MediaWiki-l March 2014

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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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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 16 Aug '25

16 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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File descriptions aren't fetched
by Till Kraemer 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

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

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https
by Jan Steinman 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

> From: "Scheid, Bernhard" <Bernhard.Scheid(a)oeaw.ac.at> > > For unknown reasons, google sometimes refers to my wiki-pages by using https instead of http. The result is that the page is displayed, but without css. Any advice how to prevent this? I doubt Google is making this up. That means that there are links out there that refer to your site with https. Hunt them down and kill them. Otherwise, if you have control of your server, you can simply enable https as well as http. It isn't terribly difficult. :::: I suggest you locate your hot tub outside your house, so it won't do too much damage if it catches fire or explodes. First you decide which direction your hot tub should face for maximum solar energy. After much trial and error, I have found that the best direction for a hot tub to face is up. -- Dave Barry :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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Image upload issues with Mediawiki
by John Foster 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Still getting error messages from the Special:UpLoad page shown below: > Error creating thumbnail: convert.im6: no decode delegate for this > image format `/tmp/magick-2bvC6VML' @ > error/constitute.c/ReadImage/544. > convert.im6: no images defined `PNG:/tmp/transform_c5506caa9662-1.png' > @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCom > This is my images stuff from LocalSettings.php > ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory > ## is writable, then set this to true: > $wgEnableUploads = true; > $wgUseImageMagick = true; > $wgUseImageResize = true; > $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; > $wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick'; > $wgTmpDirectory = "$IP/images/temp"; > $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; > $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; > # InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org > $wgUseInstantCommons = true; > > ## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a > ## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an > ## available UTF-8 locale > $wgShellLocale = "en_US.utf8"; > I don't know if all the $wgXXXxxx settings are correct. Seem to be no examples available. Also I have tried just using the defaults & that doesn't work either.

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.03 release
by Kartik Mistry 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.03. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.4 and MediaWiki 1.21.7 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.03.tar… * sha256sum: f3a253e05f6b7c4f451882a1a78a138a1dcaecd2777237d0c2b8af7c3ecced70 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, CleanChanges == * Only localisation updates. == CLDR == * Updated to CLDR 25. * Localisation updates. == LocalisationUpdate == LocalisationUpdate is rewritten for JSON file format support for extensions. This is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19 and above. * Extensions using JSON are fully supported and LocalisationUpdate will pickup new languages as they appear. * LocalisationUpdate will store translation using JSON file format. If extension is not yet migrated to JSON, messages will be stored as PHP file. === Configuration changes === ==== Global Variables ==== ====== $wgLocalisationUpdateRepository ====== Default repository source to fetch translation. MediaWiki's Github mirror is set to default repository to fetch translations. This is added with version 1.1. ===== $wgLocalisationUpdateRepositories ===== Array of repositories URLs from which to retrieve localisations for core MediaWiki and extensions. Default is set to GitHub's MediaWiki Git repositories and you should not change this unless you're using this performance improvement or otherwise know what you're doing. This is added with version 1.1. ==== Script parameters changes ==== With version 1.1, --repoid: Fetch translations from repositories identified by this ==== Notes ==== * Once core MediaWiki switches to JSON format, all users must update LU to keep receiving updates. They will need to update anyway because older versions of LocalisationUpdate do not support JSON at all. * If an extension switches to JSON, we will not be able to provide updates until its local checkout is updated to such a version. LocalisationUpdate does not know about the switch and will try to fetch the PHP shim, which does not have translations any longer. This is usually okay, as the PHP shims support old MediaWiki versions; problems might appear if the extension has other incompatible changes which prevent updating. * For more details, also see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Added support for insertables with numbers in the end on translatable pages. * Improvements in TUX shortcuts: Shortcut indicators are now more visible. Fixed display in RTL. Added indicators for up/down arrows. * characterEditStats.php: Mention the max age of recent changes ($wgRCMaxAge) limits. * Added a notice about ULS extension dependency. On Special:Translate, it will fail with MediaWiki error page if ULS is not installed. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Compacting the interlanguage links with the ULS as new Beta feature. Displays a shorter version of the language list with the languages that are more relevant to you. More info at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlang… * Bug 56081: Reset webfonts where inline css style found upon reset. This fixes broken live preview for content font. === Fonts === * Updated Lohit Oriya font to new upstream version and renamed to Lohit Odia. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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WikiEditor disappeared
by Bill Traynor 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

ProductVersion MediaWiki1.22.5 (7266102) PHP5.3.15 (apache2handler) MySQL5.0.77 Lua5.1.5 I just noticed today that WikiEditor is no longer present when editing a page on our wiki. Others seem to have experienced this as well. I have a test version of the exact same wiki where WikiEditor is working and the only difference between the two installations is the PHP version. The working version is PHP 5.4.22. Is there any known issues with WikiEditor and PHP 5.3? Thanks Bill

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.gif images are not loading
by John W. Foster 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

.gif images are not loading in my mediawiki. Even those that are from $wgUseInstantCommons =true; This is my image system settings from LocalSettings.php > ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory > ## is writable, then set this to true: > $wgEnableUploads = true; > $wgUseImageMagick = true; > $wgUseImageResize = true; > $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; > $wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick'; > $wgTmpDirectory = "$IP/images/temp"; > $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; > $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; > # InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org > $wgUseInstantCommons = true; > > $wgFileExtensions = array( 'tex', 'png', 'eps', 'ps', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'svg', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'psd', 'mp3', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'swf', 'sty', 'doc','docx', 'odt', 'odc', 'odp', 'odg', 'mpp', 'tiff'); > $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; > I also am unable to use the Special:UploadFile page. Both .jpeg & .svg seem to work. on the site others are shown as placeholders. Notions or ideas?? Thanks John

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