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Multilingual MediaWiki under development
by Erik Moeller 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

I'd like to inform you that code according to the specifications at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki is now under development by Dominic Arkwright, an experienced PHP/MySQL developer who is new to MediaWiki. Dominic may pop up on IRC or on this mailing list to ask questions. If you haven't done so, I invite you again to review the specifications above and make comments on the talk page. Regards, Erik

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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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Moving article
by Rudy Koot 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hello, We are planning to move the article "11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica" to "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". As there are some odd 15000 articles linking to it, could this cause any problems? Cheers, Ruud

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Writing a Forum Extension
by Nathan Spaeth 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

I am planning on adding forum functionality to my wiki via extension. I'dd first like to get comments from those of you more knowledgeable in regards to php and MediaWiki. I would appreciate suggested modifications, or even better, signs of support, so that I know that I'm not going about this in a bassackwords way. Solutions to the problems at the bottom are especially looked for. Here is my plan (which makes extensive use of subpages): It would be called via something like <forum><forum>. This could be on talk pages or main article pages. This will create a thread index, much like you see with your normal VBulletin or PHPbb type forums. This page and all of its subpages should then (desirably) be protected from editing. Each thread would be a subpage of the the initial article. Each message would be a subpage of the article. Each message would be included into the thread page via template includes ( {{{{}}}} ). So using 'Gatorade' as an example, we would have these potential addresses (with Taste as a potential thread Title)... Gatorade -The thread index Gatorade/Taste -The Taste thread, containg all of the messages in this thread Gatorade/Taste/16 -The 16th message of the Taste thread, viewed by itself or Talk:Gatorade -The thread index Talk:Gatorade/Taste -The Taste thread, containg all of the messages in this thread Talk:Gatorade/Taste/16 -The 16th message of the Taste thread, viewed by itself Some benefits of this system: Requires very little modification to the main MediaWiki code. = Easy to update MediaWiki in the future It prevents people from making multiple threads with the same title. If someone else came down a few months later and wanted to talk about 'Taste', if they managed to avoid the 'Search' function they migh Possibly use the same title as before, in whichcase they would get a warning about it and the suggestion of adding on to the previous discussion if necessary. It is easy to link to forums instead of the conventional way with urls like : http://someforum.somesite.com/viewtopic.php?t=138 http://someforum.somesite.com/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=e48431baee22f58e06561de… and http://someforum.somesite.com/index.php?s=3843d342de247afe550768eae06be2d2&… It Doesn't require it's own db schema and content is fully integrated with MediaWiki. Some drawbacks: Its a bit clunky because it doesn't have its own db schema. There were some other ones, but I forgot them now :/ Here are some problems I know I will face when implementing this: The disabling of directly editing a whole Namespace and only the namespace or, all potential article subpages for one particular Article. Preventing each edit or new message from showing up on recent changes and instead have a more Customized Recent Changes Message like 'Talk:Gatorade : Loplin posted a reply in the Taste thread.' Again, comments are appreciated. Thanks Nathan Spaeth -- If you have a penny and I have a penny, and we exchange pennies, we both have one penny but if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then, we will both have two ideas.

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Next and previous links
by Anuradha Ratnaweera 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Hi all, I am looking for Mediawiki extensions to do the following, and to write them if they don't exist: - show links to the next and previous articles (in alphabetical order) - provide some index pages to the wiki, so visitors can "browse" the wiki without using the search box Please let me know if there are any existing extensions that can do this. Thanks in advance. Anuradha -- http://www.linux.lk/~anuradha/ http://anuradha-ratnaweera.blogspot.com

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-03-14
by brion＠pobox.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '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 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 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 266 of 288 tests (92.36%) FAILED!

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-03-13
by brion＠pobox.com 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

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extending SpecialListUsers.php / listing email-adresses for sysops
by Heinz 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

I would like to extend SpecialListUsers.php. (Only) SysOps shall also see the emailadresses of users. Ideas or ready solutions are welcome. thx. Heinz http://en.giswiki.de

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Using unicode in URLs
by Александр Сигачёв 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

For non-latin languages it's problem to use URL of MediaWiki pages. For example, article with name "Список языков с алфавитами на основе кириллицы" (List of languages using Cyrillic alphabet) has ugly URL: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%8F%D0… Opera browser auto decodes this URL to readable link: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_языков_с_алфавитами_на_основе_кириллицы In Firefox it's able to use HumanURL extention, but in IE it's problem. So can I add option "wgEncodeUrlsInUtf8" to LocalSettings.php and check it in function wfUrlencode in GlobalFunctions.php? (to turn off PHP urlencode function) See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier you can see demo of the hack at http://mediawiki.jino-net.ru/index.php/Main_page Discussion in Russian: http://community.livejournal.com/ru_wikipedia/24808.html -- Alexander Sigachov http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:ajvol

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Back-Up of a wiki --> some problems with mysqldump
by Franz 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

Hello, I own the WikiSysop-Account of this wiki: http://wikinition.common-culture.net/index.php/Hauptseite I would like to make a Back-Up of it. I've got this command: mysqldump --host=hostname --user=username --password=userpassword --opt name-of-database I've put in: mysqldump --host="http://wikinition.common-culture.net/index.php/Hauptseite" --user="WikiSysop" --password="mypwd" --opt all-databases nothing happens. I get a message how to use mysqldump. Any help? Thank you, Franz

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