Re: [MediaWiki-l] Permanently remove old revisions and unused files?

2016-02-09 Thread Platonides
On 09/02/16 15:31, Mickey Feldman wrote: The wiki is now about 10 GB. It does compress to about 1 GB. Although text pages are saved as their differences, Not exactly. Only if you run a maintenance script, which you probably haven't. as far as I know new versions of images are saved in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] apostrophe page names disappeared from wiki on migration

2016-02-06 Thread Platonides
Actually, you probably can access the page with an "ugly url": index.php?title=pagetitle Which http server are you using? Can we see your wiki? FTR, I had similar problems with an intermediate nginx normalising urls in one way, and mediawiki thus ending with the "infinite redirect" problem

Re: [MediaWiki-l] apostrophe page names disappeared from wiki on migration

2016-02-06 Thread Platonides
El 06/02/16 23:09, Jorge Garcia Flores escribió: tal.lipn.univ-paris13.fr/wiki/ You don't specify your server, but from the headers, it identifies itself as Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu). Do you have any kind of rewriting rule in htaccess / server config? They aren't needed with the way you have

Re: [MediaWiki-l] OutputPage.php won't render with Cometchat

2015-12-09 Thread Platonides
On 09/12/15 20:26, David Shaw wrote: Any idea why this code causes the page to render blank? (…) And the page won't render. There is an associated call in the Vector template but that is displaying ok. It only blows up when I change OutputPage. The folks at Cometchat say it's an issue with

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Email problem following 1.16 to 1.25 conversion

2015-11-19 Thread Platonides
Cal Frye wrote: Hi, We did a migration and conversion from v.1.16 to 1.25.3 on a new server, using XAMPP as our base. Generally, it worked well, thanks for that! We have a lingering problem, however, in sending email, including confirmation messages, password resets, etc. No mail is sent, and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] edir auth login with local admin

2015-09-20 Thread Platonides
Bill Traynor wrote: Kai Plückhahn wrote: Hi, having a question to mediawiki 1.23 . I configured the wiki to authenticate against edirectory. And this is working. But i cannot login with the local administrator to do some admin tasks... I turned true the $wgLDAPUseLocal = true;

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to change the sorting of Special:Specialpages?

2015-09-05 Thread Platonides
On 04/09/15 17:25, Stip wrote: Looking at the code I figured out how to do it: For "special:name", create the page "MediaWiki:Specialpages-specialpagegroup-name". The text of this message is considered to be the group name under which special:name is filed at special:specialpages. And if you

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki Database crash

2014-04-27 Thread Platonides
On 10/04/14 10:18, basti wrote: Hello, my database is lost, the last backup is because of an error in the backup software 6 months old (Sep 2013). Is there a way to restore the wiki? At the moment I have installed 1.22 and also try 1.19. Categories are shown but no articles. how can help?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to support multiple wikis with different database by one set of mediawiki code?

2014-04-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/04/14 02:01, zoglun wrote: Hi everyone, We are holding about seven wikis on one linode serves. We used to create symbolic link under different dir. Unfortunately due to different wiki have different extension, database, and user habits. I can't set a single commonsetting.php for all wikis.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Protecting a MediaWiki wiki against spam

2013-11-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/11/13 20:13, Nathan Larson wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Aaron Grayaaronngray.li...@gmail.comwrote: Not quite sure what you mean by layered administration though multiple levels of admin so there can be one main admin with admins with lesser privileges below. You mean like

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What is gabjgervais doing?

2013-11-23 Thread Platonides
On 21/11/13 06:32, Steph Zhang wrote: gabjgerv...@gmail.com has replied multiple threads with the same content... And the link seems like advertisement. Yes, they are spam. Moreover, they look like affiliate links. I have put him under moderation.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [MW] How to set Thumbnail for Doc, Docx, etc

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
On 07/05/13 17:47, Steven Zhong wrote: Dear all, Thumbnail ( icon ) of Doc/Docx can not be displayed which MW installed/configured by default, a blank icon is very ugly, and how to set it ? Thanks! - Steven Do you have a program able to generate a thumbnail from Doc/Docx files?

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Creating links in Title Bar

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
On 06/05/13 11:40, Raghavendra Achar wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to create links on the top right corner on the Title name bar of the Main Page. I would like to rename the Main Page as my own age and add different links at the same row as main page title bar but at the top right corner.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Email Confirmation Messages

2013-05-21 Thread Platonides
El 03/05/13 17:39, Rowe, Dolores A escribió: Teammates, On a Windows 2008 server, using MediaWiki v1.19.2, we are having troubles getting the Email Confirmation mechanism to work. A message is displayed that the confirmation was sent, however it never comes to the email address it was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Kerberos support

2013-04-21 Thread Platonides
On 21/04/13 02:02, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, The users at my site keep forgetting their MediaWiki passwords often enough that I wonder: might it be possible to configure MediaWiki (not Apache) to authenticate them using Kerberos instead? Thanks, Jaap Yes, you can use the extension

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Permissions on (top level) index.php

2013-04-21 Thread Platonides
On 18/04/13 10:06, Gordon Joly wrote: Fixed. The new system had Apache / php handler set to suphp. Changed to dso and all it well. Gordon P.S. I looked for some information in the basic installation documentation. Did not find anything. but I guess I was a victim of WHM /

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Page disappeared

2013-03-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/03/13 01:45, Steve VanSlyck wrote: Well this is weird. I had a page on my wiki. Created file link on it [[File:The_Proud_Father.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Proud Father. Sam Brown, ca. 1920-30]] Saved the page. Followed the link. Uploaded the file (3021 x 3575, 1.55MB)...

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Green /doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Platonides
On 04/03/13 23:52, Steve VanSlyck wrote: No, it's not based on namespace. Here the namespace is template but these are the doc subpages. See, for example, how the coloring on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mbox/doc carries over with documentation transcluded on

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem with searchindex

2013-03-06 Thread Platonides
On 06/03/13 09:04, van Vliet, M.W. wrote: -- So it looks like the db just lost that file (or it got corrupted). Does anyone experience the same and how did you solve it, or alternatively what do you suggest? Drop searchindex table, recreate it (see the definition from

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Pre-collapsed TOC

2013-03-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/03/13 00:33, Steve VanSlyck wrote: How do I get a TOC to show up pre-collapsed by default, or on a page-by-page basis? The toc shows in the same state you have left the toc in the last page you visited. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Green /doc pages

2013-03-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/03/13 02:03, Steve VanSlyck wrote: OK, another noob question. How do I get my /doc pages to have a nice green background like Wikipedia's? What do you mean? Change the background color based on the namespace? Use CSS for .ns-12 (or whatever number your namespace is in)

[MediaWiki-l] [MediaWiki-announce] Pre-Release Announcement for MediaWiki 1.19.4 and 1.20.3

2013-03-04 Thread Platonides
Forwarding to mediawiki-l: Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:08:46 -0800 From: Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org This is a notice to let you know that on Monday, March 4th between 21:00-22:00 UTC (1-2pm PST) Wikimedia Foundation will release security updates for current and supported branches of the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Searching media wiki for IP addresses

2013-03-04 Thread Platonides
It seems that you should ask in sphider forum why it doesn't index ip addresses... ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Menu content breaking line

2013-03-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/03/13 02:29, Camponez wrote: You are correct. It happens on Chrome but not on Firefox! Do you have a link to that page? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Splitting a shared database?

2013-03-03 Thread Platonides
On 16/02/13 03:27, Justin Lloyd wrote: Hello all, I have two version 1.16 wikis that use a shared database configuration that I'd like to split (I'm working towards upgrading them to 1.20). Say X is the database that has the user and user_properties tables, and Y is the one that shares

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Certain terms blocked?

2013-02-21 Thread Platonides
On 20/02/13 22:36, Bri wrote: Greetings! I am trying to find out if certain terms are blocked by Mediawiki or if it may be something particular to my host? I tried putting the following in as part of a wiki page entry: Through a combination of mystic insight and a natural enhancement of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki API at Codecademy

2013-02-10 Thread Platonides
On 08/02/13 18:41, Roy Bellingan wrote: Hay. I've read about the proposal to rework the documentation about the API on the mailing list. I think that write some technical documentation, is a very good opportunity to enter such a big ecosystem like the Wikimedia one... But I'm quite novice

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wiki links attempt to serve me PHP files

2013-02-10 Thread Platonides
On 10/02/13 03:16, Nischay Nahata wrote: This has happened with me a lot of times, but its never in a stable condition to debug it. It is usually due to a server error, and you end up downloading a 0-byte file. If you were receiving the php code instead that would be worrying (cf Roy mail), but

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Sidebar cache

2013-02-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/02/13 02:08, Tim Starling wrote: On 03/02/13 13:40, Tom Hutchison wrote: Sorry for not being clear, print/export, print version link. Seems like everything else dynamic is unaffected, Toolbox links, etc. just the printable version link becomes static. Using {{PAGENAME}} etc. in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Path Problems Installing SemanticMediaWiki

2013-02-04 Thread Platonides
Does the user under which apache is running have access to read /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/wiki-1.20.2/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki.php ? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] mySQL 4 - 5 and latin1 - utf-8 conversion

2013-02-04 Thread Platonides
On 24/01/13 21:23, Holger wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to convert a mediawiki-mysql-dump from latin1 to utf-8 to move from MySQL 4.0.27 to MySQL 5.x. What I did so far was searching for a working way to achieve this. I found several solutions which in my eyes did not work. Is there a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Sidebar cache

2013-02-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/02/13 18:06, Svip wrote: I noticed on my wiki, that our sidebar had been pretty much static for years. So I decided to cache it, yet - somehow - it started appearing in its prior version on certain pages. Why is so old cache preserved? And why, considering I did not ask for it to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Sidebar cache

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
On 01/02/13 20:08, Tom wrote: Is sidebar cache really buggy enough to not even update the toolbox links like print page version? Or is that a unknown not normal bug? Enabled, the print version link was static to one page on every page. Thanks Tom What do you mean? The print version

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Remove job from queue

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
On 31/01/13 14:51, Ad Strack van Schijndel wrote: Hi, I have a job in the queue that produces an error and it seems that it is never removed from the queue. Is there a way to remove that job from the queue? Ad You can delete it from the job table by accessing directly the db.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Installing

2013-02-02 Thread Platonides
On 29/01/13 12:06, Alexis Moinet wrote: I think the short answer is: only if you intend to use short/pretty URLs. Besides in the case of short URLs it can be any values as long as $wgScriptPath and $wgArticlePath are different. w and wiki are just the default values used by wikimedia and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] #switch not working

2012-12-30 Thread Platonides
On 30/12/12 22:47, Al Johnson wrote: Just a guess, but this switch statement is in a template that is 2-levels deep. IOW, a page calls template 1 which calls template 2. Would this cause a problem? I've tried numerous examples and it works when it's the 1st template called, but not the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Change the link ALT text on the What links here page?

2012-12-30 Thread Platonides
On 22/12/12 20:14, Al Johnson wrote: Hello, me again /^) I'm using DISPLAYTITLE to change the title of my pages, but I would like to make the links to those pages that appear on the What links here page to also be changed so they match, i.e., display the link text as the same value used

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Exclude normalization for specific text blocks

2012-12-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/12/12 03:13, Al Johnson wrote: Hi, Is there a way, such as a tag, to specify a block of text to be excluded from UTF normalization? I tried the nowiki tags but it didn't work. Thanks, Al Why do you want to do that? ___ MediaWiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I turn-off wiki exports?

2012-12-24 Thread Platonides
On 24/12/12 02:36, Al Johnson wrote: So, I guess that means disabling the functionality behind the Special:Export page along with removing the page itself. Thanks, Al Why do you want to do so? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Images Not Showing Up

2012-12-17 Thread Platonides
On 12/12/12 15:31, Mills, Douglas wrote: To whom it may concern, We recently migrated our MediaWiki server over to use IIS as opposed to XAMPP and the only issue that we're running into is with the images not appearing even after running the reimport script for the images. When looking

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Automatic access configurations after login (permissions, etc)

2012-12-17 Thread Platonides
What about using one wiki per group? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange behavior when trying to add an article to multiple categories

2012-12-17 Thread Platonides
On 13/12/12 20:59, Camponez wrote: Hello, After upgrade to 1.20 I have been noticing a strange behavior. An article A is created. I try to add it to Category B, C, D and E. I use a template in order to add it in all those categories. And I can only see A in B and C after I save it.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Images and MediaWiki

2012-12-11 Thread Platonides
On 11/12/12 04:33, Wjhonson wrote: I got it! ( I think) I set the allow external links to true in my localsettings, even though it wasn't even present there. There are lots of configurations. You can copy them to LocalSettings.php when you want to modify them. If you want a list of settings

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange Squid and Special:Random Issue

2012-12-11 Thread Platonides
On 11/12/12 03:13, Dave Humphrey wrote: A strange issue we've just noticed between Special:Random and Squid, at least so it appears. When accessed directly from the Apache server the Special:Random works fine but when accessed through Squid we get a blank page (500 error). Works:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] standing up for setFunctionTagHook()

2012-12-10 Thread Platonides
On 10/12/12 23:13, Benny Lichtner wrote: A parser function instead of a tag seems more appropiate. That way it would be expanded before being passed to #widget. Thanks, Platonides! You were totally right. --Benny You're welcome

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is there a limit on the number of categories?

2012-12-03 Thread Platonides
On 01/12/12 00:36, Al Johnson wrote: I'm thinking of an implementation that may have 100 thousand categories. Is that possible? Is there a documented limit? Would there be a performance hit? Thanks, Al No, you can have an arbitrarily large number of categories. I hope you won't try to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Rename Category to Topic

2012-12-03 Thread Platonides
Just change the contents of [[MediaWiki:Pagecategories]] to “Topic”. Or actually, {{PLURAL:$1|Topic|Topics}} to get an automatic plural. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] please stop this (2)

2012-11-28 Thread Platonides
On 28/11/12 15:54, chembiomed wrote: why you are so impolite? citing on the net your email address without your permission is not nice that's why i always thought maillists to be, not only a paleolithic fossil from the past that should be eradicated, but also a really bad thing thank God, i

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-27 Thread Platonides
On 26/11/12 16:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: I've partly refactored the page in the past and most (or all) suggestions there are still relevant and up to date. Nemo I saw a few changes, but seems odd to argue with 2009 comments (or even 2008). New proposals mixed with old stuff.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki reference book: Working with MediaWiki

2012-11-27 Thread Platonides
Congratulations, Yaron! ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extensions to include in the 1.21 tarball/installer

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/11/12 13:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: TL;DR: Please add feedback to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated That's an old page. Probably better to open a new one / archive its contents and start nominating extensions from scratch.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] wiki syntax - man page extension todo-list extension

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
That's cool. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Math extension

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 21/11/12 19:32, Ivan Sarvak wrote: Hey. How do i get the Math extension to work? It worked on my old wiki. It is now provided as a separate extension. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [MediaWiki-l] please stop this (2)

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 26/11/12 12:57, chembio...@yahoo.com wrote: also it appears here: nabble.com and whoever knows where else... please delete all instances of my email in web thanks You are writing to a mailing list with thousands of subscribers. It is publicly archived. If you do not want your email

Re: [MediaWiki-l] how to get the number of occurences in a string

2012-11-26 Thread Platonides
On 23/11/12 16:44, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: Hello everyone, I've been lookng the parserFunctions extension, and other extension that provide parser funtions over strings. I a way to get the number of occurrences of a character in a string. Is there any funtion for this that I missed? Not

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changing base URL path ?

2012-11-18 Thread Platonides
On 15/11/12 20:36, Chris wrote: I've soft-linked ( ln -s ) the mediawiki directory to some more descriptive name but now I want to change it. I noticed after doing that the pages now look 'scrambled' . Do I have to make the change also in the local settings ? - such as $wgScriptPath. This

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What can go in a #REDIRECT? (not system variables!)

2012-11-07 Thread Platonides
On 07/11/12 21:00, Chad wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as: #REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]] Why not? Such links work elsewhere! This does not work with

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fatal exception of type MWException on upgrade to 1.20.0

2012-11-07 Thread Platonides
What's your custom extension? Does MediaWiki 1.20 work if you disable it? In what language is your wiki? Speciale is the namespace of special pages in Italian, but in this case, it looks like your custom extension is registering 'speciale' as a parser function but it isn't registered as a magic

Re: [MediaWiki-l] upgrading 1.16.4 to current using Git

2012-11-04 Thread Platonides
On 24/10/12 03:36, Bill Traynor wrote: I have a wiki running an old installation of version 1.16.4. I'd very much like to be able to track releases using Git as described in the manual, however, I'm confused about how to do this. The manual says to If using Git, export the files into a clean

Re: [MediaWiki-l] version 1.19.2: links to local files do not work anymore

2012-11-04 Thread Platonides
On 26/10/12 11:59, Muheim Christian PHSG wrote: Since the update to version 1.19.2 links to our local files (in the form: file:///) do not work anymore (no error message, the browser (IE)) does not start any action) - although the line $wgUrlProtocols[] = file:/// is in the LocalSettings.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] CAS Authentication problem

2012-10-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/10/12 13:19, Truong Hoang Dung (TTTV.ICT) wrote: We're using MediaWiki 1.19 (latest version) and we've integrated CAS Authentication (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CASAuthentication) to enable Single Sign On over our systems. There are 2 problems here: If we use Chrome

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What to do with an overstressed server?

2012-10-20 Thread Platonides
On 20/10/12 10:03, David Gerard wrote: And we've dropped the hit counters, but the stats.grok.se code is available as GPLv3 (a fact that should be more widely known): https://github.com/abelsson/stats.grok.se So we might bend that into shape for our uses, if I'm feeling particularly

Re: [MediaWiki-l] 1.20rc1 release

2012-10-16 Thread Platonides
On 15/10/12 17:52, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On Mon 15 Oct 2012 11:25:28 AM EDT, Platonides wrote: I probably messed up myself. What revision did you use for the rc1? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27370/ plus the attached diff (which I cannot now submit because of firewall issues). I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] command line export templates

2012-10-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/10/12 20:51, Chris wrote: Hello Yury, Thanks for your help here. Your select query gives me the name of the title of the template but is there a way to do an sql query (on the command line) so that we can actually get the whole construct of the template itself? thanks again,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Apache KeepAlive on or off?

2012-10-16 Thread Platonides
On 15/10/12 16:32, Chad wrote: There's a lot more to it than that, and it is indeed a performance drain (which is why we don't use it at WMF). Each pageview writes to the hitcounter table. Every so often the page table is updated with the hits from hitcounter. Sure, displaying the hits is a

Re: [MediaWiki-l] 1.20rc1 release

2012-10-15 Thread Platonides
On 14/10/12 20:46, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: PEBKAC? I don't know enough about how Gerrit handles tags from the non-MW group, but I suspect it would have to have some intervention of someone in that group (I'm not a member) for you to see tags that someone else put on a revision. Mark. I

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Apache KeepAlive on or off?

2012-10-14 Thread Platonides
On 13/10/12 00:22, David Gerard wrote: (I have just accepted root on rationalwiki.org and am looking around in slight horror. I will be sending a few messages like this.) Apache comes with KeepAlive on by default. I am unconvinced this is actually a good idea. I just switched it off and it

Re: [MediaWiki-l] 1.20rc1 release

2012-10-14 Thread Platonides
On 14/10/12 01:14, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I've put up an rc1 release with the following bit added to the RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 file: === Known issues in 1.20.0 === These are issues that we're targeting to be fixed in a later release in the 1.20 series. Issues may be added or removed from

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Lua and LanguageGetMagic issues!

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 13/09/12 16:45, Stephan Gomes Higuti wrote: Hello guys, its my first email here, so, i'll try to be as clear as possible! Well, im upgrading my mediawiki, from 1.12.0 to 1.19.2, using Apache 5.3.3 and Mysql 5.5.14. Everything went ok, sphinx, database, all extensions but Lua. I notice

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Integration of Mediawiki in own PHP-Site

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 05/09/12 12:36, debianu...@gmx.de wrote: Hello Out There, my english isn't that good, I've added the discription of my problem in german below. I'm trying to integrate multiple MediaWikis into my own page. I've some own login-structures and mutiple projects which can have a wiki.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] How to do this---en.w​ikinews.or​g/wiki/Med​iaWiki:Com​ments.js--​-but in between the main and talk tabs, not to the right?

2012-09-14 Thread Platonides
On 11/09/12 13:57, John Sanzi wrote: Hello, MediaWiki-l folks. For my wiki, I would like to achieve an effect similar to what Wikinews does, with this JavaScript: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js It puts a new tab, for a previously-created Comments namespace, to the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] read out page creation

2012-08-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/08/12 13:29, Scheid, Bernhard wrote: Is there any method to read out the creation date of a page in the Wiki-code? Something like Magic words... Best Bernhard No, althoguh there's probably some extension providing that. ___ MediaWiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Missing icons in the editor

2012-08-17 Thread Platonides
On 08/08/12 23:19, Erik Luken wrote: I just did an install (via a package script on the host) of Mediawiki 1.19.1. I imported the help pages, and some templates from mediawiki.org, however the icons in the editor are missing (bold, italic, etc). The last time I installed Mediawiki, it was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Return code for a scary transcludion needed

2012-08-17 Thread Platonides
On 16/08/12 14:35, Roland Wohlfahrt wrote: Hi folks, is there a possibility to check if the scary transclusion was successful? (See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding) Background: I am transcluding a page with the same name from another wiki. If this page is

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Dirty hack for MW-1.19.1 (fix upload images on some hosters)

2012-07-31 Thread Platonides
On 31/07/12 21:19, Фосса wrote: Didn't, but i'm in the firm belief that it will not help, because hoster do not allow to change server-wide variables. This should work when set in LocalSettings.php: putenv(TMPDIR=/home/u48601/whitefossaru/fwiki/temp); (but safemode config could forbid you from

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Proxy for CURL requests, how to set a proxy bypass list?

2012-07-30 Thread Platonides
On 30/07/12 14:23, Roland Wohlfahrt wrote: Hi folks, i am using the parameter wgHTTPProxy to use our proxy. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgHTTPProxy *Now I need to define a proxy bypass list. * (Because of transcluding articles from another *internal *mediawiki-server).

Re: [MediaWiki-l] hosting mediawiki behind Tor hidden service

2012-07-28 Thread Platonides
On 25/07/12 22:43, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: Sorry for being unclear. I want to be the server who hosts the mediawiki behind the Tor hidden service. Not the client/browser. It should work like setting up any other tor hidden service. You probably want to make the web server listen on

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Namespace alias

2012-07-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/07/12 01:17, Tom Hutchison wrote: Hope Platonides, Jeroen or someone else very familiar with Mediawiki's core can answer this and provide a quick explanation or recommendation. I know it is recommended when setting custom namespaces to use standards, like FOO or FOO_TALK. What

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem with MWSearch / Lucene / dumpBackup.php

2012-07-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/07/12 14:39, Udo wrote: Hi, I recently updated my Wiki from version 1.17 to 1.19. Since then, I have problems with the generation of the search index for MWSearch: very often and at random points after the Lucene build-script called dumpBackup.php, the database (mysql) 'stalls', the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Namespace alias

2012-07-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/07/12 16:53, Tom Hutchison wrote: Thank Platonides, from your answer the defines would look like this without any problems. Exactly. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Problem with MWSearch / Lucene / dumpBackup.php

2012-07-22 Thread Platonides
On 22/07/12 20:55, Udo wrote: Hi, unfortunatly, I have only limited access to log files. I can only find a PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isDisabled() on a non-object in xyz/includes/db/DatabaseError.php on line 231 (not sure, whether taht is result of me restarting mysql) and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Passing a SessionID to MediaWiki received by the API

2012-07-14 Thread Platonides
If any visitor of you r page should be able to view the content of the MediaWiki page, it shouldn't require that you are logged in. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [MediaWiki-l] extension installation

2012-07-09 Thread Platonides
On 09/07/12 15:12, Shlomit Afgin wrote: I start to install some extension to 1.19.1 mediawiki. In each extension there is a list of mediawiki version that it support. Can I install on 1.19.1 extension that fit to 1.17.x or I must 1.17.+? You should install into a 1.19.1 mediawiki the version

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Characters displaying incorrectly

2012-07-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/07/12 00:51, Patricia Barden wrote: Hello: When searching for the word cliché in my wiki, the search results return pages that have the word in it but it looks like cliché instead of cliché. This is happening with other words and phrases that use characters like: single quotation

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Bug

2012-07-04 Thread Platonides
On 04/07/12 07:44, Brandon Pimenta wrote: Same error: There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again. I think this a bug. I entered the following

Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki Bug

2012-07-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/07/12 23:14, Tom wrote: Because (I think) mediawiki running under php 5.3.x wants an absolute session path in your localsettings.php file or your php.ini file See

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Database question

2012-06-30 Thread Platonides
On 29/06/12 03:19, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: Hello everyone, I have a page that has several instances of a same template. I wanna know if there is some table in the wiki database, which relates each instances of the template which its field values. Thanks in advance, Marcelo. No. The

Re: [MediaWiki-l] master-slave question

2012-06-30 Thread Platonides
On 28/06/12 01:12, chris wrote: ?? not sure i understand Platonides. I'm editing a template on the slave wiki to accommodate for the different IP address of RSS feed which makes another record on one of the tables which creates a duplicate primary key and so breaks the master-slave

Re: [MediaWiki-l] passing text with pipes and }} to template with {#tag

2012-06-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/06/12 13:31, Carnë Draug wrote: I expected that this would be a common thing and that I'd find many templates already doing this but actually found none. The recommendation on wikipedia is to use syntaxhighlight directly (which I'd like to avoid since we want to change the default look

Re: [MediaWiki-l] problems upgrading from 13.2 to 19.1

2012-06-26 Thread Platonides
On 27/06/12 00:42, Dave Hunsberger wrote: * Edited /htdocs/mw119/localSettings.php to point to /mw119 folder and new db ('mediawiki_1_19') Note it should be LocalSettings.php (capital L). If it can't Errors when running [URL]/mw119/mw-config/: * Blank page with error

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Strange cookie problems when registering/logging in

2012-06-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/06/12 18:54, Lukas Bürgi wrote: Hmm, I don't think this can work. It seems I wasn't clear enough, but I got a wiki which was full of spam and was on version 1.15. So I made a clean new install of 1.19.1 by putting the 1.19.1 files in a new folder and copying the old LocalSettings.php

Re: [MediaWiki-l] recent changes with rss extension

2012-06-25 Thread Platonides
On 25/06/12 19:26, chris wrote: I'm using Extension:RSS to display a recent changes feed in my wiki. My question is: for the category I'm filtering on, there hasn't been much activity or added content recently so it's just displaying the last entry which was 5 days ago *and* no more. Anyone

Re: [Mediawiki-l] VC-style interaction?

2012-06-24 Thread Platonides
On 24/06/12 02:55, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 06/23/2012 06:56 PM, Tom Roche wrote: OTOH, editing a GHW is a joy. A GHW is backed by a git repo, so I can interact with it VC-style: # whack away @ local files with my local editor # commit to my local repo # push to remote on github #

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to see the wikitext in read-only mode

2012-06-24 Thread Platonides
On 23/06/12 22:14, Haim (Howard) Roman wrote: We have to update them manually, and compared to the other things we have to do, we never got around to it. That's one of the problems with software that works fine :-) Maybe you should convince CentOS to provide a mediawiki package easy to update

Re: [Mediawiki-l] problem with infobox titles

2012-06-21 Thread Platonides
On 19/06/12 22:25, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: How? Write something differnt at the place where they write your page name? (using {{PAGENAME}} I assume) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] problem with infobox titles

2012-06-19 Thread Platonides
On 18/06/12 01:49, Marcelo Chiaradía wrote: Hello everybody, I have a page that uses 3 templates. This page shows 3 infoboxes, each one containing the data of one template. My problem is that all the infoboxes show the page title as its title. For example, if my page is called Spring,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Safe Backup for Public distribution

2012-06-15 Thread Platonides
On 15/06/12 19:44, Eric K wrote: For most of us, our sites are very important to us and we want to make sure they continue existing. One way is to make sure that data backups exist in multiple places. What's the best way to have a publicly downloadable backup, which is simply the present

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Install Fonts

2012-06-12 Thread Platonides
On 12/06/12 21:01, Isabell Alcott wrote: So my question is if it isnt also possible for Wingdings. Itried to alter the WebFonts extension but it seems not to have an effect. Some Helps and Tipps are highly appreciated. Isa Possible yes but, are you allowed to redistribute Wingdings font?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] ToggleDisplay and MobileFrontend extension clash

2012-06-10 Thread Platonides
Platonides in an earlier mail on this list). MobileFrontend is a new extension available only from MediaWiki 1.20 onward that allows for mobile-style page displays. The problem is that the ToggleDisplay extension does not work properly with the default mobile view provided by MobileFrontend. The links

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [1.18.1 / upload] - xls file detected as text/plain

2012-06-10 Thread Platonides
On 10/06/12 11:58, François Chenais wrote: hello all, I'm trying to configure madiawiki 1.18.1 for xls upload. The OS is CentOS 6.2. I've set wgFileExtension in LocalSettings.php according to manual. - It's working on a VM I'm hosting on my computer - It's not working on the provider's

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