MediaWiki-l February 2015

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Correcting errors
by Brenton Horne 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Hi, I went to Upload:Chemistry on my Wiki and opened up the chrome developer tools and I noticed one error I was hoping to know how to correct. Here is a screenshot showing this error: http://i.imgur.com/b5mPOmQ.png. I have opened up the debugger looking for the errors mentioned but I can't seem to identify what I need to edit (as I'm looking for "mw.log.log.warn" and "addOnloadHook" as these are what the console said was defective). Could someone please help me? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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upgrade from mw 1.16 under php 5.2 to 1.17, 1.19 or?
by Holger 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Dear list, I'm running mw 1.16 under php 5.2 und would like and should upgrade mw as well as php to actual versions. What would be the best / most safe way to achieve this? My idea is to upgrade to 1.17 because there will be the fewest changes to 1.16 und it runs as well with php > 5.2. So I could switch the server to actual php like 5.5.x. Thereafter I could upgrade to the next or the latest legacy version. Until now I only dumped the database. What do you recommend? Which next steps are advisable? Thanks in advance! Best regards Holger

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Marvin Extension
by Brenton Horne 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hi, I'm trying to create a new extension that enables the embedding of MarvinSketch Java applets (I have a marvin.js file, along with several .jar files that came with one of their free downloads. http://dl.chemaxon.com/marvin/15.2.9.0/marvin-all-15.2.9.0.zip is what I downloaded and extracted) into articles. This Marvin download came with several examples of how the applets could be embedded into HTML files and the proper syntax in HTML and I was wondering if there was some way of using this knowledge to create PHP files for a Marvin extension (Marvin.body.php, Marvin.php. I am neglecting Marvin.i18n.php as my Wiki is only in English and it just makes it simpler if I can leave this bit out). I have made pretty lousy efforts, but I really don't know what I'm doing. I have read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_extensions if you're wondering, but it didn't really help me as I know little about PHP. Like I know some really basic things like that: - variables start with $ - each line is ends with ; - the file needs to start with <?php and end with ?> - What appears between /* */ and after // is not rendered. - Blocks are pieces of code that are executed together. - Functions take variables and give an output and are ended with return. - " " evaluates variables - echo " " hands whatever is between the quotation marks to be rendered as HTML. Despite this I am determined to do at least some of this coding myself, but I could do with some help, if possible. See I am basing these PHP files on those of the JSmol extension (namely, the one created by Jaime Prilusky @ http://proteopedia.org/wiki/support/JSmolExtension/JSmolExtension.zip) and without annotated notes in the PHP file it is difficult to know what I should copy in my Marvin PHPs and which I should not. So what I would like to know is: * If my idea of basing it on the JSmol extension's PHP files is the way to go. If not, what better way(s) exist. Please give me detailed examples of these better ways as otherwise I'll be stuck with my PHP ignorance. * If basing it on JSmol is a decent way to do this then the purpose of each function listed in Jmol.php and Jmol.body.php would be helpful. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Lua-based infoboxes
by Brenton Horne 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hi, I've been working with infoboxes based on Lua modules taken (copy-pasted, no changes) from Wikipedia. The base template is Template:Infobox (Lua) which has the same code as Template:Infobox on Wikipedia (which can be viewed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox?action=raw). One of the infoboxes I've based on this template has no row 6 (i.e., label 6, data6 do not appear in the table when rendered), this is the code this infobox (which is called DBox, if you'd like a name to call it) has: http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/Template:DBox?action=raw. label6 and data6 are the eMedicine rows, if you're wondering. If you need to check up on these extra templates or the modules I'm working here's the ngrok link: http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/. Here's an example of its implementation: http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/Epilepsy if you'd like to see what's the problem. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Help: Forcing all actions to be "view"?
by Daniel Barrett 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

I'm looking for a way to convert all actions like history, edit, move, delete, etc., into "view". So far, no luck. Background: This is for a minimal wiki (1.24) that permits anonymous users only to read (action=view) and disables all other actions (history, edit, move, etc.). Logged-in users have full capabilities. I can easily achieve the goal with the hook "MediaWikiPerformAction", throwing a 404 with an error page. But I'd much rather *convert* all actions into "view" instead of displaying errors, so "MyTitle?action=history" becomes "MyTitle?action=view". I can't seem to do this with MediaWikiPerformAction because I can't seem to modify the action. The request object is provided only by value, the MediaWiki object's context is private, and changing RequestContext::getMain()->getRequest() doesn't seem to do it. Any suggestions on the best way to do this? Thanks very much! DanB ________________________________ My email address has changed to danb(a)cimpress.com. Please update your address book. Cimpress is the new name for Vistaprint NV, the world’s leader in mass customization. Read more about Cimpress at www.cimpress.com. ________________________________

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Enabling special character file names
by Brenton Horne 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Hi I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my Wiki. For example, currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters like alpha and beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780 but I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the file with > if( $this->saveUploadedFile( in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that posted made almost 8 years ago). I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after searching for FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to what I wanted. I also saw http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-… but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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LiquidThreads backstory?
by Jason Ji 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi all, My team at the MITRE Corporation is considering using the LiquidThreads (LQT) code base as a starting point for a new commenting extension we are writing. We would either fork LQT and work directly on the existing code, or at least use the code as inspiration or a basis for how to start designing our own extension. I'm aware that development of LQT was canceled over three years ago - can anyone shed some light on the backstory of why it was abandoned? If there were some fundamental technical flaws with the extension, that would be good for us to know if we shouldn't waste our time; on the other hand, if it was more of a policy/philosophy reason, then that would also be good for us to know, to see if that reasoning applies to our needs. Thanks! -- Jason Ji The MITRE Corporation

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Semantic Breadcrumb Links and Semantic Interlanguage Links released!
by Jeroen De Dauw 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hey all, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of two entirely new extensions to Semantic MediaWiki! *## Semantic Breadcrumb Links* Semantic Breadcrumb Links is a Semantic Mediawiki extension to aid in-page navigation by building breadcrumb links from an attributive property filter. It uses a pattern match strategy to filter property usage (e.g. Has parent page) that ascribe the location of a page relative to its parent and provides navigational help by generating a breadcrumb trail. You can find installation and usage instructions for the 1.0 release at https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticBreadcrumbLinks#semantic-bread… *## Semantic Interlanguage Links* Semantic Interlanguage Links is a Semantic Mediawiki extension to create and manage interlanguage links. This extension creates interlanguage links and provides queryable annotations that can connect pages with similar content for different languages to be accessible via the sitelink navigation by using the INTERLANGUAGELINK parser function. You can see the extension in action at https://vimeo.com/115871518 Installation and usage instructions for the 1.0 release can be found at https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticInterlanguageLinks#semantic-in… Both these extensions were created by MWJames. Some minor contributions where made by Karsten Hoffmeyer, Jaider Andrade Ferreira and myself. Enjoy! -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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FileRepo.php fatal error
by Bill Traynor 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

I installed the master branch using the install.php script and everything seems to be working except for uploads. I'm seeing this error, which I've never seen before: Fatal error: Cannot use object of type LocalRepo as array in /var/www/.../includes/filerepo/FileRepo.php on line 1285 Did I do something wrong somewhere? Thanks Bill

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ExtensionCredits for skins in api
by Thomas Mulhall 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hi i have this https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/184689/ in gerrit but was rejected because it had duplicate information. i would like to filter out extensions and only show skins on the skins api because at the moment it only shows the skins name and if it is default and if it is being skipped i would like to add the information that extension has but also have default skin and is it skipped also. skins have version and other information but it is not shown in the api.

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