MediaWiki-l April 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

Lis ton message de Nganguem Victor avant qu'il ne soit effacé! Pour lire ton message, suis simplement ce lien: http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 D'autres personnes sont aussi présentes: Oded (Tel Aviv, Israël) Priya (Udaipur, Inde) RajaYogi BK (Udaipur, Inde) Karuna (Udaipur, Inde) Chika Reginald Onyia (Pnompen', Cambodge) ...Qui d'autre? http://eu1.badoo.com/chatnoirxx/in/p4hxwt052ok/?lang_id=6 Les liens ne fonctionnent pas dans ce message? Copie les dans la barre d'adresse de ton navigateur. Tu as reçu cet email suite à un message envoyé par Nganguem Victor de notre système. S'il s'agit d'une erreur, ignore simplement cet email. La requête sera alors effacée du système. Amuse-toi bien ! L'équipe Badoo Courrier automatique de Badoo suite à l'envoi d'un message à ton attention sur Badoo. Les réponses ne sont ni stockées, ni traitées. Si tu ne veux plus recevoir de message de Badoo, fais-le nous savoir: http://eu1.badoo.com/impersonation.phtml?lang_id=6&mail_code=65&email=media…

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MediaWiki mailing list emails exposed to potential spam
by ahmadfarooq123＠gmail.com 09 May '17

09 May '17

Even if the email addresses can’t be removed, I was hoping they could at-least be automatically transformed into images or with “at” replacements in the address. Similar transformation is performed at other places on gossamer threads’ archives, it should be possible to do it in the “From” area of message bodies too. In fact, the archives site even has the following in their FAQ: Q. How do you protect users email addresses from harvesters? A. We make every effort to stop people from harvesting emails from the site. Currently, we encode, strip and transform all email addresses we can find (including parsing the message body for emails that show up in forwards). The only place the email address is viewable is by clicking on the user, and we embed the email in an image to prevent harvesting. I tried contacting them through https://www.gossamer-threads.com/contact/, but didn’t get a reply. I was hoping if someone from the Wikimedia foundation contacted them, they would be more motivated to reply back. Regards,

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Keeps saying A LocalSettings.php file has been detected.
by Andrius D. Ilgunas 02 May '17

02 May '17

But I don't *HAVE* a LocalSetting.php file yet. This happens either when I do a "git clone/composer update" install, or a vanilla "tarball/extract" install. I hit up http://mysite.dev/mw-config/index.php, and it dutifully reports that: MediaWiki 1.28.1 LocalSettings.php not found. Please complete the installation <http://mysite.dev/mw-config/index.php> and download LocalSettings.php. But on the page following it errors out with: A LocalSettings.php file has been detected. To upgrade this installation, please enter the value of $wgUpgradeKey in the box below. You will find it in LocalSettings.php. Installer be crazy. I've cleared my cache, used a different browser, erased the ~/.composer directory, deleted the directory/tried again and various combinations of trying to "reset" this, but I'm still prompted with the error. Occasionally, though, I run across this error too: *Fatal error*: Class 'ComposerAutoloaderInit_mediawiki_vendor' not found in */usr/local/www/wiki/vendor/autoload.php* on line *7* Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this? -- Andrius

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SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi in latest tarball does not include security fixes
by Brian Wolff 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

Hello everyone. Unfortunately there's been a mistake in generating the 1.28.1 and 1.27.2 tarball releases, where the wrong version of SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension was included. The version of this extension that was included has publically known severe security issues in it. Until such a time as a new release is issued (which will hopefully be soon) I reccomend that people either disable that extension or download a new version from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/SyntaxHighlight… . The version of this extension in git, or from extension distributor is fine. Only the version in the most recent tarball is wrong. The rest of the release is also fine. The 1.23.16 and 1.23.17 release was not affected by this issue. Sorry for the confusion, -- Brian

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.04 release
by Kartik Mistry 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2017.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and 1.28 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2017.04.tar… * sha256sum: 4207398d7ed3ea9c793f35f88e75f29672b33aee4d0baf01afc869517c629c65 Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == == Babel == * TTO fixed disappearing language names on Category: and File: pages. == CLDR == * Reedy updated to CLDR 31. == CleanChanges, LocalisationUpdate == * Localisation updates only. == Translate == * Bartosz Dziewoński fixed "Mark as reviewed" tooltip positioning. * David Causse added support for Elastic5, Multi-DC for TTMServices, freezing writes. * Federico Leva fixed import of the new translations in Special:ImportTranslations. * Geoffrey Mon added insertables suggester class for $1, $2 and allow multiple suggesters. * MarcoAurelio modified log message to match with all other logs listed in Special:Log. * Niklas Laxström added support to allow moving all pages for translation admins (translate-manage). * TTO updated translator-stats to account for expiring user groups. * datguy added confirmation box in Special:ManageTranslatorSandbox when approving or rejecting a translator. (T60706) == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Bartosz Dziewoński fixed language change tooltip position. (T161203) * Niklas Laxström added link to Compact Language Links info page in the beta feature description. * Niklas Laxström fixed broken site picks feature for Compact Language Links. (T157344) === Fonts === * Kartik Mistry added Sundanese (su) font. (T162221) === Input methods === * Amir Aharoni fixed name of Arabic keyboard. * Amir Aharoni and Felix Nartey added keyboard for Ga language. * Amir Aharoni added Akan keyboard also for Twi language. * fgaim added new IMEs for Eritrean languages: Tigrinya (ti), Tigre (tig), Blin (byn). * WikiDiscoverer fixed autonym for Gõychi Konknni (gom) language. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Mediawiki Citation Tool Template fields won't show up after fulfilling all steps
by Atef Wagih 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hi, Referring to the steps provided in this article here on how to enable the citation templates in the Visual Editor menus, I followed all the steps written in this article, and imported all the necessary components, including the CS1 component. Also, I edited the template page and saved it, as per the reported bug in the troubleshooting section. I even added the templatedata lines from the /doc to the main template page to test it, then removed it again. I also ran the jobqueue to make sure that there are no jobs waiting. However, all this did not lead to any improvement. When I click on any citation component, I get this message: "The "Template:Cite book" template doesn't yet have a description, but there might be some information on the template's page." When I try to add a generic field, I get the following error: "lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Suggestions' not found." I understand that I don't have suggestion in the /CS1/Suggestion page, but I should not need suggestions anyway if the fields show. Also, If I clicked insert / template then searched for the "Cite: Book", and clicked "Add Template", I will still get this message: "The "Template:Cite book" template doesn't yet have a description, but there might be some information on the template's page." I added my question first to the page discussion here, but could not get an answer:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Citation_tool#Templ… What shall I do to solve this problem? thank you very much, Kind Regards,Atef RaoufThe Coptic Treasures Project

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Setting up a MediaWiki installation on Azure or AWS
by Pine W 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hello, Has anyone set up a MediaWiki installation on Azure or AWS? It's possible that I'll set up a new MediaWiki installation this summer, and using Azure or AWS are possible, so I'd be interested to hear about others' experiences. Links to relevant blog posts or other resources would be of interest. Thanks, Pine

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