MediaWiki-l September 2010

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Embedding Wolfram|Alpha Widgets in MediaWiki
by Marty kane 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hello, The Wolfram|Alpha Developer Team would like to announce an extension which enables embedding Wolfram|Alpha Widgets in MediaWiki pages. Wolfram|Alpha Widgets are mini-apps built on top of Wolfram|Alpha queries. The extension page is here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WolframAlphaWidgets The Wolfram|Alpha Widgets site is here: http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/

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Halo Acl + Media Wiki 1.15.5 + SMW 1.5.1 (help)
by Hugo Vasques 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hello my friends, Could anyone help me with installing the extension Halo Acl? I'm following the Wiki 1.15.5 step by step installation yet to run the scripts, because there is no script for the version of my wiki 1.15.5 Choose the command depending on your MediaWiki installation to patch MediaWiki: MediaWiki 1.13.2 - php patch.php -d <smw-dir> -p patch_for_MW_1.13.2.txt MediaWiki 1.15.1 and 1.15.2 - php patch.php -d <smw-dir> -p patch_for_MW_1.15.1.txt MediaWiki 1.15.3 - php patch.php -d <smw-dir> -p patch_for_MW_1.15.3.txt And then running the scripts without the special page appears blank HALO, ihave the version of SMW 1.5.1 installed and still the HALO ACL extension is not working. Any idea what might be happening? What else do I do? Waiting in the wings. Thank you. Hugo Vasques

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Moving mediawiki includes out of web tree
by tojja＠Safe-mail.net 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

I'm trying to implement the security improvement of moving as many includes and behind-the-scenes support files as I can into a non-web-accessible directory as suggested at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security#Alternate_file_layout however success is fleeting. The problem is that the web page's view seems myopic, that all you need to do is change your include_path and all will work out. This is not the case in my experience: index.php calls files at specific locations, that means you need to hard code new locations in that file; the files that index.php call, like WebStart.php, do things like "$IP=getenv( 'MV_INSTALL_PATH' );" which fetches the original install path of the wiki (where everything else is stored which is exactly what I don't want in this situation) and tries to apply it to more includes files... and this goes on and on. It looks to me that a simple setting of 'include_path' isn't going to be enough to direct all include/ file requests to a separate branch of the file system. Am I missing something or is the documentation in need of change? Or something else?

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Spammers got me
by Steve Nance 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Subject says it all. I didn't have Edit and Create page restricted and now my Text table is 10 gig and my IP is threatening to disable my site if I don't fix it. Is there a way to delete all data from the text table except what was created by the sysop? I'm sure this has been covered many times but the achieves are not that friendly for finding things. Steve

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mwlib/Collection Error after Upgrade to MW 1.16.0
by Ross Xu 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi there, My MediaWiki 1.15.1 was working well with the Collection extension and my own mwlib render server to create PDF documents. Today, I just upgraded my MediaWiki 1.15.1 to MediaWiki 1.16.0. After the upgrade, I get "Render server error" when I try to download a PDF book. The error message is very long, but it includes: ********************************************** An error occured on the render server: traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.10-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/apps/render.py", ... File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.10-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/apps/make_nuwiki.py", line 171, in make_nuwiki raise RuntimeError(str(val)) RuntimeError: [Failure instance: Traceback: exceptions.RuntimeError: login failed: {'login': {'cookieprefix': 'mediawiki_docs_', ... ********************************************** Are there any known issues with the MW 1.16.0 upgrade and the mwlib/Collection? Any idea is greatly appreciated, Ross Xu

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mobile version for mediawiki
by Uwe Brauer 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hello I tried to google it but did not come up with anything useful. Wikipedia has a special version for mobile advices such as iphone. I presume it is a special Skin. Where can I find this skin and will it work with mediawiki 1.9.3 or is this version to ancient.? Thanks Uwe Brauer

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pleease delete me from you 'mailing list - thanks
by Dan Haunschild 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

stop 'subscription

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Donation system
by orschiro＠googlemail.com 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hello guys, is there any public information about how the donation system of wikimedia works? I'd like to realise a donation possibility too, of course in much smaller ways but I like the different alternatives wikimedia offers, that is not only having paypal options but also options for credit cards. Where can I read more about this topic? --robert

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hard disk crash: try to recover the wiki. (Mediawiki 1.9.3 mysql)
by Uwe Brauer 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hello This is a real nightmare. A Mac crashed, the hard disk could be saved. Right now it can't be booted. That hard disk contained the wiki of our department. I don't know precisely the version of the OS (most likely Mac X 10.4), nor the version of mysql (most likely 5.3.x) and to make things worse I did not generate a dump of the mysql data base. I have however "access" to the database in the sense that I have a copy of the files /var/lib/mysql/maqwiki (maqwiki is the name of the database) I followed the advice offered in the mysql mailing list namely [+] > service mysql stop > cd /var/lib/mysql > rm -rf * > tar zxvf maqwiki.tar > rm -rf ib_logfile* > chown -R mysql.mysql > service mysql start However after having installed the mediawiki software (I stick for the moment to 1.9.3) and trying to connect to the database I only see empty pages. - Could it be that the database was damaged when the hard disk crashed? As a matter of fact when I have a look into the /var/lib/mysql/maqwiki directory most of the files are very small in size with the exception of searchindex.MYD and searchindex.MYI. I have no idea whether this is "normal". - I did not do the recover process correctly. Is there any "hardcore" mysql command I could use to check the database? - the connection between the mediawiki conf and the data base is broken. How can I check? Any help is very much appreciated. Uwe Brauer

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automated response
by Steve Upshaw 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Away until Monday 27 Sep For urgent IT issues please contact Mark Cullen or Adrian Sayers. Anything non-urgent will be dealt with when I return. Thank you Steve Upshaw Information Systems Manager – Eurotech UK

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