MediaWiki-l February 2013

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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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Installing
by Steve VanSlyck 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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"?

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Recommendations for specs of dedicated server + Squid
by Dan Fisher 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

I was running mediawiki on a Shared host and traffic was around 10K views a day (small to moderate size wiki). I was forced to leave that setup because of high CPU usage. I was not able to install Squid there or do anything to speed things up. I had talked about that before on this list and I'm thankful for the recommendations. Now I'm on a VPS where Squid is running and currently I don't have CPU issues except when there's a traffic spike. So I've decided to look for a dedicated server. I've seen on web hosting forums that (low-end?) dedicated servers are available for pretty cheap ($100). Currently I'm paying $70 for the VPS. My key issue is that the webhost has to willing to let me remain anonymous and because of this my options are limited. For example they have to accept Paypal. I have not looked around yet at what options are available but I will look into that next after this discussion. To be prepared for the future, I want the server to be able to support 30K views a day (3 times the current traffic) and display pages with no noticeable/serious delays. I hope a $100 server with Squid can do this for me. Are there any server specs that I should look for? The first one would be RAM. What's the minimum RAM I should have? Other desirable specs? My second issue is the hit ratio for Squid: According to Squid's cache manager, the cache hit rate is about 40% and the byte hit ratio is 20%. Average time taken to serve a "missed" request is 0.7 seconds, while for a hit its only 0.02 seconds (35 times faster). So a higher hit ratio would be really nice. Looking at Squid's access logs, I also noticed that calls to Load.php are always "misses". Can anything be done to fix that? What can be done to optimize Squid for mediawiki and increase the hit ratio? The RAM I have available is 1.3GB and I told Squid it can use 130MB and it goes over and the total RAM used usually stays around 40%. I know 1.3GB may be small. I've heard we need to leave some ram free, to ensure system stability. I may have more RAM in the dedicated server when I get it. If anyone has a high hit ratio, I would really be thankful if you could email me your Squid.conf (remove any sensitive information) and I can compare it with my setup. Or you could tell me the settings I should change or add. thanks! Dan

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Transclusion from private wiki
by Bri 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Greetings! I am trying to do tranclusion form one private wiki of mine to another (so that I do not have to duplicate pages between wikis). However, when I try it is requiring a Log In. Does anyone know a means of transclusion with log on info? -Bri

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Splitting a shared database?
by Justin Lloyd 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hello all, I have two version 1.16 wikis that use a shared database configuration that I'd like to split (I'm working towards upgrading them to 1.20). Say X is the database that has the user and user_properties tables, and Y is the one that shares those tables. Would it be sufficient to mysqldump the user and user_properties tables from X, import them into Y, and set $wgSharedDB to null in the wiki that uses Y? Also, what would the process be if I just wanted to upgrade the wikis to 1.20 but still with the shared configuration? One stumbling block so far is that one database is about 5 GB and the shared one is around 50 GB. As a test, I ran the 1.20 update.php script against a copy of the 5 GB database and it took about 18 hours, though that's on a small (2 CPU, 1 GB RAM) VMware VM. Even on the wiki database production hardware I'd be concerned about how long an update.php run against the 50 GB database might take, as I want to avoid a lengthy downtime. Is there any way to speed up the process? Any field-tested recommendations on improving this procedure? Thanks, Justin

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Bonjour
by Rachid ELAÏDI 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Je souhaite faire la connaissance d'une égyptienne,...

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Group-based editing permissions
by Nicola Ferrari (#554252) 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi everybody. I just configured LDAP Authentication in my mediawiki. It works fine. Now I would like to create 1-2 groups of users, and give them different permission (e.g. create a default group where user take place at first login, and then a group where an admin can move him to give him editing permissions...) like in CMS like joomla or similar... Is it possible? Any help is approciated... Thanks a lot. Nick -- +---------------------+ | Linux User #554252 | +---------------------+

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Newbie question - Storing and accessing pages as lists of many fields
by Eli Handel 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Thanks Yury Katkov and Phil Rice for answering. Regarding Phil's answer, I'm too new at this to understand the actual code that you wrote and my question may have been unclear, so I'll try to rephrase it to find out whether it is referring to my situation: I'd like to set up a wiki where the wiki editors will not need to understand MediaWiki tags; I want the editing page to be a form with specific predetermined fields to fill out. e.g. The people who add content to the wiki will see two fields, Title1 and Paragraph1, and after they fill out those they can say that they want to add another paragraph to the page and then two more fields will appear, Title2 and Paragraph2, etc. And finally when they're done they can save the whole page. They can also somehow insert links to source quotes and the source quotes would be stored via a different form. How do I go about this? Do I need to learn how to write a custom extension or is there already a way available? Semantic Forms extension seems to possibly provide some of this functionality but I have a feeling that it might not be the correct tool for this job. Maybe overkill or maybe just wrong? Thanks again, Eli __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7656 (20121103) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

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Lua in 1.19?
by David Gerard 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Will the assorted modules needed for Lua templates work with 1.19, or do we need to get an actually recent MW for this? (Does it work in any tarball release version yet?) - d.

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Newbie question
by Eli Handel 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hello, I hope that I'm sending this queston to the appropriate place. I'd like to create a wiki where articles are restricted to a specific format, for example the format will be that an article can have a number of separate paragraphs and each paragraph will have a title. So I'd like to store the parts of the article (paragraphs, titles) as separate fields in a database. I will then display the database data using a custom display. Do I have to write my own extension to MediaWiki? Can I use the Semantic Forms extension which seems to provide all kinds of helpful ways of defining classes with properties, or is that a misuse of the Semantic Forms extension? Is there a different extension or way that I can do things like this where I'm basically using MediWiki to fill a database and then to display the contents of the database? Or maybe MediaWiki is not even the tool that I should be using? Thank you very much. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7656 (20121103) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

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