MediaWiki-l July 2013

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Labs-l] Efficient way to deal with wiki spam on Labs
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Thanks Luis for mentioning Bad Behaviour: all the information about it on mediawiki.org was wrong (it was described as an AbuseFilter-like thing) so I had never looked into it before. You're the first person mentioning success with it, but it's possible we only hear from unhappy MediaWiki users which have problems with spam, not from those who solved the problem. :) I've updated the extension's page (and others): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Behavior I see two issues: 1) they don't say anywhere if patterns for IP, HTTP headers etc. are shared and checked on a central location (like Akismet does IIRC) or kept local; 2) it's probably impossible to use it on Labs given this problem with cache and privacy, though it may be useful for sites without caching or with less strict privacy policies. http://redmine.ioerror.us/issues/41 Nemo

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List all redirects (with target)
by Emmanuel Engelhart 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, How to list quickly all redirects, with from/to titles? This seems to be impossible with the API and "Special:Listredirects" is limited to the first 1000 redirects. Kelson -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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How to find broken internal links (anchors)?
by adrelanos 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, we just migrated a wiki and perhaps many internal links such as [[pagename#anchor]] are broken. Special:WantedPages was of help, but doesn't show where just anchors are broken. Is there any script/extension/etc. available to get a list of broken anchors? Cheers, adrelanos

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Having different page versions per software release?
by adrelanos 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, for a software project, we are having stable and testers versions. Documentation for stable and testers should differ, testers have slightly different and new documentation. Is there a way to give users a menu where they can choose what kind of version they are using? And depending on that version, show them one or another page version. Cheers, adrelanos

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import script
by Eli Handel 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Hi, I have a large number of text pages that I'd like to import as new pages into a new MediaWiki based site that I've set up. The pages are currently organized in various folders together with some corresponding media files, and I'd like to write a script to to import each folder as a new page in the wiki, with the folder's pages appearing as subpages of that page, and with the corresponding media files imported into the wiki, and with the text pages first modified in various ways to be appropriate as MediaWiki pages. I already have some experience creating a MediaWiki skin and some hook functions ($wgHooks['ParserFirstCallInit'] = ...) in PHP for this wiki. I imagine that the way to go about this is by writing a PHP script that I run from PuTTY, though maybe it's less complicated to call a PHP page via HTTP, or something else entirely; I'm not sure. Also I'm not clear about whether I ought to be calling maintenance scripts as per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts or whether I'm supposed to be calling the MediaWiki Api as per http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page, or something else entirely. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you very much, Eli

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How to add a tab to Special:WhatLinksHere?
by Adam Nielsen 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Hi all, I'm trying to work out how to add another action tab to the Special:WhatLinksHere page. I am using the SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal hook, so my code gets called for all special pages. I am then examining the global $wgTitle to figure out what page is being viewed, with the idea being to only add my tab if I discover Special:WhatLinksHere is the page being viewed. Unfortunately I can't quite figure out how to identify the page being accessed. I am using $wgTitle->getNamespace() and aborting if it's not NS_SPECIAL, which leaves just the root of the title to check. I was going to compare $wgTitle->getRootTitle() against "WhatLinksHere" but there seems to be a bug in Title::getRootTitle() for Special pages, and it returns the same value as Title::getText(), namely "WhatLinksHere/SomePage", instead of chopping off the "/SomePage". But I think this is a moot point, because I just discovered that non-English wikis seem to have localised names for the special pages, so checking against "WhatLinksHere" won't work on non-English wikis. Does anyone know how I might go about discovering whether I'm viewing Special:WhatLinksHere from within a SkinTemplateNavigation hook? I'll also need the name of the page being investigated ("SomePage" in the above example) so I can use it in a URL. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated! Many thanks, Adam.

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How to disable "Printable version" link on my extension's Special page?
by Adam Nielsen 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

Hi all, I'm working on an extension that uses a "Preview" button, the same as on edit pages. Unfortunately the shortcut key for the button conflicts with the "Printable version" link in the navigation bar, effectively preventing the keyboard shortcut from working at all. The edit page does not have this problem as the "Printable version" link does not appear, so hiding that on my extension's Special page seems like the best solution. Unfortunately I can't see how to do this - it looks like the link always shows on article or special pages. Does anyone know if there's a way I can stop the "Printable version" link from appearing in the navigation bar on pages my extension provides? Many thanks, Adam.

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"AND" conditions when asking about tmeplate arguments
by Marcelo Chiaradía 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Hello everyone, Im using the "#if:" parser function to ask about my template arguments. I need to make an "AND" condition when asking about them, something like this: {{#if: {{{p1|}}} and {{{p2|}}} and {{{p3|}}} | MY_TEXT }} but is not working. Im aware that "OR" conditions are posibles just placing one argument besides the other, like this: {{#if: {{{p1|}}} {{{p2|}}} {{{p3|}}} | MY_TEXT }} Is there some funcionality to make "AND" conditions? Ive been googling it and didnt fount anything. Thanks a lot in advance, Marcelo.

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Reuse of the Internet Archive djvu book reader in Commons
by David Cuenca 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

The Internet Archive developed a djvu book reader in html/javascript http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader It looks like this >> http://www.archive.org/stream/birdbookillustra00reedrich There are many websites that are using it, so I was wondering if we could use it in Commons too? Would it take much effort to adapt the server side? https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader Cheers, Micru

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