MediaWiki-l June 2010

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How to display category counts for pages and subcategories
by Gregor Hagedorn 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On commons, e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lacerta_%28genus%29 the number of subcategories, pages, and files in subcategories is directly displayed. On our default installation, only subcategories are directly displayed, the other information appears only in the tooltip. I cannot find an appropriate setting on mediawiki.org. Any hints or ideas? thanks! Gregor

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multi site mediawiki configuration
by Jelle de Jong 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello everybody, I want to use multiple mediawiki on a server but wikipedia seems to be made for only one installation per server. I am using the Debian wikipedia package and I found a feature request that is quite old: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392966 I also found some hacking how-to for multi site configurations: http://jacksonjstrong.blogspot.com/2009/01/multi-site-mediawiki-configurati… http://jacksonjstrong.blogspot.com/2009/02/multi-site-mediawiki-configurati… I am wondering if multi-site support will be a release goal soon? And if I build hack the LocalSettings.php to point to the right settings file and get it to work, how long will it work before it breaks? Will multi-site be support in future releases? Thanks in advance, Jelle

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Error sending mail: mailer error
by Alex Shapovalov 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I am running into an issue with email authentication. When a new user account is created, I get the following message : Error sending mail: mailer error at this point no confirmation email is sent. Any ideas what could be causing this? I am running: MediaWiki 1.15.1 PHP 5.2.11 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.42 Thank you. Alex Shapovalov

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[UI] Revision history for files
by Tim Landscheidt 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, "clutter" with both Vector and Monobook :-): If you look at <URI:http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flag_of_Denmark.svg…>, there are "(undo)" links for all revisions including those "uploaded a new version of ...". If you click (<URI:http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Flag_of_Denmark.svg…>) on one of those (with the intention to revert the image to the previous version), you get an edit form with a prefilled summary line ("Undo revision ..."). Press "Save page" and nothing is changed at all. Edit the summary line and press "Save page" and still nothing is changed at all. So what is the use case for these "(undo)" links? ATM they are very distracting, as the actual reverting of uploads happens on the "front page" (<URI:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Denmark.svg#filehistory>). Tim

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Question about using images
by Filippo A. Salustri 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I've honestly tried looking through the doc and I can't figure out which page I should be looking at to help me answer this question: There's a number of icons installed in MW - for example in $IP/skins/common/images/ - and I'd like to use them, but I don't know how to reference them in wikitext. Does MW look in all these directories by default? Do I have to specify exactly where the image lives? Is there a specific manual page describing this stuff? Any help would be greatly appreciated. A MW noob, Fil Salustri -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri(a)ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/

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Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.2 released
by Jeroen De Dauw 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hey all Maps and Semantic Maps 0.6.2 are now available for download [0]. This release contains improvements to parameter handling, case insensitivity has been re-added, and using default parameters together with named ones will work more intuitive. In Maps the handling of distances has also been considerably improved: there is a new #distance parser function, additional distance related parameters in #geodistance, and new settings that allow you to customize the default distance behaviour. In Semantic Maps a rather important bugfix has been made which solves a problem with editing articles with forms that contain maps that arose in 0.6.1. (changes to Maps [1], changes to SM [2]). People running 0.6 and 0.6.1 are advised to upgrade. Especially people using Semantic Maps in conjunction with Semantic Forms [3], as both 0.6 and 0.6.1 contain undesired behaviour in the forms. You can also read this message on the documentation wiki [4]. [0] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Help:Download [1] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps/Version_history#Maps_0.6.2 [2] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Semantic_Maps/Version_history#Semantic_Map… [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms [4] http://mapping.referata.com/wiki/Maps_and_Semantic_Maps_0.6.2_released Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! --

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moving many pages into a new namespace
by Thomas Alexander Gerds 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

I would like to add a prefix to the title of many pages, in order to move them to a new namespace. the pages are all in the same category so in principle the replace text extension would be the tool. however, since replace text extension does not support regular expressions (I need to match the start of the title and replace it with the prefix) ... any help/solutions are very much appreciated! tomy -- sent from nil

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Partitioning a mediawiki installation
by Filippo A. Salustri 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi, I really like mediawiki, but there's one thing I cannot do easily, it seems, so I'm looking for advice. I need to be able to partition the collection of pages into areas that are private and semi-private and public. I know there are a variety of access control extensions, but they all seem rather complex compared to how, say, foswiki, handles it. I know about namespaces, and categories, and subpages, but they all seem like so much more work than just setting up "webs" in foswiki. I need to provide "private" areas where only individuals can get access; I also need to separate content into a few large collections that won't overlap by default. No matter whether I consider namespaces, or categories, or subpages, there's always a lot of extra work needed to ensure new pages are properly named or categorized. The names of the pages themselves seem to get longer than I want, because of specifying namespace or parent-page names; or I have to ensure my user community always puts in the right categories, which is a burden on them. There are serious advantages to using mediawiki, but this partitioning thing is a dealbreaker. And many of the extensions seem to require more hand-holding than I really want to provide. So, given this, does anyone have any advice for me? Cheers. Fil Salustri -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri(a)ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/

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Intermittent lost data in Symantec form submit [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Castelow, Adam (Contractor) 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

UNCLASSIFIED Product Version MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.13.3 PHP <http://www.php.net/> 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4 (apache2handler) MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1 We are experiencing a intermitted bug during data entry using Semantic Forms using IE. The bug seems limited mainly to users who have logged in for the first time. Further this issue appears to only affect users of IE. User creates account and log-in. User creates a new page using a form, enters data for all fields, hits the "Save Page" button and all the data is lost. If they re-enter the data, then saves, the data is retained. No error messages are displayed. Any assistance welcome. Thank you Adam. IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.

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how to rewrite hooks for Vector?
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Man was I slick when I wrote all this for MonoBook skin in my LocalSettings.php, for my http://jidanni.org/comp/wiki/article-category.html sites, $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_CATEGORY]=$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_CATEGORY_TALK]=array('editinterface'); function JidanniBlueLinkCategoryPages($linker,$target,&$text,&$customAttribs,&$query,&$options){ switch($target->mNamespace){case NS_CATEGORY:case NS_CATEGORY_TALK:$options[0]='known';}return true;} $wgHooks['LinkBegin'][]='JidanniBlueLinkCategoryPages'; function JidanniDontInviteEdit(&$article,&$outputDone){if($article->getID()===0){ switch($article->mTitle->getNamespace()){case NS_CATEGORY:case NS_CATEGORY_TALK:$outputDone=true;}}return true;} $wgHooks['ArticleViewHeader'][]='JidanniDontInviteEdit';#Bug 17630 function JidanniLessRedContentActions($sktemplate,$content_actions){ if(array_key_exists('talk', $content_actions)&&'new'==$content_actions['talk']['class']&& !$sktemplate->mTitle->quickUserCan('createtalk')){unset($content_actions['talk'],$content_actions['watch']);} if(array_key_exists('nstab-category',$content_actions)&&'selected new'==$content_actions['nstab-category']['class']){ $content_actions['nstab-category']['class']='selected';} return true;} $wgHooks['SkinTemplateTabs'][]='JidanniLessRedContentActions'; #Bug 17963 But now the years have passed and Vector Skin is now the default, and I need to also make it work for Vector too but of course the moral of the story is ... grandpa isn't a suitable Ph.D. candidate as he used to be. So could someone tell me what I need to do to make these work in Vector? Yes I know some flat list as been replaced by an array... but my brain has become like a flat list... In the meanwhile my site looks bad by default. Yes I could change the default skin back to Monobook but sooner or later I need to rewrite these.

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