MediaWiki-l August 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 16 Aug '25

16 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

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Fwd: Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days
by Erica Litrenta 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

[crosspost from Maps-l] Today the Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the deprecation of the public API for Wikimedia map tiles. Around mid October the Foundation will end support for the Wikimedia Maps Service API [1]. This change affects people using Wikimedia maps on their own website or app. Maps on the Wikimedia sites, in Wikimedia-hosted tools and gadgets, and on maps.wikimedia.org won't be affected. This decision was made based on recent outage incidents, primarily due to spikes in third party usage, along with an analysis showing that more than a third of maps provided are to non-Wikimedia services (including many to for-profit organizations). After the most recent incident [2], the service was limited so that only cached maps tiles would be available. While this protected the servers, it made the service unpredictable and highlighted the unsustainability of our tile service. So, we have made the decision to discontinue the maps APIs for non-Wikimedia users. This change will allow our teams working on Maps to focus on the sustainability of the maps used within Wikimedia projects. You can follow the implementation of this change on Phabricator [3]. Best, Erica Litrenta [1] https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/ [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200204-maps [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424 -- Erica Litrenta Manager, Community Relations Specialists https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)

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Logo of mediawiki
by Amir Sarabadani 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hello, The current logo of MediaWiki was adapted slightly more than fifteen years ago and hasn’t changed since. This logo despite having the nice concept of sunflower, is old. The sunflower represents the diversity, the constant growth and also the wildness. Among its biggest issues I can point out that it’s a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes (like large posters) and it’s too realistic making it unusable in small sizes. Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract form. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, VueJs, React, Apache Kafka, and many more. It’s a good time for MediaWiki to follow suit. My request is for changing the logo of MediaWiki and I have no plans or interest in changing logo of any other project. Please show your support, oppose or your comments in the discussion page. You can also add more suggestions. The discussion page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_mediaw… Best -- Amir (he/him)

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MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.2 is ready for testing
by Sam Reed 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.2, the third release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note that the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.2.9 in MediaWiki 1.34 (and 7.0 in MediaWiki 1.31), to 7.2.22 (this may change further, see below). This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment and report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.35-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.35 will become final in late August 2020, and will be supported for 3 years after that. Known/outstanding issues/things to test: * It has been proposed to require PHP 7.3 for MediaWiki 1.35, please discuss at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257879>. * Both the Vector skin and the underlying skin infrastructure are undergoing numerous changes, so there might be things broken that are already fixed in master and as such need backporting. * VisualEditor and Parsoid are now bundled in the tarball and no longer need a separate nodejs service. The documentation for this still needs to be updated, and in some cases, users are reporting HTTP 500 errors from RestBase <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259693>. * Watchlist expiry (behind the $wgWatchlistExpiry flag) is currently experimental. It should be finished for the 1.35.0 final release. * If you're on Windows and use 7zip and had issues in the previous release candidates (and the last round of security releases) extracting the tarball, this should be fixed for this release. * While the rc.2 tarballs are smaller than the rc.1 tarballs, the patch for rc.2 is much larger than usual, due to the removal of Gruntfile.js and package-lock.json files from the tarball. Changes since 1.35.0-rc.1: * (T259693) uuid: Fix filenames on Windows. * Remove Gruntfile.js and package-lock.json from the tarball. * firejail: Strengthen by copying from Wikimedia's profile. * (T260059) ResourceLoaderOOUIImageModule: loadOOUIDefinition() may return false. * (T30162, T245387) The installer supports using a Postgres server running on a custom port other than 5432. * (T260201) Support private wikis in Parsoid zero configuration mode. * Fix bad use of `|=` PHP bit operation where `= … ||` bool is intended. * (T259212) SpecialBlock: Show error if a block could not be inserted or found. * (T255842) UserOptionsManager: fix options reset. * (T258649) WatchAction: avoid unnecessary UPDATEs when expiry is unchanged. * (T250851) Allow skins to override mediawiki.page.ready initialisation. * (T250851) mediawiki.page.ready: Allow skins to disable search lazy load. * (T253135, T255632) Update language in watchlist expiry. * Use IPset in MWRestrictions::checkIP. * (T259564) Fix race condition on edit page. * (T260759) Hide watchlist expiry label in edit form. * mime: Fix docs of MIME_EXTENSIONS, they're arrays, not space-seperated. * (T260031) Add application/font-sfnt to MimeMap for ttf files. * (T259379) WatchedItemStore: Cache single WatchedItems with preexisting expiry. * Add a maintenance script to create bot passwords. * (T201269) Add Traditional Chinese zh-hant as fallback for Amis (ami). * Improve wfParseUrl docs. * (T251038) Add multi index fields in ImageListPager for unique paginate. * (T259916) Guard against 'Widget not found' error. Preliminary release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_35/RELEASE-N… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35 Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4035/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.35-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.0-rc.2.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.0-rc.2.ta… Patch to previous version (1.35.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.0-rc.2.patch.gz GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-core-1.35.0-rc.2.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.0-rc.2.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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RedirectSpecialPage.php Shared Host File Deletion
by tom＠hutch4.us 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

So, I'm just thinking out loud here to blow off steam. I've seen mod_security block MW edits and some other weird things on shared hosting. Apparently, a shared host I admin for a project must have enabled some type of proactive scanning with ClamAV or more like a ClamAV Frankenstein and it is throwing false positive on RedirectSpecialPage.php. Trying to add it back manually, I can create the file but as soon as I add in the code. the host deletes it. I tried uploading it. Denied with message -> "The file you uploaded, RedirectSpecialPage.php, contains a virus so the upload was canceled: YARA.blackhole_basic.UNOFFICIAL FOUND" Obvious it is a false positive, but WOW. Posting just in case someone else is dealing with a stupid hosting provider who likes to flip switches and fails to poll then review the consequences before actually flipping the switches. Tom

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New episodes of Between the Brackets: Richard Knipel and Raimond Spekking
by Yaron Koren 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Hi, Well, not really new, since one came out a week ago and the other came out three weeks ago, but I forgot to announce either of them at the time. So: two new episodes of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets have come out in the last month. The first, from July, is with Richard Knipel, aka Pharos, founder of Wikimedia NYC, "Wiki Loves ___", and now Wikispore: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-65-richard-knipel The second, from last week, is with Raimond Spekking, MediaWiki developer and consultant and Wikimedia photographer extraordinaire: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-66-raimond-spekking Both are very interesting interviews in their own way, and I think people would enjoy listening to both of them. -Yaron

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New extension to visualize links between pages
by Jeroen De Dauw 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hey all, We have created a new extension to visualize links between pages. Visualization is done via an interactive network graph. To learn more see https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Network#network We would like to thank KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research <https://www.kdz.eu/> for funding development. Best -- Jeroen De Dauw, Technical Director of www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Architect | Open Source | Longtermism

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