MediaWiki-l December 2015

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MediaWiki Usage Report 2015
by Mark A. Hershberger 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' User Group wants to improve MediaWiki and advocates the needs of MediaWiki users outside Wikimedia Foundation-supported projects. But who is using MediaWiki? In an effort to answer this question the MediaWiki Stakeholders’ Group organized a survey during the summer of 2015 and asked people using MediaWiki to respond. The result is a sampling of over 100 responses from people using MediaWiki around the world. The results were interesting. Folks from all sorts of communities and industries use MediaWiki - from organizations like NASA, The UK LGBT Archive, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and more. Combined with some statistics we were able to obtain with help from individuals at the WMF, and the results of the survey we have completed our MediaWiki Usage Report for 2015 . This report provides insight into the various ways MediaWiki is being used - How people upgrade, what extensions are their "must have's", what they enjoy about the software, their concerns, and more. We encourage those using MediaWiki to have a look and provide any feedback or thoughts. If you'd like to know more about the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group, or to get involved, join us for one of our regular hangouts or leave a note on our talk page . MediaWiki Wishlist Combined with existing collaboration around request features and responses from one particular survey question, "What would you like to see most improved in MediaWiki the software?" we created a prioritized 'wishlist' of MediaWiki features . Our next project is figuring out how to implement these requests. See Also * A raw download of the survey results (anonymized of course) can be found on MediaWiki.org * If you were at our session at Wikimania 2015, this might sound familiar. There we shared preliminary results from the survey while we were still collecting responses.

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Usage Report 2015
by Mark A. Hershberger 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> writes: > Umm, where is the link to the report? Dadgummit. Stupid mailmain filtering out HTML mail. I'll resend. Sorry for the confusion. Mark.

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Shared user database
by Ad Strack van Schijndel 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi, We have one wiki A with thousands of users and one wiki B with a few users. We want to have a shared database for the user, preferably the easy way as described on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Shared_database. What would be the appropriate way to go here: - Create a separate database, copy the user table from wiki A to that database, do something with the wiki B users, and configure both wiki's to use that shared database. - Use database of wiki A as shared database and explain that to wiki B - Think of something else because it is not possible to have shared database with existing wiki's The first scenario would be the preferred one and I would like to understand if and how that could work. Thanks! Ad

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[Cargo] Duplicate Cargo Rows
by Ed 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hi everyone, I'm getting duplicate rows in the cargo tables. The instances I have found have the same data with the exception of the _ID. It happens on main tables, tables created for fields with multiple values, and tables created for multiple instances of a template. This is creating cartesian products on calls to #cargo_query. I'm running MySQL with InnoDB tables and the version of cargo I have is 0.10 last updated on 11/22. If there is a way to turn on a trace for the SQL queries or add debug statements in the code I could provide a log. Thoughts? Thanks!!

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Tabbed Panes extension
by Ed Swing 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Is there a good way - or a recommended extension - for Tabbed Panes on a wiki page? I'm looking to have chunks of code in different languages on a page, but I only want one code language visible at a time. Many thanks

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[Templates] Displaying a multi-instance template as a table
by Ed 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi everyone, I would like to display a multi-instance template as a table so that the multiple columns are aligned. I'm using Semantic Forms and Cargo. I tried echoing the <tr><td>...</td></tr> from the multi instance template and the <table>...</table> from the main template, but the first <table> is somehow filtered out and doesn't output. <noinclude><pre> {{Main MultiParm= }} </pre></noinclude> <includeonly> ... <table> {{{MultiParm}}} </table> </includeonly> What is the proper way to do it? Thanks!

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[SemanticForms] Form Rendering Order for Embedded Templates
by Ed 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi everyone, I have a form that uses 3 templates A, B, and C. Template A is a wrapper that brings B (single instance) and C (multi instance) together. No matter what I do C(m) always show at the top and B at the bottom. Is there a way that I can have B at the top and C(m) at the bottom? BTW, the template presentation is fine and the template calls on the page are fine. The issue is with the input form. This is how the form is defined: <includeonly> {{{for template|A}}} {{{field|bbb|holds template}}} {{{field|ccc|holds template}}} {{{end template}}} {{{for template|B|embed in field=A[bbb]}}} {| class="formtable" ! B1: | {{{field|b1}}} |- ! B2: | {{{field|b2}}} |} {{{end template}}} {{{for template|C|multiple|embed in field=A[ccc]}}} {| class="formtable" |{{{field|c1}}} |{{{field|c2}}} |} {{{end template}}} </includeonly> This is how the input form is rendered: input fields for C[1] input fields for C[2] input fields for C[3] input fields for B This is how I would like it to be rendered: input fields for B input fields for C[1] input fields for C[2] input fields for C[3] Is that possible? Thanks! -Ed

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Best practices for managing multiple large, busy wikis
by Justin Lloyd 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Hi all, I'm not sure where the best place to post this request would be, so I figured I'd start here. If there is a better place, or someone I should contact directly, please let me know. So, I haven't found much in my research about best practices for running multiple large, busy wikis across multiple servers. As such, I am very interested in discussing architectural considerations at the various layers (e.g. web server, database, caching, operating system, hardware, deployment, config management) with someone with first-hand experience in running larger, busier wikis, especially Wikipedia itself. :) I originally posted a thread on this list back in mid-November titled "Troubleshooting stuck Apache requests". I did get some feedback from a few people, for which I am thankful, and fortunately the problem seems to have disappeared, at least for the moment, despite not having done anything. (It's possible our community members may have acted upon a couple of emails we'd sent them regarding certain kinds of pages and templates.) I followed up that list thread with a /r/mediawiki post <https://redd.it/3t2apu> discussing my hardware and software architecture in much more depth, but didn't receive a single reply. Thus, I'm really hoping to find people with the appropriate knowledge and experience who would be willing to have an in-depth conversation on these topics. I'd be happy to have such a discussion on this list, but if you prefer to email me directly for whatever reason, that would be great as well. Thanks! Justin

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OutputPage.php won't render with Cometchat
by David Shaw 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Any idea why this code causes the page to render blank? In MW/includes/OutputPage.php, starting at line 3305 we find: <<<<< public function getHeadLinksArray() { global $wgVersion; $tags = array(); $config = $this->getConfig(); $canonicalUrl = $this->mCanonicalUrl; <<<<< After "$canonicalUrl = $this->mCanonicalUrl;" I inserted these lines per instruction: <<<<< $tags[‘cometchat-footer-code-link’] = Html::element( ‘link’, array( ‘rel’ => ‘stylesheet’, ‘type’ => ‘text/css’, ‘charset’ => ‘utf-8’, ‘href’ => ‘/cometchat/cometchatcss.php’, ) ); $tags[‘cometchat-footer-code-script’] = Html::element( ‘script’, array( ‘type’ => ‘text/javascript’, ‘charset’ => ‘utf-8’, ‘src’ => ‘/cometchat/cometchatjs.php’, ) ); <<<<< And the page won't render. There is an associated call in the Vector template but that is displaying ok. It only blows up when I change OutputPage. The folks at Cometchat say it's an issue with caching. Thank you, David

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All unit tests broken in Ubuntu 15.04
by Daniel Barrett 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

MediaWiki unit tests are broken in Ubuntu 15.04. Has anybody else encountered and worked around this problem? $ php phpunit.php PHP Fatal error: Class 'SebastianBergmann\Version' not found in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Runner/Version.php on line 74 PHP Stack trace: PHP 1. {main}() /home/wiki/wiki/wiki/tests/phpunit/phpunit.php:0 PHP 2. PHPUnit_Runner_Version::id() /home/wiki/wiki/wiki/tests/phpunit/phpunit.php:108 $ phpunit --version PHPUnit 4.2.6 by Sebastian Bergmann. This is with Mediawiki 1.26.0. Some web searches led me to these tickets from 2014 which are marked as Fixed, but I don't see an explicit workaround in them: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66597 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60881 Thanks for any advice, DanB

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