MediaWiki-l July 2010

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Update 1.14.0 to 1.15.4 queries
by Kevin Lucas 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

I'm a bit confused when I try to match the update instructions for v1.15.4 with the instructions that I followed for installing v1.14.0 and wondered if someone might be able to help. 1) my installation instructions said to place v1.14.0 in a version- related directory so it's in /var/www/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.14.0. The upgrade instructions say to write v1.15.4 files over these but it would be confusing to have v1.15.4 files in a v1.14.0 directory so I've currently placed them in /var/www/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.15.4. But I'm guessing that I will need to tell parts of mediawiki/apache2/php that mediawiki will be in a new location. Where are these references to the mediawiki folder please? Or do I not need to worry about this because the update proces will take account of it all? (I thought I'd edited the mediawiki folder name into an apache alias at one point for example rather than the installation scrtipt doing everything for me). 2) the update instructions say I might not have an AdminSettings.php file but later say I must have one and it's used in the update.php command line. I don't have one for my v1.14.0 mediawiki so do I need this and if not what is the command for running update without it please? Thanks for any pointers you might have. Kevin

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Help with "Hello World" extension
by Alok Watve 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hi, I am trying to write the simplest extension using a parser function (to get the feel of it). My extension is supposed to greet anyone who uses it. I am using this wikipage ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parser_functions) as the reference However, I am unable to get even this simplest extension to work. Can anyone help me fix this. I am quite lost. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alok This is what I have in my LocalSettings.php #################### Say Hello Extensions ############################ require_once( "$IP/extensions/sayHello.php"); #################### End of exension ################################ And here is the file $IP/extensions/sayHello.php <?php // Is this the right entry point ? if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) { die( 'Not an entry point.' ); } global $wgExtensionFunctions; // I dont know if this is needed. I could not find a clear description about it. global $wgExtensionCredits; // Same as above.... I am doing this out of desperation to make this work $wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfSayHello' $wgExtensionCredits['SayHello'][] = array( 'name' => 'SayHello', 'author' => 'Alok', 'url' => '', 'description' => 'Extension that greets user', 'descriptionmsg' => 'This is a test extension', 'version' => '1.0.0', ); global $wgHooks $wgHooks['SayHello'][] = "wfSayHello"; global $wgParser; $wgParser->setFunctionHook('SayHello', 'wfSayHello'); function wfSayHello($parser, $userNameInput) { return "Hello " . $userNameInput; } return true; ?>

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with "Hello World" extension
by Ross McKay 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

G'day Alok, Please keep messages on-list by replying to all, so that others may jump in and help too. >Thanks a lot for helping but that doesnt seem to solve the problem >1) About page refresh : when I type >"127.0.0.1/index.php?title=TestPageAlok?action=purge" >It attempts to create a new page with title "TestPageAlok?action=purge" >When I try "127.0.0.1/index.php?action=purge" it seems to refresh my home page. I hadn't considered that you might be running without the short URLs turned on. You need to add "&action=purge" instead of "?action=purge". When building a URL query string, everything before the first "?" is the path to the script and everything after the first "?" is part of the query string. Individual query parameters are broken up by "&", so the query "title=TestPageAlok&action=purge" means ask for pages with title of "TestPageAlok", and ask for the special action "purge". >2) I tried to run the modified script that you gave... but it still >gives the same output. Do I have to type anything fancy in my test >page to invoke the extension ? so far I am just using >"{{#SayHello:John}} >Now it is impossible for me to know whether this is because of caching >or because my extension is still incorrect. Try adding the "&action=purge" and see if that gives you the expected output. >The worst part is that mediawiki has been annoyingly silent about any >errors it might have encountered (despite enabling >error-message-display) Check your server logs, e.g. on Apache/Linux check for errors in the file /var/log/httpd/error_log -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "The chief cause of problems is solutions" -Eric Sevareid

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How long is an InstantCommons failure cached?
by David Gerard 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I tried using a file on RationalWiki, which uses InstantCommons. The file didn't exist (it was on en:wp, not Commons). I moved the file to Commons, but RationalWiki still thinks it doesn't exist in the foreign file repo. "?action=purge" does nothing. How long do I have to wait? (The page is http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Color_therapy .) RW is using 1.14.1. (Yes, we should upgrade. I'm not a sysadmin, just a user.) - d.

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revisions table compression
by Jim Hu 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

We would like to both cut down on the space used by the revisions table, and change the way we count user participation by compressing revision histories when users do multiple consecutive saves within a single short time. In maintenance, I see that there are scripts to just delete specific revisions by id from the revisions table. So, we're thinking that we would run a script to delete revisions based on some criteria, and also make an extension that hooks at ArticleSave or ArticleSaveComplete to delete prior revisions by the same user if they are within a specified time period. Before trying this, I thought I'd ask to see if - anyone sees potential problems. - its been done already Thanks! Jim ===================================== 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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Restoring Database - Table Corruption
by Henry Hartley 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

I was in the process of upgrading my installation from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0 this morning and I made a backup copy of the database using phpMyAdmin. I suspect that's not recommended and I can see why the instructions use mysqldump instead. Believe me, I'll do it the "right" way from now on. In any case, after upgrading the PHP and running update.php, the site wasn't working. I figured I'd restore the database and start over. It turns out phpMyAdmin didn't do a very good job of exporting my database. I did manage to recreate my database from an older backup and then went through the phpMyAdmin dump table by table, since most of them seemed fine. There were, it turns out, two problems, one more serious than the other. First, in the categorylinks table, it didn't put single quotes around the dates for some reason. I was able to add them easily enough (regex replace is a godsend!). The other problem was in the objectcache. For some reason, the contents of that are mostly giberish. The 'value' field in that table is a mediumblob but there are other tables with mediumblobs that didn't cause any problems. Is the content of that table different in some way that causes this problem? Actually, while I'm interested in the above my real question is how serious is it that this table is now out of sync with the rest of the database? Obviously I've lost something but is it serious? -- Henry

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Edit Pages
by Webmaster Casa das Ciências - Guilherme Monteiro 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi, it's possible that a user can edit only his own pages? If yes, how? Thanks! -- Guilherme Monteiro Webmaster Casa das Ciências Rua Campo Alegre 687 / 4169 - 007 PORTO GAB./SALA 351 TEL.EXTERNO 220402543 webmaster(a)casadasciencias.org

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(pas de sujet)
by Frédéric Dewez 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Bonjour, je me permets d'envoyer ce mail car j'ai un petit souci. J'ai installé mediawiki 1.16.0 sur mon hébergement ovh. Tout s'est bien déroulé sauf que ma page locasettings.php ne s'est pas créée. Pouvez-vous m'éclairer ? Un grand merci Frédéric Dewez

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Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)
by river＠nightshade.toolserver.org 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

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Easy creation of page sequences
by Jean-Marc van Leerdam 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi, I have been trying to create a maintainable way of grouping pages together and allowing readers to page through them in sequence. Most samples I've seen use templates that require you to supply the 'previous' and 'next' page. This however results in three page edits to insert a new page between two existing pages and does not guarantee that your prev-sequence is identical to the next-sequence... Being a programmer, that is way too much duplicate and error-prone work for me ;-) There must be a better way to do this and I was hoping to solve it with a plain MW installation (with ParserFunctions and DynamicPageList at the moment). Given an 'index' page that holds a list of all page titles in the preferred order, isn't it possible to create a template that selects the correct previous and next page title given the current page title? I get stuck in getting the correct lines from the index page. DPL can select based on section name (= page title), but then the contents of that index section must be the prev/next links themselves: =First Page= Prev [[Second Page|Next]] =Second Page= [[First Page|Prev]] [[Third Page|Next]] =Third Page= .. etc. This works, except that it is still a lot of duplication of page names (but the edits are contained in a single page, big plus). I hoped to simplify the index page by creating a template that writes the section header and prev/next links, but then DPL no longer recognizes the sections :-( Apparently DPL 'sees' the page text before the templates are called ({{Page|Prev page|Page title|Next page}}: {{Page||First Page|Second Page}} {{Page|First Page|Second Page|Third Page}} {{Page|Second Page|Third Page|Fourth Page}} Basically my questions are: 1. Am I completely off track here? 2. Can DPL be coerced to evaluate templates before looking at the page 3. Can DPL (or another extension) select the text from a section before/after a matched section? 4. Is it possible to determine the section sequence number given the section name (so 'Second Page' results in 2, allowing me to use DPL to retrieve the name of section 2 -/- 1 and 2 + 1 to create the prev/next links? Apologies for the long post, hopefully someone can point me to some good resources (I've been to Meta, Wikibooks, Medawiki.org but could very well have overlooked something there as the amount of info is a bit overwhelming and it is difficult to judge how up to date it is). -- Regards, Jean-Marc

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