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Haim (Howard) Roman

18 Jun 2012 18 Jun '12

4:55 a.m.

Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in read-only mode, i.e., such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of course, for copying wikitext to another article. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev)

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Chad

18 Jun 18 Jun

5:30 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to see the wikitext in read-only mode

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote:

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Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in read-only mode, i.e., such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of course, for copying wikitext to another article.

You could get it via the API. What you're looking for is prop=revisions with rvprop=content[0]. An example query for [[API]] on MediaWiki.org[1]. -Chad [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#revisions_.2F_rv [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titl…

Krinkle

23 Jun 23 Jun

5:50 a.m.

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote:

Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in read-only mode, i.e., such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of

course,

for copying wikitext to another article.

Another way is to click "View source". Which, even in read-only mode, will bring up action=edit. The Edit page will show a protected text area with the wikitext source (but no edit toolbar). The text is not editable but it is selectable and you can copy it to use in another example, as you describe. For example: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=Sandbox/sysop&action=edit -- Krinkle

Haim (Howard) Roman

9:08 p.m.

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Cool, but I don't see it on our pages. Does it appear only on protected pages? Is there some variable to set to enable this feature? I didn't see a guide for this feature, nor did I see an appropriate variable to set. Our versions are: - mediawiki -- 1.15.1 - PHP -- 5.1.6 (apache2handler) - MySQL -- 5.0.95-log - Linux distribution -- CentOS release 5.8 (Final) Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote: > Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in read-only mode,

i.e.,

such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of

course,

for copying wikitext to another article.

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titl…

Alex Monk

10:07 p.m.

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MediaWiki 1.15.1 released 13th July 2009. PHP 5.1.6 released 24th August 2006. Why are these so out of date? On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il>wrote;wrote:

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- mediawiki -- 1.15.1 - PHP -- 5.1.6 (apache2handler)

Haim (Howard) Roman

10:14 p.m.

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We have to update them manually, and compared to the other things we have to do, we never got around to it. That's one of the problems with software that works fine :-) "View source" is nice to have, but nowhere near a high priority. When did that feature get introduced to mediawiki. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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MediaWiki 1.15.1 released 13th July 2009. PHP 5.1.6 released 24th August 2006. Why are these so out of date? On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il

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- mediawiki -- 1.15.1 - PHP -- 5.1.6 (apache2handler)

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Platonides

24 Jun 24 Jun

6:46 p.m.

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On 23/06/12 22:14, Haim (Howard) Roman wrote:

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We have to update them manually, and compared to the other things we have to do, we never got around to it. That's one of the problems with software that works fine :-)

Maybe you should convince CentOS to provide a mediawiki package easy to update :) (disclaimer: I don't know if/how CentOS currently packages mediawiki)

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"View source" is nice to have, but nowhere near a high priority. When did that feature get introduced to mediawiki.

When you can't edit a page, the edit tab is "View source". Why do you fear changing the wikitext? As far as you don't click Save, the text won't be modified. Maybe you could install a gadget which forced you to "press-enable to edit the source".

Mark A. Hershberger

9 p.m.

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On 6/24/2012 12:46 PM, Platonides wrote:

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On 23/06/12 22:14, Haim (Howard) Roman wrote:

We have to update them manually, and compared to the other things we have to do, we never got around to it. That's one of the problems with software that works fine :-)

Maybe you should convince CentOS to provide a mediawiki package easy to update :) (disclaimer: I don't know if/how CentOS currently packages mediawiki)

Earlier, I told Platonides that I would look at the RPMs from Fedora/CentOS/RHEL for MediaWiki in an effort to work more closely with them. The Fedora team has already contacted us about some copyright concerns, so we have a start. Platonides has already done a lot of work with the Debian community, and I'll be working from his comments Debian's MediaWiki packages so we can get some sort of synchronization between packages. I'll try to report back tonight with what I find. Mark.

Mark A. Hershberger

26 Jun 26 Jun

12:10 a.m.

On 06/24/2012 03:00 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

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Platonides has already done a lot of work with the Debian community, and I'll be working from his comments Debian's MediaWiki packages so we can get some sort of synchronization between packages. I'll try to report back tonight with what I find.

It took me a little longer than expected. But the Fedora folks just uploaded their package. I'll be looking at it in a bit, but here is the email from Stephen: The packages will appear below here http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4195057 The package does not do anything other than load new code down.. mainly because trying to work out where the database might be for doing an upgrade etc is near impossible. If a way can be worked out that can do that better I would be willing to test in Fedora. For those of you who are use SuSE, we were asked to review that package today (http://hexm.de/jf) and Platonides gave some feedback. Mark.

Jeremy Baron

24 Jun 24 Jun

6:55 p.m.

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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a 3rd option is action=raw which will give you the complete raw text for a page without serving any HTML at all. 4th option is [[special:export]] -Jeremy

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Alex Monk
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Jeremy Baron
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