MediaWiki-l January 2014

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File upload issue after upgrading to 1.22
by chris tharp 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hi everyone, I recently upgraded to 1.22 and after upgrading I'm getting the following error when I try to upload photos: Bad Request unknown function SpecialUpload::ajaxGetExistsWarning And if I ignore the warning and try to upload I get the following error: Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/a/a3". I've never seen this error before and my local php is set up to allow file uploads. Can't seem to find this problem referenced anywhere.

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Enterprise MediaWiki Hackathon, NYC, Feb. 13-14
by Yaron Koren 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hi everyone, Sorry for the late notice, but we're having what may be the first-ever enterprise MediaWiki hackathon next month, in New York City. In lieu of trying to summarize the idea behind it, and the details, here, I'll just link to the page for the event: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NYC_Enterprise_MediaWiki_Hackathon If you're interested in attending, please sign up! Thanks, Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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vector subskin ignoring my screen.css
by Bill Traynor 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Followed this tutorial: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ Still wrestling with getting my vector subskin to recognize customizations in screen.css. The myskin.php file contains: $wgResourceModules['skins.myskin'] = array( 'styles' => array( 'myskin/css/screen.css' => array( 'media' => 'screen' ), And myskin.skin.php contains: class SkinMySkin extends SkinVector { var $skinname = 'myskin', $stylename = 'myskin', $useHeadElement = true; /** * @param $out OutputPage object */ function setupSkinUserCss( OutputPage $out ){ parent::setupSkinUserCss( $out ); $out->addModuleStyles( "skins.myskin" ); } } Given that the goal of a subskin is to not have to make any changes to core code, what is the line: $out->addModuleStyles( "skins.myskin" ) doing? Isn't that saying to load a module called skins.myskin? All I want is a vector skin with some custom CSS, but I can't seem to figure this out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Bill

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Category list within a page
by Jan Steinman 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

> From: Nathan Larson <nathanlarson3141(a)gmail.com> > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Bri <dev(a)rlyehable.com> wrote: > >> Is there a way to list the contents of a category within a non-category >> page? > > I think this will do it: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28Wikimedia%29#ca… I would like to second the recommendation of DPL. This is a versatile extension that can do all sorts of page listing tasks, beyond what simple Categories can do! For example, we wanted minutes of our meetings (which have names like "YYYYMMDD") to be listed in reverse-chronological order, so the newest meeting was always at the top. DPL to the rescue: ==Meeting minutes, newest first== {{#dpl: |category = History |order = descending |namespace = Minutes |columns = 5}} produces: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:History We put the DPL code right on the Category page, but it can go anywhere. Another example, you can morph the page title. I find this most useful on the "Category:Categories" page, so you can get rid of the "Category:" namespace: {{#dpl: |namespace = Category |format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],, |columns = 5}} produces: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:Categories Another example, you can include selected headings from pages into the DPL listing, and even put them in a table that can be re-sorted with a mouse click: {{#dpl: |ordermethod=lastedit |order=descending |category=Projects |include = #Project steward, #Need |includetrim=true |table=class="sortable", Project, Steward, Need}} produces the table in: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Category:Projects Try it; you'll like it! :::: Having access to raw milk through cow-share programs where devotees buy a share of a dairy herd for personal use and not for resale seems like an innovative and reasonable solution. -- Lana Popham :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: :::: (Send email to Quote(a)Bytesmiths.com to get a random quote, or Quotes(a)Bytesmiths.com to get 50 random quotes. Put a word in the Subject line to filter for that word.)

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Category list within a page
by Bri 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Greetings! Is there a way to list the contents of a category within a non-category page? Example of what I want: Page Foo: A foo is a term that is uses as a stand-in or placeholder for other terms. ==Examples== Dohicki Foo Thingamabob Whatchamacallit And I would like the examples to be dynamically created from category:foo.

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Purging spam users from site
by John W. Foster 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

I have finally gotten all the spammers that opened accounts on my site "BLOCKED" & I have removed all their user pages & any contributions that I can find. However I want to also purge them from my user listing & clear them from the user tables in the database. I could actually just delete them from the table, but I am not certain if that could/would damage my database & site. There are about 14,000 or so of them & I just want the site cleared of the garbage as I believe it will help speed it up a bit, & well, I'm a tiny bit of a perfectionist. Thanks john

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Vector based subskin
by Bill Traynor 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

MW 1.22 I've created a subskin based on Vector by following this tutorial: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ Now I'd like to implement the customizations from my old vector-based skin from MW1.16 in my new skin. I've got two small html files. One is a block of links that I'd like right at the top of the page, and the second is a block of links I'd like to insert above the footer. What's the best way to do this? Thanks Bill

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list pages in a category shows different results whether logged in or not in Safari and Firefox (with Chrome it works).
by Christian Xell 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

MediaWiki 1.21.2 PHP 5.3.26 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.6.11 Hi, strange behaviour... We have also Semantic Wiki installed. Here is a list of all extensions http://de.tangowiki.org/wiki/Spezial:Version And here is the strange thing http://de.tangowiki.org/wiki/Kategorie:Festival shows 12 pages when not logged in instead of correct 16 pages (which is shown when logged in). Any Ideas Don Xello

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Issue with template calls
by John W. Foster 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

On my site if for example I have a script that calls for {{Portal:Mycrap}} the resulting search for the items is sent to the server as {{Template:Portal:Mycrap}} rather than just selecting the doccument Portal:Mycrap [[Portal:Mycrap]] does as it should & calls the correct document. This is usually caused by some template that I have copied from Wikipedia. I have checked the original template scripts that I have downloaded against those installed on my site & they are exactly the same. I have examine the calls issued within, Wikipedia and they seem to be exactly the same, except Wikipedia does not add the Template: portion to the document search. Any idea how to duplicate the Wikipedia performance on my site. Thanks john

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Salutations, Mediawiki-l
by Shannon Adams 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:06:27 http://b2u.biz/wp-content/likeit.php?srxkyxx1185gus Shannon Adams shannon_adams68(a)yahoo.com ____________________ Cary Grant died in my home town. My parents had tickets to see a speech he was giving - I don't know if they ever got a refund. -- Steve Bondi

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