(1) Thanks ruud for helping in my first email. This problem is solved.
(2) My second (and at the moment last) question is:
The Media Viewer isn't available in my personal wiki. The help writes, that this feature is enabled by default but there is nothing. Making it easier for you to give me some hints, I create a public playground with exact the same settings like my personal wiki.
http://wiki.martinknaup.com/playground/index.php/Main_Page
I really like this feature and want it. So I need your help again. Thanks. Martin
Richard wrote:
>Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly
>one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one
>otherwise if someone has read them both.
Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book.
Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and development practices.
Go buy it. :-)
Where my book stands out, even today, is in coverage of the practical, big-picture issues
of planning, rolling out, and maintaining a wiki in a large, corporate environment.
(For example, see Chapter 10, "Practical wiki design.") My team at Vistaprint runs possibly
the largest and most successful corporate wiki in the U.S. if not the world.
It's 10 years old this Friday and has 250K topics, thousands of users, 100+ custom extensions,
and a full-time software development staff since its inception. So we've accumulated a lot
of wisdom, and I tried to distill some of it into the book.
FYI, my direct report, Daniel Renfro, presented on some of our work and our current
challenges at EMWcon last week.
DanB
Hello everyone,
we are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Semantic
MediaWiki 2.5.0 release: [0,1]. This is a big release bringing a lot of
new features and improvements as well as bug fixes.
## Version highlights
* Full-text search in property values introduced
Support for full-text search was added using the native capabilities of
the SQL backends "MySQL"/"MariaDB" (#1481) and "SQLite" (#1801) for the
"Text", "URL" and "Page" datatypes.
* Provenance data recording introduced
Qualifying facts using a simple provenance model is now supported
(#1808) using existing mechanisms in defining a property specification
together with a new "Reference" datatype.
* Property chain and language filter support in result printouts introduced
Property chains for conditions (e.g [[Located in.Capital of::Foo]]) was
provided for some time, and now got extended (#1824) to supporting the
syntax on print requests to retrieve values of a chain member that
represent a page node. Values of datatype "Monolingual Text" can now use
a language filter (#2037) to restrict the display of a value in a print
request.
* Edit protection for better semantic gardening introduced
Edit protection to help avoid changes to properties or other data
sensitive pages from alterations that may cause data invalidations (e.g.
change of a property type, inconsistent specifications etc.) or process
disruptions. This feature integrates with MediaWiki's page protection
functionality.
* Preferred property label support introduced
Semantic MediaWiki now supports the declaration of preferred property
labels (#1865) with the objective to show labels in a user context on
special pages, query results, and factboxes instead of the canonical
property label.
* Query result cache for better performance introduced
Caching of query results (#1251) was added as experimental feature to
minimize a possible impact of query processing during and after a page
view. This change also includes a reevaluation (#2099, #2176) of the
query hash (used as identifier) to ensure that cache fragmentation is
reduced and duplicate queries can share the same cache across different
pages.
* Links in values feature now working reliably
Support for links in values for datatype "Text" was extended by
use-cases and improved in performance as well as avoiding the former
error-prone "PCRE-approach".
* Fixed properties now a stable feature
Support for fixed properties was overhauled, fixed (#2135) and is no
longer experimental.
* Special page "SemanticMediaWiki" formerly "SMWAdmin" overhauled and
extended
Special page "SemanticMediaWiki" formerly known as special page
"SMWAdmin" was modernized and extended (#2044, etc.) including a new
configuration setting allowing for a more fine-granded control over
feature accessibilty (#2142).
See the release notes [0] for these highlights and for much more
information on the features, enhancements, changes as well as fixes this
release additionally brings to you.
## Compatibility changes
Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0 dropped support for PHP 5.4 and lower as well
as MediaWiki 1.22 and lower. See also the compatibility notes [2] for
detailed information on supported environments.
## Installing and upgrading
If you are using Semantic MediaWiki via Composer, update the version in
your "composer.json" or "composer.local.json" file to "~2.5" and run
"composer update". If you are using the tarballs, you can download them
here: [1]. Remember to also update your database afterwards by running
"update.php" due to schema changes and new database tables. If you would
like to install Semantic MediaWiki you can follow the installation
instructions: [3].
## Contributors
At this point we would like to thank all people involved making this
release possible:
James Hong Kong, Karsten Hoffmeyer, Jeroen De Dauw, Niklas Laxström,
translatewiki.net translators, Maciej Brencz, Felipe de Jong, Siebrand
Mazeland, Alex Winkler, Stephan Gambke, Toni Hermoso Pulido, Amir E.
Aharoni, Felipe Schenone, Jaider Andrade Ferreira, James Forrester,
Justin Du, Sébastien Beyou, Virginia Cepeda.
We also encourage your continued contributions: [4].
Thank you to all of you for using Semantic MediaWiki. We wish you a
pleasant time and a lot of success doing so.
- The SMW development team
[0] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_2.5.0
[1]
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/releases/tag/2.5.0
[2]
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/COM…
[3]
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/INS…
[4]
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/CONTRIBU…
I am interested in running a local instance of wikibase, but I would like a
custom interface to edit statements. It would be great if I had a form-like
interface, which, once filled out, would generate the statements. This
would be useful for editing data for a specific class of item, that all
have certain properties. In addition, I'd like to restrict possible values
for certain fields and be able to have dropdown menus. Does anything like
this exist? Is there a way to use Page Forms (i.e. Semantic MediaWiki) with
Wikibase? What is the wikidata online editing interface even called?
Thanks
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of my MediaWiki reference book,
"Working with MediaWiki", has been released. This is the only MediaWiki
reference book published since 2010, as far as I know, so it's the de facto
authoritative reference for MediaWiki - other than the contents of
mediawiki.org.
"Working with MediaWiki" was first released in 2012, and an updated version
was released in 2014, but this is the official 2nd edition.
Changes in this 2nd edition include:
- A new foreword by Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux and Funtoo Linux
- Much of the content on Semantic MediaWiki was replaced by content on the
Cargo extension, which I think is now the better solution for data storage
- Lots of other updated content to handle the various changes to the
software in the last three years.
The biggest change, though, is that the book is now available for free
online. Given MediaWiki's presence in both the open source and "open
knowledge" worlds, I'm excited to have this book be similarly freely
available.
It's also still available (at cost), though, in printed and e-book forms.
If this were six months from now, I would say that the book makes a great
holiday gift, but instead I'll say that it makes for great beach reading.
You can read more about "Working with MediaWiki" here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com
And the entire book can now be viewed here:
http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book
-Yaron
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Hi.
For a personal project I installed a fresh wiki without any extensions. I read a lot manual pages but it really hard to find help - e g community forum - when something doesn't work as described. So I hope to find some help here.
At the moment I have two problems. I start with one.
I upload an image and add a Infobox / Summary. Code is:
== {{int:filedesc}} ==
{{Information
| description=DB 798 729 und Klv 53 0749 in Bahnhof Ringelstein.
| date=2014-5-23
| author=Klaus Brockmeier
| source=Flickr
}}
But when I save the changes I see only a Link "Template:Information" for an unwritten page.
What do I wrong? Thanks, Martin
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
Hello all,
I don't think anyone has shared this news and I'm personally very excited
for this new role. The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Product Manger for
MediaWiki. Maybe you've heard of it? :)
Seriously though, this is a pretty unique opportunity and I hope folks who
are interested will consider applying.
There's more information about the position at the following link:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/613548?gh_src=1u385n1#.WLl6V4hi…
Yours,
Chris K.
''Sent in my volunteer capacity, but I disclose I work for the WMF''