MediaWiki-l June 2011

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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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Initialising Database with pre-existing LocalSettings.php
by Trevor Phillips 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi! I am interested in deploying MediaWiki in our environment, with a preconfigured LocalSettings.php. Is there a way to initialise the database tables while already having LocalSettings.php? ie; I want to deploy a wiki preconfigured for our environment, with defaults appropriate for our environment, yet only initialise the database on deployment of the wiki into production. In this way, several places could deploy the same pre-initialised configuration, to their own local databases - or make minor changes to the config (such as db prefix, credentials), and set up their own instance of the wiki, retaining all other custom default settings. Thanks. -- Trevor Phillips - T.Phillips(a)murdoch.edu.au Senior Software Developer, Business Application Services Information Technology Services, Murdoch University CRICOS Provider Code 00125J

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Help - Social Network
by Phillipe, Eros 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Guys, we are creating an open source, nonprofit, e-learning social network and looking for people to help. Any interested send an email to infinitunm(a)infinitunm.com or to me eros.phill(a)gmail.com regards eros

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Simple anti-spam check?
by Eric K 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Does anyone know how I can detect whether a user has inserted a website link in the revision of the text that was submitted? I know how to check their age. My idea for this extension it: If a new user submits a link, they'll be asked to instead use the talk page.

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Getting an edit token for faux request
by Adam Meyer 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I need an edit token for a faux request (fauxRequest) I am doing. I thought I could get a token like so: global $wgRequest; $token = $wgRequest->getSessionData( 'wsEditToken' ); But it just reports back "badtoken: Invalid token" What is the proper way to ger an edit token for a faux request Thanks, -Adam

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Best way to access the API internally
by Adam Meyer 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Like always, Im trying something Radical. I want to test out using my current wiki as a behind the scenes engine for a website. Im trying to test making a more full blown social site that has a lot of wiki portions, but something that mediawiki will not allow to happen simply through skins/extensions. I was thinking of using the API to get all the content I need from pages, history etc, but... Since this is all local access, I think doing posts to the API would be slower than just directly accessing it. Is there php access to the API methods? Is there a good way to get the content that the API provides without having to POST ot GET to the API? Thanks, -Adam

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Using API to get page history
by Adam Meyer 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Is it possible to access a list of a page's history through the API? What about revert to a specific point via the API? I didn't see anything in the documentation.

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error in dump or mediawiki
by 蔡超 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Thanks so much. I installed ParserFunctions and tidy, then the mirror works. There is still some problem with languageCode . If $wgLanguageCode ='zh-cn', the simplify-triditional conversion doesn't work. If it is set to 'zh', then the conversion buttons appear, and and the conversion works after the button is clicked. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM, 蔡超 <toppiprc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >>> On Jun 7, 2011 8:18 AM, "蔡超" <toppiprc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> > 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. >>> >> Sorry, the picture is too big for the mailing list. >> > > Yeah, looks like you have two problems: > > 1) ParserFunctions extension is not installed -- this causes the things > like '{{#if:...}}' and '{{#switch:...}}' to show in output, since the > extension code that handles them is not present. > > See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions for download > links etc. > > 2) Style sheets are not being loaded properly, probably because of bugs in > the IE6 security fix in 1.17.0b1. > > Updating to the second beta should resolve that... is it available yet? if > not you can pull from SVN directly. Alternatively, testing with another > browser such as Firefox may work around the bug for now. > > The missing style sheets are causing all the tabs and controls normally at > the top or sidebar to show way down at the bottom of the page, which could > be what prevents you from reaching the simplified / traditional conversion > tab. > > -- brion >

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Extension CreateArticle: Creating two pages at once?
by nakohdo 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, Is it possible to create two (or even more) pages with this (or another) extension in one go? From the page name in the input field I want to create [[My page]] and a template with the same name [[Template:My page]]. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CreateArticle#Creating_two_pag… Frank -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Extension-CreateArticle%3A-Creating-two-pages-at-once… Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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