[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8

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Wed Aug 2 14:53:08 UTC 2006


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> Subject: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8
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> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:33:44 +0000
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Thumbnails and Interlanguage Links (wiki at avenarius.sk)
>    2. Re: Recent Changes RSS (Rick DeNatale)
>    3. Re: Making first user sysop? (Hugh Prior)
>    4. Re: Thumbnails and Interlanguage Links (Hugh Prior)
>    5. Parse error when upgrading (Christiaan Briggs)
>    6. Re: Interlanguage Links (wiki at avenarius.sk)
>    7. user administration (Frederich, Eric P2173)
>    8. Re: Problems with losing session data. Users cannot edit
>       pages. (Christopher Miller)
>    9. ArticleSaveComplete event (assafkat at post.tau.ac.il)
>   10. Access rights (khuffman at NGS.ORG)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:01:02 +0200
> From: wiki at avenarius.sk
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Thumbnails and Interlanguage Links
> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <676025994.20060802120102 at avenarius.sk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 at 11:49:29 (GMT +0200), Filip Maljkovic wrote:
> 
> > The way I see it, you could achieve what you want by making false
> > interwiki links for every needed language. That is, make interwiki links
> > to that very same website of yours, so the links will show on the left
> > and still connect to pages in your wiki. I'd do it like that.
> 
> That's exactly what I've wanted all along, the only question is HOW
> to do it.  ;-)  But since you said the InterWiki help page covers those
> arrangements, I'm confident I can get this done at the weekend.  ;-)
> 
> > Then, you'd have links like [[fr:Chat]] and [[de:Katze]] in your
> > article [[Cat]], but both would link to pages in your wiki. Furthermore,
> > you could separate the content with namespaces because there may be
> > clashes with different languages having the same words/phrases.
> > I'd go with English:Cat, French:Chat etc.
> 
> That's an interesting suggestion, but exceeds my technical knowledge
> for the moment. Will get back to the list should I fail to understand
> the subject after thoroughly studying the InterWiki help page.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks again,
> Alex.
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> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:10:58 -0400
> From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Recent Changes RSS
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> 	<mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> 	<deb2337a0608020410w18f62f83sff4d41c048f2981e at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> On 8/1/06, Morten Blaabjerg <morten at crewscut.com> wrote:
> > Internet Explorer 7 (beta3) has a nice RSS reader built in. I find I even
> > use it regularly, and it is very convenient.
> 
> And Firefox has had the live bookmark feature for as long as I can
> remember,  This works very nicely as well. I put a live bookmark to
> the rss feed in a top level folder in my personal bookmark folder, the
> live bookmark looks like a bookmark folder containing the various rss
> (or atom) items.  Beside the feed for my wiki, I've got a "blogs"
> bookmark folder with all the blogs I follow.
> 
> And lately I've been using the firefox MyPortal extension, this builds
> a nice ajaxy pseudopage with all your bookmarks, with twistys to open
> and close folders.  Very nice
> 
> I still want e-mail notification for any additions to my wiki, but
> that's a separate subject.
> 
> -- 
> Rick DeNatale
> 
> IPMS/USA Region 12 Coordinator
> http://ipmsr12.denhaven2.com/
> 
> Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site
> http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:53:31 +0200
> From: "Hugh Prior" <mediawiki at localpin.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Making first user sysop?
> To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <eaq3o5$1qj$1 at sea.gmane.org>
> 
> Thanks Filip!
> 
> That was just the info I needed (didn't see that table).
> 
> "Filip Maljkovic" <dungodung at gmail.com> wrote 
> in message news:44CF6C98.2010709 at gmail.com...
> > Hugh Prior wrote:
> >> I have a single user on http://fr.chainki.org who is a standard user. 
> >> How
> >> do I make the login a Sysop?
> >>
> >> I think the answer is normally to do it from another sysop user, but I 
> >> need
> >> to get one sysop user first!
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >> Hugh
> >>
> > Hugh, have you tried executing the following SQL statement:
> >
> > INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user, ug_group) VALUES (<the_user_id>, 
> > "sysop");
> >
> > Filip 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:12:04 +0200
> From: "Hugh Prior" <mediawiki at localpin.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Thumbnails and Interlanguage Links
> To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <eaq4qv$5hf$1 at sea.gmane.org>
> 
> I've been fighting with the problem of multiple languages and interlanguage 
> links for http://chainki.org so I'm about 1 or 2 months ahead of you.
> 
> In LocalSettings, make sure you have:
>     $wgHideInterlanguageLinks = false;
> 
> You can see the difference by comparing:
>     http://en.chainki.org  - hide set to true
>     http://fr.chainki.org  - hide set to false
> 
> In the interwiki table, I have emptied it of all the "interwiki" links (in 
> my view, they're not really useful for most sites) and just put links for my 
> own site, e.g.:
> af     http://af.chainki.org/index.php?title=$1     0     0
> ar     http://ar.chainki.org/index.php?title=$1     0    0
> etc.
> 
> As to the suggestion of using different namespaces for diffrent languages, 
> the problem would be that you would not be able to change the interface 
> languge (i.e. you would have all your sections in the same language).  You 
> (like me), I suppose need the interface for each section in a different 
> language.  For that you will need a separate version for each language, and 
> then you need to do 2 things:
> 1) Set $wgLanguageCode in the LocalSettings file to the interface language 
> required
> 2) Run the maintenace script "maintenance/rebuildMessages.php"
> 
> The whole multilingual thing might work for Wikipedia, but for Joe Bloggs 
> wanting a simple way to set up (say) a bi or tri lingual site, it's a 
> nightmare.  See also http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6107
> 
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> <wiki at avenarius.sk> wrote in message 
> news:208366999.20060801222236 at avenarius.sk...
> > Hello to the list,
> > Interlanguage Links do not get displayed, no matter if the skin
> > is MonoBook or Classic. After you enter [[de:PageName]], for example,
> > this gets displayed in the body of the wiki webpage and not
> > in a special "In other languages" section.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:37:10 +0100
> From: Christiaan Briggs <christiaan at yurkycross.co.uk>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Parse error when upgrading
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 	<mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <D337E848-DFBF-46C4-9E0D-3C5638A72F83 at yurkycross.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
> 
> Hi, I've attempted to upgrade from some version of 1.6 to 1.7.1,  
> running on Mac OS X 10.4.5 and MySQL 5.0.15.
> 
> When I ran the update.php script I got the following message:
> 
> > Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or  
> > `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ 
> > wiki/extensions/SpecialWikiFeeds.php on line 74
> 
> After removing this extension and the include in LocalSettings.php,  
> and then running update.php again, I got this message:
> 
> > Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or  
> > `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ 
> > wiki/includes/Exception.php on line 114
> 
> Does anyone know how I can overcome this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christiaan
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:24:04 +0200
> From: wiki at avenarius.sk
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Interlanguage Links
> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <17010424387.20060802152404 at avenarius.sk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 at 14:12:04 (GMT +0200), Hugh Prior wrote:
> 
> > In LocalSettings, make sure you have:
> >     $wgHideInterlanguageLinks = false;
> 
> Yes, that far we did get.  :-)  It's too bad this isn't enough to make
> "interlanguage intrawiki" links (Filip's term) work out of the box.  :-|
> 
> > You can see the difference by comparing:
> >     http://en.chainki.org  - hide set to true
> >     http://fr.chainki.org  - hide set to false
> 
> Looks like a monumental project. If you really need to do the wiki
> installation for each language separately (70 times over), that would
> be enough to drive anyone nuts.
> 
> > As to the suggestion of using different namespaces for diffrent languages,
> > the problem would be that you would not be able to change the interface
> > languge (i.e. you would have all your sections in the same language).
> 
> I think we'll be more modest for now and can live with the default
> (Slovak) interface for webpages in any language.
> 
> After all, once you manage to register at the wiki, you can pick
> your preferred language and from that moment on, if you're
> logged in, those different namespaces would display
> the preferred interface language, right?
> 
> The problem is not new. We also run a multi-lingual discussion
> board, phpBB, and you have the same problem there. Until you
> log in, the interface displays only one default language.
> We had to create accounts for Swedes and Spaniards who
> had no idea where to click on a Slovak site. There's probably
> no solution for this on a phpBB site. (So let's be grateful
> for the nightmarish MediaWiki solutions. ;-)))
> 
> > The whole multilingual thing might work for Wikipedia, but for Joe Bloggs
> > wanting a simple way to set up (say) a bi or tri lingual site, it's
> > a nightmare. See also
> > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6107
> 
> Depressing reading. Maybe that's typical of versions 1.x. Maybe
> when MediaWiki is at version 6, you'll just have to push a button
> and 70+ language interfaces will be installed for you.  ;-)
> 
> Thank you very much for the advice and good luck with your project (about
> a hundred times more ambitious than ours in terms of multilinguality).
> 
> -- 
> Yours,
> Alex.
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> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:31:11 -0400
> From: "Frederich, Eric P2173" <eric.frederich at siemens.com>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] user administration
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
> 	<mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> 	<1BE9CEB282E4FC4B8F49A967C2F9EFD401022999 at ORLA204A.ww007.siemens.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="US-ASCII"
> 
> I have MediaWiki running on Solaris and for the time being I can't use
> the ldap plugin.
> I'm having a problem in that users are creating accounts with Ids which
> do not match their windows ID so if in the future we get openldap to
> compile and start using the plugin they will have different Ids.
> 
> It is fairly easy for me to look at an ID on the Special:Listusers page
> and tell if it is their windows ID or not.  Rather than just deleting
> their account I'd rather send them an e-mail.
> 
> Are there any good user administration extensions out there or do I have
> to go directly into the database to find their e-mail addresses?  If I
> do have to go in the database are there any good free graphical tools to
> use to connect to the mysql database or should I just use the command
> line?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Eric
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:44:53 -0400
> From: Christopher Miller <cmiller at creativeengineering.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with losing session data. Users
> 	cannot edit pages.
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 	<mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <44D0AC55.2020805 at creativeengineering.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> > I do my editing and preview, which works as it should, and then I save the 
> > page, which works as it should. When I look at the history, my edit shows 
> > with my name on it.
> 
> Ah,
> 
> We can edit and preview too while logged in.  But we can't do anything 
> else while logged in, no edits are saved, no pages can be moved/deleted, 
> etc.
> 
> As a result everyone is using the wiki anonymously with limited rights.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Miller
> cmiller at creativeengineering.com
> (914) 771-5540 x20
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed,  2 Aug 2006 17:25:19 +0300
> From: assafkat at post.tau.ac.il
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] ArticleSaveComplete event
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 	<mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID: <1154528719.44d0b5cf20a6a at webmail.tau.ac.il>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CP1255
> 
> Hello,
> I use 1.7.1 version and I wrote the code:
> $wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = 'ToggleCourseLinksFlag';
> ...
> function ToggleCourseLinksFlag(&$article, &$user, &$text, &$summary,
> &$minoredit, &$watchthis, &$sectionanchor)
> {
>      echo "hello";
>      $text .= "\n\n" . "hello"; //$article->getOldID();
>   return true;
> }
> 
> but the "hello" doesn't display at the text box of the article or as message.
> Thanks, Assaf
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:33:36 -0400
> From: khuffman at NGS.ORG
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Access rights
> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<OF13E97171.68AFBD73-ON852571BE.004F4D4B-852571BE.004FFCA3 at NGS.ORG>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> 
> Hi, I've modified my LocalSettings.php file to limit who can see, edit, 
> move, etc. content. Below is a short outline of what I've done:
> 
> 1) * -- View only access to individuals not signed in/not given an 
> account; they are restricted to viewing only XX number of pages using 
> $wgWhitelistRead
> 2) User -- ability to edit pages, upload images but cannot make new pages, 
> move pages, etc.
> 3) SysOp/Bureaucrat -- granted all rights
> 
> I want to create one more access group: UserReadOnly (or something) -- so 
> someone must sign in to be able to read all pages, is not limited to what 
> they see but does not have edit/upload access. Is this possible by adding 
> an additional group in LocalSettings.php e.g.
> 
> // Implicit group for all logged-in accounts
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['move']              = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['read']                = true;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['edit']                  = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['createpage']  = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['createtalk']      = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['upload']            = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['reupload']        = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['reupload-shared'] = false;
> $wgGroupPermissions['userreadonly' ]['minoredit']       = false;
> 
> Would this make it accessible by SysOp/Bureaucrat for assigning once a new 
> user account is set up?
> 
> Thanks, Karen
> 
> 
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