MediaWiki-l April 2011

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Senior wants "send to a friend" button
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Gentlemen, my mom, age 50 (hexadecimal) years old, thinks wikis ought to have "send this article to a friend" buttons like normal websites do. Indeed, the flagship Wikipedia site lacks such basic equipment last time I looked. I would have told her "just send them the URL yourself, for that personal touch", but since she's 120 (octal) years old, maybe it's time to take a tip from our elders and add such a feature, without me needing to do as much as even check to see if an extension already can do it. If not a complete "Share (on FarceBook, etc.)", "Suggest" button, then at least a simple "mail to a friend". >>>>> "M" == Annette "Mom" Jacobson writes: M> Excellent title. Thanks for fixing the typos, etc. I was thinking -- M> is it possible to put an ikon in this articles page for a "send to a M> friend" possibility? Most article blogs have one, and I always use M> them to help get articles I like around. The send 'aps' on the M> article's page are so simple to access and use. What do you think? M> ----- Original Message ----- M> From: <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> M> To: Mom >> OK, made >> http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Supporting_the_Syrian_uprisings

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Senior wants "send to a friend" button
by WJhonson＠aol.com 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

In a message dated 4/28/2011 10:34:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jidanni(a)jidanni.org writes: > Interesting how Facebook has lots of things that connect to Wikipedia, > but Wikipedia doesn't have the reverse... but then Wikipedia is supposed > to be neutral. Anyway, at least a 'share this page via email' button on > Wikipedia might be warranted. > Similar to how we have the "find a book" thingie setup so when you click on an ISBN you get a page of choices, we could have a thingie where you click on it and get a page of social network choices. That would still let us be neutral. I don't necessarily like the sidebar for the Wikipedia site, as I can see it growing out of control.

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div style = "/* insecure input */"
by Dan Nessett 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Our wiki has a template that displays a mini-periodical table. Each table entry is represented by a small box, which is a link to the corresponding element's page. When we upgraded to 1.16.2, this template stopped working. I have traced the problem to some html added as link text. Specifically, an element (in this case Hydrogen) is represented by: [[Hydrogen |<div style="filter:alpha(opacity=99); -moz-opacity:.99; opacity:.99; width:6px; height:9px; border-bottom:1px solid #fff; border-left:1px solid #fff; border-top:1px solid #fff; border-right:1px solid #fff; background-color:#333"> </div> ]] When I inspect the output html at the browser, the output div is: <div style="/* insecure input */" ... When I remove "filter:alpha(opacity=99);" from the link text, things work fine (at least on FF and Safari). Investigating, it seems the "filter:alpha(opacity=99);" attribute is an IE specific opacity setting. I am attempting to fix this problem, but I don't know where the "/* insecure input */" value is generated. Is it in the parser? Is by the browser? Somewhere else? Is there some global I can set to eliminate this behavior? Is the value "filter:alpha(opacity=99);" obsolete, necessitating it to be changed to something else? -- -- Dan Nessett

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Dump Wiki to Files?
by Jerry Van Suchtelen 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Is there a way to dump the articles of a wiki to individual files named by their title? Like if you had something called /wiki/Hello World it would be, among the other articles, dumped as 'hello_world.xml'. You can do this on websites like wikidot which send you a zip file containing each article as a single text file.

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SMWCon Spring 2011 Schedule is out
by Jesse Wang 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Just a reminder that SMWCon Spring 2011<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011>is about to start in 15 days. It's a semi-structured gathering of people who are interested in MediaWiki and Social Semantic Web Technologies. The conference schedule <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011_-_Conference_Schedule>is out there, and if you want to find more info, such as travel or registration, please visit the conference home page<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011> . Thanks, Jesse On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Jesse Wang <wjxhome(a)gmail.com> wrote: > (Call for Participation) > Hello there, > > The next SMWCon <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011>(Semantic MediaWiki Conference) is in 4 weeks. It offers > tutorials<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011_-_Tutorials>as well as conference > presentations<http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011_-_Conference_Presenta…> > . > > We believe you'll be benefited a lot from attending the conference, whether > you're a student, or a free-lance developer, or an enterprise architect. In > the past SMWCons, the content was very broad, and we're striving to do the > same this time. If you have a topic you want to share, please don't hesitate > to put it on the wiki site too. We'll get the schedule out about 2 weeks > before the start. > > As of the cost, it's be heavily subsidized by our sponsors, and especially > if you're a student, you basically learn and eat free during the > conference:-). Check it out > http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011. > > Best regards, > Jesse > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jesse Wang <wjxhome(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> My fellow wiki and semantic wiki-ers, >> >> It's my honor to announce the next International Semantic MediaWiki >> Conference - SMWCon Spring 2011 on April 28-30 in Arlington, VA, USA - >> Greater Washington DC area. This longest SMWCon will have a tutorial day for >> the first time, so we are calling for tutorial speakers as well as >> participants. Please note that if you're an expert on MediaWiki, you're very >> welcome to propose a tutorial (or be part of it). >> >> For more information, please visit >> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jesse <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jesse> >> >> >

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Solving the GROUP BY problem
by Greg Sabino Mullane 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Inside of Article.php, there is a query that joins the user table to the revisions table in the function getContributors. The important bits are: $fields = array( "$userTable.*", 'rev_user_text AS user_name', 'MAX(rev_timestamp) AS timestamp', ); ... 'GROUP BY' => array( 'rev_user', 'rev_user_text' ), ... $res = $dbr->select( $tables, $fields, $conds, __METHOD__, $options, $jconds ); return new UserArrayFromResult( $res ); This breaks for those databases that don't allow for a non-deterministic GROUP BY (yes, sometimes you can technically get away with leaving fields out of the GROUP BY, but this is not one of those cases :). One solution that has been raised to this general problem is to have MW recognize 'group by' queries and add fields as needed to the GROUP BY by parsing the SELECT list. Obviously this is a non-starter in this case, as we are doing a user.* in the SELECT clause. Which makes me wonder if we really need that here in the first place. We definitely don't need all those fields to display user contributions, but what's the minimum needed to satisfy UserArrayFromResult? This tracks back to loadFromRow in User.php. No doubt it is convenient having a complete user object ready to use anywhere, but do we really want to encourage pulling back user.* everywhere or is another approach better? So I'm looking for comments on the best solution here, both in the specific and general case. As I see it, the options are: 1) Manually add in all the columns from the user table to the GROUP BY. Painful, and subject to immediate breakage when a column is added or removed from the user table. 2) Teach MediaWiki how to parse queries and expand the user.* into a list of columns to feed to the GROUP BY. Actually not as hard as it sounds, but not very elegant at all. 3) Rewrite the SELECT above to only pull the columns we need for that section of code. In this case, probably user_id, user_name, user_real_name, and user_email? This would mean that the user object returned would have unset fields for things like $this->mToken. The best short-term solution, but breaks the underlying promise that a user object is a complete and populated user object. 4) Something else. Return a new object that's a subset of the User table? Perhaps with the fields that are commonly used for displays of other users, but without the you-as-the-user specific fields such as the password, last touched, etc.? Seems silly to be slinging around all those attributes when we don't need to be. -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201104271012 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8

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Need Support for Greenpeace Germany Mediawiki Installation!
by monkey 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Hi everyone, this might look weird, however I thought I just ask: (maybe it's not the right place to ask) Since April 2008 the Volunteer Climbing Team of Greenpeace Germany runs a Mediawiki for skillsharing and training purposes, at https://klettern.project22.org/. Obviously the wiki is closed - and it doesn't run on official Greenpeace servers, but on my own - since I started the wiki 3 years ago. Until now it has proven very valuable and we use a lot, for all sorts of stuff - currently we try to "internationalize" it, like having multilanguage support - and I try hard to fix the extension "ConfirmAccount" .... Well, I run and administer it, even though I'm not an expert, I just learned in the process. Now it just gets too much, so I wonder if there is anyone around here, who is willing to help us a little? Preferably on a voluntary basis - sorry, we don't have a lot of budget to spend on this. I guess for an expert or a more experienced person this would be a lot easier and faster, than for me - and I wouldn't risk loosing the entire wiki everytime. Prefered would be someone from Germany, Hamburg or Berlin, so we could set up a meeting ... Looking forward to your replies ... if you have any advice for us, or if you want to direct our question somewhere else, we're very grateful for any help Thanks Florian Schulz P.S. this is my list-email-address, you also reply to florian.schulz(a)greenpeace.org, THANKS -- __________________________________________________ Greenpeace Germany, Volunteers & Action Departement Campaigner Florian Asis Schulz m: florian.schulz(a)greenpeace.org

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Mediawiki help!
by Guido Maiola 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Hi guys! does anybody know how to change or fix the mediawiki's search engine?? it doesn't works good... i got the mediawiki 1.7 on debian... thx!!

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uploading multiple files
by Matthew Betts 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi, Extension:MultiUpload allows multiple file uploads but each file has to be selected individually. Is there a way to select and upload a list of files, using the normal OS selection mechanism (shift-click on a range of files, etc.)? 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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by Yoshiaki Kamata 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

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