MediaWiki-l May 2012

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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cleaning out a mass of unwanted users
by Boris Epstein 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello everyone, I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did sign up and started to use the site to swap images. How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way? Thanks. Boris.

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site mirror and master-slave question
by chris 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

I'm trying to find some further documentation or guidance (if any) on site duplication and then master-slave replication. The scenario is this: We have 2 Wiki's, each in their own network. The first wiki is available to our users now. The second one is a clone of the first which was made a couple of months ago and hasn't been touched since. What I'd like to do is have the clone be the slave and the first one be the master. I'm thinking that the database would not contain the extensions, skins, possibly photos, templates ? So I would have to push those over. The clone or slave would only be for reading and not writing. Can anyone give any guidance ? thanks, Chris

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Replace Wiki Syntax with HTML in RSS Feeds
by Christoph Mitasch 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hello, I want an RSS feed of newest pages with an output with the wiki syntax removed. It should be replaced with HTML. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?feed=rss I checked the source code, but I found no option for that. What would you recommend? Thank you, Christoph

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cannot install mwdumper from source
by Jeremy Baron 30 May '12

30 May '12

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Henny Savenije <webmaster(a)henny-savenije.pe.kr> wrote: > Why don't you try this handy tool, works like a charm, I have used it > already for a long time > > http://www.mysqldumper.net/ That's ok if you're trying to dump a MySQL database. But better to use something like mysqldump or one of the hotbackup tools (like xtrabackup). Even better, get a webhost that doesn't make you jump through hoops to get a backup of your own DB!!! Anyway, that's all irrelevant. This thread has nothing to do with DB backups. Please read http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/README -Jeremy

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Newbie question about short Urls
by Phil Rice 30 May '12

30 May '12

I'm following the instructions on setting up mediawiki's ShortUrls ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL), and have run into a problem. I hope this is the correct mailing list for this sort of question. If not, my apologies, and could you let me know the correct one? In my localsetting.php file, I have lines: $wgScriptPath = "/mediawiki"; $wgScriptExtension = ".php"; $wgArticalPath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = true; In my apache httpd.conf file, I have mod_alias loaded, and the lines Alias /wiki "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/mediawiki/index.php" AcceptPathInfo on I am currently running on Windows 7 / 64 bit. My apache server is 2.2.22. The Special:Version page reports. ProductVersion MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.19.0 PHP<http://www.php.net/> 5.2.17 (apache2handler) MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.58-community I have attached localsettings.php and httpd.conf At the moment the wiki is not available from the internet (it is only available from localhost) I have restarted the apache server and I have had partial success. When I type "localhost/wiki/MainPage", the server responds with a status 301/moved permanently and the browser loads "localhost/mediawiki/index.php/MainPage". The behaviour I want is that the server should serve up the content without a redirect, so that bookmarks work, and the urls look elegant. I have read the apache mod_alias manual page, and google searched for "mediawiki redirect shorturl" without much success. Do any of you have any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks Phil

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cannot install mwdumper from source
by Henny Savenije 30 May '12

30 May '12

Why don't you try this handy tool, works like a charm, I have used it already for a long time http://www.mysqldumper.net/ At 01:00 PM 5/30/2012, you wrote: >On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Khanh Nguyen ><ndkhanh824(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Â I checked out >mwdumper source code from here: > >http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/ > > Â I tried to build mwdumper on both on my >Macbook and my Ubuntu desktop > using 'ant' and >got the same error: > Â Â Â Â Â >http://pastebin.com/a7hHS36j > > Â I have ant >and Java JDK installed. > Â Can someone please >give me some instruction on how to fix these >problems > and build mwdumper from source? >http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/build.xml?revision… >Try changing lines 19 and 20 from 1.4 to 1.5. >It's been ~6.6 years since anyone touched those >lines. -Jeremy >_______________________________________________ >MediaWiki-l mailing list >MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _ _ (o) (o) oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang) ----------------------------- http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos Article about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in English) Korea through Western Cartographic eyes http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan (1797) http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies

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Cannot install mwdumper from source
by Khanh Nguyen 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hi all, I checked out mwdumper source code from here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/ I tried to build mwdumper on both on my Macbook and my Ubuntu desktop using 'ant' and got the same error: http://pastebin.com/a7hHS36j I have ant and Java JDK installed. Can someone please give me some instruction on how to fix these problems and build mwdumper from source? Many thanks, Chepukha.

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