MediaWiki-l March 2010

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '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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Problem with video
by Lokesh Kumar 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Dear all, I would like to ask please help me working with any of the mediawiki extension with which I can play video, which has been saved locally on the mediawiki server. Tried several extensions without any luck. Thanks very much Lokesh Kumar (Research Scholar) Network Multimedia and Computing Group, Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001, Covilha, Portugal

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Editors list
by Verhoeven, Peter 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, Is there a way to get an editors list ranked by editor with the most edits? Peter Verhoeven This message and attachment(s) are intended solely for use by the addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or agent thereof responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and with a 'reply' message. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Update wiki page automatically
by Gmail 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi all, We want to update some page automatically from our daily data. I tried to google for a while, however, I have found any information. Could we update any mediawiki page automatically from external programs? Thanks a lot Hung

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Admin Rights
by Dave butlerdi 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

I have recently had a situation where an imported page displays fine after import for myself, admin, but then will not display for others. Where is there any documentation for this type of thing, if any ? It is generally something like infobox templates, but for the life of me I can not figure it out. What is the logic for displaying for admin and not for others. -- Regards Dave Butler butlerdi-at-gmail-dot-com Also on Skype as butlerdi Get Skype here http://www.skype.com/download.html ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] db creation
by Mark Eriksen 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Mark Wonsil wrote: >> Anyway, I understand the MW mark-up and would really really like to >> just take the existing db, translate it into MW pages, and store it >> appropriately. ?Any thoughts are appreciated. >Have you looked at the API? > >http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php That will be even easier then! Thanks much, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

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list interwiki/interlanguage links?
by Jim Tittsler 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Is there a Special Page (or magic word?) that displays a table of the current interwiki/interlanguage prefixes for users on a MediaWiki installation?

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db creation
by Mark Eriksen 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi! I'm supposed to turn an existing MVC style site, about 20000 pages, into a mediawiki. I am hoping I can just do some straight forward writing of data into the SQL database. But before I bother to investigate, I thought it worthwhile to ask here about possible docs or advice on this, since the MW db diagram from the site is totally meaningless/useless to me -- I would rather just hack away at whatever tables I can find, etc. -- and saw nothing obvious on line. Anyway, I understand the MW mark-up and would really really like to just take the existing db, translate it into MW pages, and store it appropriately. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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