MediaWiki-l May 2010

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 06 May '10

06 May '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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unsubscribe
by Bas Jonker 05 May '10

05 May '10

Unsubscribe -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: vrijdag 30 april 2010 13:53 To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 79, Issue 41 Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <p2tfbad4e141004290949qb62f01dbkefad193fdc2b3443(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. ------------------------------ 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 <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <m2u8fbac5ca1004291220o1b35a9fdq47f1736c5eefa18b(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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. ------------------------------ 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 <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <w2i8fbac5ca1004291302x23aafb0k2233c946dc4d37d4(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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. ------------------------------ 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" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <C7FF5886.785E%nina.mchale(a)ucdenver.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 ------------------------------ 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 Message-ID: <hrcvr4$q89$1(a)dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 David Gerard wrote: > Looking in the database, it has *not* created any tables, so "Creating > tables... done." is untrue. You are right. The relevant code was: > # FIXME: Check for errors > print "<li>Creating tables..."; > if ($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. ------------------------------ 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 Message-ID: <hrd068$rcv$1(a)dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Tech Geek wrote: > Hi, > > As a Wiki SysOp user, I am looking for extension(s) for the following > two > requirement: > > 1. The SysOp user should get an email whenever a new page is created > on the wiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$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. ------------------------------ 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 Message-ID: <i2vde443eb01004291949vf40166a2pb6f5908c26923b05(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://imokindia.com/default/index.php ------------------------------ 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 <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4BDA8410.7050905(a)fernuni-hagen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed 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 ------------------------------ 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 <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <n2jfbad4e141004300216t21dcb855q5b94d91d7fd4a4f6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. ------------------------------ 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 Message-ID: <m3bpd1rxj3.fsf(a)passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 ------------------------------ 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 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <u2hd4c990bb1004300429v6cb83e1ak1d579d34c41350bc(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ????? 2010/4/29 The Face <oppdis(a)gmail.com> > http://imokindia.com/default/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- {+}Nevinho Venha para o Movimento Colaborativo http://sextapoetica.com.br !! ------------------------------ 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 Message-ID: <4BDAC4AA.5070406(a)fernuni-hagen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 79, Issue 41 *******************************************

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTC, EST, et al.
by Steve VanSlyck 04 May '10

04 May '10

It is history pages that I'm talking about. And I see your point. ----- Original Message ----- 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTC, EST, et al.
by Steve VanSlyck 04 May '10

04 May '10

Nope. I've got it set at -5.00 and for NTC, but everything still shows as UTC time and UTC, um, zone. ----- Original Message ----- From: Q <overlordq(a)gmail.com> > User Preferences >> Date and Time >> Time Offset. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > 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....

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how to deal with error error message
by ruud habets 04 May '10

04 May '10

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 -- ---------------------------------- Ruud Habets mail ruud(a)habets.info www http://www.habets.info tel. 045-5418899 (p) tel. 0650-844386 (m) tel. 045-4006037 (w1) tel. 045-5602554 (w2) ----------------------------------

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacement of EmbedVideo extension?
by dan nessett 04 May '10

04 May '10

Thanks to everyone who responded. Dan Nessett

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latex pngs are created correctly in images/tmp but not moved to images/math/x/y/z
by Philipp Lies 04 May '10

04 May '10

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

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Removing deleted pages from category
by MK 04 May '10

04 May '10

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? -- MK <halfcountplus(a)intergate.com>

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Replicating a Wiki
by Sabatino, Rick 04 May '10

04 May '10

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

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sub pages in TOC? (Clayton)
by Giuseppe Briotti 04 May '10

04 May '10

> > 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. -- 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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