Wikitech-l February 2006

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markup in talk pages
by Uwe Brauer 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hello Since I did not find a recommendation about that structure, I ask here. Is it ok to use ---- to indicate the beginning and the end of a contribution to a talk page. Thanks Uwe Brauer

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-02-03
by brion＠pobox.com 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test Definition list with wikilink containing colon... FAILED! 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 Broken link... FAILED! Running test Link to namespaces... FAILED! Running test Piped link to namespace... FAILED! Running test Link containing % (not as a hex sequence)... FAILED! Running test Link containing % as a single hex sequence interpreted to char... FAILED! Running test Link containing "#<" and "#>" % as a hex sequences... FAILED! Running test Magic links: internal link to RFC (bug 479)... FAILED! Running test Magic links: PMID incorrectly converts space to underscore... FAILED! Running test Nonexistant template... 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 Image caption containing another image... FAILED! Running test Disabled subpages... FAILED! Running test BUG 561: {{/Subpage}}... FAILED! Running test Simple category... FAILED! Running test Basic section headings... FAILED! Running test Section headings with TOC... FAILED! Running test Handling of sections up to level 6 and beyond... FAILED! Running test Resolving duplicate section names... FAILED! Running test Template with sections, __NOTOC__... FAILED! Running test Link inside a section heading... FAILED! Running test Media link with nasty text... FAILED! Running test Image link to nonexistent file (bug 1850 - good)... FAILED! Running test :Image link to nonexistent file (bug 1850 - bad)... FAILED! Running test Bug 2095: link with pipe and three closing brackets... FAILED! Running test Sanitizer: Validating the contents of the id attribute (bug 4515)... FAILED! Passed 247 of 281 tests (87.9%) FAILED!

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Search engine optimizing Wiktionary
by Christophe Millet 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hello, I'd like to have your opinion about the following discussion: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour#How_about_search_engi… * *A "Yahoo! Search" engineer is proposing some ways to better index Wiktionary. Is there something we can do about it in MediaWiki? Thanks, Christophe (aka Kipmaster).

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email notification and how to contact a wiki author via email
by Uwe Brauer 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hello I am sorry for such an elementary questions. - On the wikipedia page which configures my personal setting, I can see an option that it would be possible that users could contact me via email (without that I have to reveal my email address) and presumably I could contact other users as well but the question is HOW? - I also read it should be possible that I receive an email notification if articles in my watchlist (or articles edited by me) are modified. Again how is this done. That question appears in the FAQ but there is no answer. Thanks Uwe Brauer

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Need help making categorization heading work
by rmFine32＠aol.com 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Using MediaWiki version 1.5.6 I created [[:category:country]] and in the page of category a I create a subcategory city [[:category:country:city]] In city, there is at the top of the page "Category:country" as text instead of a link back to the parent category (country). Is this the proper behavior? How do I get the automatic top heading be links to parent categories? I tried setting $wgUseCategoryBrowser in the defaultsettings.php to true, but it did not do anything. It did not even show the DMOZ like .. ">" .. headings. Thanks for any guidance.

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How to contribute new features
by Manuel Vázquez Acosta 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hi all, A few weeks ago I was asked to set up a wiki, I choose mediawiki (1.5.3 was the stable version these days) as the software. As I worked on the project customers asked me for some modifications. I want to share those with the comunity. Currently the patch is for version 1.5.3, but if you think features are worthy I can create a patch for version 1.5.6 (current stable). The patch is available in http://www.chasqui.cu/staff/manu/2006/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.5.3-manu.bz2 This a sumary of features: 1. Added a initTemplate(&$tpl) method in SkinTemplate in order to give a chance to subclases to initialize QuickTemplates in several ways. 2. Added 2 global vars to keep category pages from displaying the header "Articles in category XXX" and no articles at all. 3. Added a 'talk' permission to allow wiki admins to restrict anonymous access to pages in NS_TALK namespace. 4. Added 1 global var to control how firstChar() should behave in order to create index entries in category page's listings. This, I think, should be done other way, please read the comments in the patch. Files modified: 1. CategoryPage.php 2. DefaultSettings.php (in order to set the introduced permission and global vars to current default values, this is, as if they never existed) 3. SkinTemplate.php 4. Title.php (permissions are granted here) 5. Language.php and LanguageUtf8.php (firstChar mod, see above) 6. LanguageEs.php (disposable) I would like to hear comments. Regards, Manuel.

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Password security
by Brion Vibber 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

I've disabled the ability to use blank passwords on wiki accounts. For a long time we treated accounts very laxly in this regard; there generally wasn't _that_ much reason to secure a casual account unless you were one of the tiny number of sysops. In recent years though the number of sysops has exploded, and we've added customization features like the user javascript which are cool but potentially really annoying if someone gets into your account and messes with them. As a small concession to security and accountability, it's time for blank passwords to go. While running some password security checks, I found that a handful of sysop accounts had blank passwords. Probably some non-sysop accounts also had blanks. Affected accounts can reset the password by the automated e-mail password gadget on the login form, unless of course they didn't put in an e-mail. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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RE: Using MWdumper
by J Apple 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Thanks for the message... Some even more basic stuff. iv'e tried running MWdumper on several machines with win XP and Mac OS X. Nothing happens when I double click the executable .jar file. I've tried instaling JRE 1.5, but still can't get the file to run... on some machines I see a couple folders with .class files in them, but don't know what to do with those. On others I see an executable .jar file. I see that MWdumper is a command line interface, BUT, where would I type the commands in. What exactly does using MWdumper accomplish? does MWdumper simply create an SQl file from the XML dump?? OR does it connect my local machine to my webhost so I can import the DB file? IF it doesn't connect to my webhost, then how would I upload this massive DB into mySQl, since phpmyAdmin has a limit on file size that is much smaller than the DB size? THANKS!! Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:33:01 +0100 From: Doro?y?ski Janusz <dorozynskij(a)poczta.onet.pl> Subject: RE: [Wikitech-l] 2. Re: How to use Mwdumper? (Brion Vibber) To: "'Wikimedia developers'" <wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <20060130203311Z6215677-6647+2(a)ps6.test.onet.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" | -----Original Message----- | From: ... J Apple | Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:31 PM / | The READ Me is not very newbie friendly... :-)) | Don't even know what to do with the .jar file. | WHen I double click it nothing happens on my machine. Any details about your machine OS? But anyway mwdumper have not GUI front-end yet, but works as command-line. So use shell or open your command-line tool, write and execute command like java -jar proper-path-to/mwdumper.jar --output=file:your-wiki-dump.sql --format=sql:1.5 --progress=10000 your-wiki-dump.xml Of course "proper-path-to", "/", "your-wiki-dump" are only for example and you must replace them with your really names/symbol. Next, you must have JRE 1.4 or preferable 1.5 installed in your OS. And remember, that the --output argument must be before the --format argument if --format is used. Reg. Janusz "Ency' Dorozynski ------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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