MediaWiki-l April 2013

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AUTO: Elke Holderbeke is out of the office- CRE workshop (returning 29/04/2013)
by Elke Holderbeke 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

I am out of the office until 29/04/2013. I will be at the Child Rights Education workshop the week of 22-26 April, with limited access to email. I will respond to your email as soon as possible. Note: This is an automated response to your message "MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 115, Issue 26" sent on 4/20/2013 2:00:20 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Questions marks in URLs being decoded by IIS running ARR load balancer
by Justin Lloyd 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Hi all, We're having a problem with question marks in titles not working (plus-signs as well), which we now believe is due to the URLs being decoded by our load balancers, which are Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) running on IIS. For example, http://www.example.com/wiki/What%3F is ending up at our Apache Mediawiki servers as http://www.example.com/wiki/What, resulting in a page not found message since the title has a literal question mark in it. More testing to confirm the behavior would result, for example, in a path like /wiki/What%3Ffoo=bar being parsed into a title of What with a query string of foo=bar. Also, additional question marks get converted into ampersands, e.g. /wiki/What%3Ffoo=bar?baz=blah converts to /wiki/What%3Ffoo=bar&baz=blah. Has anyone else experienced running a wiki behind ARR and dealt with this kind of behavior? Thanks, Justin

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How to import templates from Wikipedia?
by Moritz Schubotz 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, I created a copy of the math-related Articles in Wikipedia EN, to demonstrate the LaTeXML math renderer http://demo.formulasearchengine.com/index.php/Great-circle_distance However it looks somehow ugly since the templates are not included. Is there a way to copy or somehow transclude the pages via wgEnableScaryTranscluding without to add a prefix manually. For example in the page above I don't want to change anything to the source. And the template {{Reflist}} should include the template http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist Efficiency is not an issue since this is only a demo page. Best Moritz -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Moritz Schubotz Telefon (Büro): +49 30 314 22784 Telefon (Privat):+49 30 488 27330 E-Mail: schubotz(a)itp.physik.tu-berlin.de Web: http://www.physikerwelt.de Skype: Schubi87 ICQ: 200302764 Msn: Moritz(a)Schubotz.de

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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) 18 Apr '13

18 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 16 Apr '13

16 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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