MediaWiki-l October 2015

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

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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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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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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Wikibase on third-party wikis
by Till Kraemer 27 Sep '16

27 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 27 Sep '16

27 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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Page titles displayed differntly for subpages
by kghbln 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Heiya, after upgrading from MW 1.23 to MW 1.24 the page title for a subpage at "PageTitle/SubpageTitle" displays just as "SubpageTitle" with a little subnavigation below it pointing to the base page. I have not really found anything about it in the RELEASE NOTES for the 1.24 branch so I am asking here. Is there a way, e.g. config parameter to regain the previous behaviour? Thanks for you help. Cheers Karsten

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$wgRightsText and Mediawiki:Copyright
by Dennis Roczek 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello everybody, because of some legal requirements we at the The Document Foundation have to add a bit more complicated text for the copyright at the bottom of our mediawiki installation. I was experimenting really long for the correct configuration to get a) the legal text at the bottom correct b) the same legal text correctly displayed at the bottom of the edit fie ld and this for logged in users and logged out users. I get only the possibility to get the display correct either when logged in or when logged out. We have to include some HTML/wikimarkup text. So I found out that both texts might be interpreted correctly (but not at the same time) or simply displayed as "escaped" text (so that the < and the > get html codes for displaying and thus not working) Can anybody point me to the correct documentation or how to change the variables so that all three instances were correctly displayed (logged out users aren't able to edit) Regards, Dennis Roczek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWEvyDAAoJEM4+Qf3OKrbZ1VIP/RjrO2TNM8KgjPu4PPdWCpdm rvcYadkgb58ki7zW41T+fVE4GhV71THrTgjnO597J8outUbfbvDB15PFBh3dOIxY GhP3yZAhhcXh7ipC8503/E9YF/DVvvep0A1KfG1wb1KdR3ArdupOAyZSYjF4T+v+ DUDt2NQpJpZxuzyN9T1HRRzVZveEThmEjcbd6Ec3XYpDgivvjkWkcUM4HkqsUgL7 R0naLdtT1wQ7FROcCc3jUN5QsEdPBm+YGJ46r4MuoNZZIsqXZ9RCY+PtyAHabiAL fcvLgKUSEqqLbiaWwGqwhmCSO7Cksrp4gu7CklOax683VBwDPZcBCLV5F/wz3mXa G2z0e5mixYvvoFr3jsg5hVduRA7TmqNh5iCEa5NADwT3MytSw4wprUGaipIJiF20 qOMrpG7KDa1zPckvP9IxSqE/VXElrAjlGX1iSd4aAC20zuXeeWZdrEDOGWL7aTfC wVG+JWI9ZFjNg4/JGueYniv0lXtzW99159q0vhF/sY0AevPCi3gbeqPNBOr5GOLR yTGwbK8FFKGuVUj7KC6cS6Kbq+JFI4hhwYff2i4V/ayeIzvpgZ4gduQy2erm0x7t IFR1bVuWI6iWXhjqo7jC2WOitO/HrHBOIleVN58ST9OB5o/mUlvclnpGcOs0tBY4 4+dQyF+SvYrbHmz/YGSP =pEaY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Including a resource
by Dennis Roczek 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi everybody, I try to include a simple number from another page. I have all possibilities how the number is provided. I tried to use the Extension:RSS for including, but sadly this extension is adding a <p> tags around the transclusion of the RSS feed. You can see one of my tries at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Dennisroczek (the number 121 which has a few newlines around the 121). Additional you can see my test template which transcludes the number 121. As you can see in the wiki code (and in the history) I tried to experiment a few with CSS. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/WikiAction/edit/Template:Test As I said: the number can be provided in a format i need. The RSS feed is not mandatory. Regards, Dennis Roczek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWL0RiAAoJEM4+Qf3OKrbZ9f0QAIpCPi65bsgIxD9GAIwoYdpX T8SEjh3d1TcIm+VS2vARiP5IMrvFa9l2mtEfjei0tIFSZqn8BagL0xIPD3ZolZjk 2weGiijOK3tIqSy2W00BuU336Jfg6rUp37YOxq4NLo4xXxCt776fKb6y64KWpPvv N5/gXe3ZcvmsvhT/NhdVlGwZgs6itNTptSZonaJiF9/kzx2gwW9nSo6wGGR0egjv rvYI89DO5mV/HspoLnb+d73JpM9YlttB83G0amLxMKpPifmxzpwkJN76wvjp3WKQ BUsbuyj3EbIr8VDH18blUplbWlBK563ge5WW1HIa2kYnMDYkSPL32JSufFpOhjg2 YmOCMAplFVH2LvfQo17H3KnedalZo3u3aCYhWlkBOKsCFjZAGsLcrIBIr/yNyGeC FOYt+ysJdk1f7wQOzfjnLn7lx2nDMwnWStlav7AeW3tR0mE4ZDghuI0YE0ieGbe1 CYMU2TQDq08ATyf52+YFQxqYVBL+LP/WJcz9vMNM+H0PqIr3gWbEJsWkSDVLrlj3 txONrZIMGeZnBnDYHtC65bK9iwnE9nCxHOzGrJs6J9qYon2ykmxcrMgguugLNLRi 0+tWEwiGfSfh5Qdo7uQqipEYX9h8FG19+z1tCkNmnaXC4sfHg9PJtCxjiX+jvt75 j+sgKP5RnJcgiLr5yWLn =nYXp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Finding the Most Popular Extensions
by Ray Paseur 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Please forgive me if this is a novice question - I'm still a neophyte when it comes to MediaWiki. Background: I'm looking for Video extensions to add to a MediaWiki project. Some are probably popular and some are arcane. I would like to choose an extension that lots of other Wikis also use. Examples of video extensions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Video_player_extensions If this were a WordPress project, I would be able to see the popularity of plug-ins here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/ Question: Is there a way to find the popularity of MediaWiki extensions? I've found lots "top-ten" lists, but I'd rather just get straight to the number of Wiki installations that use a given extension. Thanks and regards, Ray

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