MediaWiki-l June 2011

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Flash and slide show problem
by Rahul Sharma 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Dear all, I am using flash extension for my wiki to show flash file but it wont work. even not getting any error. i think it is parsing error. cz it is not taking as a flash file. is there any idea about this? thanks Rs --

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Que
by Daniel A De Jesús Cornejo 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

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HOWTO set up an emergency mirror copy of your intranet wiki
by David Gerard 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

This is all the obvious method, but the key thing I want to note is that it actually works smoothly just as you would expect :-) Our intranet wiki is MediaWiki 1.13 using MySQL on a Solaris 10 box, which is our general internal-use database server. Oracle runs on the same box and decided to fill /data last week, breaking MySQL and hence the wiki we use for the instructions on how to fix the box ... So I set up something to mirror it. 1. Install 1.17b1 on a RHEL 5 VM (that we already have a copy of MediaWiki 1.15 on). Defaults are fine. 2. Put this script in the maintenance directory of the first box (server names anonymised), using your full paths to php and scp, run it from cron at 5am every day: #!/usr/bin/bash cd /data/apache/mediawiki-1.13.3/maintenance /usr/local/bin/php dumpBackup.php --full >dump.xml /usr/bin/scp dump.xml admin@box2.internal.example.com:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/techwiki/maintenance 3. Put the ssh key for the first box user the script runs as in ~admin/.ssh/authorized_keys on the second box, so the scp runs unattended. 4. Put this script in the maintenance directory of the second box, using your full path to php, run it from cron at 6am every day: #!/bin/bash cd /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/techwiki/maintenance /usr/bin/php importDump.php dump.xml /usr/bin/php rebuildrecentchanges.php This doesn't copy images or files - we don't use images much at all. That can come later if we care :-) Looking a bit broken may well be a feature in this context ... I put a notice in MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice on the mirror copy that this was a read-only mirror, and disabled editing for everyone who wasn't me. (and yes, I have vague plans to update the wiki from 1.13. OTOH, MediaWiki on Solaris is so stupidly painful in my experience that I advise no-one do it ever.) - d.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18
by David Gerard 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

On 9 June 2011 17:58, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Possible_tarballs Note there's a strawpoll there to indicate tarball users' interest in particular extensions. Go forth and !vote :-) - d.

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Extension bundling for 1.18
by mhershberger＠wikimedia.org 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

[Cross-posted from wikitech-l] There has been some talk among developers and others about bundling some extensions with the tarball. The new installer supports enabling extensions during installation, so if we're going to do it, I would like to start bundling them with the 1.18 tarball. Part of my motivation is that many people seem to install MediaWiki and expect a wiki that acts very similar to Wikipedia, with which they are more familiar. Now, part of the problem is documentation — these people don't understand how the functionality of MediaWiki is partitioned. But in addition to documentation, we can start providing the most expected functionality in the tarball. Immediately, the objection of “bloat” would be raised. To alleviate this concern, we can still provide a “MediaWiki-lite” tarball with only the contents of phase3 as before. Assuming that we are going to put *some* extensions in, we need to decide which ones. Based on the problem reports in Bugzilla, I think at least Cite and ParserFunctions should be bundled. Others would be Gadgets and WikiEditor. So my list would be: Cite ParserFunctions Gadgets WikiEditor Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_used_on_Wikimedia and see which you would recommend we include. Mark.

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Do temporary passwords from Extension:ConfirmAccount expire?
by Matthew Betts 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Dear all, When using Extension:ConfirmAccount, is there a time limit for logging in after a temporary password for a new account has been set? Some of our users are having problems logging in after forgetting about the email for a while, and I wonder if that is the problem? The user_password field in the user table is empty for this user. (And Extension:ConfirmAccount has worked well for other users on the same wiki.) 1. user requests account 2. user confirms email address 3. bureacrat accepts request 4. email with temporary password is sent 5. user receives email but does nothing with it for weeks 5. user tries to log in with the emailed password but cannot Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Betts PhD, Russell Group CellNetworks, BioQuant, University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany matthew.betts(a)bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de +49 (0)6221 54 513 61

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Pulling data from MSSQL to create sortable table
by David Coronel 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi. I'm trying to pull data from a MSSQL database to create a sortable list. I've been looking at projects like SQL2wiki but they seem to be MySQL only. Any ideas how I can go about implementing this for MSSQL? Thank you, David

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Announcing Ubuntu Ensemble, mediawiki community feedback requested
by Ahmed Kamal 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi everyone, This is Ahmed, I work for Ubuntu helping the cloud community. Ubuntu has been working on some hot technology, that aims to be "apt-get for the cloud"! Basically Install and manage large scale cloud deployments of web applications (and others) with the equivalent ease of "apt-get install". The reason I'm posting this here, is because the very first use-case for this technology (called Ensemble) has been MediaWiki (yaay)! To get a feel for Ensemble, here is how you'd deploy a 4 machine Mediawiki installation DB -> MediaWiki -> memcached -> HAproxy Loadbalancer ----->8--------- # Deploy machines ensemble deploy mysql wiki-db ensemble deploy mediawiki demo-wiki ensemble deploy memcached wiki-cache ensemble deploy haproxy wiki-balancer # Connect them together! ensemble add-relation wiki-db demo-wiki:db ensemble add-relation wiki-cache demo-wiki ensemble add-relation wiki-balancer:reverseproxy demo-wiki:website ----->8--------- Slashdotted? Want to scale out? You'd need something like ensemble add-unit wiki-cache ensemble add-unit demo-wiki Yes, it's that easy! The reason I am contacting you guys, is that you're the MediaWiki experts. I am very interested to get feedback from you on what you think of Ensemble today, what you think it should do tomorrow. Also if you're interested in hacking on the Ensemble formulas (the intelligence) that deploys MediaWiki (this one written in bash, but could be any language you like), that'd be great as well, because again you're the experts. To connect to the Ensemble community, You can subscribe to the mailing list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ensemble And there's also an active IRC channel: #ubuntu-ensemble @ Freenode If you reply here, I'll of-course try to connect your feedback and answer questions, but it's really much better to post Ensemble feedback directly on Ensemble channels (since that's where the devs and formula writers are). In the mean time, if there's any questions or thoughts grab me (kim0 on freenode) right away. Thanks for your time

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Session expiration error.
by Андрій Гончар 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

I have restrict access to edit and createaccount rights for anonymous users in my wiki. But when my login session has expired, those kind of users get access to restricted options. I have see in cookie in my browser and mediawiki_mw__session has epiration time to current session terminated How can I restrict possibility to edit and createaccount to anonymous users even when admin has expired Thanks!

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error in dump or mediawiki
by Brion Vibber 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

On Jun 7, 2011 8:18 AM, "蔡超" <toppiprc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > I want to install a zh-wiki mirror. I have tried several dumps, there are > always some errors. > Error 1: when I visit any wiki pages, explorer says > "'mw.util.addPortletLink' is null or not an object" This may be from broken security fixes in the last MediaWiki release. 1.17b2 should be available soon... try pulling direct from SVN if still waiting. > Error 2: Templates can not be converted into proper html code, as the > picture attached. Picture didn't make it to the list, but most likely you need to install extensions like Cite and ParserFunctions. > Error 3: Can not translate Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. What's wrong with it, exactly? Make sure you set $wgLanguageCode = "zh" in LocalSettings.php. -- brion > > Here is my steps to build the mirror: > 1. download latest dumps(zhwiki-20110521), mwdumper java source and > mediawiki 1.7.0.beta, > 2. install mediawiki with name "Wikipedia", the localsetting.php is > attached. > 3. alter database table "page", "revision" and "text", remove key constrain, > auto_increment and index. > 4. import page-article.xml with mwdumper.jar > 5. alter database table "page", "revision" and "text", add key constrain, > auto_increment and index. > 6. import zhwiki-20110521-image.sql, imagelinks.sql, interwiki.sql, > iwlinks.sql, langlinks.sql, pagelinks.sql, redirect.sql, templatelinks.sql. > > Is there anything wrong with my operations? > > Best regards > > Toppi > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Can we share template among wikis?
by Chau Chee Yang 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi, I have setup a wiki family that use a single source of mediawiki for multiple wikis database. To avoid reinvent the wheels and follow the wiki community standard. I import some nice templates from wikipedia to my own wikis. This is great as I don't need to create my own templates. However, I forced to import the templates to each wiki database in the family or else it won't work. It will become a nightmare to maintain the templates when my wiki grows. Is there any ways to share the templates among wikis? Something like a meta wiki that able to share out the template for other wiki database to use. Even better, if there is a way to use the template directly from wikipedia.org without export/import so I don't need to maintain my own templates but enjoy using the templates from community. Thank you. Best Regards, Chau Chee Yang

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Access restriction for actions
by Андрій Гончар 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

How can I restrict access to actions on 'history', 'view source' and 'discussion' for anonymous users? Also, of course, I would like to hide approprite tabs! Thanks!

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Error in dump or mediawiki
by 蔡超 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

hi, I want to install a zh-wiki mirror. I have tried several dumps, there are always some errors. Error 1: when I visit any wiki pages, explorer says "'mw.util.addPortletLink' is null or not an object" Error 2: Templates can not be converted into proper html code, as the picture attached. Error 3: Can not translate Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Here is my steps to build the mirror: 1. download latest dumps(zhwiki-20110521), mwdumper java source and mediawiki 1.7.0.beta, 2. install mediawiki with name "Wikipedia", the localsetting.php is attached. 3. alter database table "page", "revision" and "text", remove key constrain, auto_increment and index. 4. import page-article.xml with mwdumper.jar 5. alter database table "page", "revision" and "text", add key constrain, auto_increment and index. 6. import zhwiki-20110521-image.sql, imagelinks.sql, interwiki.sql, iwlinks.sql, langlinks.sql, pagelinks.sql, redirect.sql, templatelinks.sql. Is there anything wrong with my operations? Best regards Toppi

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Searching problem in mediawiki1.17
by Rahul Sharma 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hello all.... textual searching not working fine in mw1.17b1 with oracle. can anyone facing this problem? i could;nt find out the solution..... from Rs

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Forbiden Access
by Fernando Dominguez-Gonzalez 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello all hopefully you can help, I am able to display my WIKI on firefox but when I try to edit content I get this error. I have set access to both the MediaWiki and the PHP directory, for networkservice which runs my pool and the IUSR user I am running windows 2003, PHP 5.3.6, on FastCGI Fast CGI is allowed under the webservice extensions on IIs the website has both script and executable permissions. Not sure what else to try pls help. Thanks You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed. Please try the following: Contact the Web site administrator if you believe this directory should allow execute access. HTTP Error 403.1 - Forbidden: Execute access is denied. Internet Information Services (IIS)

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1.17 next beta?
by David Gerard 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

1.17b1 came out in May. When's the next test tarball likely? - d.

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AllImage search
by Phil Hannent 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello, I have been working with the AllImage search API and find the aifrom parameter limiting. Is there a parameter that I can specify that the word I am searching for appears anywhere within the file name, not just its start? Regards Phil Hannent http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allimages

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Best way to redirect URL...
by Christopher Rios 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

MediaWiki 1.16.4 PHP 5.2.17 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL 5.1.53-log Shared hosting through Dreamhost. The site in questions can be found at these locations. http://help.dgslibrary.org http://help.dgslibrary.org/Main_Page I'm trying to setup a wiki in the root directory of help.dgslibrary.org using short URLs. I used this method here . The short URLs work great. The problem is that if you try going to help.dgslibrary.org, you get "error id: 'bad_httpd_conf'. I've been looking at various ways to redirect to help.dgslibrary.org/Main_Page but I'm not very technical (I'm a bit technical but don't assume too much). Could anybody help me to figure this out? What would be the best way to redirect from http://help.dgslibrary.org to http://help.dgslibrary.og/Main_Page ? Thanks Chris

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BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires token (and API requires token and POST)
by Krinkle 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi all, As of MediaWiki 1.19 the action of watching or unwatching a page requires a token [1]. A similar measure was taken during the development of 1.17 for the markpatrolled action, and the reason is the same: To prevent third-party sites from executing write actions without the users' permission. The ApiWatch module must be posted and given a token. As with other edittoken-based api actions, the token is salted but stays the same throughout a session. Scripts may retrieve this token, as usual, through the ApiQueryInfo (must be logged in, anon users don't have action-watch) [4] On a sidenote, recently the the mw.user.tokens resourceloader module [8] has been created [9]. This, together with the mw.user.options module introduced in 1.17, gadgets can do advanced actions without polling the API for common data. If you script is ran from a wiki, you can get the tokens from [5] this Map without an http request to the query info module. An example has been made in the mediawiki.action.watch.ajax module [6]. This (un)watches through the API. The actual change in the WatchAction class was made in r89545 [3]. The ApiWatch module was changed in r88522 [7]. -- Krinkle [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/27655 Require token for (un)watching pages [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29070 Add token to action=watch API [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/89545 [4] http://yourdomain/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main+Page&intoken… [5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules#tokens [6] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/resources/mediawiki.… [7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/88522 [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29067 Expose user.tokens like we do user.options in ResourceLoader [9] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/88553

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unsuscribe
by fsosa＠ipichoh.rimed.cu 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

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podcast producer and MediaWiki
by Dvorkin, Asya 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi everyone, Is it possible to use podcast producer with MediaWiki (m4v format)? Everything I've read talks about youtube and similar services (in combination with extensions:VideoFlash). Thank you, Asya

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How to configure mediawiki that used for multiple wiki site to share MediaWiki:common.css
by Chau Chee Yang 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi, I have a mediawiki 1.16.5 instance. This wiki instance manage multiple wiki site. Each wiki site is a separate database. I want to add MediaWiki:common.css to one of the wiki but it only available to that wiki only. How may I share the common.css to other wiki site too? I managed to use $wgSharedDB to share all login info to other wikis. Best Regards, Chau Chee Yang

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Apache rewrite rule with proxy flag fail to work for mediawiki service
by Chau Chee Yang 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

I am testing on the apache rewrite rules with mediawiki. I wish to include a wiki service under a namespace of my domain. For example: http://mylan/wiki/Country will show content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country My rule in .htaccess is RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 [P] Access the URL from browser: http://mylan/wiki/Country will show the content from wikipedia but the URL will switch to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country I expect the URL remain as http://mylan/wiki/Country Please advise on how to make it works. Thank you. -- Best Regards, Chau Chee Yang

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confirmation e-mail adress
by ashadjohe 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hello, now when I subscribe mailing list on https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l could you help me to contact with someone connected with www.aqworldswiki.com, because I want to ask the owner of that mailbox about confirmation my e-mail adress on that page Regards and I hope to accept my request :)

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