MediaWiki-l February 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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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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automatic template inclusion in new pages?
by Matthew Betts 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, Is there 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 the wiki URLs will be generated automatically by an external program. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Betts, Russell Group CellNetworks, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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Wanted: List moderator
by Huib Laurens 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi guys, I'm starting to get less time for doing list administrator stuff but there is getting more work every week. The queue with this that needed to be done was one a week when I started but its grown to 10 a week. With the holidays coming up and that means lots of out of office replays I guess its time to find a list moderator to help out. Currently I guess its best to look someone that's active in the community, and is active on this list in good standing.. When you want to help out please e-mail me at mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org -- Regards, Huib "Abigor" Laurens Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Single-sign one without Extension:CentralAuth?
by Gregor Hagedorn 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

We have a wikifarm with a number of wikis and central media repositories. We are missing a single sign-on - presently, if someone is signed into a wiki and uploads a file, this one has to sign in a second time. The "obvious" solution is to do the same as wikimedia, i.e. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth However, the page above warns in no unclear words to rather use $wgSharedDB (which we already do). But while this offers single-authorization ("password storage"), it provides no single-sign on. Advice? What are our options? thanks! Gregor

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Excessive cpu usage
by Erik Luken 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Is there any reason a stock mediawiki installation would peg the cpu usage on a server?

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Providing RSS feeds / content for other websites
by Eric K 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Basically I have content that I want other websites (blogs, facebook, other websites) to use and display. For example a list of our new articles, or excerpts of news stories that are randomly picked from a pool of content. I'm guessing exporting stuff into RSS is the best way to provide content to other websites. Although I-Frame could also be one, or maybe not, I'm not sure. I've looked at these RSS feed generating extensions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Feed_generator_extensions But I havent found anything that can work. One does only bulleted lists (Bullet Feed) and another (WikiArticleFeeds) only works with 2nd level headings and they're both very restricted. Does anyone have any advice about this or any experience to share? thank you Erik

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German wikipedia redirect to English Startpage
by Administrator 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi there, I have installed on my NAS Mediawiki. With PHP 5 and Mediawiki 1.16.2. The database is Mysql 4.0 with unicode support. After I converted the XML file into a SQL dump with mwdumper and all imported. Then I called on the Mediawiki directory in my web browser. The browser then redirects me to the page on en.wikipedia.org. I think that's stored somewhere en.wikipedia.org home page. Now my question how I could change that, that I when I load the mediawiki directory to get the data stored in the page. Please help me Yours sincerely, Alexander S.

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Help: Using GoogleTranslator with CustomNavBlocks
by trueskew 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

I'm using the CustomNavBlocks extension to control my sidebar. Not surprisingly, when I add the GoogleTranslator extension, the sidebar translate box doesn't show up. I've verified that the latter is installed correctly by blocking CustomNavBlocks and seeing the translator box. Does anyone know how show the box on a mediawiki page on-demand? Thanks. - skew

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