MediaWiki-l December 2012

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Fwd: MediaWiki memory footprint
by Sumana Harihareswara 29 Dec '12

29 Dec '12

Kovács Zoltán sent me a note asking about reducing MediaWiki's memory footprint a while back and would like your thoughts. (Note that there's an update below the original email.) -Sumana -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MediaWiki memory footprint Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:52:00 +0100 From: Kovács Zoltán <kovzol(a)matek.hu> Dear Sumana, I hope you are doing well. It was a pleasure to meet you at the GSoC Mentor summit. We talked about MediaWiki performance tuning and you suggested to contact you if I need further help. We run MediaWiki 1.18.2 at wiki.geogebra.org. I am not sure but it seems MediaWiki has quite a big memory footprint (approx. 85 MB for each visitor). We don't use any caching yet, but we plan to use Memcached or Varnish. Do you have any guidelines when to switch caching on (depending on the number of visitors) and which software does the best job for MediaWiki? We are also interested in commercial support if the problem persists. Thank you for your kind help in advance, best regards, Zoltan -- Zoltán Kovács Research Assistant at the Department of Mathematics Education Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, http://www.jku.at/idm Update from late December: "finally we managed to solve this problem by removing the unneeded modules. (Now we don't use more memory than 60 MB for each Apache thread.) We also started to use memcached but it did not seem to help too much. "On the other hand, we are still interested how other people deal with such problems. So, definitely it would be a great if you could send my email to the public mailing list."

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Exclude normalization for specific text blocks
by Al Johnson 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Hi, Is there a way, such as a tag, to specify a block of text to be excluded from UTF normalization? I tried the <nowiki> tags but it didn't work. Thanks, Al

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Normalization Code
by Al Johnson 27 Dec '12

27 Dec '12

Hello, I need to make sure a backend Java process is doing the same UTF normalization that is done for edit text. Grep'ing for 'normaliz' brings up a lot and I'm not a php dev. Can someone point me to a key php module and/or function? Thank you, Al

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wikify for MediaWiki
by S. P. 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Hi, I'm a developer of http://wikify.appointment.at/ - a web service to enrich any text with links to Wikipedia article. This is just a JavaScript experiment of mine, but friends keep asking me why this feature is not available in Wikipedia/MediaWiki itself. So here I'm just making sure MediaWiki developers are aware of the idea/function. I'm sure you can do it better than me, but let me know if I can help you in any way. Slawa Pidgorny. ____________________________________________ Time tracking and invoicing: http://rechnung-plus.de/ Need a new web-site? http://sigayeva.com/ Making appointments online: http://appointment.at/

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Artikel und User löschen nach Spam-Attacke
by Rainer Zenz 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Hallo, ich hoffe, es ist okay, hier in Deutsch zu schreiben, sonst mache ichs nochmal in Simple Bad English ;-) Mein Wiki wurde noch vor der "offiziellen" Eröffnung Opfer von Spambots. Jetzt habe ich ein paar Dutzend Fake-User und noch mehr Unsinnsartikel. Wie kann ich das alles schnell beseitigen? Regulär geht das ja nur einzeln. Viele Grüße, Rainer PS: Für Neuanmeldungen habe ich ein Captcha installiert, es geht also (hoffentlich) um einmaliges Aufräumen.

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New MediaWiki reference book: "Working with MediaWiki"
by Yaron Koren 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of my new book, "Working with MediaWiki". It's a general reference guide to MediaWiki, that's meant for anyone who runs, or is thinking of running, a MediaWiki installation. Its 23 chapters cover everything from MediaWiki syntax, to categories and namespaces, to the various useful extensions, to customizing the skin and interface. The extension known as Semantic MediaWiki gets special focus, with four chapters devoted to it and its spinoff extensions. However, even if you're not planning to use Semantic MediaWiki, this book is crammed full of the information you need to use MediaWiki to its fullest capacity. And MediaWiki head developer Brion Vibber was kind enough to provide a brief, but meaningful, foreword. This book is the product of over a year's worth of work, and contains a lot of knowledge gained from years of helping out with MediaWiki installations large and small through my consulting company, WikiWorks. The publisher is WikiWorks Press; you could also refer to the book as self-published if you want. :) "Working with MediaWiki" is available via print-on-demand, as an e-book, and as a PDF download, and can be found on Amazon and the like. You can read more about the book, including ordering information, at its website: http://workingwithmediawiki.com/ It's a good addition to any bookshelf, real or virtual, and this holiday season it could hopefully be a great gift, for yourself or that special MediaWiki admin in your life. -Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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by Kieth Brian Padilla Tomo 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

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Can I turn-off wiki exports?
by Al Johnson 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

So, I guess that means disabling the functionality behind the Special:Export page along with removing the page itself. Thanks, Al

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Moving small wiki. errors
by Al Johnson 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Hi, I moved my small wiki from one linux box to another on AWS and am getting the following error in the browser when clicking on the index.php link: Error: invalid magic word 'int' Backtrace: #0 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/MagicWord.php(236): MagicWord->load('int') #1 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(4765): MagicWord::get('int') #2 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php(42): Parser->setFunctionHook('int', Array, 1) #3 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(253): CoreParserFunctions::register(Object(Parser)) #4 [internal function]: Parser->firstCallInit() #5 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/StubObject.php(79): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #6 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/StubObject.php(99): StubObject->_call('firstCallInit', Array) #7 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(829): StubObject->__call('firstCallInit', Array) #8 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(829): StubObject->firstCallInit() #9 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(807): MessageCache->getParser() #10 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Message.php(618): MessageCache->transform('$1 - {{SITENAME...', true, Object(Language), Object(Title)) #11 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Message.php(436): Message->transformText('$1 - {{SITENAME...') #12 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Message.php(476): Message->toString() #13 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(790): Message->text() #14 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(833): OutputPage->setHTMLTitle(Object(Message)) #15 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Article.php(485): OutputPage->setPageTitle('Main Page') #16 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/actions/ViewAction.php(37): Article->view() #17 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(427): ViewAction->show() #18 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(304): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(Article)) #19 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(536): MediaWiki->performRequest() #20 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(446): MediaWiki->main() #21 /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run() #22 {main} The wiki only has about 4 regular pages and 6 templates. I followed the instructions for the basic move, such as copying the whole wiki dir and importing the mysql db, updated the LocalSettings.php. The db import looks OK and apache works. I'm not sure what to do there. Your help is appreciated, Al

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Preventing Spam Pages
by "Thomas U. Grüttmüller" 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Hello, is it possible to forbid new users and anonymous users to create pages containing external links? Thanks, Thomas

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