MediaWiki-l November 2011

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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Google Analytics advice
by Bill Traynor 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

I've been looking at the various GA extensions and can't find one that meets my specific requirements. I need to be able to track my whole wiki, as well as allow others to track page subsets that they're interested in tracking. These subset users should not see GA data for the entire wiki. Is this a scenario that anyone has encountered or could offer advice on? I'm currently experimenting with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration but it only allows for 1 GA account number, and includes all pages in the wiki. Thanks Bill

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Context weirdness
by John Foster 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

My mediawiki 1.17 installation as gone nuts. It is not correctly identifying things where the first letter context has changed. example: Template: tlx call does not find Template:Tlx In the past this has made no difference. Only recent changes are installation of the Extension:WorkingWiki. The extension seems to be doing its job though there are some issues with Latex (.sty) sheets. I just do not know if the WorkingWiki, which did alter the editing interface, is the cause. I will be contacting the author re: this. Any tips?

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Upgrade to 1.18
by Gordon Joly 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I have Mediawiki installation went from 1.17 through 1.18 RC1 and to 1.18 - no problems. But another Mediawiki has had some problems going direct from 1.17 to 1.18 - I took out Recaptcha and now see this: *Fatal error*: Cannot redeclare wfprofilein() (previously declared in /xxxxxxxx/public_html/includes/profiler/Profiler.php:14) in */xxxxx/public_html/includes/ProfilerStub.php* on line *25* Not sure why... Gordo -- Gordon Joly gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals!

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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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1.18 issues triage
by mhershberger＠wikimedia.org 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

What: 1.18 Triage When: Friday, Nov, 2130UTC Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ap Where: #wikimedia-dev on freenode Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-dve if you don't have an IRC client With the recent release of 1.18, I want to hold a triage to see if there are enough issues to have a point release. This Friday, I'll be covering bugs listed on the tracking bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32711 to determine the severity and number of issues. If you know of issues not listed on that bug that have shown up in your 1.18 installation, especially regressions in MediaWiki behavior, please add them. Hope to see you at the triage! Mark.

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Announcing SMWCon Spring 2012
by Jesse Wang 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

My dear wiki and semantic wiki-ers, It's my pleasure and honor to announce the next International Semantic MediaWiki Conference - SMWCon Spring 2012 on April 25-27 in Carlsbad, CA, USA - Greater San Diego area. This SMWCon will feature tutorials, keynotes, presentations, demos, lightening talks, group discussions and/or developer hacking sessions. For more information, please visit http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011. We are calling for presentations and tutorials, please feel free to edit the conference page if you'd like to contribute. Thanks, Jesse On behalf of the SMWCon Spring 2012 organization committee

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Duplicate pages. Is Mediawiki case sensitive?
by trunkline 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello, I am developing an extension to import Word documents to MediaWiki. I've noticed that Mediawiki is case sensitive. If, for example, import a page with the title "The future of tv" and re-import the same page with the corrected title "The future of TV" mediawiki creates two separate pages for each import. Is this normal? How would you solve this problem? regards, Ramon

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