MediaWiki-l July 2018

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New "Between the Brackets" episode: Remco de Boer
by Yaron Koren 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi everyone, Episode #13 of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets" has been released; this one is an interview with Remco de Boer of the Dutch consulting company ArchiXL, which makes significant use of MediaWiki in its projects. You can find and listen to the episode here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-13-remco-de-boer -Yaron

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How to convert WikiText to Plain Tex
by Nikhil Prakash 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi There, I'm searching for some efficient way to convert the WikiText of the downloaded data dumps(in XML) to plain text. I basically need plain text of each and every revision of Wikipedia articles. Therefore, it would be very helpful if you can tell me about some library or some piece of code(bunch of regex) to convert WikiText to Plain Text. BTW, I write my code in Python! Thanks.

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How to delete erroneous file 'Common.css'?
by Sharon Kimble 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

I'm setting up 2 localhost-only wikis for development purposes and trying out new ideas. One called 'wiki-drugfacts' and the other called 'wiki-tgmeds'. They both share the same mariadb database although 'wiki-tgmeds' does have a prefix of 'tg-' first in the database. whilst endeavouring to set up 'common.css' like I already have on my main 'DrugFacts' website, it is working on 'wiki-drugfacts' but not on 'wiki-tgmeds'. It seems very likely that I have set up 'http://localhost/wiki-tgmeds/index.php/Common.css' but now I can't delete it. So how can I securely delete it please? I've looked at these pages [1], [2], and [3] and they all seem to imply that I need to be in the 'administrator' or 'sysop' user groups. so I've looked at all possible variations of user/root setup of wiki-tgmeds to see if I can change the user permission for myself, but without any success at all. I'm now coming to the belief that it possibly relates to how I set up wiki-tgmeds. I set up wiki-drugfacts and got it working as I wanted, and then I created the wiki-tgmeds directory at /var/www/html/wiki-tgmeds and then proceeded to manually populate the directory with an install of the mediawiki files, from when I expanded and extracted 'mediawiki-1.31.0.tar.gz'. I found the site on localhost in my browser and then just proceeded to create a new 'LocalSettings.php'. And once the site was up and running I created one article but wasn't able to get the text to wrap around the TOC, which started me off on my quest to get 'Common.css' working properly. So to recap, how can I delete the erroneous 'Commons.css' file on wiki-tgmeds' please Thanks Sharon. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deletion_and_undeletion [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators#Deletion -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 9.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.3.2, org 9.1.13

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] New extension, VEForAll, enables VisualEditor for use in other textareas
by יגאל חיטרון 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hello and thank you. Does it mean I can add some code to my user common.js, so that VE will work in edit window on all namespaces? Igal (User:IKhitron) On Jul 18, 2018 03:29, "Yaron Koren" <yaron(a)wikiworks.com> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension: VEForAll. Its name stands for "VisualEditor For All", and it provides something that some people have been asking about for a long time - a way to incorporate the VisualEditor interface into textarea inputs other than the one in the standard VisualEditor tab. The VEForAll extension works by providing a JavaScript function that, when called on a textarea input, adds the VisualEditor interface to it (if the VisualEditor extension is already installed). So the extension itself doesn't actually do anything - instead, it provides an API for other extensions to use. At the moment, two extensions can already make use of VEForAll if it's there: CommentStreams and Page Forms. (You need to use the latest version of either extension to get it working.) You can read more about VEForAll, and download it, here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VEForAll This extension has five credited authors, although most of the credit goes to the first two: Pierre Boutet and Clément Flipo of the consulting company Dokit, and the site Wikifab. I feel like I should give both the company and site a plug, in their honor: http://www.dokit.io/en/about-us https://wikifab.org/wiki/Accueil Please feel free to try out the extension, and let us know on the talk page if you run into any problems. -Yaron _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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New extension, VEForAll, enables VisualEditor for use in other textareas
by Yaron Koren 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi everyone, I'm very excited to announce the release of a new MediaWiki extension: VEForAll. Its name stands for "VisualEditor For All", and it provides something that some people have been asking about for a long time - a way to incorporate the VisualEditor interface into textarea inputs other than the one in the standard VisualEditor tab. The VEForAll extension works by providing a JavaScript function that, when called on a textarea input, adds the VisualEditor interface to it (if the VisualEditor extension is already installed). So the extension itself doesn't actually do anything - instead, it provides an API for other extensions to use. At the moment, two extensions can already make use of VEForAll if it's there: CommentStreams and Page Forms. (You need to use the latest version of either extension to get it working.) You can read more about VEForAll, and download it, here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VEForAll This extension has five credited authors, although most of the credit goes to the first two: Pierre Boutet and Clément Flipo of the consulting company Dokit, and the site Wikifab. I feel like I should give both the company and site a plug, in their honor: http://www.dokit.io/en/about-us https://wikifab.org/wiki/Accueil Please feel free to try out the extension, and let us know on the talk page if you run into any problems. -Yaron

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Office 365 Compatibility
by Krishna Thanki 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hello, I am writing to you on behalf of the Leicestershire County Council regarding your software MediaWiki. We are currently in the process of moving to Office 365 Pro Plus and we would like to know if your application would still be working once these changes are made. Please can you confirm whether Office 365 Pro Plus is compatible with your application? Thank you, Krishna Thanki | Assistant Technical Specialist Information and Technology Services | Applications Management | Development Team 2 Corporate Resources | Leicestershire County Council | Tel 0116 305 4041 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received. Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with Leicestershire County Council's policy on the use of electronic communications. The contents of e-mails may have to be disclosed for requests under Data Protection or Freedom of Information legislation. The views expressed by the author may not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Leicestershire County Council. Attachments to e-mail messages may contain viruses that may damage your system. Whilst Leicestershire County Council has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept any liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of these factors. You are advised to carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.

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Lua/Scribunto
by Stephan Gambke 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

I have been playing with Scribunto recently and the one thing that struck me as odd was that Lua has a number of methods like table.foo or string.foo, but I did not find any factory module leveraging these methods to provide someting more intuitive like someTable:foo or someString:foo. Is it just not worth it or did I miss anything? Stephan

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About $wgEnableDnsBlacklist set to true
by [[kgh]] 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Heiya, I configured a wiki to use`$wgEnableDnsBlacklist = true;` (also added "$wgDnsBlacklistUrls"). So far so good. Now I have the situation that a user (with sysop permission) cannot log into the wiki because the respective IP-address was blocked. Is there a permission or setting, etc. that will allow me to get the user on board again without having to disable DNS blacklist checks? It is not the "ipblock-exempt" or "proxyunbannable" permissions with the latter not available any more anyways. Thanks for your time. Cheers Karsten

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Tables in #info tooltips text
by Jethro Waanders 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

We use tooltips with the fields in the MediaWiki forms using #info <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Adding_tooltips> tooltips. Now we want to use tables in the tooltip text. Manual page says it's not possible ("There is limited support for wikitext formatting such as bold, italics and internal links. No paragraphs, tables, lists or any other *block* elements are allowed"). Is there another way to do this? Thanks for your reply. Cheers, Jethro

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hide talk namespaces from "Special:Search" Advanced
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I use Flow (Structured Discussions) on all of my Talk namespaces. My understanding is that Flow discussions are not text searchable using the mediawiki search tool. Is there a way to eliminate the talk namespaces from the list of namespaces that result when you select "Advanced" on the "Special:Search" page? -Rich

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