MediaWiki-l June 2011

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Images missing after WM 1.17 upgrade
by Brion Vibber 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

First thing to check: are the URL paths correct? Right-click on one of those names and see if it offers to view or copy the URL. Is it the path you expect? If correct, are the files actually there? It's not uncommon to accidentally forget to move them back into place during upgrades! -- brion On Jun 24, 2011 6:04 AM, "Rick Phillips" <rphillips(a)idirect.net> wrote:

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] opening sidebar links in a new window
by Dan Siegal-Gaskins 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the responses. Now there's still quite a bit that I think I'm missing here. My confusion could be a simple matter of being a very new wiki user, and I thank you all for your patience. That being said, re: rgcjonas's comment: > Anyway i think the fact that the sidebar doesn't take care of > $wgExternalLinkTarget is worth a bug report. > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29533 I see the post on bugzilla, but to be honest I don't know what is meant by 'Patch for trunk'. I see that there's a a bit of code that was added to SkinTemplate.php; does this code fix the external link problem? and to nakohdo: > See this thread: http://old.nabble.com/Sidebar-Customization-tt31321544.html > You will need some JavaScript, though. It looks to me like the nabble thread only discusses centering links and collapsable menus. Is there a bit about external links opening in a new tab, and I'm just missing it? Thanks again. It's not so easy to parse content posted by experts. :) dan

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opening sidebar links in a new window
by Dan Siegal-Gaskins 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

hello everyone, i'm a new and slightly confused mediawiki user who'd like to put external links on my sidebar that open in new window. is this something that can be done? thanks!

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how to backup mediawiki1.17
by Rahul Sharma 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello how to backup of mediawiki with oracle. i mean which we upload any image it will create the folder temp in client side.now assume if we published on a server how that thing import in that server. thanks RS

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Handling MIME detection for .docx and friends
by Ray Van Dolson 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Running MediaWiki 1.16 on a RHEL5.x server (PHP 5.1.x.) and am trying to find the "best" way to handle .docx and other compressed file formats. I can of course use $wgVerifyMimeType = false, but I'd rather find a way to handle this differently. Is this something that might be handled better if I updated to PHP 5.3 (RHEL5 provides a supported version)? If it relies on the MIME magic files from the "file" utility still, I'm guessing it still won't work... Debug logs show the following: MimeMagic::__construct: loading mime types from /srv/syswiki.esri.com/wiki/includes/mime.types MimeMagic::__construct: loading mime info from /srv/syswiki.esri.com/wiki/includes/mime.info MimeMagic::doGuessMimeType: ZIP header present at end of /tmp/phpESAce0 MimeMagic::detectZipType: /^mimetype(application\/vnd\.oasis\.opendocument\.(?:chart-template|chart|formula-template|formula|graphics-template|graphics|image-template|image|presentation-template|presentation|spreadsheet-template|spreadsheet|text-template|text-master|text-web|text))/ MimeMagic::detectZipType: unable to identify type of ZIP archive MimeMagic::guessMimeType: final mime type of /tmp/phpESAce0: application/zip MediaHandler::getHandler: no handler found for application/zip. File::getPropsFromPath: /tmp/phpESAce0 loaded, 177153 bytes, application/zip. MacBinary::loadHeader: header bytes 0 and 74 not null MimeMagic::doGuessMimeType: ZIP header present at end of /tmp/phpESAce0 MimeMagic::detectZipType: /^mimetype(application\/vnd\.oasis\.opendocument\.(?:chart-template|chart|formula-template|formula|graphics-template|graphics|image-template|image|presentation-template|presentation|spreadsheet-template|spreadsheet|text-template|text-master|text-web|text))/ MimeMagic::detectZipType: unable to identify type of ZIP archive MimeMagic::guessMimeType: final mime type of /tmp/phpESAce0: application/zip It's somewhat odd that FileInfo isn't being used (I have the extension installed, showing up in phpInfo() and also $wgLoadFileinfoExtension = true is set). Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Ray

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Design custom css for my mediawiki site
by Patil, Manish 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello All, I have designed a personal website using Mediawiki 1.17. It's very easy to create a platform like Wikipedia using mediawiki, but one problem is SKIN of Mediawiki. It's not as attractive as other wiki themes are. I have google'd for best skins/Themes for mediawiki, and found some themes but not satisfied with the end results. Can anyone suggest some good free/premium skins available? If not using tailor-made skin, another option left with me is create my own skin from scratch or extend some basic skin(i.e. MonoBook/Vector). So in this context How should I proceed? Actually, I have not good experience with CSS Design and etc. Thanks, Manish SP Manish.patil(a)atosorigin.com

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can't get NEWS extension to work
by Nataraj 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi, I just upgraded a wiki from 1.10 to 1.16.5. I was previously running the news extension and downloaded a version of the news extension for the 1.16 release. The following appears in my main page (along with other content): <news limit="20" nominor unique> * [[{{{pagename}}}]] ([[User:{{{user}}}]], {{{timeanddate}}}) </news> Under the old 1.10 release, it would display recent changes to the wiki. Under the 1.16.5 release, I make updates to the wiki, yet the news extension displays nothing. When I go to the recent changes page, it displays the changes. Any ideas how to get this working? Note, I downloaded this extension from http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News There appears to be several similarly named extensions, but this is the one that was previously working for me. The other ones didn't seem to do quite what I wanted. Thank You, Nataraj

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Print only part of a Page
by Brion Vibber 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

You can wrap things in <div class=noprint>...</div>, or define some custom classes in your MediaWiki:Print.css page and use those. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CSS -- brion On Jun 21, 2011 7:30 AM, "van Vliet, M.W." <M.W.vanVliet(a)olvg.nl> wrote:

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Print only part of a Page
by van Vliet, M.W. 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Dear Heroes of Wiki, How can I specify parts of a page to be printed? Ideally I would use <noprint> </noprint> tags or something likewise to sepcify parts I don't want printed. Is there a way to accomplish this within Wiki? Thanks in advance Marcel van Vliet Disclaimer: Dit e-mail bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerden is niet toegestaan. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent, wordt u verzocht de verzender hiervan op de hoogte te stellen en het bericht te verwijderen. In verband met electronische verzending kunnen aan dit e-mail bericht geen rechten worden ontleend.

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Mixed authentication for LDAP/non-LDAP users?
by McHale, Nina 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi, all! We recently implemented the LDAP authentication extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication It's working very well, but we now have a couple of folks who work on our campus, but who are not in our group in Active Directory-in fact, two of them are with other schools that share the campus-who would like access to the wiki. Is there a way to mix authentication? We can always make these people sponsored users so that they are added to our group, but I'd prefer a mixed authentication approach. Thanks in advance! Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library Facebook & Twitter: ninermac http://milehighbrarian.net

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