MediaWiki-l February 2011

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Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css?
by Vidvei, Tor 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

I have set up a small MediaWiki site some months ago. I wanted to change the appearance of tables, and did the following: >From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page with the common style sheet (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" MediaWiki installation. However, after some minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible! Of course, I suspect the change of Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes. My questions: 1) Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again? 2) If not, are there any way I can "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no access to the Wiki? (The wiki is installed on a webhotel (http://www.one.com). I have no shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql. Hoping for an answer... Best Regards Tor Vidvei ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The content of this e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this communication in error, be aware that forwarding it, copying it or in any way disclosing its content to any other person, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail immediately.This email has been scanned for the presence of viruses! http://www.storebrand.no

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ERROR 1071
by david 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi, I'm trying to save a dead wiki (well, what's dead is the server) from a db dump. It was an old version (MW 1.10). After importing the dump the wiki works but with the page titles corrupted (accents and other special characters). After following this... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set ... to change from latin-1 to UTF-8; mysql give me an error when I try to import to a new database: ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 340: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes Well, I don't know what I can do to arrange that. Any idea? (please for dummies if possible, step by step :) thanks in advance - dvdgmz.

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Mediawiki installation error.
by Thomas Schweikle 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

* PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.7 installed * Found database drivers for: PostgreSQL * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * Session save path (/var/lib/php5) appears to be valid. * PHP's memory_limit is 128M. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /var/lib/mediawiki * Script URI path: /wiki * Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. * Generating configuration file... * Notice: Constant MW_INSTALL_PATH already defined in /var/lib/mediawiki/config/index.php(767) : eval()'d code on line 19 Database type: PostgreSQL * Loading class: DatabasePostgres * Attempting to connect to database "wikidb" as "mediawiki"... error: No database connection * Checking the version of Postgres... Warning: pg_version() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes /db/DatabasePostgres.php on line 1078 FAILED. Required version is 8.1. You have 7.3 or earlier postgres is 8.4.x user "mediawiki" has grants to create databases. user "mediawiki" can connect to the database "wikidb" if he uses "psql" from the commandline in a shell: psql -h dbsrv.example.com -U mediawiki -W wikidb succeeds. Any idea where to look why this doesn't work?? -- Thomas

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Interchanging namespaces
by Ekompute .info 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi, this does sound stupid but because I am converting all my individual websites to use a single set of MediaWiki software, I wonder whether it is possible to standardize my namespaces. As it is, my chronology namespace, say, is using namespace 104 in one website and namespace 108 in another. Is it possible to change them all to say, 104, in order to standardize them? -- PM Poon

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css?
by Platonides 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Henny Savenije wrote: > Most of the time that means that PHP is not > communicating with the database. You may want to > check your database settings or see if MySQL is running MediaWiki should fail gracefully if it couldn't connect to the db. A blank page would mean a PHP error (it should get an entry on its error log). Not having changed any php file, maybe it is an out-of-memory error.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] I CAN NOT INSTALL MEDIAWIKI
by Giuseppe Briotti 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

I agree with Jim: the problem is due to the wrong PHP version... -- 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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I CAN NOT INSTALL MEDIAWIKI
by nqueralt＠clinic.ub.es 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear all, MediaWiki version that I'm trying to install: 1.13.0 PHP 5.3.2 MySQL 5.1.41 URL: NO, the server is in a restricted LAN I'm trying to install the mediawiki version compatible with the UCSC genome browser: 1.13.0. After installing successfully mediaWiki suite, I received the announce "Installation successful!", I moved the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory ( .. ) and deleted the config directory and changed LocalSettings.php permission to 600. Then, I clicked on "the follow this link to your wiki." and the result is nothing: a blanck web page (http://localhost/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) in the browser. I found this error on apache log error files in /var/log/apache2: [Thu Feb 17 15:23:26 2011] [error] [client 10.201.97.165] PHP Warning: Parameter 2 to Parser::parse() expected to be a reference, value given in /var/www/mediawiki/includes/StubObject.php on line 58, referer: http://bioinfold/wiki/config/index.php [Thu Feb 17 15:23:26 2011] [error] [client 10.201.97.165] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getCacheTime() on a non-object in /var/www/mediawiki/includes/Article.php on line 3387, referer: http://bioinfold/wiki/config/index.php I'm quite puzzled! Anyone has any idea? Any help will be very welcome! Best regards, Núria

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Error Creating an Account
by Tolliver 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hello, I have Upgraded wiki's to 1.16.0, and all works fine. However, I did a fresh Install of 1.16.0, and I get an error when trying to create an account. We are using Ldap, therefore, if I add the account via the /etc/conf file for that wiki, the user can login. This is the error that is displayed when I attempt to create an account: *Login error* There was either an authentication database error or you are not allowed to update your external account. Thanks.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css?
by Henny Savenije 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Most of the time that means that PHP is not communicating with the database. You may want to check your database settings or see if MySQL is running At 05:46 PM 2/17/2011, you wrote: >Inaccessible means blank pages. While trying to >access the wiki in FireFox, I get a blank page - >not even an error message. In IE8 I receive the >message " The website cannot display the page". >Hence, I can't undo the changes I did to >MediaWiki:commmon.css either. This combined >with your answer make me believe that the error >is something else than the common.css. After >spending some hours on it yesterday, I decided >to order a full backup of the wiki database and >revert to the state of the day before. (No >serious losses except from the time spent on this issues...) > >Thanks a lot for your answer! > >Tor > > >-----Opprinnelig melding----- >Fra: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org >[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] På vegne av Platonides >Sendt: 16. februar 2011 23:53 >Til: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >Emne: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css? > >Vidvei, Tor wrote: > > I have set up a small MediaWiki site some > months ago. I wanted to change the appearance > of tables, and did the following: > > From the english Wikipedia, I opened the page > with the common style sheet > (MediaWiki:Common.css), copied the content and > pasted it into the corresponding page in "my" > MediaWiki installation. However, after some > minutes the entire site suddenly became completely inaccessible! > > Of course, I suspect the change of > Common.css. But I might certainly have done other unintended changes. > > My questions: > > > > 1) Any proposals on how I can get access to the wiki again? > > > > 2) If not, are there any way I can > "undo" the changes to Common.css when I have no > access to the Wiki? (The wiki is installed on > a webhotel (http://www.one.com). I have no > shell access, but access via FTP and an administration panel for MySql. > > > > Hoping for an answer... > > > > Best Regards > > Tor Vidvei > >What do you mean by inaccessible? >A bad CSS change couldn't for instance produce a blank page. It can eg. >make you lose the styles, but nothing too dramatic. >The easiest way to undo your change is to disable CSS in your browser >and revert that page. The wiki will look "funny" without CSS but is >completely usable. > > > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >Please consider the environment before printing >this e-mail. The content of this e-mail is >intended solely for the use of the individual or >entity to whom it is addressed. If you have >received this communication in error, be aware >that forwarding it, copying it or in any way >disclosing its content to any other person, is >strictly prohibited. If you have received this >communication in error, please notify the author >by replying to this e-mail immediately.This >email has been scanned for the presence of viruses! http://www.storebrand.no > >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _ _ (o) (o) oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang) ----------------------------- http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos Article about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Korea through Western Cartographic eyes http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan (1797) http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies

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mediawiki as combined text/data store?
by graham 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi, I'm a relative newbie with mediawiki and before I rush into something I'd appreciate some advice as to how practical this is. I want to use mediawiki to hold a catalogue of electronic resources (journals etc) that a library has access to. One page per resource. The end user would be able to search through categories of resource and each page would give the user a description of the resource, explanation of how to use it etc. So far, completely normal wiki. But I have additional data about each resource I would like to store in each page (for example, configuration settings for a proxy server for that particular resource). This data would not be visible to the standard user, but would be entered by the same person entering the visible text and would be visible to that person/group. The data would be extracted by a bot at intervals to generate configuration files directly or update an external database. Even better would be if the bot could also populate the pages with some of this data. Is this straightforward to do with mediawiki? I had a quick look at the API and it doesn't look like it's really geared to extracting user-defined chunks of data, but I could well be wrong. I don't mind doing some coding (and obviously will have to do some for the bot) but don't have a huge amount of time to spend on development. A pre-existing plugin that does what I want would be nice! Thanks for any advice Graham

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MediaWiki-l February 2011