Hi,
I'm trying to use Wikibase on my pool wiki and language wikis.
In my pool wiki, I can create properties and items, but I can't add site
links to them. ID: "Q1", site id: "cswiki", site link: "article name"
gives me the error "The specified article could not be found on the
corresponding site." even though that article exists on cswiki.
I also can't access data from the language wikis. If I use
{{#property:P1}} in an article on cswiki, nothing shows up.
I downloaded Wikidata-refs-heads-master.tar.gz and extracted it to the
extension folder of my pool wiki and language wikis.
My LocalSettings.php of the pool wiki looks like this:
# Wikibase
$wgEnableWikibaseRepo = true;
$wgEnableWikibaseClient = false;
$wmgUseWikibaseRepo = true;
$wmgUseWikibaseClient = false;
require_once __DIR__ . "/extensions/Wikidata/Wikidata.php";
require_once __DIR__ .
"/extensions/Wikidata/extensions/Wikibase/repo/ExampleSettings.php";
# SiteMatrix Extension
require_once "$IP/extensions/SiteMatrix/SiteMatrix.php";
$wgLocalDatabases = array( 'cswiki', 'dewiki', 'enwiki', 'eswiki',
'frwiki', 'huwiki', 'hywiki', 'itwiki', 'nlwiki', 'plwiki', 'poolwiki',
'ptwiki', 'ruwiki', 'srwiki', 'svwiki' );
My LocalSettings.php of the language wikis (cs for example) look like this:
# Wikibase Extension
$wgEnableWikibaseRepo = false;
$wgEnableWikibaseClient = true;
$wmgUseWikibaseRepo = false;
$wmgUseWikibaseClient = true;
require_once __DIR__ . "/extensions/Wikidata/Wikidata.php";
# Settings
$wgWBSettings['repoUrl'] = 'http://pool.mypedia.com';
$wgWBSettings['repoScriptPath'] = '/w';
$wgWBSettings['repoArticlePath'] = '/wiki/$1';
$wgWBSettings['siteGlobalID'] = 'cswiki';
$wgWBSettings['repoDatabase'] = 'poolwiki';
$wgWBSettings['changesDatabase'] = 'poolwiki';
# Optional
$wgWBSettings['siteGroup'] = 'mypedia';
$wgWBSettings['sort'] = 'code'; //optional
$wgWBSettings['sortPrepend'] = array(
'cs'
);
In populateSitesTable.php, I changed
"https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php" to
"http://pool.mypedia.com/w/api.php" and "$validGroups = array(
'wikipedia', 'wikivoyage', 'wikiquote', 'wiktionary','wikibooks',
'wikisource', 'wikiversity', 'wikinews' );" to "$validGroups = array(
'mypedia' );"
Do I need to change "$wikiId = $this->getOption( 'wiki' );" too, since
it says "wiki" is expanded to "wikipedia"?
Table "sites" in the poolwiki database looks like this:
site_id | site_global_key | site_type | site_group | site_source |
site_language | site_protocol | site_domain | site_data | site_forward |
site_config
1 | cswiki | mediawiki | mypedia | local | cs | http:// |
com.mypedia.cs. |
a:1:{s:5:"paths";a:2:{s:9:"file_path";s:5:"/w/$1";s:9:"page_path";s:8:"/wiki/$1";}}
| 0 | a:0:{}
[...]
15 | poolwiki | mediawiki | pool | local | en | http:// |
com.mypedia.pool. |
a:1:{s:5:"paths";a:2:{s:9:"file_path";s:5:"/w/$1";s:9:"page_path";s:8:"/wiki/$1";}}
| 0 | a:0:{}
I changed site_group "wikipedia" to "mypedia" and added data for
site_protocol and site_domain by hand.
I noticed that the script path is "/w/$1" here, while $wgScriptPath in
LocalSettings.php is actually "/w", could that cause any problems?
And should I change site_group of the pool to mypedia like I did with
the language wikis or isn't that necessary?
Wikibase DataModel 0.8, Wikibase Repository 0.5 alpha, WikibaseLib 0.5
alpha and Wikidata show up in Special:Version of the pool wiki.
Wikibase Client 0.5 alpha, Wikibase DataModel 0.8, WikibaseLib 0.5 alpha
and Wikidata show up in Special:Version of the language wikis.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks and cheers,
Till
Hi,
I'm running multiple language wikis and one pool wiki. The problem is
that no file descriptions are fetched in the language wikis although
$wgFetchCommonsDescriptions is set to true.
LocalSettings.php of the language wikis:
$wgUseSharedUploads = true;
$wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://pool.example.com/w/images';
$wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/path/to/pool/w/images/';
$wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true;
$wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true;
$wgSharedUploadDBname = 'poolwiki'; # DB-Name of PoolWiki
#$wgSharedUploadDBprefix = 'wiki_'; # Table name prefix for PoolWiki
$wgRepositoryBaseUrl = "http://pool.example.com/wiki/Image:";
ForeignAPIRepo used to work fine before, but since I switched from
Apache to Nginx, no images show up anymore in the language wikis. This
is how my LocalSettings.php used to look like:
$wgForeignFileRepos[] = array(
'class' => 'ForeignAPIRepo',
'name' => 'pool',
'apibase' => 'http://pool.example.com/w/api.php',
'fetchDescription' => true, // Optional
'descriptionCacheExpiry' => 43200, // 12 hours, optional (values are
seconds)
'apiThumbCacheExpiry' => 0, // required for local thumb caching
);
I also tried to set 'name' => 'poolwiki', (name of the pool database)
but that doesn't work either.
I also re-started Memcached and I even deleted a file description page
from the CloudFlare cache, but still no file description can be seen :/
My software: MediaWiki: 1.22.0
PHP: 5.3.27 (fpm-fcgi)
MySQL: 5.1.70-log
Any help would be über-cool.
Thanks and cheers,
Till
On 24 October 2014 08:41, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:12 AM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org
> >
> wrote:
>
> > On 23 October 2014 18:39, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As part of the librarization project[1], we are planning on taking the
> > > CSSJanus library that is currently in includes/lib/ and bringing it in
> > > with composer. However, it requires PHP >=5.3.3 in its
> composer.json[2].
> > > Krinkle has stated[3] that is due to the fact that it has only been
> > > tested on 5.3.3 and higher, and it's also what travis-ci provides.
> > >
> > > After doing some research[4], it appears that we would be dropping
> > > support for Ubuntu 10.04LTS, which has security support until April
> > > 2015. MediaWiki 1.25.0 is expected to be released in May 2015.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any objections to dropping 5.3.2 support? I've
> uploaded
> > > [5] that actually increments the required version number.
> > >
> >
> > I understood that the vague plan was to switch over to 5.4.x
> requirement,
> > and that we'd only waited because Wikimedia wasn't ready yet. Has this
> > changed? I know a number of people have talked about wanting to use PHP
> > traits.
> >
> >
> Yes, but that's longer term.
>
How much longer? 1.25 is May 2015; Wikimedia's ZAP -> HAT migration is
nominally to be finished within a month…
> This minor bump still in the 5.3.x branch I think we can do immediately.
>
Sure, if announcing a 1.25 dependency change and then changing the change
later won't disrupt people too much.
(Copying the main MediaWiki-l list for those who don't follow wikitech-l)
J.
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
While looking into upgrading my 1.22.5 installation to 1.23.5, I noticed that the tests/ directory was missing. Looking in git it is there for the REL1_23, but seems to have vanished in the tarballs for releases?
Am I missing something? or are these releases incomplete?
Sincerely confused,
-Daniel (Us+er:AlephNull)
Hey all,
TL;DR:
* We did not make the breaking change last week for Wikimedia; it is postponed.
* MediaWiki 1.24.0 will ship with jQuery Migrate switched off.
* Wikimedia & non-Wikimedia wikis can enable jQuery Migrate if needed.
* When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will switch off jQuery Migrate for Wikimedia wikis.
As we said last month, we are upgrading MediaWiki's jQuery to version 1.11.x [1],
which removes some long-deprecated functions. These were done in phase one [2]
and two [3] as of last week.
However, we have held off with phase 3 (removing the jQuery Migrate plugin) for
a while to give migration a little more time.
The amount of migration work necessary has been much less than I anticipated.
Very few scripts have actually needed changing, probably because these features
have been deprecated for quite a while now. Some of newer developers may never
have even known of these APIs.
Having said that, it does take a while for a message like this to spread out to
some members of our large community. While those wiki scripts and gadgets which
have active maintainers have been looked into, and (where needed) updated
accordingly, a large number of gadgets and scripts in the cluster of Wikimedia
wikis have not yet had a chance to get a grip on this, let alone extensions and
wikis outside of Wikimedia.
While I don't want to set another deadline, I think it makes sense to ship the
jQuery Migrate plugin for one release (with MediaWiki 1.24), and then remove it
in MediaWiki 1.25. This will give all wikis' communities and extension authors
a few more months until the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point (in Autumn 2014) before
they will need to make adjustments to work with MediaWiki master.
MediaWiki 1.24.0 stable will disable support for legacy jQuery by default. If
you find you have scripts, gadgets or extensions still using legacy jQuery APIs,
you can enable them with a simple line in LocalSettings.php:
$wgIncludejQueryMigrate = true;
And of course when you find you need to do this, please make an effort to
ensure the maintainers of those items still using these legacy features are
aware of this so they may patch the code accordingly (using the upgrade guide[4]
and my earlier announcement [5]). When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will
switch off jQuery Migrate for Wikimedia wikis.
— Krinkle
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44740
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131494/
[3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133477/
[4] http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/
[5] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg75735.html
On 7 May 2014, at 18:29, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> TL;DR: jQuery will soon be upgraded from v1.8.3 to v1.11.x (the latest). This
> major release removes deprecated functionality. Please migrate away from this
> deprecated functionality as soon as possible.
>
> It's been a long time coming but we're now finally upgrading the jQuery package
> that ships with MediaWiki.
>
> We used to regularly upgrade jQuery in the past, but got stuck at v1.8 a couple
> of years ago due to lack of time and concern about disruption. Because of this,
> many developers have needed to work around bugs that were already fixed in later
> versions of jQuery. Thankfully, jQuery v1.9 (and its v2 counterpart) has been
> the first release in jQuery history that needed an upgrade guide[1][2]. It's a
> major release that cleans up deprecated and dubious functionality.
>
> Migration of existing code in extensions, gadgets, and user & site scripts
> should be trivial (swapping one method for another, maybe with a slight change
> to the parameters passed). This is all documented in the upgrade guide[1][2].
> The upgrade guide may look scary (as it lists many of your favourite methods),
> but they are mostly just addressing edge cases.
>
> == Call to action ==
>
> This is a call for you, to:
>
> 1) Get familiar with http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/.
>
> 2) Start migrating your code.
>
> jQuery v1.9 is about removing deprecated functionality. The new functionality is
> already present in jQuery 1.8 or, in some cases, earlier.
>
> 3) Look out for deprecation warnings.
>
> Once instrumentation has begun, using "?debug=true" will log jQuery deprecation
> warnings to the console. Look for ones marked "JQMIGRATE" [7]. You might also
> find deprecation notices from mediawiki.js, for more about those see the mail
> from last October [8].
>
> == Plan ==
>
> 1) Instrumentation and logging
>
> The first phase is to instrument jQuery to work out all the areas which will
> need work. I have started work on loading jQuery Migrate alongside the current
> version of jQuery. I expect that to land in master this week [6], and roll out on
> Wikimedia wikis the week after. This will enable you to detect usage of most
> deprecated functionality through your browser console. Don't forget the upgrade
> guide[1], as Migrate cannot detect everything.
>
> 2) Upgrade and Migrate
>
> After this, the actual upgrade will take place, whilst Migrate stays. This
> should not break anything since Migrate covers almost all functionality that
> will be removed. The instrumentation and logging will remain during this phase;
> the only effective change at this point is whatever jQuery didn't think was
> worth covering in Migrate or were just one of many bug fixes.
>
> 3) Finalise upgrade
>
> Finally, we will remove the migration plugin (both the Migrate compatibility
> layer and its instrumentation). This will bring us to a clean version of latest
> jQuery v1.x without compatibility hacks.
>
>
> A rough timeline:
>
> * 12 May 2014 (1.24wmf4 [9]): Phase 1 – Instrumentation and logging starts. This
> will run for 4 weeks (until June 9).
>
> * 19 May 2014 (1.24wmf5): Phase 2 – "Upgrade and Migrate". This will run for 3
> weeks (upto June 9). The instrumentation continues during this period.
>
> * 1 June 2014 (1.24wmf7) Finalise upgrade.
>
>
> == FAQ ==
>
> Q: The upgrade guide is for jQuery v1.9, what about jQuery v1.10 and v1.11?
>
> A: Those are regular updates that only fix bugs and/or introduce non-breaking
> enhancements. Like jQuery v1.7 and v1.8, we can upgrade to those without any
> hassle. We'll be fast-forwarding straight from v1.8 to v1.11.
>
>
> Q: What about the jQuery Migrate plugin?
>
> A: jQuery developed a plugin that adds back some of the removed features (not
> all, consult the upgrade guide[2] for details). It also logs usage of these to
> the console.
>
>
> Q: When will the upgrade happen?
>
> A: In the next few weeks, once we are happy that the impact is reasonably low.
> An update will be sent to wikitech-l just before this is done as a final reminder.
> This will be well before the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point for extension authors
> looking to maintain compatibility.
>
>
> Q: When are we moving to jQuery v2.x?
>
> A: We are not currently planing to do this. Despite the name, jQuery v2.x
> doesn't contain any new features compared to jQuery v1 [3]. The main difference
> is in the reduced support for different browsers and environments; most
> noticeably, jQuery 2.x drops support for Internet Explorer 8 and below, which
> MediaWiki is still supporting for now, and is outside the scope of this work.
> Both v1 and v2 continue to enjoy simultaneous releases for bug fixes and new
> features. For example, jQuery released v1.11 and v2.1 together[4][5].
>
> -- Krinkle
>
> [1] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate-
> final-released/
> [2] http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/
> [3] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/04/18/jquery-2-0-released/
> [4] http://blog.jquery.com/2014/01/24/jquery-1-11-and-2-1-released/
> [5] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/05/24/jquery-1-10-0-and-2-0-1-released/
> [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/131494
> [7] https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/blob/master/warnings.md
> [8] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg72198.html
> [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap
>
I have 2 application servers behind a load-balancer that both point to
a 3rd server where the database lives. I'm curious if there are any
best practices around keeping the two MediaWiki servers synchronized?
I found Extension:WikiSync
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiSync) but it doesn't look
like it's still developed.
I assume Wikimedia does this now, anyone know how?
Thanks
Bill
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2014.10. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.x and
MediaWiki 1.22.x releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.10.tar…
* sha256sum: 49707823ec19d9eed1c21c37550a3b0a2c81ff83855aea2706287a5169e90468
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel, CLDR and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Only localisation updates.
== CleanChanges ==
* Localisation updates.
* Added support for ULS in language filter selector.
== Translate ==
* New feature: Remove any page from translation with two clicks from
Special:PageTranslation. Previously, translate tags had to be removed
manually first.
* Special:PageTranslation also has prettier warning and error notifications.
* The user group translate-proofr is no longer created by default. If
you were using it, you can add it back with following code in your
LocalSettings.php:
$wgGroupPermissions['translate-proofr']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
$wgAddGroups['translate-proofr'] = array( 'translate-proofr' );
* Removed $wgTranslatePageMigration (enabled by default),
$wgTranslateUseTux (no longer in use) and translate-proofr group
(needs sysadmin action if in use).
* Bug 48672: When marking page for translation, show a note before
submit if there are no differences.
* Added support for page status indicators. This alters very slightly
the way help icons are displayed on some special pages.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Input Methods ===
* Fixed bug in Burmese (my-xkb) keyboard.
Thanks!
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
A few of us wiki enthusiasts started an informal organization with the
intent of coordinating periodic meet-ups, sharing open-source MediaWiki
extensions, and soliciting collaboration in new development beneficial for
those of us using MediaWiki in a corporate environment.
We are working on setting up an event the afternoon of Monday December 1st
in Houston. Before we finalize the location, we need to get an idea of how
many people intend to attend.
Some items we are considering for the agenda include:
- Hands-on demo of Visual Editor
- Discuss what's new in MediaWiki 1.24
- The history of the NASA wiki and how we use Meeting Minutes to reduce
email
- Share some of the extensions we have developed to better suit
MediaWiki for corporate use
If you or anyone else you know would be interested in attending this
meet-up, please email back with names and email addresses so we can
coordinate.
Thanks!
Daren and James
Hello everyone,
The prior maintenance release announcement email titled
MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.23.6, 1.22.13 and 1.19.21
included the word "Security" in the subject. This inclusion was a
mistake. There are no security fixes included in these releases.
Best,
Mark A. Hershberger
(Wiki Release Team)