MediaWiki-l March 2014

mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

62 participants
55 discussions

Regarding formSpecialPage and Extensions Built With It
by Justin Folvarcik 15 Mar '14

15 Mar '14

I have a couple questions about the formSpecialPage class and how it works. For starters, I cannot seem to make anything happen in the onSubmit callback, regardless of what I do. In addition, I'm also not certain how to return error messages upon failure to perform the action. What's more, I made onSubmit() just return true regardless of anything, and I still could not get the onSuccess() message to display. In a nutshell, I don't understand the submit process for this class, and would like some tips on how to make sure I'm doing everything properly. My extension I am developing is located in my github, here: http://github.com/Justin-Folvarcik/ContactUs Source for the class is in SpecialContactUs.php, and the js and css are currently unused while I work out the rest of the technical details. If I could possibly get some pointers about it, I'd appreciate it. I'm basically stuck, and don't know what to do next. -- ---- Justin Folvarcik *"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will finally know peace."*-Jimi Hendrix

1 1

Need help
by Lammari, Farida 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I upgraded mediaWiki from 1.12 to mediaWiki 1.22.3 I upgrade the extension Calendar and other extensions using this URL http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor I ran $php maintenance/update.php. The mediaWiki is working good but the Calendar didn't displayed , I cannot see the calendar. Please any help. Thank you.

2 1

MediaWiki hooks and parameters
by Amelia Ireland 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hello, I'm having a little trouble getting a custom hook to perform the actions I want it to after upgrading from PHP 5.3 / MW 1.19.2 to PHP 5.4 / MW 1.22.3. I am hacking an existing extension, ProcessCite, that integrates into the Cite extension by adding a custom hook to one of Cite's functions: # from Cite_body.php function stack( $str, $key = null, $group, $follow, $call ) { # add the call to the CiteBeforeStackEntry hook wfRunHooks( 'CiteBeforeStackEntry', array( &$str, &$call ) ); ProcessCite runs code that creates a value for $str based on the contents of $call. Here are the relevant parts of ProcessCite: # Declare the hook: $wgHooks['CiteBeforeStackEntry'][] = 'wfProcessCite'; # the function itself function wfProcessCite($str, $argv){ # process $argv and $str to create a new version of $str # $argv remains unchanged, $str is set to new value $str = "new string"; return true; } Debug statements reveal that wfProcessCite is creating the correct value for $str, but the value is not altered when wfProcessCite finishes. I am not sure if I am calling the hook in the wrong way, given that I want to alter the value of $str. The MW manual page on hooks (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks) is somewhat confusing -- what is the difference between passing $someData to a function versus passing a set of parameters?! Any help would be appreciated! Thank you, Amelia. -- Amelia Ireland GMOD Community Support Generic Model Organism Database project http://gmod.org || @gmodproject

2 1

Getting a very strange error with Special:Gadgets on MW 1.22.3
by Arcane 21 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Whenever I try to enter Special Gadgets on my localhost wiki, I get the following messages: [d6ed31cf] /allthetropes/index.php/Special:Gadgets Exception from line 376 of C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\SpecialPage.php: Call to undefined method SpecialGadgets::getPageTitle Backtrace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\extensions\Gadgets\SpecialGadgets.php(98): SpecialPage->__call(string, array) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\extensions\Gadgets\SpecialGadgets.php(98): SpecialGadgets->getPageTitle(string) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\extensions\Gadgets\SpecialGadgets.php(30): SpecialGadgets->showMainForm() #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\SpecialPage.php(631): SpecialGadgets->execute(NULL) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\SpecialPageFactory.php(488): SpecialPage->run(NULL) #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\Wiki.php(298): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\Wiki.php(602): MediaWiki->performRequest() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\Wiki.php(467): MediaWiki->main() #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\index.php(49): MediaWiki->run() #9 {main} Notice: Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query (User::loadFromDatabase)). in C:\xampp\htdocs\allthetropes\includes\db\Database.php on line 3944 Gadgets themseves work fine, and I can manually edit the CSS/JS files for them without a, I just can't access the special page for them at all and have no idea why.

2 2

Mediawiki Upgrade using GIT
by Christoph Mitasch 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hello, we are running Mediawiki with some small modifications (e.g. the Vector.php skin). My plan was to checkout a specific branch (e.g. 1.21.1). Then I committed some local modifications to the code. The local repo is now ahead of e.g. 1 commit of origin. Minor version upgrades (1.21.2) can be merged without any trouble. My question is now, how an major upgrade (1.21 to 1.22) preserving my local commits can be accomplished using GIT. The only way I found so far was using cherry-pick to transfer the local commits to the new branch. Any ideas? The MW guide recommends to make a fresh clone and copy the config file, images... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Using_Git Thank you, Christoph

3 3

feed XML Parsing Error
by Patrick Schleizer 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi! On https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom I am getting: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom Line Number 3, Column 1: Do you know how to fix this? Cheers, Patrick

2 2

Error message is new to me during FileUpload
by John Foster 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

I have not seen this before & a quick web search doesn't seem to find much. Any ideas or tips. This site is recently moved from one server to another along with a Mediawiki version update to current stable. Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/55". Of course the file does not get processed. Any Ideas! Thanks! John

4 8

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

This conversation would IMHO be more appropriate on mediawiki-l because it affects mainly third parties who care about the higher privacy standards of EU, but thanks for starting it. On asking WMF legals, no worries, they were already pointed to the possibility of an issue with 2009/136/EC / "EU cookie law" / revised ePrivacy Directive on Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:18:32 +0200 (no reply received, but I was merely giving a pointer and not interested in following up). Some fines were levied just few days ago, as a quick search reveals: <http://www.bna.com/spanish-dpa-levies-n17179882151/>. As for Wikimedia projects, relevant links are * stub https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cookie_jar * draft <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/FAQ#Can_you_give_me_some_exa…> * <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Performance_standards_f…> I believe most issues with cookies are currently/usually caused by some extensions which unconditionally add one or more. The biggest drive for their removal, so far, has been performance. Sometimes they are replaced with localStorage, which is better for performance, but I have no idea how better for privacy. Nemo

1 0

Use Categories as article "tags" or just implement my own tags using SMW properties???
by Al 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hi, I thought I would ping you all for suggestions since some of you may have already gone through something similar. Wiki categories seem like a natural and synonymous fit for the typical "tag" functionality for content, like stackoverflow uses. However, we have an external application that will use the wiki API to pull content out for use and will need to work with tags/categories. I'm just wondering before I go down this road if there are any advantages to implementing my own custom tags using semantic properties (the wiki already uses SMW/Forms extensively) or if using wiki categories would be better. Of course, if I forgo categories for semantic properties, then the users will not be able to use the wiki categories pages for browsing articles, but maybe I could create new pages based on semantic queries/concepts to replace them. At this point I have no idea which way to go. Thanks for your comments/suggestions, Al

2 1

Re: [MediaWiki-l] mediawiki problem in chrome browser
by Jan Steinman 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

> in my web site, where Mediawiki software is installed, the Chrome > browser shows a problem: > the navigation section in left side of the page, the expected result > should be the navigation section is > > just close to the logo on top left, what happens instead is there's a > empty area on the page between the logo > > and the navigation > section. What version of MW do you have? I have seen this in older versions, but when I updated to 1.19, it went away. :::: Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. -- Billy Rose :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

4 4

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

MediaWiki-l March 2014