MediaWiki-l May 2011

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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 16 May '11

16 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 15 May '11

15 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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Berlin hackathon - we want your input
by Sumana Harihareswara 13 May '11

13 May '11

A bunch of MediaWiki development folks are in Berlin at a hackathon -- http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/13/wikimedia-tech-crowd-and-mediawiki-dev… -- and we're working to make sure you can watch, listen, and participate even if you're not here. For example, we're going to have talks about the parser, the mobile gateway, and performance improvement. From today's talks: Purodha Blissenbach is looking for testers for Narayam, a keyboard mapping for Indic languages, and Hay Kranen would like people to test the WordPress plugin PhotoCommons ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PhotoCommons ), "allowing easy searching, inserting and and maintaining of files from Wikimedia Commons into your blog." More in the live notes: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/mwhack11Fri #mwhack11 IRC channel live video streaming http://www.livestream.com/wikimediaberlin #mwhack11 on Twitter/Identi.ca bugs to smash: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=bugsmash More information: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2011 -Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator, WMF

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New extension: Notificator
by Patrick Nagel 13 May '11

13 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, for one of the Wikis I'm working on, we needed a way for persons to notify other persons about changes to pages, or new pages. The built-in MediaWiki notification system did not work, for a couple of reasons: - - It cannot notify someone who doesn't already know about a page (and put it on his/her watchlist already) - - It notifies everyone watching the page on every edit (or not, if the notified person did not visit the page since the last notification) - so in short, the notification time and persons to be notified cannot be chosen arbitrarily by the page changer So I developed the Notificator extension [1], which solves the above problems, and provides us with the needed flexibility: "Notify <e-mail address>" buttons can be placed on arbitrary pages, or via templates on a whole class of pages, and anyone with access to the Wiki can click them and trigger a notification to a pre-set e-mail address, or to an e-mail address entered right on the page. The main idea behind the extension is, that a user decides when to send a notification, and not the system. It brings a "Tell <someone> about this page/change!" button to MediaWiki. Feel free to test it, there is a demo installation at [2]. Btw., I'm waiting for MediaWiki SVN commit access - once I get that, I'll commit the extension to the MediaWiki extension source tree, so that it can be translated to other languages and others can help improve it. Note that this is my first "real" extension, so it would be great if someone with experience could have a look at the code and send patches or suggestions where I did things that could have been done better. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Notificator [2] http://patrick-nagel.net/wiki/Notificator_demo Cheers, Patrick. - -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3MlsIACgkQyYHmhobjRtS7rgCgu9XwYb7j3G19sfm/6WnsRjCz wsQAn2qkjRIZVy+MfuJm3WPFjWJlgpTK =PM+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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