[MediaWiki-l] restoring old database for the current wiki

2015-05-20 Thread Ilias Miroslav
Dear experts, I am trying to restore this database into currecnt MediaWiki, which cca 4 years old, http://dirac.umb.sk/doc/old_mediawiki/chem-wiki-dbs.sql . Though the simple database check seems fine: [root@dirac old_mediawiki]# mysqlcheck -u root -p chem-wiki-dbs.sql Enter password:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] restoring old database for the current wiki

2015-05-20 Thread Ilias Miroslav
Hi again, well, in between it got fixed; I had to use the proper database name. Only minor issue is remaining: pictures were not properly converted, hope I find some solution. Miro From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] restoring old database for the current wiki

2015-05-20 Thread Benjamin Lees
Your database dump includes the email addresses and password hashes of users. You probably don't want to make it publicly available. Anyway, MediaWiki stores images on the file system, rather than in the database, so if you don't have a dump of the files, they're gone for good. On Wed, May 20,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Semantic Forms: some fields duplicate upon save after edit if no information is entered

2015-05-20 Thread Jay van Santen
Yaron -- Many thanks for your clarification. It seemed an issue beyond my expertise with SMW. Your analysis helps me understand the probable cause and potential resolutions. Jay On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Yaron Koren ya...@wikiworks.com wrote: Hi Jay, Looking at that

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Semantic Forms: some fields duplicate upon save after edit if no information is entered

2015-05-20 Thread Jay van Santen
Yaron -- Just quickly, my solution to the problem. The Sections are critical to the format of the page -- to give me more control over styling without having to create a new skin. I found that entering a space in a field in SF renders that populated and avoids the buggy behavior

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Semantic Forms: some fields duplicate upon save after edit if no information is entered

2015-05-20 Thread Jay van Santen
Yaron -- A quick note that I'm sure you'll be able to make use of. Most of the affected entry fields do, in fact, accept multiple entries. However, the one on Related Links in the Wiki is not setup that way. The data it accepts is pages, and, of course, multiple pages can be entered in