MediaWiki-l September 2019

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Between the Brackets episodes: Derk-Jan Hartman and Olga Vasileva
by Yaron Koren 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

Hi, There's a new episode of the MediaWiki podcast out today - and also I forgot to announce on this list the previous episode when it came out. So, the new episode is an interview of Olga Vasileva, a project manager in the Readers Web Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-43-olga-vasileva And the previous episode, from two weeks ago, is an interview of Derk-Jan Hartman ("TheDJ"), who is the first-ever true volunteer developer on the show: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-42-derk-jan-hartman I think both episodes came out well - I hope people will check out both. -Yaron

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16 Sep '19

I am getting the following error when I try to log in to my new wiki (v 1.33.0): "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form." I have tried with multiple browsers and get the same error. Any idea what is happening and how to fix it? -Bri

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Upgrade MediaWiki
by Eric Fetzer 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Hi, I'm moving an old MediaWiki on to a new server, so I'm going through the MediaWIki Upgrade procedure (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading). I'm trying to do the alternate install so that our patch process keeps it up to date but I'm not finding mediawiki when listing. I set up EPEL so I can see the packages: rpm -Uvh https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm But then I look for the mediawiki packages like this, but nothing shows: # yum list 'mediawiki*' Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. Error: No matching Packages to list All I see is this: # yum list '*mediawiki*' Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. Installed Packages drupal7-mediawiki_api.noarch 1.0-0.14.rc1.el7 @epel libmediawiki.x86_64 4.10.0-7.el7 @epel libmediawiki-devel.x86_64 4.10.0-7.el7 @epel python-simplemediawiki.noarch 1.2.0-0.3.b2.el7 @epel What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Eric

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The Community Insights survey (for volunteer devs)
by Cindy Cicalese 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Apologies for cross-posting, but this should be relevant for volunteer developers on this list as well. Thank you for your participation, Cindy ______________________________ Cindy Cicalese Product Manager, MediaWiki Platform Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:15 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] The Community Insights survey (for volunteer devs) To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks, I'm helping Rebecca Maung (rmaung(a)wikimedia.org) distribute this request. Her words below: The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in the annual Community Insights survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on- and off-wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you are a volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is available in various languages and will take between 15 and 25 minutes to complete. Follow this link to the survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pSrrkJAKVRXPpj?Target=dev If you have seen a similar message elsewhere and have already taken the Community Insights survey, please do not take it twice. You can find more information about this survey on the project page and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement. Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find more information about this survey. If you need additional help, send an email to surveys(a)wikimedia.org. Thank you! //Johan Jönsson --

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Reporting tool?
by Gregory Rundlett 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

I'd like to be able to report on the activity (contributions) of a group of editors. I simply want to know how many edits ea. made on a month by month basis. Is there any tool that would offer such functionality? It's labor intensive to view ea. user's contributions and compile the data manually. Thanks, Greg Greg Rundlett *principal consultant* eQuality Technology *Let's work together* https://equality-tech.com follow us: https://twitter.com/eQualityTech *creators of QualityBox <https://QualityBox.us>*

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Cannot change session name when headers already sent
by Jörn Clausen 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hi! I am new to MediaWiki and I try to install a test Wiki in this environment: NetBSD 8.1 Apache 2.4.41 PHP 7.3.9 PostgreSQL 11.5 MediwWiki 1.33.0 I have performed the installation dialogue (the database is filled, so it has done something) and added LocalSettings.php in the base directory. When accessing the Wiki, I am back at the installer page and see [adbcec82bb7466fe231a3192] 2019-09-09 08:48:02: Fatal exception of type InvalidArgumentException on that page. The Apache log shows [Mon Sep 09 10:48:02.036078 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 21348:tid 134915271573504] [client 129.70.200.212:60859] PHP Warning: session_name(): Cannot change session name when headers already sent in /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs/mediawiki-1.33.0/includes/Setup.php on line 803 I found some info on this error, but nothing in the context of MediaWiki. What am I missing here? Thanks, Joern -- Jörn Clausen BITS - Bielefelder IT-Servicezentrum http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bits

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Can Extension External Data get data from a SQL Stored Procedure
by Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Happy Friday - there is SQL application I'm trying to get data from using "Extension:External Data" and the SQL owner has told me that they can make a "Stored Procedure" available to me rather than grant me read access to the SQL database itself. Does anyone have any insight about how to use [1] to get data from a Stored Procedure on a SQL system? If so, please let me know on my Talk Topic [2] for [1]. Thanks! /Rich [[MW User:Revansx]] Note: MW: 1.30 + External Data 1.8.3 (2c8038c) 19:13, 4 September 2017 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:External_Data#What_about_"Stored_Procedures"_in_SQL_systems.

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Statistics for CoC Cases Term May 2018 to May 2019
by Amir Sarabadani 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hello, The committee received several reports for cases that were out of our jurisdiction (usually due to mediawiki.org links followed from wikis that are not part of Wikimedia). Those are not included in the following numbers: In total, the committee dealt with and decided on 17 cases. Nine of the cases had originated or had links to comments on Wikimedia Phabricator. The most frequent action taken there by the committee for these was to delete comments that violate the CoC. An email was also sent in all cases to the person engaging in those rhetorics. Among the rest, two of the cases had events happening on Wikimedia Gerrit, four on the wikitech-l mailing list, and two had links to the userspace and talk pages on mediawiki.org. Given the low number of offline cases, we won't disclose any details about those in order to protect confidentiality of those. We saw at least 3 occasions of repeat violations from offenders. A harsher decision was taken in at least one case among these. The committee came to a conclusion of no-further action at least 5 times while processing the aforementioned cases. However, we ended up at least sending an email to notify both parties involved in the report in all cases. Actions taken varied from deleting comments, asking for apologies, and user bans. The committee also made sure to redirect reporters with genuine cases of harassment to law enforcement. Due to the limited number of cases, we decided to not go into more detail where the cases were reported and what actions were taken and how often. The current committee wishes the next committee a successful term! On behalf of the CoC Committee, Amir

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ReplaceSet and RDF
by John Lavalie 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

I've noticed an error message in an RDF feed: The ReplaceSet call limit ($1) has been reached. What causes this? Is there a way to stop it? (BTW, I disabled ReplaceSet and nothing changed) https://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/Concept:7_years_ago

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