MediaWiki-l December 2022

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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

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Issue with encoding
by Zoran Dori 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hello, I'm working on one wiki which shows characters in a weird way. UTF-8 is used for encoding, so I believe that it isn't an issue. You can take a look here Statik A – Sub Bavaria (sub-bavaria.de) <http://www.sub-bavaria.de/w/index.php?title=Statik_A>, so you can better understand what I'm talking about. Could you please point me to something that I should look for, so I can fix this issue? Wiki was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to 1.38. Thanks for your help and understanding! Best regards, Zoran

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Update issues with Git branches missing
by John 31 Dec '22

31 Dec '22

I am attempting to update an outdated wiki but REL1_39 is missing from the extensions repository, and in fact anything after 1.35 isn't there either. Same issue affects the Skins repository too. See: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/skins * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/+refs Not having branched releases matching between the groups will cause compatibility issues. Can we please get the missing branches made?

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Import failed: Error creating directory shellbox
by redheadkelly＠thefryingpan.net 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

I'm attempting to import XML dumps from several other Mediawiki wikis into a local install of MediaWiki running on XAMPP. Some files import fine, but many of them get the error 'Import failed: Error creating directory shellbox-bdd810ee1edf29b3'. Number at the end changes with each attempt. I'm running: MediaWiki 1.37.2 PHP 7.4.27 (apache2handler) MariaDB 10.4.22-MariaDB I have '$wgTmpDirectory = "C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki_manuals\images\temp";' set in LocalSettings.php. All of my mediawiki directories & subdirectories have full permissions. None of them are read-only. Not sure what the hang-up is. Thanks for any help

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Problem migrating from 1.38.5 to 1.39.1 due to Composer dependencies
by Jeffrey Walton 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Hi Everyone, We are trying to migrate from Mediawiki 1.38.5 to 1.39.1. The webserver is Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, x86_64, fully patched. At the step of installing Composer with its dependencies,[1] 'composer install' is dying with the error message: <BEGIN SNIP> Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages. Problem 1 - Installation request for doctrine/dbal 3.4.2 -> satisfiable by doctrine/dbal[3.4.2]. - doctrine/dbal 3.4.2 requires composer-runtime-api ^2 -> no matching package found. Potential causes: - A typo in the package name - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting see <https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#minimum-stability> for more details. - It's a private package and you forgot to add a custom repository to find it <END SNIP> We are running the latest version of Composer: # apt-cache search composer | sort ... composer - dependency manager for PHP And: # apt-cache show composer Package: composer Architecture: all Version: 1.10.1-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/php Origin: Ubuntu ... Please advise on how to proceed. Thanks in advance, Jeff [1] https://github.com/weidai11/website/blob/master/mediawiki/wiki-upgrade.txt#…

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Security and maintenance release: 1.35.9 / 1.38.5 / 1.39.1
by Sam Reed 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

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Announcing MediaWiki 1.39.0
by Sam Reed 11 Dec '22

11 Dec '22

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.39! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked hard to get several important fixes merged in time for the 1.39 final release. To see what's changed in 1.39, see the release notes below. Please note that the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.3.19 in MediaWiki 1.38 (and 1.35) to 7.4.3. MediaWiki 1.39 is the first release of MediaWiki 'born' with PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 support included. We anticipate there may be some as-yet undiscovered bugs with PHP 8.x support, of which we'd love to hear reports so they can be fixed. We plan to back-port fixes to 1.38 and 1.35 to the extent possible. MediaWiki 1.39 is an LTS and is due to be supported until the end of November 2025. As a reminder, 1.35 LTS is due to become end-of-life in November 2023, and 1.38 is due to become end-of-life in June 2023. 1.37 is becoming end-of-life today, and will be formally announced in a separate email. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.1 === * Localisation updates. * exception: Tolerate no service container when trying DB rollback. * (T320282) Upgrading wikimedia/xmp-reader (0.8.3 => 0.8.4). * objectcache: Deprecate WANObjectCache::reap() and ::reapCheckKey(). * (T320864) When calling mail(), use an array for headers. * Upgrading wikimedia/xmp-reader (0.8.4 => 0.8.5). * (T321154) Call setFormIdentifier() on LogEventsList form. * When importing revision with same timestamp as latest revision, treat it as the new latest. * (T320726) RandomImageGenerator::getImageSpec: Don't pass a float to mt_rand(), for PHP 8.1. * (T298485, T322360) WikiExporter: Avoid calling reload in processing every row. * (T321551) pager: Fix null used for foreach in Pager::getNavigationBar. * (T321551) pager: Remove unused AlphabeticPager::getOrderTypeMessages() support. * pager: Remove unused PagerNavigationBuilder::setExtra(). * PagerNavigationBuilder: Document that nulls in setLinkQuery() etc. are allowed. * (T322335) ApiQueryRevisionsBase: Fix 'rvdiffto' parameter handling on PHP 8.0. * (T314096) TestFileEditor: Fix string interpolation. * (T289926) api: Fix minor PHP 8.1 incompatibility in ApiOptions. * (T322803) SpecialBotPasswords: Don't pass null to trim(). * (T289926) Fix incomplete ITextFormatter mocks. * Language: Handle ronna and quetta. * (T72510) rdbms: make SqlitePlatform::tableName() apply double quotes. * (T323373) Parser: Fix extractSections() behavior for PHP >= 8.0. * .gitattributes: Ship docker-compose.yml to the tarball. Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5694/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.39-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.39.0-rc.1): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Release Notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.39

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