MediaWiki-l January 2012

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Nesting a magic word within a string function?
by Dana Chandler 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

I'm trying to execute the following function on every page that exists for an uploaded file: {{filepath:{{PAGENAME}}.pdf}} So, if I uploaded a file called "File.pdf", on the wiki page for File.pdf, I'd expect {{PAGENAME}} to return "File". I'd expect the entire function to return something like: http://mywiki.com/mediawiki/images/4/4d/File.pdf Instead, nothing at all is returned when PAGENAME is embedded within filepath. If I type the expression without {{PAGENAME}}, i.e. {{filepath:File.pdf}}, it works fine and returns: http://mywiki.com/mediawiki/images/4/4d/File.pdf Is it just not possible to embed magic words in string functions, or am I missing some escape character or something? Thanks in advance, -Dana

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Anti-Bot question?
by Ron Laufer 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Is there an extension or an easy hack to add a custom anti-bot question to the user registration page for MediaWiki 1.18? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Laufer

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Links with (, ), :, ' - break all the time
by Eric K 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

If anyone on an external site posts a link to our wiki, the link will often break if it has spaces, brackets, apostrophes, colons, e.g.: input, output rendered as: input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don't speakoutput: www.mywiki.com/wiki/don [breaks at the apostrophe] Or: input: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit) output: www.mywiki.com/wiki/orange (fruit [breaks at a bracket] And so on. The links break and I am not able to do anything. Sometimes I email webmasters telling them to fix their rendering software but this doesn't achieve anything. There are 100's if not 1000s of incorrect rendering software routines, which are just not used to treating brackets, spaces, apostrophes and other characters correctly. I no longer want to use these characters in the article name anymore. For internal wiki links, I can do [[dontspeak|Don't Speak (song)]] and deal with having the article URL different from the title for some articles. That is perfectly fine because my higher priority is to prevent broken links and prevent losing site visitors who could not arrive at the correct link. How this would work is, I would probably set the Title in a separate tag, e.g. I would create: - www.mywiki.com/wiki/dontspeak And on that page, I would have something like: <title>Don't Speak (song)</title> This would be the H1 for that page where the title is usually found. This way people get everything they need:- a working URL that wont break on other websites and forums - a title that can be any number of characters long. Does anything exist that does this, and if not, any suggestions on how to get this done would be appreciated. Please note, I'm not talking about sorting categories. This is about the title of the page and its URL and for some pages I want these to be different from each other. I see the HTML code for that heading is: - <h1 id="firstHeading" So maybe I would overwrite that H1 tag with that ID with my own title, or something like that. I don't know if its possible. thanks Erik

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database problem on mediawiki 1.18
by Tim Dunphy 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hello, I've just installed a media wiki on one of my servers and imported my old media wiki database (I don't recall the version the original media wiki was running under). I notice that whenever I go to save an entry in my media wiki I get this error: Database error A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "LinksUpdate::getExistingCategories". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'cl_sortkey_prefix' in 'field list' (localhost)". It's deceptive because the entry actually does get saved and otherwise works. However this is an annoying error I'd like to get rid of. Here is what's going on in the MySQL logs when this happens: 14 Query INSERT /* RecentChange::save 66.192.34.62 */ INTO `recentchanges` (rc_timestamp,rc_cur_time,rc_namespace,rc_title,rc_type,rc_minor,rc_cur_id,rc_user,rc_user_text,rc_comment,rc_this_oldid,rc_last_oldid,rc_bot,rc_moved_to_ns,rc_moved_to_title,rc_ip,rc_patrolled,rc_new,rc_old_len,rc_new_len,rc_deleted,rc_logid,rc_log_type,rc_log_action,rc_params,rc_id) VALUES ('20120121182026','20120121182026','0','ZVIDEO','0','0','95','0','66.192.34.62','','14721','14720','0','0','','66.192.34.62','0','0','587','640','0','0',NULL,'','',NULL) 14 Query SELECT /* EmailNotification::notifyOnPageChange 66.192.34.62 */ wl_user FROM `watchlist` WHERE wl_title = 'ZVIDEO' AND wl_namespace = '0' AND (wl_user != 0) AND (wl_notificationtimestamp IS NULL) 14 Query COMMIT 15 Query BEGIN 15 Query REPLACE /* SqlBagOStuff::set 66.192.34.62 */ INTO `objectcache` (keyname,value,exptime) VALUES ('jfwiki:pcache:idhash:95-0!*!*!*!*!*!*','?Umo?6?g?4?\0Y/v?d?(a)?M?$6#Z?%?-.?(?Tl\'?~?T?I? ??s??$?О2?PN*]V??A?????g???P??w??Ϥ??U*???x?\"?Fn9&??t????????R\n??%?髍?5*%?-\\??ד??\\_}?W??????X$(]÷???6D????\" ??a?r?b kQ?Ĉ?JdL?|?s(??ӎO*?t\"?8kp?8ﵥKQ??3?W??V????x??ևLͦ=?6:????2?.???`w??wr?x???DJ?.???o??ѵ???3????N???=,?&?3?b?0??-t?vob??L?|ڵy??ٰ)?i??t??[??t??lk???8??)??{-5??%\\b??l?W?x???Q???v!?\"??҆8cJ}?Mt?`h?ϐJ??S???u;t?<??Y???=<??w??F?Q?̴?1?M?\Z?w??p9?B?s?ɁRP?SzK?R4??)~???gM???JV$W?U???#?แw|???5*k?y?1????M???;]?X(??P?\r?5Ek?3?-?i]?ah???1??Ò??q\r͗?e-y?2????????????HE?<?<?x?٪O?\'?XTl???W?^??L?O? ŷ?c???u??At??oϩy???%U??IWWt??I9$?<\'??ڃV8?????K?i?_?}sb???uՐ??А?C? 2???B?u?u\r?az?f??????J|cY?r??#=C??k?;?G$?I??\n}#??%/u?o1??ݶ?????N????r&D7?c?aW?D?e1??&\\7?Lܣ?#Je???%??/??MN?f??g(?P???z? ??\"????^)~??\\c2)_xhLݢTuE????v[?3F??ځ؝?Z\Z?z4?????HM???B3^?I?\\??w?;k?￨??','20120122182026') 15 Query COMMIT 15 Query BEGIN 15 Query REPLACE /* SqlBagOStuff::set 66.192.34.62 */ INTO `objectcache` (keyname,value,exptime) VALUES ('jfwiki:pcache:idoptions:95','E?A\n?0E?2(?c?,ťd??c??ӅRzw?????@p??3]?O@;Z?AK???Ka?\Zۘ???W4?zJ9?????z????<????}uC?#g ??܂?në?.?s?/?#!-??','20120122182026') 15 Query COMMIT 14 Query BEGIN 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingLinks 66.192.34.62 */ pl_namespace,pl_title FROM `pagelinks` WHERE pl_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingImages 66.192.34.62 */ il_to FROM `imagelinks` WHERE il_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingExternals 66.192.34.62 */ el_to FROM `externallinks` WHERE el_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query INSERT /* LinksUpdate::incrTableUpdate 66.192.34.62 */ IGNORE INTO `externallinks` (el_from,el_to,el_index) VALUES ('95','http://webdirector.mm.mlbam.com:8080/','http://com.mlbam.mm.webdirector.:8080/') 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingInterlangs 66.192.34.62 */ ll_lang,ll_title FROM `langlinks` WHERE ll_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingInterwikis 66.192.34.62 */ iwl_prefix,iwl_title FROM `iwlinks` WHERE iwl_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingTemplates 66.192.34.62 */ tl_namespace,tl_title FROM `templatelinks` WHERE tl_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LinksUpdate::getExistingCategories 66.192.34.62 */ cl_to,cl_sortkey_prefix FROM `categorylinks` WHERE cl_from = '95' FOR UPDATE 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:databaseerror' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:sqlhidden' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:dberrortext' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LinkBatch::doQuery (for Skin::preloadExistence) 66.192.34.62 */ page_id,page_namespace,page_title,page_len,page_is_redirect,page_latest FROM `page` WHERE (page_namespace = '2' AND page_title = '66.192.34.62') OR (page_namespace = '3' AND page_title = '66.192.34.62') OR (page_namespace = '1' AND page_title = 'ZVIDEO') 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'rtl' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'capitalizeAllNouns' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* User::checkNewtalk 66.192.34.62 */ user_ip FROM `user_newtalk` WHERE user_ip = '66.192.34.62' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* ResourceLoaderWikiModule::getTitleMtimes 66.192.34.62 */ page_namespace,page_title,page_touched FROM `page` WHERE (page_namespace = '8' AND page_title IN ('Common.js','Common.css','Vector.js','Vector.css','Print.css') ) 15 Query SELECT /* SqlBagOStuff::get 66.192.34.62 */ value,exptime FROM `objectcache` WHERE keyname = 'jfwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:4:19a4b18a9ac79a6b8c60b24af4668814' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:anontalk' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:nstab-talk' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:vector-view-view' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:vector-view-edit' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:vector-view-history' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* ResourceLoaderWikiModule::getTitleMtimes 66.192.34.62 */ page_namespace,page_title,page_touched FROM `page` WHERE (page_namespace = '8' AND page_title IN ('Common.js','Common.css','Vector.js','Vector.css','Print.css') ) 14 Query SELECT /* ResourceLoaderWikiModule::getTitleMtimes 66.192.34.62 */ page_namespace,page_title,page_touched FROM `page` WHERE (page_namespace = '8' AND page_title = 'Noscript.css') 15 Query SELECT /* SqlBagOStuff::get 66.192.34.62 */ value,exptime FROM `objectcache` WHERE keyname = 'jfwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:4:c88e2bcd56513749bec09a7e29cb3ffa' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:tooltip-ca-view' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:accesskey-ca-view' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:tooltip-pt-anonuserpage' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:accesskey-pt-anonuserpage' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:tooltip-pt-anontalk' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:accesskey-pt-anontalk' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:tooltip-pt-anonlogin' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:accesskey-pt-anonlogin' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:namespaces' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:variants' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:actions' LIMIT 1 14 Query SELECT /* LCStore_DB::get 66.192.34.62 */ lc_value FROM `l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'messages:tooltip-p-tb' LIMIT 1 14 Quit 15 Quit Does anybody out there have any advice on how I can get rid of this error message? thanks! tim

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] tooltips for sidebar objects (Daniel Friesen)
by kaare mikkelsen 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

> You should be able to use tooltip-n-* messages. > > ie: > MediaWiki:Sidebar has something like: > ** mypage-url|mypage > > And you have a page title in MediaWiki:Mypage-url and "My Page" in > MediaWiki:Mypage > You should then be able to create MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-mypage with the text > of the tooltip. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] I have tried doing as described, however, I must be doing something wrong. For instance, in mediawiki:sidebar we have a line: ** Teaching|Teaching I can easily create the page MediaWiki:Tooltip-n-teaching, and fill it with something: "An overview of teaching-related information", however, no tooltip-n-teaching appears in special:allmessages, and no tooltip appears in the sidebar either, so that had no effect. Thanks in advance Kaare Mikkelsen

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CACHE_ACCEL stopped working with eAccelerator in 1.18.1?
by Daniel Barrett 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

I just installed MediaWiki 1.18.1 (from 1.17.1) and am getting this error when I hit any page: "CACHE_ACCEL requested but no suitable object cache is present. You may want to install APC." We run eAccelerator 0.9.6.1 and it worked perfectly in this configuration with 1.17.1. CACHE_ACCEL is documented as working with eAccelerator at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/$wgMainCacheType. Setting $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE makes the site run correctly. Any ideas why MediaWiki isn't detecting eAccelerator after the update? Backtrace: #0 [internal function]: ObjectCache::newAccelerator(Array) #1 /var/www/html/w/includes/objectcache/ObjectCache.php(62): call_user_func('ObjectCache::ne...', Array) #2 /var/www/html/w/includes/objectcache/ObjectCache.php(50): ObjectCache::newFromParams(Array) #3 /var/www/html/w/includes/objectcache/ObjectCache.php(23): ObjectCache::newFromId(3) #4 /var/www/html/w/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(3600): ObjectCache::getInstance(3) #5 /var/www/html/w/includes/Setup.php(402): wfGetMainCache() #6 /var/www/html/w/includes/WebStart.php(157): require_once('/var/www/html/w...') #7 /var/www/html/w/index.php(53): require('/var/www/html/w...') #8 {main} Thanks, DanB

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tooltips for sidebar objects
by kaare mikkelsen 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi, I am having difficulty adding tooltips to the menu items in the sidebar. I have previously been redirected to Special:AllMessages, which works great for changing the tooltips already present. However, it appears that for some items the tootltips are "switched off", meaning that the values shown in Special:AllMessages have no effect (for instance, "Main Page" has no tooltip, while "Help" does). Hence, changing them changes nothing on the wiki. Furthermore, there are several menu items in the sidebar not represented in Special:AllMessages, so I would need a way to either add new messages to be edited in Special:AllMessages, or some other way to add tooltips to sidebar menu items. In short: how do I turn on and edit tooltips for all sidebar menu items? The version-info for the wiki is MediaWiki 1.17.0 PHP 5.2.17 (cgi) MySQL 5.1.56-community-log and the url of the wiki is www.phaust.dk/wiki I hope all is clear. Thank you in advance Kaare Mikkelsen

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Good web site access statistics software
by Dan Nessett 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Our community wishes to understand the access patterns of our wiki. There seems to be quite a few special pages and extensions that tell us how many edits occur (both globally and individually). However, after looking around a little bit, I could find no software that would analyze how many pages are accessed on a daily basis by readers (not editors). Software such as Webalizer count web page access using the squid/apache log files. But those logs include entries that cannot be considered actual content accesses. For example, our apache logs are densely littered with lines such as: ... "GET /skins/common/commonPrint.css?270 HTTP/1.0" ... ... "GET /skins/common/shared.css?270 HTTP/1.0" ... ... "GET /skins/Pinkwich5/main.css?270 HTTP/1.0" ... ... "GET /skins/common/mwsuggest.js?270 HTTP/1.0" ... ... "GET /skins/common/ajax.js?270 HTTP/1.0" ... ... ... ... "GET /wiki?title=MediaWiki:Common.css ... ... "GET /wiki?title=MediaWiki:Pinkwich5.css ... ... "GET /wiki?title=MediaWiki:Print.css These GET requests do not represent content page accesses. I am looking for software that counts page accesses and has the capability to eliminate page edits and perhaps even limit counts to non- logged in users. I also need software that will automatically generate reports that are (automatically) embedded in the wiki (using a Special page or other approach). -- -- Dan Nessett

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Output of parser function extension
by Harmageddon 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi! I still haven't found a solution for getting the output of a parser function or a php function that is run after the parser functions in an article into the sitenotice. I tried /$wgHooks['SiteNoticeAfter'][]/, but this function is invoked before the article, thus, before my parser functions in the article are invoked. This parser functions fill a global array that should be displayed in the sitenotice. Is there any way to get this working?

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SOPA blackout: technical advice on how to join?
by Markus Krötzsch 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Most of you by now will know about the SOPA protest of Wikimedia [1]. My question is simple: If I am running MediaWiki sites, and if I want to join that protest (to raise awareness among my readers), what is the recommended *simple* technical way of doing this? It would help if somebody who cared about this could make a simple documentation on this (I guess one could simply exchange index.php on typical small sites?). I am aware of http://sopastrike.com/ but I wondered if there is a more wiki-specific message to use that anybody might have prepared. Also, as was noted at wikitech-l: > It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP > code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine. How would one do this in the easiest way? Thanks, Markus [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

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