MediaWiki-l August 2016

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Customizing the File page
by Emanuele D'Arrigo 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Greetings, I'd like to customize the pre-defined content of a file page. Specifically, one of my users has asked if it could have an "Example" section that can be used to list a number of cut&paste-ready lines, i.e. [[Media:MyFile.ext|MyDescription]] I thought perhaps this was part of one of the system messages within the MediaWiki namespace but I'm struggling to find which one. Alternatively I could try and use the Boilerplate extension perhaps? Thoughts? Kind regards, Manu

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Security update for CentralAuth
by Chad 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Forwarding for those who might not be on wikitech-l. -Chad ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:14 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Security update for CentralAuth To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> A bug[1] was identified in CentralAuth that would allow a user to log in to a wiki with a reserved or otherwise "unusable" account if that account was not reserved on another wiki in the CentralAuth cluster. Patches for supported branches are: * master (1.28 alpha): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/304856 * REL1_27: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/304857 * REL1_26: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/304858 * REL1_23: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/304861 If you are using an earlier version, you should upgrade your MediaWiki installation. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130384 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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GraphViz extension help
by Rowe, Dolores A 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Dear Teammates, Using MW 1.26.2 on Windows 2008, I am having the below problem from the GraphViz Talk page which also has a solution pertaining to wshellexec (see below). So I don't understand the solution which was: "Problem apparently solved. It was the same as one of the messages above, and it was solved the same - copying wshellexec from 1.22.15 over the current version". If you understand it, please let me know. I couldn't find a file named wshellexec in MediaWiki. tx, L Graph is created then deleted[edit<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension_talk:GraphViz&action=…>] Hello. I'm using mediawiki in a windows 7 environment, with an Apache server at localhost. GraphViz is fully configured and running, but the image graph is created and then deleted, showing nothing on screen. I've reproduced the exact command shown on log ("<program files>\Graphviz2.38\bin\dot.exe" -T "png" -o "<wiki directory>\images\graphviz\images\Example_digraph_G_dot.png" "<wiki directory>\images\graphviz\Example_digraph_G.src") and in fact does create the image, but the folder is empty after refreshing the page (even if I manually put a copy of the intended image there). Where can be the error? Why the data is gone? tx, L

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?
by Greg Sabino Mullane 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Emanuele D'Arrigo asked: > > With low activity wikis, I have found that creating a cron of runjobs.php > > works best. Relying on the default behavior only gets a fraction of the > > total jobs run. > > How often do you run runjobs.php via cron? Or what criteria do you use to > decide the frequency? Run it every minute. The default is really only good if you do not have access to cron at all. -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)endpoint.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki sidebar displaced
by John Foster 14 Aug '16

14 Aug '16

And right you are. It is the FlaggegRevs extension. I had to install it to do some work. Then when I disabled it, everything went back to normal. Also the default skin was set as Vector. I changed some of the settings in the LocalSettings.php file. I did not disable the Vector skin. Just converted all of the site to Metrolook. Much nicer. Thanks for the tips. John Foster On Aug 14, 2016 3:49 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sometimes this can be caused by invalid html (unclosed <div> tag in a page, something giving out php warnings, an extension outputting invalid html, etc) -- Bawolff On Friday, August 12, 2016, John Foster <jfoster81747(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Well this is something I've not run into before. I recently set up and > upgraded my mediawiki site from an in house server to a remote server. > Everything went pretty well till today. In getting rid of a few bugs, I > tried adding the extension multiupload to my new server . Mediawiki 1.27 > stable Mysql/Maria, with php7 on The stable Ubunti 16.xx server. It did not > work so I dumped it. However I also did add FlaggedRevs, and a new > Scribunto. Both of those seem to be OK. However after I restarted apache > and rebooted the server, ran the update.php : the sideabr is no longer > displayed at the side, it is instaead, down at the bottom, still vertically > displayed. I tried a complete refresh of the Main page as I keep an > identicle server running to work from. No help; still is not displayed > properly. Any toips are greatly appreciated > Thanks! > > -- > John Foster > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Mediawiki sidebar displaced
by John Foster 14 Aug '16

14 Aug '16

Well this is something I've not run into before. I recently set up and upgraded my mediawiki site from an in house server to a remote server. Everything went pretty well till today. In getting rid of a few bugs, I tried adding the extension multiupload to my new server . Mediawiki 1.27 stable Mysql/Maria, with php7 on The stable Ubunti 16.xx server. It did not work so I dumped it. However I also did add FlaggedRevs, and a new Scribunto. Both of those seem to be OK. However after I restarted apache and rebooted the server, ran the update.php : the sideabr is no longer displayed at the side, it is instaead, down at the bottom, still vertically displayed. I tried a complete refresh of the Main page as I keep an identicle server running to work from. No help; still is not displayed properly. Any toips are greatly appreciated Thanks! -- John Foster

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Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?
by Emanuele D'Arrigo 13 Aug '16

13 Aug '16

Greetings, quick intro: I have been a mediawiki user for a long time (wikipedia and within companies) but I only had a couple of stints at administering one. I am in the process of setting one up for my neighborhood - or about 65 families. It pretty much all works but as my neighbors includes anything from very hightech people to very lowtech grandpas I have to put extra-care in making sure there are no counter-intuitive things happening. One of the counter-intuitive things that -is- happening is that when I create a new page from a pre-existing redlink the link does not become blue until I use the /purge action in the URL. I checked with showJobs.php and the job to update the page's cache is there. Somehow however, the jobs do not get triggered. I.e. as $wgJobRunRate is set to the default (1), every http request should take one job off the queue, right? But I'm not seeing this. It seems like the queue just gets longer. I'm wondering, is this perhaps something that has to do with short urls? (they are otherwise functional) Or anything else in my .htaccess? It just seems like mediawiki doesn't see some page reloads or some newly created pages as enough to trigger the jobs queue to move forward. Thoughts? Kind regards, Manu

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diff doesn't work when comparing versions
by MI 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

On my Mediawiki install, I cannot compare versions. The "(Difference between revisions)" page shows only the latest version. I checked that I do have diff: ~# which diff /usr/bin/diff ~# which diff3 /usr/bin/diff3 ~# grep diff /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php # Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution. $wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3"; I also added $wgDiff = "/usr/bin/diff"; to LocalSettings.php. This is Mediawiki version 1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 on Debian Jessie. After turning on debugging, I see this: wfShellExec: 'wikidiff2' '/tmp/diff_N41UBc' '/tmp/diff_HtzBTH' Possibly missing executable file: 'wikidiff2' '/tmp/diff_N41UBc' '/tmp/diff_HtzBTH' Indeed, I have no such executable. But "apt-cache search wikidiff2" shows only "php-wikidiff2", which is installed. ~# apt-cache search wikidiff2 php-wikidiff2 - external diff engine for mediawiki So, would someone know what is wrong, or where to look for more clues?

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ConfirmEdit/ReCaptchaNoCaptcha: Call to undefined method ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
by Tomasz Chmielewski 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

I'm getting the following error when trying to go to /Special:UserLogin with mediaWiki 1.27. Exception encountered, of type "Error" [60d3e595] /Special:UserLogin Error from line 360 of /var/www/wiki/ConfirmEdit/SimpleCaptcha/Captcha.php: Call to undefined method ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance() Backtrace: #0 /var/www/wiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/SimpleCaptcha/Captcha.php(248): SimpleCaptcha->isBadLoginPerUserTriggered(string) #1 /var/www/wiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/includes/ConfirmEditHooks.php(115): SimpleCaptcha->injectUserLogin(UserloginTemplate) #2 /var/www/wiki/includes/Hooks.php(201): ConfirmEditHooks::injectUserLogin(UserloginTemplate) #3 /var/www/wiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(1510): Hooks::run(string, array) #4 /var/www/wiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(346): LoginForm->mainLoginForm(string, string) #5 /var/www/wiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(384): LoginForm->execute(NULL) #6 /var/www/wiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(553): SpecialPage->run(NULL) #7 /var/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(281): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext) #8 /var/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest() #9 /var/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main() #10 /var/www/wiki/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run() #11 {main} Other pages, including the ones which display ReCaptcha, work fine. /Special:UserLogin used to work on this site, and started to malfunction a couple of days ago. ReCaptcha is enabled with: wfLoadExtensions( array( 'ConfirmEdit', 'ConfirmEdit/ReCaptchaNoCaptcha' ) ); $wgCaptchaClass = 'ReCaptchaNoCaptcha'; $wgReCaptchaSiteKey = 'SiteKey.............'; $wgReCaptchaSecretKey = 'SecretKey...........'; Not sure how to deal with it - does anyone have any idea? A different MediaWiki install on the same server works fine for /Special:UserLogin. Tomasz Chmielewski https://lxadm.com

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] still questions about thumbnails and previews
by Jingyi C. Shi 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

Yes, I have reset the file extensions otherwise I cannot upload them. As to follow your advice, I just run the update.php. Several bugs shown in the log file but nothing related to the thumbnails. Thumbnails still cannot be created. On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:34 PM, <mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Has your file extension array been reset. Make sure the full array includes > all needed file extensions. Be sure hi run update.php. > > John Foster > > On Aug 10, 2016 3:08 PM, "Jingyi C. Shi" <jshizhang(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > Thank you for your response! I tried the suggestions, but still facing > same > > problems. Were there any further suggestions? > > > > I already changed the owner to be www-data, set log files and rebuilt > > images. > > > > I got debug logs like follows: > > "... > > FSFileBackend::getFileListInternal() given directory does not exist: > > '/var/www/HIWeb/dir/wiki/images/3/3e' > > FSFileBackend::getFileListInternal() given directory does not exist: > > '/var/www/HIWeb/dir/wiki/images/3/3f' > > FSFileBackend::getFileListInternal() given directory does not exist: > > '/var/www/HIWeb/dir/wiki/images/4/40' > > FSFileBackend::getFileListInternal() given directory does not exist: > > '/var/www/HIWeb/dir/wiki/images/4/41' > > FSFileBackend::getFileListInternal() given directory does not exist: > > '/var/www/HIWeb/dir/wiki/images/4/42' > > ..." > > > > I think the log is reasonable and tell no more issues. > > > > Btw, what the "preview" means in the last post was: when you open a > > "File:xxxx.png" page, it should show a preview image directly on the > page. > > But I have no preview images and thumbnails currently. > > > > Thanks, > > Jingyi > > > > ---------- My original question ---------- > > > > Hi all, > > > > Thanks to some help about my previous thumbnails question: "I uploaded a > > png image but no thumbnails created in the File page." > > > > I have tried several methods but the thumbnails are still not working. I > > still face the problems that I have neither thumbnails or preview images > in > > 'File:' pages. > > > > I have already installed ImageMagick in my Ubuntu. > > What I have tried was to: > > 1. check wiki/images/thumb/ folder, but only old thumbnails are there. > > (Yes, I used to have thumbnails several month ago.) No new ones that I > > uploaded recently are there. > > 2. chowe -R root:root wiki/images/ and chmod -R 777 /wiki/images/ > > 2. change memory consumption by increasing $wgMaxShellMemory to 409600 in > > LocalSetting.php, but still no thumbnails appears. > > > > So here are my new questions: > > 1. Small images (like 500kb) can sometimes have previews (but no > > thumbnails). But large images always no previews. How to fix? > > 2. I have a strange finding. Some jpg images can show the previews in my > > home computer but cannot show previews in my office computer. What may > > cause that? > > 3. My current MW version is 1.26. And my PHP version is a little bit out > of > > date: 5.3.10. May this cause a problem related to previews and > thumbnails? > > > > > > Looking forward to your further help. > > > > Thank you, > > Jingyi > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:20:40 -0400 > > From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <greg(a)freephile.com> > > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] still questions about thumbnails and > > previews > > Message-ID: > > <CANaytccrq72TEP9FpQb-mTHoZKhn37WB8F5S0e-NsMOZNj_ > > YsA(a)mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Greg Rundlett > > https://eQuality-Tech.com > > https://freephile.org > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Jingyi C. Shi <jshizhang(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Thanks to some help about my previous thumbnails question: "I uploaded > a > > > png image but no thumbnails created in the File page." > > > > > > I have tried several methods but the thumbnails are still not working. > I > > > still face the problems that I have neither thumbnails or preview > images > > in > > > 'File:' pages. > > > > > > I have already installed ImageMagick in my Ubuntu. > > > What I have tried was to: > > > 1. check wiki/images/thumb/ folder, but only old thumbnails are there. > > > (Yes, I used to have thumbnails several month ago.) No new ones that I > > > uploaded recently are there. > > > 2. chowe -R root:root wiki/images/ and chmod -R 777 /wiki/images/ > > > > > > > Actually, the images directory (and subdirectories) should be owned by > the > > web server user (that's *www-data* for Ubuntu) > > > > If you enter the command > > > > ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)' > > > > and look at the first column, you'll be able to confirm that your > webserver > > is running as www-data > > > > Then you can change ownership on the directory and subdirectories like > so: > > > > sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./wiki/images > > > > > > In general, you should setup a debug log file[1] to find out what's going > > wrong with MediaWiki. > > > > [1] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug# > > Setting_up_a_debug_log_file > > > > > > > > > 2. change memory consumption by increasing $wgMaxShellMemory to 409600 > in > > > LocalSetting.php, but still no thumbnails appears. > > > > > > So here are my new questions: > > > 1. Small images (like 500kb) can sometimes have previews (but no > > > thumbnails). But large images always no previews. How to fix? > > > 2. I have a strange finding. Some jpg images can show the previews in > my > > > home computer but cannot show previews in my office computer. What may > > > cause that? > > > 3. My current MW version is 1.26. And my PHP version is a little bit > out > > of > > > date: 5.3.10. May this cause a problem related to previews and > > thumbnails? > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'previews'. When you upload a file into > > MediaWiki via Special:Upload, it simply stores the file on the webserver > > and generates thumbnails as configured. Those thumbnails get stored in > the > > "thumbs" directory on the server. When you go to *Special:ListFiles* > (e.g. > > https://freephile.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles), it will show a list of > > uploaded files, with a thumbnail representation of each file. > > > > Since you are having problems with your file uploads and thumbnail > > generation, you should probably run the 'rebuildImages' script in the > > maintenance folder. > > > > cd wiki/maintenance > > php ./rebuildImages --dry-run > > php ./rebuildImages --missing > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 155, Issue 13 > ******************************************** >

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