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ANN: Version 1.0.0 of the Memento Headers Extension
by Shawn Jones 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

All, Thanks to new architecture developments within the Memento Project, we are pleased to announce the availability of Version 1.0.0 of the Memento Headers time travel Extension for MediaWiki. The extension can be downloaded via [1]. Information on the extension is available at [2]. A demonstration wiki equipped with the extension is available at [3]. This extension only supplies the headers necessary to work with Memento clients [4], and does not provide all of the features of Memento for a MediaWiki installation. it relies upon an external TimeGate server, provided online by the Memento Project, to actually provide the datetime negotiation necessary for web time travel. Memento clients allow one to select a past date and time to browse, and then browse the web as if it were that date and time. Installing the Memento Headers extension in a MediaWiki installation allows Memento clients to seamlessly transition from using web archives to wikis, allowing one to view past versions of web pages without interruption. Earlier today, we announced the availability of version 2.1.0 of the full Memento extension. That extension provides additional functionality, such as ensuring that old revisions of images and templates match the revision of the page in which they are embedded. The Memento Headers extension does NOT provide such functionality. The Memento Headers extension only provides the headers necessary for Memento clients to find the oldid pages in MediaWiki installations that best match the datetime requested by the user. As noted in the earlier announcement, the Memento protocol is currently used by major web archives [5] and supported by the International Internet Presevation Consortium [6]. Though we have the support of web archives, the Memento team also considers time travel in MediaWiki to be a major use of the protocol. Videos [7] and [8] show Memento at work in the web at large, the latter paying attention to navigation within Wikipedia. Video [9] shows Memento at work in the full Memento MediaWiki extension. We really look forward to any feedback the Wikimedia community can provide on this new exciting (though limited) way to provide and experience Memento. On behalf of the Memento Team, Shawn M. Jones Graduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Email: sjone(a)cs.odu.edu Research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com Twitter: @shawnmjones — [1] https://github.com/mementoweb/mediawiki-memento-headers/releases/tag/v1.0.0 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MementoHeaders [3] http://ws-dl-05.cs.odu.edu/demo-headers/index.php/Main_Page [4] http://bit.ly/memento-for-chrome [5] http://mementoweb.org/depot/ [6] http://netpreserve.org/ [7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_70lQPOOIg [8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZHKeFwjzk [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciClYjTnscs

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ANN: Version 2.1.0 of the Memento MediaWiki Extension
by Shawn Jones 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

All, Thanks to a few informal code reviews, version 2.1.0 of the Memento time travel Extension for MediaWiki has been released. The extension can be downloaded via [1]. Information on the extension is available at [2]. A demonstration wiki equipped with the extension is available at [3]. This release incorporates changes to enrich the code based on additional review and feedback from members of the WikiMedia team. The extension fixed a few bugs, now supports the newer JSON-based i18n system, and has removed three configuration options in order to streamline the code. We fully appreciate the feedback we’ve received and appreciate any additional feedback the community can provide. Our goal is to make the extension as solid as possible for MediaWiki users everywhere. The extension works with Memento clients [4]. Memento clients allow one to select a past date and time to browse, and then browse the web as if it were that date and time. Installing this extension in a MediaWiki installation allows Memento clients to seamlessly transition from using web archives to wikis, allowing one to view the past versions of web pages without interruption. This has numerous applications, from avoiding spoilers [5] to studying the evolution of legal discourse. Additionally, this extension attempts to address the issue of "temporal coherence", ensuring that old revisions of images and templates match the revision of the page they are embedded in. This functionality is still optional and experimental, but has received some interest from the community. Earlier this summer, we presented our experiences with reconstructing the past using MediaWiki [6, 7], and demonstrated using the extension to avoid spoilers in Game of Thrones [8, 9, 10] at WikiConference USA 2014. The extension is fully compliant with RFC 7089 [11], which specifies the Memento protocol. The effort was supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is a joint effort between Old Dominion University and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Videos [12] and [13] show Memento at work in the web at large, the latter paying attention to navigation within Wikipedia. The Memento protocol is currently used by major web archives [14] and supported by the International Internet Presevation Consortium [15]. Though we have the support of web archives, the Memento team also considers time travel in MediaWiki to be a major use of the protocol. We really appreciate the feedback from the Wikimedia team and look forward to additional assistance and improvements. Thank you again, on behalf of the Memento Team, Shawn M. Jones Graduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Email: sjone(a)cs.odu.edu<mailto:sjone@cs.odu.edu> Research group: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com Twitter: @shawnmjones — [1] https://github.com/mementoweb/mediawiki/releases/tag/v2.1.0 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento [3] http://ws-dl-05.cs.odu.edu/demo/ [4] http://bit.ly/memento-for-chrome [5] http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/12/2013-12-18-avoiding-spoilers-with.html [6] http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:Reconstructing_the_past_with_… [7] http://www.slideshare.net/shawnmjones/reconstructing-the-past-with-media-wi… [8] http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:Using_the_Memento_Mediawiki_E… [9] http://www.slideshare.net/shawnmjones/using-the-memento-mediawiki-extension… [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciClYjTnscs [11] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089 [12] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_70lQPOOIg [13] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZHKeFwjzk [14] http://mementoweb.org/depot/ [15] http://netpreserve.org

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Re : MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 132, Issue20
by kamaldeerpaul＠yahoo.com 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Suis désolé de vous interrompu pour cette message et le requis si c'est possible d'annuler les mes demande. Envoyé depuis mon HTC ----- Reply message ----- De : mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Pour : <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Objet : MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 132, Issue20 Date : mar., sept. 23, 2014 2:00 PM Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Archiving articles to another Wiki based on category or template (Mlpearc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:41:53 -0700 From: Mlpearc <mlpearc(a)everythingfoodanddrink.org> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Archiving articles to another Wiki based on category or template Message-ID: <CAGhpzwOAwEROaV2ZxS=5kY3Xp9Z_dG_6HSDMCPST0UU=4ieYkQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You can simply Import the category <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps> to a different wiki. *Mlpearc* Founder Everything Food & Drink.org everythingfoodanddrink.org <http://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Henrik Rasmussen <her(a)adm.ku.dk> wrote: > Instead of deleting Wiki articles which are not valid any longer, but are > kept for historical reasons, I want to move those articles away from the > current Wiki. Historical articles could contain [[category:histocal]] and > I imagine that those articles could be moved automatically to another Wiki, > based on this category, (or alternatively to another namespace, but this > would not be read-only). > > How do I accomplish this? > > I am currently running Mediawiki version 1.20.4 > > Henrik Rasmussen > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 132, Issue 20 ********************************************

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Mediawiki upgrade from 1.4 does it really worth it?
by Simon Vargas 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hello Folks, I got a private Mediawiki 1.4 from 2005 which still runs on a Debian 5 machine. I'm about to virtualize this because of various reasons but the first problem I ran into just after trying to move it to a clean Wheezy install is that it's incompatible with: ii php5 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage) Of course the solution what I found online was to upgrade your mediawiki because it have so many advantages blahblah. Really? New features I do not need, and although I went through with the upgrade it become 20xtimes slower + I lost the custom skin I had. This all seems disadvantages to me. So correct me if I'm wrong but by just doing some research this version with (1-2 extensions like poem) has no know serious security vulnerability (RFI). What I don't want to do is to install another outdated debian just because of this, I rather downgrade the php version to (5.2). Can anyone come up with any advantage of upgrading Mediawiki from 1.4 to 1.23? Question2: Storage Engine ========================= Since this is a small (~3000 pages) private wiki which doesn't get a lot of articles added every day, mostly just used for searching and reading articles which storage engine is the faster MyISAM or Innodb? I do not care about reliability, only speed since the db is backed up every day and as I said it's rarely gets new content. Thanks!

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[BREAKING CHANGE] Deprecated JavaScript methods to be removed in MediaWiki 1.25
by Krinkle 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

TL;DR: * Several deprecated methods in MediaWiki's JavaScript modules will be removed in a few weeks' time. * Ensure your code no longer uses these methods and update it if needed. * Check and fix any gadgets or scripts you or your wikis rely upon. As part of the regular update cycle, a number of deprecated methods in our JavaScript modules will be removed in the MediaWiki 1.25 release. This is an announcement to give people notice they should update any extensions, gadgets and scripts they have written, maintain, or rely upon. Usually we don't give this much attention to removal of deprecated methods, but due to this being our first proper development cycle for our front-end code base, I want to make sure this reaches everyone. You're likely not yet in the habit of updating front-end code between MediaWiki releases. Deprecated methods to be removed in MediaWiki 1.25: * Remove mw.user.name() method. [1] Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.20. Use mw.user.getName() instead. * Remove mw.user.anon() method. [1] Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.20: Use mw.user.isAnon() instead. * Remove mediawiki.api methods' "ok" and "err" callback parameters. [2] Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.23. Use the returned Promise interface instead. * Remove mediawiki.api.category "async" parameter. [2] Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.23. The ability to override $.ajax() to be synchronous has been removed. The default (asynchronous) behaviour remains. Use the Promise interface to retreive the fetched data from the API. * Remove jquery.json module. Deprecated since MediaWiki 1.24. [3] Use standardised JSON.stringify and JSON.parse methods. And depend on the "json" module which will automatically load a polyfill in older browsers. ## Timeline These removals will land in MediaWiki 1.25alpha in early October 2014, and deployed to Wikimedia wikis the week after from October 4th onwards (1.25wmf2). The MediaWiki 1.25.0 stable release is expected to come out around April 2015. You should make sure that your code is updated before your wiki upgrades to MediaWiki 1.25. If you know code you rely upon will be affected but don't know how to fix it, please check with your wiki's community for local experts. If none of them can help, you can ask for assistance on the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list. [5] ## Reminders In case you've missed the previous announcements: * The migration period for jQuery core is still on-going and is also scheduled for MediaWiki 1.25. [4] More about that in the mail from June 2014: https://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/msg13651.html * Learn about deprecation notices and how you can see them in your browser. https://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org/msg72198.html [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111422/ [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118733/ [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140560/ [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137168/ [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors -- Krinkle PS: You can get a sense of the progress on our different migrations, past and present, via these graphs: http://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/zyodJ/

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oci_error() undefined error
by Bill Traynor 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Installed MediaWiki (git master) with Oracle 11 as the database. Post installation, the MainPage does not display but shows instead: Warning: oci_parse() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in ...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 1266 Warning: oci_error() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in ...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 1271 Now, I assume I can ignore these warnings, so I attempted to run ../maintenance/update.php --quick and received: MediaWiki 1.24alpha Updater PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_error() in ...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 522 Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_error() in ...MediaWiki/includes/db/DatabaseOracle.php on line 522 The code at line 522 is: function lastError() { if ( $this->mConn === false ) { $e = oci_error(); } else { $e = oci_error( $this->mConn ); } return $e['message']; } Why isn't oci_error() defined if oci8 is installed?

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[wiki co-op] Date for next meeting
by Markus Glaser 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Hello everyone, esp. MediaWiki Cooperation members, I set up a Doodle in order to find a time and date for our next online meeting: http://doodle.com/pk63uwe492yqzqtg#table If you want to join, please add your preference. Best, Markus

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automatically protecting file uploads so no one can upload a file with the same name as one already used
by chris tharp 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

A while back I threw out a question about automatically renaming a file on upload, but no one had an answer so I thought I would try a different avenue. Does anyone know away that all file uploads could be automatically protected upon upload? So if someone tried to upload a photo with name already used they couldn't overwrite it? Thanks

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Template: call vs. page call
by John Foster 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I have built a rather large site & for some reaso when I issue a call to the mediawiki server that is configured as below: {{PW:Reference desk/Archives/Answered questions}}<p> </p> The server searces for the page; Template:PW:Reference desk/Archives/Answered questions rather than the page PW:Reference desk/Archives/Answered questions; On Wikipedia the server selects the "page" not a "Template:" using exactly the same coding for the call. Any ideas on how to clear this up. Thanks! John

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Custom namespace additions via $wgExtraNamespaces
by John Foster 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I have the following in my LocalSettings.php file: // define namespace constants define("NS_Portal", 100); // This MUST be even. define("NS_Portal_TALK", 101); // This MUST be the following odd integer. // add namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_Portal] = "Portal"; $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_Portal_TALK] = "Portal_talk"; However tihis is not creating the "Portal" custom NameSpace. I've likely got this wrong somehow, but don't know what. Any tips. Thanks! john

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