Mark, thank you for the assistance. The solution about images is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Trouble_uploading_... chmod 777 images directory.
I do not think that it is best solution, but it works; and now I seem to have workable clon of my old wiki, implemented with the new mediawiki 1.21rc5. However, you may consider to update a little bit the package. I have few suggestions.
1. If one forgets to GRANT the user of database sufficient privileges, then it may be good case to say: "user is denied the access to database" in the error message. May be, even specify, which access is forgotten. This would be better than to show the empty frame or to ask to klick the same button again and again.
2. If one forgets to give mode 777 to all files and subdirectories in images, then, instead of abrakadabra "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/..." the diagnistic message should indicate the hint: sudo chmod 777 -R images
3. I think, the setup should finish with sentence "In order to work with images, execute command sudo chmod 777 -R images from the command line"
instead of "setup completed"
For beginners, this would be more understandable than "make writable".
4. Consider to include MathJax; it is one of most important extensions.
5. I think, by default, the users should be allowed to iupload the PDF files in the same way, as they upload JPG, GIF, PNG, etc., by default. However, the additional options about the scaling may be useful, but they should be additions, not the default.
=========================================== On Tue, 14 May 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 05/14/2013 06:54 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
I try to understand, what do I wrong trying to animate the old wiki with mediawiki-1.21.0rc5 at http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t/index.php?title=Category:Problem_with_fig
I don't know enough about ImageMagick to answer. Try posting in the ImageMagick forums -- http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/ -- I've found them to be helpful.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. -- G.K. Chesterson