Hello,
I'm pleased to announce the Enterprise MediaWiki Conference, or EMWCon,
which will be happening in just about three months, from May 25-27, in New
York, NY, USA. This will be a three-day conference devoted to all topics,
technical and non-technical, related to the use of MediaWiki by companies
and other organizations.
This is the first-ever EMWCon, and more generally it is, as far as I know,
the first-ever large-scale meeting covering the general use of MediaWiki
outside of Wikimedia projects. Which is somewhat surprising, given that,
even outside of its use on Wikipedia et al., MediaWiki is almost
unquestionably the world's most popular wiki software.
EMWCon spun out of SMWCon, or the Semantic MediaWiki Conference - and I
expect that Semantic MediaWiki will be a topic of discussion, although
non-SMW users are equally encouraged to attend, and should find the event
equally productive.
I'm very much looking forward to this conference and to the types of
discussions that will ensue. We don't have registration set up yet, but you
can read a little more about the conference, and add your name to the
tentative attendees list, here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2016
-Yaron
Just a quick question. I have the very impressive Metrolook recently
installed on my website. I am wondering if there is a way or some work
in progress to allow uploading a personalized thumbnail to the server
for the user profile. I would like to put photos etc. there for the users.
Thanks
John
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From the PhysicsWiki Staff!!
Hi,
In the last Wikimedia Developer Summit there were again conversations about
a MediaWiki-centric organization focusing on 3rd party (non-Wikimedia) use
cases. If the people interested in this initiative want to influence the
next Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan, the time is now, and the place is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127312
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
I have done my best to follow the directions and install cxserver. I believe I am doing everything correctly, though I continue to get the error message on the Special:ContentTranslations page that says "Error: Could not connect to the server."
In regards to the directions (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/cxserver/Setup), under Server Configuration, do I only need to do one of the two options listed - using node or npm? After running through the steps in this section (Server Configuration), should Content Translation work? What should I see when I go to check the "server playground"? If my URL is wiki.seg.org, would this page be wiki.seg.org:8080?
Are the Varnish backend services required? In the configuration steps, is the setup correct that lists in step 1 port 8000 and step 2 lists port 8080?
Thank you,
Andrew
MediaWiki: 1.26.2
PHP: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14 (apache2handler)
MySQL: 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
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Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
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504-407-1303
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If the wikis have not just separate PHP, but have that because they are
also different versions of the Mediawiki software, then simply copying
the database and images director tree may not work.
Between major revisions at least, there should be expected to be changes
to the DB. I have also run into grief when our hosting service
discontinued support for older versions of PHP that were required for an
older version of Mediawiki.
You would be advised to have both wikis at the same version of software.
If you do this then the procedure Dave Humphrey outlines may be sufficient.
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> I don't write these requirements, I just try to comply.
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> We have two wiki installations named "spw" and "spw_public" that have slightly different PHP code sets. They live in different URLs. We want to make the display contents identical. The "spw" can be edited; the "spw_public" is read-only. These have separate underlying databases and images collections, etc.
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> The "spw" will always be the canonical source. The "spw_public" should look the same to site visitors, but it does not need to have any revision history.
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> What would be a good way to "sync" them? Is there a standard process for backing up and restoring a mediawiki installation, so that I could backup "spw" and restore it to "spw_public?"
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> Assuming you want to copy the database and images from "spw" to
> "spw_public" you could do:
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> - Backup Database:
> mysqldump --opt -u username -p spw > spw,sql
> - Copy Database:
> mysql -u username -p spw_public < spw.sql
>
> Note that these assume your database names are "spw" and "spw_public". The
> time this takes depends on the size of your database. For example, our 15GB
> MediaWiki database takes about 15min to backup and 1 hour to restore.
>
> For copying images you can do:
> rsync -av /path/to/spw/images/ /path/to/spw_public/images/
>
> If you want an exact copy you can add the "--delete" option to rsync to
> delete files in "spw_public/images" not found in "spw/images". If you don't
> have many images being uploaded this should be pretty quick as it only
> copies any new/updated image file.
>
> On 16 February 2016 at 13:05, Ray Paseur <ray.paseur(a)armedia.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't write these requirements, I just try to comply.
>>
>>
>> We have two wiki installations named "spw" and "spw_public" that have
>> slightly different PHP code sets. They live in different URLs. We want to
>> make the display contents identical. The "spw" can be edited; the
>> "spw_public" is read-only. These have separate underlying databases and
>> images collections, etc.
>>
>>
>> The "spw" will always be the canonical source. The "spw_public" should
>> look the same to site visitors, but it does not need to have any revision
>> history.
>>
>>
>> What would be a good way to "sync" them? Is there a standard process for
>> backing up and restoring a mediawiki installation, so that I could backup
>> "spw" and restore it to "spw_public?"
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards, Ray
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I don't write these requirements, I just try to comply.
We have two wiki installations named "spw" and "spw_public" that have slightly different PHP code sets. They live in different URLs. We want to make the display contents identical. The "spw" can be edited; the "spw_public" is read-only. These have separate underlying databases and images collections, etc.
The "spw" will always be the canonical source. The "spw_public" should look the same to site visitors, but it does not need to have any revision history.
What would be a good way to "sync" them? Is there a standard process for backing up and restoring a mediawiki installation, so that I could backup "spw" and restore it to "spw_public?"
Thanks and regards, Ray
Hi,
I've recently discovered that, after upgrading from version 1.25.3 to
1.27.0-wmf.10, categories management doesn't work. Existing categories
work fine but, for instance, if I create a new category and I label a
page with it, the category doesn't list the labeled page. Looking in
the category table in MariaDB shows that the new category isn't listed
there. I've tried to upgrade to 1.27.0-wmf.13 and it didn't help.
Is this a known bug in 1.27.0-wmf releases?
Thanks,
Dominique
