MediaWiki-l November 2012

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No tests directory in 1.20.0 release
by Daniel Renfro 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Is there a reason that the tests/ subdirectory (which holds unit-tests, etc.) is missing from the 1.20.0 release? My team recently implemented unit-testing using the phpunit infrastructure that came with 1.18/1.19. I was told by various people on IRC that there would be support for phpunit with Mediawiki far into the future...is this a correct statement? -Daniel

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want to take part?
by Lydia Pintscher 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper(a)saper.info> wrote: > Hello, > > Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research > "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] > So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE > will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and > there is still some possibility for other large FOSS projects to join. > > I think it could fit nicely into our recent efforts directed > at newcomer experience after Git migration. And MediaWiki is > a bit different than above projects. > > Are we interested > to include MediaWiki in that research? > > As Kevin explains in his post he tried to avoid spamming mailing > lists to look for project interested, so I am doing this for him :-) > > //Saper I've worked with Kevin in preparation for his survey and later promotion from the KDE-side quite a bit. This is not the kind of research project that is of no value to the project taking part. I expect the results to be very useful for KDE (and likely also the other projects taking part). Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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WikiEditor Problems
by Peter Velan 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hello, would need some help with ... - fresh install of MW 1.20 - editing a page * Button "Publish" (top right) is w/out function * Button "Cancel" (top right) stores edited page There's something wrong with my install, but what? Thanks in advance for any helpfull hints, Peter

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Extension:UsabilityInitiative vs own extensios
by Peter Velan 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hello, after upgrade from 19.0 to 1.20 I tried to move Vector and WikiEditor from Extension:UsabilityInitiative to Extension:Vector resp. Extension:WikiEditor. I started with WikiEditor ... and failed :-( - downloaded last version of Extension:WikiEditor - stored it in extension/WikiEditor - set up LocalSettings.php [1] => no WikiEditor at all Going back to the older version under extension/UsabilityInitiative/WikiEditor => WikiEditor works as expected --- [1] require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" ); # enable WikiEditor by default, allow users to disable it $wgDefaultUserOptions['usebetatoolbar'] = 1; $wgDefaultUserOptions['usebetatoolbar-cgd'] = 1; # Displays the Preview and Changes tabs $wgDefaultUserOptions['wikieditor-preview'] = 1; # Displays the Publish and Cancel buttons on the top right side $wgDefaultUserOptions['wikieditor-publish'] = 1; # Displays a navigation column (summary) on the right side $wgDefaultUserOptions['usenavigabletoc'] = 1; TIA for any helpfull hints. Peter

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internal link button pastes ambigous text
by Roger Morton 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

So when you click the internal link button on media wikis it pastes in [[link title]] Which I interpret to mean [[<internal link> <title for your link>]] But the syntax for this is is actually [[<internal link>|<title for your link>]] I reckon it should say [[<link title>]] rather than [[link title]]. Because as it stands it is not consistent with what the external link button offers up. which is [http://www.example.com link title] So for consistency the external link one could actually be [<http://www.example.com> <link title>] or maybe [http://www.example.com LinkTitle] and [[LinkTitle]] I have had many a frustrating moment getting my internal links to display properly when I followed the suggestion offered up by the button. Consider changing this in media wiki. PS I use the userbase.kde.org wiki

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Make TOC numbering a user preference
by roger＠rogerchrisman.com 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi, Wouldn't it be great if Table of Contents (TOC) _numbering_ were a user preference, right along with Section Heading numbering? It could be next to: My preferences > Appearance > Advanced options: [ ] Auto-number headings as: My preferences > Appearance > Advanced options: [ ] Auto-number table of contents Wouldn't it be even greater if there was a $wgTOCnumbering variable in LocalSettings.php that could be set to "false" to make no TOC numbering the default? Currently the TOC numbering can be _hidden_ with this CSS in Common.css[1]: /* Suppress numbering of items in TOC */ .tocnumber { display: none; } I am tired of all the TOC numbering on Wikipedia. Am I alone? Yes I can put the CSS to suppress TOC numbering into my own user's CSS (User:Myusername/common.css), but most _readers_ of Wikipedia, including me, are usually not logged in when they read. It was easy to get Wikivoyage (now a Wikimedia Foundation wiki) changed over to numberless TOC. I just suggested it on http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#Article_Table_of… and an Admin did it. Wow! That's the wiki culture I love. Can do. Thoughts? [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents#Auto-numbering Roger

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Accessing to template passed as arguments' attributes
by Marcelo Chiaradía 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hello everyone, I'm using templates passed as arguments to other templates. I would like to know if I can have access to the attributes of the template passed, in the outter template. Thanks in advance, Marcelo.

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"#if:" condition on more than one template argument
by Marcelo Chiaradía 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hello everyone, Im using templates, which receives 4 parameters: "p1", "p2", "p3" and "p4". I need to put some text only if "p2" and "p4" exists. I've already tried this {{#if: {{{p1|}}} or {{{p2|}}} | MY_TEXT }} but it doesn't work. I seems that this kind of condition on a template argument only works when asking by only one argument, but im not entirely sure. I tried ask for the differente arguments in differents "#if:" and it works, but I really don't like it. Something like this: {{#if: {{{p1|}}} | {{#if: {{{p2|}}} | MY_TEXT }} }} Is there some better way to do it? I've been searching the documentation, but couldn't find anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Marcelo.

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Sidebar: fixed elements "TOOLBOX" or "SEARCH"
by GIC - Lukas 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hi all, Every wiki has got a sidebar. In this sidebar you can put fixed elements like “TOOLBOX” in. But this only stands for some other pages – e. g. “TOOLBOX” for “Special pages” or “Permanent link” and some others. But how can I edit what e. g. “TOOLBOX” stands for? How can I determine that e. g. “TOOLBOX” is replaced by “Most popular articles” and “Wiki help”? Greetings, GIC

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Fatal exception of type MWException" on upgrade to 1.20.0
by David Gilman 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

Just hit the same problem here. The solution was to apply the mediawiki-i18n-1.20.0.patch.gz patch. Actually, I was a version or two behind on i18n patches so I managed to work around it by just copying over the entire languages/messages folder from a freshly unpacked tarball of 1.20. Hope this helps! -- David Gilman :DG<

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