[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

Oded Haim Breiner odedhb at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 12:12:59 UTC 2009 

 1. Re: requiring extensions on localsettings file blanks out the
     wiki (John Thomson (Stoneway Consulting))

Works! great!


Oded H. Breiner


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, <mediawiki-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org>wrote:

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>   1. Re: requiring extensions on localsettings file blanks out the
>      wiki (John Thomson (Stoneway Consulting))
>   2. Some page are not update (Addady)
>   3. Re: display author (Helmut Schneider)
>   4. Re: Site errors caused by load? (Philip Beach)
>   5. Re: Some page are not update (Platonides)
>   6. Re: requiring extensions on localsettings file blanks     out the
>      wiki (Platonides)
>   7. Re: Some page are not update (Addady)
>   8. Re: Site errors caused by load? (Benjamin Lees)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:05:57 -0500
> From: "John Thomson (Stoneway Consulting)"
>        <thomsonj at stonewayconsulting.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] requiring extensions on localsettings file
>        blanks out      the wiki
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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> Message-ID: <4985BA55.90904 at stonewayconsulting.ca>
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> To be clear, you added an extension and now you see a blank page? A few
> things to look at:
>
> Try enabling error_reporting from within PHP (php.ini) and see what you
> get.
> Confirm your paths and syntax for your new extension call within the
> LocalSettings.php.
> Check the discussions tab for the extension you downloaded, do others
> have similar issues?
>
> Good luck.
>
> John
>
> Oded Haim Breiner wrote:
> > Requiring extensions on localsettings file blanks out the wiki, can
> anyone
> > help?
> >
> > Oded
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:50:26 +0200
> From: Addady <addady at active.co.il>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Some page are not update
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <49860B12.1000402 at active.co.il>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255; format=flowed
>
> Hello,
>
> Some of my wiki page are not update.  Although those page have newer
> version an old version of the pages is display to guests. It is possible
> to see the new version in the page history or after I login.
>
>
> It not look like client cache problem. I cleared the browser cache
> (Pressing Shift key + Refresh bottom) and try different type of browsers
> from different ISPs.
>
> Also I disable the my wiki squid proxy.
>
>
> Please advise
>
>
> Addady
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:31:02 +0100
> From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99 at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] display author
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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>
> Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Helmut Schneider wrote:
> >> is there an extension or similiar to automatically display the author
> >> of an  article (not the history button)?
> >>
> >> Thanks, Helmut
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMaxCredits
>
> Excellent.
>
> --
> No Swen today, my love has gone away
> My mailbox stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:17:33 -0500
> From: Philip Beach <beachboy4231 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site errors caused by load?
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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> Message-ID: <4aa160902011017r18351c52vf31cd884c72e2b29 at mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Ok thanks, but how can I be sure it's working before all my pages drop
> off google  (if it were wrong). Is there some way to validate it in
> the context of my site?
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> On 2/1/09, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > TryUser-agent: *
> > Disallow: /index.php
> > Disallow: /skins/
> > Disallow: /Special:Search
> > Disallow: /Special:Random
> >
> > Some other good rules to include are
> > Disallow: /MediaWiki:
> > Disallow: /Template:
> >
> > and maybe
> > Disallow: /Category:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Philip Beach <beachboy4231 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Haha true about rotting RAM, I'll look into that. I am not using
> wikimedia
> >> style URL's, sadly :( it just didn't happen when the site was first set
> up
> >> and I can't move it now, for various reasons. All of my files are in the
> >> web-root /. However, through an apache alias, my url is
> >> mywiki.com/Pagename.
> >>
> >> How would robots.txt look for that? Would I simply drop the preceeding
> >> /wiki, like this?
> >>
> >> User-agent: *
> >> Disallow: /Special:Search
> >> Disallow: /Special:Random
> >>
> >> Thanks a ton!
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Assuming you have Wikimedia-style URLs:
> >> > User-agent: *
> >> > Disallow: /w/
> >> > Disallow: /wiki/Special:Search
> >> > Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random
> >> >
> >> > Your server will be able to handle a lot more if you set up as much
> >> caching
> >> > as you can <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache>.  No sense
> >> letting
> >> > all that spare RAM rot. :)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Philip Beach <
> beachboy4231 at gmail.com
> >> > >wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I already have checked the access logs. It appears that Google and
> >> Yahoo
> >> > > are
> >> > > indeed generating a lot of traffic. Good idea Rob, I've been working
> >> > > on
> >> > > this
> >> > > for a while.
> >> > >
> >> > > Just out of curiosity, what should my robots.txt look like for
> >> Mediawiki.
> >> > > Does anything need to be disallowed?
> >> > >
> >> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > You should check the access logs for which is causing the error.
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:57:37 +0100
> From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Some page are not update
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <gm55sg$ee$1 at ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Addady wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some of my wiki page are not update.  Although those page have newer
> > version an old version of the pages is display to guests. It is possible
> > to see the new version in the page history or after I login.
> >
> >
> > It not look like client cache problem. I cleared the browser cache
> > (Pressing Shift key + Refresh bottom) and try different type of browsers
> > from different ISPs.
> >
> > Also I disable the my wiki squid proxy.
> >
> >
> > Please advise
> >
> >
> > Addady
>
> Try purging the page.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:46:46 +0100
> From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] requiring extensions on localsettings file
>        blanks  out the wiki
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <gm4ckm$ehs$3 at ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Oded Haim Breiner wrote:
> > Requiring extensions on localsettings file blanks out the wiki, can
> anyone
> > help?
> >
> > Oded
>
> The extension you add is producing a PHP error. The php error make a
> blank page. You will be able to see the actual error in the error log.
> Use a newer version of the extension / contact the extension author.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:45:14 +0200
> From: Addady <addady at active.co.il>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Some page are not update
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
>        <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Platonides at gmail.com
> Message-ID: <4986967A.3030803 at active.co.il>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Purging the page didn't solve the problem.
>
>
> Addady
>
>
> Platonides wrote:
>
> > Addady wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Some of my wiki page are not update.  Although those page have newer
> >> version an old version of the pages is display to guests. It is possible
> >> to see the new version in the page history or after I login.
> >>
> >>
> >> It not look like client cache problem. I cleared the browser cache
> >> (Pressing Shift key + Refresh bottom) and try different type of browsers
> >> from different ISPs.
> >>
> >> Also I disable the my wiki squid proxy.
> >>
> >>
> >> Please advise
> >>
> >>
> >> Addady
> >>
> >
> > Try purging the page.
> >
> >
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:34:28 -0500
> From: Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site errors caused by load?
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
>        <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
>        <b8e96a340902020034v340b74b6j78695634c9c06c1e at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Google offers such a tool with their Webmaster Tools <
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools>; I'm sure there are plenty of
> similar tools out there.
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Philip Beach <beachboy4231 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ok thanks, but how can I be sure it's working before all my pages drop
> > off google  (if it were wrong). Is there some way to validate it in
> > the context of my site?
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> >
> > On 2/1/09, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > TryUser-agent: *
> > > Disallow: /index.php
> > > Disallow: /skins/
> > > Disallow: /Special:Search
> > > Disallow: /Special:Random
> > >
> > > Some other good rules to include are
> > > Disallow: /MediaWiki:
> > > Disallow: /Template:
> > >
> > > and maybe
> > > Disallow: /Category:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Philip Beach <beachboy4231 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Haha true about rotting RAM, I'll look into that. I am not using
> > wikimedia
> > >> style URL's, sadly :( it just didn't happen when the site was first
> set
> > up
> > >> and I can't move it now, for various reasons. All of my files are in
> the
> > >> web-root /. However, through an apache alias, my url is
> > >> mywiki.com/Pagename.
> > >>
> > >> How would robots.txt look for that? Would I simply drop the preceeding
> > >> /wiki, like this?
> > >>
> > >> User-agent: *
> > >> Disallow: /Special:Search
> > >> Disallow: /Special:Random
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a ton!
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Assuming you have Wikimedia-style URLs:
> > >> > User-agent: *
> > >> > Disallow: /w/
> > >> > Disallow: /wiki/Special:Search
> > >> > Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random
> > >> >
> > >> > Your server will be able to handle a lot more if you set up as much
> > >> caching
> > >> > as you can <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache>.  No sense
> > >> letting
> > >> > all that spare RAM rot. :)
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Philip Beach <
> > beachboy4231 at gmail.com
> > >> > >wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > I already have checked the access logs. It appears that Google and
> > >> Yahoo
> > >> > > are
> > >> > > indeed generating a lot of traffic. Good idea Rob, I've been
> working
> > >> > > on
> > >> > > this
> > >> > > for a while.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Just out of curiosity, what should my robots.txt look like for
> > >> Mediawiki.
> > >> > > Does anything need to be disallowed?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com
> >
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > You should check the access logs for which is causing the error.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > _______________________________________________
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