[MediaWiki-l] Backported CirrusSearch for 1.35 ... is anyone else interested?

. I haven't tested it too much and I the unit tests aren't working, but this WORKSFORME, so far. Is there anyone else interested in this? -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[MediaWiki-l] #mwstake meeting: Verified Content and MWStake Components

Components: Learn about what the MWStake Components are, their origin and purpose. Robert will share Hallo Welt!'s experience with this approach and show how MWStake Components can be used in your own projects. Please join us! Mark -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 71

[MediaWiki-l] Re: This Wednesday. join us on the MediaWiki stop of the listening tour for the WMF's incoming CEO

The URL I sent for timezone conversion was off by an hour. It had 1500CET but the correct time is 1500UTC. Here is the corrected url: https://tinyurl.com/2mu2nm5a My apologies for the confusion, Mark. #mwstake president "Mark A. Hershberger" writes: > As part of h

[MediaWiki-l] This Wednesday. join us on the MediaWiki stop of the listening tour for the WMF's incoming CEO

tinyurl.com/5nmmjddk * Zoom call: https://tinyurl.com/yvn872d4 * Maryana's Listening tour: https://w.wiki/4AXf * MediaWiki Stakeholder's user group information: https://w.wiki/ZHc Thank you, Mark A. Hershberger #mwstake president ___ MediaWiki-l mailing

[MediaWiki-l] Please take this 20 minute Semantic MediaWiki survey

and recommendations to ensure a bright future for SMW. We will inform you on the results and further steps on this site. Regards, MediaWiki Stakeholders’ Group Mark A. Hershberger (President) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[MediaWiki-l] Re: Update HitCounters GitHub repo

"Mark A. Hershberger" writes: > Since the people who forked it haven't opened up an account on Gerrit, > though, I suppose I can merge in their patches and ensure T282897 is > fixed. I've updated the HitCounters extension in gerrit[1] and made it installable via composer.[2

[MediaWiki-l] Re: Update HitCounters GitHub repo

Kunal Mehta writes: > On 6/4/21 7:01 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Would it be possible to update the HitCounters repo, please? > > They seem to have made a change in their fork, not in the actual repository on > Gerrit. tracks updating > HitCounters

[MediaWiki-l] Join MediaWiki Stakeholders' board!

. We expect a workload of one hour per week, including online meetings every three months. If you are interested, please send an email to ad...@mwstake.org. If you would like to learn more, feel free to join our next meeting (February 7th) [3] or chat on Riot [4]. Thank you, Mark A. Hershberger

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Semediawiki-user] maintenance script to perform "null edit" to all pages.

ot; --skip-properties Footnotes: [1] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_script_rebuildData.php -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Stakeholders' meta-repository of extensions not in gerrit

This afternoon, while procrastinating by cleaning up my clone of gerrit's mediawiki extensions repository, I decided to make a meta repository for some non-WMF-hosted extensions. (Hopefully this will mean less need to clean up the clone in the future.) I got some low-hanging fruit to start it

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Stakeholders' meta-repository of extensions not in gerrit

This afternoon, while procrastinating by cleaning up my clone of gerrit's mediawiki extensions repository, I decided to make a meta repository for some non-WMF-hosted extensions. (Hopefully this will mean less need to clean up the clone in the future.) I got some low-hanging fruit to start it

Re: [MediaWiki-l] recommended way to email all users in a small private EMW

. This has the advantage of notifying those who use the wiki regularly. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://li

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wikiapiary

Stephan Gambke <s7ep...@protonmail.com> writes: > Does anybody know what's up with Wikiapiary > (https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/)? It should be back. Sorry for the outage. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___

Re: [MediaWiki-l] accessing / modifing $1 in MediaWiki:Loginreqpagetext with SimpleSAMLauth

eSAMLphp [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Cindy.cicalese -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Audio Streaming in MediaWiki, is possible?

3;>Radio Solta Sapo (MP3) And it worked for me in Firefox and Chrome. Maybe the ability to play streams is something that Mark Clements (CC'd) could add to the extension? How would this look? What would you put i the wikitext? If Mark C. isn't able to do it, I might have some

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Downgrade 1.28.3 -> 1.27.3

Hermann-Josef Beckers <hj.beck...@kreis-steinfurt.de> writes: > is $Subject possible? Some BlueSpice extensions don't work with > 1.28.x. Try it and see. It is likely possible. Of course, backup first. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

per_Summit/2017 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017 -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

and I'm very, very thankful that Ms. Coleman is implementing this. Thank again! -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Follow Up:What Impact did the Mediawiki Stakeholders Wishlist of Features Have

it and (hopefully) motivated workers. We'll be discussing as well as the next *MWCon in D.C. this Friday. Please join us. Footnotes: [1] http://mwstake.org/mwstake/wiki/Event:36 [2] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/other-non-profits/business-leagues -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Follow Up:What Impact did the Mediawiki Stakeholders Wishlist of Features Have

ort. Mark. Footnotes: [1] http://mwstake.org/mwstake/wiki/Event:36 -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Usage Report 2015

Brian Wolff writes: > Umm, where is the link to the report? Dadgummit. Stupid mailmain filtering out HTML mail. I'll resend. Sorry for the confusion. Mark. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to:

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Usage Report 2015

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' User Group wants to improve MediaWiki and advocates the needs of MediaWiki users outside Wikimedia Foundation-supported projects. But who is using MediaWiki? In an effort to answer this question the MediaWiki Stakeholders’ Group organized a survey during the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Usage Report 2015

TL;DR: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Usage_Report_2015 The MediaWiki Stakeholders User Group[1] wants to improve MediaWiki and advocates the needs of MediaWiki users outside Wikimedia Foundation-supported projects. But who is using MediaWiki? In an effort to answer this question the

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki needs a governance model

I just posted this to the MediaWiki stakeholders wiki: http://mwstake.org/mwstake/wiki/Blog_Post:18 Please post any followup comments on wikitech-l. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Any RSS Extension Experts Out There ??

to fetch the feed on the command line? -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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

to make it more useful to everyone? Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Special page error - mediawiki 1.24

your extensions as well? -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] Spec for opt-in site registration RFC

I've published this at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_check_and_opt-in_site_reporting. Please comment on the talk page. Mark. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] Spec for opt-in MediaWiki registration coming

.log.html#l-168 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-12-03#Meeting_summary -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Google Code-in: First week achievements!

to run your own instance of MediaWiki with Bootstrap, you can install one of several skins. I'm familiar with Chameleon (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon) and Foreground (http://foreground.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page). I'd say there is plenty of mobile-directed effort. -- Mark

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.24.0 released

probably be more proactive about getting developers behind core changes to update the wiki. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css blocked on Special:Login and Special:Preferences

their own global CSS/JS which is loaded, if I understand correctly, via the Extension:GlobalCssJs[1] from meta.wikimedia.org[2]. Footnotes: [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalCssJs [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC

Re: [MediaWiki-l] QuestyCaptcha dynamic questions

does, of course, but people thinking about captcha's should know that this came up today on wikitech-l: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/80188 -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css blocked on Special:Login and Special:Preferences

to mediawiki-l.) Footnotes: [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70672 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71621 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165979/ -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css blocked on Special:Login and Special:Preferences

that this was in a security release. I'll merge it tomorrow for RC.1 unless someone objects or a problem arises. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] When loading extensions is require_once or include_once preferred?

, you'll probably end up with errors that are harder to diagnose than they need to be. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.23.6, 1.22.13 and 1.19.21

.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.21.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.21.patch.gz.sig Note: There is no i18n patch as there are no changes in translation. Mark A. Hershberger (Wiki Release Team

[MediaWiki-l] Correction to prior announcement

Hello everyone, The prior maintenance release announcement email titled MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.23.6, 1.22.13 and 1.19.21 included the word Security in the subject. This inclusion was a mistake. There are no security fixes included in these releases. Best, Mark

[MediaWiki-l] Invitation to this Friday's MediaWiki Cooperation G+ hangout

/MediaWiki_Cooperation/Meetings/2014-10-17_Telco https://plus.google.com/events/ce30npoet5jkag8ij64ciro6s5s -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[MediaWiki-l] Feedback on 1.23 RC 0

We've gotten some feedback already -- https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/212 -- about the RC for MediaWiki 1.23 that Markus made last week. Hopefully we can get this issue addressed in time for SMW users. Are there any other issues that people have run into that we

Re: [MediaWiki-l] https

On 03/16/2014 06:17 PM, Scheid, Bernhard wrote: For unknown reasons, google sometimes refers to my wiki-pages by using https instead of http. The result is that the page is displayed, but without css. Any advice how to prevent this? Is there a reason you can't make the site's CSS work via

[MediaWiki-l] Monthly point releases

Subject: Monthly point releases Based on the issues raised during a meeting we had at the Architecture Summit a couple of weeks ago, those of us involved in MediaWiki release management have decided to introduce a monthly point-release cycle. On the last Thursday of every month we'll collect

[MediaWiki-l] 18 known issues with past releases

Nemo writes: We still have 18 open reports marked as needing backports to old stable branches, marked 3 as major and 1 (for 1.21.x) as critical. What to do? What you did earlier today was appropriate -- merge available patches to the relevant branches. Also appropriate: bug Markus or I about

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How can I add meta In v1.22.0

On 12/07/2013 11:57 PM, Sen Slybe wrote: As I see,the addkeyword is no longer support,so now what we can do if WANA add a meta ? Could you give an example of how you used this? Are you talking about an extension like Extension:MetaKeywords ?? ___

[MediaWiki-l] Known issues in 1.22.0

There were a few issues whose fixes didn't make it into 1.22.0, but we should be able to address them within a couple of weeks. I've been making a list of the issues that should be fixed in 1.22.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Known_issues Please feel free to suggest additions

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MW 1.23 Can't create image thumbnail

On 11/26/2013 08:23 AM, Steph Zhang wrote: Can anyone help me to diagnose? I couldn't use your testing account, but if you put error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); in your LocalSettings.php -- as suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug -- do you

[MediaWiki-l] 1.22.0rc2 ready for download

We've put together RC2 for 1.22.0. Please test the tarball and report any bugs you find on Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Here are a list of changes made since the last RC. (Links for download follow this list.) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/95474 Rename mw.util.wikiGetlink to getUrl

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lua Scribunto errors still present.

. It will mass delete pages created by non-whitelisted users, block their IP addresses, and, if you have UserMerge installed, it will merge their account into the Spammer user. Let me know if you try it or if you have trouble with it. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Lua Scribunto errors still present.

On 11/14/2013 02:41 PM, John Foster wrote: Well that was a bust Well, your comments are helpful. I'll put the extension in gerrit so those links work. I noticed the whitelist.txt was an HTML page that seemed to be a form of some kind. As the filename implies, this is just a plain text file

Re: [MediaWiki-l] $wgNoFollowLinks

On 11/13/2013 04:59 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: To use a gardening analogy, I think it's a question of whether the plants can outgrow the weeds and choke them out, or grow away from them (like a tomato plant whose tendrils climb a fence) if we stop applying a certain weed killer. To continue the

[MediaWiki-l] RC for Mediawiki 1.22: 1.22.0rc0

We've put together an RC for 1.22.0. Please test the tarball and report any bugs you find on Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Full release notes: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/tags/1.22.0rc0/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for ways to speed up my wiki

On 10/25/2013 01:03 PM, John Foster wrote: i also have decided to keep Scribunto running as its required for most of the templates, but I hope the bug about 'text/plain' get fixed soon. What is the bug # for this bug? Not sure about a bug number but here is where I found a work around for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for ways to speed up my wiki

On 10/25/2013 12:18 PM, John W. Foster wrote: I do have caching enabled and the site is currently up and running, so those interested may look at it. You may have posted this before, but could you provide a URL? i also have decided to keep Scribunto running as its required for most of the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Scribunto

, then you'll need to remove pages in the Module: namespace as that is where the Lua scripts are stored. You'll also need to look for and remove calls to {{#invoke from your wiki pages. HTH, Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki Installation Problem

On 10/18/2013 07:10 AM, Abhinav Koppula wrote: I had git cloned mediawiki-core for development purposes 6 months back. However, I could not contribute much. Yesterday, I did a git pull and it got updated. I also did a git pull for all the extensions present. Am I doing anything wrong? Please

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Best hook to rewrite images paths?

On 10/14/2013 04:35 AM, Leonard Wallentin wrote: I just moved all images on my wiki to Amazon, for performance. Now I wonder what the best way is to change all thumb and image paths in the wiki. Browsing through the file related hooks I find no obvious candidate. For now I just do a replace in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Public content

On 10/14/2013 09:14 AM, Fiorenza Meini wrote: Hi there, I installed MediaWiki version 1.21.2. Is it possible to publish content based on category type? Yes, put all public information in the main namespace and any private information in a private namespace. Use the Lockdown extension

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Please help with installation

On 10/03/2013 07:11 AM, Jay wrote: I am trying to install your software. When I click Please complete the installation link and access http://my.host/wiki/mw-config/index.php I receive this error message: Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php I

[MediaWiki-l] Fwd: Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?

+ mediawiki-l Original Message Subject:Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:11:16 -0700 From: Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia-tech list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Backport policy

this process. This policy is so that people without commit access have a way to request fixes to code that they use. HTH, Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[MediaWiki-l] Backport policy

a look at the backport requests that we'll be reviewing[2]. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Release_management/Backporting_policy [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremremaction=runnamedcmd=Backport_Stable%3Fsharer_id=15390 -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Backport policy

for the tarball distribution. Still, if an extension is being used widely (and here, the data gathered from installation pings would be invaluable), then it would make sense to apply this process to other extensions tracked in bugzilla. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Backport policy

time-line for when changes will be reviewed (as per Siebrand's question). The review can happen before then, but the meetings are meant to serve as a definite point in time for the review in order to ensure that the reviews *do* happen. Thanks, Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Backport policy

. The policy is there to help deal with the current situation, not to provide a list of steps that *must* be followed. Or maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. Am I missing something? -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ MediaWiki-l

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

On 09/20/2013 03:53 PM, Alexey Klimovich wrote: - Edit wiki pages in favorite text editor (like SublimeText, Vim, etc.) - Edit wiki pages right in your favorite IDE, near Mediawiki php files. Editors and IDEs can be extended to use the API to edit files as well. I maintain the Emacs extension

Re: [MediaWiki-l] questy captcha

On 09/13/2013 04:16 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: There have been quite a few complaints about the plugin not supporting native languages. I was told in the dev channel that it is somethign that emufarmers is working on. Is there a way I can contribute to this effort? Contact emufarmers

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Anyone have any luck using the install.php script? Currently when I run it it logs me out and does not install

would use --db-prefix=smw. I did a lot of the work to adapt Chad's web-based installer to the CLI. Thanks for pointing out the lack of documentation for this. I'll work on improving it and I appreciate any further feedback you have. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki editable only within local network

On 09/05/2013 05:56 AM, massimo sandal wrote: The wiki is fully readable both within and out of the university network. However when I try to edit it *outside* the university network, on saving the page it waits and then times out, like it couldn't properly connect. Using a VPN solves the

[MediaWiki-l] New mailing list: Wikifarm

/mailman/listinfo/wikifarm On 08/09/2013 11:34 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Markus and I will be holding a meetup this afternoon at 1430 (HKT) in room N114 If you have a wiki on shared hosting or run a wiki farm, we'd love to talk to you. Please come by. http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to use the NullBook skin?

On 07/31/2013 02:28 PM, adrelanos wrote: This means, this skin can't be easily used without deeper understanding mediawiki skinning and manually fixing it by editing the code? MySkin is still in MW 1.21, so if you're using this on your own wiki, it shouldn't be a problem unless you installed

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upload file issues with mw1.21.1

On 07/22/2013 03:40 PM, Philip Bellino wrote: I apologize for posting this as I did post it earlier, but I am at a total loss as to what the problem may be PHP may be giving errors that you haven't noticed. Have you checked your log files? Add the following lines to the end of your

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Our installation is behind a corporate firewall - pear/email not working

On 06/17/2013 12:32 AM, David Mills wrote: Media Wiki gives an error every time it tries to send an email too. Is it possible to get working behind a corporate firewall? If so how? What is the SMTP server? Can you access it from the server hosting MediaWiki without MediaWiki? On Linux this

[MediaWiki-l] MW release documentation

There isn't much documentation apart from the scripts that create a release for creating a MediaWiki release. As a result, there were some failures that could have been avoided -- branching the extensions at the same time core was branched, for example. To improve the process for any future

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

On 05/29/2013 11:13 AM, Stip wrote: 1. Bundle ConfirmEdit and AbuseFilter with each MediaWiki-Download. ConfirmEdit is bundled. Please add AbuseFilter to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions for discussion. 2. Make QuestyCaptcha the default for ConfirmEdit. It is easy to use and

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.1 released

I'm happy to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.21.1 -- a maintenance release in the 1.21 series. == What's new? == * An incorrect version number was used for 1.21.0. 1.21.1 has the correct number. * A problem with the Oracle SQL table creation was fixed. * (PdfHandler extension) Fix

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: Query about 1.21.0 version

On 05/27/2013 02:54 AM, Punit Varia wrote: Is MediaWiki 1.21.0 is stable version ? After installing it shows 1.21.0rc5. Yes. This has already been discussed on WikiTech-l. Since today is my first full day back home since the release, I will have an updated version with this fixed available

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Creating a fresh SQLite database for mediawiki

On 05/28/2013 09:29 AM, Nick White wrote: I expected a command like the following to work: sqlite3 db.sqlite maintenance/tables.sql Or should I go about this a different way entirely? You should use maintenance/install.php to install the wiki from the command line. That will make sure

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

I run a spam/virus filtering email relay for some clients and I agree with most of what Richard says: Everything that's being discussed has already been done to combat email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that work instead of re-inventing it. There is also Akismet

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0 released

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce the availability of the first stable release of the new MediaWiki 1.21 release series. MediaWiki 1.21 is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users.

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21 delayed

I have to delay the release of MediaWiki 1.21 again because of a logistics problem. I am used to hearing logistics in the context of shipping physical objects -- in the American trucking industry, for example -- so I can't help but feel a little strange saying logistics. I had to go look up the

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21 release delayed until May 18

Despite the my intention to release 1.21 today, I have to delay it until May 18. Yesterday someone pointed out a blocker to me. While we have a work-around for this, I don't have time to integrate it right now, so the release needs to be delayed until Saturday. On 05/13/2013 03:12 PM, Mark

Re: [MediaWiki-l] 1.21rc5 .. My error!

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

[MediaWiki-l] 1.21rc5 -- final release candidate before release on May 15

The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final release will be on

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 ..: Long files

On Tue 07 May 2013 10:50:41 PM EDT, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: .. http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/h/index.php/MediaWiki:Longpageerror The ErrorMessage says: Error: The text you have submitted is 1kilobyteslong,whichislongerthanthemaximumof2 kilobytes. It cannot be saved. It looks strange: why

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 ..: Problem with PDF pics.

On 05/02/2013 06:06 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: Should I learn to install and to use the macports (as I did with MySQL and PHP), or there exist some easy way to way to say to mediawiki, that I want it to allow loading files also in the PDF format? MediaWiki is server software and, as such,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 ..: Problem with PDF pics.

On Thu 02 May 2013 09:04:42 AM EDT, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: What do I wrong? To help you fix the problem, I need some more information. What does your webserver's PHP error log say? -- http://hexmode.com/ Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason.

[MediaWiki-l] 1.21.0rc4 -- another week, another RC

This is RC4 for 1.21.0 due to be released on May 15, 2013. The patches included since RC3 are after the download instructions. While testing this release candidate, I discovered a bug in the installer (Bug #47489) which I would like to get fixed before a final release. I've changed the list of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade Error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/2013 07:20 AM, Punit Varia wrote: What is to be done if someone doesn't have shell access ? You actually shouldn't need to run the script. If you look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RebuildLocalisationCache.php you'll see that it

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade Error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/2013 07:20 AM, Punit Varia wrote: What is to be done if someone doesn't have shell access ? Another option is to delete the files in the cache directory. This is probably located at wiki/images/cache, although I have seen some at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade Error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/2013 07:52 AM, Punit Varia wrote: Root cache folder is empty and still it doesn't work. Also, by default $wgLocalisationCacheConf[' manualRecache'] = true; is not even defined in config. There should be some solution to this. Check out

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrade Error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/2013 09:00 AM, Punit Varia wrote: It works but upgrade process hangs at a point and i have to refresh it once again to continue. At what point does the process hang? What is the last message printed? - -- http://hexmode.com/ It is not

[MediaWiki-l] 1.21.0rc3 -- more bug fixes and testing

It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Download links at the end of this email. Note that I've include a core-only tarball this week as well. Since last week, the following fixes were included in the tarball: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58418/ backport changes in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] l10n_cache table constantly turning-over

On 04/16/2013 12:04 PM, Daniel Renfro wrote: But this feels wrong because it makes me manually recomputed the l10n cache whenever I update/release. This is almost definitely a bug. Filed one here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47289 -- http://hexmode.com/ It is not the case that simple

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21..: version c

On 04/16/2013 12:38 PM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: But I still think, it could be even better. More notes and suggestions are at http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/c Thank you for your comments. They're very helpful. Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ It is not the case that simple clear questions have

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

On 04/12/2013 03:22 AM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: Do you plan to include also the ShortUrl and MathJacks into the tarbunch, to allow the installing with two clicks? Is anyone else here opposed to the inclusion of ShertURL for RC3? While there is a MathJax, I have a feeling that the Math

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21rc2 -- More 1.21 testing

It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Since last week, patches to fix the following bugs were included in the tarball: Bug 46719: Remove link to Special:ActiveUsers from Special:Statistics Bug 46493: Handle invalid titles on ProtectedPages and ProtectedTitles Bug 46787: API:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

On 04/05/2013 03:01 PM, Isabel Gancedo wrote: Everything seems to be working fine; jobs run a maximum warp and the queue is becoming tiny. Excellent. I see this line in the New features list from the Release notes: The Job system was refactored to allow for different backing stores for

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

On 03/31/2013 10:58 PM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: Should I install git ? No, this is a complete, downloadable version. Should I install PHP ? Yes, MediaWiki requires at least version 5.3.2 of PHP. Should I install MathJax ? Should I install C++? Suould I install Latex? None of these is

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Spambots and CPU usage

On 03/30/2013 12:47 PM, Dan Fisher wrote: Is it a problem? Yes, they're constantly trying to break in and that increases CPU usage. I dont have any analysis to prove it I suggest that you rely on some proof. What if you blocked the spammers completely -- found some magic rage of IP addresses

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How do I police my Media Wiki wiki's ?

On 03/23/2013 02:08 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: What extensions are available to police my Media Wiki's ? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism

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