MediaWiki-l August 2012

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MediaWiki Extension Release Status
by Rowe, Dolores A 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Teammates, Does anyone know how a MediaWiki extension goes from the beta release status to a stable release status ? We are interested in this extension, but worried that it does not have a stable release status. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:GraphViz thanks, Lori

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Showing Categories via In-Text Icons
by Giovanni Ruffini 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Hi all - forgive me if this is a question with an obvious answer, but I've not found anything close to what I'm looking for after a few searches. I'd like a way to have the links to other pages on my wiki be accompanied by icons indicating which category of article they belong to. I run a genealogy wiki, and I've found that it's hard to tell whether any given page is for a direct ancestor or a collateral relative. So, let's say I have a page for someone named Foo, and that page links to someone named Bar. If Bar is in the [[Category:Ancestor]] I would like the link to Bar on Foo's page to have a little designating icon. So, you could see, in the text on Foo's page, something like: "Foo's children include Bar <icon>, Bum and Boozle." The icon will let the reader know that Bar is the main line to pursue in reading, and the other links are of secondary concern. Is this possible? Thanks, Giovanni

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Please confirm your email for mis's list
by mis 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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How to Upload word Doc & PDF file in mediawiki version 1.19 page
by Anand Sharma 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Hi All, I tried to upload a word document in mediawiki(version 1.19) page but its giving me error :- Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\wamp\www\dashboard\includes\HttpFunctions.php on line *847 In Locatsettings.php ----------------------------- $wgEnableUploads = true; #$wgUseImageMagick = true; #$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";* $wgFileExtensions = array('png','gif','jpg','jpeg','doc','xls','mpp','pdf','ppt','tiff','bmp','docx', 'xlsx', 'pptx','ps','odt','ods','odp','odg'); But its not working . Can anyone suggest me what is wrong here ?? Thanks, Anand -- thanks, Anand sharma

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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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Return code for a scary transcludion needed
by Roland Wohlfahrt 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Hi folks, is there a possibility to check if the scary transclusion was successful? (See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding) Background: I am transcluding a page with the same name from another wiki. If this page is not available I get following error: [Vorlageneinbindung für http://bliblablu/wiki/index.php/an_article?action=raw ist gescheitert] That's ok, but I want to provide additional information to the user if the transclusion fails. Thx for any hints! Cheers, Roland http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding#check_…

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Missing icons in the editor
by Erik Luken 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

I just did an install (via a package script on the host) of Mediawiki 1.19.1. I imported the help pages, and some templates from mediawiki.org, however the icons in the editor are missing (bold, italic, etc). The last time I installed Mediawiki, it was manually, and the editor icons were present without any additional steps. I found the icon files on mediawiki.org and uploaded them to my new wiki, even though I have the $wgUseInstantCommons set to true. Even after uploading the files, they still do not show. What am I missing? Erik

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server
by Kevin Küper 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hi, Fail2ban is a nice tool for reacting against attacks. It can look into your Apache logfiles and search strange behaviour. You can define cases digging for in those logfiles. And fail2ban creates rules in iptables for blocking specific addresses. http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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DPL 3rd party Extension
by Tom Hutchison 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

What are Mediawiki views on providing links in their Extension pages which point to an virus/malware infected site? This Dynamic Page List 3rd party extension, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) is flagged as a major security risk by Mediawiki. Which oddly is proven because the links on the Extension page to the DPL 3rd Party's Manual, off the Mediawiki site, is infected with a virus! O My virus software blocked it, AVG's online scanner shows it, and the site is on a blacklist on another online URL virus scanning tool. I made an edit noting the links are infected, but it is waiting for approval from a Mediawiki admin. Of course, I am pointing this out to a wiki admin who is using this Extension on a documentation wiki to drop this version of DPL and use the Foundation's version, but I think this brings up a discussion about Extensions flagged as a security risk and why the extension's code is still available for download? Not only from SVN, but older versions from the infected site itself. The last update to the extension was 10-1-2009, so I would say it has been abandoned by the developers. If this is the case, should the download links be removed? Tom

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Support
by Kieth Brian Padilla Tomo 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

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