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David Di Biase

25 Mar 2009 25 Mar '09

4:40 p.m.

Hi there, I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though obvious in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the best solution for integration is. Here they are briefly: - They have a list of authors and animators and would like to sort them in a category by last name first. All the articles currently created begin with first and last. I realised that there is a transclusion option called {{DEFAULTSORT:}} which lets you define its sort value. The problem is, I'm not sure how to invert and display the name on the category page with the inverse. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category doesn't tell me much other than about the default sort value. - The Wiki is going to be based on a massive bibliographical system. I've searched high and low for good biblio extensions, but they pretty much do not do what we want. What I've decided to do is have the bibliography entries listed on each Article under a Bibliography header. I am writing an extension which finds all pages with a similar header and parses all the bibliographical entries, which are listed in MLA format. I'm wondering if there is a much better way of doing this, because then I have to consolidate duplicate entries by using a lot of regex (ack). That's about it for now, there are other minor things, but before I bother the mailing list I'm going to do my research and figure them out with the help files. For now these are the only things I can't seem to solve on my own. Regards, David

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Roan Kattouw

26 Mar 26 Mar

2:13 a.m.

David Di Biase schreef:

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David Di Biase

2:43 a.m.

Huh? lol... I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as "Einstein, Albert" on the category name? Dave On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:

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David Di Biase schreef:

Hi there, I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though

obvious

in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the

best

solution for integration is. Here they are briefly: - They have a list of authors and animators and would like to sort

them

in a category by last name first. All the articles currently created

begin

with first and last. I realised that there is a transclusion option

called

{{DEFAULTSORT:}} which lets you define its sort value. The problem is,

I'm

not sure how to invert and display the name on the category page with

the

inverse. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category doesn't tell me much other than about the default sort value.

Just use {{DEFAULTSORT:Einstein, Albert}} on the page about Albert Einstein. There's no way of doing this automatically, partly because the software wouldn't know what to do with names like Hillary Rodham Clinton (is Rodham a middle name or a surname?). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Aryeh Gregor

2:46 a.m.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, David Di Biase <dave.dibiase(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as "Einstein, Albert" on the category name?

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Christensen, Courtney

2:10 p.m.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, David Di Biase <dave.dibiase(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as "Einstein, Albert" on the category name?

Hi Dave, How do you feel about writing PHP? You could do this with an extension to CategoryPage. We had to write one recently because our users wanted other information displayed next to article names (like flag of country of origin based on what other categories a page was in). Hook in at this one: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/CategoryPageView Of course if someone were to decide to change the way core does category pages to allow us to hook in for changing the way links are displayed on the category page I would be THRILLED. But it isn't important enough to me for me to volunteer to do it myself. Good luck Dave! -Courtney

Ilmari Karonen

9:24 p.m.

Christensen, Courtney wrote:

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, David Di Biase <dave.dibiase(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as "Einstein, Albert" on the category name?

How do you feel about writing PHP? You could do this with an extension to CategoryPage.

Not sure about doing it with an extension, but it should be trivial to kluge. Actually, here's a patch that ought to do it: --- includes/CategoryPage.php (revision 48416) +++ includes/CategoryPage.php (working copy) @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ */ function addPage( $title, $sortkey, $pageLength, $isRedirect = false ) { global $wgContLang; - $titletext = $wgContLang->convert( $title->getPrefixedText() ); + $titletext = $wgContLang->convert( $sortkey ); $this->articles[] = $isRedirect ? '<span class="redirect-in-category">' . $this->getSkin()->makeKnownLinkObj( $title, $titletext ) . '</span>' : $this->getSkin()->makeSizeLinkObj( $pageLength, $title, $titletext ); It would be easy to make this depend on a config option, too. If anyone else thinks that would be a good idea, I can commit it. -- Ilmari Karonen

Aryeh Gregor

10:29 p.m.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:

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--- includes/CategoryPage.php (revision 48416) +++ includes/CategoryPage.php (working copy) @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ */ function addPage( $title, $sortkey, $pageLength, $isRedirect = false ) { global $wgContLang; - $titletext = $wgContLang->convert( $title->getPrefixedText() ); + $titletext = $wgContLang->convert( $sortkey ); $this->articles[] = $isRedirect ? '<span class="redirect-in-category">' . $this->getSkin()->makeKnownLinkObj( $title, $titletext ) . '</span>' : $this->getSkin()->makeSizeLinkObj( $pageLength, $title, $titletext ); It would be easy to make this depend on a config option, too. If anyone else thinks that would be a good idea, I can commit it.

Doesn't this introduce a trivial XSS vulnerability?

Ilmari Karonen

27 Mar 27 Mar

3:15 a.m.

Aryeh Gregor wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:

Doesn't this introduce a trivial XSS vulnerability?

Hmm, you're right, it does -- I didn't realize the title was used unescaped. That looks uncomfortably close to an XSS vulnerability anyway. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a htmlspecialchars() in there. (Didn't we use to allow "<" in titles not so very long ago? Certainly the feature that disallows HTML entities in titles is fairly recent.) -- Ilmari Karonen

Aryeh Gregor

3:30 a.m.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:

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I'm pretty sure we haven't allowed < in titles for a long time.

Brion Vibber

6:36 p.m.

At one point they were briefly enabled in dev trunk and immediately disabled for safety. :) never been enabled in production. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) On Mar 26, 2009, at 18:30, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical +wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:

I'm pretty sure we haven't allowed < in titles for a long time. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l