MediaWiki-l February 2015

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How do I add tools to the toolbox in vector/monobook skins?
by Brenton Horne 08 Feb '15

08 Feb '15

Hi, I'd like to know how to add tools to the toolbox, like for example, I'd like to add Special:MultiUpload to the toolbox. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Infobox formatting
by Brenton Horne 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi, Currently my Windows 7 installation of MediaWiki creates infoboxes that look like http://imgur.com/g2Tlh4f when I'd like it look more like http://imgur.com/s0UHES4. I'd especially like the blue title background. How do I do this? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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User Right Issues and Special:SpecialPages Blank
by Stefen Moss 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Good Evening, I seem to have run into several problems on a wiki that I'm running. I have beening having several issues with http://database.obsidianfleet.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:SpecialPages . Even thought I am using error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); The pages is still blank and I am running in a problem on how to bring it back. If someone would be able to help me with this that would be great. Another issue I am having is that after creating a User Account, the account is suppose to be able to be made a User, however there is no way for me to check the box since it seems to have disappeared and the user is not auto-assigned to that group. I would like to thank you all in advance for you help on these issues. -- Stefen Moss

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Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing
by Brenton Horne 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi, I'd like to know how I can use Inkscape for SVG thumbnailing on my Windows 7 OS with a MediaWiki installation. Inkscape's files are located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape. My efforts to date (mostly based on Manual:$wgSVGConverters and other MediaWiki manual pages) have failed. Currently my LocalSettings.php file's SVG-related settings are: # Image Converter > $wgSVGConverter = 'Inkscape'; > $wgSVGConverters = array( > 'Inkscape' => '"$path/inkscape.exe" -z -w $width -f $input -e $output', > ); > # Image converter path > $wgSVGConverterPath = '/Program Files (x86)/Inkscape'; This gives the following error (which appears in the thumbnail's place): > Error creating thumbnail: '""' is not recognized as an internal or > external command, > operable program or batch file. The reason I'd like Inkscape as my SVG thumbnailer in particular is because I sometimes use SVGs that are only correctly rendered by Inkscape (I know that Wikia's thumbnailer (whatever it might be) frequently makes rendering errors with these SVGs, e.g., see http://health-and-medicine.wikia.com/wiki/File:Symptoms_of_Hodgkin_lymphoma… and all the black spots that appear in it. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Special:NewPages has no entries - refresh it?
by Daniel Barrett 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

After upgrading to MW 1.24.1 (from 1.21), Special:NewPages now displays zero results. If I create a new page right now, it shows up in Special:NewPages, but anything before the upgrade is not listed. New pages *are* listed on Special:RecentChanges with an "N" next to them, so clearly something in MediaWiki knows they're new. Is there a way to refresh Special:NewPages? I tried maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php but it had no effect on Special:NewPages. Thanks, 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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Stunning wikipedia.org 3D visualization
by Simon Heimler 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

http://wiki.polyfra.me/# Best, Simon

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding a drop-down menu for monobook's sidebar
by Jan Steinman 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

> From: Brenton Horne <brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com> > > I've love to be able to add a drop-down menu to monobook's sidebar, which I know is possible (see this screenshot of another Wikia wiki which has this drop-down menu http://community.wikia.com/wiki/File:Layton_Wiki,_drop-down_menu.png). Have you tried looking at that site's sidebar code? Such as: http://domain.name/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar Jan Steinman EcoReality Co-op, http://www.EcoReality.org 2152 Fulford-Ganges Road Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1Z7 CANADA +1 250.653.2024

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki is not running
by Jan Steinman 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

> From: Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387(a)gmail.com> > > ... the reason you have to put in a port number > is that the default port 80 is used your web browser and if I am not > mistaken you wont be able to do any day to day browsing. Not so. Ports below 1024 are reserved for well-known services. Your web browser uses an arbitrary open port with four or more digits. You can easily run both a server and a browser on the same machine. :::: It’s fair to say that human beings, like yeast, respond to increased access to energy with increased reproduction. -- John Michael Greer :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::

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MediaWiki is not running
by Brenton Horne 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hi, I'm presently running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit and I installed MediaWiki 1.24.1 via bitnami and it worked fine until I restarted my PC and now, even with my servers (Apache & MySQL, respectively) running (which I checked were running by running the manager-linux.run file in the MediaWiki directory. I even restarted them both manually) whenever I open up http://localhost:8080/mediawiki/ I get a blank page. Going to http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin works fine and these pages load perfectly. Thanks for your time, Brenton

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Jmol errors
by Brenton Horne 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hi, I've installed the Jmol extension and I have noticed two major problems: 1. When uploading a pdb file at Special:Upload I receive the error: > File extension ".pdb" does not match the detected MIME type of the file > (text/plain). Other chemical file extensions produce similar errors, including .sdf, .cml, etc. Even though I have added: > $wgFileExtensions = array( 'doc', 'docx', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'mpp', 'pdf', > 'ppt', 'tiff', 'bmp', 'pptx', 'ps', 'odt', 'ods', 'odp', 'odg' > , 'ogg', 'sdf', 'mol', 'pdb', 'xyz', 'mol2', 'svg', 'cml' > ); to LocalSettings.php 2. Whenever I add <jmolpdb></jmolpdb> to an article (any article, even my sandbox, i.e., User:Fuse809/sandbox), <jmolPdb></jmolPdb> or other Jmol tags <jmolFile></jmolFile> and click "Save page" I'm left at a blank page with the URL of http://localhost:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=submit (where PAGENAME is the page's name). Thanks for your time, Brenton

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