MediaWiki-l May 2018

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by Thomas U. Grüttmüller

Hello all, I’d like to bring up a new aspect into the GDPR debate: From what I’ve heard, the rules about personal data are less strict when the data is stored and processed in order to fulfil a contract. For example, in this case, deletion requests would be void. Now many wikis demand in their TOS that all contributions are licensed under a specific license (e.g. CC-BY-SA), and that license is indeed a contract. Greetings, Thomas

5 years

Is it possible to store uploads encrypted?

by Stephan Gambke

To prevent unauthorized access I may have to ensure that uploaded files are stored encrypted. Wiki pages themselves are less critical, and may remain in clear text. The scenario is a relatively small wiki (30,000 pages, 10,000 files, but only 27 users) on a virtual server where I have full remote root access. The host of the virtual machine is not under my control. - Is there any obvious problem that makes this conceptionally impossible? - Is anybody already doing this or working in that direction? - What could be viable approaches and what limitations would there be? I know, it's a rather broad topic. Still, any pointers would be welcome. Cheers Stephan

5 years

Is it possible to re-introduce "pageviews" and "PopularPages" in MediaWiki (in any hackish way) - or go with an install of 1.24?

by Morten Blaabjerg

I am building a proof of concept site, which will at a later stage, if it works the way I intend, be rebuilt from scratch and up. I wanted to use MediaWiki for this project, because of the speed by which it is possible to create a lot of articles in a short amount of time, and it has some cool statistics and special pages too to manage things, and I simply love the template functionality too. However, upon installing, I was surprised to learn, that the "pageviews" and "special:popularpages" was gone from the mediawiki from 1.25 onward, and I had great trouble installing 1.24 which was the last version with this functionality, because no skins were included with the old version, and I failed in finding compatible skins for this version, despite spending most of an evening online searching. On the official repository I can find only skins compatible back to 1.27. I would like to use a modern skin which is compatible with 1.24, or the other way around, re-introduce the "pageviews" and "popularpages" functionality into the current mw version, via an extension, if possible. I don't want to go all the way to install google analytics. I just need the simple indication of how many times a page was asked for by a browser, and the accumulative results shown in the "special:popularpages" special page. What is the best way to achieve that? I can understand the functionality removal was done with some dissent, so maybe someone already made an extension for this functionality, or would it be comparatively easy to build one by oneself (since the code already exists, I assume). This is for a small mediawiki project, with just 1 editor, and no signups for anyone else, so I intend to use raw html in wiki pages as well. So I would have no problem using a workaround - say putting some code in a template which is then in turn loaded in every page. But of course, it would be more easy to have it as part of the footer as it used to be. Thanks in advance for any help in guiding me in the right direction. Venlige hilsener, Morten Blaabjerg mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com

5 years

Calling the API from within an extension's own API module

by George, Garrett J. (JSC-CB111)[SGT, INC]

Hey all, I'm currently building an api module to act as a pseudo backend for and standalone application and I'm trying to call the api for editing pages. I could use the cURL PHP library to make an HTTP request but that seems silly given that the extension's PHP is already being run within wiki. I know with Cargo I could do something like "CargoQuery::run(...)" but in the case of MW's default "api.php" I'm unsure of how to do it. Thanks, Garrett

5 years

New Between the Brackets episode: Kunal Mehta

by Yaron Koren

Hi, A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets is out, this one an interview with WMF developer Kunal Mehta (also known as legoktm). You can listen to it here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-9-kunal-mehta -Yaron

5 years

Sane way to add a GoogleAnalytics Opt-Out?

by [[kgh]]

Heiya, is there a sane way to add a GoogleAnalytics Opt-Out to a wiki page like the privacy policy page? Currently I add the resprecitve script to the wiki using the PCR GUI Inserts extension [0] and then I call the script on a page via the HTMLTags extension [1]. Currently this works somehow but not in 100% of the cases the opt-out cookie is set. (Sidenote: Obviously the respective wiki is not publicly editable.) I am wondering if there is an extension or setup what can do this better? A specialized extension I am currently not aware of or perhaps the Widgets extension [2] or ...? I feel like doing the wrong thing for the right reason. Help or suggestions much appreciated! I am sure that I am not the only one in need to do this. Cheers, Karsten [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PCR_GUI_Inserts [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HTML_Tags [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets

5 years

Mariadb version requirement

by Peter Presland

I am considering upgrading to MW 1.3. Before I do I need to be sure about the MariaDB version requirements but they are not listed in the 'compatibility' section of the MW site here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.30#Compatibility . Can anyone tell me what the min version of MariaDB for MW 1.30.0 is please? There is also a lack of MariaDB info in the compatibility sections of a number of the earlier MW releases. I suggest it might be helpful to address this. Peter P

5 years

HTTP ERROR 500" error on "&redirect=no" link

by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000)

Hey guys, I have a fresh install of MW 1.30 on a RHEL7 system that works great in every way except that clicking on a redirect link (page with &redirect=no) results in an Apache "HTTP ERROR 500" error. The page actually redirects fine when visited normally. The problem is only when I try to click on the page link page which suppresses the actual redirect function (ala the &redirect=no parameter). Interestingly... through tinkering in MySQL, I have discovered that if I set the wiki database "page" table column "page_is_redirect" from '1' to '0' the page works fine (albeit with no redirect). So the suppressed redirect ability is possible. My guess is that some php code parses the "redirect=no" data from the URL and masks the value of the "page_is_redirect" to "0" no matter what value it actually is.. So what could cause this "HTTP ERROR 500" error then? Everything else works perfectly. What file or folder would be unique to a link processed with a "&redirect=no" in the URL? Thanks! -Rich

5 years

EU’s GDPR and MediaWiki

by Tom

Hey Everyone Is there any roadmap for MediaWiki that addresses the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) being enforced as of 28 May 2018? Mainly addressing user registration on websites and holding what the EU deems personally identifiable information of EU residents such as usernames, real names, email addresses, etc. A method to prove consent such as a checkbox for Terms of Service and the date consent was given. From the read of GDPR, it effects any company or organization (even those outside the EU) who store data on someone living in the EU. Tom

5 years

Running SMW ask queries from extension's own PHP

by George, Garrett J. (JSC-CB111)[SGT, INC]

Hey all, I'm currently working on an api module for neatly packaging together multiple SMW ask api calls to allow for a frontend to make 1 HHTP request and get all the necessary data. However, I'm unsure of how to call the SMW ask api from an extension's api module. I know the basic structure of an API module but not how to call local php from within local php. Is it simply a matter of doing "use SMW_XYZ" at the top of my api module? Thanks, Garrett

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