Makesysop extension (steward)

List overview All Threads
Download

newer

older

Frustrated with email

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with...

Gary Kirk

6 Sep 2007 6 Sep '07

4:05 p.m.

I don't understand how this works with $wgLocalDatabases in order to set user rights on other wikis I operate. Is there a step-by-step guide and preequisites? Does the database username and password have to be the same on all? Does the Makesysop extension need to be installed on all wikis? Please help if you can. Thanks. -- Gary Kirk

Show replies by date

Brion Vibber

6 Sep 6 Sep

4:22 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

Gary Kirk wrote:

...

It's a bit of a freaky hack, so it's not well documented. :) Roughly... * Database username and password should be the same. * Avoid using table prefixes, they probably would explode. * List all controllable database names in $wgLocalDatabases array. * If not all databases are on the same server, add entries to $wgAlternateMaster indicating which dbs are on which hosts. * Makesysop extension should be enabled at least available at a master location, but doesn't necessarily have to be everywhere. Good luck! -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

Gary Kirk

4:28 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

...

Gary Kirk wrote:

same on

all? Does the Makesysop extension need to be installed on all wikis? Please help if you can.

- the value listed in $wgDBname in the other wiki's LocalSettings.php? * If not all databases are on the same server, add entries to

...

$wgAlternateMaster indicating which dbs are on which hosts. * Makesysop extension should be enabled at least available at a master location, but doesn't necessarily have to be everywhere. Good luck! -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Gary Kirk

Gary Kirk

4:34 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

OK, in wiki1 where Makesysop is installed and shares the DB username and password I have: $wgLocalDatabases = array('gkirk_mwSVN' => 'garykirk'); where gkirk_mwSVN is the name of the database of wiki2. On wiki1 at Special:Makesysop I type Test2@garykirk and get: *User rights for "Test2@garykirk" could not be set. (Did you enter the name correctly?)* On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

On 06/09/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Gary Kirk wrote:

I don't understand how this works with $wgLocalDatabases in order to

set

user rights on other wikis I operate. Is there a step-by-step guide

and

preequisites? Does the database username and password have to be the

same on

all? Does the Makesysop extension need to be installed on all wikis? Please help if you can.

- the value listed in $wgDBname in the other wiki's LocalSettings.php? * If not all databases are on the same server, add entries to

$wgAlternateMaster indicating which dbs are on which hosts. * Makesysop extension should be enabled at least available at a master location, but doesn't necessarily have to be everywhere. Good luck! -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org ) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Gary Kirk

Gary Kirk

4:38 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

Oh hold on. How do I make myself in to part of the group "stewards"? On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

On 06/09/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org > wrote:

Gary Kirk wrote:

I don't understand how this works with $wgLocalDatabases in order to

set

user rights on other wikis I operate. Is there a step-by-step guide

and

preequisites? Does the database username and password have to be the

same on

all? Does the Makesysop extension need to be installed on all wikis? Please help if you can.

- the value listed in $wgDBname in the other wiki's LocalSettings.php? * If not all databases are on the same server, add entries to

$wgAlternateMaster indicating which dbs are on which hosts. * Makesysop extension should be enabled at least available at a master location, but doesn't necessarily have to be everywhere. Good luck! -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org ) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Gary Kirk

Thomas Dalton

5 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Oh hold on. How do I make myself in to part of the group "stewards"?

The account you created during installation should already be a crat and can give permissions to anyone on the local wiki.

Gary Kirk

5:13 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

Ah, maybe I was using my non-crat account? I'll check, thanks :). On 9/6/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Oh hold on. How do I make myself in to part of the group "stewards"?

The account you created during installation should already be a crat and can give permissions to anyone on the local wiki. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

-- Gary Kirk

Gary Kirk

5:23 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

I used a 'crat account and at Special:Userrights was told the action I requested was limited to the group 'Stewards'. On 9/6/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Ah, maybe I was using my non-crat account? I'll check, thanks :). On 9/6/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Oh hold on. How do I make myself in to part of the group "stewards"?

-- Gary Kirk

Thomas Dalton

5:25 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

I used a 'crat account and at Special:Userrights was told the action I requested was limited to the group 'Stewards'.

Only stewards can appoint stewards? That could be an issue. You might need to change something in LocalSettings.php.

Thomas Dalton

5:30 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I used a 'crat account and at Special:Userrights was told the action I requested was limited to the group 'Stewards'.

Only stewards can appoint stewards? That could be an issue. You might need to change something in LocalSettings.php.

I've just checked. The default seems to be to let crats do whatever they like. Have you set $wgAddGroups in LocalSettings.php? If so, you'll need to add steward to the array.

Thomas Dalton

5:24 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Ah, maybe I was using my non-crat account? I'll check, thanks :).

Remember, you want Special:Userrights, not Special:Makesysop.

Rob Church

5:27 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

On 06/09/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

On 06/09/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Ah, maybe I was using my non-crat account? I'll check, thanks :).

Remember, you want Special:Userrights, not Special:Makesysop.

The Makesysop extension disables Special:Userrights for non-stewards. You need to grant yourself steward rights in advance via direct manipulation of the user_rights table in the database. Rob Church

Thomas Dalton

5:33 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

...

The Makesysop extension disables Special:Userrights for non-stewards. You need to grant yourself steward rights in advance via direct manipulation of the user_rights table in the database.

Ah. It should say that on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Makesysop

Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

6:09 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Changing user names in the DB

Can usernames be changed? I know users cannot be deleted and I do not want to do that, but we have a situation where the authentication mechanism is moving from local accounts created in the wiki to an external authentication mechanism, so, for example, user "joe" is user "joed" in the external authentication mechanism. Is there a way to change the user "joe" to "joed" in the wiki database? The page histories can show either user ID, that is not important. Also, I'll need to set all the user passwords to null. I suspect I'll need to do that through an SQL routine but if there is a better way... Thanks in advance for any help or ideas... -Jim

Gary Kirk

6:26 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Changing user names in the DB

Bureaucrats can remand users if you install the Renameuser extension from mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser Hope this helps, I don't know about passwords. Gary On 9/6/07, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov> wrote:

...

-- Gary Kirk

Gary Kirk

6:45 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Changing user names in the DB

Apologies, I meant rename not remand :S. On 9/6/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

-- Gary Kirk

Rob Church

6:36 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Changing user names in the DB

On 06/09/07, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov> wrote:

...

The RenameUser extension is the "correct" method to rename user accounts and update all the various page histories, etc. You'd need to resort to a bit of manual SQL to reset the passwords, though. Rob Church

Schmid, Wolfgang

4 Oct 4 Oct

10:23 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

Hello list, I want to show a different page content depending on the login state of an user, i.e. similar to extension ParserFunctions {{#If <user is logged in> | content for logged in users | content for unknown users }} Is there any possibility to determine from within a wiki page if an user is logged on or not? If the user is logged in, I want to address this user with the real/login name. I remember there's at least a solution for part 2 of my question. But I can't find it. I'm using wikis with version 1.6.10, 1.9.x, 1.10.x. Thanks for your help Wolfgang

Jim Hu

5:05 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

$wgUser->isLoggedIn() but you'll run into page caching issues. Jim On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

...

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

Jean-Lou Dupont

5:11 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

There is a way to deal 'parser cache' issue with this: [[Extension:ParserPhase2]] jld. Jim Hu wrote:

...

$wgUser->isLoggedIn() but you'll run into page caching issues. Jim On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Schmid, Wolfgang

5 Oct 5 Oct

8:24 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

@Jim what you propose is a php based solution but I'm a beginner in php programming and I'm looking for a wiki based solution without programming own php code if possible. @Jean-Lou I took a look at your Extension:ParserPhase2, but I don't understand how to use it to solve my problem. Could you send me a short example. There's another problem too, this extention works with MW 1.10, 1.11, but I'm using some older wikis with version 1.6 (php4) and 1.9.x. Does this extentsion need php5 and did you try to implement it under older wiki versions?

...

-----Original Message----- From: Jean-Lou Dupont [mailto:jeanlou.dupont@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:11 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not There is a way to deal 'parser cache' issue with this: [[Extension:ParserPhase2]] jld. Jim Hu wrote:

$wgUser->isLoggedIn() but you'll run into page caching issues. Jim On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Schmid, Wolfgang wrote: > Hello list, > > I want to show a different page content depending on the login > state of > an user, > i.e. similar to extension ParserFunctions > {{#If <user is logged in> | content for logged in users |

content for

> unknown users }} > > Is there any possibility to determine from within a wiki

page if an

user is logged on or not? If the user is logged in, I want to address this user with the real/login name. I remember there's at least a solution for part 2 of my question. But I can't find it. I'm using wikis with version 1.6.10, 1.9.x, 1.10.x. Thanks for your help Wolfgang _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Jean-Lou Dupont

11:19 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

Yes it need PHP5. sorry, Jean-Lou Dupont. Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

...

content for

> unknown users }} > > Is there any possibility to determine from within a wiki >

page if an

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Schmid, Wolfgang

11:31 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

I can upgrade wikis from 1.9 to 1.10 (not the 1.6). If this is done how can I use this extension for these wikis to fulfill my desire?

...

-----Original Message----- From: Jean-Lou Dupont [mailto:jeanlou.dupont@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 1:19 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not Yes it need PHP5. sorry, Jean-Lou Dupont. Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

understand

how to use it to solve my problem. Could you send me a short example. There's another problem too, this extention works with MW

1.10, 1.11,

but I'm using some older wikis with version 1.6 (php4) and 1.9.x. Does this extentsion need php5 and did you try to implement it under older wiki versions? > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Lou Dupont [mailto:jeanlou.dupont@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:11 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending > on user is logged in or not > > There is a way to deal 'parser cache' issue with this: > [[Extension:ParserPhase2]] > jld. > > Jim Hu wrote: > >> $wgUser->isLoggedIn() >> >> but you'll run into page caching issues. >> >> Jim >> >> On Oct 4, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Schmid, Wolfgang wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I want to show a different page content depending on the login >>> state of >>> an user, >>> i.e. similar to extension ParserFunctions >>> {{#If <user is logged in> | content for logged in users | >>> > content for > >>> unknown users }} >>> >>> Is there any possibility to determine from within a wiki >>> > page if an > >>> user >>> is logged on or not? >>> >>> If the user is logged in, I want to address this user with the >>> real/login name. >>> >>> I remember there's at least a solution for part 2 of my

question.

> But I > can't find it. > > I'm using wikis with version 1.6.10, 1.9.x, 1.10.x. > > Thanks for your help > > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Platonides

6 Oct 6 Oct

9:41 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

...

@Jim what you propose is a php based solution but I'm a beginner in php programming and I'm looking for a wiki based solution without programming own php code if possible.

The following code included from LocalSettigns.php would do: $wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfIsLoggedFunctions'; function wfIsLoggedFunctions() { global $wgParser, $wgExtIsLoggedFunctions; $wgExtIsLoggedFunctions = new ExtIsLoggedFunctions(); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( 'iflogged', array( &$wgExtIsLoggedFunctions , 'ifLogged' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( 'islogged', array( &$wgExtIsLoggedFunctions , 'isLogged' ) ); } class wgExtIsLoggedFunctions { function ifLogged( &$parser, $then = '', $else = '' ) { global $wgUser; $parser->disableCache(); if ($wgUser->isLoggedIn()) { return $then; } else { return $else; } } function isLogged( &$parser, $then = '', $else = '' ) { global $wgUser; $parser->disableCache(); return $wgUser->isLoggedIn(); } } ?> Usage: {{#iflogged: Congratulations, you're a registered user.|You're anonymous. Go to create an account!}} I also added #islogged to return the raw boolean value.

Schmid, Wolfgang

8 Oct 8 Oct

8:12 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not

I think this is really what I want. I added this 'extension' on test installations MW 1.8.2 and 1.11.0. Both wikis are installed on a windows host. Calling the wikis results in the following php warning: Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in ...\languages\Language.php on line 1153 (for MW 1.11.0) This warning occurs in function getMagic: function getMagic( &$mw ) { ... line 1153: $mw->mSynonyms = array_slice( $rawEntry, 1 ); } Creating a test page with {{#iflogged: A | B }} the 'iflogged' function is not recognized but treated as normal text. Therefore it doesn't show the wanted result 'A' or 'B' but the raw page content '{{#iflogged: A | B }}'. May be there's something missing in the code. Do you have further hints what's going wrong.

...

-----Original Message----- From: Platonides [mailto:Platonides@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:41 PM To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user is logged in or not Schmid, Wolfgang wrote:

@Jim what you propose is a php based solution but I'm a beginner in php programming and I'm looking for a wiki based solution without programming own php code if possible.

Schmid, Wolfgang

10 Oct 10 Oct

9:46 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user islogged in or not

The magic words has to define still $wgHooks['LanguageGetMagic'][] = 'wfIsLoggedFunctionsMagic'; function wfIsLoggedFunctionsMagic( &$magicWords, $langCode ) { $magicWords['iflogged'] = array(0,'iflogged'); $magicWords['islogged'] = array(0,'islogged'); return true; } Now it works as desired.

...

-----Original Message----- From: Schmid, Wolfgang Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:12 AM To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Conditional page content depending on user islogged in or not I think this is really what I want. I added this 'extension' on test installations MW 1.8.2 and 1.11.0. Both wikis are installed on a windows host. Calling the wikis results in the following php warning: Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in ...\languages\Language.php on line 1153 (for MW 1.11.0) This warning occurs in function getMagic: function getMagic( &$mw ) { ... line 1153: $mw->mSynonyms = array_slice( $rawEntry, 1 ); } Creating a test page with {{#iflogged: A | B }} the 'iflogged' function is not recognized but treated as normal text. Therefore it doesn't show the wanted result 'A' or 'B' but the raw page content '{{#iflogged: A | B }}'. May be there's something missing in the code. Do you have further hints what's going wrong.

@Jim what you propose is a php based solution but I'm a beginner in php programming and I'm looking for a wiki based solution without programming own php code if possible.

_______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Brion Vibber

6 Sep 6 Sep

5:59 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Makesysop extension (steward)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kirk wrote:

...

OK, in wiki1 where Makesysop is installed and shares the DB username and password I have: $wgLocalDatabases = array('gkirk_mwSVN' => 'garykirk');

Wikis are identified by the database name. Try: $wgLocalDatabases = array('gkirk_mwSVN');

...

where gkirk_mwSVN is the name of the database of wiki2. On wiki1 at Special:Makesysop I type Test2@garykirk and get: *User rights for "Test2@garykirk" could not be set. (Did you enter the name correctly?)*

Test2@gkirk_mwSVN That mixed case might give you trouble, too. - -- brion @ wikimedia.org)

...PGP SIGNATURE...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG4D/uwRnhpk1wk44RAg4KAJ0alrUvJUhLWTqU9dJOUmPP9LcYCgCeKyX/ Chk1Z0feY0zVf+gXuXm5zx4= =peCF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

6043

days inactive

6077

days old

mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Manage subscription

26 comments

9 participants

tags (0)

participants (9)

Brion Vibber
Gary Kirk
Jean-Lou Dupont
Jim Hu
Platonides
Rob Church
Schmid, Wolfgang
Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
Thomas Dalton