MediaWiki-l January 2013

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Discussion with third-party MediaWiki users
by Maria Miteva 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi everyone, As a part of my WMF internship, I have compiled a list of MediaWiki "vendors" <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_vendors#Active_Vendors>and am about to initiate discussions with them on a variety of topics at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_vendors. I would like to invite you to join the discussions and to add discussion threads with relevant discussion topics you are interested in. I am starting to contact them today to initiate the conversations. Thank you. Mariya

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Requesting help and advice on making a custom Vector skin
by Arcane 21 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text colors. I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/ Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google code) Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no effect. I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance.

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Userprefs locked
by Steve VanSlyck 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi. Anyone see anything in here to explain why my userprefs are locked (cannot be changed at all)? ## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic ## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook', 'vector': $wgDefaultSkin = "vector"; ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. $wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright $wgRightsUrl = ""; $wgRightsText = ""; $wgRightsIcon = ""; # Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution. $wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3"; # Query string length limit for ResourceLoader. You should only set this if your webserver # has a query string length limit (then set it to that limit), or if you have # suhosin.get.max_value_length set in php.ini (then set it to that value) $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength = -1; # End of automatically generated settings. # Add more configuration options below. # ============================================================================ # ============================================================================ # Disable reading by anonymous users $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; # But allow them to access the login page or else there will be no way to log in! # NOTE: You also need to provide access here to the .css and .js files that the # allowed pages attempt to load; otherwise users will get errors on the page # when they attempt to load it (Internet Explorer will complain about the errors; # Firefox will show them in its error console). # (You also might want to add access to "Main Page", "Wikipedia:Help", etc.) $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:UserLogout", "MediaWiki:Common.css", "MediaWiki:Common.js", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css", "MediaWiki:Monobook.js", "MediaWiki:Vector.css", "-"); # Note - With r105428 Special:PasswordReset is always whitelisted, as are Special:ChangePassword and Special:UserLogin # Disable anonymous editing $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; # Hide the section edit links for users who are not logged in $wgDefaultUserOptions ['editsection'] = false; # Hide personal tool links (links to user page and user talk page) for anonymous visitors ("IPs"). # Doing this allows for improved caching, because all anonymous visitors can then be served # the exact same version of each page. $wgShowIPinHeader = false; # Prevent new user registrations except by sysops $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; # Gimme interwiki table edit rights $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['interwiki'] = true; # FAVICON IDENTITY $wgFavicon = "$wgScriptPath/favicon.ico"; # OPERATIONAL CUSTOMIZATIONS # Enable file uploads $wgFileExtensions = array_merge($wgFileExtensions, array( 'txt', 'doc', 'docx', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'pdf', 'svg', 'mp3' )); # EXTENSIONS require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" ); $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true; require_once( "$IP/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.php" ); require_once("$IP/extensions/UserRightsList/UserRightsList.php"); require_once( "$IP/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php" ); # Enable WikiEditor require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" ); ##############Enable use of WikiEditor by default but still allow users to disable it in preferences. $wgDefaultUserOptions['usebetatoolbar'] = 1; $wgDefaultUserOptions['usebetatoolbar-cgd'] = 1; ##############Display the Preview and Changes tabs $wgDefaultUserOptions['wikieditor-preview'] = 1; ##############Display the Publish and Cancel buttons on the top right side (IMPORTANT NOTE I HAVE MODIFIED THE ##CODE TO MAKE THESE WORK). $wgDefaultUserOptions['wikieditor-publish'] = 1; # Enable Vector extension require_once("$IP/extensions/Vector/Vector.php"); ##############Allow users to enable EditWarning in their preferences. $wgVectorFeatures['editwarning']['user'] = true; ##############Allow users to enable CollapsibleTabs in their preferences. $wgVectorFeatures['collapsibletabs']['user'] = true; ##############Allow users to enable CollapsibleNav in their preferences. $wgVectorFeatures['collapsiblenav']['user'] = true; ##############Allow users to enable FooterCleanup in their preferences. $wgVectorFeatures['footercleanup']['user'] = true; ##############Enable Section Edit Links globally. ##########################################$wgVectorFeatures['sectioneditlinks']['global'] = true; ##############Allow users to enable Section Edit Links in their preferences. ##########################################$wgVectorFeatures['sectioneditlinks']['user'] = true; ##############Enable Simple Search $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch = true; ##############Enable ExpandableSearch globally. $wgVectorFeatures['expandablesearch']['global'] = true; ##############Allow users to enable Expandable Search in their preferences. ##############$wgVectorFeatures['expandablesearch']['user'] = true; ########################################################################### ########################################################################### ############## CURRENT PROBLEMS ############## ############## SCROLLBAR IN SEARCH BOX ############## ############## CANNOT CHANGE PREFS ############## ############## VECTOR sectioneditlinks SETTINGS MESS UP PREFS PAGE, ############## AND DON'T SEEM TO BE NECESSARY ANYWAY ############## ############## WIKIEDITOR CANCEL BUTTON NOT WORKING ############## DESPITE APPLICATION OF THE HACK, ############## WHICH DID WORK EARLIER. ########################################################################### ########################################################################### # Interwiki require_once( "$IP/extensions/Interwiki/Interwiki.php" ); ## Grant sysops permissions to edit interwiki data $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['interwiki'] = true; ## Create a new user group that may edit interwiki data (bureaucrats can add users to this group) ## $wgGroupPermissions['developer']['interwiki'] = true; # Enable Short URLs # http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL $wgUsePathInfo = true; $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

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Mobile frontend
by Ad Strack van Schijndel 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi, Is there a way to exclude some things from the mobile view when using the mobile frontend extension? Best regards, Ad

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Permissions - Images directory
by Steve VanSlyck 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

I seem my permissions on the /wiki/images directory are 755. Should they truly be 644?

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MediaWiki Extension Bundles and Template Bundles
by Yuvi Panda 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

(New to mediawiki-l, so unsure if this has been discussed before) Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff that people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite come to mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-India] Mediawiki To: MediaWiki development in India <mediawiki-india(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey Ram! Welcome to mediawiki-india :) Agreed on all points, and I see some parts where we could collaborate and start putting together stuff. If I'm reading this right, here are the potential projects that might be done: 1. A default mediawiki installation bundle (MW + A bunch of Extensions) 2. A default 'templatekit' (Commonly used templates from enwiki / other wikis) 3. Better 'levels' of information/deetail on the Manual Perhaps we could start doing internal hackathons (online, with experienced people from the India MW community pitching in) to do these things? These won't be workshops, but online events for us to get stuff done. Thoughts? Semantic Mediawiki is a lot of fun (despite a few performance problems that prevent it from being used on large wikis). Nischay is a contributor for SMW from India, but I don't think he's on this list yet. I'll forward this to him and see what we can do about that too! Thanks! P.S. I'll forward this to mediawiki-l in a while, since I think it is relevant there too. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Interwiki extension
by Steve VanSlyck 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

I'm trying to download the Interwiki extension discussed at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Interwiki The download link (the one titled "tree") takes me to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Interwiki.git;… . But what am I supposed to download?

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Gender
by Steve VanSlyck 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Brion, Thanks for your response, and I understand your point. However if the question "Gender" is asking for what gender characteristic to use then the answers should be "Masculine" and "Feminine" instead of "Male" and "Female."

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(sans objet)
by plutot75 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

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New Wiki - bureaucrat rights
by Steve VanSlyck 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

OK, so this is a new wiki (somebody please tell me if I'm sending these messages to the wrong list) and although I am a bureacrat I don't see an undo, revert, or other page management links on the history pages. I know there must be something fundamental I have forgotten. Ideas?

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