[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 40, Issue 37

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> From: mediawiki-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 40, Issue 37> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:56:39 +0000> > Send MediaWiki-l mailing list submissions to> mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> mediawiki-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org> > You can reach the person managing the list at> mediawiki-l-owner at lists.wikimedia.org> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific> than "Re: Contents of MediaWiki-l digest..."> > > Today's Topics:> > 1. Extensions that require iconv (David_S_Green at Dell.com)> 2. Re: Extensions that require iconv (David_S_Green at Dell.com)> 3. Domain name changes to dot-quad IP address (rex)> 4. Re: External authentication and RSS. (cohesion)> 5. Convert wiki tables to html (Pranav Desai)> 6. Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues> (David_S_Green at Dell.com)> 7. Re: Approval / Validation (Lane, Ryan)> 8. Re: Convert wiki tables to html (Fernando Correia)> 9. Re: Approval / Validation (Fernando Correia)> 10. Re: discussions questions (Ittay Dror)> 11. Re: Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues> (David_S_Green at Dell.com)> 12. Re: Approval / Validation (Lane, Ryan)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Message: 1> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:05:18 -0600> From: <David_S_Green at Dell.com>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Extensions that require iconv> To: <MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <CDF39ACBF8C33B48B3F9A81C7894436002B9A857 at ausx3mps306.aus.amer.dell.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > All,> > > > I am running into an issue with extension for MediaWiki that require the> use of "iconv". My grasp of php is poor to say the least, though I am> working on it. Can someone let me know how to actually install it so> that MediaWiki extensions can then use it? I've got the "libiconv "> files downloaded, but need to know how to proceed.> > > Thank you in advance,> > Dave> > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 2> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:30:38 -0600> From: <David_S_Green at Dell.com>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extensions that require iconv> To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <CDF39ACBF8C33B48B3F9A81C7894436002B9A86A at ausx3mps306.aus.amer.dell.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Example...I am trying to use this extension> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GISWiki/RSS), but I get the following> errors in my test page:> Warning: Invalid argument suppied for foreach() in> F:\WebServer\GeCWiki\extensions\rss.php on line 160> Warning: Invalid argument suppied for foreach() in> F:\WebServer\GeCWiki\extensions\rss.php on line 229> > It "appears" these might be tied to iconv, but then I can't be sure. Is> anyone using this extension that might be able to help me out?> > Thanks,> Dave> > -----Original Message-----> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of> David_S_Green at Dell.com> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:05 AM> To: MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Extensions that require iconv> > All,> > > > I am running into an issue with extension for MediaWiki that require the> use of "iconv". My grasp of php is poor to say the least, though I am> working on it. Can someone let me know how to actually install it so> that MediaWiki extensions can then use it? I've got the "libiconv "> files downloaded, but need to know how to proceed.> > > Thank you in advance,> > Dave> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 3> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:33:20 -0800> From: rex <rex at nosyntax.com>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Domain name changes to dot-quad IP address> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID: <20070111173320.GM2309 at x2.nosyntax.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii> > > http://www.mywhatever.org/mywiki changes to http://64.xxx.xxx.xxx/mywiki> in the browser. Also, email notifications have the the IP address> instead of the domain name. This is probably due to some config change I> made, but I can't find it.> > It doesn't happen on pages that are not generated by Mediawiki, so I'm> fairly certain it doesn't have anything to do with Apache.> > A pointer to the small change needed would be appreciated.> > Thanks,> > -rex> > > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 4> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:15:06 -0600> From: cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] External authentication and RSS.> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <aa08c93c0701111015q49a3ab58k845af45d357d3ff1 at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed> > On 1/11/07, Chris Johnson <johnson at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:> > Second, is there any way to have an RSS feed either in to or out> > of MediaWiki? I'm thinking of watchlist info for example out going or> > a CNN feed incoming?> > Incoming will probably need extensions, but watchlists, history and> recent changes have rss feeds by default, they are linked to from> those pages. I don't know if there is much documentation about that> though.> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 5> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:19:41 -0800> From: "Pranav Desai" <pranavadesai at gmail.com>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Convert wiki tables to html> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID:> <cc64e8ce0701111019j60c1f34fv3c6fb825ec0a76fe at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed> > Hello,> > I am looking for a tool to convert wiki tables (and all wiki syntax in> general) to html. I have tried wiki2html but that doesnt seem to work for> tables.> > Thank you for your time.> > -- Pranav> > > ------------------------------> > Message: 6> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:44:10 -0600> From: <David_S_Green at Dell.com>> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues> To: <MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <CDF39ACBF8C33B48B3F9A81C7894436002B9A8B1 at ausx3mps306.aus.amer.dell.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > All,> > > > I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be> related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the> wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due> to the proxy.> > > Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port,> username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?> > > > Thanks,> Dave Green> > > > > > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 7> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:07:10 -0600> From: "Lane, Ryan" <Ryan.Lane at ocean.navo.navy.mil>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Approval / Validation> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <FC45D28A421D8F42A3F422E99521E6621A2DBD at navo2.ocean.navo.navy.mil>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > > I had set it up so that only logins in the group 'editors' > > could change the article text but allowed all logins to edit > > the talk pages, however management want me to add a system so > > that changes to the 'article' page are approved before they > > are visible to everyone. This goes against the ethos of the > > wiki I know, but all our users find the wiki very easy to use > > to find things in and appreciate the ability to add to the talk pages.> > > > Accepting that I'm going to have to do this, or move the > > whole lot into something else and loose the advantages of the > > wiki for users, I would appreciate comments on the following approach.> > > > I would have two special groups of users, 'editors' and 'approvers'> > > Take a look at this:> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/StableVersion> /> > It doesn't do exactly what you want, but it gets pretty close. There are> of course holes in this like every other protection scheme for> MediaWiki. For instance, users could use page transclusion to see the> newest version... However, what you proposed would allow that as well.> > In the above extension, notice how things are done for anonymous users,> and apply that to users with specific groups. If you can make it generic> enough, I'm sure Magnus wouldn't mind getting a patch.> > Btw, after MediaWiki adds versioning stuff in the future (1.10 is it?),> I'm not sure how much development work will be done on this extension> (as that was the original purpose of the extension).> > V/r,> > Ryan Lane> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 8> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:16:34 -0300> From: "Fernando Correia" <fernandoacorreia at gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Convert wiki tables to html> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <8140eff40701111116o2549f873p267bc9f596f2b34e at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed> > 2007/1/11, Pranav Desai <pranavadesai at gmail.com>:> > Hello,> >> > I am looking for a tool to convert wiki tables (and all wiki syntax in> > general) to html. I have tried wiki2html but that doesnt seem to work for> > tables.> > I think you could write a PHP program that uses the parser object.> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 9> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:23:34 -0300> From: "Fernando Correia" <fernandoacorreia at gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Approval / Validation> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <8140eff40701111123q4784b094xca7cf687ee430b73 at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed> > This StableVersion seems like something that could be useful in my> company. Does it have any documentation about what it does, and how to> use it?> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 10> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:30:19 +0200> From: Ittay Dror <ittayd at qlusters.com>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] discussions questions> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID: <45A6904B.4020501 at qlusters.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed> > my code is written as an extension, i'll post it soon. i also changed it so it is an ajax action (no special page)> > but, in order for the form to appear, i have modified Monobook.php and monobook/main.css:> - is there a way for an extension to add elements to Monobook.php?> - how can i make the form appear only on article pages (not talk or special)?> > Frederik Dohr wrote:> >> i wrote this code to allow to easily add comments to the discussion page. it's a special page function that will take a 'target' and 'comment' request parameters and add a wrapped text to the discussion page of 'target'.> > > > This looks interesting! Would you consider this production-ready?> > Also, have you considered turning this into a proper extension so other> > users can easily add it to their MediaWiki setup?> > > > > > -- F.> > > > _______________________________________________> > MediaWiki-l mailing list> > MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > > > > -- > ===================================> Ittay Dror, > Chief architect, > R&D, Qlusters Inc.> ittayd at qlusters.com> +972-3-6081994 Fax: +972-3-6081841> > www.openqrm.org - Data Center Provisioning> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 11> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:55:04 -0600> From: <David_S_Green at Dell.com>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall> issues> To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <CDF39ACBF8C33B48B3F9A81C7894436002B9A8E9 at ausx3mps306.aus.amer.dell.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Any ideas out there? I've tried about everything I know (heh, which> isn't much I admit).> > I've even scoured the Web for articles on anything similar.> > A bit more of my example below...I can put RSS feeds from our Intranet> into the GISWiki/RSS Sample page, so I know the extension is working,> but when I try to pull an external RSS feed, I get error messages. > > This along with a couple of other issues leads me to believe that these> extensions aren't able to get beyond our firewall. The way we normally> get through it is by providing the proxy address and port at which point> it needs a username and password.> > So, my question basically is...Is there are way in MediaWiki to provide> this data? Or is there something I need to do at the web server level> (Apache)? Either way, does anyone know how to do either of these, if it> is possible? Or am I off my rocker here, and it is actually some other> issue?> > Thanks,> Dave> > > > -----Original Message-----> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of> David_S_Green at Dell.com> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:44 PM> To: MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues> > All,> > > > I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be> related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the> wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due> to the proxy.> > > Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port,> username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?> > > > Thanks,> Dave Green> > > > > > _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 12> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:27 -0600> From: "Lane, Ryan" <Ryan.Lane at ocean.navo.navy.mil>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Approval / Validation> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"> <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>> Message-ID:> <FC45D28A421D8F42A3F422E99521E6621A2DBE at navo2.ocean.navo.navy.mil>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > > This StableVersion seems like something that could be useful > > in my company. Does it have any documentation about what it > > does, and how to use it?> > Not really. Magnus Manske wrote the extension, and I updated it some.> I'm using it, but I'm not sure if anyone else is. No documentation has> been written for it except for the slight amount of documentation> written in the extension itself.> > Once I heard MediaWiki will be adding support for something similar in> the future, I stopped making updates to this extension because I wanted> to see if the new MediaWiki code is something I can use in my> organization. No point in maintaining an extension that will be made> redundant in the future.> > As for a quick usage guide... The extension is pretty easy to use. You> add a table to your database (the sql to do so is in the extension> comments). Then, you add stuff to LocalSettings.php like so:> > // For stable version stuff> // Don't forget to checkout the language directory and everything in it!> include( "extensions/StableVersion.php" );> > // Only give permission to change stable version info to people in the> // docCustodian group.> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['stableversion'] = false;> $wgGroupPermissions['docCustodian']['stableversion'] = true;> > // Set this to true if you want non-logged in users to be redirected > // automatically to the stable version. If no stable version exists,> // users will see the latest draft.> #$wgStableVersionRedirectAnon = true> > // Used in combination with the option above. If you> // want anonymous users to only see the stable version,> // set this to true. Like above, if no stable version exists> // users will see the latest draft.> #$wgStableVersionShowDefaultToAnon = true> > After doing so, add users to the docCustodian group and they'll be able> to set/unset things as stable.> > V/r,> > Ryan Lane> > > > ------------------------------> > _______________________________________________> MediaWiki-l mailing list> MediaWiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > > End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 40, Issue 37> *******************************************
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