[Mediawiki-l] editing a page is causing problems

Sun Mar 12 23:01:05 UTC 2006

Thanks, Rob.

Sorry for not being clear before, but I've already tried to write the "á" in the title. It didn't work. Some issue while working with extended characters must be involved here, but I've not idea about what happened.

As for the scripts. Thank you so much for the improvement. As far as I needed to solve this before tomorrow, I've replace $id   = $title->getArticleID(); with $id   = xxxx, being xxxx the actual page in troubles ID. It worked like a charm.

I do promise to improve my PHP skills to proposed a solution valid for the community!

Thanks for your help,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
The XEN ICT Team

>>> Rob Church<robchur at gmail.com> 12/3/2006 15:12 >>>

At the moment, nukePage doesn't do too much fancy footwork with the
title; it calls the built-in title handling code to try to "resolve" a
string to a title, and from there, get the page proper. You ought to
be able to enter the "á" at the command line, it would then work with
the script.

I suppose I could alter the script to allow passing a page ID instead.
Let me know if entering the "á" direct doesn't work and I'll do so.

Rob Church

On 12 Mar 2006 10:24:00 +0100, The XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez
<webmaster at xen.net> wrote:
> Update done, thanks to the MediaWiki 1.5.7 patched version provided by Guenter Knauf (http://www.gknw.at/test/mediawiki/), and nukePage.inc working.
>
> As far as I can see, the whole page title is required as argument for the NukePage function. Thus, I've been only able to delete the page with the following title...
>
> Elemental_composition_of_soils_developed_on_volcanic_materials_of_Isla_Santa_Cruz_(Galapagos Islands)
>
> but not this other one...
>
> Elemental_composition_of_soils_developed_on_volcanic_materials_of_Isla_Santa_Cruz_(Galápagos Islands)
>
> Please, note the á in Galápagos.
>
> As we previously suppose, this seems to be the article is abending our server at any edition attempt.
>
> As just a PHP newcomer I'm not able to fully understand how nukePage.inc get ths page ID. Is it possible/advisable to pass in just an string included in the title but not the whole thing? Is it possible/advisable to directly pass in the page ID? Perhaps this last option will solve the kind of situations like the one we are facing here.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Ricardo
>
>
>
> --
> Ricardo Rodríguez
> The XEN ICT Team
>
> >>> Rob Church<robchur at gmail.com> 5/3/2006 01:09 >>>
>
> It relies upon nukePage.php, nukePage.inc, deleteOldRevisions.php,
> deleteOldRevisions.inc, purgeOldText.php and purgeOldText.inc. :)
>
> Incidentally, you should consider upgrading to MediaWiki 1.5.7. This
> would make the files available anyway.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
> On 5 Mar 2006 00:51:18 +0100, The XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez
> <webmaster at xen.net> wrote:
> > Thank you so much, Rob.
> >
> > As I am far from being a MediaWiki hacker, please, can I just copy the concerned script to the 1.5.2 maintenance folder and execute it from the server command line? Must I copy any other script? Thanks.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > --
> > Ricardo Rodríguez
> > The XEN ICT Team
> >
> > >>> Rob Church<robchur at gmail.com> 4/3/2006 23:07 >>>
> >
> > Prior to dabbling with the database direct, give the nukePage
> > maintenance script in CVS a go. It'll be distributed with 1.5.7 or
> > available from the REL_1_5 branch, but has dependencies. This does the
> > deletion at the database level, and might avoid the problem.
> >
> > If it doesn't, get the page ID from the page table, then wipe the page
> > record from that table; and all revisions associated with it. Then use
> > the purgeRedundantText script (in CVS, also) to wipe the now-orphaned
> > text records (or wipe them as you're doing the revisions).
> >
> >
> > Rob Church
> >
> > On 04/03/06, The XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodríguez <webmaster at xen.net> wrote:
> > > Hi all out there.
> > >
> > > We have been successfully running a NW6. 1.5.2  MediaWiki installation for several months but now facing a weird problem. It seems that a particular combination of characters in the title of a page causes the server to hang and restart when we try to edit or delete it. We have not a precise idea yet about the exact cause of the error, but it is clear that only a page is causing it.
> > >
> > > Please, what tables/record we need to edit/delete to erase this particular page from the database without using MediaWiki utilities? MySQL 4.1.15a in the background.
> > >
> > > Thank you so much for your help,
> > >
> > > Ricardo
> > >
> > >
> > >
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