MediaWiki-l June 2019

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New episode of Between the Brackets: Airy Magnien

by Yaron Koren

Hi, A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets" has been released: this one is an interview with Airy Mangien, of the International Union of Railways, who is managing the creation of the MediaWiki-based site Ontorail, which aims to serve as a global ontology and dictionary for railway-related terms. You can listen to the episode here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-37-airy-magnien -Yaron

3 years, 11 months

setting-up cross-site notifications on a wiki-farm

by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000)

Is there any official instruction on how to set-up cross-site notifications for multiple wikis on the same server? /Rich

3 years, 11 months

Update category page via browser

by Sigbert Klinke

Hi, I import via pywikibot a bunch of pages into a wiki. These pages have some category links inside. But the category page is empty after the import. On a test wiki I could use successfully maintenance/refreshLinks.php, but in my production wiki I do not have access to the command line. In the internet I found a suggestion, to use the API with https://mywiki/page?action=purge&forcelinkupdate=1 or https://mywiki/page?action=purge&forcerecursivelinkupdate=1 but this does not work. Any ideas how I could force an update of the category pages via the browser? Thanks Sigbert -- https://hu.berlin/sk https://hu.berlin/mmstat3

3 years, 11 months

using the "PageUpdater::saveRevision" method

by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000)

I'm trying to update an extension so that it performs a "null-edit" on the page it is already operating on. I've discovered the "PageUpdater::saveRevision" documentation and am hoping someone can help me with an example of how this method could be called within the typical framework of an extension? .. assuming the extension has a specific page defined as "$article" how would I write a line of code in the extension that performs a "null-edit" of "$article" using the "PageUpdater::saveRevision" method? - Rich

3 years, 11 months

New board for Wikimedia Belgium + evaluation behaviour WMF

by Geert Van Pamel

The initial message was a private message from Romaine (WMBE Board member) on his own initiative; not verified, nor approved by (the Board of) Wikimedia Belgium. Please read this reply carefully in order to try to bring more clarity. I have immediately notified Romaine that he abused his function in the WMBE Board to communicate private matters on the general mailinglist. Since Monday I am in private contact, both with T&S and the management of Wikimedia Nederland to follow-up this dispute. This caused delay in replying to this message. The Wikimedia Belgium Board will continue to evaluate the situation and take further measures. Wikimedia Belgium wants to apologize for any moral damage that the initial message provoked. What one member of the general assembly did propose is that an internal audit could be requested to investigate the general behavior, the working, the completeness of procedures, and the treatment of cases by the Trust and Safety (T&S), and the grants team. Specifically, we have encountered as a chapter repeatedly during the last several years a lack of appeal, both in the T&S complaints handling, and in the grants team handling sAPG requests. Specifically in the T&S handling procedures, the rights of the alleged offender are not sufficiently guaranteed. There is a possibility that rumors are invoking a punishment without careful verification of the facts, without the defendants being sanctioned in a neutral way, and without taking into account certain handicaps like hard-hearing, or autism. That being said, please stop discussing this specific conflict publicly, because a lot of important details are missing, are single-sided interpretations, or even completely wrong. -- Geert Van Pamel, chair of Wikimedia Belgium

3 years, 11 months

New Code of Conduct committee candidates

by Amir Sarabadani

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Lucie-Aimée Kaffee - MusikAnimal - Tonina Zhelyazkova - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (In alphabetical order): - Huji - Matanya - Nuria Ruiz - Rosalie Perside - Tpt You can read more about the members in [0] The changes are: * Nuria and Rosalie are moving from main member to auxilary members * MusikAnimal is moving from auxilary member to main * Tonina Zhelyazkova is joining the main members This is not the final structure. According to the CoC [1], the current committee publishes the new members and call for public feedback for *six weeks* and after that, the current committtee might apply changes to the structure based on public feedback. Please let the committee know if you have any concern regarding the members and its structure until *19 June 2019* and after that, the new committee will be in effect and will serve for a year. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m… Amir, On behalf of the Code of Conduct committee Best

3 years, 11 months

Users report blank pages

by Peter Presland

I have a problem being reported by some users as follows: "The page loads and displays briefly but then goes blank" It seems to apply to all pages and so is probably not connected with the complex use of tab strips on the home page. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page Rather some kind of global setting. There is a SMW upgrade progressing atm but otherwise the site is working normally. Any suggestions / pointers greatly appreciated Peter Presland

3 years, 11 months

Extension Development questions

by Kevin Zhang

Hi, I have been planning and starting to implement a few of my own extensions. Having read through relevant manuals and documentation located at mediawiki.org, wanted to clarify a two things: 1. When using startAtomic()/endAtomic() or begin()/commit() pairs, I understand that these will commit changes but does that automatically close the connection to the wiki database *$dbr = wfGetDB();* or am I required to close that connection with $dbr->close()? 2. Is it recommended to use foreign keys to the existing User table instead of creating a new table column? Concerned that Extensions AbuseFilter/RenameUser/UserMerge, could corrupt or cause failure. Thanks, Kevin

3 years, 11 months

Revision Access Exception

by Valerio Pelliccioni

Hi, this is my MediaWiki installation: +—————————————————————————————+ | MediaWiki: 1.32.0 | | PHP: 7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (apache2handler) | | MariaDB: 10.1.38-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | | ICU: 60.2 | | Elasticsearch: 5.6.16 | | Lua: 5.1.5 | +—————————————————————————————+ I got the following MediaWiki Internal error when I tried to “move” the article Mr._Horn’s_Strathspey to Mr._Horn’s_Strathspey_(1). Now, the moved article [ Mr._Horn’s_Strathspey_(1) ] is accessible while the original one [ Mr._Horn’s_Strathspey ] returns this exception ( caught inside another exception handler) Too much for my technical skills. I did some research in Google to find an answer but, assuming that I have found some solution (something related to $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage and SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH), I confess that I did not understand how to apply it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Valerio Pelliccioni W:https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni ---- MediaWiki internal error. Original exception: [f52efd87abf1cf423d19d4af] /wiki/Mr._Horn%27s_Strathspey MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException from line 1635 of /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php: Main slot of revision 369407 not found in database! Backtrace: #0 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php(1671): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->loadSlotRecords(string, integer) #1 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->MediaWiki\Revision\{closure}() #2 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(165): call_user_func(Closure) #3 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(107): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlots() #4 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionRecord.php(192): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlot(string) #5 /var/www/w/includes/Revision.php(697): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRecord->getSlot(string, integer) #6 /var/www/w/includes/Revision.php(965): Revision->getMainSlotRaw() #7 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(641): Revision->getContentModel() #8 /var/www/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1277): WikiPage->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL) #9 /var/www/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1150): WANObjectCache->doGetWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure, array) #10 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(647): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure) #11 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(269): WikiPage->getContentModel() #12 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(256): WikiPage->getContentHandler() #13 /var/www/w/includes/actions/Action.php(98): WikiPage->getActionOverrides() #14 /var/www/w/includes/actions/Action.php(156): Action::factory(string, WikiPage, RequestContext) #15 /var/www/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(155): Action::getActionName(RequestContext) #16 /var/www/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(777): MediaWiki->getAction() #17 /var/www/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main() #18 /var/www/w/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run() #19 {main} Exception caught inside exception handler: [f52efd87abf1cf423d19d4af] /wiki/Mr._Horn%27s_Strathspey MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException from line 1635 of /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php: Main slot of revision 369407 not found in database! Backtrace: #0 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php(1671): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->loadSlotRecords(string, integer) #1 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->MediaWiki\Revision\{closure}() #2 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(165): call_user_func(Closure) #3 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(107): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlots() #4 /var/www/w/includes/Revision/RevisionRecord.php(192): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlot(string) #5 /var/www/w/includes/Revision.php(697): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRecord->getSlot(string, integer) #6 /var/www/w/includes/Revision.php(965): Revision->getMainSlotRaw() #7 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(641): Revision->getContentModel() #8 /var/www/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1277): WikiPage->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL) #9 /var/www/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1150): WANObjectCache->doGetWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure, array) #10 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(647): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure) #11 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(269): WikiPage->getContentModel() #12 /var/www/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(256): WikiPage->getContentHandler() #13 /var/www/w/includes/actions/Action.php(98): WikiPage->getActionOverrides() #14 /var/www/w/includes/actions/Action.php(156): Action::factory(string, WikiPage, RequestContext) #15 /var/www/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(155): Action::getActionName(RequestContext) #16 /var/www/w/extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/FlaggablePageView.php(246): MediaWiki->getAction(WebRequest) #17 /var/www/w/extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/FlaggablePageView.php(122): FlaggablePageView->isDefaultPageView(WebRequest) #18 /var/www/w/extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/FlaggablePageView.php(176): FlaggablePageView->showingStableAsDefault() #19 /var/www/w/extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/FlaggablePageView.php(444): FlaggablePageView->showingStable() #20 /var/www/w/extensions/FlaggedRevs/frontend/FlaggedRevsUI.hooks.php(92): FlaggablePageView->setRobotPolicy() #21 /var/www/w/includes/Hooks.php(174): FlaggedRevsUIHooks::onBeforePageDisplay(OutputPage, SkinMetrolook) #22 /var/www/w/includes/Hooks.php(234): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL, string) #23 /var/www/w/includes/OutputPage.php(2703): Hooks::runWithoutAbort(string, array) #24 /var/www/w/includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(136): OutputPage->output() #25 /var/www/w/includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(53): MWExceptionRenderer::reportHTML(MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException) #26 /var/www/w/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(98): MWExceptionRenderer::output(MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException, integer) #27 /var/www/w/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(172): MWExceptionHandler::report(MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException) #28 /var/www/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(544): MWExceptionHandler::handleException(MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException) #29 /var/www/w/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run() #30 {main} ----

3 years, 11 months

bounces?

by Jim Hu

I just reactivated myself on the list after getting this notification > Your membership in the mailing list MediaWiki-l has been disabled due > to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated > 11-Jun-2019. You will not get any more messages from this list until > you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders like > this before your membership in the list is deleted. > I’m trying to figure out what was bouncing and why, since I use a gmail account and I don’t think it’s set to send bounce messages.

3 years, 11 months

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