MediaWiki-l April 2020

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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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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

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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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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New Code of Conduct committee candidates
by Amir Sarabadani 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Hello, The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee candidates are (In alphabetical order): - Amir Sarabadani - Martin Urbanec - MusikAnimal - Tonina Zhelyazkova - Tony Thomas And auxiliary members will be (Also in alphabetical order): - Huji - Jayprakash12345 - Matanya - Nuria Ruiz - Tpt You can read more about the members in [0] The changes compared to last term are: * Lucie has resigned in September 2019. Tpt (as one of auxiliary members) filled her seat in the meantime and now Tpt is moving to be an auxiliary member again. * Martin Urbanec is joining the main committee to fill Lucie/Tpt seat * Jay Prakash is joining auxiliary members * Rosalie is leaving the auxiliary 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 committee 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 *09 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

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New episode of "Between the Brackets": Duncan Crane
by Yaron Koren 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Hi, There's a new episode out of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: this one is an interview with Duncan Crane, a MediaWiki administrator who is also the main author of the TinyMCE extension. You can listen to the episode here: http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-59-duncan-crane -Yaron

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How to hook a 404'd request in an extension?
by Jeffrey Walton 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

Hi Everyone, I've been reading https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_extensions. I'm not clear on how to hook a request for a URL. In particular, I want to hook 404's and examine the URL. How do I wire-up an extension to examine requests? Thanks in advance.

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MW 1.34 cleanupUsersWithNoId.php may be out of sync
by Jeffrey Walton 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hi Everyone, We upgraded to MW 1.34.1. maintenance/update.php was run during the upgrade process. We are now doing post-install maintenance, like running a cleanup script (https://github.com/weidai11/website/blob/master/root/cleanup-wiki.sh). The script is complaining: Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1603 of /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading? Query: SELECT ar_id,ar_user,ar_user_text,ar_id FROM `wikicryptopp_archive` WHERE (1=1) ORDER BY ar_id LIMIT 100 Function: CleanupUsersWithNoId::cleanup Error: 1054 Unknown column 'ar_user' in 'field list' (localhost) #0 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1574): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->getQueryExceptionAndLog('Unknown column ...', 1054, 'SELECT ar_id,a...', 'CleanupUsersWit...') #1 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1152): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError('Unknown column ...', 1054, 'SELECT ar_id,a...', 'CleanupUsersWit...', false) #2 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1807): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query('SELECT ar_id,a...', 'CleanupUsersWit...') #3 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(68): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select('archive', Array, Array, 'CleanupUsersWit...', Array) #4 /var/www/html/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(315): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->__call('select', Array) #5 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/cleanupUsersWithNoId.php(153): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->select('archive', Array, Array, 'CleanupUsersWit...', Array) #6 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/cleanupUsersWithNoId.php(63): CleanupUsersWithNoId->cleanup('archive', Array, 'ar_user', 'ar_user_text', Array, Array) #7 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/Maintenance.php(1746): CleanupUsersWithNoId->doDBUpdates() #8 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(99): LoggedUpdateMaintenance->execute() #9 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/cleanupUsersWithNoId.php(212): require_once('/var/www/html/w...') #10 {main} The script used to work with MW 1.33. Jeff

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1.19 - 1.31 AD login with LDAPAuthentication extension
by Kdeal108＠yahoo.com 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi all, Anyone had difficulty implementing LDAP connection using the LDAPAuthentication2 extension? The old one back in 1.19 version of mediawiki was working fine but now after upgrading it’s not working. Anyone got a sample they can share how you configured all the necessary files? I keep getting “cannot bind” or “cannot fine server”. My ldap server connection is the same I use for other apps and they have no problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Kevin

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How to temp ban hosts based on requests
by Jeffrey Walton 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi Everyone, We see a continuous flow of requests like shown below. We are fairly certain it is a botnet probing for weaknesses or vulnerabilities. The source IP address slowly moves around. It looks like there was a bug in load.php some time ago [1]. I don't have time to manually monitor this. We are looking for one of those wiki plugins to handle it at the application layer. How do we ban the host for making these probes for a day or a week? Thanks in advance. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sl0d755pv10sjxl0 92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:12 -0400] "GET /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.helplink%2Cspecial%2Cui%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cmediawiki.special.search.styles%7Cmediawiki.ui.button%2Cinput%7Cmediawiki.widgets.SearchInputWidget.styles%7Cmediawiki.widgets.styles%7Coojs-ui-core.styles%7Coojs-ui.styles.icons-alerts%2Cicons-content%2Cicons-interactions%2Cindicators%2Ctextures%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector HTTP/1.1" 200 28580 92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:13 -0400] "GET /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.SmjCDN%7Cjquery%2Coojs%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%2Csite%7Cjquery.accessKeyLabel%2CcheckboxShiftClick%2Cclient%2CgetAttrs%2ChighlightText%2Csuggestions%2CtabIndex%2Cthrottle-debounce%7Cmediawiki.RegExp%2CString%2CTitle%2Capi%2Cbase%2Ccldr%2Clanguage%2CsearchSuggest%2Cutil%2Cwidgets%7Cmediawiki.libs.pluralruleparser%7Cmediawiki.page.ready%2Cstartup%7Cmediawiki.special.search%7Cmediawiki.widgets.SearchInputWidget%7Coojs-ui.styles.icons-editing-advanced%2Cicons-moderation%2Cicons-movement%7Cskins.vector.js%7Cuser.defaults&skin=vector&version=1rf1ap1 HTTP/1.1" 200 144182 92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:15 -0400] "GET /wiki/Debug_Symbols HTTP/1.1" 200 7733 92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:16 -0400] "GET /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cmediawiki.toc.styles%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector HTTP/1.1" 200 8880 92.32.245.123 - - [19/Apr/2020:14:41:16 -0400] "GET /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.SmjCDN%7Cjquery%2Csite%7Cjquery.accessKeyLabel%2CcheckboxShiftClick%2Cclient%2Ccookie%2CgetAttrs%2ChighlightText%2Csuggestions%2CtabIndex%2Cthrottle-debounce%7Cmediawiki.RegExp%2CString%2CTitle%2Capi%2Cbase%2Ccookie%2CsearchSuggest%2Ctoc%2Cutil%7Cmediawiki.page.ready%2Cstartup%7Cskins.vector.js%7Cuser.defaults&skin=vector&version=1j07wt1 HTTP/1.1" 200 68744

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