MediaWiki-l June 2011

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] opening sidebar links in a new window
by Dan Siegal-Gaskins 23 Jun '11

23 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 22 Jun '11

22 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 21 Jun '11

21 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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Automatically make a user a sysop?
by Adam Meyer 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Im working on the phpbb Single-Signon extension and I wanted to amke it so that users who are moderators are automatically made sysops on the wiki. Other than modifying the database, is there any way in code to make a user a sysop (without having it done by a bureaucrat)?

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