MediaWiki-l April 2014

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MySql data base error
by John Foster 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

I just started getting this message during my automated backup sessions of all my mysql data bases. All except my mediawiki are fine. mysqldump: Got error: 144: Table './mywiki/searchindex' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed when using LOCK TABLES Any ideas of what to do. thnaks John

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MediaWiki On Nginx As A Subdirectory of WordPress
by Matthew Wayne Selznick 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi gang, Does anyone have any experience with nginx running mediawiki? I've just migrated my sites from apache2 to nginx -- a WordPress site, a static site, and a mediawiki site are all running great from their own URLs. The problem child is a mediawiki install I have in a subfolder of a WordPress installation. Trying to get to the mediawiki brings me right back to the root URL (the WordPress home page). The directory structure is: -wordpress site --subdirectory ---mediawiki install Or, in other words: wordpress.site/sub/mediawiki Everything was running fine before the switch and I *suspect* I need to set something in an nginx.conf file... but... what? Any help available will be REALLY appreciated. Thanks! -- Matthew Wayne Selznick Author, Creator and Creative Services Provider http://www.mattselznick.com Get a Free Sampler of My Short Stories, Novels, and Non-Fiction: http://www.mattselznick.com/free-ebook

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Permisos de copia
by German Rodriguez Spir 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Como puedo pedir permiso de copia hay en wiksource me dicce que tengo que llenar el formato que me dan de ejemplo pero no veo en donde tengo que enviar ese formato por favor espero su pronta respuesta Gracias...

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Getting Started - Categorizing & Templates
by Kevin Holleran 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hello, I am extremely new to MediaWiki and have set up an internal server for my team. I would like to have a set of pages on one topic for starters but with the ability to continue to add topics as we decide whether we like leveraging this as a knowledge base. Can I set something up like this? www.mywiki.internal/wiki/index.php/TOPIC1 <- page showing all the pages under TOPIC1 sorted by date www.mywiki.internal/wiki/index.php/TOPIC1/STUFF1 <- a page tied to a template with sections defined. Any page under TOPIC1 would start with a template of sections: Executive Summary, Details, NextSection, etc. Can anyone help me understand how to set this up in this manner (and if its possible to do so)? Thank you for your help. Kevin

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Still having thumbnail creation issues:
by John Foster 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

I have been trying for 2 weeks to figure out how to get Mediawiki 1.22.5 to properly handle images: still no real progress; Here is the message I'm getting now. I think these are all related to some permissions issue, but I have tried everything I know of & I have researched the web extensively & tried many 'possible' solutions. Here is the situation: /var/www/ is owned by root:root permissions 0755 /var/www/mywiki is owned by myusername:myusername permissions 0755 /var/www/mywiki/images is owned by myusername:myusername permissions 0777 I am currently running this on Debian linux stable; when I load up a webpage I get a mixed array of images issues: as in some images load and display and others don't. error message from web page: > Error creating thumbnail: convert.im6: no decode delegate for this > image format `/tmp/magick-3PI8Zdf7' @ > error/constitute.c/ReadImage/544. > convert.im6: no images defined > `/var/www/mywiki/images/tmp/transform_4a98a4281d46-1.png' @ > error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044. error message from Apache2 error.log: [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody [Mon Apr 21 20:19:39 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/mywiki/images/thumb/2/2e/Engineered_monoclonal_antibodies.svg/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://www.physicswiki.net/index.php?title=Bispecific_monoclonal_antibody the .htaccess file mentioned has this content; & is permission 0777 > # Protect against bug 28235 > <IfModule rewrite_module> > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[^\\/:*?\x22<>|%]+(#|\?|$) [nocase] > RewriteRule . - [forbidden] > </IfModule> > The file in question is on wikimedia commons & I have InstantCommons = true; in my LocalSettings.php file thanks john

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Tuesday 22nd, 03:30UTC: Another IRC Office Hour on Project Management Tools Review / Phabricator
by Andre Klapper 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

After last Thursday's IRC office hour [1] we are going to have another office hour on April 22, 2014 (Tuesday) at 03:30 UTC (09:00 India; Monday 20:30 California) in #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net about the ongoing Project management tools review and the proposal to move to Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator We will quickly present the progress and status and we are happy to answer your questions! See you at the IRC office hour! andre [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-04-17 -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Auth_remoteuser -- please review
by Mark A. Hershberger 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

For a current project, I have found that Auth_remoteuser can take care of a lot of the grunt work, but I felt the need to update it a little. I have the feeling (wrong?) that this extension is one that is used in a lot of places but it hasn't been touched for a couple of years. Could I get people to test out the modifications I want to contribute back? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127405 -- mostly just formatting https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127406 -- refactoring https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/127407 -- changing invocation I've made some effort to keep this compatible with the previous version. If you want to try this out as a drop-in replacement for your current Auth_remoteuser, you can use http://mah.everybody.org/Auth_remoteuser.php.txt -- but please report back any problems you have. Thanks, Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

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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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Persistant upload problems with images:
by John Foster 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

I have a number of persistant issues with Mediawiki 1.22.4. These have persisted since I upgraded from 1.22.2 a few weeks ago. I "THINK" these are all related to some kind of permissions issues with the server. these are a section of the relevant lines from LocalSettings.php <?php # Protect against web entry if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) { exit; } ## Uncomment this to disable output compression # $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;snipet $wgSitename = "PhysicsWiki"; ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. ## For more information on customizing the URLs ## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL $wgScriptPath = ""; $wgScriptExtension = ".php"; ## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs $wgServer = "http://www.physicswiki.net"; $wgCanonicalServer = 'http://www.physicswiki.net'; ## The relative URL path to the skins directory $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; ## UPO means: this is also a user preference option $wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPOsnipet $wgEmergencyContact = "frosty(a)physicswiki.net"; $wgPasswordSender = "frosty(a)physicswiki.net"; $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO $wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO $wgEmailAuthentication = true; ## Database settings $wgDBtype = "mysql"; $wgDBserver = "localhost"; $wgDBname = "pw"; $wgDBuser = "myusername"; $wgDBpassword = "mypassword"; # MySQL specific settings $wgDBprefix = ""; # MySQL table options to use during installation or update $wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary"; # Experimental charset support for MySQL 5.0. $wgDBmysql5 = false; ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then set this to true: $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; require_once( "$IP/extensions/NativeSvgHandler/NativeSvgHandler.php" ); $wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick'; $wgSVGConverterPath = "/usr/bin/"; snipet $wgSVGConverters = array( 'ImageMagick' => '$path/convert -background white -thumbnail $widthx $height\! $input PNG:$output', # 'inkscape' => '$path/inkscape -z -w $width -f $input -e $output', # 'rsvg' => '$path/rsvg -w $width -h $height $input $output', $wgTmpDirectory = "$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 asnipet ## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an ## available UTF-8 locale $wgShellLocale = "en_US.utf8"; ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode, ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment ## this, if it's not already uncommented: #$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; ## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server ## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not ## be publically accessible from the web. $wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; Any one interested. Please look over these settings & send any ideas for correcting them to something that works with all images. The issues seems to also affect $wgInstantCommons usage as well. Real path to the wiki is /var/www/pw I have set the /var/www/pw/images directory and all its recursives to mode 777 just as a temporary situation; I think that they should be set to 0775 or 0755. Entire site is owned by "myusername" not www-data or root Thanks for any assist. john

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 127, Issue 14
by Matthias Brennwald 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

> Import the dump into MySQL if you haven't already. Ok, something like this (?): mysql -u root -p WIKIdb < dump-of-old-WIKIdb.sql > Tweak your mysql config to point to the database with the dump. How, where? Sorry, I am a complete noob. Thanks for your help Matthias ---- Matthias Brennwald Eawag, CH-8600 Dübendorf Office Eawag BU-D13: +41 58 765 53 05 Lab Eawag LA-C76: +41 58 765 53 06 Lab ETHZ CLA A31.6: +41 44 632 09 36/39 matthias.brennwald(a)eawag.ch http://homepages.eawag.ch/~brennmat

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