Hello all!
I've just started fiddling with MediaWiki this week. I'm completely new to building a wiki, and approaching it by just jumping right in. I have a little bit of coding experience and I'm learning about PHP as I go.
I would like to know if there's anyone willing to help me with some of my newbie problems. I don't want to bombard the list with really simple problems if I don't have to. I'd really appreciate the help.
Thanks!
Ingrid
Hi,
Feel free to ask the most questions on this list, most people here will always try to help and we are happy to teach.
Hello all, Is there an extension that would help with copying/moving a mw site to a different domain? I don't know how easy it would be to copy not just the articles but uploaded files, such as images, videos.
What about with regard to SMW? To export this semantic data and bring it into the site at the new domain, there would be a need to create and populate the tables that are specific to smw. I don't know if this has been done or not. If there isn't an extension for this, what would be the process? I mean when I first setup my mw site it didn't have smw, so the SMW Bundle was added later. I don't know if it would be best to do an install of mw, (after exporting and saving the db on wiki1) then import the db from wiki1 into the db for wiki2. This might work since the paths and such in the config files are based on variables and not absolute paths. Thanks in advance for any help, Bruce
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Ingrid Schneider wrote:
Hello all!
I've just started fiddling with MediaWiki this week. I'm completely new to building a wiki, and approaching it by just jumping right in. I have a little bit of coding experience and I'm learning about PHP as I go.
I would like to know if there's anyone willing to help me with some of my newbie problems. I don't want to bombard the list with really simple problems if I don't have to. I'd really appreciate the help.
Thanks!
Ingrid
You can look at the documentation at www.mediawiki.org, eg. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
But if you don't understand something or don't find an answer for your doubt, don't be afraid of asking.
We use a locally-hosted instance of mediawiki to support a customer service team. The manager would like to add a daily blog to the site.
Ideally, the blog articles would be a short list, maybe from the last ten days, and could be located inside a box on the main page.
Can anyone recommend an extension to do this? Or, would a portal page be better for this purpose?
Thanks for any advice you may have!
Evelyn Yoder http://www.appswhisperer.com
I'm the developer of the Wikilog extension, that seems to be what you are looking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog
Regards.
On 01/-10/-28163 04:59 PM, Eyoder wrote:
We use a locally-hosted instance of mediawiki to support a customer service team. The manager would like to add a daily blog to the site.
Ideally, the blog articles would be a short list, maybe from the last ten days, and could be located inside a box on the main page.
Can anyone recommend an extension to do this? Or, would a portal page be better for this purpose?
Thanks for any advice you may have!
Evelyn Yoder http://www.appswhisperer.com
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Juliano F. Ravasi wrote:
I'm the developer of the Wikilog extension, that seems to be what you are looking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog
Regards.
It looks interesting. I tried installing it, but the maintenance script barfed:
atlanta# php update.php PHP Warning: require_once(extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php' (include_path='/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/includes:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/languages:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141
But the files *do* exist. What's up?
Thanks!
David Benfell wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Juliano F. Ravasi wrote:
I'm the developer of the Wikilog extension, that seems to be what you are looking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog
Regards.
It looks interesting. I tried installing it, but the maintenance script barfed:
atlanta# php update.php PHP Warning: require_once(extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php' (include_path='/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/includes:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/languages:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141
But the files *do* exist. What's up?
Thanks!
You added the require_once with a relative path: require_once("extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php");
making it absolute will fix that: require_once("$IP/extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php");
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Platonides wrote:
David Benfell wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Juliano F. Ravasi wrote:
I'm the developer of the Wikilog extension, that seems to be what you are looking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog
Regards.
It looks interesting. I tried installing it, but the maintenance script barfed:
atlanta# php update.php PHP Warning: require_once(extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php' (include_path='/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/includes:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/languages:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141
But the files *do* exist. What's up?
Thanks!
You added the require_once with a relative path: require_once("extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php");
making it absolute will fix that: require_once("$IP/extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php");
Thanks! I have now gotten through the installation of the Wikilog. I haven't actually started playing with it yet, so we'll see how that goes....
Thanks!
On -10-01--28163 16:59, David Benfell wrote:
It looks interesting. I tried installing it, but the maintenance script barfed:
atlanta# php update.php PHP Warning: require_once(extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'extensions/Wikilog/Wikilog.php' (include_path='/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/includes:/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/languages:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/LocalSettings.php on line 141
But the files *do* exist. What's up?
Are you sure? Check specifically if there is a directory or symlink "/var/lib/mediawiki-1.16.0/extensions/Wikilog" in your system. Note that the distribution package unpacks to a "Wikilog-1.1.x" directory, and you have to rename it or create a symlink yourself.
Thanks! This looks to be what I need. I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes. -e
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Juliano F. Ravasi ml@juliano.info wrote:
I'm the developer of the Wikilog extension, that seems to be what you are looking for:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog
Regards.
On 01/-10/-28163 04:59 PM, Eyoder wrote:
We use a locally-hosted instance of mediawiki to support a customer service team. The manager would like to add a daily blog to the site.
Ideally, the blog articles would be a short list, maybe from the last ten days, and could be located inside a box on the main page.
Can anyone recommend an extension to do this? Or, would a portal page be better for this purpose?
Thanks for any advice you may have!
Evelyn Yoder http://www.appswhisperer.com
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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:46 -0700, Eyoder wrote:
We use a locally-hosted instance of mediawiki to support a customer service team. The manager would like to add a daily blog to the site.
Ideally, the blog articles would be a short list, maybe from the last ten days, and could be located inside a box on the main page.
Check out the WikimediaFoundation page (http://wikimediafoundation.org) for an example of this. There is a section ("Wikimedia Blog") with links to the headlines from the blog. I'm in the process of updating this so that the list of headlines will be automatically generated with RSS by adapting the RSS extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS) If you're interested in what I come up with, let me know.
Mark
Hello,
The wikimediafoundation.org uses a template that is updated by humans not by a extension....
http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blogbox&action...
2010/10/15 Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:46 -0700, Eyoder wrote:
We use a locally-hosted instance of mediawiki to support a customer service team. The manager would like to add a daily blog to the site.
Ideally, the blog articles would be a short list, maybe from the last ten days, and could be located inside a box on the main page.
Check out the WikimediaFoundation page (http://wikimediafoundation.org) for an example of this. There is a section ("Wikimedia Blog") with links to the headlines from the blog. I'm in the process of updating this so that the list of headlines will be automatically generated with RSS by adapting the RSS extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS) If you're interested in what I come up with, let me know.
Mark
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