MediaWiki-l December 2012

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Bikol Wikipedia logo issue
by Butch Bustria 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hello, Can you help us fix the Wikipedia Logo on bcl.wikipedia.org ? The local community is asking for assistance. -- Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. Vice President (2012-2013) Wikimedia Philippines Inc. ------------------------------ The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Should the DB and MW run together on the same server?
by Al Johnson 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I'm using MySQL and I notice that the docs say that in order to configure PHP with the --with-mysql option that MySQL should already be installed. Does this mean that it's expect that the db and MW must run on the same machine? What is recommended? For scalability, will the two ever need to run on separate machines? Thanks, Al

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Fwd: Proposal: MediaWiki Group San Francisco
by Quim Gil 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Proposal: MediaWiki Group San Francisco Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:25:36 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, following the process for requesting the creation of a MediaWiki group, here is a proposal for MediaWiki Group San Francisco http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/San_Francisco Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki page. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Strange Squid and Special:Random Issue
by Dave Humphrey 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

A strange issue we've just noticed between Special:Random and Squid, at least so it appears. When accessed directly from the Apache server the Special:Random works fine but when accessed through Squid we get a blank page (500 error). Works: http://content1.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random? http://uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random (? see below) Doesn't Work: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random (how it is usually accessed) Purging the page from Squid does nothing and it doesn't appear to be a local client cache issue. The strange thing is when accessing " www.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random" through Squid it results in a TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT/500 but through "uesp.net/wiki/Special:Random" gives the expected TCP_MISS/302. Both domains resolve to the same IP (the Squid box) and aren't handled any differently (that I know of anyways). Thoughts on what I'm missing are welcome.... -- Dave Humphrey -- dave(a)uesp.net Founder/Server Admin of the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages -- www.uesp.net

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Images and MediaWiki
by Wjhonson 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

I have my own copy of the MediaWiki software running my own website. Do I *need* to upload images in order to have a jpg appear on a page in my wiki, or can I link to a remote image and have it appear? If I can link to a remote image, how do I do that? Does someone have an example syntax?

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Fwd: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!
by Quim Gil 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own! Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:14:39 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> MediaWiki Groups are now official - and recognized by the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/ Who wants to start one? I just created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/San_Francisco as a real test of the process and a real example of a local group. Other local groups are welcome. If you are in San Francisco and you want to be part of this group add yourself to that page. Any ideas welcome! Looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events there are some local groups especially welcomed: * Amsterdam * Bangalore * Berlin * Brussels * Buenos Aires * Chennai * Cologne * Hong Kong * Los Angeles * Paris * Pune * San Diego * Tel Aviv * Washington DC ... and wherever you are sitting now. :) The gates for topical groups are also open. I will start pushing one about Testing / QA, also to test the process with a real example. More proposals? Thank you to all the people that provided feedback about the MediaWiki Groups proposal and especially to * Federico Leva (alias Nemo), who was especially helpful with his close marking and attention to detail - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis * Bence Damokos was a perfect Affiliations Committee chair and helped fine tuning the proposal to make it fit with the Wikimedia User Groups - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdamokos -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] standing up for setFunctionTagHook()
by Benny Lichtner 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

> A parser function instead of a tag seems more appropiate. That way it > would be expanded before being passed to #widget. Thanks, Platonides! You were totally right. --Benny

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Custom namespace aliases
by Mlpearc 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

I have created a custom namespace for music pages and have the following configurations in LocalSettings.php define("NS_MUSIC", 200); define("NS_MUSIC_TALK", 201); $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_MUSIC] = "Music"; $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_MUSIC_TALK] = "Music_talk"; $wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MUSIC] = array( 'editmusic' ); $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MUSIC] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editmusic'] = true; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 200; And.... /* Namespace shortcuts */ $wgNamespaceAliases = array( 'MU' => NS_MUSIC, 'MUT' => NS_MUSIC_TALK, ); Typing: "mu:Song" in the search box does not bring " *Create the page " Music:Song" on this wiki! "* also "[[mu:Song|Song]]" in prose does not work. Is there a special way to configure the namespace nicks for custom namespaces ? or do I have something config'd wrong ? Any insight would be appreciated Thanx *Mlpearc* Founder Everything Food & Drink.org everythingfoodanddrink.org<http://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page> Phone: 760-718-1290

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Can a page be URL addressable by pageid?
by Al Johnson 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Newby question: I would like to be able to load a wiki page by pageid instead of the page title as usual. Can this be done? Thanks, Al

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Can I change the page title?
by Al Johnson 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Is there a way to change the page title to something other than the default WITHOUT changing the URL to the page? IOW, I want to make the page title editable and the link to the page before the edit to still work. Possible? Thanks, Al

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