MediaWiki-l January 2013

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[Semantic Forms] Restricting field from editing after initial setting
by Al Johnson 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi, Is it possible to have a field that is only set once during page creation and then set to "read-only" for future form edits of the page? Thanks, Al

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Need good PHP IDE for code browsing
by Al Johnson 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi, I have to start digging into the code and need an IDE that makes it easy to navigate, ala Eclipse, such as function call hierarchies, etc.. Free is preferable. Thanks!

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A spammer is monitoring this mail list
by Al Johnson 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

I just got spammed with the email impostering another user of this forum I recently exchanged email with.

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Third-Party Users Wish List - Does Anyone Know of Existing/Experimental Solutions?
by Maria Miteva 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi everyone, I have been talking to some third-party users trying to learn more about what they would like to see happening in MediaWiki in the near future. Here is a list of the things on the wish list, with the ones on top being more popular. Please let me know if you know of an existing extension or another solution for these problems, if you are currently working on something similar or would be interested to, or if you have any general comments/feedback you would like to share. I did some searching and included what I found but I have no experience with the mentioned extensions so I am not sure how relevant/stable they are. 1. WYSIWYG editor - VisualEditor is in progress ! 2. Integrated access control: ability to hide some pages from the groups of users. Fine grained read access in the wiki. Some extensions that I found addressing the problem. Extension:AccessControl <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AccessControl>- has a security disclaimer Extension:Access_Control_Panel <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Access_Control_Panel>- an old beta Extension:Access_Control_List <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Access_Control_List>- developers site down 3. More modern skins included in MediaWiki or at least easier extension development and maintenance. Are there any skin suits you know of and would recommend? Any good skinning resources ? e.g. http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/ 4. The implementation of Semantic MediaWiki on mediawiki.org website in order to manage easily extensions pages. 5. Wiki-markup editor for template gurus - with autocompletion, syntax highlight, template parameters suggestions: more like markup IDE. 6. An easy way to share wiki content on social media services. Extension:AddThis <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddThis> - seems like a solution, any opinions? Also: Extension:Facebook <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Facebook> - just Facebook Extension:WikiShare <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiShare> - unstable version, seems like it's not worked on any more 7. Built in support for Google Analytics Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration>(latest version 2009) http://karenfreemansmith.com/2011/02/10/adding-google-analytics-mediawiki/ 8. Built in support for XML Sitemaps without using command line Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap> 9. Built in support for Google Adsense in popular layout positions Extension:Google_AdSense_2<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_AdSense_2> 10. Easy way of gracefully retiring old tags (e.g. Google Maps extension is no longer supported, replaced with Maps which has different tags) 11. Update to the documentation about creating a simple extension that is XSS safe. 12. Mobile version for website that turns with MediaWiki - this is in progress http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_support_in_MediaWiki_core 13. MediaWiki Core API. "Not the HTTP-API but the set of PHP classes in the core that are less likely to change in the next version. Core developers to think about MediaWiki as framework with programming interfaces for extension developers. All the changes in those interfaces have to be calm, with slow deprecation. A role model for that is Python compiler." Sorry for the long email and thank you if you made it here. The alternative was to send many emails and I thought that would be too spammy :) More to come soon ! Mariya

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Third-Party Users Wish List - Does Anyone Know of Existing/Experimental Solutions?
by Clément Dietschy 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

> 2. Integrated access control We've developed a rather reliable way for artists to control read/edit/upload rights on their own page/files. Although the code is not ready for forking, I haven't seen such advanced feature for MW yet and it's at least a proof of concept. Note that only the page content and the files are safely protected, logs (recent changes, histories, search, edit summaries...) cannot be trusted yet. Resources: * Demonstration on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/57671929 * Extension:ProtectOwn (brings "read right", and "owner" access control. /!\ ugly, should be broken down) https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Protect… * Note: Extension:ProtectOwn comes from Extension:AuthorProtect http://www.mediawiki.org/w/Extension:AuthorProtect * Extension:WikiPlace (our concept of private space, could be broken down) https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Wikipla… * What is a WikiPlace? http://www.seizam.com/Help:Wikiplace The reason why there is no page on MW.org and the code is not on WM's git is because we don't have the resources to refactor and clean it (as it should be done to avoid thousands of headaches). Sorry about that, but it is GPL3 and we're eager to help whoever wants to test it, use it and/or bring it forward. > 6. An easy way to share wiki content on social media services. Our Extension:WidgetsFramework allows easy embedding of external content in the wiki, including social features. Already available widgets are AddThis, Google+, Facebook, twitter... Resources: Demonstration on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/57689952 MW.org: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WidgetsFramework Code on Github: https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Widgets… Again, code is not on MW's git because of lacking resources. Again, sorry. Hope all this can be helpful. -- Clément Dietschy 75020 Paris tél. +33 6 87 75 99 27 -- Seizam Sàrl. 24, rue de Bâle 68300 Saint-Louis (France) tél. +33 970 448 200 http://www.seizam.com

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error after mediawiki installation
by gmail 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

hy i have a question i have installed mediawiki on my server. when i m going to the interface on my firefox or opera there is no problem i can finish the installation with no error and the php are interpreted. When i click on the link to access at my mediawiki i get some really strange error**more than halfthe time. you can show it below http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/errorphp.png/ the file log /2013/01/29 15:55:28 [error] 32690#0: *405 FastCGI sent in stderr: """ is not a valid magic word for "tree" // //"" is not a valid magic word for "menu" // //"" is not a valid magic word for "star"" while reading response header from upstream, client:/ Do you know how i can resolved it ?

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Fwd: Re: Installing
by Steve VanSlyck 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Sorry about that last. THIS is what I meant to bump. ----- Forwarded message from s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net ----- But isn't the recommend method to use /w/ as Wikepedia does so that the scriptpath and articlepath don't point to the same directory? On 1/27/2013 13.49, John wrote: > wiki is just a suggestion, you could call it purplepeopleeater and it > wouldnt make a difference /wiki/ is just short simple and to the point > where /w/ can be too short > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Steve VanSlyck > <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >> The file "INSTALL" says, "Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive >> either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory >> tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki," since >> it'll be in your URL." >> >> Shouldn't that be "w" instead of "wiki"? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: Installing
by Steve VanSlyck 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Any thoughts? ----- Forwarded message from s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net ----- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:39:03 -0500 From: Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> Reply-To: Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> Subject: Installing To: MediaWiki Announcements List <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The file "INSTALL" says, "Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki," since it'll be in your URL." Shouldn't that be "w" instead of "wiki"? ----- End forwarded message -----

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Installing Math on 1.20.2
by Steve Stevenson 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

I need some help installing Math. I've got everything installed per the instructions and I'm working down the Mac OS X special instructions. Everything seems to work correctly individually until I try to use a Wiki page. I have a simple one-line test <math>a = b</math> *Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex and dvipng (or dvips + gs + convert)): a = b* latex, dvips, and gs are definitely working right. Convert is in /usr/local/lib - is that correct? -- D. E. (Steve) Stevenson (Almost emeritus) Associate Professor Clemson University steve at clemson dot edu "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach," Aristotle.

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How does one enable the animated star for the MediaWiki watchlist on the Vector skin?
by Arcane 21 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

I wanted enable the animated star icon for the watchlist on my wiki with the Vector skin (like it works on Wikipedia and RationalWiki), but I have no idea how to enable it. I looked over MediaWiki.org over and over again and I couldn't find any information how to enable that feature. If anyone knows how to enable that feature, your help would be appreciated.

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