MediaWiki-l May 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 17 Aug '25

17 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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Second round of the MediaWiki Release Management RFP
by Greg Grossmeier 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Excerpt from the blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/27/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-relea… -- Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation started to share the responsibility[0] of the long term management of the MediaWiki software project with the wider community. We are continuing the process with a second Request for Proposals[1] to manage the third-party releases of MediaWiki (PDF[2]). The process for this RFP is a community-involved one. There is a three-week period for organizations to prepare and submit their proposals, after which the community can comment on and ask questions of the proposers. The Wikimedia Foundation will take all of this feedback into account when making the final decision for who will lead the release management of MediaWiki for the next year. The deadline for proposals is June 13. Please do get involved if you are interested in the future of MediaWiki! Greg [0] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/request-for-proposals-mediawiki-relea… [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_Release_Request_For_Propo… -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Installation - DB connect problems through socket
by Alastair Sherringham 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hello Folks, I hope someone can help out here. I have setup MW 1.22.* successfully on a test server of my own but am now having trouble going into "production" ... I have a managed Linux server. Via the web panel, I have created a database and a database user. On the command line, I have to connect to the database via a form like : mysql -u user -S /tmp/mysql5.sock -p database I have to use the "socket" form (-S) or it fails to connect (access denied). See : http://faq.1and1.co.uk/web_space__access/mysql/12.html I am trying to set up MW 1.22.7, running the initial setup (mw-config/index.php) to set up the database I get an error : 1) Using database = localhost ERROR = DB connection error: Access denied for user: 'dbuser@localhost' (Using password: YES) (localhost). 2) Using database = localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock ERROR = DB connection error: Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock' (1) (localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock). I refererred to this page for the 2nd format above : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Config_script "Note: If running MySQL using a different socket file (e.g. mysql on localhost, using --socket=/tmp/mysocketfile), set the database host to:"localhost:/tmp/mysocketfile". Sometimes sockets are called ports. If you have a port number for your database host, follow the same syntax:"my.host.url:port"." I also see a resolved bug (with code I see I have in 1.22.7 (IP.php)) : mysqli: Non-standard port handling broken (explicit parameter int $port expected) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58153 I tried the command line installer but got problems as well e.g. > php5.5 maintenance/install.php wikiname admin --pass <pass> \ --dbname <database> --dbserver localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock --dbuser <dbuser> --dbpass <dbpass> \ --scriptpath "/w" X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.12 Content-type: text/html ... Setting up database DB connection error: Connection refused (localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock). Check the host, username and password and try again. Does anyone know how I can get MW connected here? -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.05 release
by Kartik Mistry 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.05. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.7 and MediaWiki 1.21.10 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.05.tar… * sha256sum: f53030ce7e6e0619f9a075877bc85423c0a28f46ffb296dbed5733502683b9b3 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 and LocalisationUpdate == * Only localisation updates == CLDR == * The fallback logic should not merge the time units from languages in fallback chain. It should use time units from a fallback language only when time units are not defined. * Localisation updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Add summary to the Special:MessageGroupStats page. * The icon to hide the sidebar on Special:Translate is now clickable in small screen sizes. * When a user is promoted from translator sandbox, it is treated as account creation. Promoted users can now receive NewUserMessage. * When doing action=purge on Special:LanguageStats, the stats were not completely purged until now. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Bug 62342: Always display assistant languages in compact language list when defined by user in Translate extension. === Input Methods === * Bug 63895: Updated Sanskrit Transliteration layout as per community request. === Fonts === * Bug 56939: Added 'Hussaini Nastaleeq' font for Urdu. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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scribunto: red Script Error non-clickable
by Bill Traynor 30 May '14

30 May '14

In the documentation for Extension:Scrubunto the troubleshooting section indicates that when a red Script error message appears on page, you can click it to view the error message. On my system, this doesn't work at all. MW 1.22.6 Scribunto (git branch REL1_22) Lua 5.1.5 I've confirmed the extensions requirements have been met. The lua error log I've set up just gets filled with: TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> call RX <== return TX ==> return RX <== getStatus TX ==> return RX <== getStatus TX ==> return Any thoughts on how to debug this? Thanks Bill

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MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.16, 1.21.10 and 1.22.7
by Markus Glaser 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hello everyone, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.19.16, 1.21.10 and 1.22.7. This is a regular security and maintenance release. Download links are given at the end of this email. == Security == * (bug 65501) SECURITY: Don't parse usernames as wikitext on Special:PasswordReset. == Bugfixes in 1.22.7 == * (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links. * (bug 63269) Email notifications were not correctly handling the [[MediaWiki:Helppage]] message being set to a full URL. This is a regression from the 1.22.5 point release, which made the default value for it a URL. If you customized [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] (the text of email notifications), you'll need to edit it locally to include the URL via the new variable $HELPPAGE instead of the parser functions fullurl and canonicalurl; otherwise you don't have to do anything. * Add missing uploadstash.us_props for PostgreSQL. * (bug 56047) Fixed stream wrapper in PhpHttpRequest. == Bugfixes in 1.21.10 == * (bug 36356) Add space between two feed links. Full release notes for 1.22.7: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22> Full release notes for 1.21.10: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21> Full release notes for 1.19.16: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19> Public keys: <https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html> ********************************************************************** 1.22.7 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.7.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.22.6): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.7.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-core-1.22.7.tar.gz.s… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.7.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.7.patch.gz.sig ********************************************************************** 1.21.10 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.10.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.21.9): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.10.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.10.tar.gz.… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.10.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.10.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. ********************************************************************** 1.19.16 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.16.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.15): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.16.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-core-1.19.16.tar.gz.… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.16.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.16.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. Markus Glaser (Release Team)

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