MediaWiki-l October 2011

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Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon - 19-20 Nov.
by Lewis Cawte 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Greetings all, Been some things floating around about this already, but I'm proud to announce Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011 MediaWiki developers are going to meet in Brighton on the South East coast of the United Kingdom to hack anything to do with Wikimedia projects (mediawiki, toolserver, pywikipedia and various other things.) I've been putting this together for a while, with a lot of help from Roan, Reedy, Sumana and various others, and the date has now been confirmed for the 19th and 20th of November 2011 (unfortunatly, it clashes with WikiConference India). If you're intending to come, please add your name here, just so we can start getting an idea of how many people are coming: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011#Attendees I'll be adding more details as they become available, as well as a registration form. -- Lewis Cawte

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Attention developers (Gadgets, user/site scripts, Toolserver tools, MediaWiki extensions, ..)
by Krinkle 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi all, If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to: mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org That is a mailing list that only brings important announcements for developers that use MediaWiki as an API. Note that this list is not limited to API as "api.php" but about MediaWiki as a application programming interface (API) in general. Subjects that have announcements on that list: * Important changes in database schema (columns or tables added, removed or changed in such a way that you should change your queries. Think for example of the addition of rev_deleted, queries should most likely query for rev_deleted=0 now). * Changes in the JavaScript API (methods being deprecated or removed in the mediawiki.js library etc. as well as upgrades of third-party libraries that ship with MediaWiki, such as jQuery). * Major changes to the HTML layout (such as the change for the sidebar id to #mw-panel) * Hooks in MediaWiki PHP. Mostly for extension developers. Changes or deprecation of hooks. * And last but not least, the api.php itself. All major changes. === Although time will learn how the list is used, to readers and writers of this list: "All subjects should clearly indicate what needs changing and when!" For example "Vector skin sidebar html ID changes to '#mw-panel' in 1.17". Also, whenever Wikimedia has scheduled a deployment of revision(s) or entire branches that expose any change that was previously announced, a new mail should be sent here to remind/summarize upcoming changes (since gadgets should/can't be changed until the new version is deployed but new versions can be prepared or tested in advance) Hope to see you soon on mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org :) Please reply-to to wikitech to keep discussions about this central. -- Krinkle

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Delete and Move not listed as options for pages in our wiki
by Beebe, Mary J 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

In our user setting we have $wgGroupPermissions['user']['delete'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['undelete'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = true; ... I am an administrator and bureaucrat, but delete and move do not show up when I view a page. I do not have any specific group permissions for Bureaucrat or administrator. Regular users also do not see delete or move. We all have these menus: Page, Discussion, Read, Edit, View history. I think there is some configuration that I am missing. Thanks, Mary Beebe

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Mediawiki internal error
by Dr Bob Jansen 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I am getting a Mediawiki Internal Error message that I don't know how to resolve. Can someone help? Where is the missing table supposed to reside? > MediaWiki internal error. > > Original exception: exception 'DBQueryError' with message 'A database > error has occurred > Query: SELECT > page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_restrictions,page_counter,page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest,page_len > FROM `page` WHERE page_namespace = '0' AND page_title = 'Main_Page' > LIMIT 1 > Function: Article::pageData > Error: 1146 Table 'wikidb.page' doesn't exist (localhost) > ' in /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php:806 > Stack trace: > #0 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php(761): > Database->reportQueryError('Table 'wikidb.p...', 1146, ' SELECT > page_i...', 'Article::pageDa...', false) > #1 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php(1179): > Database->query(' SELECT page_i...', 'Article::pageDa...') > #2 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php(1198): > Database->select('page', Array, Array, 'Article::pageDa...', Array) > #3 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Article.php(265): > Database->selectRow('page', Array, Array, 'Article::pageDa...') > #4 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Article.php(277): > Article->pageData(Object(DatabaseMysql), Array) > #5 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(254): > Article->pageDataFromTitle(Object(DatabaseMysql), Object(Title)) > #6 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(46): > MediaWiki->initializeArticle(Object(Title), Object(WebRequest)) > #7 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/index.php(89): > MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(StubObject), Object(User), > Object(WebRequest)) > #8 {main} > > Exception caught inside exception handler: exception > 'DBUnexpectedError' with message 'Error in fetchObject(): Table > 'wikidb.page' doesn't exist (localhost)' in > /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php:929 > Stack trace: > #0 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/MessageCache.php(313): > Database->fetchObject(false) > #1 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/MessageCache.php(250): > MessageCache->loadFromDB() > #2 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/MessageCache.php(440): > MessageCache->load() > #3 > /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(463): > MessageCache->get('databaseerror', true, false) > #4 > /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(421): > wfMsgGetKey('databaseerror', true, false, true) > #5 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(23): > wfMsgReal('databaseerror', Array) > #6 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Database.php(276): > MWException->msg('databaseerror', 'Database error') > #7 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(125): > DBQueryError->getPageTitle() > #8 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(88): > MWException->htmlHeader() > #9 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(111): > MWException->reportHTML() > #10 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(191): > MWException->report() > #11 /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/Exception.php(225): > wfReportException(Object(DBQueryError)) > #12 [internal function]: wfExceptionHandler(Object(DBQueryError)) > #13 {main} bobj -- -------------------------------- Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd PO Box 26, Erskineville NSW 2043, Australia Ph: +61-414 297 448 Resume: http://au.linkedin.com/in/bobjan Skype: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam"

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escaping wikitext programmatically?
by Daniel Barrett 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Is there a function in MediaWiki core that applies "nowiki" transformations to a string? For example, I'm writing a parser function, and I want its output to be the literal string: '''foo''' and not a boldface <b>foo</b>. I tried CoreParserTags::nowiki(), but this only escapes angled brackets. Thanks, DanB

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete and Move not listed as options for pages in our wiki
by Beebe, Mary J 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Now I feel stupid. I had not used the vector skin with my other wikis. Someone here just told me there is a dropdown arrow that has the delete move, etc selections. Thanks, Mary Beebe From: Beebe, Mary J Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:55 PM To: 'mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org' Subject: Delete and Move not listed as options for pages in our wiki In our user setting we have $wgGroupPermissions['user']['delete'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['undelete'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['move'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = true; ... I am an administrator and bureaucrat, but delete and move do not show up when I view a page. I do not have any specific group permissions for Bureaucrat or administrator. Regular users also do not see delete or move. We all have these menus: Page, Discussion, Read, Edit, View history. I think there is some configuration that I am missing. Thanks, Mary Beebe

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Editing on User_Registration Help please !!
by ahmed ridha 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hallo MediaWiki Developer , I'm new with the mediawiki and I have one quetion , may be some body can help me !! I want to Add a policy and Copyright field to the User Registration page , that the User first have to accept this filed bevor registration (with 2 Bottons "I Accept" , "I dont Accept") , wenn not the Registration will faild with an Error massage at the top of the page !!!! Have any body Idee please how can I configure that or wich files have to be change for that ??? Please Help, Many Thanks -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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media workshop
by Sumana Harihareswara 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

On 10/03/2011 11:16 AM, mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:36:58 +0530 > From: joseph rajakumar <mjraja2007(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] media workshop > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: > <CAGzqBw3v1gk4TVcwCAVwN-d8Dd2_H7u1dA_Nj+gZfvr-dq9PGg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > how do i setup media workshop in the educational institute, need inputs in > this area. > > regards > > > -- M. Joseph Rajakumar Associate Professor Dept. of .Computer Science > St. Joseph's PG College 5-9-1106 King Koti Road Hyderabad - 500029 > Contact: 09949018267 web site: josephscollege.ac.in Replying off-list. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mozilla Festival/(Wikipedia|MediaWiki|Wikimedia) Human API
by Sam Reed 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

If there is any interest on this, please feel free to sign up at the Mozilla Festival website, else contacting festival(a)mozilla.org I have also been informed, depending on where you are coming from, and what you're going to do throughout the event, there is a possibility of free admission. Some more information from the Mozilla foundation We're reaching out to you because we'd like you to be our guest at the Mozilla Festival in London November 4-6. The Festival's theme this year is "Media, Freedom, and the Web," and we have cued up a number of hackfests, design jams, and other discussions about some of the most pressing issues facing journalism on the open web. A few examples of what we have brewing: A deep dive into moving from real-time streams to big-picture pieces https://mozillafestival.org/2011/09/28/flow-media/ Assembling a "utility belt" for data journalism https://mozillafestival.org/2011/09/28/data-journalism/ A look into verifiability and identity on the web https://mozillafestival.org/2011/09/28/verify-sources/ And tons more. We think you being in London will make these activities even better. For more information about the Mozilla Festival, please visit: https://mozillafestival.org/ We'd love to see you in London! Please don't hesitate to write back with questions. Thanks so much. From: Sam Reed [mailto:sam@reedyboy.net] Sent: 03 October 2011 15:49 To: 'wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'; 'mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org' Subject: Mozilla Festival/(Wikipedia|MediaWiki|Wikimedia) Human API A bit of a heads up, more for European members, but welcome to anyone Just wondering if there's any interest in anyone attending Mozillas "Media, Freedom and the Web" Festival [1], 4th-6th November 2011 in London. They are looking for people from communities (such as ours, will do a more public post) to form part of a Human API [2] team, helping people to hack and use Wikipedia et al in new ways. Or you can attend as a regular attendee and take part. Would be quite nice if we can get a mix of technical members, and other related community people. I know this is probably more relevant to some of the European based community, but it is open to all, so people from further afield would also be welcome if they wanted to attend! Any interest? Sam [1] https://mozillafestival.org/ [2] https://mozillafestival.org/program/human-api/

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Lucene-search stops indexing page contents
by Ross Xu 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi there, I am using Lucene-search 2.1.3 as the search engine for my MediaWiki 1.16, and using MWSearch to fetch the results. It has been working well, but all of sudden, for newly added pages, I can only search for keywords from their page titles. If I search for keywords only from those newly added pages' conntents, I get 0 result. There is no problem if I search for any old pages. It seems the Lucene-search only indexes page titles, and doesn't index the new page contents any more. Any idea would be appreciated, Ross Xu

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