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24 Jul 24 Jul

10:06 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Display of categories

Hi, sorry for that, but since I still do not have a solution for the problem, I'd like to push the tread up. zaydo zaydo wrote:

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Hi, my Wiki contains some categories with more than 200 entries. Registered/logged-on users do not have any problems seeing all entries of a categorie (special categories, stepping through them with 'next 200'). But users, who are not logged-on, are not able to step through the entries of a category. Any idea why? Thanks in advance, zaydo

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8:59 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Display of categories

Hi Jim Hu, yes. The "next 200" articles in a category will only be displayed when logged in. For users who are not logged i, the URL in the browser is correct (...wiki/index.php?title=category:Elektrik&from=xxxx), but it will not load. zaydo Jim Hu wrote:

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Do you require being logged in to do anything? On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:06 PM, zaydo wrote:

Hi, sorry for that, but since I still do not have a solution for the problem, I'd like to push the tread up. zaydo zaydo wrote:

Hi, my Wiki contains some categories with more than 200 entries. Registered/logged-on users do not have any problems seeing all entries of a categorie (special categories, stepping through them with 'next 200'). But users, who are not logged-on, are not able to step through the entries of a category. Any idea why? Thanks in advance, zaydo

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1:19 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Display of categories

Hi JH, sorry, misunderstanding. Yes, users have to be logged in to be able to edit pages. But all are allowed to view pages without log-in. Well, it is a 'complaint' of some users telling me that simply nothing happens when "next 200" is selected. It tried it myself with the newest versions of IE and Firefox and got a bit different result: the request (URL) is definitely sent (appears in the Apache log file), and the browser is loading a page. But that page is always the one with the first 200 entries. Then I switched off all the extensions (NewestPages, PDF), as you recommended: I actually could load the next 200 entries. But only exactly one time; after that same behaviour as above. And it did not work with another browser (with emptied cache), when I have tried it with the other browser once before. And, when I successfully loaded the 'next 200' I got stuck exactly there. No chance to go back to the first 200 or advance another 'next 200'. Being logged in, there are still no such problems. Very strange... The actual version is MediaWiki 1.10.0 with PHP 5.2.0-8 and MySQL: 5.0.32 on Apache 2.2. Thanks, zaydo Jim Hu wrote:

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I meant - did you configure your wiki so that users have to be logged in to edit, view, etc. I took a look around the Category page code, since it's something I'm interested, and I can't see why this would happen. Since the URL is correct, it looks like the Category page isn't getting the parameter from $wgRequest. But I can't see where being logged in would matter. When you say it will not load... it crashes? Or just goes to the first 200? If it crashes, what's in the error logs? Also: what version of MW and does this happen if you turn off any installed extensions? JH On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:59 AM, zaydo wrote:

Hi Jim Hu, yes. The "next 200" articles in a category will only be displayed when logged in. For users who are not logged i, the URL in the browser is correct (...wiki/index.php?title=category:Elektrik&from=xxxx), but it will not load. zaydo Jim Hu wrote:

Do you require being logged in to do anything? On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:06 PM, zaydo wrote:

Hi, sorry for that, but since I still do not have a solution for the problem, I'd like to push the tread up. zaydo zaydo wrote: > > Hi, > > my Wiki contains some categories with more than 200 entries. > Registered/logged-on users do not have any problems seeing all > entries of > a categorie (special categories, stepping through them with 'next > 200'). > But users, who are not logged-on, are not able to step through the > entries > of a category. > > Any idea why? > > > Thanks in advance, zaydo > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-of- categories-tf3974777.html#a11770881 Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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5:36 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Display of categories

Hi Jim, nice trick ;-) But sad result: the request comes through. I echo'ed $from and $until, too, and both showed the correct content. But the page with the next 200 is not displayed. CategoryPage.php uses $wgUser in a way. Might there be a problem? Anyway, I increased the value of $wgCategoryPagingLimit to 600 in DefaultSettings.php as a 'quick hack' so that my users are satisfied ;-) zaydo, who really appriciates your help! Jim Hu wrote:

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The other question besides extensions is whether you have apache rules that might affect the behavior. If you don't mind seeing extra junk on the page while you debug, here's a really kludgy way I debug. Add this code snippet to the CategoryPage.php code to see if the info is arriving: echo " box:<pre>";print_r ($wgRequest);echo "</pre> "; I'd put it in closeShowCategory or in view. The long set of breaks is to push the output below the logo. I'm sure there is a cleaner way to do this; writing to a file or to the logs. But I like to do this lazy way of debugging on the copy of MW on my laptop. If I want a really extensive display, I use: echo " box:<pre>";print_r ($this);echo "</pre> "; I suppose it would be even better to use a real debugger... but this is the kind of thing that happens when a molecular biologist tries to become a programmer without actual training. ; ) Jim On Jul 26, 2007, at 6:19 AM, zaydo wrote:

Hi JH, sorry, misunderstanding. Yes, users have to be logged in to be able to edit pages. But all are allowed to view pages without log-in. Well, it is a 'complaint' of some users telling me that simply nothing happens when "next 200" is selected. It tried it myself with the newest versions of IE and Firefox and got a bit different result: the request (URL) is definitely sent (appears in the Apache log file), and the browser is loading a page. But that page is always the one with the first 200 entries. Then I switched off all the extensions (NewestPages, PDF), as you recommended: I actually could load the next 200 entries. But only exactly one time; after that same behaviour as above. And it did not work with another browser (with emptied cache), when I have tried it with the other browser once before. And, when I successfully loaded the 'next 200' I got stuck exactly there. No chance to go back to the first 200 or advance another 'next 200'. Being logged in, there are still no such problems. Very strange... The actual version is MediaWiki 1.10.0 with PHP 5.2.0-8 and MySQL: 5.0.32 on Apache 2.2. Thanks, zaydo Jim Hu wrote:

I meant - did you configure your wiki so that users have to be logged in to edit, view, etc. I took a look around the Category page code, since it's something I'm interested, and I can't see why this would happen. Since the URL is correct, it looks like the Category page isn't getting the parameter from $wgRequest. But I can't see where being logged in would matter. When you say it will not load... it crashes? Or just goes to the first 200? If it crashes, what's in the error logs? Also: what version of MW and does this happen if you turn off any installed extensions? JH On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:59 AM, zaydo wrote:

Hi Jim Hu, yes. The "next 200" articles in a category will only be displayed when logged in. For users who are not logged i, the URL in the browser is correct (...wiki/index.php?title=category:Elektrik&from=xxxx), but it will not load. zaydo Jim Hu wrote: > > Do you require being logged in to do anything? > > On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:06 PM, zaydo wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> sorry for that, but since I still do not have a solution for the >> problem, >> I'd like to push the tread up. >> >> zaydo >> >> >> >> zaydo wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> my Wiki contains some categories with more than 200 entries. >>> Registered/logged-on users do not have any problems seeing all >>> entries of >>> a categorie (special categories, stepping through them with 'next >>> 200'). >>> But users, who are not logged-on, are not able to step through >>> the >>> entries >>> of a category. >>> >>> Any idea why? >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance, zaydo >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-of- >> categories-tf3974777.html#a11770881 >> Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-of- categories-tf3974777.html#a11777474 Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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