MediaWiki-l July 2010

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've created some custom namespaced on one of my wikis, Botwiki (previously known as pywikipedia). I've put these lines in my LocalSettings.php file: - --- #Custom namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Manual", 101 => "Manual talk", 102 => "Python", 103 => "Python talk", 104 => "Php", 105 => "Php talk", 106 => "Perl", 107 => "Perl talk", 108 => "AWB", 109 => "AWB talk", 110 => "IRC", 111 => "IRC talk", 112 => "Other", 113 => "Other talk" ); $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112; - --- However, I have a big problem: when I go to a page in one of these new namespaces (not the discussion, the main ones), for example http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot , I found the red link to the discussion page. It's right, as there is no discussion page for that article. But if you click on it, it brings you to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… correct, of course. But have a look of the article and discussion tabs: they are both red! The first, "article", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot and the second, "discussion", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_… , when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… . It's the first time I deal with custom namespaces :-( but I have some ideas of what it can be. Can the problem be with the $wgContentNamespaces settings? So it detects everything as ns0? (don't think so). Or can it be the fact that I haven't used an underscore in the $wgExtraNamespaces definition? Snowolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWhk7sdafW5NQMtERAuX+AKDQ7QLNjXv9cu+ZbSLXidMzgi/vNgCaA7VT +VTgR3iI/BI7FVDqcyRZVJ0= =a4yP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Does Lucene-Search Support Japanese?
by Ross Xu 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hi there, I am using Lucene-Search 2.1/MWSearch for my MediaWiki 1.15.1. It's working fine, but it can't search any Japanese characters. I have tried (language,ja) in the lsearch-global.conf file, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Any idea would be appreciated, Ross __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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External editing broken in MW 1.15.4 ?
by Daniel K. Schneider 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi, until I made an upgrade from 1.15.1 (applied the 15.2,3 and 4 patches) I was happily editing my wiki pages with gnu emacs via ee.pl and a bookmarklet that goes: javascript:location=location+'?action=edit&externaledit=true'; (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors) Now, external editing is broken I and I suspect that this is related to (bug 23076) Fixed login CSRF vulnerability. Logins now require a token to be submitted along with the user name and password. Patch by Roan Kattouw. Any ideas on what I could/should do to get TRUE external editing back ? I don't mind installing stuff. I am not much of a programmer/sysadmin, but I can read :) I don't want to use something like "It's all text" since it's not practical to edit several wiki pages at the same time and having to keep several browser tabs open just for saving. (I do this at home on a windows box and it's a pain). - thanx for any help / insight ! - Daniel PS: Of course I am not sure about the cause, but in my case identification of the problem (upgrading) is really simple. I got two wikis on the same machine: The 1.15.4 one (http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/) is broken and the 1.15.1 one (http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/fr/) works just fine.

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deploy wiki tree?
by Quiring, Sam 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Greetings, I'm new to this list. We keep the user and internal documentation for our software product in Mediawiki. It works very well, thanks. What we would like to do is take a snapshot of the user doc tree rooted at a specific Mediawiki page. We would like the snapshot to be a complete self-contained set of HTML pages we could ship with the product -- possibly with a Mediawiki reading tool if necessary. The user could point his browser at the snapshot and get the same pages we see. I realize that there could be many difficulties creating such a snapshot, but I'm hoping the tool would have constraining options (e.g., specify a list of URL prefixes - only pages that have one of these prefixes are included in the snapshot, others are listed/noted as warnings by the tool). Is there an existing tool or script that does this? Thanks. -Sam

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making an article link to wikipedia.org
by Phil Howard 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

I'm wanting to make an article link, much like Wikipedia makes to its own articles, but instead of using [[whatever]] like would be done to an article on the same site, I want to make it be a link over to the real en.wikipedia.org site, for the article there. The <nowiki> tags with HTML to do it just escape the HTML out to be displayed (e.g. its nowiki and nohtml combined). Example. I have the term Postfix in a local wiki page. If I wrote a page about Postfix on my local wiki, I could just use [[Postfix]] and be done. But I don't want to have to load all the templates from Wikipedia, or maintain that article here. I just want to link over to Wikipedia and let people read it there. -- sHiFt HaPpEnS!

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How to "activate" a new extension
by Alok Watve 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi I am a total n00b to mediaWiki. I am writing a new extension to dynamically generate an SVG file. I have written the extension and copied the files in the right places. But mediaWiki does not seem to pick up my extension. DO I need to restart the apache server or something like that in order to make sure my change in LocalSettings.php is picked up. What I don't understand (and I do not think is documented very well ) is how does mediawiki know that the file LocalSettings.php has changed and needs to be re-loaded. Alok

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Exporting templates from Wikipedia
by Sandy Rozhon 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

I have attempted to export the Infobox template from Wikipedia by going to the Special:Export page, typing in Template:Infobox in the box labeled "Add from this category", and ticking all three boxes at the bottom (ie. Include only the current revision, not the full history; Include templates; Save as file The problem is that I am not being prompted to save the XML file. Am I doing something wrong? I tried using IE8 and Firefox in case it was a browser issue, but the results are the same. How do I get this export to work? Thanks, Sandy

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