Wikitech-l February 2006

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MediaWiki to Latex Converter
by Hugo Vincent 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems.

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MySQL5 uprade
by admin Yellowikis 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hi everyone, We are running: * MediaWiki: 1.5.5 * PHP: 4.4.2-0.dotdeb.1 (apache) * MySQL: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge2-log Planning to upgrade to MySQL 5.0. Any issues/problems that we should be aware of? (yes, we plan to do a full back up first) Paul -- Yellowikis is to Yellow Pages, as Wikipedia is to The Encyclopedia Britannica

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How do i hide users from User List?
by Jon Savian 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hello How do i go about hiding users on the User List page? Since the mediawiki documentation says not to delete suers from the database, i figure hiding them on the webpage is the next best thing. Even removing the User List page from the special pages would work too. how can i do this?

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One installation - Many sub-directories
by Jim 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Sorry if you saw this on theMediawiki list but I am trying again: Is there anyway to install Mediawiki once and have it use the directory structure of the operating system so I can control rights to even see the text using permissions on the directories. For example install to: mydomain.com/wiki but have different sections of the wiki exist in different subdirectories mydomain.com/public/ mydomain.com/private/ mydomain.com/sports/ mydomain.com/work/ etc. I was trying to figure out a way to do this using the languages type stuff public.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/public/ private.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/private/ sports.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/sports/ work.mydomain.com redirect to mydomain.com/work/ Or must I install mediawiki multiple times to each of the subdirectories? Thx in adv, Jim -- Jim (trodel(a)gmail.com) "Our love may not always be reciprocated, or even appreciated, but love is never wasted" - Neal A Maxwell ---Intersted in Gmail - let me know I have invites--- -- Jim (trodel(a)gmail.com) "Our love may not always be reciprocated, or even appreciated, but love is never wasted" - Neal A Maxwell ---Intersted in Gmail - let me know I have invites---

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Approved requests for new languages - appeal to developers
by Vitaly Volkov 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Dear developers, please have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Approved_requests_for_new_languages. There are 13 languages waiting for their wikis to be created, some of them for THREE MOTNS. It's no wonder that people, who would like to work for wikis in these langiages get frustrated and angry. I've already asked developers to pay attention to this sad fact in meta wiki babel, but it seems not to have any effect. Please, don't forget the aim of wikipedia - create encyclopedia in EVERY langiage! Vitaly Volkov aka Kneiphof, admin and bureaucrat of Russian wikipedia.

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-02-28
by brion＠pobox.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test BUG 361: URL within URL, not bracketed... FAILED! Running test External links: invalid character... FAILED! Running test Bug 2702: Mismatched <i> and <a> tags are invalid... FAILED! Running test A table with no data.... FAILED! Running test A table with nothing but a caption... FAILED! Running test Link containing "#<" and "#>" % as a hex sequences... FAILED! Running test Template with thumb image (wiht link in description)... FAILED! Running test Link to image page... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887: A ISBN with a thumbnail... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887: A <math> with a thumbnail... FAILED! Running test BUG 561: {{/Subpage}}... FAILED! Running test Simple category... FAILED! Running test Section headings with TOC... FAILED! Running test Media link with nasty text... FAILED! Running test Bug 2095: link with pipe and three closing brackets... FAILED! Running test Parser hook: static parser hook inside a comment... FAILED! Running test Sanitizer: Validating the contents of the id attribute (bug 4515)... FAILED! Passed 271 of 288 tests (94.1%) FAILED!

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Updating rev_deleted as a bitfield
by Brion Vibber 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

In light of the past few months' experience in what kind of revision-deletion people would _like_ to be doing if we had it finished, I'm starting to complete implementation of rev_deleted, changing it from the originally planned flag to a bitfield: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bitfields_for_rev_deleted The bitfield gives us some more options to suppress comments and usernames where necessary while keeping them in history in more common cases. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Thumbnail and SVG regeneration
by Brion Vibber 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

I've started a process of forcing old rendered thumbnails to regenerate. This will gradually replace old rendered images over the next couple days as several issues have been fixed recently: * Many PNG thumbs defaulted to unnecessarily high bit depth, wasting bandwidth * JPEG thumbs were at a somewhat higher quality than needed, wasting bandwidth * Some PNG and JPEG thumbs were sized a pixel off due to mismatches in how MediaWiki and ImageMagick rounded the resized aspect ratio; these could get resized in the client, leading to extra blurry scaling * Lots of SVG rendering problems fixed by upgrading to librsvg 2.14.0 Since invalidating *all* thumbs brought things to a halt doing nothing but rerendering, I've currently got it invalidating thumbs over a year old, and will be moving up the cutoff date gradually over the next day or two. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-02-27
by brion＠pobox.com 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

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PNG with alpha channel
by Rudy Koot 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

How should PNG images with an alpha channel be handled? I've created some nice images, but now IE6 users are complaining that they have a black background. If I convert them to GIF/PNG-8 images they have an ugly edge, which doesn't seem fair to Firefox/Opera/IE7 users. Is there a better solution, such as MediaWiki automatically converting images for IE6 users? Cheers, Ruud

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