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Today's Topics:
1. 1.16b2 install problems (David Gerard)
2. hardcoded local links in mw_externallinks table (Boris Epstein)
3. Re: hardcoded local links in mw_externallinks table
(Boris Epstein)
4. Resetting admin password: success! (McHale, Nina)
5. Re: 1.16b2 install problems (Platonides)
6. Re: Email Extensions - New Page Creation & Emailing to all
wiki user (Platonides)
7. Mario Lederer (The Face)
8. Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3 (Jens Vieler)
9. Re: 1.16b2 install problems (David Gerard)
10. Re: Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3 (Tim Landscheidt)
11. Re: Mario Lederer (nevio carlos de alarc?o)
12. Re: Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3 (Jens Vieler)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:49:39 +0100
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] 1.16b2 install problems
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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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
mysql> '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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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:20:44 -0400
From: Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] hardcoded local links in mw_externallinks table
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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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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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:02:50 -0400
From: Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] hardcoded local links in mw_externallinks
table
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
OK, everybody, never mind, looks like this was a false alarm - looks like a
lot of pages simply contained full links as opposed to relative ones.
(A matter of user editing).
Boris.
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:38:46 -0600
From: "McHale, Nina" <Nina.McHale(a)ucdenver.edu>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Resetting admin password: success!
To: "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
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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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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:06:24 +0200
From: Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.16b2 install problems
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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David Gerard wrote:
> Looking in the database, it has *not* created any tables, so "Creating
> tables... done." is untrue.
You are right. The relevant code was:
> # FIXME: Check for errors
> print "<li>Creating tables...";
> if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') {
> $wgDatabase->sourceFile( "../maintenance/tables.sql" );
> $wgDatabase->sourceFile( "../maintenance/interwiki.sql" );
> } elseif (is_callable(array($wgDatabase, 'setup_database'))) {
> $wgDatabase->setup_database();
> } else {
> $errs["DBtype"] = "Do not know how to handle database type
'$conf->DBtype'";
> continue;
> }
> print " done.</li>\n";
I have been fixing that. Can you replace your config/Installer.php with the
one at
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_16/phase3/config/Ins
taller.php?view=markup&pathrev=65673
?
It will probably still fail, but this time with an error message.
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:12:20 +0200
From: Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Email Extensions - New Page Creation &
Emailing to all wiki user
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Tech Geek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a Wiki SysOp user, I am looking for extension(s) for the following
> two
> requirement:
>
> 1. The SysOp user should get an email whenever a new page is created
> on the wiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges
> 2. The SysOp user can send an email to all the existing wiki users.
There doesn't seem to be an extension for that
>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Email_extensions>
Howerver, it's easy to fetch all the emails from the db for sending them an
email with bcc.
> I am using Mediawiki 1.12 and I don't think these features are there
> in the version that I am using.
2 years old wikis are likely to be outdated. But you can use it. Note that
on your version $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges is mispelled as
$wgUsersNotifedOnAllChanges That version has security issues, though.
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:49:07 -0400
From: The Face <oppdis(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Mario Lederer
To: khardison(a)oneontacsd.org, lerma(a)ezsystems.com,
lferrara(a)oneontacsd.org, MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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http://imokindia.com/default/index.php
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:17:36 +0200
From: Jens Vieler <jens.vieler(a)FernUni-Hagen.de>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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Message-ID: <4BDA8410.7050905(a)fernuni-hagen.de>
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hi,
is it enough to change the sources by extracting and copying the tarball
over the existing installation, or do i need to run the update.php script?
any changes in the database-schema?
kind regards
jens
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:16:30 +0100
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] 1.16b2 install problems
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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On 29 April 2010 23:06, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It will probably still fail, but this time with an error message.
It did indeed: MySQL insisting 'admin'@'localhost' didn't have the right to
create tables.
My GRANT line in the previous email was wrong - the one that works is:
grant all on techwiki.* to 'admin'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
I now have a bare 1.16b2 wiki :-)
- d.
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:26:56 +0000
From: Tim Landscheidt <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Jens Vieler <jens.vieler(a)FernUni-Hagen.de> wrote:
> is it enough to change the sources by extracting and copying the
> tarball over the existing installation, or do i need to run the
> update.php script? any changes in the database-schema?
Why not just run it?
Tim
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:29:15 -0300
From: nevio carlos de alarc?o <nevinhoalarcao(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mario Lederer
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> http://imokindia.com/default/index.php
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:53:14 +0200
From: Jens Vieler <jens.vieler(a)FernUni-Hagen.de>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrading from mediawiki 1.15.1 to 1.15.3
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Tim Landscheidt schrieb:
> Jens Vieler <jens.vieler(a)FernUni-Hagen.de> wrote:
>
>> is it enough to change the sources by extracting and copying the tarball
>> over the existing installation, or do i need to run the update.php
>> script? any changes in the database-schema?
>
> Why not just run it?
>
> Tim
because we're hosting a wikifamily (>20 wikis) an have to copy config /
run it >20 times ;-)
Jens
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It is history pages that I'm talking about. And I see your point.
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From: Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 23:06:24 +0200
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTC, EST, et al.
> Steve VanSlyck wrote:
> > Nope. I've got it set at -5.00 and for NTC, but everything still shows
as
> > UTC time and UTC, um, zone.
>
> What's "everything"?
> History pages should for instance show in your preferred timezone.
> On the other hand user signatures are always stored in the wiki timezone
> (in this case UTC) since they are saved with the page text.
>
>
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Nope. I've got it set at -5.00 and for NTC, but everything still shows as
UTC time and UTC, um, zone.
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> User Preferences >> Date and Time >> Time Offset.
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>
> On 5/3/2010 9:44 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
> > Is there a setting I can change on my wikipedia account preferences
that
> > will cause all times to be displayed in EST (New York City) form.
Because
> > I haven't been able to find it....
Hi,
All of a sudden (isn't that usually the case) I cannot create PNG and
JPG thumbnails in my 1.15.3 Wiki site. LocalSettings contains:
$wgUseImageMagick = true;
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/lib/typo3/ImageMagick4/convert ";
$wgThumbnailEpoch = "20100504083806";
The second command was instructed by my hosting provider webreus.nl.
Starting a few days ago (not changing anything worth mentioning, I
think) I get these errors:
http://www.kgv.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Categorie:Afbeelding.GeenPD
Does anyone know where to look to solve this? Is it file rights? Is it
not finding the convert command? Is it .....?
Does anyone have an idea where to look.
PS
In the meantime my provider has raised the limit on script memory
trying to solve the problem, I am testing this .....
grtz
ruud
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Hi,
I have a problem with mediawiki 1.15.1 on ubuntu lynx with apache 2. The Latex png rendering stopped working. So far I could find out that texvc works fine and creates the correct png at images/tmp but then the png is not moved to its correct location
images/math/x/y/z where xyz are the first hexdigits of the hash key.
All folders are owned by www-data and chmodded 777.
Any ideas?
Philipp
I deleted one hundred pages via the API, but they still all appear blue
and listed alphabetically in the Category they were in. When you click
thru, you get to a "This page has been deleted" notice.
I tried running some of the maintenance scripts (runJobs, refreshLinks,
updateArticleCount, rebuildrecentchanges), none of them had any
effect. What did work was opening the category page to edit it, and
then resaving.
"?action=purge" also works. Is there a maintence script which will
accomplish this for all/some pages?
--
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I have a wiki that I want to use as a starting point for a new wiki, but
with a new name, db, etc. I know I can export/import pages, but is
there a way of exporting all of the contents of one wiki into a new
instance easily?
Thanks,
Rick
>
> This extension link was posted to the list a few days ago
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList2
>
> It seems to do the job you want.
>
> C.
Hi Clayton, thanks for your replay. I checked SubPageList2 and SubPageList3 and
I noticed that including the subpage list in the TOC is in the wish
list. At the moment
I extrac the subpages for a given (i.e. current, in this case) page by
Dynamic Page List
and put all in a template that wrap the TOC, but the result is not so good...
Probably what can I do is contact the developer of SubPageList3 to
work with on this
feature...
Thanks
G.
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