MediaWiki-l January 2012

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Using Vector extension with variant of Vector skin
by Kilian 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi all, I wrote a skin based on Vector. I only changed screen.css and things concerning the logo. Now I would like to use the Vector extension, specifically the CollapsibleLeftNav feature. I installed it, but the navigation remains uncollapsible. It does work when I switch to the Vector skin. Though it says the extension will only work with the Vector skin, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work with my skin, since it is only slightly different from Vector. So how would I go about to enable this? Here's my site with my skin as the default skin: http://verben.texttheater.net Best, Kilian

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JOB OPENING: senior MediaWiki / LAMP developer, full time
by Daniel Barrett 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

My company, Vistaprint, has been investing seriously in its internal MediaWiki systems for five years. I have a job opening on my team for a Senior Software Engineer with extensive LAMP and MediaWiki experience. This is a full-time position (no contractors, sorry) located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. If you're interested, read on! Our team specializes in software development, advanced template development, article management, and more. Our very active, internal wikis have over 100,000 articles, 2000+ users in a dozen worldwide offices, and multiple languages. You'll work on practical problems in a business environment, which can be quite different from Internet wikis: not only creating new features, but also integrating with third-party systems and tools, automating manual processes, and measuring the results of your solutions. Our senior engineers also manage projects from start to finish and work with diverse teams throughout the company. (And we have other interesting responsibilities outside of MediaWiki.) The ideal candidate has: - Truly outstanding PHP and JavaScript (jQuery) skills - Solid experience developing extensions/plugins for MediaWiki, WordPress, or a comparable PHP-based framework - Excellent SQL database development skills - Expertise as a Linux user, and some Linux admin experience (e.g., Apache and MySQL configuration) - Project management experience, from initial idea to business requirements, functional spec, implementation, rollout, and post-mortem. - Outstanding "people skills" and communication, both written and oral Also, if you have any experience with technical writing or training, that is a plus. I am the hiring manager for this position, so if you're interested, email your resume (and any questions) directly to me at dbarrett(a)vistaprint.com. Thanks. -- Dan Barrett (Author of the book "MediaWiki" from O'Reilly Media) (And a happy Vistaprint employee for 9 years) dbarrett(a)vistaprint.com

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Cookie issues with mediawiki 16.0
by Tom 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Was this fixed or written about somewhere.? 16.0 having cookie issues. IE 9 is holding partial session cookie. If I login in IE 9 then close the browser, then reopen browser mediawiki sees a partial cookie. I appear to be logged in, can edit, yet ip is logged not username. The top right user menu just shows log in. When I move to different pages, ip shows, edit is available, login link still showing. Chrome doesn't do this. The session is still valid, not expired, but knows the username as it appears with preferences menu, watch list, etc. top right corner. Also edits show username. I have not looked at how Firefox handles it yet, but IE is definitely not handling this correctly. Yes I should at least update to 16.5 but the host is a pain to deal with and I would drop them like a rock if my choice. Thanks Tom

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Multiple virtual "spaces"/containers/wikis within one wiki instance
by Tim Watts 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I hope this is the correct list to ask this: Anyone familiar with Confluence will know about the concept of "spaces" which are essentially logical containers for different topics, keeping groups of pages confined to their topic group. I wonder if anyone knew if MediaWiki has any plugins to emulate such behaviour? I have been asked to host wikis for another university department. They want to have a "wiki" per research project and new "wikis" will be needed on an ongoing basis. When I say "wiki" this could be one site with one physical instance, as long as ProjectX gets its own logical space with a link off the front page. It is not so important to have fine grained permissions control as Confluence offers - just need the ability to keep stuff apart. I could solve this problem with multiple wikis on the same server, but we are really looking for something where the users could create "wiki"s themselves. Sadly, google is not my friend as "multiple spaces" is a bad search term, I've tried "containers", "multiple sites" etc. Any good ideas received with thanks :) Regards, Tim -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://www.dionic.net/tim/

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importing from SharePoint to MediaWiki
by Amir E. Aharoni 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

I was asked whether there is a tool for importing information from Microsoft SharePoint to MediaWiki. Trying to Google for it yielded surprising, and slightly disappointing results - apparently, many people are looking for tools that do it in the opposite direction. So, is anybody familiar with existing tools that import from SharePoint to MW? Thank you, -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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New page in Wikipedia/Wikimedia
by katherine watson 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hello Wikists, Thank you for permitting me to participate. Please help: I have been asked to set up a new entry in either (both?) Wikipedia / Wikimedia for an online educational organization of which i am one of the founding members. The organization is WAOE (World Association for Online Education), and i cannot determine how to create a Wiki entry, although i have been reading your materials during the past numerous hours. Although i submitted entries many years ago to Wikipedia, i cannot figure out how to begin a new entry, or even where to do that. Please give me a few simple steps to do this? Thank you all massively much, Dr. Katherine Watson Coastline Distance Learning Fountain Valley, California Usa 92708

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by April stevens 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

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Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012
by aude 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

FYI, the Wikimania 2012 call for participation is out! We encourage you to submit a talk, a workshop or panel session for Wikimania 2012. We have a technical track throughout the conference. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Scholarships are also open now, should you need help with traveling to Wikimania. https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ Cheers, Katie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tiffany Smith <tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, We're happy to announce that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2012 is open! During this time of reflection, please take a few minutes to consider what topics you've been thinking about most and how you'd be willing to share what you know with the worldwide Wiki community. The two most important dates to keep in mind - outside of July 12-14 - are as follows: Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012 To submit a proposal, visit http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions. If you'd like to forward this message to other mailing lists or for broader distribution (please do!), please use the Call for Participation included below my signature line. Thanks so much for your consideration, and, on behalf of the Program Committee, we look forward to reviewing your proposals and seeing you in Washington. Best, Tiffany Tiffany Smith Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012 tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com -- Call for Participation - Wikimania 2012 To submit a proposal, visit: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Important Dates Deadline for submitting proposals: 18 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2012 Overview Wikimania conferences provide unique opportunities for the wiki community and its sister projects (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikimedia) to come together, share their common goals, and develop better ways to work together on an international level. The Wikimania 2012 program structure is designed to create multiple opportunities for conference participants to actively engage with the subject matter, the environment, and, most importantly, each other. Washington, D.C, can play an important role in Wikimania 2012 as a locale that gathers interest in government, culture, media, and academia around the general goals of the Wikimania conference series. In accordance with these goals and themes, the program will include traditional conference offerings such as paper presentations, tutorials, panels, and poster sessions; provide lounge space and breaks throughout for participants to gather; and innovate with an unconference day for attendees to design their own schedule and participation around common interests. Submissions will be reviewed and selected in advance by the program committee. Attendees are welcome to present in the open space track of the conference, regardless of whether their submitted presentations were accepted. The eigth annual Wikimania will be held between 12th and 14th July, 2012 in Washington D.C. For more information, please visit the main site. Presentation length Due to the extensive amount of program submissions received in the previous years, we request your presentation be a maximum of 25 minutes, including time for questions. You may request more time, though shorter individual presentations are more likely to be accepted. This does not apply for keynote speakers, panels, or workshops. 70 minute presentations must be submitted either as panel presentations to include at least three presenters or as workshops with a clear lesson plan. Tracks Tracks are used by Wikimania to organize submissions and diversify audiences so that presentations of competing interest do not have time conflicts. Five tracks are proposed: Wikis and the Public Sector The Washington, DC, location for Wikimania 2012 provides a special opportunity for those working in the social good, policy, government, nonprofit, and disaster response arenas to share their experience with collaboration on a local, national, or international level. Wikis and complementary technologies are proving to be critical in times of crisis and in ongoing work with citizen participation in government, as well as in long-term goals for education, public policy, social entrepreneurship, and development in the global south and throughout the world. This track will explore the ways that Wikimedia projects and related activities can be used to support citizens worldwide. GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums This track aims to support current outreach to Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums and build enthusiasm for continued work in this area. Presentations and panels will demonstrate effective outreach techniques and results from ongoing activities as well as envision the future path for these efforts. Topics of particular interest to this track may include: wiki technology as a tool for cultural preservation; use of wikis by museums and libraries for information management for the public good; legal and copyright issues; use of content in GLAM projects, education, journalism and research; conflicts between different laws that apply to the same wiki system simultaneously. This track may also incorporate “field trips” before, after, or during the evenings of the conference to visit Washington, D.C., organizations. WikiCulture and Community Why do people contribute to Wikimedia projects? How might the community grow and expand while retaining its inherent cultural ethos? This track will explore the sociology of wiki culture and community and provide a forum for practitioners and researchers to share insights and best practices for community management, engagement, participation, and conflict resolution. The assessment of different wiki cultures and demonstration of clashes and effects of those interactions between wiki communities and chapters is relevant to this track. A special focus will be a discussion of gaps between different community groups, most notably related to gender and age; within this context, submissions related to female and teenage participation, representative roles within the community, and the use of wikis as a tool for different gender and age group dialogues, are strongly encouraged. Research, Analysis, and Education The scope of research and analysis on wikis has grown significantly in recent years, and wikis are rapidly being introduced to educational institutions in the course of teaching and more formally through the Campus Ambassador Program. The scholarly atmosphere of the selected venue creates a special opportunity for researchers working in this area to present papers and panels to a well-informed audience. Subjects associated with the research component of this track can include a diverse range of topics including: technical development, philosophy and the humanities, communications, community management and collaboration, information science, and a broad range of other areas. The practitioner side of this track can include: expert participation and inviting expert contributions; Wikiversity and other higher education wikis; wiki sources deployed and implemented in academia and research practice; approaches to the improvement of collaboration in research institutions and universities; and contribution to content quality, among other areas. Technology and Infrastructure Technology and infrastructure play essential roles in the success of Wikimedia projects and other uses of wiki technology. This track will incorporate research and practice to showcase technology applications and theories, demonstrate new uses of existing and evolving technologies, and focus on applying technologies to meet user needs and improve the overall user experience. Issues and areas particularly of note in this track include: OTRS, MediaWiki development, semantic wikis, wiki-based Augmented Reality (AR), the use of QR codes, Wikipedia on mobile devices, Wikipedia offline, User Interface Design, WikiLove, Liquid Thread and related technical focus points. Lounge Space Presentations All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the Lounge space of the conference, whether or not they are accepted in this initial process. If you have any questions, please contact: Tiffany Smith Program Committee Chair, Wikimania 2012 tiffany.lmb.smith(a)gmail.com Thank you very much for your consideration, and we look forward to seeing you at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions -- _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012

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Bypassing the external image whitelist
by Daniel Friesen 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I've found a bit of an issue with our external image embedding whitelisting functionality. This isn't exactly a hole in the code itself, but in the fact that in practice it seams just about everyone uses the whitelist incorrectly and ends up opening up holes in their wiki allowing the whitelist to be bypassed. I'll start with MW.org for an example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist This image whitelist is fine, it's properly anchored with an explicit protocol and an initial ^, and it's not using excessive wildcards, there's nothing wrong with it. However when I do a Google search and try to find some of the top wikis using the image whitelist functionality I see this: http://rbose.org/wiki/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist http://mbmodwiki.ollclan.eu/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist http://wiki.vnations.net/index.php/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist http://stelio.net/geeki/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist http://community.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist Basically EVERYONE except the smart people running Wikimedia sites use the image whitelist incorrectly. There are rules using .* in some but more importantly NO ONE anchors their whitelist rules (they don't even bother including the protocol in some cases so we can't even use an implicit anchor to the regexps). This means that the whitelists can be trivially bypassed: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User:Dantman/Whitelist_hole In this example Wikia has a `wikia\.com` regexp line in their image whitelist. By using something like this the image whitelist is bypassed: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security_holes.png?wikia.com&image.png The "?wikia.com" inside of the query triggers the whitelisting allowing the image to be embedded, and the trailing &image.png makes sure that the url still matches the internal image url embed regexp. By adding a query like this (it doesn't even necessarily need to be a query, I haven't tested but the fragment might be usable, and even if not it's liable that you could use the path portion of the url if you had a server setup to serve images for certain weird urls) you can embed basically any url you want into the wiki since the query portion of the url is ignored by webservers serving images. And to be clear I don't believe that patterns like `http://upload\.wikimedia\.org/` and `^http://(.*?\.)?wordpress\.com/` aren't safe. I believe that the special characters in the later parts of the url won't affect it and you can still get it to work. And ^ anchoring won't work when using .* style wildcards because you can craft a url such as http://my.malicious-website.com/path/to/my/evil/image.png?.wordpress.com&im… which would match that latter regexp. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

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upgrade from 1.15.1 to 1.18.1
by Diego Maciel Gomes 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello all.. Im using mediawiki 1.15.1 and I want to upgrade to 1.18.1. Could I upgrade directily to 1.18.1 or I should to upgrade to another version and after upgrade to 1.18.1? And about this new version 1.18.1, is a good version? What new features I take in this lastest version that I don't have in version 1.15.1? Thanks anyway! Diego -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivirus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.

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