MediaWiki-l December 2013

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 16 Aug '25

16 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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New extensions from Vistaprint
by Daniel Renfro 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

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. They range from very small (see below) to quite powerful & unique. To help us get familiar with Wikimedia's Git/Gerrit process, we're beginning with a very small but useful extension: CategoryTagSorter. It simply alphabetizes the category links displayed in articles. (Normally they appear in the same order written as in the wikitext.) It has been called "the simplest useful MediaWiki extension" and was written originally by Dan Barrett (User:Maiden_taiwan, also author of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book). Have a look at the documentation at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTagSorter View the code at: https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCategoryTagSorter We are looking forward to releasing more extensions in the coming months, and hope to become more involved in the MediaWiki community in general. Questions and/or comments can be sent to me directly, or to MediawikiExtensions(a)vistaprint.com. Cheers, --Daniel Renfro (User:AlephNull) and the rest of the MediaWiki development team at Vistaprint

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Embed JavaScript via an extension
by Sigbert Klinke 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in my extension I would like to use the slider from jquery.ui . Therefore I created a tag <Rslider /> to show the slider. It translate in a wiki page to <script>mw.loader.using( 'jquery.ui.slider', function() { $( "#slider" ).slider(); });</script><div id="slider"></div> As I understand I do not need to use ResourceLoader at all since I want to use just a standard element of jquery.ui . However, the slider does not show up which means I'am doing something wrong :( Thanks for any help Sigbert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSsBg5AAoJEBgNLCKL5DEWcksIAK6ck38aRTFKcZzoKUc3gtdk MlLBsbgbp4I3CyXxb8Q8eBBHl/JB5WJVB6G3OQcjKOKiKoH9gm9G8RWxKsWymtzh Tywr3N/vflyIGzRccAu2IZimvkzSOo0xIhIsHcJHhCqYewZfg9cWyiOyGY2gX1VO vDgoQrH7QCH8L2wKeq69eKGywDMfVdSPZx/2WfKQG2UXgoD+6M2BBXjLiw1M9ha4 N0d9Vd0+UVaVUhZ7UBwgCDe716tnsTkVQ8IpdaDUG/YKkxF394+c5dqhLC2ixhNz ZlWaV6QufqTBn9uFVKahFy/6EjQoU+gFCtJD2ID7XmnA1TYZTCXR71yZh6wjyzk= =1xLn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Error message Help needed
by John W. Foster 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

I am still getting this error message on my Mediawiki site: http://www.physicswiki.net Error: Module:Navbar:25: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil) It pops up on the top of some boxes at the bottom of articles on some pages. Seems to be related to LUA & Scribunto modules. I did not have this until I installed those extensions. I see that they are required in order for the templates that I download from Wikipedia and use on my site. Any ideas as to how to rid my site of this is appreciated. Thanks John

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.12 release
by Kartik Mistry 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Hello, Happy New Year to all! I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.12. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.21.3 and MediaWiki 1.22.0 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.12.tar… * sha256sum: 2ef19e31d685dd0d6e50088ec8bbb1cd3e74c694096dfa333efb61dcfee9c3c0 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel, CLDR and LocalisationUpdates == * Only localization updates. == CleanChanges == * Bug 58439: Fix Monobook skin by removing extra <nowiki></div></nowiki> creating invalid HTML. * Localization updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Translator Sandbox: ** Translator Sandbox is a feature to simplify the sign-up process for new translators. It can be enabled using "$wgTranslateUseSandbox = true;", but it will only be useful in conjunction with the TwnMainPage, which is not included in MLEB (at least yet). ** Stash and translator approval pages are now usable. ** When a user is accepted, a bare-bones user page with a Babel box is created. * TUX editor: ** Bug 53748: Message group related calls were made two order of magnitudes faster, making Special:Translate's group selector, workflow state selector etc. fast enough even on wikis with hundreds or thousands groups. ** Add useful shortcuts to TUX editor. All buttons to insert/replace text (insertables and then translation aids in order; "discard changes" is skipped) are numbered from 1 up and can be accessed with both alt+<num> and arrow up and down. ** Update the statusbar at the bottom of the TUX message tables when saving or proofreading. * Added support to MediaWiki localisation format from PHP files to JSON files. This is part of the Localization Format RFC ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format ). ** Add support for JSON in mediawiki-defines.txt, allowing the handling of MediaWiki extension that us the new format. Documentation about the updates in MessageGroup configuration can be found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Group_configuration… ** Fixed JsonFFS for properly importing and exporting Authors. ** targetPattern in group configuration is now optional. ** Migrate the Translate extension itself to JSON based i18n files from PHP files. This change is transparent to all users of extension. * Support xliff 1.1 files in addition to xliff 1.2 as well, but without validation. === Breaking changes === Special:FirstSteps has been removed from Translate. If you want the feature, you'll have to download it separately. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Language selector now opens an order of magnitude faster (see https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/pull/122 for details). * Initial support for webfonts in MobileFrontend: ** Currently, support for webfonts in MobileFrontend is disabled by default. It can be enabled by setting $wgULSMobileWebfontsEnabled = true; in LocalSettings.php file. Note that, even then it will only be enabled for users who has opted in for the mobile beta mode. === Fonts === * Bug 57767: Enable Amiri font for Soranî language. * Bug 58381, 58382: Add Lateef and Scheherazade fonts for Soranî and Farsi languages. * Update Autonym font to version 20131205: ** Fixed Autonym for Old Slavonic. ** Fixed glyphs for the Glagolitic script. ** Removed Reserved Font Name (RFN) and documentation updates. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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phpunit crashing with db error for extension with a view
by Jim Hu 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

We have an extension that has modified the schema with a view. Using MW 1.19 and mySQL 5.6, I'm trying to learn unit testing to do some code archaeology and refactoring. When I run tests/phpunit/phpunit.php I get: $ php phpunit.php PHPUnit 3.7.28 by Sebastian Bergmann. Configuration read from /Library/WebServer/Documents/GO/wiki/tests/phpunit/suite.xml A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php after upgrading? See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Run_the_update_script Query: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `unittest_cacao_open_challenges_view` (LIKE `cacao_open_challenges_view`) Function: DatabaseMysql::duplicateTableStructure Error: 1347 'go_wikidb.cacao_open_challenges_view' is not BASE TABLE (localhost) Since the schema change is there regardless of whether the extension is active or not, the test crashes either way. The wiki works. As I understand it, this is because mySQL doesn't allow temporary tables to be created from views. So... I am guessing that I somehow need to tell phpunit to skip this view when testing the database. How do I do that? Thanks! Jim ===================================== Jim Hu Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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by RobertGarritano＠discover.com 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

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