April 2013 - MediaWiki-l - lists.wikimedia.org

no search box in my mediawiki on the sidebar
by Jason Zhou 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, I just installed mediawiki 1.20.4, it works find for creating pages and browsing them, but I just find there is no search box on the side bar, how should I change my configuration file to make the search box available to me? Pls. kindly help me, many thanks in advance. Thanks, Jason

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Question mark after every link?
by Nicola Ferrari (#554252) 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi guys. I had to restore my DefaultSettings.php file for some reasons, and now, I'm having a strange problem.. Almost every link has a question mark (?) at the end. e.g. username link in the top right bottom after logging in, is "username?" and the "my topics" link is "mytopics?" Also every category link gives the same problem.. Instead of seeing a red link with "Category" as in the past, now I see a black link "Category?" and only the ? is red. But actually, links are working correctly... Why? Any suggestion on how to solve? Thanks to everybody :) Nick -- +---------------------+ | Linux User #554252 | +---------------------+

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Upgrade Error
by Punit Varia 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, After upgrading mediawiki from 1.19.5 to 1.20.4 I am facing following error : Error: invalid magic word 'speciale' Can you provide a patch to fix this bug ? -- * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *Punit Varia * *Script Packaging Head* punit(a)softaculous.com <http://www.softaculous.com/><http://www.softaculous.com/> <http://www.softaculous.com/> Become our fan on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/softaculous>and follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/softaculous>

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l10n_cache table constantly turning-over
by Daniel Renfro 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Cheers MWers, I have a strange problem on my (clustered and load-balanced) Mediawiki instance: the 'l10n_cache' table is getting written to *very* excessively (and constantly.) Mediawiki seems to write the same localization information to the database every 3-5 seconds. This is causing MySQL to constantly write binlog files (for replication to the slaves) which fills the partition after a number of hours. Removing all my extensions does not stop the problem. I have APC installed for opt-code caching, and Memcached installed for caching other things (sessions, parser-stuff, etc.) I assume that this is all due to the constant requests made by the load-balancer to the wiki which in turn cause MW to recalculate the cache. Why is the l10n_cache table getting completely rewritten every few seconds? The cache is not functioning as a cache. I found one thing that will stop this behavior: $wgLocalisationCacheConf['manualRecache'] = true; But this feels wrong because it makes me manually recomputed the l10n cache whenever I update/release. (Yet another thing to tack onto the release process.) There are also some configuration variables which will slow the process ($wgUpdateRowsPerQuery) or cache it to disk ($wgLocalisationCacheConf), but this merely masks the problem. Does anyone have an insight into why the l10n_cache table is getting written to so much? Or why Mediawiki isn't actually *caching* the localization messages in the database? MW: 1.20.2 PHP: 5.3.3 MySQL: 5.1.66 CentOS 6.3 --Daniel (User:DanielRenfro)

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1.21.0rc3 -- more bug fixes and testing
by Mark A. Hershberger 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Download links at the end of this email. Note that I've include a "core-only" tarball this week as well. Since last week, the following fixes were included in the tarball: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58418/ backport changes in Collation from master * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58462/ Cleared ResourceLoader blob store after update.php finishes. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59102/ PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isLocal() on non-object in Title.php * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59265/ Combine JavaScript and JSON encoding logic * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59328/ Fix pretty JSON when strings end with backslashes * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59329/ FormatJson: microoptimizations for UTF8_OK mode Fixes in queue: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59369/ Disable $wgContentHandlerUseDB during upgrade where fields don't exist. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59375/ Sanitize $limitReport before outputting * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59376/ Disable external entities in XMLReader * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59377/ Disable external entities in Import And, finally, if you want to pitch in, it isn't too late. Here is a list of bugs I'd like to get fixed before the final release: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,4… <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,4…> * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44294 MWException error - Error: invalid magic word 'speciale' * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44568 bin/ulimit5.sh isn't UNIX compliant * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44907 ResourceLoader: Invalid argument supplied for foreach * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46401 [Regression] mw.loader: Code should execute after styles being loaded (wait for async cssText buffering) * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802 Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly textbox on status page Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ******************************************************************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.patch.gz <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz> Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc3.patch… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch…> GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz.sig <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz.sig> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc3.tar.g… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz.sig> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.patch.gz.s… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz.s…> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc3.patch… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch…> Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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Survey: best times for volunteering
by Quim Gil 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi, please find 5 minutes for this survey: http://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv In an *average* week, when are you more available to volunteer a couple of hours? Multiple choices are good. No registration required. VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone! Deadline: end of Sunday, May 21. We want to organize activities for technical volunteers at the times that suit you best. But we have contributors with different habits in different parts of the World. This survey will help us covering better everybody's preferences. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.4 and 1.19.5
by Chris Steipp 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.4 and 1.19.5. These releases fix 3 security related bugs that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * An internal review discovered that specially crafted Lua function names could lead to XSS. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46084> * Daniel Franke reported that during SVG parsing, MediaWiki failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing. This could lead to local file disclosure, or potentially remote command execution in environments that have enabled expect:// handling. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46859> * Internal review also discovered that Special:Import, and Extension:RSS failed to prevent XML external entity (XXE) processing. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47251> Full release notes for 1.20.4: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20> Full release notes for 1.19.5: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19> For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** 1.20.4 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.4.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.3): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.4.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.4.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.4.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.19.5 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.5.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.4): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.5.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.5.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.5.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** Extension:RSS ********************************************************************** Information and Download: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Pywikipedia-l] Automatic generation of templates descriptions
by Yury Katkov 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Pretty cool! It's really possible to generate the descriptions from that. thanks! ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw(a)arctus.nl> wrote: > Hi Yury, > > Cleaning up my pywikipedia backlog, and in the category 'better late > than never': > > On 6 August 2012 14:05, Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> If no such extensions exists could anybody tell how to programaticaly get >> the parameters of a given template? > > The 'generatexml' function in the API should do roughly what you want: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Template:Gerrit-review… > > Then walk over all nodes using //tplarg/title > > Merlijn

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Fwd: Recycling wikitech-announce for tech contributors
by Quim Gil 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Summary: do you want to know about new opportunities to contribute your technical skills, but don't want to find them in a high traffic mailing list? Subscribe to receive call for action at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Recycling wikitech-announce for tech contributors Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:23:21 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, We were missing a way to notify tech contributors and volunteers about new activities, and after some discussion [1] we have decided to recycle the unused https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Subscribers will receive CALLS FOR ACTION ONLY e.g. for activities like the ones listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar. No announcements of new releases, features removed, etc. We have channels already for that. We will sync the announcements at wikitech-announce with with wikitech-l and wikitech-ambassadors. While this is not a big deal for current contributors following already wikitech-l and a number of wiki pages etc, it will help potential volunteers willing to get involved and know about opportunities to contribute. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:New_contributors#How_to_solve_N… PS: before clicking reply please read http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/282349 :) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.5 and 1.20.4
by Chris Steipp 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

This is a notice that on Monday, April 15th between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon. CVSS scores are between 4.3 and 7.1, most users will want to update.

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Fwd: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon
by Quim Gil 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, you have probably heard about Wikimedia Hackathon 24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 There are about 100 participants registered, and we have some room for more. Registration is free but you need to sign up. There is also some travel sponsorship budget left after a first round of approvals. If your free software contributions and your Wikimedia love is more valuable than the money you have in the bank, you can just register and apply for scholarship. Please include public URLs where we can see your open source licensed contributions (code, pixels, wise words...). A CV alone won't cut it, no matter how many avatars appear to endorse your skills. Hurry up! The organizers are reviewing applications as they come. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Motivation for working on a free software project
by Luis Miguel Sinusía 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hello, I'm a student of a master in free software in Spain. For performing a job, I ask for your cooperation by answering the following questions: 1. - In what ways began collaborating in an open source project? 2. - What is your motivation to participate in a free software project: social motivation, technological, economic, etc? 3. - In their collaborations, which is the project you found more motivated? 4. - What do you think is the main reason that generally has the other contributors? 5. - Do you think your participation in open source projects will help improve your future career? 6. - Do you think in the future continue to work on open source projects? or in Spanish: 1.- ¿De que manera comenzó a colaborar en un proyecto de software libre? 2.- ¿Cual es su motivacion para participar en un proyecto de software libre: motivacion social, tecnologica, economica, etc? 3.- Dentro de sus colaboraciones, ¿en que proyecto se ha encontrado más motivado? 4.- ¿Cual cree que es la principal motivación que en general tiene el resto de colaboradores? 5.- ¿Cree que su participación en proyectos de software libre le ayudara a mejorar su futuro profesional? 6.- ¿Piensa en un futuro seguir colaborando en proyectos de software libre? In advance, thank you very much.

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SEO for Mediawiki
by Markus 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Dear Specialists, is there a difference between search founds in: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/<page-title> and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/<page-title>/<sub-page-title> ? How much well be the improvement, if we change "sub-title-pages" to "title-pages"? or is this equal? (Google and Mediawiki-search) Best regards, Markus

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Squid do not cache dynamic mediawiki content
by s9gf4ult 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, I am using Squid-3.1 in acceleration mode and trying to accelerate mediawiki-1.20.2. I am trying to get squd to cache mediawiki's pages. Here is my squid config acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 acl web_ports port 80 acl purge method PURGE http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access allow web_ports all http_access allow purge localhost http_access deny purge http_access deny all http_port 10.50.79.19:80 accel defaultsite=ec2-54-228-113-248.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com vhost ignore-cc cache_peer 127.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query originserver round-robin name=wiki cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid/cache 500 16 256 refresh_pattern -i ^http: 5 100% 1440 ignore-no-cache mediawiki is configured to use squid // Squid $wgUseSquid = true; $wgSquidServers = array('10.50.79.19'); $wgSquidServersNoPurge = array('127.0.0.1'); But I am getting on request to main page, which is dymaically generated by mediawiki, this response headers: Cache-Control |s-maxage=18000, must-revalidate, max-age=0| Connection |close| Content-Language |ru| Content-Type |text/html; charset=UTF-8| Date |Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:24:07 GMT| Last-Modified |Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:43:40 GMT| Server |Apache/2.2.24 (Amazon)| Vary |Accept-Encoding,Cookie| X-Cache |MISS from ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal| X-Cache-Lookup |MISS from ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal:80| X-Content-Type-Options |nosniff| X-Powered-By |PHP/5.3.20| via |1.0 ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal (squid/3.1.10)| so we see, that squid return result not from cache, but from the apache web server. We see coresponding records in Apache logs when cache misses. While request to static content, like picture files return this headers Accept-Ranges |bytes| Age |15438| Connection |keep-alive| Content-Length |10204| Content-Type |text/css| Date |Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:06:50 GMT| Etag |"227ef-27dc-4d9846436bc62"| Last-Modified |Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:02:27 GMT| Server |Apache/2.2.24 (Amazon)| X-Cache |HIT from ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal| X-Cache-Lookup |HIT from ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal:80| via |1.0 ip-10-50-79-19.eu-west-1.compute.internal (squid/3.1.10)| and here we see, that squid return content from the cache. What can be the cause of cache MISS on main page ? How to get squid to actually cache mediawiki's article pages ? Thanks.

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MediaWiki 1.21rc2 -- More 1.21 testing
by Mark A. Hershberger 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Since last week, patches to fix the following bugs were included in the tarball: Bug 46719: Remove link to Special:ActiveUsers from Special:Statistics Bug 46493: Handle invalid titles on ProtectedPages and ProtectedTitles Bug 46787: API: Fix rccontinue handling Bug 40617: Installer can now customize the logo in LocalSettings.php Newly reported, but not yet fixed, during testing of RC1: Bug 46943: Job queue items from 1.20 get lost – need exit strategy for upgrade Please download the release candidate and test it. If you find any bugs please report them on Bugzilla[1] and make sure I am added as a CC so that we can fix any show-stoppers before the final release. Don't forget to look over https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21 and make any corrections or additions that are needed since I'll be using a (lightly edited) version of that to make the final announcement. Finally, I'll be preparing a third release candidate for next week. Quim Gil wants to do a testing week during that time. If you'd like to help me put together a testing plan for that week, let me know. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki&cc=mah@every… Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch… GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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UNIQ[…]QINU exposed to anonymous users
by Andru Vallance 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

I've recently been battling a painful bug on http://practicalplants.org, whereby all Cite <refs> were left as unsubstituted UNIQ…QINU tags for anonymous users, when anonymous editing is disabled, and additionally a "You do not have permission to edit this page" message was output at the top a number of times, when viewing the page. The bug is not present if the page is rendered by an authenticated user. In going through bug reports it seems this can be triggered by a pretty wide range of problems, most of which are reported as resolved, eg https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14959 Through very slow delete-save-does-it-work-yet debugging I finally hunted it down to a small typo in a template - {{#arrayap…}} instead of {{#arraymap…}}) - and oddly to assigning a comma separated list to the SMW property. I have no clue why either of these things should cause such behaviour. Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has any experience with the internals behind this bug (or bugs?), and could give me some a starting point to begin digging around and see if I can find a way to ouput a useful error message or something. Also, if anyone has any idea why this only affects anonymous users when anonymous editing is disabled, that might help me find a starting point too, Thanks Andru

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dumpBackup.php
by UdoZ 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi, I'm using MW 1.20.0 on my own up-to-date Linux server. Everything is working fine except for dumpBackup.php, which I use for Lucene-search. dumpBackup.php does not finish, but stops at random pages and MySql stops working. I have to restart MySql to be able to use the wiki again. Seldomly dumpBackup.php works fine. I can't find any error messages (MySql, Php) and therefore I have no idea what the problem is. Thanks for any help, UdoZ Typicall output, when it stalls: Dumping t4_wiki... 2013-04-07 11:06:21: t4_wiki (ID 28260) 99 pages (1248.5|1248.5/sec all|curr), 100 revs (1261.1|1261.1/sec all|curr), ETA 2013-04-07 11:06:32 [max 13651] [...] 2013-04-07 11:06:22: t4_wiki (ID 28260) 3299 pages (2088.3|78866.7/sec all|curr), 3300 revs (2088.9|2390.6/sec all|curr), ETA 2013-04-07 11:06:27 [max 13651] 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: SELECT page_id,page_len,page_is_redirect,page_latest FROM `page` WHERE page_namespace = '0' AND page_title = 'CHS' LIMIT 1 Function: LinkCache::addLinkObj Error: 1053 Server shutdown in progress (localhost) Backtrace: #0 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/db/Database.php(899): DatabaseBase->reportQueryError('Server shutdown...', 1053, 'SELECT page_id...', 'LinkCache::addL...', false) #1 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/db/Database.php(1322): DatabaseBase->query('SELECT page_id...', 'LinkCache::addL...') #2 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/db/Database.php(1413): DatabaseBase->select('page', Array, Array, 'LinkCache::addL...', Array, Array) #3 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/cache/LinkCache.php(216): DatabaseBase->selectRow('page', Array, Array, 'LinkCache::addL...', Array) #4 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Title.php(2808): LinkCache->addLinkObj(Object(Title)) #5 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Title.php(2826): Title->getArticleID(0) #6 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/WikiPage.php(762): Title->isRedirect() #7 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Export.php(600): WikiPage->getRedirectTarget() #8 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Export.php(441): XmlDumpWriter->openPage(Object(stdClass)) #9 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Export.php(379): WikiExporter->outputPageStream(Object(ResultWrapper)) #10 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/includes/Export.php(123): WikiExporter->dumpFrom('') #11 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/maintenance/backup.inc(234): WikiExporter->allPages() #12 /home/t4_wiki/public_html/wiki/maintenance/dumpBackup.php(77): BackupDumper->dump(2, 0)

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Special:ActiveUsers End Game?
by Tom Hutchison 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi all While looking for a reason our Special:ActiveUsers page and API call was being jailed to current month and not 30 days back(still wondering about it). I was told on irc ActiveUsers had been removed from current MW. Yep, last week a commit to remove the Special page, however it still looks like it is being shown as an active link on the statistics Special page. Got a couple of questions because I don't know if thought out: My first would be - Why? I realize it might give a limited amount of stats, but I find it useful to know who has been active on the wiki rather quickly. Larger wikis or very active wikis should drop the return in days down to keep the db from being hit too hard. e.g. Last 7 days or last 3 days, it can be set in localsettings. Why not a flag to turn off or on the Special page? Seems it would have been simpler to take this route than start axing it out, which now looks like there are some remnants left - the aforementioned Special:Statistics page. There is still a link to the ActiveUsers page, active and errors out on mediawiki.org. Is there a planned alternative? Last year, I think, the API in 1.19 added a way to pull active users with an API call. Will that be removed too? Struggling to get user participation up on a wiki, statistical data helps whether it is huge sets or small sets of data. Every little bit helps. Interested in how everyone else feels about this. Thanks! Tom

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2nd level tabs on Media Wiki
by Shrenik Shah 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Hello Everyone, I was wondering if there is a way to create 2 level of tabs in Media Wiki. I followed the steps here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header_Tabs#Usage and have installed the extension. It works perfectly fine with creating single level tabs on top of the page. I wanted to extend this so that I can have tabs within a tabbed page. Is this possible? I would really appreciate any suggestions/comments. p.s This is my first post here so pardon me if I am not posting the right way or not posting the right question. Thank you, Sincerely, Shrenik Shah

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Saturated by search engine?
by Jan Steinman 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

I periodically experience a DDoS attack from Microsoft. It appears to be their search engines, although I guess a bot network could be messing with reverse DNS. The attacks come from names like "msnbot-nn-nn-nn-nn.search.msn.com", where "nn" are byte values in the IP address. There will be a dozen or more crawling my site at the same time. The symptom is that these guys are so hot and heavy that the number of httpd instances shoots through the roof to the point that none of them get serviced before timing out. I've complained to Microsoft, but of course, received no answer. So why am I complaining here? The logs show that this is only happening to MediaWiki sites I host -- other, simpler sites don't seem to act like a tar pit. I've tried adding ipfilter(8) blocks, but then they just pop up on some other subnet. Also, I don't want to block legit traffic coming from Microsoft. I also don't want to stop spidering via "robots.txt" because I want well-behaved search engines like Google to have access. Anyone else seen this aggressive crawling of their wiki sites? Any ideas for fixing it? Thanks for any advice offered! ---------------- :::: The way you see people is the way you treat them. -- Zig Ziglar :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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BTW, this is why you put a cache in front of MediaWiki
by David Gerard 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

So we got Redditdotted yesterday. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evolut… This is our traffic: http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png And the wiki kept right on ticking. - d.

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How do I police my Media Wiki wiki's ?
by Aaron Gray 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi, What extensions are available to police my Media Wiki's ? I have several personal computer language ones which I will want to make public at some point. And more to the point I am wanting to put up a quite high profile one that may/probably get attacked for having political information on it. Many thanks in advance, Aaron

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Suggestion: a proper catalog for extensions
by Quim Gil 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

Hi, this is a heads up about this suggestion: A proper catalog for extensions https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704 We want to know whether this could become a good candidate for the Outreach Program for Women: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women Feedback welcome (especially in the bug report). All the better if someone wants to step in as potential mentor for this project. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Fwd: Proposal: Wikitech contributors
by Quim Gil 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Proposal: Wikitech contributors Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:45:58 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> I have been drafting a proposal to attract new contributors, help them settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many of these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as well and we are just used to them. The proposal has evolved into a deeper restructuring of our community spaces. We're still drafting it, but a round of wider feedback is welcome before opening the official RFC at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors In summary: * wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our open source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an ontology of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully Gerrit. * Semantic user profiles would identify interests, project membership and preferences so users could get notifications about specific topics. * Nodes would automatically structure links to the key information about a specific topic: wiki pages, events, news, projects, bug reports, Gerrit changesets, related contributors, and people interested. * All project teams, whoever is in them, would have a standard way to report goals, members, tasks and updates. The proposal includes a draft plan for a first iteration, including contracting out some software development and redesigning part of wikitech and mediawiki.org. Your feedback is welcome at the discussion page. I will be consolidating there any feedback received here or through other channels. The official RFC should follow pretty soon, maybe next week. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Applying for GSoC - Mediawiki
by sandeep kumar 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hi, I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad. I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through the ideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to work on. 1. Visual Editor Plugins. 2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored. 3. Prototyping inline comments. I am quick learner and a good programmer. I have good knowledge in *C, C++, Python,Java* etc.. Apart from these, because of my interest in web development i learned *PHP, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery* etc.. and implemented several websites for small startups. With the development of websites, i think i gained some experience in UI design as well. Please let me know of further details if i want to work on any of these ideas as part of GSoC. Thank you, Sandeep, MS by Research, IIIT-Hyderabad.

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