MediaWiki-l December 2015

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1. My wiki stopped working (Nomad of Norad)
by Ray Paseur 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

This is just a guess, but I believe that MediaWiki uses the term "namespace" in a different way, when compared to PHP. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Namespaces http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.definition.php PHP introduced Namespaces at PHP 5.3+ Prior to that, the word "namespace" had no meaning in PHP. It may be worth checking to see if your hosting provider upgraded PHP recently. No trouble using PHP 5.4 and MW 1.21, or PHP 5.5 and MW 1.26 (these are my only two installations) I'm a big fan of keeping the software as up-to-date as possible. In the PHP world this means PHP 7+ but it also means breaking changes for some of the previously deprecated "features" from the dustbin of PHP. Docs here: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php PHP 5 is still supported at PHP 5.5+ or PHP 5.6+ HTH, Ray

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Captcha for registration? Email required at registration?
by Josh King 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi all, Two questions here: 1. Anyone know of an extension that adds a captcha (or similar) to the registration page? I've found plenty that work on edits, but none to prevent the initial spam account creation. 2. Anyone know how to require email upon registration? I know there's the confirm-to-edit configuration I could use which would make this happen, but I feel like I should be able to require email at registering while still leaving edits open to anonymous users. Thanks. Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays! -Josh

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[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki Maintenance Releases: 1.26.2, 1.25.5, 1.24.6 and 1.23.13
by Chad 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

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StackExchange drama over proposed MIT/SE crayon license
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-… There are comments from a MediaWiki developer too: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271112/ https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-… Nemo

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MP4 Video - MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 24
by Ray Paseur 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

I have not used MP4 files on my own server (bandwidth issues) but I have found the EmbedVideo Extension to work well. Implementation details are mostly left to the video service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc). May be worth a look.

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MediaWiki sizing
by vasli.slavik＠gmail.com 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hello! Does anybody have information about sizing of MediaWiki, i.e. if I have 1000 users per day how much RAM/CPU do I need to run MediaWiki? Moreover, when I have 10000 users per day, how much RAM/CPU is needed in this case? And when I have 20000 users per day how much RAM/CPU is needed in this case? Does anybody knows where to get such information? Any ideas about how to calculate this? Best regards, Vasli Slavik

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Problem with autoconfirmed user rights
by 2007 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

It recently came to my attention that users of my wiki cannot edit/create their user and talk pages and it's probably been this way for some time and I didn't realize it til now. It's using v1.24.4 They have the following permissions. $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['createpage'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['createtalk'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['upload'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['reupload'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['reupload-shared'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['minoredit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editprotected'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['editsemiprotected'] = false; Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks Adrian

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[Semanti Forms] How to hardcode values based on which form is used to create/edit an item
by Ed 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

Hi all, I'm using Cargo with Semantic Forms. The cargo table is defined in one template and attached in others. Each has it own form as they represent subtypes. How can I hardcode the subtype so that when I query the cargo table holding all the subtypes the info is available? In one of the forms, I tried with {{{field|SubType|mandatory|default="TypeA"}}} and it works. However, when I hide it {{{field|SubType|mandatory|default="TypeA"|hidden}}} it does not. Thoughts? Thanks!

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 21
by David Shaw 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Requirements: a simple installer and a one click maintainer for all! === Every legacy software reaches a dead end without its adherents noticing. In the case of Drupal and WordPress, both decided they had to make an architectural break with the past, with Drupal 8 and WordPress Calypso respectively. WordPress has leaped Drupal by implementing a full node.js REST model, but it had the advantage of the Ghost fork that did this several years ago. Drupal is a step behind, they decided structured content was more important and were late to the JSON game. Their Rest is a bit of an add-on layer. For MW, one possibility is to add a MEAN stack in front for content delivery. Use angular to develop a fully responsive/adaptive Web Application. Use the legacy code for authoring and content management. Add a REST layer to dump content into Mongo at the front end. Over time, convert the back end to Javascript. David

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[MediaWiki-announce] Security Release: 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5 and 1.23.12
by Chad 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5, and 1.23.12. These releases fix five security issues in core, in addition to other bug fixes. Download links are given at the end of this email == Security fixes == (T117899) SECURITY: $wgArticlePath can no longer be set to relative paths that do not begin with a slash. This enabled trivial XSS attacks. Configuration values such as "http://my.wiki.com/wiki/$1" are fine, as are "/wiki/$1". A value such as "$1" or "wiki/$1" is not and will now throw an error (T119309) SECURITY: Use hash_compare() for edit token comparison (T118032) SECURITY: Don't allow cURL to interpret POST parameters starting with '@' as file uploads (T115522) SECURITY: Passwords generated by User::randomPassword() can no longer be shorter than $wgMinimalPasswordLength (T97897) SECURITY: Improve IP parsing and trimming. Previous behavior could result in improper blocks being issued (T109724) SECURITY: Special:MyPage, Special:MyTalk, Special:MyContributions and related pages no longer use HTTP redirects and are now redirected by MediaWiki == Note about EOL of 1.24.x == Please note that 1.24.5 marks the end of support for the 1.24.x series of releases. Technically this ended a few weeks ago with the release of 1.26.0 but we dropped one final release of 1.24.x here to give it a nicer send off for those who have not yet upgraded. == Release notes == Full release notes for 1.26.1: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.26> Full release notes for 1.25.4: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.25> Full release notes for 1.24.5: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.24> Full release notes for 1.23.12: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23> For information about how to upgrade, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading> ********************************************************************** 1.26.1 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.1.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-core-1.26.1.tar.gz Patch to previous version: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.1.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-i18n-1.26.1.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.1.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.1.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-core-1.26.1.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.25.4 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.4.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.4.tar.gz Patch to previous version: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.4.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-i18n-1.25.4.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.4.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-1.25.4.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.25/mediawiki-core-1.25.4.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.24.5 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.5.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-core-1.24.5.tar.gz Patch to previous version: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.5.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-i18n-1.24.5.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.5.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.5.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-core-1.24.5.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html ********************************************************************** 1.23.12 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.12.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.12.tar.gz Patch to previous version: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.12.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-i18n-1.23.12.patch.… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.12.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.12.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-core-1.23.12.tar.gz… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -Chad H. & Chris S. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki announcements mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

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