I am seeking to hire a skilled MediaWiki user for a full-time position in the Boston, MA area. You will need these talents:
- Outstanding written and spoken communication skills.
- Experience designing training materials for a technical audience.
- Software development experience for MediaWiki is a BIG plus. If not a developer, you must at least have a thorough knowledge of how software is developed, because you'll be writing about it.
The position is an interesting mixture of technical writing, training, and software. The company (Vistaprint) is in excellent financial health, has very competitive compensation and benefits, and is a fun place to work! (I've been here 8 years.) I am the hiring manager, so contact me directly if interested.
DanB
-- Daniel Barrett, Ph.D. dbarrett@vistaprint.com
I use MW 1.15 and heavily rely on extension:css. Last night the server of my wiki changed from PHP5.2 to PHP5.3 and #css no longer worked. I went to the Mediawiki Site and found that others had that problem too but no solution: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CSS#Current_Version_Compatabili...
Any advice?
Thx in advance
Bernhard
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Scheid, Bernhard < Bernhard.Scheid@oeaw.ac.at> wrote:
I use MW 1.15 and heavily rely on extension:css. Last night the server of my wiki changed from PHP5.2 to PHP5.3 and #css no longer worked. I went to the Mediawiki Site and found that others had that problem too but no solution:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:CSS#Current_Version_Compatabili...
This doesn't look like a problem in Extension:CSS itself, but is rather due to changes in PHP from 5.2 to 5.3 affecting how some parts of MediaWiki work. Internals changes in PHP's handling of reference variables cause some old code patterns (which were often STRICTLY NECESSARY in the PHP 4.x days) to move from being harmless but unnecessary to either not working, or working but throwing an error message which itself causes problems.
The correct fix is to either: - Upgrade MediaWiki to a version that works with PHP 5.3 (try 1.16 or 1.17 release candidate?) - Downgrade PHP to a version that works with MediaWiki 1.15
If you can't do either of those, then you can attempt to copy over all the various PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes into your old version, starting with removing the '&' reference marker on the parameter on Language::getMagic() (in languages/Language.php). However you will likely encounter other similar problems.
Change this line: function getMagic( &$mw ) {
To this: function getMagic( $mw ) {
-- brion
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