You lost me at "Gentlemen"
*Erika Bjune *(she/her)
VP of Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:14 AM Jefsey <jefsey(a)jefsey.com> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> I run around 290 small thematic citizen research wikis (nr being
> developping) under an old mediawiki version (I fear an upgrading
> hassle). In order to simplify their set-up I systemized them in using
> a script to build the symbolic directories from a unique central one,
> so I only have to build the LocalSettings.php, the images directories
> mainly for the wikilogo.gif particular to the site and to enter the
> templates manually. To be sure I can move them around without too
> much pain and keep them under their own password, I use SQLite .
> Round 20 minutes set-up each.
>
> With a friend we would like to transfer all this under MYSQL (or
> MariaDB?) in order to share template and WikiDB. Possibly on several
> machines. Possibly developping some extension on the middle range.
> Possibly transfering further on under another database system (to mix
> diffect entries and mail entries). I feel we would first need to
> study a conceptual block map of the MediaWiki architecture, internal
> exchanges and database requests. Does that exist ?
>
> Also, in order to manage the whole thing advisably I would need two tips:
> 1. is there a secure/reliable method/extension to protect pages on a
> per page basis ?
> 2. how to get on a daily basis the access count of the wiki pages ?
>
> Thank you !
> jfc
>
>
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Hey,
I have a MediaWiki extension in which I'd like to store a handful of
values. Example:
* Cats 42
* Ravens 23
* Goats 0
The most obvious thing to do would be to add a new database table with a
string and an integer column. However I'd like to avoid the need to run
update.php to install this extension. Is there some place in the MediaWiki
DB schema where I can put a few values like these? They could even be in a
single serialized blob (though preferably can be looked up by string key).
Cheers
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Hi Bartosz,
thanks a lot for testing this for me. I just realized that using your
hook (UploadVerifyUpload) instead of UploadVerifyFile works as intended.
I added my old code snippet to yours at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10258 for the sake of clarity.
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Tom Schulze
Dear Community Members,
I am Srikanth Gollavilli from India. Currently, I am pursuing Masters in
Geoinformatics from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). I have a
bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I have development
experience in python, PLSQL, C++, IoT, postgresql, GIS tools, spatial
database, ENVI softwares. Also I am comfortable with version control
systems. I am interested in Machine Learning, Image Processing, Remote
Sensing, client server architecture and interoperability.
I am fond of open source community as it provides me an opportunity to keep
my skills updated, helps to build connections and improve communications
skills thus I would love to contribute to Wikimedia in Google Summer of
Code 2020.
My Github link: https://github.com/SrikanthIITB
Hi,
per rules, I'm posting here my request to get +2 right in mediawiki/*.
URL to request on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243700
Best regards and wishes,
Zoran.
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Hello, I’m Bobga Hermann, a software engineering student from the College of Technology of Buea, Cameroon. Please I’ll like to be guided on a starting point on projects to work on concerning the Gsoc Program from Google. I skilled with knowledge in html5 and css3, including experience in Graphic Designing. I await your reply, thank you.
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 08:53, Peter Presland <peterp(a)wikispooks.org> wrote:
> Per other replies about php version requirements and the putative
> difficulties involved for Redhat OS users, I am left wondering about how
> important the stated Mediawiki php version requirements really are.
>
> My wondering is prompted by the fact that both Wikipedia and the few
> other MW foundation sites I have checked, are all running MW1.35.0
> while still on php 7.2.26. Whereas the stated php minimum version
> requirement for the current latest stable MW1.34 is php 7.2.9.
>
> Probably a simple explanation but as a Centos 7 OS user, I am confused.
>
Per the support policy for PHP
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Support_policy_for_PHP>, recently codified,
in picking our support framework for major PHP versions we try to carefully
balance the needs of new sysadmins, where we should encourage people to
make secure choices, with upgrading sysadmins, who will want the simplest
upgrade path possible.
In practical terms, we only increase the minor PHP version when we find
particular upstream bugs in PHP that are not sensible to work around, or
where our upstream dependencies insist on it. That's why we require 7.2.9
instead of 7.2.0 – we had to pick for 1.34 when dropping PHP 7.1 and 7.0
(see T234766 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234766> and the
corresponding patch
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/542220>).
For Wikimedia production, we run the latest version in Debian stable (with
any necessary local patches), to take advantage of upstream performance
improvements, bug fixes and so on, and to ensure we can respond to
incidents as appropriate. Right now that's 7.2.26, up from 7.2.24 over the
last few months. It's always a better idea to run the latest version of PHP
recommended by your OS.
MediaWiki will explicitly refuse to run on versions of PHP we don't
support, with a specific error message (as will composer when you try to
install dependencies), to avoid any mysterious run-time errors and
corruptions.
Yours,
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<http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
dear all,
i am trying to carry out some custom checks before uploading a file in
mediawiki. i face the challenge that i cannot pass my own error messages
to the visualeditor upload form. whatever error message i declare in the
onVerifyFileUpload hook gets displayed in VE as This file did not pass
file verification. my error message that i declare in the hook 'gets
aggregated' in UploadFromChunks.php:201. ($this->getVerificationErrorCode())
i also tried other hooks to intercept/manipulate the error but to no
avail (ApiMain::onException,APIGetAllowedParams, APIAfterExecute).
i use mediawiki 1.32.2.
is there a way i did not think of to display a custom error message in
my case?
thank you and kind regards,
tom