MediaWiki-l January 2011

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automatic template use
by Matthew Betts 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Dear all, Can anyone tell me a way to ensure that a template is included in all pages of a particular namespace? I'd like to use our mediawiki to allow people to annotate some things in a biology project and want to use a template to guide what information should be given, and the wiki URLs will be generated automatically by an external program. I could generate the pages in advance from a perl script or similar but I thought there might be a better way, especially since I won't always know in advance what the page names should be. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Betts PhD, Russell Group CellNetworks, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany mailto:matthew.betts@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de phone:+49 6221 54 513 61

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mediawiki dump specific revision
by Morjolic Eugen 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hello Is it possible to dump a specific revison of mediwiki and be able to import the dump on new wiki to continue work on it from specified revision? something like creating a new documentation branch BR -- Eugen Morjolic 0040 723 295 213

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WMDE Developer Meetup moved to May
by Daniel Kinzler 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi all after some discussion, Wikimedia Germany decided not to hold a developer's meet-up around the Chapter's conference in March. We just couldn't fit this in nicely with the venue and the overall organization. Don't despair though: This is what we will do instead: * There will be a hackathon hosted by Wikimedia Germany in (late) May, probably in Berlin, but that's not decided yet. This will mostly about hacking, with a strong focus on GLAM related stuff. There will be little in terms of presentations. * There will be the hacking days attached to Wikimania in Haifa, August 3./4. I'm in charge of setting up the program for that, and I'll try to make it a nice mix of discussing technology and actually hacking. I would also like to have a get-together with thechies and chapter folks at some point during Wikimania. I hope that this way, we can give the hacking events the attention they deserve. Let me know what you think. -- daniel

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unable to upload files to chmod 777 folder
by bram 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi all, I am currently trying to get file uploads to work in mediawiki 1.16.1 , but I keep getting the error message: "The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver". I chmodded the upload directory to 777 (yes, I am aware of the security risk), but to no avail. Does anyone know the right trick to solve this problem? thanks, Bram The upload directory that I have set in my Localsettings.php file is: $wgUploadPath = "/mediawiki/file_uploads"; If I check http://my.webserver.com/mediawiki/file_uploads/ the folder exists. These are the file permissions for this folder: ls -lanh mediawiki/file_uploads drwxrwsrwx 2 198048 198048 2 Jan 17 17:35 . drwxrwsr-x 15 198048 198048 45 Jan 17 17:36 .. note that the apache user has id 900, but given the folder's permissions, this should still work, right?

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] automatic template use
by Frank Middleton 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 Matthew Betts wrote: > Dear all, > > Can anyone tell me a way to ensure that a template is included in all pages > of a particular namespace? I'd like to use our mediawiki to allow people to > annotate some things in a biology project and want to use a template to > guide what information should be given, and the wiki URLs will be generated > automatically by an external program. I could generate the pages in advance > from a perl script or similar but I thought there might be a better way, > especially since I won't always know in advance what the page names should > be. Have you tried the preloader extension? It lets you specify a template to be automatically included per namespace. I have found it to be invaluable... Cheers -- Frank

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Toolserver-l] WMDE Developer Meetup moved to May
by Daniel Kinzler 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

On 17.01.2011 17:14, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Correction: Haifa Hacking Days are to be held August 2nd-3rd. > Wikimania itself will be Aug 4th-6th. Gah! Thanks Asaf. There I went and looked it up, and then wrote the wrong thing into the email. Curses. -- daniel

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(no subject)
by Edgar Poe 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] delete the logo so that the navigation bar is going up
by Giuseppe Briotti 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

> > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:11:04 +0100 > From: uv22e Alcott <uv22ealcott(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] delete the logo so that the navigation bar > is going up > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=PT8fYABrGdNbH3QdvzRYT=jf4KjGnVRhingee(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > > I forgot to mention this is in main.css. > > > > Thanks for the help! :) > > But it has no effect. I deactivated the folling lines in the LocalSettings: > > ## The relative URL path to the logo. Make sure you change this from the > default, > ## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade! > # $wgLogo = ""; > > [...] > > # $wgLogo = "/skins/monobook/logo.jpg"; > > and did the changes in the main.css > > I also deleted the logo.jpg picture > > And of course you empty the cache... -- Giuseppe Briotti g.briotti(a)gmail.com "Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui promis et celas aliusque et idem nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius." (Orazio)

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delete the logo so that the navigation bar is going up
by uv22e Alcott 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

hi, I know how to handle the logo and change it but i would like to delete it so It s easy to overrite it with a transparent png or just to uncomment it in the local settings or just $wgLogo = ""; But what do I need to do that there is not that space on top left? I would like to move the navigation to the top left without leaving the space the logo was thought for :) Thanks a lot!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Disable auto-capitalization for page titles
by Toshi Esumi 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

> You can disable the forced capitalization with $wgCapitalLinks: > > $wgCapitalLinks = false; > > Docs for this & links to some related settings are available on > mediawiki.org wiki: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$wgCapitalLinks > > Beware though that this will make the first letter of a title > case-sensitive in all page links and URLs: for instance '[[foo]]' will > no longer link to the page 'Foo', and '[[Foo]]' will not link to the > page 'foo', unless redirects are put in place. Migrating an existing > site can be tricky! > > > You can also use the 'DISPLAYTITLE' built-in parser function to adjust > the displayed title to initial lowercase without altering other > behavior on the site. There's a template on English Wikipedia which > conveniently wraps it, which you might copy (requires ParserFunctions > extension to be installed): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase_title > > -- brion > > Thank you for good information, Brion. I see some pros & cons for both options. I'll test them out in a test wiki environment and make a decision. Toshi

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