From: mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 14 To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:45:31 +0000 Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mediawiki-l-request(a)Wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mediawiki-l-owner(a)Wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Installation problems (Albert Steiner) 2. Edit Toolbar (Michael D. Peters) 3. Re: Mediawiki 1.7.1: which version of Apache & PHP should be used? (Jean-Lou Dupont) 4. Customising my MediaWiki (Ikke Snoeckx) 5. User Authentication/Validation/Rights (Mopster) 6. PLural Transformation for Upper Sorbian (Michael Wolf) 7. Re: User Authentication/Validation/Rights (wiki(a)avenarius.sk) 8. Re: PLural Transformation for Upper Sorbian (wiki(a)avenarius.sk) 9. Re: Opening Images in new window (Imtiyaz S.) 10. Re: User Authentication/Validation/Rights (Gordon Joly) 11. Re: Interlanguage Links (wiki(a)avenarius.sk) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:04:43 +0200 From: "Albert Steiner" &lt;asteiner(a)gmx.ch&gt; Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Installation problems To: "'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'" &lt;mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: <000001c6b7c6$8e0f1ac0$0201a8c0@Albi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear all I just successfully installed MediaWiki on my server; there were no information that the installation was not correct. However, unfortunately, when going to the page /index.php I see the content of the file LocalSettings.php :-( What went wrong? Any help on this is appreciated. Regards, Albert ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:02:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael D. Peters" &lt;michael.peters(a)lazarusalliance.com&gt; Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Edit Toolbar To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;45594.74.128.1.3.1154714546.squirrel(a)Exchanger.lazarusalliance.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 I have found many questions but not an answer that makes sense to me yet concerning how to edit the "toolbox" navigation sidebar. I have found information to successfully edit the MediaWiki:Sidebar but nothing else. Is it as simple as editing MediaWiki:Sidebar? What is the page name to edit or is it more complicated? This has been frustrating to say the least so anyone who might enlighten me I would be grateful. Other than that I really like the MediaWiki software. I am located here: Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki: http://www.lazarusalliance.com/horsewiki/ -- Best regards, Michael ----------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. Lazarus Alliance archives all electronic messages for a period of three years. http://lazarusalliance.com/policy/ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:43:42 -0400 From: Jean-Lou Dupont &lt;mediawiki_mailinglist(a)jldupont.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki 1.7.1: which version of Apache & PHP should be used? To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;!&amp;!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAFz5HzFbyktJmpSVl/p5Ri7igAAAEAAAAJBv7ls4T1FMnIMmi/+bWBQBAAAAAA==(a)jldupont.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 FYI: I found a mitigation plan for dealing with Apache Server hangs -- stop Windows from reporting the crash through a popup dialog that *requires* user intervention. My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced --> Error Reporting: 1) Disable Error Reporting 2) Uncheck "But notify me when critical errors occur" Using this configuration, the Apache Server restarts unattended. Until somebody fixes this bug. Hope this helps somebody else, jld. PS: I still get tons of errors in my Apache Log, very random "pattern". _____ From: Jean-Lou Dupont [mailto:mediawiki_mailinglist@jldupont.com] Sent: August 3, 2006 08:23 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: Mediawiki 1.7.1: which version of Apache & PHP should be used? Which version of Apache & PHP should be used in order to have a stable Mediawiki 1.7.1 install on Windows XP? I have looked at the installation procedure on Mediawiki.org but somehow I am still having Apache error code 20024 + crash because of an error in one of PHP5 module. So, what are you folks using?? jld. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/406 - Release Date: 02/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/407 - Release Date: 03/08/2006 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:51:46 +0200 From: Ikke Snoeckx &lt;sebastiaan.snoeckx(a)telenet.be&gt; Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Customising my MediaWiki To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;44D3B362.40006(a)telenet.be&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello all I'd like to customise some of my Wiki pages, alas, I don't know how (am not much of a PHP expert)... 1. I have this little error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function text() in C:\Server\htdocs\\wiki\skins\MonoBook.php on line 61 How to solve this? 2. How can I change the "Main_Page" to something else? Additionally, I have a bilingual wiki so I need two names for the Main_Page both accessible 3. How to change the 'Talk:Article' to something different (i.e. like they did with the translations of Wikipedia) 4. I have written a SSI-footer and header, however, I can't get them into including them in my index.php (php require('foo.bar') function), how do I do this, or can't I? 5. Can I change 'index.php' to 'wiki.php' w/o any problems? (the reason being, i'd like my wiki to be placed in my main directory, where my index.php already exists) 6. I've never been fond on the WikiFormatting ([[internal link]], ''italic text'', '''bold text''', etc), so I prefer using HTML in my Wiki, though, HTML is disabled by default... How can I enable all possible HTML and disable the WikiFormatting (don't argue or ask why)... I guess that was it for now... Thanks in advance ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:01:41 +0200 From: "Mopster" &lt;Mopster(a)burningseacommunity.com&gt; Subject: [Mediawiki-l] User Authentication/Validation/Rights To: &lt;MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;EBEPLLBJCDEPOINDJCJMKEGBCHAA.Mopster(a)burningseacommunity.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I'm setting up a wiki which isn't allowed to be viewed by anyone but a select group of people (which I want to be able to select from registered people). I've already found a way to prevent anonymous people from reading or editing anything (redirect to login page). But I even want registered users not be able to read/edit anything unless they're allowed/validated by me. Is there a way to have registered people go trough an admin validation before they're completely registered ? I also tried making a new usergroup with all the original user access and set user permissions on false. But this didn't quite work since it also didn't allow me to access anything. -Kenny ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:57:39 +0200 From: Michael Wolf &lt;milupo(a)sorbzilla.de&gt; Subject: [Mediawiki-l] PLural Transformation for Upper Sorbian To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;44D3C2D3.2010903(a)sorbzilla.de&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Hi, I'm preparing the LanguageHsb.php for Upper Sorbian and need a correctly working plural transformation in this file. I've already tested the solutions of other Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Croatian), but their requirements are some others. Upper Sorbian has following requirements: Numeral Form 1 Singular 2 Dual 3, 4 Nominative plural 0 and from 5 Genitive plural From the Slavic languages I tested, only Slovenian has still a dual. The tested solutions I modified don't work, they use the default form only. A differentiation doesn't happen. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance, Michael Wolf ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:10:24 +0200 From: wiki(a)avenarius.sk Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] User Authentication/Validation/Rights To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;1635246167.20060805001024(a)avenarius.sk&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Friday, 4th August 2006 at 23:01:41 (GMT +0200), Mopster wrote: How come? Aren't you the sysop of your wiki to whom those prohibitive settings should not apply? -- Yours, Alex. [processed by "The Bat!", Version 3.80.06] ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:10:16 +0200 From: wiki(a)avenarius.sk Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] PLural Transformation for Upper Sorbian To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;70880407.20060805001016(a)avenarius.sk&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Friday, 4th August 2006 at 23:57:39 (GMT +0200), Michael Wolf wrote: Nope, I'm afraid you need to give up. Numerals of Slavic languages simply are not taken into account in software such as MediaWiki or phpBB. As far as I know, all Slavic languages follow this rule, that the word "books" is different in "2, 3, 4 books" and "5, 6, 7 etc. books". MediaWiki, phpBB, etc., only allows you to set one form of the noun for "1 book", and another form for "2, 3, 4, 5, 6... books". The result is that for all occurrences of "2, 3, 4 [some object]" in MediaWiki, a false plural form (that for 5, 6, 7...) is displayed. It would be very simple to fix this: just add one more string into the language configuration file, for "2, 3, 4 objects". Or, since you say Slovenian and Upper Sorbian even have extra forms of plural nouns for the numeral 2, we would need 2 extra lines in the language configuration files, in total 4 lines of code for numerals: 1 object 2 objects 3, 4 objects 5, 6, 7 ..... objects But trying to persuade the developers to add those two minuscule lines of code might be a gargantuan task. ;-) -- Yours, Alex. [processed by "The Bat!", Version 3.80.06] ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:14:45 -0700 From: "Imtiyaz S." &lt;imtiyaz_sh(a)hotmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Opening Images in new window To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;BAY111-F39F5594724896E4833B1CCF0500(a)phx.gbl&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Is it possible to open all image description pages in new window when you click on a image/thumbnail in your article? thanks imti ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:26:09 +0100 From: Gordon Joly &lt;gordon.joly(a)pobox.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] User Authentication/Validation/Rights To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;p06230902c0f979b243a6(a)[192.168.116.8]&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" At 00:10 +0200 5/8/06, wiki(a)avenarius.sk wrote: I have suggested this: add to LocalSettings.php (and add users by hand as WikiSysop)... $wgWhitelistRead = array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help"); $wgEnableUserEmail = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['search'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['upload'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['search'] = true; Regards, -- Gordo (aka LoopZilla) gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://pobox.com/~gordo/ http://www.loopzilla.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:34:10 +0200 From: wiki(a)avenarius.sk Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Interlanguage Links To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;748373446.20060805113410(a)avenarius.sk&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tuesday, 1st August 2006 at 23:59:42 (GMT +0200), Filip Maljkovic wrote: Thank you, by following the instructions it was easy to set up interlanguage links. There's a cosmetic problem with our default skin, though, which is Classic. All interlanguage links are flagged as "external". When you switch to the MonoBook skin, they are shown correctly as internal links. In terms of code, MonoBook puts in, for example, <li class="interwiki-en">, while the Classic skin inserts <a class="external"> for all interlanguage links. Our interwiki table only states $1 for iw_url and 1 for iw_local for all language prefixes. Still, all interlanguage links are flagged as "external" in the Classic skin. Would there be any fix for this, or do users preferring the Classic skin have to live with this bug? For an illustration of the problem, here is our Sandbox: http://vincentdepaul.sk/skola/vincentdepaul.sk:Pieskovisko -- Thank you, Alex. 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