MediaWiki-l September 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

Lis ton message de Nganguem Victor avant qu'il ne soit effacé! Pour lire ton message, suis simplement ce lien: http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 D'autres personnes sont aussi présentes: Oded (Tel Aviv, Israël) Priya (Udaipur, Inde) RajaYogi BK (Udaipur, Inde) Karuna (Udaipur, Inde) Chika Reginald Onyia (Pnompen', Cambodge) ...Qui d'autre? http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 Les liens ne fonctionnent pas dans ce message? Copie les dans la barre d'adresse de ton navigateur. Tu as reçu cet email suite à un message envoyé par Nganguem Victor de notre système. S'il s'agit d'une erreur, ignore simplement cet email. La requête sera alors effacée du système. Amuse-toi bien ! L'équipe Badoo Courrier automatique de Badoo suite à l'envoi d'un message à ton attention sur Badoo. Les réponses ne sont ni stockées, ni traitées. Si tu ne veux plus recevoir de message de Badoo, fais-le nous savoir: http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=6&mail_code=65&email=media…

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Wikibase on third-party wikis
by Till Kraemer 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Hi, I'm trying to use Wikibase on my pool wiki and language wikis. In my pool wiki, I can create properties and items, but I can't add site links to them. ID: "Q1", site id: "cswiki", site link: "article name" gives me the error "The specified article could not be found on the corresponding site." even though that article exists on cswiki. I also can't access data from the language wikis. If I use {{#property:P1}} in an article on cswiki, nothing shows up. I downloaded Wikidata-refs-heads-master.tar.gz and extracted it to the extension folder of my pool wiki and language wikis. My LocalSettings.php of the pool wiki looks like this: # Wikibase $wgEnableWikibaseRepo = true; $wgEnableWikibaseClient = false; $wmgUseWikibaseRepo = true; $wmgUseWikibaseClient = false; require_once __DIR__ . "/extensions/Wikidata/Wikidata.php"; require_once __DIR__ . "/extensions/Wikidata/extensions/Wikibase/repo/ExampleSettings.php"; # SiteMatrix Extension require_once "$IP/extensions/SiteMatrix/SiteMatrix.php"; $wgLocalDatabases = array( 'cswiki', 'dewiki', 'enwiki', 'eswiki', 'frwiki', 'huwiki', 'hywiki', 'itwiki', 'nlwiki', 'plwiki', 'poolwiki', 'ptwiki', 'ruwiki', 'srwiki', 'svwiki' ); My LocalSettings.php of the language wikis (cs for example) look like this: # Wikibase Extension $wgEnableWikibaseRepo = false; $wgEnableWikibaseClient = true; $wmgUseWikibaseRepo = false; $wmgUseWikibaseClient = true; require_once __DIR__ . "/extensions/Wikidata/Wikidata.php"; # Settings $wgWBSettings['repoUrl'] = 'http://pool.mypedia.com'; $wgWBSettings['repoScriptPath'] = '/w'; $wgWBSettings['repoArticlePath'] = '/wiki/$1'; $wgWBSettings['siteGlobalID'] = 'cswiki'; $wgWBSettings['repoDatabase'] = 'poolwiki'; $wgWBSettings['changesDatabase'] = 'poolwiki'; # Optional $wgWBSettings['siteGroup'] = 'mypedia'; $wgWBSettings['sort'] = 'code'; //optional $wgWBSettings['sortPrepend'] = array( 'cs' ); In populateSitesTable.php, I changed "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php" to "http://pool.mypedia.com/w/api.php" and "$validGroups = array( 'wikipedia', 'wikivoyage', 'wikiquote', 'wiktionary','wikibooks', 'wikisource', 'wikiversity', 'wikinews' );" to "$validGroups = array( 'mypedia' );" Do I need to change "$wikiId = $this->getOption( 'wiki' );" too, since it says "wiki" is expanded to "wikipedia"? Table "sites" in the poolwiki database looks like this: site_id | site_global_key | site_type | site_group | site_source | site_language | site_protocol | site_domain | site_data | site_forward | site_config 1 | cswiki | mediawiki | mypedia | local | cs | http:// | com.mypedia.cs. | a:1:{s:5:"paths";a:2:{s:9:"file_path";s:5:"/w/$1";s:9:"page_path";s:8:"/wiki/$1";}} | 0 | a:0:{} [...] 15 | poolwiki | mediawiki | pool | local | en | http:// | com.mypedia.pool. | a:1:{s:5:"paths";a:2:{s:9:"file_path";s:5:"/w/$1";s:9:"page_path";s:8:"/wiki/$1";}} | 0 | a:0:{} I changed site_group "wikipedia" to "mypedia" and added data for site_protocol and site_domain by hand. I noticed that the script path is "/w/$1" here, while $wgScriptPath in LocalSettings.php is actually "/w", could that cause any problems? And should I change site_group of the pool to mypedia like I did with the language wikis or isn't that necessary? Wikibase DataModel 0.8, Wikibase Repository 0.5 alpha, WikibaseLib 0.5 alpha and Wikidata show up in Special:Version of the pool wiki. Wikibase Client 0.5 alpha, Wikibase DataModel 0.8, WikibaseLib 0.5 alpha and Wikidata show up in Special:Version of the language wikis. Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks and cheers, Till

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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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[BREAKING CHANGE] Upcoming jQuery upgrade: Removing jQuery Migrate
by Krinkle 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Hey all, TL;DR: * We did not make the breaking change last week for Wikimedia; it is postponed. * MediaWiki 1.24.0 will ship with jQuery Migrate switched off. * Wikimedia & non-Wikimedia wikis can enable jQuery Migrate if needed. * When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will switch off jQuery Migrate for Wikimedia wikis. As we said last month, we are upgrading MediaWiki's jQuery to version 1.11.x [1], which removes some long-deprecated functions. These were done in phase one [2] and two [3] as of last week. However, we have held off with phase 3 (removing the jQuery Migrate plugin) for a while to give migration a little more time. The amount of migration work necessary has been much less than I anticipated. Very few scripts have actually needed changing, probably because these features have been deprecated for quite a while now. Some of newer developers may never have even known of these APIs. Having said that, it does take a while for a message like this to spread out to some members of our large community. While those wiki scripts and gadgets which have active maintainers have been looked into, and (where needed) updated accordingly, a large number of gadgets and scripts in the cluster of Wikimedia wikis have not yet had a chance to get a grip on this, let alone extensions and wikis outside of Wikimedia. While I don't want to set another deadline, I think it makes sense to ship the jQuery Migrate plugin for one release (with MediaWiki 1.24), and then remove it in MediaWiki 1.25. This will give all wikis' communities and extension authors a few more months until the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point (in Autumn 2014) before they will need to make adjustments to work with MediaWiki master. MediaWiki 1.24.0 stable will disable support for legacy jQuery by default. If you find you have scripts, gadgets or extensions still using legacy jQuery APIs, you can enable them with a simple line in LocalSettings.php: $wgIncludejQueryMigrate = true; And of course when you find you need to do this, please make an effort to ensure the maintainers of those items still using these legacy features are aware of this so they may patch the code accordingly (using the upgrade guide[4] and my earlier announcement [5]). When MediaWiki 1.24 is released, we will switch off jQuery Migrate for Wikimedia wikis. — Krinkle [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44740 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131494/ [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133477/ [4] http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ [5] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg75735.html On 7 May 2014, at 18:29, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > TL;DR: jQuery will soon be upgraded from v1.8.3 to v1.11.x (the latest). This > major release removes deprecated functionality. Please migrate away from this > deprecated functionality as soon as possible. > > It's been a long time coming but we're now finally upgrading the jQuery package > that ships with MediaWiki. > > We used to regularly upgrade jQuery in the past, but got stuck at v1.8 a couple > of years ago due to lack of time and concern about disruption. Because of this, > many developers have needed to work around bugs that were already fixed in later > versions of jQuery. Thankfully, jQuery v1.9 (and its v2 counterpart) has been > the first release in jQuery history that needed an upgrade guide[1][2]. It's a > major release that cleans up deprecated and dubious functionality. > > Migration of existing code in extensions, gadgets, and user & site scripts > should be trivial (swapping one method for another, maybe with a slight change > to the parameters passed). This is all documented in the upgrade guide[1][2]. > The upgrade guide may look scary (as it lists many of your favourite methods), > but they are mostly just addressing edge cases. > > == Call to action == > > This is a call for you, to: > > 1) Get familiar with http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/. > > 2) Start migrating your code. > > jQuery v1.9 is about removing deprecated functionality. The new functionality is > already present in jQuery 1.8 or, in some cases, earlier. > > 3) Look out for deprecation warnings. > > Once instrumentation has begun, using "?debug=true" will log jQuery deprecation > warnings to the console. Look for ones marked "JQMIGRATE" [7]. You might also > find deprecation notices from mediawiki.js, for more about those see the mail > from last October [8]. > > == Plan == > > 1) Instrumentation and logging > > The first phase is to instrument jQuery to work out all the areas which will > need work. I have started work on loading jQuery Migrate alongside the current > version of jQuery. I expect that to land in master this week [6], and roll out on > Wikimedia wikis the week after. This will enable you to detect usage of most > deprecated functionality through your browser console. Don't forget the upgrade > guide[1], as Migrate cannot detect everything. > > 2) Upgrade and Migrate > > After this, the actual upgrade will take place, whilst Migrate stays. This > should not break anything since Migrate covers almost all functionality that > will be removed. The instrumentation and logging will remain during this phase; > the only effective change at this point is whatever jQuery didn't think was > worth covering in Migrate or were just one of many bug fixes. > > 3) Finalise upgrade > > Finally, we will remove the migration plugin (both the Migrate compatibility > layer and its instrumentation). This will bring us to a clean version of latest > jQuery v1.x without compatibility hacks. > > > A rough timeline: > > * 12 May 2014 (1.24wmf4 [9]): Phase 1 – Instrumentation and logging starts. This > will run for 4 weeks (until June 9). > > * 19 May 2014 (1.24wmf5): Phase 2 – "Upgrade and Migrate". This will run for 3 > weeks (upto June 9). The instrumentation continues during this period. > > * 1 June 2014 (1.24wmf7) Finalise upgrade. > > > == FAQ == > > Q: The upgrade guide is for jQuery v1.9, what about jQuery v1.10 and v1.11? > > A: Those are regular updates that only fix bugs and/or introduce non-breaking > enhancements. Like jQuery v1.7 and v1.8, we can upgrade to those without any > hassle. We'll be fast-forwarding straight from v1.8 to v1.11. > > > Q: What about the jQuery Migrate plugin? > > A: jQuery developed a plugin that adds back some of the removed features (not > all, consult the upgrade guide[2] for details). It also logs usage of these to > the console. > > > Q: When will the upgrade happen? > > A: In the next few weeks, once we are happy that the impact is reasonably low. > An update will be sent to wikitech-l just before this is done as a final reminder. > This will be well before the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point for extension authors > looking to maintain compatibility. > > > Q: When are we moving to jQuery v2.x? > > A: We are not currently planing to do this. Despite the name, jQuery v2.x > doesn't contain any new features compared to jQuery v1 [3]. The main difference > is in the reduced support for different browsers and environments; most > noticeably, jQuery 2.x drops support for Internet Explorer 8 and below, which > MediaWiki is still supporting for now, and is outside the scope of this work. > Both v1 and v2 continue to enjoy simultaneous releases for bug fixes and new > features. For example, jQuery released v1.11 and v2.1 together[4][5]. > > -- Krinkle > > [1] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/01/15/jquery-1-9-final-jquery-2-0-beta-migrate- > final-released/ > [2] http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ > [3] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/04/18/jquery-2-0-released/ > [4] http://blog.jquery.com/2014/01/24/jquery-1-11-and-2-1-released/ > [5] http://blog.jquery.com/2013/05/24/jquery-1-10-0-and-2-0-1-released/ > [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/131494 > [7] https://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/blob/master/warnings.md > [8] http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg72198.html > [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap >

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Images disappearing (recurrent problem), ?memory management
by Dr. Michael Bonert 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

I suspect the problem is somewhere in MediaWiki. If knew where I'd be posting it here. - I've stripped away other things on the server. Pretty much the only thing left is the most recent version of MediaWiki (1.23.3) and Debian (stable) packages. - I ran 'debsums' to check whether any of the Debian packages are corrupt. - I am not aware of any LAMP bugs in Debian. The MediaWiki install is near fresh. I did a manual upgrade for version 1.23.1 and then used the patches to get to 1.23.3. The upgrade from 1.23.1 to 1.23.2 had a bug in it-- but I think that was inconsequential. In any case, that upgrade was done July 30, several weeks preceding the problems. Here is a snippet from 'ps aux': ----- USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND ... www-data 10518 0.0 2.8 291376 57052 ? S 20:39 0:03 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10567 0.0 2.5 288076 51480 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10568 0.0 2.6 290496 54140 ? S 20:42 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10569 0.0 2.5 288820 51840 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10570 0.0 2.6 291384 53036 ? S 20:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10571 0.0 2.9 293316 58812 ? S 20:42 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10572 0.0 2.7 290976 55360 ? S 20:42 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10573 0.0 2.7 290888 55820 ? S 20:42 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10649 0.0 2.7 290728 54860 ? S 20:53 0:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 10650 0.0 2.7 293000 55924 ? S 20:53 0:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start ... ----- The memory seems to be going into apache2. Earlier this morning I rebooted the server. About three hours later the images were gone again. After rebooting this morning... the server has been working okay (so far about 13 hours). I don't understand the cycle: why it breaks in 3 hours... or goes for more than 12. Some ideas I have: 1. Running a 'diff' of my active server against the tarball for the most recent MediaWiki-- to look for corrupted files. 2. At this point I am thinking about the extensions and doing a fresh install of MediaWiki... with the hope that will resolve things. 3. I have bimonthly images going back a year-- I can dump the database, rollback and grab the latest database changes. My inclination is to try #2. It isn't that hard to do... if it works I can be pretty sure it was MediaWiki... and it solves the problem I have at the moment. Any thoughts/ideas are welcome. Michael

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Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals: 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress tracker;[4] 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix. Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give something back. We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4]. This information and more can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 For more information on triaging in general, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email, talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!) Sorry for the crossposting, Nemo [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1 [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection

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Search multilingual in one mediawiki
by Grammy Jiang 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Dear all, Sorry for bothering you. I deloy MediaWiki as a content sharing && management platform in my own company, and in company we use both English and Chinese. In mediawiki very beginning configuration page, English is selected as a default language for this MediaWiki, but there will be some pages wrote in Chinese in this MediaWiki. Now my problem is, "Search" function is only working in English, when I input Chinese in the search box, MediaWiki will return nothing! Does MediaWiki support this kind of function, search in multilingual in the same one MediaWiki? Do i miss any settings? If not, is there any MediaWiki Extension may help? Many thanks! Best regards, Grammy Jiang Qingdao Create Future Environment Protection Technology Consultancy Co., Ltd Room 6-11, Building B, International Innovation Park, Songling Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City, China

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