MediaWiki-l February 2017

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page
by Bart Q. Simon 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

I distinctly remember there was a way to add a title to a special page simply by entering in a URL, then adding the title to the wiki edit field, and then saving. The new "writing a new special page" how-to is very confusing - and it wants me to write PHP to get the title to show up. There was an easier way... I can't find this how-to anywhere- though I'm sure it used to exist. FX can you walk me through how you've added a wiki page title to a special page? Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rick DeNatale Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:33 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Re: How to create a new Special page On 5/13/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote: > Hello; > There is a paragraph on how to create a special page in the FAQ > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FAQ#How_do_I_add_my_own_dynamic_cont ent_to_MediaWiki.3F > > It's not so difficult. At the end,it says you have to create a simple > page and write the name of your special page in it. If you forget this > the title of your special page will have < and > around. I haven't > got a clue why creating a page with the name in it solves this, but it works That page seems to have changed, it now just has a pointer to an article about writing an extension which really doesn't seem to build a special page. I just figured out how to build a new special page which is like the Uncategorized pages page, but looks at the Image namespace. I wrote it up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Are there any good resources for writing scripts and gadgets
by Arcane 21 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

I'm currently trying to adapt several gadgets that are meant for wikis using the Monobook/Vector skins to the Monaco skin, and so far, I've managed to successfully port over the UTC Clock gadget and Sandbox page gadget to Monaco, but aside from those I've been having trouble since, frankly, my knowledge of Javascript/JQuery is slim and I'm not familiar with all the variables used in writing user scripts. I've fairly decent with CSS style sheets, but I still need help with Javascript, so does anyone know of some good resources I could look into, preferably tailored for writing scripts on MediaWiki? Also, if anyone wants to see what I have done so far (and have released publicly), the wiki I have been testing my live gadget/user script code on is here: https://mediawikitesters.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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Understanding the generation of thumbs ...
by [[kgh]] 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Heiya, I would like to understand a bit better how thumbs are generated by MediaWiki with the help of ImageMagick. Basically what I want to achieve is that only 4 thumbs are generated per uploaded file. I figured that "$wgThumbLimits" [0] is the setting to control this so I set: $wgThumbLimits = array( 180, 200, 250, 300 ); I assumed that if the user can only select one of the given sizes I would MediaWiki would only generate thumbs in the sizes defined with the setting. What I however got is thumbs in up to 12 sizes ranging from 120px to 2880px depending on the size of the file uploaded. So this setting is not the one and I did not really find a setting allowing me to control thumb generation. I am kinda lost in thumbs now so any hint will be appreciated ... Cheers Karsten [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgThumbLimits

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Change property type on Wikibase Wiki
by Jean-Baptiste Pressac 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hello, Is it possible to modify the type of a property declared with Wikibase ? Thanks, -- Jean-Baptiste Pressac Traitement et analyse de bases de données Production et diffusion de corpus numériques Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique Unité mixte de service (UMS) 3554 20 rue Duquesne CS 93837 29238 Brest cedex 3 tel : +33 (0)2 98 01 68 95 fax : +33 (0)2 98 01 63 93

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title only search and display
by Denis Hainsworth 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

I've been trying to find the right way to do this, unsure if its easy and if so what the easiest way to go about it would be (api,extension,skin,etc) mediawiki is almost too configurable. Meidawiki with cirrussearch is pretty good, however I miss one big thing from our previous moinmoin setup and thats a quick simple search and display of wiki article titles. What I would like is a button which will take the string from the search field in mediawiki, perform a title search to grab any article with that string in the title and disaply all the articles , titles only, in alphabetic order. Any suggestions if such a thing already exists or what my best avenue to approach this would be given the various ways one can modify mediawiki ? appreciate any thoughts on the topic. we have a fairly small private wiki so this kind of search works really well, for myself at least. -- __________________________ Denis Alan Hainsworth denis.hainsworth(a)gmail.com

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Error: Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending
by Michael 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

On my Mediawiki 1.28 installation, I encounter these errors 'Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending' with several extensions (EmailToWiki, HTML2Wiki, DataTransfer) Here some excerpts from the log-file: exception] [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /Special:ImportCSV DBUnexpectedError from line 2852 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending (WikiPage::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, WikiPage::updateRevisionOn, WikiPage::updateRedirectOn, RecentChange::notifyNew). [Bug56269] Exception thrown with an uncommited database transaction: [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /Special:ImportCSV DBExpectedError from line 1096 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Flush failed on server(s) localhost: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending (WikiPage::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, WikiPage::updateRevisionOn, WikiPage::updateRedirectOn, RecentChange::notifyNew). [Bug56269] Exception thrown with an uncommited database transaction: [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /Special:ImportCSV DBUnexpectedError from line 2657 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Invalid atomic section ended (got WikiPage::doCreate). salty, with a "bite" from its blue veining requestId=e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac (id=337,timestamp=20170227085845) t=243 error=DBUnexpectedError: Invalid atomic section ended (got WikiPage::doCreate). Start request GET /index.php?action=emailtowiki&prefix=EmailToWiki [exception] [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /index.php?action=emailtowiki&prefix=EmailToWiki DBUnexpectedError from line 2852 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending (WikiPage::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, WikiPage::updateRevisionOn, WikiPage::updateRedirectOn, RecentChange::notifyNew). Bug56269] Exception thrown with an uncommited database transaction: [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /index.php?action=emailtowiki&prefix=EmailToWiki DBExpectedError from line 1096 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Flush failed on server(s) localhost: MWCallableUpdate::doUpdate: Cannot flush snapshot because writes are pending (WikiPage::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, Revision::insertOn, WikiPage::updateRevisionOn, WikiPage::updateRedirectOn, RecentChange::notifyNew). [Bug56269] Exception thrown with an uncommited database transaction: [e258cf43474ed3ddbbb499ac] /index.php?action=emailtowiki&prefix=EmailToWiki DBUnexpectedError from line 2657 of /var/www/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Invalid atomic section ended (got WikiPage::doCreate). Maybe something is wrong with my installation, so any help is highly welcome!

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Mediawiki and Calendaring
by Hans van den Heuvel 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hi list, Newbie alert !! I have a question about MediaWiki and calendaring integration and hope this is the correct list to ask ? I work in a technical support organization where we do use MediaWiki to share information between peers globally. Due to progressing requirements, I would like to integrate a calendar within our MediaWiki because of it's flexibility and ease of use for everyone. I have the following requirements : - LDAP user integration. [1] Maintain wiki rights for LDAP users, [2] Restrict calendar rights and maintain the ability to track changes and to revert when needed. - No external access. We do not want to rely on external sites as for example Google for both security and privacy concerns. - Support multiple calendars We need the ability to add multiple calendars to the same wiki in order accommodate different needs for different teams. - Event display Calendar should display an appropriate event field with possibly additional detail. I have looked at some Calendar extensions but not yet found what I am looking for. Are there any MediaWiki Calendar extensions that people here use in similar fashion and/or perhaps can recommend, or have people here built customized wiki-integrated solutions for this type of use ? The consensus could also be we need to look at alternative and perhaps more 'heavy-weight' solutions for this task. Just looking for ideas here, and appreciate your thoughts and insights, since a MediaWIki solution would be preferred. Best regards Hans

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] SHA-1 hash officially broken
by Pine W 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Forwarding info that may be of interest. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:56 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] SHA-1 hash officially broken To: Wikimedia-tech list <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Google security have announced that they have a working collision attack against the SHA-1 hash: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html It's highly recommended to move to sha-256 where doable. Note that MediaWiki uses sha-1 in a number of places; in some such as revision hashes it's advisory for tools only, but in other places like deleted files (filearchive table) we use it for addressing, and should consider steps to mitigate attacks swapping in alternate files during deletion/undeletion. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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