MediaWiki-l October 2012

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Conversion of website to Mediawiki
by Castor Troy 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page? Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp)

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Test
by King Kong 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

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Problems with configuring upload/images
by Steve Stevenson 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

I (thought I had) configured a new wiki to upload files and images. When I tested it, it found the file correctly, but only portrayed the "broken image" symbol. Suggestions on how to debug this? -- D. E. (Steve) Stevenson (Almost emeritus) Associate Professor Director, Institute for Modeling and Simulation Applications. Clemson University steve at clemson dot edu

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Maps and Semantic Maps 2.0 released!
by Jeroen De Dauw 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Hey all, It's been quite a while since the last release of Maps and Semantic Maps, which was version 1.0.5, almost a year ago. The wait for the next version is now over with the big 2.0 release. It contains many new awesome features added in over 400 commits by 20 developers. New features: * Added support for marker clustering to Google Maps. * Added support for grouping locations. * Added support for defining image overlays (ground overlays) in Google Maps. * Added support for defining lines, polygons, rectangles and circles using wikitext for Google Maps and OpenLayers. * Added a graphical map editing tool that allows exporting to and importing from simple wikitext (Google Maps only). * Added "copycoords" parameter to Google Maps and OpenLayers that allows copying coordinates after right clicking a location on a map. * Added "minzoom" and "maxzoom" parameters to #display_map. * Added support for using the Google JS API key with Google Maps (for increased map display and geocoding call limits). * Added support for searching markers (searchmarkers=all/title) in Google Maps and OpenLayers * Added support for creating static maps in OpenLayers and GoogleMaps (static=on) * Added positional parameter to show polygons only on hover. * Added an optional link parameter as an alternative to popup bubble with text and title * Added an optional visitedicon parameter (both global and marker parameter), that will change the icon of a marker on click. Other improvements * Merged display_map and display_point(s) into a single parser function: display_map (display_points is now an alias). * Updates parameter definitions from Validator 0.4.x to Validator 0.5.x. Bug fixes * Fixed JavaScript error on some special pages due to incorrect order of map initialization. * Fixed partially broken kml functionality * Fixed display of maps in multiple instance templates in forms. * Fixed partial incompatibility of Semantic Maps with Semantic MediaWiki >=1.6. Compatibility changes: * Changed minimum PHP version from 5.2 to 5.3. * Changed minimum MediaWiki version from 1.17 to 1.18. * Changed minimum Validator version from 0.4 to 0.5. * Removed support for the deprecated Google Maps v2 API. * Removed support for the now unsupported Yahoo! Maps API and associated geocoding service. * Temporary disabled OSM service (you can still use OSM with the OpenLayers service). Installation instructions can be found here: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps The examples have also been updated (although it's still a work in progress) and can now be found here: * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps_examples * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Maps_examples Enjoy! :) -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Problem with anonymous users being able to rollback
by Patrick West 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Version 1.19.2 Every now and then, on a random page, we'll discover that an anonymous user will see the rollback link on the history page, and actually be allowed to rollback changes to a page. How is this possible? Is this a known problem? Am I doing something wrong? I have the following set in LocalSettings.php $wgGroupPermissions['*']['rollback'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['rollback'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['rollback']['rollback'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['rollback'] = true; And anonymous can still see the rollback link. -- Patrick

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translatewiki.net ending localisation support for svn.wikimedia.org MediaWiki extensions
by Siebrand Mazeland 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear all, Starting October 1, 2012, translatewiki.net will drop support for all MediaWiki extensions it currently supports that still remain in the Subversion repository svn.wikimedia.org. Many, if not all of the extensions that by that time have not been migrated to git/Gerrit, are clearly not that well maintained and we want to prevent our translators from spending their time on it. At the moment, a maximum of 273 extensions are affected. In case this message makes you wonder what git and Gerrit is all about, and how you can revive your precious extension, please see the following links: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion/Extensions_queue Cheers! Siebrand

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Unable to create the folder "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/f/fc"
by Lorenzo Raffio 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi guys. I updated my MW 1.16 to 1.19 and run the update.php script from command line. Everything works except displaying of images and uploads. Uploads don't work! I keep getting this error every time I try to upload a file: Unable to create the folder "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/x/XXX" I didn't set any of these variables $wgTmpDirectory, $wgUploadDirectory, $wgUploadPath. They're all set to their default values. My /includes/DefaultSettings.php is untouched and my LocalSettings hasn't variables regarding file uploads (except EnableUploads set to true). My /images folder is set to 777 as well as its subdirectories (/images/tmp too). It's just weird. Seems a permissions issue but the folder is chmodded to 777, owned by www-data and everything! After I added $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; I got this results: Error storing file in '/tmp/phpxdixN7.jpg': Could not create directory "$1". Backtrace: 0 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(746): UploadStash->stashFile('/tmp/phpxdixN7', 'file') 1 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(757): UploadBase->stashFile() 2 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(766): UploadBase->stashFileGetKey() 3 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(336): UploadBase->stashSession() 4 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(427): SpecialUpload->showUploadWarning(Array) 5 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(174): SpecialUpload->processUpload() 6 /var/www/ rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(476): SpecialUpload->execute(NULL) 7 /var/www/rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(263): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext)) 8 /var/www/rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(593): MediaWiki->performRequest() 9 /var/www/rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(503): MediaWiki->main() 10 /var/www/rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/wiki/index.php(58): MediaWiki->run() 11 {main} Also $wgScriptPath is commented (so default value)! Is this a bug? Please help me! Thx in advance! Other details that may help you: Ubuntu Server 12.04, PHP 5.4.7, Nginx 1.3.6, APC 3.1.11

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$wgNoticeProject
by Rowe, Dolores A 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

My v1.19.2 MediaWiki is throwing the following Javascript error, but I'm not sure how to track it down, since it doesn't appear to be from my server. (using Internet Explorer 8) Has anyone else seen this error ? thanks, L Message: 'wgNoticeProject' is undefined Line: 332 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js&acti… Message: Object doesn't support this property or method Line: 8 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js&acti…

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Thumbnail previews for Photoshop (PSD) files
by Trevor Harmon 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi all, I am uploading Photoshop (PSD) files to my MediaWiki, but when I view them, a white rectangle appears where a preview image should be. I realize PSD is not a supported file, but I had the same problem with PDFs and I was able to get thumbnail previews to appear by installing the PdfHandler extension. I was hoping there's a similar workaround for PSDs, but Google turned up nothing. Actually, I don't even require preview images. I just don't want an empty rectangle to appear as the file preview, since it gives the impression that the file is corrupted. A Photoshop logo or even no thumbnail at all would be better. Any suggestions? I am using MediaWiki 1.16.4. Thanks! Trevor

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can editing the localsettings.php file cause DNS problems?
by Jan Steinman 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

> From: Wjhonson <wjhonson(a)aol.com> > > You can enter the ip number and get your home page > But if you enter the domain name you get an error > That's DNS Unless your server is using virtual names, in which the IP address may not give you the website you expect, because the same IP address is being used for more than one domain name. That's a minor quibble, but it has confused me many times when debugging DNS problems... ---------------- :::: Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law. -- Louis D. Brandeis :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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