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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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Magnolia677 deserved the death threats I made to her because she was attacking me and calling my edits stupid
by MidAtlanticBaby . 10 Aug '25

10 Aug '25

So apparently y'all care more about the people that hurt me than y'all care about me? So y'all are going to IGNORE THE FACT that Magnolia677 WENT OFF ON me because i was making a bunch of edits to Florida county articles that she and 3 other admins didnt like me making and then I got REPORTED by ANOTHER EDITOR to ANI for STANDING UP for myself against her ATTACKING me? And y'all are gonna ASSUME i made the death threats for no reason for my own fucking ENJOYMENT? Y'all are ALLOWED to be an asshole to me and im not supposed to be an asshole to you back? Do y'all not have any respect for other people or their emotions? Is that like y'all's GOAL, to MAKE people suffer for the rest of THEIR FUCKING LIFE when they get blocked on a wiki and they GET MAD about it and take it out RIGHTFULLY on the person that blocked them? Are y'all nothing but some sadistic ass racist ass motherfuckers who want everything to go THEIR WAY and who want to control OTHER PEOPLE'S emotions or how they feel about their block? Are y'all JUSTIFYING Magnolia's and Drmies' actions towards me because theyre white and I'M black?

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No Account confirmation email for registering at gerrit.wikimedia.org
by tobias.jung＠hallowelt.com 16 May '25

16 May '25

Hi, I registered at gerrit.wikimedia.org, but i recieved no email notfication. - whats the best way to get it verified?

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MediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched
by Mateus Santos 07 May '25

07 May '25

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that we've created the REL1_44 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git [0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.44.0, which should be out in June 2025, approximately six months after MediaWiki 1.43.0. The branches reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the release, 1.44.0-wmf.28, which is being deployed to Wikimedia wikis this week for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there. From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.44 release, unless specifically backported [1]. If you are working on a critical bug fix that will affect the code in the release, once the patch has been merged into the development branch, you should propose it for backporting by cherry-picking to the REL1_44 branch. If you are working on a new feature, that should now not be backported. If you have an urgent case where the work should block release for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw 1.44-release` project on Phabricator [2]. If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.44-release`, please finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few days. We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.44.0-rc.0, in two weeks' time, and if all goes well, to then release MediaWiki 1.44.0 a few weeks after that. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.44-release/ Best regards, -- Mateus Santos (he/him) Product Manager MediaWiki Engineering Group

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HTTP/404 on Special:Upload when using POST
by Christian Kujau 05 May '25

05 May '25

Hello list, for some reason I'm no longer able to use the upload function on my little Mediawiki installation. I haven't uploaded things a while, and recently updated to 1.43.1, and everything else appears to work quite well, except uploads. So, I navigate to Special:Upload and in the Apache web server log I can see (shortened, w/o IP adresses and user information): "GET /wiki/Special:Upload HTTP/2.0" 200 5795 "-" "Mozilla... Great, HTTP/200 looks good, and the "Upload file" page is being displayed, and I click on "choose file" and select a .gif and the .gif is displayed now displayed as a little preview in the "Source file" part of the Upload page. But then I hit the "Upload file" at the bottom of the page and get a "Not Found" message in my browser window. And the same Apache web server log now has: "POST /wiki/Special:Upload HTTP/2.0" 404 291 "https://foo.example.org/wiki/Special:Upload" "Mozilla... So, GET works just fine, but POST produces a HTTP/404? I've disabled mod_security, disabled all CSP and X-XSS-Protection etc. headers too, but I'm at a loss on how to debug this further. In my virtual host configuration of the Apache web server, the following is included: RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.+)?$ /mediawiki/index.php [L] This worked quite well over the years, and I *was* able to upload stuff before, and with that configuration too. Attached below is my (shortened) LocalSettings.php (w/o some database secrets and names). Has anybody seen something like this before, and maybe even remembers where to look to debug this? Thank you, Christian. ===== LocalSettings.php $wgSitename = "foo"; $wgScriptPath = "/mediawiki"; # real path $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; # virtual path $wgUsePathInfo = true; # ? $wgServer = "https://foo.example.org"; $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO $wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO $wgEmailAuthentication = true; $wgDBtype = "mysql"; $wgDBserver = "127.0.0.1"; $wgDBname = "foo"; $wgDBuser = "foo"; $wgDBpassword = "xxxx"; $wgDBprefix = ""; $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL; $wgCachePages = true; $wgParserCacheExpireTime = 604800; $wgUseFileCache = true; $wgEnableSidebarCache = true; $wgShowIPinHeader = false; $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; $wgShellLocale = "en_US.utf8"; $wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; $wgFileCacheDirectory = "$wgCacheDirectory/html"; $wgLanguageCode = "en"; $wgSecretKey = "xxxx"; $wgUpgradeKey = "xxx"; $wgDefaultSkin = "Vector"; $wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3"; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgNoFollowLinks = false; $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true; $wgAllowExternalImages = true; $wgAllowCopyUploads = true; $wgCopyUploadsFromSpecialUpload = true; $wgFileExtensions = array_merge($wgFileExtensions, array( 'pdf', 'txt', 'gz', 'bz2', 'deb', 'zip', 'svg', 'diff', 'json' )); $wgVerifyMimeType = false; $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks = true; $wgExtraNamespaces = array( $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_FOO] = true; $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_FOO] = true; $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; $wgDevelopmentWarnings = true; $wgSitemapNamespaces = array( 0, 4, 12 ); $wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true; $wgSVGConverter = 'ImageMagick'; wfLoadSkin('Vector'); wfLoadSkin('MinervaNeue'); wfLoadSkin('Timeless'); -- BOFH excuse #308: CD-ROM server needs recalibration

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