MediaWiki-l October 2013

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by Fiorenza Meini 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi there, I installed MediaWiki version 1.21.2. Is it possible to publish content based on category type? I'd like to have some web pages visible only to autenticated users, and other for public (without authentication), Thanks and regards Fiorenza Meini -- Fiorenza Meini Spazio Web S.r.l. V. Dante Alighieri, 10 - 13900 Biella Tel.: 015.2431982 - 015.9526066 Fax: 015.2522600 Reg. Imprese, CF e P.I.: 02414430021 Iscr. REA: BI - 188936 Iscr. CCIAA: Biella - 188936 Cap. Soc.: 30.000,00 Euro i.v.

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SubPageList 1.0 released
by Jeroen De Dauw 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hey, I am happy to announce the immediate release of SubPageList 1.0. This release packs a ton of improvements over the last one, which was almost two years ago. Particular attention has been paid to making the extension more maintainable, solid and flexible. The documentation has also been updated and now includes descriptions for all supported parameters. Installation and usage instructions can be found via the README: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SubPageList/blob/master/R… Enjoy! -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 --

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Images in tables
by Yan Seiner 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

I would like to display images in tables, similar to <gallery> but I want the images to be in a table across the width of the page. Specifically, I want two columns of images that span the entire width of the page, with each image taking 50% (or slightly less if borders are used) of the available page width. I've tried various combinations of style and such and they all seem to be ignored. Is there a way to display images relative to the width of the page? or fitted inside tables? {| |- |style="width: 50%;"|[[File:image1.jpg|caption]] |style="width: 50%;"|[[File:image2.jpg|caption]] |} does not work. -- Project Management Consulting and Training http://www.ridgelineconsultingllc.com

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Mediawiki on a remote host questions
by John W. Foster 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

As the title say, I just installed mediawiki 1.21.2 on a remotely hosted VPS server. I got everything set up using the putty software, and the remote server is a Debian 'squeeze' system, where I do have 'root' level access & can install what ever i need. First rattle out of the bag the mediawiki fired up in my browser and asked for me to complete the installation, as I expected. However when I clicked on the link to 'complete the installation' nothing happened. I tried a chown -R to www-data for the entire wiki, but that made no difference. a test of php5 shows all OK as well as does the apache server it's running on. This is my first ever attempt to manage a wiki remotely, so any tips are appreciated. I just don't have a clue why this did'nt work. Thanks John

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Fwd: Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?
by Mark A. Hershberger 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

+ mediawiki-l -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:11:16 -0700 From: Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia-tech list <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical Question for the group: Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation? If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and use) do to make this happen? [Please do not consider the existence of this email to imply that only regular posters on wikitech-l are allowed to read, comment on, or give opinions in this matter -- on the contrary, wider input is being requested. Please forward this question to anyone to whom it may be of interest. If you would like to get more input from other people, please feel free to contact them on your own, with or without a forward of this mail, and to make follow-up posts or comments as you need or want to. Please feel free to modify the question, the idea, the proposal, or make comments or additions. Be bold and get involved!] -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] New extensions from Vistaprint
by Jan Steinman 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

> From: Daniel Renfro <drenfro(a)vistaprint.com> > > At Vistaprint (www.vistaprint.com), we have an extensive internal wiki, and over the last six years, my team has built 50+ custom MediaWiki extensions. I'm happy to announce that we are starting to release these extensions as open source. Wonderful! Thank you (and Vistaprint) for doing this! I look forward to announcements as they roll out, and I'm watching the category page. Personally, I've been looking for a nice charting/graphing extension that can query MySQL tables. Almost wrote one several times, but real work got in the way... :::: It's hard to believe in miracles when the miracle workers have to put down their magic wands and reach for an old-fashioned snow shovel. -- Hal Borland :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Running PHPUnit tests from Eclipse?
by Samuel Lampa 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi, Did anybody succeed at running the MediaWiki PHPUnit Unit tests from Eclipse (with PDT)? I have succeded in running them from the commandline, but in order to get quicker (and automatic) response on errors, I wanted to have the test run automatically on every file save. For Eclipse (with PHP development tools) there is the MakeGood Eclipse plugin [1], which does this, but since the MediaWiki tests have to be run from the phpunit.php file shipped with MediaWiki, I haven't yet figured out a way to make MakeGood run them that way. Didn't even find anything about this by googling. Anybody using Eclipse, and got this working? Best Regards // Samuel [1] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/makegood-1#.Ulb1Md9s8UQ

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Import data from old MediaWiki into a new version
by Holger Büch 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi everybody, I have a backup of the files and the sql-db of an old MediaWiki (1.9.3) from 2007. I want to revive this wiki completely with the current MediaWiki-Version. What is the easiest/fastest way to import this old data in a new MediaWiki-Installation? I thought about 2 ways: 1. Try to restore the complete old MediaWiki and upgrade that one (step by step, if necessary). But this is difficult, because I would need old version of PHP etc... 2. Import and Update only the data directly to the new Version. But I don't know if this is possible and what tools I could use... Do you have any ideas or experience in getting such an old Wiki back on the feet? Thanks & Cheers, Holger

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Problem wfShellExec
by Javier Bezos 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

I'm not sure this is a problem in the server or in MediaWiki. I have an extension which calls a bash script with wfShellExec. The bash file consists essentially of touch $1.A latex $1 dvipng $1 touch $1.B The touch'es are just to see if the bash file is run. And indeed it's. However, neither .dvi nor .log files are created (which are the result of running latex). However, when running the script from the command line everything is ok. This extension is based on WikiTeX.php, and the lines calling the script are: $cmd = wfEscapeShellArg( $wfTexConvert, $tempName, $dpi, "$storedir/$hash" ); wfProfileIn( "TeX-shellexec" ); $convtext = trim( wfShellExec( $cmd ) ); wfProfileOut( "TeX-shellexec" ); Any ideas about what's wrong? Perhaps some permission not set? By the way, TeX is TeXLive2012, installed separately, and the site is www.wikilengua.org . Javier -- ______________________________ Javier Bezos López T. 34 913 467 440 www.fundeu.es www.wikilengua.org www.manualdeestilo.com Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/fundeu>, Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/fundeu>, YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/fundeu>y Google+<http://gplus.to/fundeu>

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External Auth
by Jamie Taniguchi 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

I'm using 1.21 but I'm using an external db to authenticate users using an extended class of AuthPlugin. The only problem is that I need our userid's to match up with MediaWiki's mId. At the moment on every API call that returns mId I have to do a query to external_user table which is the map for mId -> userid. This isn't practical to do and adds more overhead than is necessary. What's even worse is that the extenal_user table is completely removed in 1.22 in this commit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54900/3 I emailed Chad asking what options I have, he didn't know and directed me here. Is there a way to override the User object? I see that there's an AuthPluginUser in the AuthPlugin.php but there's no documentation as to actually what this is, or does. I'm assuming this isn't what I need because there's instances where the User class is called statically. Alternatively is there a way to override the mId upon user creation so that I can use our userid for mId? Assuming I can just remove the AUTO_INCREMENT on the user table to get this to work. I've tried modifying updateUser to set mId but then function calls like $wgUser->getEdittoken() will return an Invalid Token, which is understandable. I could just edit User.php but I'd rather not as it'd make upgrading more tedious to do. Pretty much the only reason I need to do this is because our usernames don't follow the same standards that MediaWiki enforces, eg: Names don't have to start with a capital, and can contain spaces. But having our userid's available in API calls would be more beneficial. -- Jamie Taniguchi Neo Era Media, Inc. taniguchij(a)neoseeker.com / tekmosis(a)neoseeker.com Twitter: tekmosis

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MediaWiki-l October 2013