I have been asked by my organization if it is possible to use Mediawiki as a way to display and collaboratively discuss images from an old local file store while maintaining the original folder structure on the image directory tree.
To that end, I have been reading the talk page of the MW manual for $wgForeignFileRepos [0] and it is clear to me that this has been attempted with some success as far back as 2011.
* I know that I can turn off the hashed upload directory feature with $wgHashedUploadDirectory, but it is not clear to me what progress has been made (if any) on allowing domain admins to add files to a foreign upload folder and then running some kind of image repair maintenance script that would update the mediawiki db file table with all the images found in the upload folder and keeping the structured directories in-tact.
My question is: Does anyone have any updated insights or experience on doing this (or something similar)? Or is the talk page content from 2011 still the best source of information on using MediaWiki in this way?
Thank you.
-Rich
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgForeignFileRepos#FSRepo
Hello all,
The candidate slates has been deemed finalized.
Thanks to the new candidates joining the committee to support
this important mission, sustaining our code of conduct.
We didn't receive a lot of candidatures this session, so we'd like
to ask you to think for the next months if you would like to serve
in the 2019 half I committee, and to be ready in October to join
the boat.
[ Candidates URL ]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I
This page will be moved to the members page when the new committee
will enter in function after a training period for new members.
[ Procedure ]
We haven't received any feedback to techconduct (at) twikimedia.org
related to one or another candidate.
In addition to the procedure the Code of Conduct provides, we also
received additional comments at [[mw:Talk:Code of
Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I]] and consider these comments
party addressed and partly to solve in the next weeks, and unrelated
to the current candidates.
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Dear all,
I'd like to have a very simple solution to sharing user tables and session data between two mediawiki installations on the same webhost.
Feature 1: Users that log in into wiki B and already have user credentials in wiki A can use the same credentials (wiki A is the master, wiki B the "slave" wiki)
Feature 2: Users that are currently logged in into wiki A should be logged in in wiki B without additional login-procedure
The shared database instruction seems not to be very up to date: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Shared_database
It leads to the documentation about SessionManager and AuthManager of MW 1.27.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:SessionManager_and_AuthManager
But now it seems to get really complicated.
Can someone show me a very simple example on how to do this in two MW 1.27.x installations on the same webhost? Wiki A in my example already exists. Now I want to setup wiki B (in a separate database, but on the same webhost) and would appreciate a simple way to do this.
cheers,
Bernhard
Is there a global variable that sets the target of the site url?
The default is of course "Main Page", but I would like to point it to my server's host name. Is this a simple edit in Localhost.php?
-Rich
Getting the following errors as shown in the apache log, when trying to
access the php file from the url its throwing a 500 error
PHP Fatal error: Interface 'LocalisationUpdate\\Reader' not found
PHP Fatal error: Class 'ApiBase' not found
ProductVersion
MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.27.0
PHP <https://php.net/> 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17 (apache2handler)
MySQL <https://www.mysql.com/> 5.5.49-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ICU <http://site.icu-project.org/> 52.1
Lua <http://www.lua.org/> 5.1.5
Any ideas on what could be driving this?
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The only documentation I can find about what is "required" for MW is about
what is required to install it, not what is required to use it.
MW uses JS in many places, and in some of those it also has backward
compatibility for no-script users, but is that always the case? Does MW
strive to be completely functional for those who disable JS?
The question is raised because in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192241
as we expanded the reliance of one of the MW extensions (namely
AbuseFilter) on JS, we got some push back. Note that AbuseFilter also
doesn't officially announce it requires JS even though it already contains
code that would not work with JS. We are considering making JS an official
requirement for AbuseFilter and would like to know how MW core approaches
the same question.
Huji
Hi everyone,
A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets" is out - this
one is an interview with Daren Welsh and James Montalvo of NASA's
Extravehicular Activity (EVA) group, who have been running MediaWiki at
their group, and elsewhere at NASA's Johnson Space Center, since 2011.
You can listen to it here:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-6-daren-welsh-and-james-montal…
-Yaron
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Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.29 and 1.30 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-2018.04.tar…
* sha256sum: e8b4da822b2dcc7906e444a65e8924d8505c028c8636cdfe8d38059dc9ef1d1c
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, cldr, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Localization and maintenance updates.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed compatibility with MediaWiki 1.29 release.
* Added the 'translate' right to the 'editpage' grant. This will allow
OAuth apps to translate.
* Translation variables can now span multiple lines.
* AndroidXml file format now includes authors.
* Maintenance and performance updates.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed Ctrl-Clicking in Compact Language Links. ([[phab:T189582|T189582]])
* ULS trigger and settings are more keyboard accessible now.
([[phab:T52793|T52793]])
* Language search results are not grouped by region.
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