MediaWiki-l April 2010

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Performance Problems
by Matthias Korn 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi, our shared web hosting provider is reporting serious performance problems for our site leading to breakdowns of their server etc. They are making the wiki and maybe the database responsible. They have taken the site offline (more or less), but we are rather depending on it at the moment as we have agreements with other 3rd parties to provide hosting of a bigger event in the beginning of May -- i.e. we are in trouble! I am not a DB expert. So I hope someone can have a brief look at the statistics below and verify if there is something strange going on. Esp. Handler_read_rnd and Handler_read_rnd_next seem to be pretty high. You need a password to access the site: http://wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Special:Version user/pass: mediawiki:mediawiki I have exported the DB statistics from phpMyAdmin: http://www.rockinchina.com/dbstatus.html Some access statistics from a few days ago (just before the problem first appeared): Date, Visitors, Pages, Hits, Traffic 14.04.2010 1768 9711 23568 215.71 MB 15.04.2010 2044 11258 34488 405.92 MB At what else could I be looking at for some load statistics? What else could be causing the high CPU load? Thanks for your help, matsch -- Rock in China http://wiki.rockinchina.com/ http://www.rockinchina.com/

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#expr problem
by Ekompute .info 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi, I am wondering why the expression #expr is not functioning at my website at Teknologi-maklumat <http://teknologi-maklumat.jbdirectory.com>. I did install the Parserfunction extension and also set slow parser to true. -- PM Poon

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pictures in a media description page (via template) have incorrect URL
by Uwe Baumbach 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi, on http://wiki-de.genealogy.net and http://wiki-commons.genealogy.net we carry MW installations of version 1.14.1. Media files and their description pages are in wiki-commons and are both shown in wiki-de as a dynamic import (like in WP installation). In cases we have a wiki-commons template with media file (image) in the media description page (licence info box, media type info box) - in wiki-commons all goes well only the dynamic imported description pages in wiki-de do not show such images, but only a red (wrong) URL to wiki-de (!). The only work-around we found is to configure the image in the template with a size parameter. Surprisingly then the images get the correct URL from wiki-commons too when the description page is shown in wiki-de! Is this a (known) MW bug (parser?) or a misconfiguration of our wikis? -- Ich freue mich auf Deine/Ihre Antwort! Uwe (Baumbach) U.Baumbach(a)web.de ___________________________________________________________ NEU: WEB.DE DSL für 19,99 EUR/mtl. und ohne Mindest-Laufzeit! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/

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RPED extension "1267: Illegal mix of collations" error
by Tisane . 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

I am encountering an error with Extension:RPED on pages that have characters from certain alphabets. My server (I have shared hosting) is running PHP 5.2.13. I found this post about a situation with a similar error: http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?13824-mysql-error-1271-Illegal… I am the author of the RPED extension and am wondering if this is an issue for me to fix, or if it is an issue with PHP that will need to be fixed with a later upgrade of PHP? The error occurs at, for instance: * http://libertapedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox * http://libertapedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&oldid=20752 The line of code in RPED where it is messing up is: $result=$dbr->selectRow('rped_page','rped_page_id',array("rped_page_title" => $title)); The error is as follows: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT rped_page_id FROM `rped_page` WHERE rped_page_title = 'Ar:قالب:قالب_معلومات' LIMIT 1 from within function "Database::selectRow". Database returned error "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)". Thanks, -Tisane

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error message: Parameter 1 to Language::getMagic()
by Dr Bob Jansen 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

As a follow up to my previous post regarding the error message 'Parameter 1 to language::GetMagic()...' After some research, I have confirmed that this is a MediaWiki bug and it has been fixed, but the fix is only available in version 1.16 for some reason. The bug details are at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/55429 bobj ----------------------------------- Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd PO Box 26, Erskineville NSW 2043, Australia Ph: +61-414 297 448 Skype: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam"

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Q: I have sysop but I can't edit stuff
by Steve VanSlyck 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

I should think so. If you can ::see:: a page you should not have to ::create:: it in order to ::edit:: it. ----- Original Message ----- From: £ukasz Garczewski <tor(a)wikia-inc.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:54:13 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Q: I have sysop but I can't edit stuff > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tom Medhurst > <tom.medhurst(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Lucas, > > Sorry, I forgot to mention that I do not have an edit button on > > the MediaWiki:Sidebar page either, just: Message, Discussion, Create, and > > Watch. > > Click "create". :) > > For the rest of us: is this a usability problem we have here? I > believe this is not the first time I've seen this causing confusion. > > -- > Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski > Wikia Tech Team > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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Q: I have sysop but I can't edit stuff
by Tom Medhurst 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hi Guys, I just installed MediaWiki 1.15.3 from the main web site and installed it no problem! The admin account I gave during the installation seems to have sysop rights (eg. if I go a select * from user_groups I can see my user's id and sysop in the ug_group column, I also have a second row for bureaucrat). The problem is, when I go to Special:SpecialPages and scroll down; I can't see anything under Restricted special pages. Also when I goto my preferences, I only have the permissions: Administrators, Autoconfirmed users, Bereaucrats, and Users. How do I get to the Restricted special pages? I want to edit MediaWiki:Sidebar and this is how I believe I do it. Thanks, Tom

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Configuring Extension:Category_Tree
by Ron Laufer 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hi, I installed Extension:Category_Tree, and by default, it only shows the number of subcategories in a category in parentheses: http://fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Category:Monster How do I make it show the number of _pages_ and categories, like wikipedia does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_characters ?? Ron -- Ron Laufer

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JavaScript / mw object
by Ireas 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hi! I was wondering whether it would be good to move the JavaScript wg* variables to the mw object (more exactly: to mw.page). That means wgCanonicalNamspace to mw.page.canonicalNamespace etc. I thought of this because I read that new functionality should only be added to this object and not to wg* variables [1]. So, what do you think? Would it be a good idea to move these variables? (Of course, the old variables had to remain, too, as we cannot expect to change all the scripts depending on this for one update.) If you’d agree, I’d like to try this and write the necessary code, ok? Regards, Robin [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23104 -- Wikipedia-Benutzer Ireas / Robin Krahl <ireas(a)rkrahl.de> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ireas http://rkrahl.de plain text & open source ftw!

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dumpHTML
by Bass, Teresa R 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

I am needing to export our current media wiki into another format so am hoping to use dumpHTML. I need the html output along with the data. I keep receiving the following errors when running dumpHTML.php from the maintenance directory: <error> Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/localhost/secure/netops-wiki/maintenance/commandLine.inc:200) in /var/www/localhost/secure/netops-wiki/includes/OutputPage.php on line 450 </error> I'm running this on a Linux box and it is MediaWiki version 1.6.8. Any thoughts? Regards, Teresa

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