MediaWiki-l May 2012

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Nothing show in VisualEditor sandbox
by Chee-Yang Chau 29 May '12

29 May '12

I have installed VisualEditor extension in LocalSettings.php. I may see [[Special:VisualEditorSandbox]] in SpecialPages. However, the page seems empty and no editor is shown. Is there anything missing? -- Best regards, Chau Chee Yang

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Short URL using rewriterule without rename wiki to w
by Chee-Yang Chau 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Here is my environment: 1. Fedora Core 16 2. Apache httpd 2.2.22 3. MediaWiki 1.19 Most of the short url solution provided are using renaming method: e.g.: wiki to w What if I want to stay with wiki directory without renaming? Can I enjoy short url too ? This is what I have tried: File: LocalSettings.php: $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgUsePathInfo = true; File: .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^wiki/index.php - [L] RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ wiki/index.php/$1 [L,QSA] When I access my wiki site: http://localhost/wiki/ I get a page without skin. Is there anything else I miss in rewriterule? -- Best regards, Chau Chee Yang

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faking IP address?
by Hullen＠t-online.de 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hallo, is it possible that a bad guy fakes his IP address when he creates a page? My wiki (arktur.de/Wiki) suffers from Wiki spam, and sometimes I see IP addresses from spammers which don't occur in the apache access_log. Viele Gruesse! Helmut

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What is {{SERVER}}?
by Chee-Yang Chau 29 May '12

29 May '12

When enter {{SERVER}} into wiki text, it will translate to http://<my-host>/ It looks like template, but it shows nothing when I access template:SERVER. What is {{SERVER}}? Is it variable of some kind? Any other construct that looks like that? -- Best regards, Chau Chee Yang

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Can we allow blank password when create wiki user account?
by Chee-Yang Chau 28 May '12

28 May '12

Currently, when create user wiki local account, the password length must be at least 1 character. Can we allow blank password for account creation? -- Best regards, Chau Chee Yang

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$msg argument of SkinCopyrightFooter hook
by Nicolas Bock 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hi, I am running into a problem with setting the $msg argument of the SkinCopyrightFooter hook function to some HTML text (mediawiki 1.19.0). For instance, doing this: function CopyrightFooter ( $title, $type, &$msg, &$link ) { $msg = 'Content is available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later</a>'; return true; } $wgHooks['SkinCopyrightFooter'][] = 'CopyrightFooter'; Renders like this: <Content is available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later</a>> In other words, the html gets escaped somehow and does not end up being rendered as intended. Did I use the $msg argument incorrectly? Thanks, nick

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adding style sheets with http urls
by Poornima Pochana 26 May '12

26 May '12

Hi, I am creating a new theme with mediawiki 1.18.1 and 1.19.0 source code and I have a couple of style sheets from a remote site. I am not able to add these style sheets in the resource loader styles array with a url like 'http://mysite.com/css/screen.css'. When I do, I get the following errors: For 1.18.1, the error is: [error] [client ::1] PHP Warning: filemtime(): stat failed for /home/user/public_html/mw-1.18.1/skins/https://mysite.com/brand/styles/3.0/css/bg/backsplash-green_bg.css in /home/user/public_html/mw-1.18.1/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderFileModule.php on line 380 For 1.19.0, the error is: error] [client ::1] PHP Warning: array_map(): An error occurred while invoking the map callback in /home/user/public_html/mediawiki-1.19.0/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderFileModule.php on line 589 I have to download the style sheets locally and mention a local file path to the styles array. Is this a limitation/restriction in mediawiki to add style sheets only with a file path? Thanks, Poornima.

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How to add add "My sandbox" in personal url section as en.wikipedia.org does?
by Chee-Yang Chau 26 May '12

26 May '12

The logon account in en.wikipedia.org page has "My sandbox" link in top left part. How can I do that in my private mediawiki site? Is there any extension to do so? Thank you. -- Best regards, Chau Chee Yang

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Problem loading wikipedia xml data to database using mwdumper
by Khanh Nguyen 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hi all, I'm loading compressed wikipedia xml data into mysql database using mwdumper. The input is the following file gotten from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/: enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history1.xml-p000000010p000002130.bz2 In mysql, I have a user named wikiuser and have an empty database for that user named wikidb. I run the following command to load data into my db: java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 [the_bz2_file_name] | mysql -u wikiuser -p wikidb However, I got this error: "ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 33: Table 'wikidb.text' doesn't exist". You can see the detail output messages from the link below: http://pastebin.com/Y6WXhxnq Can someone help me fix this error please? Many thanks, Chepukha

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Bot for rewriting external links as wiki links?
by David J. Biesack 24 May '12

24 May '12

Is there a bot which will repair external URL coded links to the same wikinand rewrite them as wiki links? For example, if MediaWikis were installed in www.example.com/wiki and pages contains links using external link notation blah http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page blah blah [http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page some text] blah blah [http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page#some_section some text] blah then the "What links here" feature would not work because such links are not recognized. The bot would replace those with wiki links: blah [[Some page]] blah blah [[Some page | some text]] blah blah [[Some page#some_section | some text]] blah or blah {{there|some section|Some page | some text}} blah In addition, if the link is to a section of the current page, i.e. on [[Some page]], the second link would be updated as {{here|some section|some text}} There may need to be some way to disable this (i.e. in help or project pages that discuss link notation). Alternatively, could Special:WhatLinksHere be "taught" to recognize the wiki's own URL and count those links? I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots_by_purpose but none of those categories seemed to match what I'm looking for. thanks, djb -- David J. Biesack | Principal API Architect | SAS @davidbiesack | 919-531-7771 | www.sas.com

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