MediaWiki-l May 2013

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Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki
by Jason Lewis 22 May '13

22 May '13

Hello, Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in the community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel. Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community wiki that fits in with the overall theme of the other community sites. The idea was to make it blend, but to also keep some sort of wiki "feel" to it. On the surface it looks very fresh but at its core it is still very much Media Wiki. You can check the skin out here: http://wiki.laravel.io The purpose of this thread is to give you an overview of how I went about skinning Media Wiki from the point of view of someone who has never attempted it before. I've used Media Wiki in the past but never done anything besides changing the default logo.* *During the process of skinning I used the following tutorial as a reference for some of the inner-workings of Media Wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial *The Design * Before I even started looking at how to skin Media Wiki I drafted up a design with just standard HTML/CSS. I used the Wikipedia site as a reference here for some of the required elements but also referred to the linked tutorial above as it mentions some design considerations. During this designing stage I didn't used my own markup and gave my classes my own names. I didn't think of the Media Wiki class names or IDs, that would come later. Once I was happy with my design I begun the skinning process. *The Skinning * This wasn't as hard as I was imagining it to be. There aren't a lot of quality resources out there that go through skinning Media Wiki. Most just say copy "MonoBook" and change it to fit your needs. I don't like that. That, to me, feels very hacky. It was good to see the tutorial linked above actually go through the setup procedure and the required files. What's even better about this tutorial is that everything seemed separated. There were a few tutorials that I briefly skimmed over that seemed to do everything in the actual "skin" file. I essentially copied the first part of that tutorial word-for-word, as I had no idea how Media Wiki handled it all. Once I got to the meat of my skin I only focused on the main elements. The first part was the navigation bar. The only dynamically generated part of that navigation bar is the "Toolbox" and the user section ("request account", "login", then the actual user navigation). Everything else uses static links and text. This was my first hurdle. How do I make a link with Media Wiki? Luckily I got some help in the #mediawiki IRC. The "Linker" and "Title" classes were what I was after. Here's an example. <?php echo Linker::link(Title::newFromText('Laracon')); ?> Next up I need to get the logged in user. I can't remember where but I managed to stumble upon the $wgUser global variable (shudders). Using this variable I could check if the user was logged in, if so output the users menu, or if not show the login or register links. After the navigation bar I went straight to the content and got that all sorted. Once I had both these main sections completed I moved on to other sections, like the "new talk" notifications and search box. There were a few things I had to adjust slightly, such as the "action links" that appear above a page ("edit", "discussion", etc). But for the most part it was pretty easy. The last little hurdle I had to jump was pulling the table of contents from the page and sticking it to the left so that it scrolls with you. Originally I wanted to somehow pull it on the server side and do it that way. After a little trial and error and trawling through the API (plus some tips from the IRC guys, thanks!) I decided to just use a jQuery approach. Using jQuery I just pull the ToC out, and insert it before the main content then use CSS for the rest. That pretty much covers my experience and case study. The source of the skin is available on GitHub for those interested: https://github.com/jasonlewis/laravel-io-wiki-skin Thanks for reading. I'd be happy to answer any further questions. Jason

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Had an error upgrading from MW 1.2.05
by Arcane 21 22 May '13

22 May '13

When MW 1.20.6 came out, I decided to upgrade to it from 1.20.5, and I decided to run the web updater afterwards. All I got was a blank screen no matter what I tried, so I reverted back to 1.20.5 and everything was normal again. I'm not sure what happened, but I thought I'd let everyone on the mailing list know that there might be a problem with the newest security release. P.S. - Not really related to the above, but still MediaWiki related: Does anyone know what happened to the MediaWiki Users forum? It's been down for awhile, apparently due to database issues, and I was wondering if anyone here has more information on what happened.

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MediaWiki Security Release: 1.20.6 and 1.19.7
by Chris Steipp 21 May '13

21 May '13

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.20.6 and 1.19.7. These releases fix a security related issue that could affect users of MediaWiki. Download links are given at the end of this email. * MediaWiki user Marco discovered that security checks for file uploads were not being run when the file was uploaded in chunks through the API. This option has been available to users who can upload files since MediaWiki 1.19. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306> Full release notes for 1.20.6: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20> Full release notes for 1.19.7: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19> For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** 1.20.6 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.5): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.20/mediawiki-1.20.6.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.19.7 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.6): http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.7.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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Email Confirmation Messages
by Rowe, Dolores A 21 May '13

21 May '13

Teammates, On a Windows 2008 server, using MediaWiki v1.19.2, we are having troubles getting the Email Confirmation mechanism to work. A message is displayed that the confirmation was sent, however it never comes to the email address it was sent to. I believe it is the script UserMailer.php. Does anyone have any ideas about how I could debug where the email problem lies ? I can send an email using a php script evoked through the browser. It is a simple script like this that arrives correctly. <? phpinfo(); mail ("user1(a)domain.com", "Test", "Hi from PHP!", "Bcc: user2(a)domain.com\r\n\r\nSending email from PHP.\r\n"); ?> thx, Lori

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Creating links in Title Bar
by Raghavendra Achar 21 May '13

21 May '13

Hello All, Is it possible to create links on the top right corner on the Title name bar of the Main Page. I would like to rename the Main Page as my own age and add different links at the same row as main page title bar but at the top right corner. regards Achar

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[MW] How to set Thumbnail for Doc, Docx, etc
by Steven Zhong 21 May '13

21 May '13

Dear all, Thumbnail ( icon ) of Doc/Docx can not be displayed which MW installed/configured by default, a blank icon is very "ugly", and how to set it ? Thanks! - Steven

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Bitnami media wiki 64 bit linux installation issues
by Raghavendra Achar 21 May '13

21 May '13

Dear All, I am trying to install bitnami-mediawiki-1.20.5-0-linux-x64-installer.run on Fedora 16 Linux 64 bit system. But i am getting the below error at the end of the installaton.I am not able to start the apache services as it is throwing error. Segmentatin fault (core dumped ) HTTPD -t. can somebody help me how to resolve this problem? regards Achar

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Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.7 and 1.20.6
by Chris Steipp 20 May '13

20 May '13

This is a notice that on Tuesday, May 21st 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. Although MediaWiki does not have the vulnerable feature enabled by default, most wiki using common advanced features will want to patch for this issue.

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki
by Jan Steinman 20 May '13

20 May '13

> From: Jason Lewis <jason.lewis1991(a)gmail.com> > > I'm not exactly after attention I'm more just documenting my experience in > hope that others can benefit from it in some way. Thanks! I had a miserable time skinning a much earlier version of MW, and my client wants me to work on it some more, so your work is appreciated! :::: Traditional grass-based dairy farming was a highly egalitarian enterprise; anyone with initiative and a few acres could herd animals on any kind of land, and sell or barter the products to his neighbors. Societies that consume the products of pastured animals are much less likely to exhibit huge disparities in wealth compared to societies where the economics of food are based on grain. -- Ron Schmid :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 21
by xcq5678m 19 May '13

19 May '13

你好：不好意识，最近6部电脑都被高手搞定了....., 白班8个小时，晚上下班我还有工厂的事情要安排，正常坐下来上网也就是深夜了，每天几乎拿着鼠标睡着了！互联网上时间过得特快，我的邮件和博客及社交的都好办理，你们的英文邮件我翻译过来都变味了，主要原因是上学的时候英文才考40分，所以我误了国际国内同仁们的大事！如果你们中文学的好还是迁就我一下吧！如果护照办下来，准备在苹果年会的时候去一趟，把我手里的有关账户和数字版权都捐给你们美国有关公司！这里还有好多是国际组织行使的特权：欧盟、卫生、电影、等等！也许是我们和西方文化差距太大的原因，我们工作生活中的人，他们都不相信我在说什么做什么？希望你能理解我!ok 谢谢你88 2013-05-1 ， xcq5678m 发件人：mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org 发送时间：2013-05-19 20:00 主题：MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 21 收件人："mediawiki-l"<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 抄送： Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. MediaWiki 1.21 delayed (Mark A. Hershberger) 2. Re: MediaWiki 1.21 delayed (Dmitrii Kouznetsov) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:24:27 -0400 From: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah(a)everybody.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mediawiki package maintainers <mediawiki-distributors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki for enterprises <mediawiki-enterprise(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21 delayed Message-ID: <51979D2B.7030908(a)everybody.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I have to delay the release of MediaWiki 1.21 again because of a logistics problem. I am used to hearing logistics in the context of shipping physical objects -- in the American trucking industry, for example -- so I can't help but feel a little strange saying "logistics". I had to go look up the term and found this definition: The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies. That is about right. I apologize for the confusion. -- http://hexmode.com/ Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. -- G.K. Chesterson ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 01:18:05 +0900 (JST) From: Dmitrii Kouznetsov <dima(a)ils.uec.ac.jp> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mediawiki package maintainers <mediawiki-distributors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki for enterprises <mediawiki-enterprise(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21 delayed Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1305190110470.8183(a)dima.ils.uec.ac.jp> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mark, I am not sure if I understand you well.. Holomorphic extension of the logistic sequence (for the complex argument) is described at http://www.ils.uec.ac.jp/~dima/PAPERS/2009logistie.pdf but what application the logistic operator may have for mediawiki? What for do you need the complex operations? I thought, the PHP supports only the real arithmetics.. By the way, how can I numerate sections in a\ mediawiki article, beginning with zero? If there exist any equivalent of the latex command \setcounter{section} ? On Sat, 18 May 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I have to delay the release of MediaWiki 1.21 again because of a > logistics problem. > > I am used to hearing logistics in the context of shipping physical > objects -- in the American trucking industry, for example -- so I can't > help but feel a little strange saying "logistics". I had to go look up > the term and found this definition: > > The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many > people, facilities, or supplies. > > That is about right. > > I apologize for the confusion. > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity > is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. > -- G.K. Chesterson > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 116, Issue 21 ********************************************

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