MediaWiki-l August 2010

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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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Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to widen the search suggestions box?
by Lukas Tanner 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Thanks for the answer. I just tested, and it only works if I disable the Extension:UsabilityInitiative in $IP/LocalSettings.php #require_once("$IP/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/Vector/Vector.php"); Do you know something about this bug and how to fix it? Greets

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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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Extend or edit the editor from UsabilityInitiative
by orschiro＠googlemail.com 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hello guys, I'm working with the new editor from Usability extension. Tough I miss some extra buttons that insert some code snippets that I'd like to include. How can I do this? Is there any documentation about this? Thank you in advance. robert

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External editing broken in MW 1.15.4 ?
by Daniel K. Schneider 11 Sep '10

11 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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Editing the Nav Panel
by zodiac＠exterminator.net 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

I have tried the methods given in the MediaWiki manuals that are online to do simple, basic editing of the Navigation Panel, only to find it impossible to change anything I try to change. Simple procedures such as changing the titles of the navigation links, which I know is possible because I see the titles changes on other MediaWikis, Wikipedia for example. The same with adding or deleting a link in the Navigation Panel. Nothing seems to work, I just understand it. Is there an actual manual online that helps an administrator do such simple changes ? I just don't understand why MediaWiki makes things so difficult when they should be pretty straight forward & simple. Thanks in advance.

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how to limit a search sting to 3 characters?
by Michael Renner 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Moin, at the moment, the search function in my installed mwiki only considered search requests, if the string have 5 or more characters. How can I change this to 3 characters? Thanks -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner(a)gmx.de | |D-81541 Munich Germany ICQ: #112280325 | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq

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SMW 1.5.2 released
by Markus Krötzsch 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi all, a new minor update of Semantic MediaWiki, SMW 1.5.2, is now available for download [1]. The main user-visible change are some very nice auto-completion features for Special:Ask [2]. Credit for this goes to Sanyam Goyal who made this happen as part of his recently completed Google Summer of Code project (and to Yaron Koren who coordinated this). As a side effect, SMW now also includes a copy of the relevant JavaScript library jQuery for other SMW extensions to use until MediaWiki's own copy of the same library is more widespread. Besides these main changes, a number of smaller bug fixes and improvements found their way into this version. Special thanks go to Jeroen De Dauw for taking the lead in preparing this release. Cheers, Markus [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ [2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_1.5.2#Changes

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How to fix an image page with "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of..."
by Antonio Orlando 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I have two image pages (File:filename1.png, File:filename2.jpg) that, when opened, show a blank empty page on the server. It seems to happen when someone uploads images with big resolution (the images are there correctly uploaded, but their "File:" wiki pages are broken). On local development server, I can replicate the error, and I can read a debug message instead of an empty blank page: "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 52428800 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12417800 bytes) in path\to\includes\media\Bitmap.php on line 212" I've tried to raise "memory_limit" to 512MB in php.ini and with ini_set in LocalSettings.php, but no luck - same error. Now, I would like at least to be able to delete those two "broken" image pages, i.e. I don't want them in the wiki. Any suggestions on how to do it, eventually also acting directly on the database? Besides, how to avoid that happening again? Thanks, -- Antonio

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