MediaWiki-l August 2013

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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Link backups? Archive links (webcitation, archive.org) with an extension?
by adrelanos 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Hi, you know, links break after time... Thats why many wikis use services such as webcitation. Is there some non-experimental extension, which automatically creates backups of links using either webcitation, archive.org or similar services? Or some doing some other kind of backup, such as screenshot the page or storeing the page? (The ArchiveLinks extension [1] looks very well, serving exactly this purpose, but its really stresses, not to use in in production wiki.) Cheers, adrelanos [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArchiveLinks

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Template Tolerant Tags
by D F 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

See (It allows execution of wiki code and parser functions<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions>within tags before the tag is processed.) {{#tag:*tagname* |*content* |*attribute1=value1* |*attribute2=value2* }} on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Miscellaneous Daniel Forgues

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Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.8, 1.20.7, and 1.21.2
by Chris Steipp 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

This is a notice that on Tuesday, September 3rd between 20:00-21:00 UTC (1-2pm PDT) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the MediaWiki software, as well as several extensions. Downloads and patches will be available at that time, with the git repositories updated later that afternoon.

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New Search Backend Available
by Nikolas Everett 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Chad Horohoe and I've been working on a new search backend for MediaWiki for the past few months and it is finally ready for people to try out! Project goals: 1. Parity or better than the MWSearch/lsearchd combination used inside WMF. 2. Easier install than the MWSearch/lsearchd combination used inside WMF. 3. Expand templates before indexing. 4. Horizontal scalability for query performance (read this as sharded indexes) It is currently running in WMF's beta environment (http://beta.wmflabs.org/) and on test2.wikipedia.org and as an option on mediawiki.org (you have to add the super secret url parameter "srbackend=CirrusSearch".) We think we've hit goals 2, 3, and 4 already. We're far enough along with goal 1 that any features missing are being filed as bug (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=230108&resolution=---&qu…) We'd love for some guinea pigs to give it a shot on wikis outside of WMF. To set it up you'd need to: 1. Install elasticsearch (http://elasticsearch.org/) 2. Setup Mediawiki from the master branch: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/core <the rest of setup> 3. Clone CirrusSearch: cd mediawiki/extensions git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch 4. Update the submodule in CirrusSearch: cd CirrusSearch git submodule init git submodule update) 5. Turn on CirrusSearch and configure it in LocalSettings.php by adding: require_once( "$IP/extensions/CirrusSearch/CirrusSearch.php" ); $wgCirrusSearchServers = array( 'the_server_on_which_you_installed_elasticsearch'); 6. Run two scripts to set up the index: php updateSearchConfig.php php forceSearchIndex.php At some point we'll update mediawiki-vagrant to handle all that automatically.... Please us me know what you think. Nik Everett

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LocalSettings.php file exactly as used on Wikipedia
by John W. Foster 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I want to see what is in the LocalSettings.php that runs Wikipedia. Surely there is a public copy somewhere. I wish to see why some of my stuff is NOT working, perhaps that will assist me in figureing out my errors. Thanks John

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Mediawiki ImportPage error
by John W. Foster 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Any help with this; > Import failed: No handler for model 'Scribunto'' registered in > $wgContentHandlers I have scribunto installed & the wiki special pages says its working. The page I reied to upload, actually several in an .xml file were downloades(exported) from wikipedia. So there should be no issue on the files compilation, therefore, I figure I got something screwed up on the new site. Thanks! John

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[Help Request] Add bulk articles on a Mediawiki site with large text
by Nasir Khan 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi, I have a big set of articles and i want to import them in a mediawiki site. For this i have to create a huge number of articles and upload similar number of images. For creating the articles i think API:Edit<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit>would be better. I wanted to use some PHP bots and found Wikimate <https://github.com/hamstar/Wikimate>[1]. It is easy to use and workign fine for smaller texts. But it just do not worf for the large texts. Here my question is, is there any PHP bot framework which will help me to create new articles with large texts and may have the file upload feature? or should i go for some different approach? [1] - https://github.com/hamstar/Wikimate *-- **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891> www.nasirkhn.com

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