MediaWiki-l September 2017

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

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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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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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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Breaking changes in the Maps extension
by Jeroen De Dauw 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

Hey users of the Maps extension, I'd like to get your input on making breaking changes in the Maps extension [0]. With breaking changes I mean those that remove existing functionality or those that change it in some way that they will behave differently or be broken if you as a user do not take action to migrate. Are there any features that you think are not worth the confusion they cause? Are features you do like confusing to use, perhaps because of something like badly named parameters? In either case, please write me, and perhaps I'll add this to the list of things to be removed or changed. These are the breaking changes already made for the 5.0 release, to give you an idea: * Removed geoservice parameters from the #display_map parser function * Removed geoservice and allowcoordinates parameters from the #geocode parser function * Removed mappingservice and geoservice parameters from the #geodistance parser function * Removed mappingservice, geoservice and allowcoordinates params from the #finddestination parser function * Removed geoservice parameter from the SMW result formats * Removed service parameter from the geocode API module * Removed egMapsUserGeoOverrides setting * Removed egMapsAvailableGeoServices setting * Removed egMapsAllowCoordsGeocoding setting * Removed support for the GeocoderUS geocoding service as it appears to have shut down Only the major releases of Maps (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc) contain breaking changes. This is why I'm now looking for good candidates to put in the 5.0, as after this release it won't be possible to make such changes for a year or so. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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how to automate "edit with form and save" on all articles
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Hi. I set my FILE namespace to have a default form to edit with which adds semantic properties with default values based on the article name. The problem is that when I upload a file, the upload process doesn't use the form. (There is also the problem that hundreds of legacy files need to go through the "edit with form and save" steps to get the semantic properties set with their default values. My question is --- is the a maintenance script I can run that will automate the task of "editing with form" and then "save" for each article without me having to visit each article? An alternate question is --- is there a non-SMW way to include an in-page, in-line image gallery that is the result of a keyword search for the image and file article names? better way to get searchable semantic properties with default Thank you! -Rich

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] extension to get Mediawiki version in copy/paste text form for support
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Gotcha.. I made a file called “mw-version.php file in /var/www/html/ with the following php: <?php $url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w"; $p = xml_parser_create(); xml_parse_into_struct($p, file_get_contents($url."/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=extensions&format=xml"), $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($p); $i=0; foreach($vals as $item) { foreach(explode(",", var_export($item, true)) as $mytext) { if( (strstr($mytext,"'NAME'")) || (strstr($mytext,"'VERSION'")) ) { $mytext = str_replace("'","",$mytext); $mytext = str_replace("\n","",$mytext); $mytext = str_replace("NAME => ","",$mytext); $mytext = str_replace(" VERSION => "," = ",$mytext); print($mytext); } } $i++;print("<br/>\n".$i." - "); } ?> And it did essentially what I wanted Thanks! -Rich

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Scribunto module for finding group membership
by John 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

I am contemplating an issue for a private wiki, do we have a way for scribunto lookup what groups a user is in and then display that? Ideally this would interface with semantic mediawiki to #set the rights parameter on the user page of the given user.

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SMWCon Fall 2017 news: program and schedule are now online
by Rutledge, Lloyd 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

**News: The program and schedule are now online** Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis, We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki Conference: Dates: October 4th to October 6th 2017 (Wednesday to Friday). Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), Rotterdam, the Netherlands Conference page: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2017 Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business representatives, researchers. SMWCon Fall 2017 will be supported by ArchiXL B.V. [0], Wikibase Solutions [1], The Open University in the Netherlands [2] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [3]. Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial and workshop day preceding two conference days. Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already informally register on the conference page, although a formal registration will later be needed. Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the conference please go to the conference page and add your talk there. To create an attractive program for the conference, we will later ask you to give further information about your proposals. Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics: Applications of semantic wikis: Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management Exchange on business models with semantic wikis Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or their extensions Semantic wikis in e-science, e-humanities, e-learning, e-health, e-government Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis Challenges and obstacles for semantic wikis in business environments Development of semantic wikis: Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic MediaWiki Improving user experience in a semantic wiki Speeding up semantic wikis Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other applications and mashups Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules, formulas etc. Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis Multilingual semantic wikis For questions about sponsorship opportunities, please do not hesitate to contact Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad at wikibase.nl>. Hope to see you in Rotterdam! Remco de Boer, Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst, Lloyd Rutledge, Erwin Oord, Ad Strack van Schijndel (The Organizing Committee) [0] http://www.archixl.nl/en/ [1] http://www.wikibase.nl/ [2] https://www.ou.nl/ [3] https://opensemanticdata.org/

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The [Maniphest] [Created] emails
by Huji Lee 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Very often, I get an email from Phabricator titled "[Maniphest] [Created] ..." when in fact, it is *not* a notification about the creation of a task. It may be a notification about addition of a comment, for instance. But other times, the same kind of even results in an email titled "[Maniphest] [Commented On] ..." which makes a ton more sense. I have also seen other such emails with titles that don't represent the action they are notifying about (e.g. someone changes a task's placement on a workboard and I get a "Created" email, etc.) Is this a known bug of Phabricator? Huji

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