MediaWiki-l March 2012

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] New Plugin for Extension:ConfirmEdit - RFC
by Jan Steinman 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

> Thanks for your replies, I realize this is a faulty plugin right now for > following reasons Neat idea, though, for the reasons you cite. I'm on a slow connection, and sometimes a CAPTCHA (off-site) holds up the entire page. ---------------- The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. -- Charles Galton Darwin :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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New Plugin for Extension:ConfirmEdit - RFC
by nischay nahata 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi, I have made a Captcha plugin for ConfirmEdit called MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) Below is the usage of it sample Captcha: Pick the correct Option Number We pray to 1.Time 1.God 3.Lion 4.Tomato ? Answer 2 Why Beneficial ? * Bots don't have common sense * No Images so loads faster * Most Important - Good support for i18n * Further plans to let the user just select the right option rather than typing text It is currently hosted on github at https://github.com/nischayn22/MCQCaptcha . This is my first Extension/Plugin so it may have many faults, my apologies for that. Please leave your comments -- With Regards Nischay Nahata B.tech 3rd year Department of Information Technology NITK,Surathkal IRC nick- nischayn22

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Getting sourceforge's mediawiki to run locally
by Felix Natter 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

hello, I downloaded a project wiki from sourceforge (mediawiki 1.14.1), configured apache with php 5.3.10 in /home/felix/public_html as localhost/~felix and copied the wiki/ directory to /home/felix/public_html. I configured php with display_errors=On, and I have seen php errors in the browser window until I did a "chmod -R 777 wiki/". Once that is fixed, I simply get an empty page when requesting index.php. I don't see any relevant errors in the apache2 error log (and couldn't find any php log). The affected wiki is here: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (yes, the color is terrible, that's why I'm working on it ;-) How can I debug this? Thanks in advance! -- Felix Natter

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大きいサイズのファイルのアップロードができない
by 坂尾　和浩 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

はじめまして坂尾＠富士通と申します。日本語でのメールが飛んでいないのですが、英語はよくわからないので日本語で質問させていただきます。m(__)m 以下PHPのMLでの質問 --- 以下の環境でphp.iniを30Mとしましたが、7Mバイト以上のファイルがうまくアップロードできません。解決方法をご存じの方がいらっしゃいましたら、教えていただけないでしょうか。 OS ： Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition WEBServer ： IIS PHP ： 5.3.3 (cgi-fcgi) Mediawiki ： 1.16.0 SQL ： 5.1.52-community --- そこで・php.iniの設定が「memory_limit > post_max_size > upload_max_filesize」でないといけない。・IIS6.xをご利用なら、MetaBase.xmlの次の値を変更、 AspMaxRequestEntityAllowed="許可する最大バイト数" を教えていただいたのですが、やはりファイルのアップロードがうまくいっておりません。 Mediawiki側で意識しなければならないことって何かあるでしょうか？情報をおまちしております。以上、よろしくお願いいたします。 -- 坂尾　和浩（SAKAO Kazuhiro）sakao(a)jp.fujitsu.com 富士通(株)　特機システム事業本部　事業推進統括部　管理部〒102-0076　東京都千代田区五番町１−１　野村不動産市ヶ谷ビル TEL DID:03-3221-2322 (EXT:7024-3352) FAX DID:03-3263-4822

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editor like in wikipedia
by Isabell Alcott 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, I just saw the wonderful editor helps in Wikipedia, which lets you aditional choose "Advanced", "Special Characters" and "help" at the end there is also another Box, where I can choose a wide range of symbols "Latin Creek, Cyrillic, Maths" I think this would be a nice feature in my Wiki also. So the question is, which extensions I need to install. Thank you so much in advance, your Help is highly appreciated

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Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday
by aude 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. We want the technical track to be the best possible and we need your help! We want submission on various aspects of MediaWiki technology, mobile apps, operations, and more. How do we make Wikipedia scale? visual editor? Wikipedia and wiktionary mobile apps, wikidata, semantic mediawiki, GLAM tech, toolserver projects and tools, MediaWiki extensions, OpenStreetMap and other maps/geo, Wikimedia labs, and everything else that I'm forgetting to mention. :) Among all these topics, we're also interested in highlight accessibility as a topic for presentations and during the hackathon. You can view the call for participation and make submissions here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Don't forget there will also be a hackathon during the preconference: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Cheers, Katie -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012

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building a replica/backup media wiki
by Joseph Spenner 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

I'm currently trying to run a nightly backup/copy of my production media wiki to a "read only" copy on another system. I wrote a script to do everything through ssh: ---- #!/usr/bin/ksh scripts=/scripts mysqldump --opt wikidb -u root -psomePass > $scripts/wikidb.sql scp $scripts/wikidb.sql 10.4.3.1:tmp || exit sleep 3 ssh 10.4.3.1 '/usr/bin/mysql -u root -psomePass wikidb < tmp/wikidb.sql' || exit echo replica wiki database updated echo syncing attachments and files rsync --delete -avz -e ssh /var/www/htdocs/wiki/images root@10.4.3.1:/var/www/htdocs/wiki ---- My copy/replica has an entry in the LocalSettings.php to make it a read-only wiki: $wgReadOnly = 'Read Only'; It works great. However, when I access the replica after a period of time, it's VERY slow/sluggish. If I edit the LocalSettings.php file and disable the 'read only' line, it's lightning fast again. If I then change it back to 'read only', it's still fast but slows down over the course of the night. The only way around this was to make a little script which places a normal edit-able LocalSettings.php file into place, then does a wget to one of the wiki pages, then copies the 'read only' version of the LocalSettings.php file back into place. After I run the script, it's fast again. Anyone know why this slowness occurs? I've tested the mysql response time via command line while the wiki is slow, and the mysql is still fast. It's some interaction between apache and mysql which causes this replica to slow down. If I try to access a 'non wiki' document (ie: some file on the webserver) it does not have any latency. Any ideas/help would be great. Thanks!

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Help with LDAP upper first letter
by Jean Carlos Coelho 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello I am trying to configure authentication with ldap zimbra I log in normally but I'm not getting the usergroups the ldap plugin always set the first letter of the username in upper case due to this, can't find the groups, is there a way to fix this? require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" ); $wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin(); $wgLDAPDomainNames = array("domain.com.br"); $wgLDAPDebug = 3; $wgDebugLogGroups["ldap"] = "/tmp/ldap.log" ; $wgLDAPBaseDNs = array("domain.com.br" => "ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br"); $wgLDAPServerNames = array("domain.com.br" => "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"); $wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array("domain.com.br" => "uid"); //$wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array("domain.com.br" => "memberUid"); $wgLDAPEncryptionType = array("domain.com.br" => "clear"); //$wgLDAPProxyAgent = array("domain.com.br" => "uid=wiki,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br"); $wgLDAPProxyAgent = array("domain.com.br" => "cn=config"); //$wgLDAPProxyAgentPassword = array("domain.com.br" => "PaSSWoRd"); $wgLDAPProxyAgentPassword = array("domain.com.br" => "PaSSwORD"); //$wgLDAPGroupObjectclass = array("domain.com.br" => "posixGroup"); //$wgLDAPUseLocal = array("domain.com.br") => "false"); $wgLDAPUseLocal = false; $wgLDAPRetrievePrefs = false; $wgLDAPGroupAttribute = array("domain.com.br" => "memberUid" ); $wgLDAPGroupSearchNestedGroups = array("domain.com.br" => "false"); $wgLDAPGroupNameAttribute = array("domain.com.br" => "cn"); $wgLDAPGroupBaseDNs = array("domain.com.br" => "ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br"); $wgLDAPUseLDAPGroups = array("domain.com.br" => "true"); $wgLDAPLocallyManagedGroups = array("domain.com.br" => array( "cn=telefonia,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", "cn=diretoria,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", "cn=comercial,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", "cn=implantacao,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc= br", "cn=administrativo,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=b r", "cn=financeiro,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=b r", "cn=qualidade,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", "cn=infra,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br" ), ); #$wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array("domain.com.br" => array( # "cn=telefonia,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", # "cn=diretoria,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", # "cn=comercial,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", # "cn=implantacao,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc= br", # "cn=administrativo,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=b r", # "cn=financeiro,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=b r", # "cn=qualidade,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br ", # "cn=infra,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br" # ), #); # Ok, in the log i See.. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering validDomain 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: User is using a valid domain. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Setting domain as: domain.com.br 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering getCanonicalName 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Username isn't empty. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Munged username: Username 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering userExists 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering authenticate 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering Connect 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Using TLS or not using encryption. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Using servers: ldap://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Connected successfully 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering getSearchString 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Doing a proxy bind 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering getUserDN 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Created a regular filter: (uid=Username) 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering getBaseDN 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: basedn is not set for this type of entry, trying to get the default basedn. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering getBaseDN 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: basedn is ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Using base: ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Fetched username is not a string (check your hook code...). This message can be safely ignored if you do not have the SetUsernameAttributeFromLDAP hook defined. 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: userdn is: 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: User DN is blank 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering allowPasswordChange 2012-03-14 23:10:52 wikidb: Entering modifyUITemplate at zimbra server.. check the username with low letters: zimbra@server:~$ ldapsearch -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xx -W -x -LL -D cn=config memberUid=username ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br Enter LDAP Password: version: 1 dn: cn=users,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br dn: cn=telefonia,ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br if check with upper first letter: zimbra@server:~$ ldapsearch -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -W -x -LL -D cn=config memberUid=Username ou=groups,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=br Enter LDAP Password: version: 1 zimbra@server:~$ Now we know why is not resolving any groups, but where to fix it ? -- []'s Jean Carlos Coelho tec.jeancarlos(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] [WikiEN-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
by Rob Schnautz 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

We'd like to thank all those who spent time helping beta-testing. Several bugs were identified and resolved, and we'd like to bring in some more beta-testers for a second round. The link has changed slightly (which might be why people stopped beta-testing): http://education.wmflabs.org/wiki/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_te…! Thanks! Rob On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Rob Schnautz <rschnautz(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain > elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is > interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and > paste) the link below to get started: > > > http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_be… > ! > > Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia > Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however > you > wish; the more testing you do, the better! > > Thanks, > > Rob Schnautz > Online Communications Contractor > Global Development > Wikimedia Foundation > > 11450 Northridge Dr > Evansville IN 47720 > c. 812.746.8347 > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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mysql troubles
by P. Hightower 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Updating searchindex between 20120308183323 and 20120309183323 --- Waiting for lock --- A database error has occurred Query: SELECT lc_value FROM `vw_l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1 Function: LCStore_DB::get Error: 1100 Table 'vw_l10n_cache' was not locked with LOCK TABLES (mysql.zbase.temporalvagabonds.net) I'm getting this error when running updateSearchIndex.php. I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to this stuff so I was wondering what should I be looking at to fix whatever this is?

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