Re: [MediaWiki-l] What PHP version do you use?

Just to counter that, you are overlooking a crucial point ... On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Ray Paseur wrote: > I believe that using the latest software is almost always a good idea. We > are going to upgrade eventually - why deny ourselves the benefits of the > latest

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What PHP version do you use?

>> policies and keep things as they are until I notice a more coherent upgrade >> approach. >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> >> wrote: >> >>> Just to counter that, you are overlooking a crucial poin

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Infobox formatting

Try re-opening the page in a new browser window. The CSS gets cached, changes to MediaWiki:Common.css don't necessarily affect the rendering of the page immediately. B. On Feb 5, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Did that (not sure if that was meant to be

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [mwstake] What should we focus on?

Chris has made some excellent points and I agree emphatically with all but one: IMO for the advanced user not all is good. Maintaining and customizing a Wiki is a pain and always has been. Some of the pains have been listed by Chris, but consider: to be effective you need to have at least a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Where are to be located the [[File:xxxx.jpg]] ?

Does it have to be the [[File: ... ]] syntax? If not, you could link externally (cf. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages) and write a template that expands your to the full path. B. On Nov 5, 2014, at 9:18 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: I would still

[MediaWiki-l] Restoring MediaWiki after the Drupal exploit?

Dear all - As most of you will know, Drupal has recently announced a critical vulnerability and automated MySQL injection attacks in the wild have compromised servers(1). Our sysadmins are wiping affected machines, in order to reinstall data from pre Oct. 15 backups. We users need to figure

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Restoring MediaWiki after the Drupal exploit?

: On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:53:28 +0100, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca wrote: If I understand the Drupal advisory correctly, backdoors could have been installed in the database. I don't know nearly enough about this, but I suspect this could mean that a backdoor could reappear on the new

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki virtual file system. Call for feedback.

Find/replace would be one. Working in a fixed-width font another ... B. On 2013-09-23, at 11:13 AM, Wjhonson wrote: What is the advantage of that? -Original Message- From: Camponez campo...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki virtual file system. Call for feedback.

: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.cawrote: Find/replace would be one. Working in a fixed-width font another ... B. You should already have a fixed width font by default in our edit windows... (unless you are using a language setting that ULS currently breaks

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Parser function to test if this page is being transcluded?

... but you realize it would be visible both in the WikiSource and the HTML source of the page, yes? B. On 2012-12-20, at 6:41 PM, Al Johnson wrote: I know I'm asking some off-the-wall questions, but I'm trying to do something special. Thanks ahead of time for your patience /^) I would

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Parser function to test if this page is being transcluded?

Then would something like (untested): {{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | your source page | |span style=display:none;}} ... {{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | your source page | |/span}} work for you? B. On 2012-12-20, at 6:54 PM, Al Johnson wrote: Yes. From: Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca To: Al

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Parser function to test if this page is being transcluded?

: {{PAGENAME}} | your source page | |XYZ}} ... {{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | your source page | |/span}} work for you? B. On 2012-12-20, at 6:54 PM, Al Johnson wrote: Yes. From: Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.ca To: Al Johnson alj62...@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Save Page?

Guys, seriously ... Its just a label for a button. If you don't like it, you can change it in Special:AllMessages - it's called: savedarticle :-) B. On 2012-03-23, at 6:17 PM, Gordon Joly wrote: Correction: This can happen concurrently. Hence, Person X changes the section, but all

Re: [Mediawiki-l] GeSHI keyword links?

Could anyone kindly confirm whether linked keywords (as in: you can click on the keyword to access language specific documentation) works or doesn't work for them with the SyntaxHighlight extension? B. On 2012-02-11, at 7:21 AM, Boris Steipe wrote: I am using SyntaxHighlight 1.0.8.10 (GeSHI

[Mediawiki-l] GeSHI keyword links?

I am using SyntaxHighlight 1.0.8.10 (GeSHI 1.0.8) on MediaWiki 1.18.1 Keywords are coloured as they should but no links to the specified URLs are created. How can I enable keyword linking? Thanks, Boris ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Article upload issue??

Have you tried: - editing an existing article by overwriting it with your contents (is it an issue with the contents?) (you can undo he change in your history) - creating a new article with a different name and contents (is it an issue with your create-article rights? Can you create articles at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Übermittlung der Daten aus dem Formular

Das liegt vielleicht an Deinen PHP Einstellungen - MediaWiki hat da keine Beschränkungen. Sieh mal unter: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Set_maximum_size_for_file_uploads B. On 2012-01-16, at 7:16 AM, Timo Brandt wrote: Liebe Leute, ich habe eine

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Übermittlung der Daten aus dem Formular

Boris Steipe Gesendet: Montag, 16. Januar 2012 13:28 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Übermittlung der Daten aus dem Formular Das liegt vielleicht an Deinen PHP Einstellungen - MediaWiki hat da keine Beschränkungen. Sieh mal unter: http

[Mediawiki-l] Req. help installing jquery.makeCollapsible for MW 1.18

I am trying to use the PubmedParser extension on my Wiki (1.18) but have not been able to get the jquery.makeCollapsible plugin to work. Simply adding the class mw-collapsible to a page element appeared not to be sufficient for an out-of the box MW 1.18 installation. The manual page for

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki migration

I recently posted my experience migrating from 1.5.3 (MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1). If you can't find it in the archive, contact me off-list. Boris On 2011-12-05, at 1:01 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:45:40 -0800, Stephen Berg (Contractor)

[Mediawiki-l] Migration from MW 1.5 (MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1) ?

Dear all, I am trying to migrate an old but important Wiki from its current server to a new machine. The old machine is a RH Linux running MW 1.5.3 with MySQL 3.23. The new machine is VMware Linux running with MySQL 5.1. My mysql usernames are not identical on the two machines. I would prefer

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Migration from MW 1.5 (MySQL 3.23) to 1.17 (MySQL 5.1) ?

: clean up Indices have to be rebuilt, especially if $wgHashedUploadDirectory was used. php maintenance/rebuildall.php That should be all. Boris On 2011-11-08, at 2:21 PM, Boris Steipe wrote: Dear all, I am trying to migrate an old but important Wiki from its current server to a new

Re: [Mediawiki-l] 2 domains on 1 Installtion?

So just put a VirtualHost directive into apache httpd.conf on the domain1 server and point the logical name for domain2 to the IP of domain1. B. On 2011-10-28, at 11:04 AM, Isabell Alcott wrote: *if someone goes to domain2, all their urls should stay domain2. ditto for domain1.*

Re: [Mediawiki-l] 2 domains on 1 Installtion?

Same thing except there are VirtualHost directives for both domains - that's how your shared hosting works in the first place. No? B. On 2011-10-28, at 11:19 AM, Isabell Alcott wrote: i have shared webhosting On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.cawrote

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with External Images Display

403? See where in your directory structure the image ends up and check whether the access privileges for the folders look different from the ones where it works B. On 2011-10-08, at 19:26, Bruce Whealton br...@whealton.info wrote: I get a 403 Forbidden error.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

Hm. Try: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Dunning+Kruger :-) On 2011-02-08, at 8:17 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: - Original Message - From: sam.sex...@thomsonreuters.com In the sidebar, under In anderen Sprachen, you'll find English - works for me! ;-) I will? Which one of these is that

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Kapuneipu - help wanted

It seems to me you are proposing a hierarchical vetting system. This is not a new idea, but many failed attempts show that it is really, really hard in practice to identify experts and it does not get easier by making the process work from majority rules. In fact, the very Dunning-Kruger Effect

Re: [Mediawiki-l] mais page

But that would serve the code with every loaded page, not just the main page ..., I thought he had asked for main page only. On 14-Apr-10, at 5:50 PM, nevio carlos de alarcão wrote: Thank you vert much, Geo 2010/4/14 George Alexandru Dudău george.du...@mobexpert.ro Hello, I'd like to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

- and you made sure neither the page nor the css were still cached? B. On 11-Mar-10, at 2:29 AM, Peter Velan wrote: am 11.03.2010 07:48 schrieb Katharina Wolkwitz: since I'm suffering the same problem I tried your tipp and commented out all occurrences of text-transform:lowercase; in

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki page trough email

The question isn't completely defined: do you want the links in your static page to resolve? Or do you want them removed? Do you care about styles? Or do you simply want the text? A wikipage is dynamically created from database contents, but even if it is then displayed in your browser, it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source

Also: in the information-based economy, an increasingly important part of the revenue of your activities is mind-share. No better way to demonstrate your expertise to the world than to contribute something useful. B. On 18-Jan-10, at 11:46 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: Hi Bernard, By

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source

pool advertises your organization's capacity to understand real-world issues and address them in a viable way. $0.02 - B. On 18-Jan-10, at 1:21 PM, bern...@bernardhulsman.nl wrote: Boris Steipe wrote: Also: in the information-based economy, an increasingly important part of the revenue

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source

: Boris Steipe wrote: In my area of work (bioinformatics) I have not seen convincing business models that were based on charging for code. Integration, customization, consulting - yes, it needs a lot of expertise to get that right and people are willing to pay for that expertise. Contributing