MediaWiki-l September 2011

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Where are user options cached?
by Daniel Barrett 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

After changing the default skin on our wiki from monobook to vector ($wgDefaultSkin = 'vector'), and deleting all 'skin' preference rows from the user_options table, a few of our wiki users still see the old skin, monobook. Where is this setting cached? Things that did not help (monobook still shows): * Logging out and logging back into the wiki * Hard-refreshing the browser (ctrl-F5) * ?action=purge * Using a different browser (e.g., Chrome instead of Firefox) What worked: * Visiting Special:Preferences and simply clicking Save. So this caching, whatever it is, happens at the user account level, not the browser level. Where does it exist and how do you clear it? Thanks for any info, DanB

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JavaScript within templates?
by nakohdo 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Besides using a template for adding a category to a page I would like to add the very same category name as a class to the page's body tag like so: $('body').addClass('myCategory') This would enable category based styling using CSS as suggested at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Css_for_categories Is this a feasible option? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/JavaScript-within-templates--tp32503809p32503809.html Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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DPL help needed
by Anne Wilson 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

A Manual is in preparation, and to avoid redlinks on the Contents page, we considered creating all pages, adding "ToDo" on the currently empty ones. The idea was that the author could simply have a DPL statement on his user page to see which pages still required content. Unfortunately, we can't get this to work, so I could use some help. As it stands, the query is: <DPL> titlematch = %/Kdenlive/Manual/% namespace = Main include = * includematch = /ToDo/ resultsheader = KDEnlive pages containing the string "ToDo" format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]]\n,, </DPL> I made a test page at http://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Project but it isn't being picked out by the query. What am I missing? Our version is 1.8.9 running on Mediawiki 1.17. We have noticed at times that DPL queries are not picking up all possible results, so any suggestions for relevant reading would also be appreciated. Thanks. Anne

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"Template:Safesubst" Error
by John W. Foster 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I am seeing this error on a Mediawiki 1.17; A call for; "Template:Safesubst" is what the wiki is describing as this instruction set. "{{#ifeq:{{{subst}}}|SUBST" Anyone know what I need to do to get these to not appear as 'template' calls, & of course to work. Thanks -- John W. Foster

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems Installing mediawiki
by Chung Kin Mong 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I have followed the instruction from the website "igeek" and installed the "mediawiki" (the installation software say "successful" or something like that). When I go to "http://localhost/wikipedia/" (I install the program under var/www/wikipedia) the browser display a "blank screen" and I suppose that is normal because I have not put any data there yet (I may be wrong here and please confirm my understanding). I then proceed to down load the "data base dump" by pointing my browser to http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20091009/enwiki-20091009-pages-article… but it report with ERROR 403: Forbidden! I recalled that in a previous attempt (i.e. about 20 minutes before I started the installation) I have been able to browse the page but at that time I don't know which file to download so I just quit. I would be much appreciated if someone tell me how to get hold of the "data base dump file", thanks in advance! Best regards, Victor Mong

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Repository directory [mediawiki]/trunk clean up
by Krinkle 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hi, When browsing through [mediawiki]/trunk [1] I see a lot of things that have piled up over the years. Now that we have /trunk/tools [2] and the separate [wikimedia] repository, perhaps some things should be re-organized. A few examples: * /trunk/backup: This is the script for generating data dumps for Wikimedia's public wikis. Perhaps move this to /tools or perhaps to trunk of the [wikimedia] repo. * /trunk/mwdumper: Tool for extracting sets of pages from an MW dump file If this works for regular mediawiki dumps, probably a good one to be moved to /tools * /trunk/lucene-search-2: Lucene-search 2.1: search extension for MediaWiki Sounds like something that should be in a /libs/ directory of /trunk/extensions/MWSearch or something * /trunk/wikiSDK: Attempt at creating a developer friendly SDK for MW Again, perfect for /tools probably * /trunk/wap: Wap Wikipedia. quick and dirty Hack for wap.es.wikipedia.org Doesn't' appear to be used anymore. But since it's used as a fronted to MediaWiki, perhaps go into /tools, or if wikimedia specific, into [wikimedia] */trunk/wmfmailadmin: Simple mail account maintenance script. Fairly obvious. [wikimedia] etc. take a look at the complete list here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/ Just mentioning here on the mailing list in case there are some special dirs that needs special treatment before I make a bold move. -- Krinkle [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/ [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/ (descriptions copied from the README files and/or the initial commit messages)

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Question on Search options
by Gregor Hagedorn 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Our own wikis search in Advanced mode (German:Erweitert) by default (for signed-in and anonymous users): http://species-id.net/openmedia/Special:Search http://offene-naturfuehrer.de/w/index.php?title=Spezial%3ASuche&search=xxx Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=xzz which searches in default mode. I cannot find (or remember?) the setting responsible for this. Looked through many pages, including http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Search_variables who can give me a pointer? Gregor

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preload in FILE namespace
by Scheid, Bernhard 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

I would like to preload text in any new page in the File namespace. I have tried different extensions such as "Preloader" and "Boilerplate" but none seems to work in FILES. Any suggestions? Thanks Bernhard

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Template:Safesubst:
by John Foster 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

I reinstalled mediawiki & upgraded the software installed on it to the newest Mediawiki 1.17xx installed on my Debian system from the tarball. I have everything working well now :EXCEPT: the reason I did all the upgrads. I still am seeing this error; Template:Safesubst: is what the wiki is describing as this instruction set. {{#ifeq:{{{subst}}}|SUBST Anyone know what I need to do to get these to not appear as 'template' calls?

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problem with mw 1.17 and extensions
by Daniel Walz 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi there, I installed mediawiki 1.17 and this extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NiceCategoryList2/2.2 Then I get the messages: ---------- Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /var/www/web468/html/psych-med.de/wiki/includes/parser/ParserOptions.php on line 317 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/web468/html/psych-med.de/wiki/LocalSettings.php:1) in /var/www/web468/html/psych-med.de/wiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 22 ---------- The first message I get also when I install the Cite-Extension. I tried the bugfix from http://tinyurl.com/5ty87af but that didn't change anything. Any idea what's wrong? Daniel

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