Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade failed

2015-09-18 Thread Henny Savenije
> for more. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Bill Traynor <btray...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Henny Savenije >> <webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr> wrote: >> > At 04:32 PM 09/15/2015 Tuesday, you wrote: >>

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade failed

2015-09-18 Thread Henny Savenije
16, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Henny Savenije > <webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr> wrote: > > At 04:32 PM 09/15/2015 Tuesday, you wrote: > >> > >> You are not going to like my suggestion, but I think it's your best > >> approach. Backup your database, images an

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade failed

2015-09-15 Thread Henny Savenije
I'd suggest installing the latest stable version of MediaWiki using the instructions on MediaWiki.org. That is, manually move the core files into your wiki root one by one over writing the old files. Don't forget NOT to overwrite your images and extensions directories, or the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] I've had several questions over time

2015-09-15 Thread Henny Savenije
Remember that this is a mailing list for an open source project. Community members provide answers to questions when and if they are able, for free, on their own time. I realize that, I have given support on other email lists (even though no open source project) Sometimes questions slip

[MediaWiki-l] I've had several questions over time

2015-09-14 Thread Henny Savenije
I have had several questions over time and I never received any answer on any of them. I wonder why I am a member? _ _ (o) (o) oOOO(_)OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang) - http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my

[MediaWiki-l] Upgrade failed

2015-09-07 Thread Henny Savenije
I have my wiki installed by installatron (a program which is installs scripts) and that always went fine but during the last two updates things went terribly wrong, the data in the database isn't touched but the files are. What is the best way to correct this whole situation? The URL to the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Consultant?

2014-09-07 Thread Henny Savenije
Actually I have used for many years QuestyCaptcha.php you can make your own defined questions and answers I used the capitals of certain countries and that works like a charm. No more spam At 08:15 PM 9/7/2014 Sunday, you wrote: Dear Gordo, When i had attack from spam bot, then i implement

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-24 Thread Henny Savenije
I am using already for quite a while QuestyCaptcha http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha It allows you to ask a number of questions which will randomly change. You could use for instance capitals of countries or states. It works like a charm for me. None of the spammers ever got

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki spam. Stronger fightback.

2013-05-24 Thread Henny Savenije
As for blocking IP's automatically. This is another good method which I also use. http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/ You hide a small invisible image with a link which people won't see but bots do. Descent bots won't follow that link since you told them in robot.txt not to do so.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Spambots and CPU usage

2013-03-29 Thread Henny Savenije
Try this one http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/ At 10:32 PM 3/28/2013 Thursday -0500, you wrote: Some spam bots specifically target wikis (edit/create page and then enter data). I don't have problems with spammers actually getting through and submitting spam. The anti-spam is strong

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Mediawiki-l] Changing texts within articles

2012-12-20 Thread Henny Savenije
I just installed this package but it won't work. As soon as I add require_once( $IP/extensions/ReplaceText/ReplaceText.php ) to the LocalSettings.php the wiki doesn't load anymore. All the files are in the ReplaceText subdirectory in the extentions directory I tried to put the require_once

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cannot install mwdumper from source

2012-05-29 Thread Henny Savenije
Why don't you try this handy tool, works like a charm, I have used it already for a long time http://www.mysqldumper.net/ At 01:00 PM 5/30/2012, you wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Khanh Nguyen ndkhanh...@gmail.com wrote: Â I checked out mwdumper source code from here:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Empty page solved

2012-05-07 Thread Henny Savenije
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Profiler.php_Fatal_Error_Cannot_redeclare_wfprofilein%28%29 At 09:09 AM 5/7/2012, you wrote: After a crash of the plesk I had to do a new install of plesk but luckily the database is backed up every two hours and the files are on a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki replication?

2012-02-04 Thread Henny Savenije
At 01:44 AM 2/5/2012, you wrote: Also very interested in this for 2 reasons. 1) I too have mirrors of my wiki, that don't get updated like they should because of the pain that it is. 2) sandbox testing of upgrades. I am running a replica of a media wiki (not the images though but I guess I

Re: [Mediawiki-l] do you know a good hoster?

2011-11-18 Thread Henny Savenije
? The reason why I am asking is because i cant update my installation from 1.16 because i always get an error. I cant run the update.php because i dont have a command line on my shared webhosting. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Henny Savenije webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr wrote: Try 123-web

Re: [Mediawiki-l] do you know a good hoster?

2011-11-17 Thread Henny Savenije
Try 123-web-host.nl I host there already for many years with little complaints and I have huge websites. At 10:53 AM 11/18/2011, you wrote: hello, as I have problems with my hoster concerning mediawiki, i would like to ask if you know a good hoster (preferred in europe / germany)

Re: [Mediawiki-l] problem with FCKeditor

2011-09-13 Thread Henny Savenije
At 05:33 PM 9/13/2011, you wrote: Thank you Jim, I tried the r81394 release but it still does not open. Meanwhile, I discovered the WYSIWYG editor (http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Download#MEDIAWIKI_EXTENSIONS) which is the continuation of the FCKeditor extension but on

[Mediawiki-l] Font colors

2011-07-16 Thread Henny Savenije
Dear All, I am maintaining a wiki and want all the colors reflect my house style. I want all the font in the color maroon (#80) It was initially like this but somehow it changed. http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/mediawiki/index.php/Dorpspomp If I look in the monobook.css I can't

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Font colors

2011-07-16 Thread Henny Savenije
I don't know too much about CSS, but if you added a specific rule to MediaWiki:Monobook.css that said div#content { color: #80; } you'd probably be fine. Hi, Thanks a million. To be honest, I don't know anything about CSS, I tried to understand it, but there are so many other things I

[Mediawiki-l] FCKeditor

2011-05-10 Thread Henny Savenije
I installed the FCKeditor but after the upgrade to 1.16.5 it's not working anymore When trying to edit I get the following message (after enabling $wgShowExceptionDetails = true;) Detected bug in an extension! Hook FCKeditor_MediaWiki::onCustomEditor failed to return a value; should return

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread Henny Savenije
At 12:45 AM 4/9/2011, you wrote: Take a look at the Vector extension. It offers a variety of progressive enhancements for the Vector skin. I tried to install that but I get a blank page. - Trevor On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:02 AM, Henny Savenije wrote: How do you make those menu's in the sidebar

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread Henny Savenije
At 01:59 AM 4/9/2011, you wrote: A blank page usually means a php error (check your php and web server logs). Also check permissions on the extension software and make sure your web service can execute. I think I understand what's going on. This extension only works with the Vector skin, is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread Henny Savenije
The Vector extension is only compatible with 1.17+. For 1.16 you need to use the UsabilityInitiative extension that the Vector extension was split out from around 1.17. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Thanks, but I couldn't find the UsabilityInitiative

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread Henny Savenije
At 12:28 PM 4/9/2011, you wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Henny Savenije webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr wrote: Thanks, but I couldn't find the UsabilityInitiative extension. I mean when I downloaded that one there was only a readme file. I've fixed the download link at http

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sort order German language

2011-03-29 Thread Henny Savenije
At 07:51 AM 3/30/2011, you wrote: Henny Savenije wrote: Can't be done. This is a MySQL issue Wouldn't using a german collation in MySQL allow that? Unfortunately no. _ _ (o) (o) oOOO(_)OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sort order German language

2011-03-26 Thread Henny Savenije
Can't be done. This is a MySQL issue At 09:56 PM 3/26/2011, you wrote: Hi, What can I do to get the right German sort order of all articles when choosing All pages? The Umlaute and ß is sorted in a wrong way, these special characters are sorted after the letter Z but this is not the right

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trouble with MediaWiki:Common.css?

2011-02-17 Thread Henny Savenije
Most of the time that means that PHP is not communicating with the database. You may want to check your database settings or see if MySQL is running At 05:46 PM 2/17/2011, you wrote: Inaccessible means blank pages. While trying to access the wiki in FireFox, I get a blank page - not even an

Re: [Mediawiki-l] NAVER - http://www.naver.com/

2011-02-05 Thread Henny Savenije
naver.com is a korean search engine and maybe you're blocked there. However I doubt that you're being blocked there. At 11:21 PM 2/5/2011, you wrote: On 2011-02-05 06:02, Klaus Becker wrote: each time I send a mail to the list, I get normal message and another one like this: [snip]

Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2011-01-31 Thread Henny Savenije
At 10:43 AM 2/1/2011, you wrote: I did not need to see these medical ads, not did I like the redirect. Why did you send this, Chad? I got a warning that this site was infected. - Original Message - From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-11 Thread Henny Savenije
be wrong since I uploaded them as the owner of the account not as root. Thanks for thinking along, At 05:32 PM 1/11/2011, you wrote: Henny Savenije wrote : No such file or directory in /storage/vhosts/genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/httpdocs/mediawiki/extensions/fckeditor/fckeditor.php

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-11 Thread Henny Savenije
At 07:52 PM 1/11/2011, you wrote: Henny Savenije wrote : The file is called fckeditor.php and it calls for the file fckeditor_php5.php and it can't find it. (while both files are there) oops, sorry for that, I misunderstood/misread the log as for the capitals, just to be sure, do you have

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-11 Thread Henny Savenije
- From: Henny Savenije [mailto:webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:13 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor Tried to exclude all other extensions but to no avail Finally found the logfiles in the new version of Plesk

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-11 Thread Henny Savenije
from here. -Jim -Original Message- From: Henny Savenije [mailto:webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 4:27 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor At 11:37 PM 1/11/2011, you wrote: Logs are you friends

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-10 Thread Henny Savenije
Maybe I was a bit too short. Special:Version gives the following Installed software Product Version MediaWiki 1.16.1 PHP 5.2.14 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.50-log Installed extensions Parser hooks Cite Adds ref[ name=id] and references/ tags, for citations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ImageMap

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-10 Thread Henny Savenije
LocalSettings.php file is correct and near the end of the file. I can't find the error log but I can't imaging -Jim -Original Message- From: Henny Savenije [mailto:webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 4:50 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-10 Thread Henny Savenije
$wgUseAjax = true; after the require_once statement. If these do not help you need to find your logs for httpd. On Linux they should be under /var/log/httpd. Not sure where they would be for Windows. -Jim -Original Message- From: Henny Savenije [mailto:webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr] Sent

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-10 Thread Henny Savenije
: Henny Savenije [mailto:webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:03 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor _ _ (o) (o) oOOO(_)OOOo--- Henny (Lee Hae Kang

[Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-07 Thread Henny Savenije
I installed the FCK editor and actually I don't see anything. I mean I followed the instructions Verify/Rename Configuration Files Verify if the files extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor_config.js and extensions/FCKeditor/plugins/mediawiki/fckplugin.js does exist. In case they come with .txt

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCK Editor

2011-01-07 Thread Henny Savenije
After you've downloaded the extension and actual editor, add this line at the end of LocalSettings.php: Did you add that line? Yes, I added that line Does fckeditor appear in Special:Version? No it doesn't. _ _ (o) (o) oOOO(_)OOOo---

Re: [Mediawiki-l] thumbnails

2010-12-20 Thread Henny Savenije
Hello Nikola, It's possible that your server isn't configured to handle png files. It all depends on how GD graphics library is configured. At 07:28 PM 12/20/2010, you wrote: Hello Ruud, of course I can. If I upload an image, which I have created with a printscreen and upload it in my wiki

Re: [Mediawiki-l] thumbnails

2010-12-20 Thread Henny Savenije
. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Henny Savenije Gesendet: Montag, 20. Dezember 2010 11:48 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] thumbnails Hello Nikola

Re: [Mediawiki-l] thumbnails

2010-12-20 Thread Henny Savenije
Henny Savenije Gesendet: Montag, 20. Dezember 2010 11:48 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] thumbnails Hello Nikola, It's possible that your server isn't configured to handle png files. It all depends on how GD graphics library is configured

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread Henny Savenije
You may try to import the file in MySQL and use the update script to update the database. Make a backup before you try this. At 09:50 ¿ÀÀü 2010-09-13, you wrote: Hello all, I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Help with new installation

2010-09-12 Thread Henny Savenije
would only want to import a couple tables and any tables they reference. For example, I'd want whatever table holds the reference to the articles which might then link to a table that actually links to the binary data source of the article. I don't want to break things again :-) lol. Bruce Henny

Re: [Mediawiki-l] tables

2010-07-09 Thread Henny Savenije
Philippe This should work {| border=1 |Sinaasappel |Appel |- |Brood |Taart |- |Boter |Sorbet |} At 10:39 PM 7/9/2010, you wrote: Hi, On 9 July 2010 14:53, Philippe Dhont philippe.dh...@gems-group.com wrote: Hi, I want to use tables in mediawiki and the code that i use works but there

Re: [Mediawiki-l] tables

2010-07-09 Thread Henny Savenije
Maybe you can find here http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/mediawiki/index.php/Tabellen what you need. At 09:53 PM 7/9/2010, you wrote: Hi, I want to use tables in mediawiki and the code that i use works but there is no layout. As a test, this should make a nice viewing table (example

Re: [Mediawiki-l] INDEX command denied

2010-06-20 Thread Henny Savenije
Maybe you have a limitation on the number of databases? At 12:12 AM 6/21/2010, you wrote: Thanks, I got THAT. I have some more MySQL databases on that server and until now, I had no problem to create indexes on my tables. So I don't understand why that's a problem in this script. Daniel Domas

Re: [Mediawiki-l] TNG integration Solved

2010-06-09 Thread Henny Savenije
This has probably got to do with the permissions of the user you use to look at the tables. Try connecting with the same user as given in the LocalSettings. Then you should be able to see all mediawiki tables. Actually it was a bit more complicated. The wiki database had all the table files and

[Mediawiki-l] TNG integration

2010-06-08 Thread Henny Savenije
I have a working Wiki installation but also a TNG database In order to integrate the two one should have one database for both. Alright, so I copied the physical files of the wiki database to the TNG database, changed the settings in the localsettings.php to point to the TNG database and it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-05-31 Thread Henny Savenije
Steve, are you the owner of this group? At 08:55 PM 5/31/2010, you wrote: There is your wish, and from others, to continue in an other newgroup. It is not my personal wish to continue this elsewhere. It is my wish that this topic GO elsewhere. Can you tell me which newsgroup I have to use

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki installation at Godaddy

2009-07-27 Thread Henny Savenije
I'm not much into web developement, I don't really know if mediawiki uses any of Zend functionnality, perhaps am I totally wrong ;) If zend is installed, it will use it. Zend is only used to speed up php. Bye, Jules Regards. PM Poon On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Julien

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Backing up

2009-07-20 Thread Henny Savenije
At 05:30 AM 7/21/2009, you wrote: What is a good way to confirm that my backup backed up the entire site? Apart from the site, I also need the images directory, the extensions directory, and the php configuration file (I forget the name). Anything else?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 70, Issue 20 Re:Erros

2009-07-14 Thread Henny Savenije
. Errors (mihai) 7. Re: Errors (Ekompute .info) 8. Re: Errors (Henny Savenije) 9. Re: Errors (Ekompute .info) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:37:51 +0200 From: Farkas, Illes f...@elte.hu Subject

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Henny Savenije
On most cPanel servers the server makes a daily, weekly and monthly backup. If you're on a cpanel server ask them to replace first the daily copy and if that doesn't work the weekly and so on. At 04:52 PM 7/13/2009, you wrote: Oh dear... guess you need to restore a copy of your database

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Errors

2009-07-13 Thread Henny Savenije
on their own hard disk of the rest of the site. At 06:19 PM 7/13/2009, you wrote: Hi Henny Savenije, I think the practice differs from webhost to webhost. I was once asked to pay US$28.75 to restore a backup (without guarantee) by my previous webhost, Siteground. Apparently, they kept 2 daily backups at any

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Weird problem

2009-07-03 Thread Henny Savenije
you mean the apache error log? At 12:15 AM 7/4/2009, you wrote: Henny Savenije wrote: I have a weird problem. I have a wiki installed here http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/mediawiki/index.php/FAQ but if I look at it with the computer where Korean windows is installed, I get a blank

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Weird problem

2009-07-03 Thread Henny Savenije
Thanks, I'll have to wait till I have access to a computer installed with Korean windows again so I know when exactly I accessed it and look for it in the log files. I'll let you know what happens. At 03:59 AM 7/4/2009, you wrote: Henny Savenije wrote: Yes, I tried Firefox (which

[Mediawiki-l] Weird problem

2009-07-02 Thread Henny Savenije
I have a weird problem. I have a wiki installed here http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/mediawiki/index.php/FAQ but if I look at it with the computer where Korean windows is installed, I get a blank page. I was also wondering if that might happen with other languages and of course I

Re: [Mediawiki-l] High Availability mediawiki

2009-06-02 Thread Henny Savenije
No but if you have two servers and on both servers the wiki is under the same domain name the only thing you have to do is regularly copy all the files and databases to the other server (not in use) if one goes down you will have to change the name servers at the registrar. Technically it

[Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2009-05-30 Thread Henny Savenije
I installed a wiki for my son and since he's crazy about math, I tried to install the math extension. I followed the instructions * Change to the math sub-directory of your MediaWiki install * Run 'make' (or 'gmake' if GNU make is not your default make). This should produce the texvc

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki release candidate 1.15.0rc1

2009-05-17 Thread Henny Savenije
If the system wants to know my sex, I can either say yes or no, if it wants to know my gender I can say male or female ;-) At 12:33 AM 5/18/2009, you wrote: This system does /not/ want to know my sex. If you're asking a living creature whether it is male or female, you are asking it's sex, not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [SPAM] Re: Upgrading Mediawiki

2009-03-29 Thread Henny Savenije
On a shared host, on Plesk they could install installatron which could take care of it automatically (and yes it would cost them money) or on cPanel you could do the same with Fantastico. At 07:34 AM 3/30/2009, you wrote: Hi Mike, sorry if I appear to be blaming MW. Actually I am not. I did

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How do i correctly move my wiki from domain1.de/winfwiki/index.php to domain2.de/index.php

2009-03-16 Thread Henny Savenije
I don't have the experience of moving a Wiki, but I have moved other software, you will just have to figure out where the paths are stored and correct them all with a MySQL query. At 05:19 PM 3/16/2009, you wrote: Hi List, i am somewhat disappointed about the reaction to my question. I can't

Re: [Mediawiki-l] autopopulate mediawiki

2009-02-24 Thread Henny Savenije
I actually have a few already quite old homepages written in html. They are pretty big (follow the first few links below) Would it be possible to automatically import those in a wiki? The advantage would be that it's easier searchable and easier for me to maintain. _ _

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Error creating thumbnail

2009-02-19 Thread Henny Savenije
Never mind. I found a solution which works Instead of adding the $wgUseImageMagick and $wgImageMagickConvertCommand variables to LocalSettings.php, add this line instead: $wgCustomConvertCommand = /usr/sfw/bin/convert -resize %wx%h %s %d; This line is documented in DefaultSettings.php and is

[Mediawiki-l] Error creating thumbnail

2009-02-18 Thread Henny Savenije
Why aren't some thumbnails created? http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/mediawiki/index.php/Afbeelding:Persoonsgegevens07.jpg Granted, the image is pretty big, but in other cases the thumbnails of similar images was created fine. So what's going wrong? _ _

[Mediawiki-l] Imagemagick

2009-02-11 Thread Henny Savenije
I had to downgrade php due to the fact that Plesk wouldn't work with the latest version on centos. Alright all went well and is working except imagemagick. I reinstalled it again, but the result is nada, Wiki does rely I think on this since thumbnails won't be created anymore. Anyone has any