MediaWiki-l February 2015

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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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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

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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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 26 Sep '16

26 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 26 Sep '16

26 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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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Requiring PHP >= 5.3.3 for MediaWiki core
by James Forrester 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

On 24 October 2014 08:41, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:12 AM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org > > > wrote: > > > On 23 October 2014 18:39, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > As part of the librarization project[1], we are planning on taking the > > > CSSJanus library that is currently in includes/lib/ and bringing it in > > > with composer. However, it requires PHP >=5.3.3 in its > composer.json[2]. > > > Krinkle has stated[3] that is due to the fact that it has only been > > > tested on 5.3.3 and higher, and it's also what travis-ci provides. > > > > > > After doing some research[4], it appears that we would be dropping > > > support for Ubuntu 10.04LTS, which has security support until April > > > 2015. MediaWiki 1.25.0 is expected to be released in May 2015. > > > > > > Does anyone have any objections to dropping 5.3.2 support? I've > uploaded > > > [5] that actually increments the required version number. > > > > > > > I understood that the vague plan was to switch over to 5.4.x > requirement, > > and that we'd only waited because Wikimedia wasn't ready yet. Has this > > changed? I know a number of people have talked about wanting to use PHP > > traits. > > > > > Yes, but that's longer term. > How much longer? 1.25 is May 2015; Wikimedia's ZAP -> HAT migration is nominally to be finished within a month… > This minor bump still in the 5.3.x branch I think we can do immediately. > Sure, if announcing a 1.25 dependency change and then changing the change later won't disrupt people too much. (Copying the main MediaWiki-l list for those who don't follow wikitech-l) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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Extensions/Gadgets that assist in template field-filling
by Brenton Horne 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, I know that on Wikia sites there's a tool available when editing in the Visual Editor that allows one to choose from all the templates on the Wikia site, and when one selects the template one wishes to use it loads the fields for said template and allows one to edit them all in this pop-up window before embedding this template into the article. It makes inserting several-input templates like infoboxes far easier and I was wondering if something like this existed for local MediaWikis when operating in source mode. I was wondering if it might be possible, for instance (like if something different to this is possible I'm still happy to hear it), if the WikiEditor extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor) could be given an additional tool with these capabilities. If you're wondering what I mean by this "tool" for inserting templates see http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Templates#Adding_pre-existing_templates . Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Missing tests/ directory in 1.23.1-5
by Daniel Renfro 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

While looking into upgrading my 1.22.5 installation to 1.23.5, I noticed that the tests/ directory was missing. Looking in git it is there for the REL1_23, but seems to have vanished in the tarballs for releases? Am I missing something? or are these releases incomplete? Sincerely confused, -Daniel (Us+er:AlephNull)

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Autopromote problems
by John Horne 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Hello, We are running a private wiki (MW version 1.24.1) so that anonymous users get no rights, and logged in users get the 'user' group rights. However, we have also set in the LocalSettings file: $wgAutopromote['editor'] = array(APCOND_INGROUPS, 'autoconfirmed'); and set various permissions for this group. Additionally we have set : $wgAutopromote['sysop'] = array(APCOND_ISIP, '141.163.4.11'); However, when I log in and look at the special user rights management page for my own userid, I see that I am in no specific group except for the implied group of 'autoconfirmed users' and Administrators. There are checkboxes for the Administrators, Bureaucrats and 'editor' groups, but none of them are ticked. If I tick a checkbox, and then click save, it says the setting has been saved but unchecks the checkbox again. Secondly, and more worryingly, is that if I log in using the 141.163.4.11 IP address, and look at the special user rights page, it shows everyone as being in the 'Administrators' (sysop) group! If I take out the autopromote from the LocalSettings file, then no-one (other than the original account created during installation) is shown as being in the Administrators group. Very strange. So, two things, why can we not set anyone in a group on the user rights management page, and why does the autopromote put everyone in the Administrators/sysop group? Thanks, John. -- ---------------------------------------------------- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK

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