MediaWiki-l February 2010

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 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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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 24 Jan '11

24 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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Easy creation of page sequences
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi, I have been trying to create a maintainable way of grouping pages together and allowing readers to page through them in sequence. Most samples I've seen use templates that require you to supply the 'previous' and 'next' page. This however results in three page edits to insert a new page between two existing pages and does not guarantee that your prev-sequence is identical to the next-sequence... Being a programmer, that is way too much duplicate and error-prone work for me ;-) There must be a better way to do this and I was hoping to solve it with a plain MW installation (with ParserFunctions and DynamicPageList at the moment). Given an 'index' page that holds a list of all page titles in the preferred order, isn't it possible to create a template that selects the correct previous and next page title given the current page title? I get stuck in getting the correct lines from the index page. DPL can select based on section name (= page title), but then the contents of that index section must be the prev/next links themselves: =First Page= Prev [[Second Page|Next]] =Second Page= [[First Page|Prev]] [[Third Page|Next]] =Third Page= .. etc. This works, except that it is still a lot of duplication of page names (but the edits are contained in a single page, big plus). I hoped to simplify the index page by creating a template that writes the section header and prev/next links, but then DPL no longer recognizes the sections :-( Apparently DPL 'sees' the page text before the templates are called ({{Page|Prev page|Page title|Next page}}: {{Page||First Page|Second Page}} {{Page|First Page|Second Page|Third Page}} {{Page|Second Page|Third Page|Fourth Page}} Basically my questions are: 1. Am I completely off track here? 2. Can DPL be coerced to evaluate templates before looking at the page 3. Can DPL (or another extension) select the text from a section before/after a matched section? 4. Is it possible to determine the section sequence number given the section name (so 'Second Page' results in 2, allowing me to use DPL to retrieve the name of section 2 -/- 1 and 2 + 1 to create the prev/next links? Apologies for the long post, hopefully someone can point me to some good resources (I've been to Meta, Wikibooks, Medawiki.org but could very well have overlooked something there as the amount of info is a bit overwhelming and it is difficult to judge how up to date it is). -- Regards, Jean-Marc

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (3)
by Giuseppe Briotti 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi all, hi Bernard... probably, my response is a bit late, but I spent time reading (hopefully!) carefully all the answers... Thus, my 0,02$: I think that probably the correct question is: "Please convince me to make my business model" :-) I agree with others that probably, the SaaS business models require closed source. Thus, probably, no choice... IMHO the open source software implies a different business model, something similar to "partnership". Good luck, honestly, Giuseppe Briotti. -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)gmail.com "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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PHP 5.2.13 released
by Thomas Gries 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

To whom it may concern: PHP 5.2.13 has been released on 25.02.2010 which claims [1] to fix bug [2]. [1] http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.13 [2] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50394

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Images not displaying
by Richard Yonck 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

MediaWiki version: 1.10.1 PHP version: 5.2.9 MySQL version: 5.0.89 URL: http://www.futurenovo.com A recent failed upgrade of cpanel broke my installation, requiring a reinstall of perl and mysql. Following this, images no longer displayed on my wiki pages - they just show as the namespace and filename, i.e., Image:Filename.jpg inline with the text. No error is reported related to the image. Drilling down to the actual image location will display the image in the browser window. Since this happened and I couldn't fix it, I migrated the installation to a new server (more memory, fresh install) expecting the issue to be resolved but it hasn't. I use GD and have tried the following: 1. Installed ImageMagic and made appropriate changes to LocalSettings.php - no change, reverted to GD settings. 2. Tweaked PHP 3. ran /scripts/rebuildImages.php - no errors, but 0 of 66 images changed. Likewise oldimages 4. ran the following on the image table: ALTER TABLE image ADD COLUMN img_name2 varchar(255); UPDATE image SET img_name2=img_name; UPDATE image SET img_name=img_name2; ALTER TABLE image DROP COLUMN img_name2; 5. uploaded a new image and attempted to include in a page without success I understand the MW version is old, but I have a lot of custom extensions, etc that I don't want to have to rewrite so I don't want to upgrade. And I seriously doubt it would change the image issue. (I haven't made any mods to the MW install itself.) Note: Some of my extensions on some pages (not Home) need to be adjusted since the migration, but the image problem is identical to what was happening on the old server. Ideas anyone?

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gsoc 2010
by Sanyam goyal 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hi my name is Sanyam, I am final year Student of Computer Science department , IIT Bombay, india. I am interested in applying for google summer of code 2010. I saw the idea page ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010), and I contacted few mentors listed their. I am writing this e-mail to introduce myself on the mailing list. I have skills in Java ,C, C++ and I have experience with PHP, Mysql, Javascript. I believe that my skills suits the project requirement. I would like to get involved with the project soon for better understanding of the project so that a good proposal at google site can be made. Kindly consider this mail as an sincere interest to work with mediaWiki in gsoc 2010. Thanks -- Sanyam Goyal Btech4,Senior UnderGraduate IIT Bombay

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Steps to take for changing MediaWiki server IP
by Mic Mobile 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi all, Thanks for the help. I got it sorted: My predecessor had listed the server address in the Apache virtual host configuration as the system's name, not the IP address. As such, it was never going to resolve until the DNS entry got update. Thanks again, and have a good weekend! -m On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Gabriel Filion < gabriel.filion(a)revolutionlinux.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2010 05:58 PM, Mic Mobile wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I saw this listed as the support list off of the MediaWiki installation > > page, so apologies if this isn't the appropriate venue for the query. > > > > I've got to migrate our MediaWiki server to a new IP address. I inherited > > this server, so I'm not as familiar with its configuration as I should > > be. The server is an 8.04 Ubuntu installation that works well. Database > and > > everything else are running locally on the server. I added the IP address > to > > the machine and confirmed that it was live on both the old IP and the new > > IP. MediaWiki is still running fine when accessed by the old IP, but when > I > > try to access by http://NEW IP/wiki, I get a page not found. > > > > So, I tried ditching the old IP, just using the new IP. I had the same > > problem, even with a restart. > > > > Make sure that the Apache (supposing it is your web server) > configuration is set to the right address. VirtualHost sections are > often linked with a particular IP. > > > Is there a MediaWiki configuration file I'm missing somewhere that has > the > > host IP address in there somewhere? > > > The only configuration file you should have to deal with is > LocalConfig.php . Verify the $wgServer variable. If you access the > server via IP (as opposed to by domain name), this variable will have to > be changed. > > My guess is your problem is probably on the level of the Apache > configuration. > > Good luck! > > -- > Gabriel Filion >

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Table with split header
by Jan Steinman 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

> From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> > > On 26 February 2010 09:49, Massimo Canonico <mex(a)di.unipmn.it> wrote: > >> is there any way to got this effect in the table: >> http://rhftech.com/images/excel_split_header.png >> ? >> I'm looking at cell A1. > > Not really - MediaWiki table syntax is just a shorthand for actual > HTML tables, and there isn't a way to do diagonally-split cells in > HTML table syntax. Well, you *could* put an image in that cell. You could even automagically generate that image on-the-fly from text. But I suspect you don't want to go to that much trouble. ---------------- If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription. -- Stephen R. Covey :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Steps to take for changing MediaWiki server IP
by Mic Mobile 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi folks, I saw this listed as the support list off of the MediaWiki installation page, so apologies if this isn't the appropriate venue for the query. I've got to migrate our MediaWiki server to a new IP address. I inherited this server, so I'm not as familiar with its configuration as I should be. The server is an 8.04 Ubuntu installation that works well. Database and everything else are running locally on the server. I added the IP address to the machine and confirmed that it was live on both the old IP and the new IP. MediaWiki is still running fine when accessed by the old IP, but when I try to access by http://NEW IP/wiki, I get a page not found. So, I tried ditching the old IP, just using the new IP. I had the same problem, even with a restart. Is there a MediaWiki configuration file I'm missing somewhere that has the host IP address in there somewhere? Thanks, -m

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