[Mediawiki-l] Overwrite Images with no user accounts
David Price
David.Price at austinsmithlord.com
Thu Dec 2 09:25:33 UTC 2010
Hi,
We have disabled user profiles and any security across the Wiki, but I need users to have the ability to overwrite existing images with the same name. Currently we get the message A file with this name already exists, and cannot be overwritten.
If you still want to upload your file, please go back and use a new name.
Is there a way I can turn this off?
Thanks
David
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1. Re: How to enable Link Wizard and Table Wizard in Vector?
(Lars J?rgensen)
2. Options for adding Terms and Conditions upon account creation
(Michael Kingery (HL7))
3. Double Spacing on the "Printable Version" (Raymond M)
4. Re: How to get around a kludge for external access to MW
objects (Platonides)
5. Re: Options for adding Terms and Conditions upon account
creation (Platonides)
6. Re: Double Spacing on the "Printable Version" (Platonides)
7. Re: Double Spacing on the "Printable Version" (Raymond M)
8. Re: Basic help (Gary Roush)
9. Re: Basic help (David Benfell)
10. how to access internal info properly (Juriy Katkov)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:15:08 +0100
From: Lars J?rgensen <ITLJ at gyldendal.dk>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable Link Wizard and Table Wizard
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Sorry for replying to my own post, but I got it solved.
It appeared that the preference was set, but not activated until a user opened the preference pane and submitted it, without changing any data.
Lars
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable Link Wizard and Table Wizard in Vector?
Hi,
New to this group, but I have tried searching extensively before asking this seemingly simple question: How do I enable the Link Wizard and the Table Wizard in the Vector skin?
I run MediaWiki 1.16, I have installed the UsabilityInitiative extension and configured it according to the guidelines, and I have the WikiEditor up and running fine. What am I missing?
Lars
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:31:12 -0500
From: "Michael Kingery (HL7)" <mkingery at hl7.org>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Options for adding Terms and Conditions upon
account creation
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What are the options for adding some text to the account creation process? At the very least I need a statement like the below added:
"By signing up to the wiki you agree to the <link to Acceptable Use
Policy>"
Are there any extensions for this or variables I can change? I'd like to avoid changing the PHP page that generates this page if possible so that it's not lost in future upgrades.
Thanks!
- Mike
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:11:27 -0800
From: Raymond M <raymondsgroupmail at gmail.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Double Spacing on the "Printable Version"
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I'm wanting to use printable version to print reviewable hard-copy editions that must be double spaced. This can be a configuration change, I have no need to make this selectable each time. Is there something in OutputPage.php that would set this?
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:20:33 +0100
From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to get around a kludge for external
access to MW objects
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Jim Hu wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Platonides wrote:
>> Jim Hu wrote:
>>>
>>> but we are often also using Title, Article, and/or Revision objects, Categories etc. My approach seems to fail in MW versions post 1.14. I'm reviewing a bunch of this code now to see if I can clean some other things up/make it easier to maintain/make it forward compatible, so I thought I'd ask the list: is there a better way to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>>
>> You could create a new style maintenance script which overrides
>> setup()
>
> Ah! Of course! Thanks.
>
> Jim
Or a special page and show the statistics in the wiki :) (note that you can disable the skin)
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:37:18 +0100
From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Options for adding Terms and Conditions
upon account creation
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Michael Kingery (HL7) wrote:
> What are the options for adding some text to the account creation
> process? At the very least I need a statement like the below added:
>
> "By signing up to the wiki you agree to the <link to Acceptable Use
> Policy>"
>
> Are there any extensions for this or variables I can change? I'd like
> to avoid changing the PHP page that generates this page if possible so
> that it's not lost in future upgrades.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Mike
It's straightforward to add some text there, just edit includes/templates/Userlogin.php and add the text there, for instance:
</td>
</tr>
+<tr><td></td><td>By creating an account I abide to the <a
+href="http://www.example.org/">Terms and Conditions</a></td></tr>
<?php }
$tabIndex = 9;
if ( isset( $this->data['extraInput'] ) && is_array( $this->data['extraInput'] ) ) {
Doing it in a extension is a bit harder.
You want to hook to UserCreateForm and then call $template->addInputItem(). It would look like this:
$wgHooks['UserCreateForm'][] = 'efAddTerms'; function efAddTerms(&$template) { $template->addInputItem('AUP', false, 'checkbox', 'I abide to the [[Acceptable Use Policy]]'); return true; }
That would add the checkbox. You also need to verify that it was checked:
$wgHooks['AbortNewAccount'][] = 'efAbortIfUnacceptable'; function efAbortIfUnacceptable($user, &$abortError) { global $wgRequest; $abortError = 'We only accept people which agree with the Acceptable Use Policy'; return $wgRequest->getCheck('AUP'); }
Good luck
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:40:16 +0100
From: Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Double Spacing on the "Printable Version"
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Raymond M wrote:
> I'm wanting to use printable version to print reviewable hard-copy
> editions that must be double spaced. This can be a configuration
> change, I have no need to make this selectable each time. Is there
> something in OutputPage.php that would set this?
Edit [[MediaWiki:Print.css]] and place there:
p { line-height: 2em; }
(be sure to test the print results with the Print Preview feature of your browser)
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:34:11 -0800
From: Raymond M <raymondsgroupmail at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Double Spacing on the "Printable Version"
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It goes into the skins/common/commonPrint.css file in my version.
Worked great! Thanks!
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Raymond M wrote:
>> I'm wanting to use printable version to print reviewable hard-copy
>> editions that must be double spaced. ?This can be a configuration
>> change, I have no need to make this selectable each time. ?Is there
>> something in OutputPage.php that would set this?
>
> Edit [[MediaWiki:Print.css]] and place there:
> p { line-height: 2em; }
>
> (be sure to test the print results with the Print Preview feature of
> your browser)
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:57:37 -0500
From: Gary Roush <groush2 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help
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Uploading files is finally fixed. After escalating help with ReadyHosting to level 3, I finally found someone who could change the image directory permissions to "full" (their term). That solved the problem, but interestingly when I look at the directory permissions using FileZilla, it still shows 755. No idea why it does not show 777, but since file upload now works I am done with this.
Thanks to those of you who helped!
Gary
At 05:36 PM 11/30/2010, you wrote:
>More precisely, chmod the images directory so that the webserver can
>write to it. (If you don't have access to chown or chgrp, then you will
>indeed have to chmod it to 777.)
>
>On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, trueskew <trueskew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > chmod -R 777 images
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> >> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gary
> >> Roush
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:48 PM
> >> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> >> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help
> >>
> >> Hi Benjamin,
> >>
> >> I removed those two lines from LocalSettings.php and got a
> >> different error message of "Could not create directory
> >> "public/1/1f"". So it still can not create a directory but at
> >> least found the images directory. What now?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Gary
> >>
> >> At 10:46 AM 11/30/2010, you wrote:
> >> >On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gary Roush
> >> <groush2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> > > Interesting that "public" is actually the images directory.
> >> >Yeah, that's rather unhelpful behavior. See
> >> >https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 (which I'm
> >> >re-adding to my to-do list).
> >> >
> >> > > $wgUploadPath = true; ///< defaults to "{$wgScriptPath}/images"
> >> > > $wgUploadDirectory = true; ///< defaults to "{$IP}/images"
> >> >$wgUploadPath and $wgUploadDirectory default to false, which
> >> >allows them to be initialized in Setup.php; setting them to true
> >> >is
> >> probably
> >> >causing the odd behavior. You actually don't need to set
> >> them at all
> >> >if you just want the defaults, so you should remove those two
> >> >lines from LocalSettings.php.
> >> >
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:31:29 -0800
From: David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Gary Roush wrote:
> Uploading files is finally fixed. After escalating help with
> ReadyHosting to level 3, I finally found someone who could change the
> image directory permissions to "full" (their term). That solved the
> problem, but interestingly when I look at the directory permissions
> using FileZilla, it still shows 755. No idea why it does not show
> 777, but since file upload now works I am done with this.
I believe what's crucial here is that the web server software be able to write to the directory. You're right that changing the directory permissions to 755 wouldn't fix this. Changing the ownership of the directory to the account under which your web server software runs, however, might.
--
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> http://www.parts-unknown.org/
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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:50:25 +0300
From: Juriy Katkov <katkov.juriy at gmail.com>
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] how to access internal info properly
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Hello!
I have a question about accessing the internal info of mediawiki in an extension code, e.g. information about revisions for pages.
What interface has less chances to change during the development of Media Wiki? Is it database structure or mediawiki classes such as User, Article, Revision?
For example, it's very simple to make select-query for getting all contributors for the page $thisPageTitle:
SELECT rev_user_text
FROM page
INNER JOIN revision on page.page_id=revision.rev_page
WHERE
page_title=\"$thisPageTitle\";
On the other hand I'm sure that there exists a class method that allows us to do the same thing.
What of these ways is more proper in terms of portability from one MediaWiki version to another?
Sincerely yours,
Yury Katkov
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