Hi everyone!
Somebody in the MediaWiki IRC channel on freenode told me to ask my
questions in this list, so here I am.
I've created an extension that provides two parser functions (only one
has got any output). This output is shown in the article, at the place
where the parser function is called. Is it possible to place this output
not in the article content area, but in the sidebar or the sitenotice?
Also, I'd like the admins of the wiki using this extension to be able to
change the output layout (divs or tables, bold, italic and so on)
without having to edit the extension's php files, for example with a
MediaWiki:Somewhat page that would look like this:
{| style="..."
| $1
|-
| style="..." | $2
|}
Is this possible?
Best regards,
Harmageddon
I've just upgraded to the latest version and have a question.
Our wiki is setup so that each of our organization's committees has
it's own page. Previously when logging in, I would go to the
Community portal and see a list of all the committees with a link to
each page. Since the upgrade the Community portal page is empty.
The database is still intact. For example, from Special pages, when I
select Categories I'm able to find all the information.
What needs to be done to have the Community portal page rebuilt? Is
this something that needs to be done by hand or is there a script to
be run?
david
upgrade was from 1.4
running on php 5.3.8
Hello All,
I have a host that is running the following:
Media Wiki version 1.12.3
PHP Version 5.2.6
MYSQL 5.0.51
I *think* the only extensions that are installed are (per LocalSettings.php):
require_once('extensions/Cite/Cite.php'); -------- 2008-01-31
require_once('extensions/ArticleComments.php'); -------- 0.4
require_once( "extensions/DynamicArticleList.php" ); -------- no version, Part of MediaWiki??
require_once("extensions/DynamicPageList/DynamicPageList2.php"); -------- 1.5.1
require_once( "extensions/collist.php" ); -------- 1.1
I need to upgrade it to version 1.18.
I have never, ever upgraded MediaWiki, so I read the instructions located here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
It is a virtual machine, so before I did anything, I snapped the VM.
Here is the following sequence of commands I performed:
cd /var/www/websites
cp -r /var/www/websites/mediawiki/ /var/www/websites/mediawiki-bak-010512/
wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz mediawiki-1.18.0.tar.gz
cp -r mediawiki-1.18.0/* /var/www/websites/mediawiki/
cd /var/www/websites/mediawiki/maintenance
php update.php
I then received two error messages complaining about ArticleComments.php and also DynamicPageList2.php, so I commented them out in the LocalSettings.php file.
I reran the update.php file and the script then ran through completely without any stoppages or errors that I could see.
I now hit the URL of the WIKI and it says "MediaWiki has an issue." And the wiki doesn't load.
Can someone please help me in determining what to do to correct the issues?
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Greetings!
Utilizing the model set by Wikimedia staff IRC office hours, MediaWiki.org's WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first MediaWiki Workshops for developers (volunteer and staff). Preparing extensions for MediaWiki 1.19 will be held on 13 January, 2012 at 19:00 UTC in IRC (#wikimedia-dev).
This IRC workshop will be an opportunity to find out about changes in MediaWiki 1.19 that may require revisions to extensions or skins. Also an opportunity to ask MediaWiki developers questions regarding extension development.
Everyone is invited to attend. Developers interested in serving as "extensions" or "MediaWiki 1.19" experts are encouraged to signup as participants at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/MediaWiki_Work…
If there's continued interest / demand, MediaWiki Workshops will typically last one hour, and happen no more than twice a month to present trainings, hold discussions and collaborate on community or WikiProject Extensions projects. Facilitators host the session to introduce any presenters, determine the order of questions, and generally helps to keep things going. Time of day will vary in order to offer people in different parts of the world the opportunity to participate. Future topics will likely include MediaWiki.org documentation, ResourceLouder orientation and workshops similar to our inaugural chat to prepare for each MediaWiki release.
More information: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/MediaWiki_Work…MediaWiki.org's WikiProject SysAdmins will also likely host similar MediaWiki Workshops to help third-party wiki system administrators. Stay tuned for more information, and chime in at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_SysAdmins/Ideas
Look forward to seeing folks next Friday! Please feel free to forward this along to any interested folks.
-greg aka varnent
PS. Sorry if this is a duplicate - was having listserv problems earlier.
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Gregory Varnum
Lead Administrator, WikiQueer
Lead, Aequalitas Project
@GregVarnum
fb.com/GregVarnum
Hi everyone,
We're pleased to announce a new official release of the Semantic Bundle,
appropriately named "20120104". This version has the following changes:
- Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Result Formats are now at version 1.7.
- The Page Schemas extension was added, and should be working correctly
with the other extensions.
- The ParserFunctions and ConfirmEdit extensions were removed, since
they're now among the extensions that are bundled directly with MediaWiki,
as of version 1.18.
- The ArrayExtension extension was replaced with its successor extension,
Arrays.
- And, as you can imagine, many of the other extensions have had their
versions upgraded, with lots of new features, bug fixes, etc.
You can read more about Semantic Bundle here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle
And you can download it here:
https://code.google.com/p/semantic-mediawiki-bundle/downloads/list
-Yaron and Jeroen
So this morning I was greeted with Firefox 9. Trouble is, a couple of
our internal wikis run old versions (1.13 and 1.15) and ... old
Monobook appears to be broken by FF9. The sidebar appears only after
the page content, leaving a large empty space between the wiki logo
and the sidebar.
Screenshot of the problem on our tech wiki: http://oi42.tinypic.com/35lbz7o.jpg
This is only broken in FF9 - it's fine in current Chrome stable, for example.
Any ideas where we'd go into Monobook to fix this? Wikipedia with
"useskin=monobook" is not broken in the same manner.
(I realise the actual answer is "upgrade those ancient MediaWikis
already". But the 1.15 is a somewhat fragile combination of MediaWiki,
Semantic MediaWiki and customisations ...)
- d.
Are there any MW extensions out there that let you do something akin to
SVN's blame? I noticed there's an extension called Annotation
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Annotation), but it hasn't been
updated since March 2006.
Right now, we're basically performing a manual binary search on the
history to figure out who made a change to a certain line. It would be
nice to have something more automated.
Hey all,
I am proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic Result Formats 1.7,
the next major version after 1.6.2, which brings several new features,
internal improvements and bugfixes.
== Compatibility changes ==
* Compatibility with SMW 1.7 and later.
* Dropped support for MediaWiki 1.15.x and SMW < 1.7.
* Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.18 and foreward-compatibility with
1.19.
== What's new ==
* Added value distribution support to jqplotpie and jqplotbar.
* Added min parameter to jqplotbar to set the minimun value for the Y-axis.
* Added pointlabel parameter to jqplotbar and chartlegend, legendlocation,
datalabels and datalabeltype parameters to jqplotpie based on a patches
by James Hong Kong.
* Made array and hash formats compatible with 'Array' extension 2.0 and
'HashTables' 1.0.
* Added summary parameter to the icalendar format.
* Added warning message to jqplotpie and jqplotbar shown when there are no
results instead of a non-working chart.
== Download ==
You can get this release from
* Google Code:
https://code.google.com/p/semantic-result-formats/downloads/list
* SVN:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticResultFo…
More info on the Semantic Result Formats extension can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Hey all,
We are proud to announce the immediate release of Semantic MediaWiki 1.7,
the next major version after 1.6.1, which brings many new features,
internal improvements and bugfixes.
Many thanks go to all the people that contributed to this release, without
you this release would not have been possible :)
== What's new ==
* Added native "internal objects" that can be set using #setobject.
* Added support for selecting a default graph when using RDF stores,
configuration called $smwgSparqlDefaultGraph
* Use of native MediaWiki sortable tables for the table formats.
* Added value distribution functionality that can be used by result
formats.
* Added validation and manipulation of the format paremeter using Validator.
* Added 'class' parameter to the 'table' format, which allows setting the
CSS
class.
* Added automatically-generated CSS classes for rows and cells in 'table'
format.
* Added alpha version of native SMW Ask API with modules 'ask' and
'askargs'.
* Added setting to choose which optional special properties are enabled
($smwgPageSpecialProperties).
* Added creation date special property (disabled by default) (bug 32165).
* Added support for altitudes in geographic coordinates (bug 32698).
* Added definitions for missing params (sort, order, searchlabel) to the
base query printer.
* Added automatic invocation of the SMW_setup maintenance script when
running
update.php (for MW >= 1.19).
* Added support for the Page Schemas extension.
== Compatibility changes ==
* Dropped compatibility with MediaWiki 1.15.x (and earlier).
* Dropped compatibility with old-style (SMW < 1.6) query printers.
This means that older versions of extensions that add result formats,
such as Semantic Result Formats, will no longer work with SMW 1.7.
More recent versions will of course work properly.
* Full compatibility with MediaWiki 1.18 and foreward-compatibility with
1.19.
== Bug fixes ==
This release comes with a load of bug fixes, of which some are listed below:
* Fixed separator and filename parameters for the DSV format.
* Fixed display of properties of type URL (bug 30912).
* Fixed hide query functionality on Special:Ask (bug 30768).
* Fixed display of internal SMW helper constants in certain queries (bug
30969).
* Fixed some issues with the category result format (including bug 30761).
* Fixed email validation issue (bug 32295).
* Fixed incorrect handling of sort and order parameters on Special:Ask (bug
32706).
* Fixed display of images to old behaviour after a recent regression.
* Fixed fatal error in the concept cache maintenance script (bug 32592).
* Fixed factbox links to Special:SearchByProperty containing numerical
numbers for
wikis in languages with the comma as decimal separator instead of a dot.
* Fixed the "hide incoming properties" link on Special:Browse.
== Download ==
You can get this release from
* SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20Me…
* SVN:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaWik…
== Installation / Upgrading ==
You can install or upgrade as usual. You will need to run the table update
script via Special:SMWAdmin or maintenance/SMW_setup.php.
More detailed installation instructions can be found on the SMW wiki:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation_1.7.0
A slightly more extensive overview of this release can be found here:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.7.0
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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