MediaWiki-l April 2010

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Twiwiki?
by nevio carlos de alarcão 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi, is there any extension that fetches posted messages on twiter and edits on wiki? Thank you in advance -- {+}Nevinho Venha para o Movimento Colaborativo http://sextapoetica.com.br !!

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Blacklist plugin?
by Holger Schr＠der 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi, I have a question to install the Spam Blacklist plugin. I copied the files SpamBlacklist.php, SpamBlacklist_body.php and SpamBlacklist.i18n.php in the folder extensions / Spam blacklist. Then I have in LocalSettings.php the line: require_once ("$ IP / extensions / Spam Blacklist / SpamBlacklist.php") inserted;. Now I come but no further. Do I enter something into the LocalSettings.php? Where can I wear then the blacklist in my WIKI? Can I use the content of the page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist simply to a new article on my take on WIKI? Thanks and Ciao www.apfel4blind.de Überstzt with google translator

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1.13.2 to 1.15 upgrade on Windows, title character problems
by Christensen, Courtney 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi All, We are in the process of upgrading our installations from 1.13 and 1.9 to 1.15 and we are having a little issue with page titles degrading. When we dump the live database and move it to an acceptance machine and run the upgrade.php script on it we find that the characters like alpha have been changing into less readable strings. We have tried: mysqldump (with no options) mysqldump --default-character-set=latin1 mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 We have tried post dump conversion scripts, including Charco (as recommended in the MW Manual.) Any other pointers would be really helpful. Thanks, Courtney Christensen

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Mario Lederer
by The Face 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

http://imokindia.com/default/index.php

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1.16b2 install problems
by David Gerard 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

This is so simple and showstopping it'll be something stupid on my part. We have a 1.13 installation. I tried setting up a test wiki with 1.16b2 on the same database ("techwiki") with a new table prefix ("testwiki_"). We have a user, "admin". I tried installing 1.16b2 and got error 1044, insufficient privileges. I did, per the mediawiki.org FAQ, as root: mysql> grant all privileges on techwiki to 'admin'@'%' identified by 'password'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) - and ran it again. I got (last lines of the install page): # Attempting to connect to database server as admin...success. # Connected to mysql 5.0.41; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode # Database techwiki exists # Creating tables... done. # Initializing statistics... A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT user_id FROM `testwiki_user` WHERE user_name = 'WikiSysop' LIMIT 1 from within function "User::idForName". Database returned error "1146: Table 'techwiki.testwiki_user' doesn't exist (localhost)". Looking in the database, it has *not* created any tables, so "Creating tables... done." is untrue. So what silly thing haven't I done yet? - d.

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Resetting admin password: success!
by McHale, Nina 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Thanks Huib, Ryan, Courtney (sorry I called you Catherine before!), and Platonides for your suggestions for getting the admin password sorted out! In the end, I disabled the LDAP, and had to associate my email with the Wikiadmin account (another dumb mistake, not setting up the email) in MySQL, and then was able to use the password reset function on the wiki login screen with the LDAP disabled. Have since made myself and two other LDAP accounts Bureaucrats and Sysops to prevent further foolishness. :) Thanks again! Nina

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hardcoded local links in mw_externallinks table
by Boris Epstein 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi all, I attempted to move a Wiki (MediaWiki 1.8.2) and failed because lots of images/documents/PDF's that were part of that Wiki were for some reason in the table for the external links ( mw_externallinks ) and, on top of that, what I got is full pathnames. So, if my Wiki used to live under http://mywiki.mydomain.com/ the files would be listed as http://mywiki.mydomain.com/a/0/image1.jpg and such. Any idea why? Or how to correct that? Thanks in advance. Boris.

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '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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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!
by Marcin Cieslak 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the Wikimedia projects. This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please visit the official Wikimania 2010 site: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/ Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks. Submissions will be discussed and selected in an informal process on the wiki. If your submission is not added to the schedule, you will still have many opportunities to bring topics forward on-site. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submitting workshop, tutorial, panel and presentation proposals: May 20 * Notification of acceptance: May 25 (workshops), May 31 (panels, tutorials, presentations) * All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the Open Space track of the conference, whether or not they are accepted in this initial process. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Submissions will be reviewed informally by a team of volunteers. TRACKS This year Wikimania will offer three tracks for submissions for members of wiki communities and interested observers to share their own experiences and thoughts and to present new ideas: People and Community The People and Community track provides a unique forum for discussing topics related to people using/building wikis. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Wiki Community: Conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; * Wiki Outreach: Promotion of wikis and Wikimedia projects among the general public; * North meets south, east meets west: How can people of a different cultural background create an encyclopedia according to common rules? Same subject in the eye of different cultures. * Special: Wikipedia in Central/Eastern Europe: this theme will provide a forum to present and discuss the latest progress of Wikis in the central/eastern European community. Knowledge and Collaboration The Knowledge and Collaboration track aims to promote research and find exciting ideas related to knowledge... * Wiki Content: New ways to improve content quality, credibility; legal issues and copyrights (is free knowledge free?); use of the content in education, journalism, research; * Semantic Wikis: The use of semantic web technologies, linked data; semantic annotation and metadata (in particular manual vs. automated approaches). Infrastructure Track The Infrastructure track at Wikimania will provide a forum where both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches, applications, and explore how to make Wiki access ever more ubiquitous: * MediaWiki development: issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; * Moving beyond MediaWiki: what other Wiki-like platforms exist; what tools and features do we need for collaboration on different types of knowledge? * Mobile Wikis: The Web is moving off the desktop and into mobile phones, how we use wikis on mobile devices?; wiki-based Augmented Reality (AR) applications, location based services * User Interface Design: Usability and user experience; accessibility, adaptive interfaces and personalization; novel UI designs. WIKISYM 2010 Please note that Wikimania 2010 is co-located with WikiSym, The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. More information about WikiSym can be found on the conference website: http://www.wikisym.org/ SUBMIT A PROPOSAL To submit a proposal for a presentation, workshop, panel or tutorial, please visit: http://bit.ly/Submit2010 Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! -- Marcin Cieslak Wikimania 2010 Gdansk

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extension for "user ratings" poll (eg, rated 3 stars) ?
by MK 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I'm doing this big transfer of an MVC style site in a wiki. Part of the existing site is a "user rating" for each page/entry, of the sort you see on youtube videos (click to rate). This is not a rating for the page (and we are already using flagged revs), it's a rating for what the page describes. Does anyone know of a plugin or something like this? -- MK <halfcountplus(a)intergate.com>

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