MediaWiki-l March 2012

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wiki auxiliary: for files you cannot upload to Mediawiki
by Haim (Howard) Roman 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

There are file types that Mediawiki doesn't allow you to upload, including Office (MS & Open) documents. Therefore, we have what I call an "auxiliary" storage, where people can download a copy via the web. Currently, I simply move files to a UNIX web server via UNIX CLI (scp, mkdir, chmod, etc.). I'd like a simpler method; one that even our MS sysadmins could use. *Anyone have any suggestions? * I was thinking of using our internal SVN repository for this. We can download via this repository's web interface, but cannot upload, update, etc. I've been playing with RapidSVN, and its easier than using CLI commands, but I have not found it very intuitve (maybe because I'm not so fluent in SVN terminology). I think I prefer a web app to allow people to upload to the SVN via their browsers. But, it doesn't have to be SVN, if I hear of something better. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)

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Receiving an email when new discussion entry has been made?
by Isabell Alcott 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hello. Is it possible to receive an email, when someone makes a comment on a discussion page in my Wiki? So I'd like to get informed. Thanks and take care

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Fetching RSS feed from secure server issue
by c. martzloff 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hello All, First time post here. Trying to resolve a problem where I'm trying to request an RSS feed from my WIki server to a secure tomcat web server (under my control) but I'm getting this error: Failed to load RSS feed from https://my.web.server.com/feed: Error fetching URL: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates This may be a simple fix either by importing the ssl certificate from the server i wish to get the feed from or by maybe telling PHP to ignore the certificate ? Not sure since I don't really know if the Wiki PHP code is using cURL to do the request or something else. And I wouldn't be too sure on where to import it to if i need to do this. I tried going into the /includes/HttpFunctions.php file and setting "protected $sslVerifyHost = false;" and "protected $sslVerifyCert = false;" but no go. any help would be nice. Chris

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Pages in category
by Isabell Alcott 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello, I have thousands of articles and short writings in a wiki, is it possible to make a page like this one automatically? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_extensions

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext
by Daniel Kinzler 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

On 27.03.2012 00:33, Tim Starling wrote: > For the record: we've discussed this previously and I'm fine with it. > It's a well thought-out proposal, and the only request I had was to > ensure that the DB schema supports some similar projects that we have > in the idea pile, like multiple parser versions. Thanks Tim! The one important bit I'd like to hear from you is... do you think it is feasible to get this not only implemented but also reviewed and deployed by August?... We are on a tight schedule with Wikidata, and this functionality is a major blocker. I think implementing ContentHandlers for MediaWiki would have a lot of benefits for the future, but if it's not feasible to get it in quickly, I have to think of an alternative way to implement structured data storage. Thanks Daniel

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Whitspace dropped from my template?
by Richard 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

To answer my own question, the whitespace was being consumed because of the adjacent <noinclude> and <includeonly> style tags. It appears that there are two ways you could solve this: 1) use   to get a space that isn't encoded as ' ' 2) use <nowiki/> after the space so that the other tags see the adjacent nowiki tag and not whitespace that they gobble up. I used #1 and my template expands as expected now. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitext-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext
by Jeremy Baron 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:50, Maximilian Doerr <cybernet678(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I strongly disagree with removing wiki text. Several thousand bots depend > on it. Especially Cluebot NG which is a highly sophisticated anti-vandalism > bot. I recommend going our current route where the visual editor writes the > Wikimarkup realtime and vice versa. I suspect maybe you didn't understand Daniel's message? (or didn't read it?) I imagine most pages will still use the same markup we have today after his idea is implemented. For the pages that are different, the bots can and should adapt. -Jeremy

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Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext
by Daniel Kinzler 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi all. I have a bold proposal (read: evil plan). To put it briefly: I want to remove the assumption that MediaWiki pages contain always wikitext. Instead, I propose a pluggable handler system for different types of content, similar to what we have for file uploads. So, I propose to associate a "content model" identifier with each page, and have handlers for each model that provide serialization, rendering, an editor, etc. The background is that the Wikidata project needs a way to store structured data (JSON) on wiki pages instead of wikitext. Having a pluggable system would solve that problem along with several others, like doing away with the special cases for JS/CSS, the ability to maintain categories etc separate from body text, manage Gadgets sanely on a wiki page, or several other things (see the link below). I have described my plans in more detail on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/ContentHandler A very rough prototype is in a dev branch here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/Wikidata/phase3/ Please let me know what you think (here on the list, preferably, not on the talk page there, at least for now). Note that we *definitely* need this ability for Wikidata. We could do it differently, but I think this would be the cleanest solution, and would have a lot of mid- and long term benefits, even if it's a short term pain. I'm presenting my plan here to find out if I'm on the right track, and whether it is feasible to put this on the road map for 1.20. It would be my (and the Wikidata team's) priority to implement this and see it through before Wikimania. I'm convinced we have the manpower to get it done. Cheers, Daniel

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Problem sending confirmation email after upgrade to 1.17.3
by Joanna Cheng 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

After adding $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; to LocalSettings.php =========================== Internal error Non-string key given Backtrace: #0 $wikipath/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(781): MessageCache->get(NULL, true, Object(Language)) #1 $wikipath/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(902): wfMsgGetKey(NULL, true, Object(Language), false) #2 $wikipath/languages/Language.php(513): wfMsgExt(NULL, Array) #3 $wikipath/languages/Language.php(525): Language->getMessageFromDB(NULL) #4 $wikipath/languages/Language.php(799): Language->getMonthName(false) #5 $wikipath/languages/Language.php(1560): Language->sprintfDate('H:i, j F Y', false) #6 $wikipath/includes/User.php(2970): Language->timeanddate('9c175ace21c28db...', false) #7 $wikipath/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(202): User->sendConfirmationMail() #8 $wikipath/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(132): LoginForm->addNewAccount() #9 $wikipath/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(34): LoginForm->execute() #10 [internal function]: wfSpecialUserlogin(NULL, Object(SpecialPage)) #11 $wikipath/includes/SpecialPage.php(851): call_user_func('wfSpecialUserlo...', NULL, Object(SpecialPage)) #12 $wikipath/includes/SpecialPage.php(578): SpecialPage->execute(NULL) #13 $wikipath/includes/Wiki.php(262): SpecialPage::executePath(Object(Title)) #14 $wikipath/includes/Wiki.php(63): MediaWiki->handleSpecialCases(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(WebRequest)) #15 $wikipath/index.php(114): MediaWiki->performRequestForTitle(Object(Title), NULL, Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest)) #16 {main} ============================= The actual registration goes through because I can't re-register a nick after this error. From the stacktrace I'm guessing the problem is sending the email. No idea how to debug, any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Joanna

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declare a categorie out of an infobox?
by Michael Renner 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Moin, I made a small infobox to control the currentness of data. I wonder if it is possible to declare a categorie out of this infobox? Instead of filling out the infobox in a firtst step and including the categorie in an other: just add a line to my infobox where my users can type in the desired categorie. Thanks -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner(a)gmx.de | |81541 Munich skype: michael.renner.gmx.de | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq

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