MediaWiki-l September 2012

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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 08 Sep '12

08 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 07 Sep '12

07 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 07 Sep '12

07 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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Security issue--page with child's home address
by Elisabeth T-M 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Dear Media Wiki: I found your page associated with InterceptRadio.com. InterceptRadio has posted the full name and address of my daughter--with a map to our home--apparently after trawling the information at the FCC website (Federal Communications Commission) for licensed amateur radio operators. I want to know how I can have this page permanently deleted: http://www.interceptradio.com/ham.php?call=KI6IMW Two years ago, I changed my daughter's address at the FCC website, but InterceptRadio has not updated. FCC has initiated a huge privacy problem, and with no regard for children, by posting personal information that used to be archived on paper. However, InterceptRadio is compounding the problem by capturing that information, archiving it on the Internet, failing to update it, adding maps to people's homes, and failing to provide any control for the individual. I also want to ask that InterceptRadio post prominent contact information to let people demand deletion of such records. Thank you to everyone on the list for your help.

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ampersand issue
by E. Tolliver 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Hello, I wiki owner is having an issue with the Ampersand. They went into the sidebar removed the ampersand(&) from a menu item, and it now displays the &AMP; in every item in the menu that has a & in it. Any Ideas on what could be the cause. They put the & back, however, the menu still displays the &AMP; wherever there is one in menu. Thank you.

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MediaWiki-l September 2012