MediaWiki-l October 2013

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem wfShellExec
by Javier Bezos 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

And the server is Nginx. Javier 2013/10/7 Javier Bezos <jbezos(a)fundeu.es> > 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> > > > -- ______________________________ 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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Import Content to Mediawiki
by Nasir Khan 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Hi, I am migrating a site to mediawiki. All the articles are stored in separate files and i also have some related images. For converting the HTML and importing to my mediawiki site i am using the MwImporter (http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22715.0). I could not find any details documentation to use this script. This script is working fine, but i could not find any option to add the username or edit summery, it is showing my IP address in the place of username and there is a default edit summery. Need some suggestion to add the username and edit summery. *-- **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891> www.nasirkhn.com

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Guardian: GCHQ using MediaWiki?
by Marcin Cieslak 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

A recent document published by The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-pre… mentions the URL https://wiki.gchq/index.php?title=REMATION Wish I could see Special:Version of that :) //Saper https://twitter.com/saperski/status/386657508632592384

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Mediawiki - suddenly slow - suddenly fast - Apache error 408
by Pierre Labrecque 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hello, I'm lost. L Since 2 weeks, I experience some problems : the site runs very fast, and suddenly runs slow for a couple of seconds (let say 15/20 seconds to load a single page), then back to normal. When the problem occurs, I see this in the Apache access.log (see line with error 408. Apache error for Request time out.): 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:34 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/ HTTP/1.1" 301 575 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:34 -0400] "POST /sites/mediawiki001/index.php?action=ajax HTTP/1.1" 200 430 "http://euswebsrv01/sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=Topics:Operating_syst ems/Microsoft_Windows_8/Start_Screen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:34 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=Main_Page HTTP/1.1" 200 8279 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:50 -0400] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:50 -0400] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:51 -0400] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:51 -0400] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" 127.0.0.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:05:54 -0400] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 126 "-" "Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) (internal dummy connection)" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:07:16 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=File:Topics:windows-8_1-start-screen.png HTTP/1.1" 200 7294 "http://euswebsrv01/sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=Topics:Operating_syst ems/Microsoft_Windows_8/Start_Screen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:07:17 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/img_auth.php/thumb/500/5/5b/windows-8_1-start-screen.png /120px-windows-8_1-start-screen.png HTTP/1.1" 200 13178 "http://euswebsrv01/sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=File:Topics:windows-8 _1-start-screen.png" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:07:17 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/img_auth.php/500/5/5b/windows-8_1-start-screen.png HTTP/1.1" 200 189786 "http://euswebsrv01/sites/mediawiki001/index.php?title=File:Topics:windows-8 _1-start-screen.png" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" 192.168.75.1 - - [02/Oct/2013:16:07:17 -0400] "GET /sites/mediawiki001/ HTTP/1.1" 301 575 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" General config: VMware Workstation 10 running on Win7 SP1 x64 Web server: Ubuntu 12.04 Server x64, installed on a VMware machine, with 2 Go of RAM. Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) MySQL 5.5.29 PHP Version 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.7 Mediawiki 1.21.1 APC 3.1.13 No, I haven't change anything in my config since many weeks. I'm the only one who access the site. On the server, I have the following structure: /var/www/index.html (to choose if I want to access Mediawiki site or PHPBB site - see below) /var/www/sites/mediawiki001 (Mediawiki site) /var/www/sites/phpbb001 (PHPBB site) When I access the PHPBB site, all is very rapid. issue occurs only with Mediawiki. I have try to read on the web. but I'm completely lost with this one. still a newbie J You will probably need more info (php.ini ? LocalSettings.php ? extension list ?...) : just tell me. Thanks in advance ! Pierre

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MediaWiki 1.22 Release Plan talk on 9 Oct
by Quim Gil 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hi, you are invited to join the next Tech Talk: MediaWiki 1.22 Release Plan with Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 19:00 UTC, 1 h http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131009T19&p1=1440 Google Hangout for active participants YouTube stream availablea and archived. IRC: #wikimedia-devconnect https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-10-09 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Mediawiki Setup Consultant
by Alexander Frederiksen 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

I want to pay someone to help me setup Languages, MobileFrontend etc. on my wiki running on Linode+Lighttpd. I can pay $£€ and I can wire the funds for donation or as prefered. I have come to the conclussion that my skills are not enough to do what I want, I need a mediawiki guru. If you think you can help me, reach me on: *alexander.frederiksen(a)gmail.com* Regards, Alexander Frederiksen Turning Torso 211 15 Malmö Sweden

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Are passwords hashed and salted both?
by Wjhonson 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Does the Mediawiki software using a simple hashing on the passwords? Or are they also salted?

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Please help with installation
by Jay 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

I am trying to install your software. When I click "Please complete the installation" link and access http://my.host/wiki/mw-config/index.php I receive this error message: Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php I tried several versions and always receive this error message. Please advice. Thank you.

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?
by David Gerard 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 1 October 2013 19:11 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? To: Wikimedia-tech list <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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] [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?
by Brion Vibber 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote: > Something other than Wikia, then? > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Paul Selitskas <p.selitskas(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I think Brion should have expressed some distinction between Wiki services > (like Wikia), and hosting services that provide everything for MediaWiki to > run smoothly, incl. caching software and other fancy stuff. > Ideally, my vision of a general-purpose wiki hosting service would provide options that orgs like Wikia generally don't. Wikia for instance covers "fan encyclopedia" type projects very well -- open access, openish license, free ad-supported hosting, casual user ownership with public backups. I'm thinking more along the lines of covering some of those folks who right now are setting up quick ad-hoc installs on their own servers or shared hosting, and then possibly not maintaining the software for years because they have better things to do than figure out how to update and tweak the software. (Right now I have the impression many of those folks have everything work great until it does eventually break or needs an update...) * ability to disable ads for a reasonable cost (or perhaps waived for certain approved projects) * ability to customize your skin! * ability to control or restrict access (limited access, custom auth integration, etc) * ability to host on your own domain * ability to host on SSL * ability to write, install and run custom extensions * custom writing, testing, and maintenance of custom extensions * service tracking down and fixing bugs * etc This might mean customers span a range of actual hosting methods, from "generic wiki on a farm-style cluster" (like Wikimedia and Wikia's primary wiki hosting) to "you pay for a dedicated VPS mini-cluster for your custom code" to "we run dedicated servers for your expensive custom site", perhaps all the way to "we provide consulting and support to help with your own server setup". There are some folks doing contracting/services and hosting on smaller scales, but we don't really have good coordination or a end-user-facing place we can point people for comprehensive support. Perhaps we just need to coordinate the people doing support and hosting already, or perhaps we should consider organizing something either under, or separately from, WMF... I'm not going to make any specific demands at this point, I've just been itching to see something happen on this front for years. :) -- brion > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Brion Vibber" <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> > > > To: "Wikimedia-tech list" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:11:16 PM > > > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > > jra(a)baylink.com > > Designer The Things I Think RFC > > 2100 > > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > > Rover DII > > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > > 1274 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > -- > З павагай, > Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas > Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >

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