MediaWiki-l February 2016

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& or %26 in querystring
by Frank Baxmann 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hello, I am working with GraphViz extension using ImageMap extension. I want to give some nodes some wiki links with a query string to purge. Sample: Https://....index.php?title=PageToCall&action=purge Typing the link in the browser works fine as expected. The problem here is, that GraphViz creates an error with the "&". Https://....index.php?title=PageToCall&action=purge Using "&" works fine in GraphViz, but MW don't do the purge. Any idea for solution?

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Announcing: EMWCon, May 25-27, 2016 in New York City
by Yaron Koren 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

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

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New Metrolook skin
by physicswiki 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

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 -- From the PhysicsWiki Staff!!

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by Malick falola 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

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Support for the "MediaWiki Foundation" in the next WMF Annual Plan
by Quim Gil 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

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 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] ContentTranslation on non-Wikipedia sites
by Andrew Geary 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

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 Andrew Geary SEG Publications outreach editor Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 8801 South Yale, Suite 500 / Tulsa, OK 74137 USA 504-407-1303 ageary(a)seg.org www.seg.org

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] A second, Duplicate Wiki
by Mickey Feldman 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

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. On 2/17/2016 4:00 AM, mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A second, Duplicate Wiki (Ray Paseur) > 2. Re: A second, Duplicate Wiki (Dave Humphrey) > 3. A second, Duplicate Wiki (Bartosz Dziewoński) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:05:45 +0000 > From: Ray Paseur <ray.paseur(a)armedia.com> > To: "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] A second, Duplicate Wiki > Message-ID: > <DM2PR0101MB1088F18E52E5DA9C650A146486AD0(a)DM2PR0101MB1088.prod.exchangelabs.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:19:33 -0500 > From: Dave Humphrey <dave(a)uesp.net> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] A second, Duplicate Wiki > Message-ID: > <CAD5rsfr=QDV75dmxAxTQt4z3DV5rPMe8cq8Oy8Tip3cRDWUFMg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Assuming you want to copy the database and images from "spw" to > "spw_public" you could do: > > - 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > > > -- M. Feldman --------------------------- Vigil Health Solutions Inc. www.vigil.com Toll Free: 877-850-1122 Phone: 250-383-6900 Fax: 250-383-6999

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A second, Duplicate Wiki
by Ray Paseur 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

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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PAGESINCATEGORY discrepancy
by David Newman 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Hi, I've been creating and uploading animated images to the Commons Stroke order Project. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stroke_Order_Project This URL has references to {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Order.gif stroke order images}} The value displayed on this page is 391, whereas the category page shows 397. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Order.gif_stroke_order_images The images I upload I put into the license {{SOlicense}} as well as add them to the category "Order.gif stroke order images". I can't figure out what I am doing wrong because obviously the other 391 images uploaded by others are being counted. This is the latest image I have uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%87%AF-order.gif Any ideas? Thanks. -Dave

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Broken categories management after upgrading from 1.25.3 to 1.27.0-wmf.10
by Dominique Gagnon 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

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

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