MediaWiki-l June 2018

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 177, Issue 11
by kevin zhang 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Out of curiosity, why is the sidebar getting replaced by a blank sidebar for private wikis not automatic yet requires hacks? Doesn't seem particularly difficult to merge into core...setting read access hides the wiki content yet left the sidebar exposed... On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 8:01 AM <mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to > mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mediawiki-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Sidebar hacks for Timeless (Samuel Walker) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:38:31 -0400 > From: Samuel Walker <samueledwardwalker3(a)gmail.com> > To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Sidebar hacks for Timeless > Message-ID: > <CAEQSh_OZK4= > 457zH9xLW3osD1rqY-gdJdhcpJRs9X242Xs4z1Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi, does anyone know how to make this sidebar hack work in Timeless? > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar/Hacks > > Or is there another hack that can accomplish the same thing in Timeless > (making the sidebar blank for non-logged-in users, to protect the privacy > of a non-public wiki)? Thanks. -Sam > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 177, Issue 11 > ******************************************** >

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Sidebar hacks for Timeless
by Samuel Walker 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi, does anyone know how to make this sidebar hack work in Timeless? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar/Hacks Or is there another hack that can accomplish the same thing in Timeless (making the sidebar blank for non-logged-in users, to protect the privacy of a non-public wiki)? Thanks. -Sam

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade to MW 1.31.0 fails on maintenance/update.php
by Jeff Darlington 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Some follow-up investigation on my part, in regard to my previous post [0]. (Apologies from not simply replying to it and if that screws up threading in the list archives; it looks like my mail is a bit screwy at the moment.) I forgot to include that my PHP version is 7.1.18. Assuming that maintenance/update.php is blowing up at the "Adding ipb_id field to table ipblocks" step (since that's where the useful output appeared to stop), I tried to do some digging into where this might be occurring. I found several scripts under maintenance/archives (assuming this is the path for MySQL/MariaDB scripts, since other paths seem to indicate other RDBMSes) where field "ipb_id" was being added to table "ipblocks". I then took a look at DB backup that I took immediately before attempting the upgrade. Sure enough, column "ipb_id" already exists on table "ipblocks" in my MW 1.30.0 DB. I'm beginning to wonder if the MW 1.31.0 update.php script is attempting to ALTER ipblocks to add ipb_id when it already exists, causing the entire script to bomb. Unfortunately, it looks like update.php is a infinitely spiraling nest of dependencies and call-backs, so I doubt I'll have time to dig any deeper than that. [0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2018-June/047511.html Jeffrey T. Darlington General Protection Fault https://www.gpf-comics.com/

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Between the Brackets episode 10: Ben Fletcher
by Yaron Koren 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi, A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets" is out - this time, an interview with Ben Fletcher, a systems architect who is in charge of MediaWiki at the UK Ministry of Defence. You can listen to the podcast here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-10-ben-fletcher -Yaron

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git review warnings
by Huji Lee 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Every time I submit a patch to gerrit using the git review command, I get two warning messages that I ignore. I just want to make sure that I can continue to safely ignore them (or else, how to get rid of them). The first one says: Using global/system git-review config files (/etc/git-review/git-review.conf) is deprecated The second one says: remote: Pushing to refs/publish/* is deprecated, use refs/for/* instead. Thanks, Huji

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Best way to download versions of extensions for MW 1.24?
by Morten Blaabjerg 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Is it possible to download for instance this version of Cite : https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/… - via the browser, as a zipped file to place on the server? I know this version of MW is unsupported. Just want to know if there is a straightforward way to access compatible versions of extensions I'd like to use. This is for a small wiki edited and hacked by one individual only - myself. Thanks in advance for any help or guidance on this ! :-) Venlige hilsener, Morten Blaabjerg mortenblaabjerg(a)gmail.com

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A monthly digest mail about latest stuff in MediaWiki extensions
by Nischay Nahata 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi All, I always notice that our open source work around MediaWiki does not reach everyone and similarly its difficult to find what awesome work someone else has done.The only way we find extensions currently is through a web search. Therefore, I am planning to start a monthly digest email with all the new stuff - extensions, feature additions, scripts, etc. This can only be done collaboratively. So I have created a new page on mediawiki.org [1] where anyone can add their work and after a while it gets published here in the digest mail. I have already added some of my recent projects. I am hopeful that other developers/users find this useful, your comments (and help) are welcome :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Whats_New Regards, Nischay Nahata

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Requesting modifications to the CSS standards
by Huji Lee 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

I know this is not the ideal place to ask this, but I am hoping that someone among the listserv users has some knowledge on how to make a proposal to W3.org about modifications in the CSS standard. Namely, the list-style-type property[1] in CSS has values like "lower-alpha" and "hebrew" and "persian", and I would like to propose a new value "persian-alpha" which would be the alphabetical ordering of lists in Persian (commonly used in books for footnotes). But I don't know where to start. Please advise! Huji [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/list-style-type

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sessions dropped with Auth_remoteuser
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Hi! .. Could someone help decide if the work around is for a known issue with the extension: Auth-Remoteuser [0] is valid for MW-1.30 I'm running an Enterprise MW 1.30 on RHEL7 with CA Policy Agent on Apache as the enterprise access control mechanism and I'm having the exact problem that has been described here [1] as the "First Save Bug" However, that issue is from the mid-2000's and I'm not having any luck contacting the original posters about the workaround solution they described as: Try adding: ``` if( !isset( $_COOKIE[session_name()] ) ) { User::SetupSession(); } ``` in front of the $wg->isLoggedIn() and see if that helps. (presumably in the mediawiki file "User.php") I'm eager to solve this issue I'm having [2] and think this might be a solution, but I could use some expert insight. Thanks and Happy Friday! -Rich [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Auth_remoteuser [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Otheus/Auto_Login_via_REMOTE_USER… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Auth_remoteuser#Sessions_drop…

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