MediaWiki-l January 2020

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MediaWiki 1.32 is End of Life
by Sam Reed 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

As per the MediaWiki version life cycle [1], I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.32 as of tomorrow, Friday January 24, 2019. This means that MediaWiki 1.32 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it. It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.34 (due to become EOL in November 2020), or less preferably to MediaWiki 1.33 (due to become EOL in June 2020). The current Long Term Support (LTS) version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older (and downgrading is not supported), though the next LTS (MediaWiki 1.35) is due to be released in June 2020, and will be supported until June 2023. MediaWiki 1.33 has the same supported PHP version of 7.0 (which is itself unsupported upstream), in case you need longer to upgrade your systems. MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.9 or later. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2020.01 release
by Kartik Mistry 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2020.01. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.33 or above and requires PHP 7.2 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2020.01.tar… * sha256sum: 94c6bb79e6b3bc55b8ca629165256a96da8dbd196999da09ba45a7e11cc7c194 * Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2020.01.tar… Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == * MLEB 2020.01 requires PHP 7.2 and MediaWiki 1.33 or above. == Babel, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Localisation and maintenance updates only. == cldr == * Updated to cldr 36. == Translate == * Translate extension now requires PHP 7.2.x and MediaWiki 1.33 or above. * Convert PageDisplayTitle to language variant. ([[phab:T230681|Phab:T230681]]) * Prevent duplicate translation unit error from showing twice. ([[phab:T236153|Phab:T236153]]) * Add secondary check before displaying tpt-unknown-page error. ([[phab:T221119|Phab:T221119]]) * Display an error message if translation aids fail to load. ([[phab:T221119|Phab:T221119]]) * Improve performance with large message groups by implement maximum query size in MessageCollection. ([[phab:T230100|Phab:T230100]]) * Improve message group selector performance reducing Translate API request time. ([[phab:T236904|Phab:T236904]]) == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Put overhauled icon on baseline and unify code with Vector's. ([[phab:T207075|Phab:T207075]]) * Update setlang to display confirmation dialog to change language. ([[phab:T63115|Phab:T63115]]) * Removed IE6/7 support. === Input Methods === * Fixed Jna Gunintham issue in Telugu Transliteration keyboard. -- Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી kartikm.wordpress.com

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Using wikieditor with Extension:PageForms.
by Valerio Pelliccioni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Hi, everybody, To meet specific needs of my wiki I modified the wikieditor toolbar by adding some buttons like this in MediaWiki:Common.js: var customizeToolbar = function() { // TOOLBAR $( '#wpTextbox1' ).wikiEditor( 'addToToolbar', { 'sections': { 'annotations': { 'type': 'toolbar', 'label': 'Annotations' } } } ); //GROUP $( '#wpTextbox1' ).wikiEditor( 'addToToolbar', { 'section': 'annotations', 'groups': { 'properties': { 'label': 'Properties' } } } ); //BUTTONS $( '#wpTextbox1' ).wikiEditor( 'addToToolbar', { 'section': 'annotations', 'group': 'properties', 'tools': { 'aka': { label: 'Also know as', type: 'button', icon: 'http://example.com/w/images/aka.png', action: { type: 'encapsulate', options: { pre: "[[Is_also_known_as::", post: "]]" } } } } } ); and everything works great when I write/edit free text articles. My question is why these buttons don't appear in the wikieditor toolbar of a form I created with: |-valign="top" |style="background:#ffdead;"|'''Tune Annotations:''' |colspan="4"|{{{field|f_annotation|input type=textarea|rows=5|cols=180|editor=wikieditor|autogrow|placeholder=Put here Annotations/Comments/Discussion Topics/Anectodes/...}}} And linked this way: {{#formredlink:target=Annotation:{{PAGENAME}}|form=TuneAnnotation|link text={{PAGENAME}}}} Any suggestions? ==WIKI INFO:== +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ MediaWiki 1.33.1 (d35fba2) 15:11, December 17, 2019 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 LilyPond 2.18.2 +-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ Page Forms 4.5 (3135f8f) 14:16, April 29, 2019 +-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ Thanks so much. Valerio Pelliccioni

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Vandalism
by abu-saad2＠windowslive.com 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

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merge independent wiki with wikifarm?
by Kevin Zhang 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

If I had an separate wiki and a wikifarm (using shared tables for user and actor) and wanted to merge the separate wiki into the wikifarm, what would be the safest way to handle user account migration without any conflicts/data corruption? Is it even safe to renumber user ids? Assume user ids for the separate wiki would conflict with existing wikifarm user ids. thinking at a minimum the following is required: 1. on wikifarm: halt account creations, set read only, and get max user id 2. on separate wiki: set wiki to read only, renumber all user ids (user, actor tables) starting at one past the current wikifarm max user id to avoid conflicts, run rebuildall.php & rebuildrecentchanges.php, create a database dump using mysqldump, and export a backup of localsettings.php 3. on wikifarm, add a new wiki (import localsettings.php) and import database dump of separate wiki then run update.php as required Thanks, Kevin

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Pywikibot is ending Python 2 support!
by Martin Urbanec 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Together with the last Python 2 release from April, 2020, Pywikibot team will release the **last version that supports Python 2**. We created a **python2" tag** marking the version, so you can continue running your Python 2 scripts using this tag, if you really need to. After that version, Pywikibot is not going to receive any further patches and bug fixes related to Python 2. Its code is going to be cleaned from Python 2 specific functions, patches, deprecations and other stuff, so make sure you'll use this tag if you still want to run Pywikibot using Python 2. Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate your scripts to Python 3. To make it happen, you can use Python 2to3 script installed by default with Python 2.6+, see https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html. You can also just try to run your script using Python 3 (the "-simulate" parameter could be handy) and fix all the issues. If you encounter problems with the migration, you can always ask us here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242120 Best regards, Martin Urbanec and Dvorapa

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MediaWiki internal error
by Peter Presland 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

The error and backtrace shown below is thrown when trying to load the system page 'Mediawiki:Sitenotice'. It is the result of a system upgrade during which the database was edited AFTER the database had been updated, but BEFORE the new Mediawiki version installation scripts had been installed. Since it was the only page affected, we have lived with it through several further upgrades . However, it is becoming a pain not to able to use sitenotice so I would like (try??) to fix it. Any suggestions as to how I should go about this, since the page itself can be neither edited, deleted or restored to an earlier version through the Mediwiki user interface itself? Is there a maintenance script for example that might do the trick? or am I faced with manual database editing? Any suggestions / advice would be much appreciated Peter Presland >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MediaWiki internal error. Original exception: [XhxQLsGV-@FwxVwKJWJu8wAAAA8] /wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionAccessException from line 1643 of /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php: Main slot of revision 163209 not found in database! Backtrace: #0 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php(1680): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->loadSlotRecords(string, integer) #1 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->MediaWiki\Revision\{closure}() #2 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(165): call_user_func(Closure) #3 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision/RevisionSlots.php(107): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlots() #4 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision/RevisionRecord.php(192): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionSlots->getSlot(string) #5 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision.php(689): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRecord->getSlot(string, integer) #6 /var/www/html/w/includes/Revision.php(956): Revision->getMainSlotRaw() #7 /var/www/html/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(659): Revision->getContentModel() #8 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1414): WikiPage->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL) #9 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1275): WANObjectCache->doGetWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure, array) #10 /var/www/html/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(665): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure) #11 /var/www/html/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(287): WikiPage->getContentModel() #12 /var/www/html/w/includes/page/WikiPage.php(274): WikiPage->getContentHandler() #13 /var/www/html/w/includes/actions/Action.php(98): WikiPage->getActionOverrides() #14 /var/www/html/w/includes/actions/Action.php(155): Action::factory(string, WikiPage, RequestContext) #15 /var/www/html/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(155): Action::getActionName(RequestContext) #16 /var/www/html/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(782): MediaWiki->getAction() #17 /var/www/html/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(515): MediaWiki->main() #18 /var/www/html/w/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run() #19 {main}

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [TinyMCE] TinyMCE doesn't show any of the underlying text on some pages
by Schoenemann, P. Thomas 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

Thanks for the suggestions. Some questions: Where does one get the latest stable version of tinyMCE? Here is the entirety of the “download” section for “extension:tinyMCE” (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TinyMCE): Download[edit<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:TinyMCE&action=edit&s…>] You can download the TinyMCE code, in .zip format, here<https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-TinyMCE/archive/0.3.zip>. You can also download the code directly via Git from the MediaWiki source code repository (see available tags<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ETMC/tags/master/>). From a command line, you can call the following: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TinyMCE.git To view the code online, including version history for each file, go here<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org//r/p/mediawiki/extensions/TinyMCE;browse/…>. Note: 1) there is no indication that the git link leads to a unstable development version of TinyMCE. Is this something that users are just supposed to know? If so, it would be good for the developers to included some short note about this, and how users with less experience with MediaWiki etc. can go about getting the stable version. 2) that the last link (“To view the code online, including version history for each file, go here”) points to a page that reads: "The requested project does not exist”. -Tom Message: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:09:48 +0100 From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:aklapper@wikimedia.org>> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] [TinyMCE] TinyMCE doesn't show any of the underlying text on some pages Message-ID: <c2d69653299b4cf11c850373202f328d78a9e050.camel(a)wikimedia.org<mailto:c2d69653299b4cf11c850373202f328d78a9e050.camel@wikimedia.org>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 22:09 +0000, Schoenemann, P. Thomas wrote: I’ve installed tinyMCE on my installation but for several pages it just doesn’t work. I get a delay, then the tinyMCE menu, but then no text shows up below it for editing (even though there is text, and I can see it by selecting “Edit source” instead of “Edit” (which invokes tinyMCE). I’m running mediawiki 1.31.0, and my server is running 7.3.13 (which I can’t change). Any ideas? FYI I installed tinyMCE by going to my extensions folder and doing: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TinyMCE.git Sounds like you installed git master (=unstable development 1.35.x version) of TinyMCE together with an outdated insecure MediaWiki version (1.31.0). Does this problem still happen with a maintained MediaWiki version (currently 1.31.6 for LTS, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading ) and the corresponding TinyMCE branch (REL1_31)? andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ------------------------------ End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 196, Issue 5 *******************************************

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[TinyMCE] TinyMCE doesn't show any of the underlying text on some pages
by Schoenemann, P. Thomas 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

I’ve installed tinyMCE on my installation but for several pages it just doesn’t work. I get a delay, then the tinyMCE menu, but then no text shows up below it for editing (even though there is text, and I can see it by selecting “Edit source” instead of “Edit” (which invokes tinyMCE). I’m running mediawiki 1.31.0, and my server is running 7.3.13 (which I can’t change). Any ideas? FYI I installed tinyMCE by going to my extensions folder and doing: git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TinyMCE.git It completes with no errors. I then put: wfLoadExtension( 'TinyMCE' ); in my LocalSettings.php Suggestions? A bug? -Tom

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New episode of Between the Brackets: Richard Evans
by Yaron Koren 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi, A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast "Between the Brackets" was released yesterday: my interview with Richard Evans, an electrical engineer at NASA who (among other things) maintains wikis for them, and who is also running the upcoming EMWCon in Sandusky, Ohio. You can listen to the podcast here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-51-richard-evans -Yaron

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