MediaWiki-l September 2010

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connect to wikis to the same database?
by Uwe Brauer 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello I am running mediawiki 1.9.3 and would like to try more recent version. Could I install the most recent version of mediawiki (and leave the old in place) and connect both to the same database or would this cause problems? Say the old is installed in /var/wiki and the new in /var/wiki-new Thanks Uwe Brauer

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Sites using InstantCommons (was: wikimedia commons slow lately?)
by Chad 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

> On 22 September 2010 07:49, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Unless there's another obvious source of this information > Nope, thanks for doing that :) > If it were an extension, we would have a little [1]. There has been > some talk about implementing optional statistics collection for > MediaWiki installations (like some configuration variables and > installed extensions), but nothing more thus far. > > [1] http://s23.org/wikistats/mediawiki_extensions.php > I threw around some ideas with Jeroen during GSoC this year, but nothing concrete ever came out of it. It's something I'd like to see happen (1.18?). Fully optional, of course. -Chad

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Sites using InstantCommons (was: wikimedia commons slow lately?)
by Erik Moeller 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

2010/9/21 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>: > Is this the problem that broke InstantCommons for pretty much everyone > a few days ago? Unless there's another obvious source of this information, I think it would be useful for folks using the InstantCommons feature to be included in a public list somewhere -- I just started such a list here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_InstantCommons I think this would help to create more visibility and awareness for this functionality, and greater sensitivity to accidental breakage. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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filepath parser function is escaping the colon in the url to :
by ArmEagle 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

> Doesn't escape the colon here. That looks like an armored link. What is 'here'? You do have to look at the page source (even Firebug is cheating in the HTML view). And what is an armored link? > And it isn't there, either: Same as above, 'there' could be anything. Thanks though.

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Skinning footer question
by orschiro＠googlemail.com 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hello guys, I'd like to skin my footer. In particular I want to add an icon right beside the powered by mediawiki icon as it is done on all wikimedia projects with their special icon. How is this exactly done? I read into the manual but didn't find this information. --robert

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] connect to wikis to the same database?
by trueskew 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I haven't seen details on whether the database has stayed the same, or what the details of any schema changes may be. If there's a file that calls them out, please let use know. If not, the INSTALL, UPGRADE, and RELEASE-NOTES files of the mediawiki release provide information for upgrading, and they start with "It is imperative that, prior to attempting an upgrade of the database schema, you take a complete backup of your wiki database and files and verify it." That's a pretty good commercial for not doing what you'd like to do and either moving to another machine (or a virtual machine). For what it's worth, I needed to change the home directory of one of my sites. I did what you're asking about, but it was with the same version. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Henny Savenije Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:16 AM To: Uwe Brauer; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] connect to wikis to the same database? That should work as long as the database structure of the new and old version is the same At 06:33 PM 9/20/2010, you wrote: >Hello > >I am running mediawiki 1.9.3 and would like to try more recent version. >Could I install the most recent version of mediawiki (and leave the old >in place) and connect both to the same database or would this cause >problems? > >Say the old is installed in >/var/wiki >and the new in >/var/wiki-new > >Thanks > >Uwe Brauer > > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3146 - Release Date: >09/20/10 03:34:00 _ _ (o) (o) oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang) ----------------------------- http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos Article about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Korea through Western Cartographic eyes http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan (1797) http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Re render math images
by Adam Meyer 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

All the math images have a white background. So I changed wgTexvcBackgroundColor to be transparent. So all the new math renderings are transparent, but the existing ones are still white. Is there a way to force them to re render, under maintenance or something? Thanks, -Adam

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How to create an extra button and make it do the real work
by Jing Tang 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hello Everyone, I m new to MW. i m trying to create an extra button nearby buttons: save pages, preview, show changes by making a extension. i have used the hooks/EditPageBeforeButtons to create an extra button. but problem is that i don't know how to make this button work. Because when I click this button, it does the same work like default saving page. I don't know how to call the other functions if clicked this button. e.g. post data to a url, running a javascript or any other functions except default saving. Any examples and tips would be very thankful! greeting sitomtom

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filepath parser function is escaping the colon in the url to :
by ArmEagle 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

I have been breaking my head about this. But when I use the {{filepath:someimage.png|nowiki}} in a page, it will generate the full URL, but with the colon in the "http://" part escaped to : . I am passing this URL to a Widget and really need the exact string to be used in CSS. For now I am simply using a replace-assign in the Widget to unescape the colon again. But I noticed that on MediaWiki.org itself the colon doesn't seem to be escaped. I wonder why it doesn't happen there, but does for me. Example: http://armeagle.nl/mediawiki/index.php/ColonTest (will not stay up forever, so the code is below too - though you'll have to upload or use your own image of course). Version info: MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny8 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny4-log Any help is much appreciated, ArmEagle ---------- <pre> {{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}} </pre> Will generate the following: <pre> <p>http://armeagle.nl/mediawiki/images/d/da/Pbmap_icons.png </p> </pre> I expect it not to escape the colon in the url. For some reason this does not seem to happen on http://www.mediawiki.org/. I am trying to figure out how I can prevent this from happening. ---- Actual usage of <nowiki>{{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}}</nowiki>: {{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}}

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Customize sidebar
by Kai Xu 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hello all, Does anyone konw how to realize the expandable sidebar as we can see from the page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki I have googled quite a lot but yet don't get a clue. Any hints will be much appreciated. Best regards Kai

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