16, but is there painless way that I don't have to reinstall and reconfigure all my extensions? thanks Uwe Brauer

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Fwd: Benvenuto nella lista "MediaWiki-l" (modalità digest)
by Nabila Selim Georges 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

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Simple Math Renders but complex math does not
by John Edenfield 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello All, I am having some trouble getting the math function to work correctly. Currently simple equations render find such as: <math.> y=x+b</math>. However if I try to use a more complicated equation such as <math> \frac {x}{y} </math> the picture renders but displays the equation exactly how it is shown between the math tags. I have tried entering the same equation from the command line using the function: texvc /home/wiki/tmp /home/wiki/math " \frac{x}{y}" and the resulting .png is correct. Any Ideas on what could be going wrong. I am running MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.10 with php5. I am new to mediawiki so please let me know if there are any other details that you may need. Regards, John Edenfield Performance Engineer Clyde Bergemann Inc. ----------------------------------------------------- >>CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS<< ----------------------------------------------------- Phone: 678-259-9126 Cell: 404-519-1143 Fax: 678-259-9176 Email: JEdenfield(a)Clydebergemann.com Internet: www.clydebergemann.com Clyde Bergemann, Inc | 4015 Presidential Parkway | Atlanta | GA | 30340-3707 | USA

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Sphinx is doing case-sensitive searches and I want case-INsensitive
by David Benfell 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi all, Experimenting with the sphinx search extension, I've discovered that searches are now case sensitive. From what I can see, it isn't supposed to be doing that. The possibly relevant lines from sphinx.conf: # uncomment next 2 lines to allow wildcard (*) searches min_infix_len = 1 enable_star = 1 # charset encoding type charset_type = utf-8 # charset definition and case folding rules "table" charset_table = 0..9, A..Z->a..z, a..z, \ U+C0->a, U+C1->a, U+C2->a, U+C3->a, U+C4->a, U+C5->a, U+C6->a, \ U+C7->c,U+E7->c, U+C8->e, U+C9->e, U+CA->e, U+CB->e, U+CC->i, \ U+CD->i, U+CE->i, U+CF->i, U+D0->d, U+D1->n, U+D2->o, U+D3->o, \ U+D4->o, U+D5->o, U+D6->o, U+D8->o, U+D9->u, U+DA->u, U+DB->u, \ U+DC->u, U+DD->y, U+DE->t, U+DF->s, \ U+E0->a, U+E1->a, U+E2->a, U+E3->a, U+E4->a, U+E5->a, U+E6->a, \ U+E7->c,U+E7->c, U+E8->e, U+E9->e, U+EA->e, U+EB->e, U+EC->i, \ U+ED->i, U+EE->i, U+EF->i, U+F0->d, U+F1->n, U+F2->o, U+F3->o, \ U+F4->o, U+F5->o, U+F6->o, U+F8->o, U+F9->u, U+FA->u, U+FB->u, \ U+FC->u, U+FD->y, U+FE->t, U+FF->s, Am I reading this right? It looks to me like it means to translate all upper case letters to lower case letters; assuming it does this consistently for both search queries and indexing, that *should* do the job. But apparently it isn't. The installation went smoothly. I did not encounter any errors. I have not changed the charset_table. The wiki is in English, but I have gotten errors that seem to indicate character set issues that I haven't figured out how to fix. At this moment, I can't remember what I ran that produced those errors. (Sorry!) And I would like to preserve the option to introduce other languages in the future. -- David Benfell <benfell(a)parts-unknown.org> http://www.parts-unknown.org/

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Category Pages Full of Duplicates
by Ibrahim Awwal 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi guys, I have this weird issue where my category pages seem to get populated with duplicates of the pages in that category. Eg. If I have a category:Foo, and pages Bar and Baz, on the page Category:Foo, I see *Bar *Bar *Bar *Baz *Baz Anyone know why this might happen? I have a hunch that it happened in the past when I ran the upgrade script, because newer pages in that category don't have duplicates yet. In the case that there are problems with my database, what would be the best course of action? I posted here a couple days ago about database errors during the upgrade process, so I'm wondering if there is some bug in the database that keeps getting propagated by the upgrade scripts. The data in the wiki is pretty critical and backed up on a regular basis. Thanks! -Ibrahim Awwal

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validation workflow of wiki pages
by SCOLAN Gabriel-2 (SAGEM DEFENSE SECURITE) 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to define a validation workflow of the information stored in a wiki ? In fact, we are thinking of using such a tool as a knowledge managment tool internally to my company, where for example anyone could write articles that would be validated first and made public in a second step after validation by a board of experts for example. I saw that it is possible to lock articles in read only, it could be the status "validated". It would be useful to be able to list all articles that are not in a read only state, and mark those pages as DRAFT for example with specific colors or whatever visual effects that indicate the information needs to be considered carefully. In case a pages is lock, is there a mean integrated in mediawiki to ask question or propose updates (because of new information or corrections are necessary) ? is there a kind of tracking system ? thanks a lot gabriel # " Ce courriel et les documents qui lui sont joints peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou ayant un caractère privé. S'ils ne vous sont pas destinés, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de les divulguer, de les reproduire ou d'en utiliser de quelque manière que ce soit le contenu. Si ce message vous a été transmis par erreur, merci d'en informer l'expéditeur et de supprimer immédiatement de votre système informatique ce courriel ainsi que tous les documents qui y sont attachés." ****** " This e-mail and any attached documents may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, copying of this e-mail and any attachments thereto or use of their contents by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and all attached documents from your computer system." #

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MediaWiki-l November 2010