MediaWiki-l October 2014

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Extension:CodeEditor
by John Foster 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I have it installed and the "version" page shows it installed. However after restarting apache & updating my system. The toggle button for code editor is not showing up in the advanced toolbar. Any ideas. Thanks! John

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Images disappearing (recurrent problem), ?memory management
by Dr. Michael Bonert 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I suspect the problem is somewhere in MediaWiki. If knew where I'd be posting it here. - I've stripped away other things on the server. Pretty much the only thing left is the most recent version of MediaWiki (1.23.3) and Debian (stable) packages. - I ran 'debsums' to check whether any of the Debian packages are corrupt. - I am not aware of any LAMP bugs in Debian. The MediaWiki install is near fresh. I did a manual upgrade for version 1.23.1 and then used the patches to get to 1.23.3. The upgrade from 1.23.1 to 1.23.2 had a bug in it-- but I think that was inconsequential. In any case, that upgrade was done July 30, several weeks preceding the problems. Here is a snippet from 'ps aux': ----- USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ... www-data 10518 0.0 2.8 291376 57052 ? S 20:39 0:03 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10567 0.0 2.5 288076 51480 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10568 0.0 2.6 290496 54140 ? S 20:42 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10569 0.0 2.5 288820 51840 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10570 0.0 2.6 291384 53036 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10571 0.0 2.9 293316 58812 ? S 20:42 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10572 0.0 2.7 290976 55360 ? S 20:42 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10573 0.0 2.7 290888 55820 ? S 20:42 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10649 0.0 2.7 290728 54860 ? S 20:53 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10650 0.0 2.7 293000 55924 ? S 20:53 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start ... ----- The memory seems to be going into apache2. Earlier this morning I rebooted the server. About three hours later the images were gone again. After rebooting this morning... the server has been working okay (so far about 13 hours). I don't understand the cycle: why it breaks in 3 hours... or goes for more than 12. Some ideas I have: 1. Running a 'diff' of my active server against the tarball for the most recent MediaWiki-- to look for corrupted files. 2. At this point I am thinking about the extensions and doing a fresh install of MediaWiki... with the hope that will resolve things. 3. I have bimonthly images going back a year-- I can dump the database, rollback and grab the latest database changes. My inclination is to try #2. It isn't that hard to do... if it works I can be pretty sure it was MediaWiki... and it solves the problem I have at the moment. Any thoughts/ideas are welcome. Michael

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Enhanced recent changes will be default in MediaWiki 1.25.0
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

MediaWiki 1.25.0 (planned release 2015-05-27) will use the "enhanced recent changes" and "extended watchlist" options by default. The change doesn't affect Wikimedia wikis. Explanation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25#Enhanced_recent_changes ; I'd particularly appreciate help in * updating docs around (with appropriate {{MW version}}), * adding a quick gif to show the (un)collapsing of one row on a representative Special:Watchlist view, * (ideally) re-writing the Meta-Wiki help page from scratch on mediawiki.org so that it can be translated. Nemo P.s.: I copy the current text from the page here as well. MediaWiki now uses by default the extended watchlist and so called enhanced recent chances (preference "Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist"), which received several improvements in MediaWiki 1.25. This means that Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist show all the changes to each page in a given day, sorted by page rather than chronologically. Changes to each page are then collapsed by default and a compact overview is shown, with links to collated diffs and counts of each user's actions. Full activity for an individual page can then be shown with a single click. Users will no longer need to know in detail how a single change was chosen for display in order to figure out what else may have happened to the page that day, nor to scan a long list of non-contiguous lines on the screen in order to get a complete picture. The change is part of MediaWiki's evolution towards an interface which is more discoverable and less cluttered by default, while equally easy to quickly access in full, with the help of JavaScript. However, the (grouped) layout is an improvement for non-JavaScript users as well.

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[Mediawiki-l] Looking for help setting up a MediaWiki distribution with VE and Flow
by John Cummings 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi All I'm a volunteer for Wikimedia UK, I was Wikimedian in Residence at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London and started a project called Monmouthpedia. I do some work for a charity called WYSE International <http://www.wyse-ngo.org/>, I'm trying to set up a wiki to support young leaders around the world in sharing their knowledge and am very stuck, I have been trying to set up Parsoid for several days. I'm able to set up the basic MediaWiki installation file but beyond that I'm getting very stuck with the instructions. I would really appreciate someone's help in setting up Parsoid, VE and Flow. Many thanks John -- *John Cummings - **Wikimedia UK volunteer* tweet @mrjohnc Wikimedia UK is a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

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Instant commons not working on my wiki
by Ian Kelling 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Instant commons is not working for me. Commons file links are just red links which send me to the local file upload page. I have set: $wgUseInstantCommons = true; File uploads work. $wgForeignFileRepos is not otherwise set. I'm on ubuntu, so no selinux concerns. I'm using version 23. Specifically, latest git from REL1_23 branch, which is b4ea637. I've tried a sample link [[File:Wikipedia-Marker-commons.svg|Wikipedia-Marker-commons]] Which, on the actual wiki is at https://ofswiki.org/wiki/Debian_add_new_interactive_user Any suggestion on figuring out whats wrong would be appreciated.

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Scribunto "again"
by John Foster 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

recent upgrade again has killed my scribunto. I updated to extension version 1.23 to match my mediawiki. just after I got it running I noticed this error poping up in my pages that worked previously. Since I don't know anything about Lua. maybe someone can decipher this error message.PCRE is 8.1 from PHP Version 5.5.6-1 Backtrace: 1. *(tail call)*: ? 2. *[C]*: in function "error" 3. *Module:No_globals:4 <http://beast.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Module:No_globals&action=edit#…>*: ? 4. *package.lua:91*: in function "require" 5. *Module:Protection_banner:6 <http://beast.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Module:Protection_banner&actio…>*: in main chunk 6. *(tail call)*: ? 7. *(tail call)*: ? 8. *[C]*: in function "xpcall" 9. *MWServer.lua:87*: in function "handleCall" 10. *MWServer.lua:301*: in function "dispatch" 11. *MWServer.lua:40*: in function "execute" 12. *mw_main.lua:7*: in main chunk 13. *[C]*: ?

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Wiki problems: spam + MySQL errors
by Yves de Lyle 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hi All, Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. But I've inherited admin of a wiki, Cunnan <http://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/wiki/Main_Page>, and it has some problems with Spammers. I've setup ConfirmEdit's Question-base CAPTCHA, AntiSpoof and AbuseFilter to deal with them. However, I can not get AbuseFilter working with the wiki going blank on submitting of an edit, so it is un-implemented. I have read the Extension page, but it does not explain what is going on. Everytime I have attempted to Test a simple filter the function has returned a 'Database Error'. ====================================== A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "AbuseFilterViewTestBatch::doTest". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'RC_EXTERNAL' in 'where clause' (localhost)". ======================================== And now when I try to mysqldump a backup I get ....... mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show create table `temp`': View 'cunnan.temp' references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function(s) or definer/invoker of view lack rights to use them (1356) Or with a purgingOldText.php I get .... Error: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 27687, 27751, 27752, 27757, 27817, 27821, 27816, 27818, 27829, 27828, 27843, 27' at line 1 (localhost) So I suspect there is a database error, but I don't know where to find it. Cheers, Jamie

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 133, Issue 9
by Alexandra Stagoy 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

its ok Alexandra Stagoy On Monday, 13 October 2014, 14:00, "mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: 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. Wiki problems: spam + MySQL errors (Yves de Lyle) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:36:44 +1100 From: Yves de Lyle <yvesdelyle(a)gmail.com> To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki problems: spam + MySQL errors Message-ID: <CAF23HxWap_=2zr4fysmZpwKGABReCc91qiS6wEyoZ09wW9Xrzw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. But I've inherited admin of a wiki, Cunnan <http://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/wiki/Main_Page>, and it has some problems with Spammers. I've setup ConfirmEdit's Question-base CAPTCHA, AntiSpoof and AbuseFilter to deal with them. However, I can not get AbuseFilter working with the wiki going blank on submitting of an edit, so it is un-implemented. I have read the Extension page, but it does not explain what is going on. Everytime I have attempted to Test a simple filter the function has returned a 'Database Error'. ====================================== A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "AbuseFilterViewTestBatch::doTest". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'RC_EXTERNAL' in 'where clause' (localhost)". ======================================== And now when I try to mysqldump a backup I get ....... mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show create table `temp`': View 'cunnan.temp' references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function(s) or definer/invoker of view lack rights to use them (1356) Or with a purgingOldText.php I get .... Error: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 27687, 27751, 27752, 27757, 27817, 27821, 27816, 27818, 27829, 27828, 27843, 27' at line 1 (localhost) So I suspect there is a database error, but I don't know where to find it. Cheers, Jamie ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 133, Issue 9 *******************************************

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Invitation to this Friday's MediaWiki Cooperation G+ hangout
by mah＠nichework.com 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Please join us for our fourth online meeting of the MediaWiki Cooperation at 17 October, 2014 at 3 PM UTC. We'll discuss the current state of things and talk about the Environmental Scan we're undertaking and how you can be involved. More information is available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Meetings/2014-10-17_Te… https://plus.google.com/events/ce30npoet5jkag8ij64ciro6s5s -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

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MediaWiki setup
by Legault, Phillip [ITSUS] 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

I'm trying to get my mediawiki server up and running and I just get a blank page. I check the apache error log and I don't see anything. #-> php /var/www/mediawiki/mw/maintenance/showJobs.php PHP Warning: require(/var/www/mediawiki/mw/vendor/data-values/common/Common.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/mediawiki/mw/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 54 PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/mediawiki/mw/vendor/data-values/common/Common.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/mediawiki/mw/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 54 I remove the localsettings file which should trigger mediawiki to start with the setup page, and I still get nothing. Thank you Phil

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