MediaWiki-l February 2015

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Special:MyLanguage external issues
by Tom 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

I'll probably have to jump on irc but it's late so I thought I'd start here first. Use MW to write content for help screens. Use a proxy to serve the content in an admin panel. The issue: Special:MyLanguage doesn't work as it does pushing users at their language when they click a link in the help window. Instead, the proxy requests the literal link to the page of Special:MyLanguage/A_pagename which of course does not exist as a page because Special:MyLanguage isn't processed first to see if the language a user is viewing exists before sending the user to the language page or fallback language page. REGEX out Special:MyLanguage/ ? Then add on lang code of admin view of interface to match help system pages in mw. Can be done but that would be expensive. Some pages could have 10-20 links. Thoughts appreciated as I maybe missing something with the api. Thanks Tom

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Upgrade vom 1.12.0 to current version
by Marc Patermann 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hi, I have a little old and well used Mediawiki installation, which has to be migrated. The old installation is version 1.12.0 with php 5.1 and mysql 5.0. The new one is php 5.3.17 and mysql 5.5.31, I tried Mediawiki 1.24.1. I dumped the database and copied the webserver directory of the wiki. The manual upgrade does not work for me. I got the following error: # ./update.php PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wfProfileIn() (previously declared in /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes/profiler/Profiler.php:47) in /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes/ProfilerStub.php on line 12 Even after I commented out any used extension in LocalSettings.php and deleting the extensions files. After that I deleted the wiki dir on the new server in whole and extracted the tar again on the fresh dir. The installation assistant is starting and I connect to the database. Then this happens: The existing database is found. #9 /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(280): WebInstallerUpgrade->execute() #10 /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/mw-config/index.php(79): WebInstaller->execute(Array) #11 /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/mw-config/index.php(38): wfInstallerMain() #12 /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/mw-config/index.php5(26): require('/srv/www/htdocs...') #13 {main} Purging caches...done. I can hit "next" as often as I want, the assistant is stuck. In error_log I find this: PHP Notice: Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseUpdater::doUpdates). in /srv/www/htdocs/wiki/includes/db/Database.php on line 4266, referer: http://rzhs165-neu/wiki/mw-config/index.php5?page=Upgrade I really like to update/migrate the wiki installation. How to get over the occurred error? Marc

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Email confirmation
by Brenton Horne 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, My Wiki was meant to send me an email confirmation but when I went to Special:ConfirmEmail and I got it to send me a confirmation email and it returned this error on the page: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() How do I overcome this error? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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CS1 errors; how to remove undesired ones
by Brenton Horne 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I've copy-pasted the Citation/CS1 module from Wikipedia (with some minor adjustments, like I wanted the dois to be listed before PMCs and PMIDs, which the original module didn't do on my Wiki), along with its dependencies. The problem is that on my Wiki we have month ranges in journal article cites, sometimes, e.g., September-October 2010 for this citation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20622510 and this generates a CS1 error. If you need to see the source of this module see http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/Module:Citation/CS1?action=raw. A list of its dependencies I copy-pasted can be found here: http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Ci…. Here's an example of this date error http://521b63dd.ngrok.com/mediawiki/index.php/Chimeric_monoclonal_antibody. I don't understand Lua so please be patient with me. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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notification only on one page
by Poopak Alaeifar 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi All, I am trying to make a page in mywiki which all the users can be notified upon any changes only on this specific page not anything else. I don't want to use news feed tools as I just want to send email notification to users when only and only this specific page changed.I could not find any extension or tool for that ,however, the notification extensions are existed but I don't know how to change the configuration and installation to my own requests.Any help would be really appreciated. Regards,Poopak

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problems with Special:ActiveUsers since update from 1.22 to 1.24
by Jakub Klinkovský 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

On 02.02.15 at 10:30, Aaron Schulz wrote: > It does depends on page views. There is code to load all (or more of the > history) on small wikis, but it seems be too conservative about what a > "small" wiki is I assume. Thanks for the info, I've submitted a bug report: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89027 -- Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz)

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update problem
by Alois Treindl 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

I am updating from Mediawiki 1.20.3 to 1.24.1 When I run maintenance/update.php I get this error: Adding rev_content_format field to table revision ...A database query error has occurred. Query: ALTER TABLE `adb_revision` ADD rev_content_format varbinary(64) DEFAULT NULL Function: DatabaseBase::sourceFile( /www/docs/wiki/maintenance/archives/patch-revision-rev_content_format.sql ) Error: 7 Error on rename of './wikidb/adb_revision.frm' to './wikidb/#sql2-1c98-86.frm' (Errcode: 13) (localhost) The $wgDBadminuser is user 'mysql' and the password for it is in my own ~/-my.cnf What could be the problem, or how could I debug this? It is not my first Mediawiki update, I have a history of updateing in 2013 from 1.18 to 1.20.3 and before than from 1.17 to 1.18

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Password Reset Trouble
by Rowe, Dolores A 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Dear Teammates, I am looking at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords and would like to use Special:PasswordReset. I have set the following property in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['passwordreset'] = true; Also I am a sysop, and I am logged in. However, when the form comes up, it does not put up the input box where I can type in the user's email. It's MediaWiki 1.22.8. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong ? thanks, Lori

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Interwiki linking
by Brenton Horne 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, I've heard of the interwiki linking table and suffice it to say that the MediaWiki article on this ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki_table) wasn't exactly helpful to me as a guide as to how to set them up. I would like someone to boil it down into a group of simple steps for me to do whenever I want to add interwiki links to my Wiki (I do have the extension installed if you're wondering and it seems to work fine for interwiki links already defined like [[Wikipedia:...]]). I'd also like acronyms (e.g., WP for Wikipedia) to work as prefixes in interwiki links like they do on the Wikimedia projects. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Rollback problem
by Brenton Horne 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, I tried to rollback 10 edits on the MediaWiki:Common.css page on my Wiki and that action left me on a blank page and now I can't seem to load my Wiki at all (as the browser tries to load the page but never manages to). This problem is not limited to just one browser either, both opera and chrome are having this problem. How do I overcome this problem? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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