MediaWiki-l March 2013

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Using MediaWiki as a personal brain: How to create page as soon as a link is made to it from any other page?
by Javier Mares 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Dear WikiMedia-l, The idea is to create a knowledge network like Freemind or TheBrain's PersonalBrain, but on WikiMedia. All the bits and pieces are available: Link autocomplete from VisualEditor for rapid link creation, the DynamicPageList extension to include backlinks (which thoughts point to this thought?). All but one: To have effective thought creation and linking, I need pages to be created, and linkable by autocomplete, the second they are first linked to by any single page. How would you do this? Is there a way to put placeholder text in a new page automatically, as a link to it is created for the first time in any other page in the wiki? Thanks. Javier

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Fwd: Meetup: Lua meets Wikipedia
by Quim Gil 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Meetup: Lua meets Wikipedia Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:14:38 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, there is a meetup tomorrow Thursday in San Francisco + video streaming: Lua meets Wikipedia http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/106078042/ The talks will start at about 6pm Pacific - 1:00 AM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130315T0100 Video will be streamed and stored at YouTube. The URLs will be available at the meetup page as soon as we have them. We are co-organizing this meetup with the Bay Area Lua Developers meetup, who has the first slot with a demo-based minimal crash course. SF(Rob Lanphier && Aaron Schulz) + remote(Tim Starling && Brad Jorsch) will continue with a session specific to Lua support in Wikipedia and MediaWiki in general. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Was wondering if I could make a "story generator" inMediaWiki?
by Steven Zhong 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

MediaWiki + Semantic MediaWiki + Semantic Forms You can search the keywords in MediaWiki or visit http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org Steven ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Arcane 21"<arcane(a)live.com>; Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:58 AM To: "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Was wondering if I could make a "story generator" inMediaWiki? I've been experimenting with trying to implement some "fun" features on my wiki after having been inspired by some of the "quote generators" on RationalWiki, and I was wondering if there is any way to make a "story generator" on MediaWiki. Specifically, I wanted to type a bunch of words into a series of boxes, click enter, and either a new page or a popup window would show the autogenerated story based on the forms I filled out. The below website is basically what I'd like to create in MediaWiki: http://www.world-english.org/instantstory.htm I was wondering if this is possible, and if so, what and how would I need to go about creating it? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Time ago
by Steve VanSlyck 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

I'm trying to get Template:Time_ago working on my wiki. But it doesn't insert a time. As far as I can tell I need to do something to turn on parser functions. How should I approach this to figure out what's broken and, hence, what to fix? Thanks.

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Cancel pending account invitation
by Steve VanSlyck 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

How does one cancel a pending account email invitation?

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Page disappeared
by Steve VanSlyck 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Well this is weird. I had a page on my wiki. Created file link on it [[File:The_Proud_Father.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Proud Father. Sam Brown, ca. 1920-30]] Saved the page. Followed the link. Uploaded the file (3021 x 3575, 1.55MB)... ... and, ever since then both that file's page and the article page it was to appear on, are blank. Server is not serving any code at all. Some sort of PHP or memory limit? I can view other pages just fine.

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Arabic numerals
by Karam Qubsi 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi all The default numerals in my Arabic mediawiki <http://wikibrary.org> is use the Hindu numerals : (٠‎ - ١‎ - ٢‎ - ٣‎ - ٤‎ - ٥‎ - ٦‎ - ٧‎ - ٨‎ - ٩‎) in the Arab world we prefer to use the global and Arabic numerals : (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) so how to change the default numerals ? Note that Arabic wikipedia <https://ar.wikipedia.org> use the Arabic numerals : (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) our wiki website : http://wikibrary.org and we are using mediawiki Version : 1.20.3 and thanks a lot . -- *Karam Qubsi* * * * *

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Green /doc pages
by Steve VanSlyck 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

OK, another noob question. How do I get my /doc pages to have a nice green background like Wikipedia's?

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RevisionDelete not working for me
by Dan Fisher 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Is Special:RevisionDelete working for anyone with 1.20.2 or 3? To test if its working, go to: www.MyWiki.com/wiki/Special:RevisionDelete (replace mywiki.com with your own) After the update this is still not working (at least for me). Can anyone test it and let me know if its working for you? Copy pasted below is the bug report that was submitted by someone. It was marked as 'resolved' but it may still be broken? thanks Dan ----------------------------- When I go to Special:RevisionDelete with proper permissions, I get this error: Fatal error: Call to a member function isSpecial() on a non-object in /includes/specials/SpecialRevisiondelete.php on line 150 Here is line 150: if ( $this->targetObj->isSpecial( 'Log' ) ) { https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43012

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Recommendations for specs of dedicated server + Squid
by Dan Fisher 08 Mar '13

08 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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