MediaWiki-l January 2015

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importing pages without overwriting content
by Bill Traynor 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi, I've manually created a Mediawiki XML file for import to my wiki to add hundreds of new Categories and subcategories. I'm running into a problem when a Category page already exists in the wiki, my import wipes out the Category page content. My XML looks like: <mediawiki xml:lang="en"> <page> <title>TestCategoryLevelFour</title> <restrictions>edit=sysop:move=sysop</restrictions> <revision> <timestamp></timestamp> <contributor><username>Wmat</username></contributor> <comment>I wonder if this import overwrites the page.</comment> <text>[[Category:Categoryname]]</text> </revision> </page> </mediawiki> Is there a better way to create new Category pages quickly and not overwrite them when they already exist?

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New MediaWiki extension: Cargo
by Yaron Koren 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hi, I'm happy to announce my latest MediaWiki extension, called Cargo: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo If you use Semantic MediaWiki, or have been curious about it, Cargo may be of interest to you. Cargo is essentially an alternative to SMW. It holds much of the functionality of SMW and many of its related extensions, but distilled into a fine brandy, if you will. It is one extension that literally takes the place of 14 extensions, with a much smaller code base and a significantly simpler database structure. It achieves this simplicity by eschewing the use of Semantic Web triples in favor of a direct use of database tables to store the data, with (usually) one table per template. And querying of the data is done using a fairly thin wrapper around SQL. If you have no interest in Semantic MediaWiki, on the other hand, you probably won't be interested in Cargo either. And if you know that I'm part of the SMW community, and are wondering why I've created an extension that seeks to replace SMW, there's a long answer to that, that we hashed out on the SMW mailing list. The short answer is that I still consider myself very much a member of the SMW community, and that I would call this new software an evolution, not a break from the past. Feel free to check out the documentation, try it out, and let me know if you have any questions. -Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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Special page error - mediawiki 1.24
by John Horne 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello, I am updating an old 1.19 wiki to a new server with mediawiki 1.24. The O/S has also gone from CentOS 6 to 7. So far no real problems, but when I access the 'Special pages' link, all I see is a blank page. The PHP error is logged as: =============== PHP Fatal error: Class 'SpecialAllpages' not found in /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php on line 410 =============== Has anyone else seen this? I'm not really sure what it means - or rather what to do about it! Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK

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Looking for college intern in Houston with MediaWiki experience
by James Montalvo 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

First, apologies if this is an inappropriate place to post this. It's just that the ideal candidate is someone who can hit the ground running with MediaWiki. If it is inappropriate please let me know and I'll refrain from doing it in the future. Second, I'm not involved with hiring...I just want to give the college students in the Houston area an opportunity to apply for this cool opening. If you get the position you will work with me a lot, so feel free to ask me anything about what I do. Okay, here's the semi-official job req: Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies in Houston, TX is offering a paid internship where you will get to work at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL)[1] and Mission Control Center (MCC)[2], working within the Mission Operations group at Johnson Space Center in charge of Extravehicular Activities (EVAs a.k.a. spacewalks)[3]. This group plans on-orbit activities, trains astronauts to perform spacewalks (at the NBL and other facilities), and assists astronauts with execution of missions from MCC. For this internship the chosen applicant would be involved with all of these planning, training and execution activities. Additionally, they would be working on a project to improve the EVA Wiki (EVA's knowledge managment system using MediaWiki [4]). The extent of this project depends upon the chosen applicant's interests and skills. Applicants proficient in software development could help improve existing software or developing their own extensions. Other applicants could work on improving the content within the wiki. For some info on how the EVA group uses MediaWiki see [5]. Applicants must be graduate students or undergraduate juniors or seniors. Graduate students work 30-40 hours per week. Undergraduates work 16-28 hours per week. Application is open to all students, but goes through San Jacinto College. To apply please contact Linda Drobnich at Linda.Drobnich AT sjcd DOT edu. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Buoyancy_Laboratory [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr._Mission_Control_Center [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_activity [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki [5] http://enterprisemediawiki.github.io/slides/MeetingMinutes/#/

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MW 1.24 upgrade issue wirh custom skin
by Alastair Sherringham 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello Folks, I hope someone can help with a 1.23.8 to MW 1.24 upgrade and a custom skin I am trying to convert. It is a very basic custom skin based on Vector I "authored" a while ago, but without a proper understanding and with lots of help from this list. I get no output (blank) and I see the log says it is due to a skin error. Looking through the release notes, I see the problem will be down to the skin "auto-discovery" changes. Looking at the help page about migrating skins to 1.24 : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery I have tried to adjust my custom skin files but without success. In 1.24.1 skins/ I have : CologneBlue/ Modern/ MonoBook/ README Vector/ ZedDocs/ ZedDocs is the custom skin based on Vector. The Apache error I get is : Tue Jan 13 15:43:10 2015] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/user/mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/zeddocs/../Vector.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user/mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/zeddocs/ZedDocs.skin.php on line 9, referer: http://wpdev/w/index.php?title=Main_Page On line 9 of zeddocs/ZedDocs.skin.php I have/had : require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../Vector.php' ); If I set this to : require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/../Vector/Vector.php' ); I get error : [Tue Jan 13 16:38:50 2015] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to SkinVector::__construct() must implement interface Config, string given, called in /home/user/mediawiki-1.24.1/includes/Setup.php on line 285 and defined in /home/user/mediawiki-1.24.1/skins/Vector/SkinVector.php on line 38, referer: http://wpdev/w/index.php?title=Main_Page I have tried to set up my skin files (and renamed as CamelCase) as per the Skin_autodiscovery manual page. skins/ZedDocs/ - css - images - ZedDocs.i18n.php - ZedDocs.php - ZedDocs.skin.php I have made changes to files ZedDocs.php and ZedDocs.Skin.pnp, please see the attached PHP files. I have added a .txt extension for the list (just in case). Can someone have a look and see where I am going wrong? Many Thanks, Alastair -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net

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Pre-loading user accounts
by Chris Koerner 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

I have a situation where I'm introducing a group (internal to my organization) to our internal wiki and adding them to a specific user group. Instead of having each individual create an account, then contact me to be added to the user group, its there a way to pre-load these users and add them to the group before they login for the first time? This way, the first time they login they can hit the ground running without a back and forth of adding them to the group individually? I thought about adding new rows to the "user" and "user_groups" tables, but that doesn't seem to be the best way forward. Yours, Chris Koerner clkoerner.com

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Using wgReadOnlyfile
by John Horne 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello, I have been testing the $wgReadOnly and $wgReadOnlyFile options. My understanding is that these will prevent mediawiki from writing to the database and hence not allow pages to be updated. I have tried both options on servers running mediawiki 1.19.2 and 1.24.0 - neither option on either server seems to work. In all cases I am still able to modify wiki pages. For the $wgReadOnlyFile option I created the file with some plain text in it, and change the ownership to that of the web server (apache). Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong here? I intend to use the file option for wiki backups, but obviously don't want people updating things while the backup is occurring. John. -- ---------------------------------------------------- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK

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Special:StablePages ????
by John Foster 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Some recently downloaded templates from Wikipedia are calling for Special:StablePages in the scripts. What is this and how do I install it. I have Mediawiki 1.24.1 installed and completely updated. Any tips please? -- John Foster JW Foster & Associates

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thumbnailing and image-resizing problem
by Sung Dean 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Dear Mediawiki-l I'm using mediawiki on http://wikilluminative.org/ and my wiki doesn't generate thumbnails or re-sized photos. For instance, " http://wikilluminative.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%BC:Christinthehouseofhispar…" has no re-sized picture or thumbnail available. However, what is stranger is this picture on http://wikilluminative.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%BC:Wikiluminative.png does have its thumbnail. I'm very confused with why it happens... My web hosting offers imagemagick and magicwand, and the directories on LocalSetting is precise. Please, please help me out with this problem, I've read all kinds of aritcles related to this problem, but there seem to be nothing like this Best regards, Moonhyun Sung

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Text box with all the quick links
by Vinodini Arya 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Hi, This may be simple to everyone, but i just started working with MediaWiki in our company. we are using MediaWiki for maintaining our documents in company's internal wiki site. I was trying to insert a *text box with all the quick links* below the right Table of contents box on the project homepage; was not successful until now. Could anyone help me with this... Really appreciate your time and help. Thank you, Vinodini

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