MediaWiki-l March 2019

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 28 Feb '26

28 Feb '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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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding a row of logos to the mediawiki.org
by Jan Steinman 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

As a not-for-profit, we currently do this as a way of thanking those whose software we use, or who have provided us some freebie: http://www.EcoReality.org I believe I had to hack the default skin. Let me know if you’d like the details. Jan

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Special:Notifications issue
by Jeremi Plazas 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi everyone, Having some issues with Special:Notifications. The Recent activity box spins indefinitely with the message: Pages with unread notifications On the right it says 50 notifications And underneath: Failed to fetch notifications. Not sure what the problem is. We’ve tried reinstalling Echo, running the update script, etc. Any clues? Specs: MediaWiki 1.29.2 PHP 7.0.33 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.6.42-log ICU 50.1.2 Elasticsearch 5.3.3 Echo – (a3fd1af) 16:11, April 26, 2017 Thanks Jeremi Plazas keisuru(a)gmail.com

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Adding a row of logos to the mediawiki.org front page
by Yaron Koren 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi, There's currently an effort in place to redesign the front page of the MediaWiki website, mediawiki.org. You can see the current proposed layout here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_improvements_2018/Proposal I think it would be great to add to the front page somewhere - probably near the bottom - a row of logos showing some of the largest companies and organizations currently using MediaWiki. I probably don't need to link to an example of such a thing, because they're so common on the websites of software projects (both open-source and proprietary), but here's an example on the front page of the XWiki website - the set of gray logos starting with EMC: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome Such a row of logos would provide some important information that is currently not to be found anywhere on mediawiki.org, as far as I know: that MediaWiki is being used by some of the biggest and most important companies and organizations in the world. Specifically, the list of logos that I think should be displayed would be: Boeing, GE, NASA, NATO, SAP and Toshiba. These are all organizations that currently make substantial use of MediaWiki, and that I think would be willing to let us display their logo. And they're all very large organizations, i.e. with over 15,000 employees in all these cases, I believe; some have much more than that. (If some of these aren't willing to have their logo on the MediaWiki homepage, I think even just displaying 4 or 5 of these would be fine. And there are potentially other companies that could take the place of these if necessary, like Philips and Intel, though I'm less sure that those two are still using MediaWiki.) I don't know if other people agree that this would be a good idea. Personally, I think a simple row like this could provide more of a marketing boost than anything else on mediawiki.org at the moment. That's in large part because the marketing-type language on mediawiki.org is rather tepid, like this page, which actually has more items under "Disadvantages of wikis" than "Advantages of wikis": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Deciding_whether_to_use_a_wiki_as_you… Now, we could debate whether the MediaWiki homepage should be trying to "sell" the software more. But I think a row of logos would concisely clarify that MediaWiki is not just "homely and awkward" (to quote that "Deciding" page!), but is in fact viewed as world-class enterprise software by some of the biggest companies in the world. Now, this is all somewhat of a lead-up to stating that there's a problem with having such a row of logos, which is that these logos are copyrighted material, meaning that it would break the current rules of mediawiki.org to display them anywhere on the site. Specifically, in the Wikimedia Foundation's "licensing policy" page, it says, "All projects are expected to host only content which is under a Free Content License". https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy >From what I understand from reading that page, individual sites like mediawiki.org can adopt an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) for specific exceptions to that overall rule - and one of the examples given for a valid EDP is for displaying company logos. So, I think it makes sense for mediawiki.org to adopt an EDP that would apply only to that small set of maybe 4-8 logos that would be shown on the front page. Those are my thoughts, but I'd love to hear what other people have to say: whether such a set of logos is a good idea, whether it justifies having non-free content on the page, whether the whole thing is feasible, etc. -Yaron

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PHP warnings
by Jeremi Plazas 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi all, I’m not getting a lot of luck with answers from this mailing list but maybe I’m asking dumb questions (for that I apologize!). We’re running into a lot of PHP warnings (the same warnings repeated a lot, I should say) when running jobs in this wiki farm of ours (just 2 wikis on there at the moment): Product Version MediaWiki 1.31.1 PHP 7.0.33 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.6.42-log ICU 50.1.2 Elasticsearch 5.6.15 Lua 5.1.5 Semantic extensions Extension Version License Description Authors Semantic Breadcrumb Links 2.0.0 GPL-2.0-or-later A Semantic MediaWiki extension to build breadcrumb links from an attributive property filter James Hong Kong and others Semantic Extra Special Properties 2.0.0 GPL-2.0-or-later Adds some extra special properties to all pages James Hong Kong, Leo Wallentin and others Semantic MediaWiki 3.0.1 GPL-2.0-or-later Making your wiki more accessible - for machines and humans (online documentation) Markus Krötzsch, Jeroen De Dauw, James Hong Kong and others Semantic Result Formats 3.0.0 GPL-2.0-or-later Additional result formats for Semantic MediaWiki queries James Hong Kong, Stephan Gambke, Jeroen De Dauw, Yaron Koren and others Errors are: PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /mnt/tsadra/websites/MediawikiFarm/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/src/Parser/LinksEncoder.php on line 182 PHP Warning: preg_match_all(): Compilation failed: recursive call could loop indefinitely at offset 20 in /mnt/tsadra/websites/MediawikiFarm/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/src/Parser/LinksEncoder.php on line 173 Any clues what is causing this? Is it SMW version or other extensions needing updating? Thanks for any info you may have, Jeremi Plazas Assistant Director of Research jplazas(a)tsadra.org Tsadra Foundation Tsadra.org Translation & Transmission Conferences Timeless Treasuries Rinchen Terdzö Damngak Dzö Advancing the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism

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(no subject)
by Lakisha Neely 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

lakishaneely(a)gmail.com

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Finding tutorial pages on Subcategory & translated content
by brian＠ccmotorcycles.com 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

discovered that Yahoo has blacklisted the wikimedia mail list. Changed my subscribed account preferences to different host and re-posted to the thread to verify that replies will be received. However, the re-post was rejected. It turns our that the mail list tool verifying Inbound message didn't recognize the change in eMail address preferences. I now received messages to the new account but Replies to threads still had to come from the old account. So... unsubscribed the old account and re-subscribed under the new account. Awkward. Now I have to check to see if I have 2 mail list accounts with different passwords! Brian ---------------- On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:31:31 AM CDT, Emyoulation(a)yahoo.com <emyoulation(a)yahoo.com> wrote: First time posting to this mailList. I'm having some difficulty sorting through the extensive MediaWiki online docs. (Particularly because my question is about a keyword that is on every page - Category.) I recently started as a Contributor on a MediaWiki driven site about a software tool. To leverage my "newbie" contributor status, I'm trying to log my difficulties coming up to speed in Contributing. (Once I'm experienced enough to write pages about overcoming impediments to using MediaWiki, I will have lost the qualification to write those pages!) At the moment, I'm building a scratchpad page with a manual collection of links to pages/Categories of most use to becoming a competent Wiki Contributor. After I become competent with MediaWiki, this will probably be made a new Category, those paged will be tagged, & the scratchpad page will be recyled for my next target. Unfortunately, as I explore Category pages on our site, I find many that are cluttered with subcategory listings of Translated pages and multiple listings in the main Category . With many languages supported, the default language pages are buried among Translated variants. Is there a good MediaWiki tutorial on the correct way do Categories so that Translated pages don't clutter the listings? Hopefully the method allows users of a Language to suppress listing the unTranslated page when Translated version exists --- but also lists the Not-Yet-Translated pages. Thanks in advance, Brian

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