MediaWiki-l September 2012

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Extension:Lua and LanguageGetMagic issues!
by Stephan Gomes Higuti 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello guys, its my first email here, so, i'll try to be as clear as possible! Well, im upgrading my mediawiki, from 1.12.0 to 1.19.2, using Apache 5.3.3 and Mysql 5.5.14. Everything went ok, sphinx, database, all extensions but Lua. I notice that Lua extension needs LanguageGetMagic hook, but looking after it, just notice that LanguageGetMagic was deprecated in version 1.16 ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LanguageGetMagic ), and i cant find a way to enable it on 1.19.2. So, here goes three questions: Is it possible to use LanguageGetMagic on 1.19.2? How? Anyone here uses this extensions on newers MediaWiki versions? Someone knows another way to make it works? Thanks! Best Regards, Stephan Gomes Higuti

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Special page - changing passwords - how?
by John Horne 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello, I am new to Mediawiki, in fact wikis generally, so apologies if this is not the right list to ask for help. (If it isn't, then where do we get general help from?) We are using version 1.19.2 with the LDAPAuthentication extension. However, we are also allowing some local (wiki) accounts (we've modified the extension a little). What we would like is a 'Special' page to allow the local account users to be able to change their password (on their wiki account). I can see that there is mention of a 'passwordreset' permission in the Mediawiki code, and it looks like a special page already exists to allow password changes. However, I cannot get this to work - setting the permission and logging in, I see no special page relating to password changes. Could someone please let me know what is required in order to see this special page? Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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Upgrading and moving a mediawiki at the same time.
by Nicholas Brenckle 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

I have a very old mediawiki at a legacy company, I think version 1.9. I am trying to migrate this to a new server, including new hostname/domain. I just want to keep the legacy data in there around as its pretty useful. Read only is fine. I really don't want to print out a few hundred pages and stick them in a book ;-) Old server(s) : web.olddomain.tld, mysql.olddomain.tld - CentOS 4.9 w/PHP 5.2.6 New Server: web.newdomain.tld - CentOS 6.3 w/PHP 5.3.3 I put a new NameVirtualHost in the new server and it works as expected. Time to move the old mediawiki over. DB dumped (mysqldump), old web files tarred and both are scp'd over to the new server. New DB is created and the old data imported. Username created and given access to DB, same as existed on the old server. The only change I make on the new server is in the LocalSettings.php file, I point at the new DB on localhost, username and the rest of the info stays the same. If I try to run this as is, without upgrading the mediawiki code, I get an error in Apache. "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in /var/www/html/documentation/includes/Namespace.php on line 44" According to the FAQ this is due to upgrades in PHP and old code. I figured at this point I needed to upgrade to a newer version of mediawiki code. I download the new mediawiki code and follow the upgrade script/process here : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#How_do_I_upgrade_from_a_real… New files are untarred over the old files. I run the update.php script from maintenance directory. I made one additional change, which is the file under the web root 'StartProfiler.php' contains the line 'require_once( dirname(__FILE__).'/includes/ProfilerStub.php' );' and I change that to 'require_once( dirname(__FILE__).'/includes/profiler/ProfilerStub.php' );' as the new Profiler code seems to be running from includes/profile and not just includes. The server now serves a "Not Found" error, "The requested URL /wiki/Main_Page was not found on this server." Nothing shows up in error_log. Not sure if what I am doing is "too many steps at once" and if there is any way to upgrade to 1.19 on the existing server (with the older version of php) and THEN move it, or if I can get the older mediawiki running with the newer version of php, and THEN upgrade it. It seems like the move+upgrade makes things go a little wonky. Any advice? Thank you, Nick PS - If this is a dupe, sorry. I subscribed and then something happened and my post was rejected as I wasn't subscribed. I resubscribed a few days ago and made sure I was getting mail from the list before sending this time :)

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Lua and LanguageGetMagic issues!
by Jeremy Baron 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

On Sep 13, 2012 10:46 AM, "Stephan Gomes Higuti" <higuti.sam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I notice that Lua extension needs LanguageGetMagic hook, but looking after > it, just notice that LanguageGetMagic was deprecated in version 1.16 ( > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LanguageGetMagic ), and i cant Which extension (name), what version number or revision/commit id, and where did you get it? It looks like maybe the "Lua" extension is unmaintained. Take a look at Scribunto: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting I don't know offhand what MW Core versions are supported by Scribunto. -Jeremy

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AUTO: Patrick King is out of the office (returning 09/19/2012)
by Patrick King 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

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Featured Article Slider Extension?
by anotst01＠fastmail.fm 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hard to describe... I like to have a slider on my main page. It should show a pictures from other articles and an first X lines of the article followed with a read more. A few seconds later the next slide fades in. It's supposed to be a presentation. The user can autoplay, forward, backward, click on the article link... Similar Wordpress Demo: http://www.web2feel.com/marina/ Just stay 10 seconds on that page for demonstration. Is there an Featured Article Slider Extension? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free

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(sans objet)
by TANTIN David 08 Sep '12

08 Sep '12

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Modifying user rights and anti spam measures
by Aaron Gray 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi, A couple of quick questions, how do I stop anyone else from registering, and how do I stop anyone who is not a registered user from editing ? I seem to remember doing something in the LocalSettings.php file, but cannot remember what :( I am wondering what anti bot spam measures there are for MediaWIki. Many thanks in advance, Aron

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QINU problem with geotag
by Alexey Uimanov 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Hello, i have installed MediaWiki 1.19 and extension geo http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gis When i insert tag <geo> in the page i receive strange string like this UNIQ708544003b87c1ef-geo-00000000-QINU I have also found description of this bug here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QINU_fix but i can not fix it myself. The fact is that $wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'][] = 'wfGeoSetHook'; ........... function wfGeoSetHook( $parser ) { $parser->setHook( 'geo', 'parseGeo' ); return true; } does processed every time query received, but /** * Called whenever a <geo> needs to be parsed * * Return markup, but also a pointer to Map sources */ function parseGeo ( $text, $params, &$parser ) { global $wgUser; $geo = new GeoParam( $text ); if (($e = $geo->get_error()) != "") { ......... does not processed at all. Another entry point is $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = 'articleSaveGeo'; ........ /** * Hook function called every time a page is saved * Use the ArticleSaveComplete instead of ArticleSave since the ID is * not available upon ArticleSave for new articles */ function articleSaveGeo ( $article, $user, $text ) { $id = $article->getID(); $g = new GisDatabase(); $g->delete_position( $id ); $tag = 'geo'; $gis_content = array(); // !JF1 $parser = new Parser(); $text = $parser->extractTagsAndParams( array( $tag ), $text, $gis_content ); foreach( $gis_content as $marker => $tagresult ) { $tagname = $tagresult[0]; $content = $tagresult[1]; $params = $tagresult[2]; $full = $tagresult[3]; if ( $tagname != 'geo' ) { continue; } $p = new GeoParam( $content ); $attr = $p->get_attr(); $g->add_position( $id, $p->latdeg_min, $p->londeg_min, $p->latdeg_max, $p->londeg_max, $attr['globe'], $attr['type'], $attr['arg:type'] ); } return true; } I suspect that i must do something with this function, but dont know what. So i do not know where and how to find the cause of this behaviour. Thanks.

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system requirements for small site?
by anotst01＠fastmail.fm 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

I know https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements... Let's say I have 20 medium sized wiki pages. Medium sized defined by wikipedia definitions, normal articles, not too much. I expect having 10 to 100 viewers and maximum 5 editors at the same time. How much RAM am I going to need? At the moment I have a VPS with debian and apache with 256 RAM. I am still testing. When I open three different wiki pages in three different browser tabs this takes ~128 MB RAM and the server RAM is full, thus no other pages can be served. So how much RAM am I going to use per wiki site? Doesn't have to be uber correct or proven, just tell me your experiences. How many users you have at a time and that the server still works. If you have some numbers I can upgrade my server plan. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web

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