MediaWiki-l December 2014

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Special page error - mediawiki 1.24
by John Horne 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello, I am updating an old 1.19 wiki to a new server with mediawiki 1.24. The O/S has also gone from CentOS 6 to 7. So far no real problems, but when I access the 'Special pages' link, all I see is a blank page. The PHP error is logged as: =============== PHP Fatal error: Class 'SpecialAllpages' not found in /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php on line 410 =============== Has anyone else seen this? I'm not really sure what it means - or rather what to do about it! Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK

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Assistance with MediaWiki
by Anu Hassan 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Hello! I am emailing you from my work email. I have thoroughly searched your forums but I cannot find the answers to my question(s). Q1.) How can I change my domain? My domain for Mediawiki is http://127.0.0.1/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page. I followed the installation through with Xmapp, which gave me success but I do not want people to access my domain from there. I would like them to access it from here at - guardianstesv.tk (which is invalid). How Can I change the name of my URL? I have tried to follow the Short URL Tutorial but I do not completely understand. Could you make it clearer with some Instructions? If you need some more detail, please let me know. Anu Hassan, Mod Author/Website Admin Anu Hassan, Mod Author/Website Admin

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Mediawiki + Google Search Appliance
by Bill Traynor 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Hello, I'm working with a client to utilize their Google Search Appliance (GSA) for searching within their externally facing customer wiki. I'm required to access the GSA through it's API and pass the following parameters: linkID=10 (this tells the GSA what enterprise site is being searched) searchTerm= the query string selectionTopic=default_en (returns English results and is constant) startNum=0 (the start result number) I've been trying to get mediawiki-gsa-engine (https://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-gsa-engine/) to work unsuccessfully. And it would appear the extension is unmaintained. What's my path of least resistance here? Should I simply hack the SimpleSearch section of the Vector.php? I haven't found any other extensions in the wild that integrate with a GSA. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Bill

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.12 release
by Kartik Mistry 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.12. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.8 and MediaWiki 1.24.1 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.12.tar… * sha256sum: 5a0e00d27e2a81b896de4015a8f0933f24ea3409e554b0ba7f2e3c27ec27430f 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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Babel, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Localisation updates only. == CLDR == * Fixed incorrect version. == Translate == * Due to MediaWiki core plural rule changes, Translate extension contains interface translations which are not compatible with any released version of MediaWiki. If you are using Translate in the affected languages, (See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/04/updates-in-mediawiki-internationaliza… for more details and list of affected languages) you might want to consider using MLEB 2014.09 instead. The issue manifests as incorrect plural forms used in the interface for certain numbers. * T76184: Improvements in ElasticSearch TTM. Query results are now more reliable and consistent. * T49044: Fixed issue with button with long text in Special:Translate. == UniversalLanguageSelector == * As a part of refactoring ULS design, world map from ULS has been removed. You can track progress of task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85519 * Removed support for MediaWiki <= 1.21. === Fonts === * Removed ComicNeue font for non-supported languages. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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users blocked from viewing -> redirect to login page?
by Michael Renner 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Moin, I configured my mediawiki 1.24.0 to restrict page access to logged in users: $wgWhitelistRead = array( "Hauptseite", "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css", "MediaWiki:Common.css" ); // first, we colse everything $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; .... and some more configuration to grant permissions. What I miss is a possibility to redirect the (not logged in) users to the login page instead of showing them a "you must be logged in ...." page. Any change? Thanks -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner(a)gmx.de | |81541 Munich skype: michael.renner.gmx.de | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq

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iOS client
by Tiziano Solignani 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Is there one? Thank you tiziano solignani, da  iOS - http://blog.solignani.it - http://www.parolesottovetro.it Inviato da iPhone-- studio legale associato Solignani Massa http://blog.solignani.it http://www.parolesottovetro.it

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Google Code-in: First week achievements!
by Andre Klapper 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Google Code-in (GCI) has been running for only one week and students have already resolved 35 Wikimedia tasks! Some of the achievements: * Citoid offers export in BibTeX format (and more contributions) * Analytics' Dashiki has a mobile-friendlier view * Echo's badge label text has better readability; Echo uses the standard gear icon for preferences * Wikidata's Wikibase API modules use i18n for help/docs * Two MW extensions got patches to not use deprecated i18n functions * MW displays an error when trying to create a self-redirect * The sidebar group separator in MW's Installer looks like in Vector * Our Phabricator docs have video screencasts and an updated "Bug report life cycle" diagram * Huggle's on-wiki docs were updated; exceptions received cleanup * Pywikibot's replicate_wiki supports global args; optparse was replaced by argparse * Reasons for MW sites listed as defunct on WikiApiary were researched * We got logo proposals for the European Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 * ...and many more. Sounds good? Then please spend 5 minutes to go through your tasks and identify simple tasks to allow more young people contribute! Got an idea for a task? Become a mentor for that task! And spread the word to other community members who might be good mentors! Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and please contact me if you need help. Thank you! andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Scribunto/Lua scripts not running
by John Foster 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

I have a mediawiki 1.23.### with next to last security update. I was having a lot of script error messages poping up when a page loaded. I read a lot and decided I needed to upgrade the Extension:Scribunto. I thought that would fix the issue, but it didn't. The only reason I use Scribunto is that I like to use the upgrade templates from Wikipedia. However I'm approaching a point where I simply want to freeze the installation and only concentrate on the actual content. I don't see a way to do that without completely rebuilding the site using a matching 1.24.xxx with a matching Scribunto. I've done this several times and frankly an fed up with the process. Of I could strip out Scribunto, I'm OK with that. This just seems to be bad software engineering to have Lua so involved, without actually integrating it directly into the mediawiki software, and tossing the Extension. In short incorporate it the same way as Php, or java, etc.

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MW redirects to Main page editing mode when creating a new article and hitting "save"
by Wilson Pina -- TripleStrata.com 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

* MediaWiki Version: 1.24.1 * PHP Version: 5.4.35 (cgi-fcgi) * SQL Version: 5.5.40-cll * URL: http://triplestrata.com/MMOKB/ >> Hello Wikipedians... I've run into a bit of a problem: After creating a decent wiki, and making a backup, I was about to add more content so I could link to it later. I typed the title for the new article and selected the link to create it. After writing the article with no problems I clicked "Save". To my surprise, after clicking that button, the page refreshed and suddenly the article I was writing was replaced by the Main Page content, still on the editing mode. I figured this was a redundancy error or something so I looked manually for the page I thought I] created. Didn't find it. Since wiki text can simply be copied and pasted onto a notepad file and add it later at any occasion (thank God), I still had the article I had written so I entered the title again, clicked to create it, pasted the content and clicked to save it. No changes: the page does refresh but I'm editing the Main Page again (that doesn't even let me save any changes on it). Is there a way to fix this? This happened after the last update...

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How do I configure the PageTriage for my non WMF wiki
by Arcane 21 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

I wanted to install this extension for my non WMF wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage Got it working, but I have no idea how to configure it, and all I really need to do (for now) is configure it to have a filter for the main namespace (instead of Article like on Wikipedia). Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

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