MediaWiki-l May 2011

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Redirect with cutout
by Dan Nessett 17 May '11

17 May '11

There is a user on our wiki that needs to do the following (more than once). There is a page A redirected to another page B, i.e., A -> B, where -> indicates redirection. He wants to redirect B to C in a way that leaves an empty B and fixes the redirect so it is A -> C. This user has suppressredirect permission and (for testing purposes on our test wiki) I have set $wgFixDoubleRedirects to true. Even with these extras, it doesn't appear there is a way to achieve this user's objective without some manual work (e.g., after moving B to C and selecting both "leave a redirect behind" and "Update any redirects that point to the original title" going back and manually deleting B). Is this correct or is there a way to achieve the object in one step? -- -- Dan Nessett

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Microsoft Office - Wiki Connector
by Jesse Wang 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hello, we are currently refactoring our Microsoft Office to MediaWiki connector product, which aims at helping MS Office users access wiki data and contribute within their familiar environment - MS Office suite of applications (Word, Outlook, etc.). It is used to be called WikiTags: there is an old video at [1] , and a slide deck at [2], more information at your hand if you search WikiTags. We will have a meeting on 5/18 to discuss features and priority, and would like to have more potential customer involvement. So, please don't hesitate to let me know if you're interested in helping us shape the features, and especially if you can make an online tele-conference call at Wednesday 8am PDT (17,00 CET/GMT). Instructions will be sent to you later. Thanks, Jesse [1] http://wiking.vulcan.com/wikitags/WikiTags.htm [2] https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://semantic-mediawiki.org/w/images/f…

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question about user input on a WIKI page for database access
by Dan Dansereau 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hello All I have MediawWiki 1.16.5 installed on a CENTOS 5.0 box and using postgres 9.0.3 as the database. Unfortunately behind a secured system that I cannot give you access to. I have a very simple question - that I cannot find the correct answer and have produced a very simple example Given a Wiki Markup Page as follows........... Showing Zip Data for a test <TABLE border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <th>ZipCode</th> <th>PostOffice</th> <th>Latitude</th> <th>Longitude</th> {{#apGetLine: zipcode |zipcode |84332 |zipcode |postoffice |lat |lon }} </table> ........................................end of page How would one take the 84332 and put it in a variable that the user is prompted for, or enters in a form just before the database query is done? This is the database search key Thank you very much Dan A. Dansereau

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LaTeX format citations for wiki2latex extension
by Raymond M 16 May '11

16 May '11

I'd like to modify the wiki2latex extension to make the <ref> insertions from the Cite extension get converted into LaTeX format citations. Or is it easier to do the reverse and build an extension to display LaTeX citations?

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Handling <toggledisplay>
by Raymond M 16 May '11

16 May '11

I'd like to modify the wiki2latex extension so that it skips the <toggledisplay>...</toggledisplay> sections. Even better would be to have tags that allow an alternate selection of what to show on screen and what to use in generated LaTeX output. Any suggestions on where to start in the .php codes?

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Problem uploading FLV files
by Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat 16 May '11

16 May '11

Hi, I'm triyin upload some files with the "FLV" extension, but always I have the same advertissement "the file-extension does not match the mime type" I have included the flv in mime.types and mime.info. I have two wikis, in the first all works fine, but the seconds give me the error. Thanks

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Fwd: MYSQL and 1.17 beta installer
by Avram 15 May '11

15 May '11

I tried the 1.17 beta as well as the latest in phase3 for 1.17 and had the same issue. Basically, when I run it on my own server, it works fine, no issues, but when I run it on a hosted server, where I don't have full access to MYSQL, but instead have full access to the specific database I'm using, the installer throws an error, failing on "Create database user". Here's the error (substituting in database and dbuser): --- Granting permission to user "dbuser" failed: A database query syntax error has occurred. The last attempted database query was: "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `database`.* TO 'dbuser''" from within function "MysqlInstaller::setupUser". Database returned error "1044: Access denied for user 'dbuser'@'%' to database 'database' (database)" Backtrace: 1. 0 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/includes/db/Database.php(751): DatabaseBase->reportQueryError('Access denied f...', 1044, 'GRANT ALL PRIVI...', 'MysqlInstaller:...', false) 2. 1 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/includes/installer/MysqlInstaller.php(503): DatabaseBase->query('GRANT ALL PRIVI...', 'MysqlInstaller:...') 3. 2 [internal function]: MysqlInstaller->setupUser(Object(MysqlInstaller)) 4. 3 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/includes/installer/Installer.php(1293): call_user_func(Array, Object(MysqlInstaller)) 5. 4 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/includes/installer/WebInstallerPage.php(1084): Installer->performInstallation(Array, Array) 6. 5 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(246): WebInstaller_Install->execute() 7. 6 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/mw-config/index.php(46): WebInstaller->execute(Array) 8. 7 /home/content/18/7872418/html/mediawiki-1.17/mw-config/index.php(14): wfInstallerMain() 9. 8 {main} --- What I don't understand is if I left the checkbox selected under "Database account for web access" for "Use the same account as for installation", why would it be trying to create the database user? Seems like a bug. Since this is after the tables are created, I can back up to where I selected the database, go forward again and it thinks it's an upgrade. The wiki seems to create fine at that point except I don't have an administrative account or any accounts for the wiki. I could create an account, but it's just a normal user and I don't have an admin account available to promote it. Anyone have any insight? Workarounds?

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remove me from mails from MediaWiki
by Svend Aage Nielsen 15 May '11

15 May '11

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] PostgreSQL 9 with Mediawiki
by Greg Sabino Mullane 14 May '11

14 May '11

> Is anyone using PostgreSQL 9 and mediawiki in a production environment? > Anything to watch out for? Thanks! I'm not using it anywhere yet in production, but it's heavily tested on 8.4 and should be fine, as nothing radical has changed between the versions. And for better or for worse, it's not like MediaWiki really takes advantage of some of PGs strengths, so the interface is kept pretty simple, which means it's a rare day indeed when a new version of Postgres will not work against MediaWiki. If you do see anything, raise a bug of course! -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)endpoint.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8

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How to export all pages from mediawiki without entering all the page names?
by jameslordhz 14 May '11

14 May '11

hi all, i am the admin of a mediawiki site, i opened special page and clicked the export link, i should enter the page name in order to export that page, this brings me lots of inconvienence, so i wonder if there is a method than i can export all the pages to xml file without entering all the page names? thank you! 2011-05-14 jameslordhz

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