[Mediawiki-l] Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)

2009-01-28 Thread River Tarnell
Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscrib

[Mediawiki-l] Embedding videos in Wiki

2009-01-28 Thread Poorani Aravindan (paravind)
Hi All, What are steps required to enable our Wiki users embed tutorials (AVI or MP4 files) created by them into wiki pages. At present our wiki allows us to just upload images files and not video files. Should we be implementing Embed Media extension and configure file extension and file size t

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to rollback to last good page damanged by vandalism

2009-01-28 Thread Platonides
Mark Johnson wrote: > Environment: MediaWiki 1.12.0, Linux Redhat > > My personal site got vandalized by hundreds of page changes. I was going to > try to undo them by hand but I kept getting: > > "The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits." > > So I found informa

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Platonides
Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare) wrote: > Nope. It's a new install on a test server. PHP came with the web bundle > that was installed. It installed using SQLite, but I'd rather use the > mySQL db. I suspect your php doesn't have mysql extension installed/enabled. _

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki as oligarchic CMS

2009-01-28 Thread Platonides
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: > Is there a howto on running MW as a CMS > where only a few persons/admins can edit, > but others could still create user pages > and tweak their display? > > /BP MediaWiki is not a CMS. Now, if you allow everybody to view, restricting editing to a group is easy to do

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)
Nope. It's a new install on a test server. PHP came with the web bundle that was installed. It installed using SQLite, but I'd rather use the mySQL db. > -Original Message- > From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- > boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Darr

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Darren VanBuren
SQLite is an embedable database format used by Firefox, the iPhone, and other stuff. SQLite doesn't require a server for DB access, it is written in the code. MySQL should be used by default. Do you have other PHP apps accessing MySQL? Darren VanBuren - Sent from my

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)
Am I missing the MySQL install instructions. I do not see them listed. I created the wiki user and db as instructed. Beyond that I don't see where to configure it. What is SQLite anyway? > -Original Message- > From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- > boun...@li

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Joel Uckelman
Thus spake "Christensen, Courtney": > Would http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailObfuscator help? > Yes, that probably would be sufficient. Thanks! -- J. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Mediawiki-l] How to rollback to last good page damanged by vandalism

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Johnson
Environment: MediaWiki 1.12.0, Linux Redhat My personal site got vandalized by hundreds of page changes. I was going to try to undo them by hand but I kept getting: "The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits." So I found information about doing automated "rollback

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Would http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailObfuscator help? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Darren VanBuren
It's trying to use SQLite. Darren VanBuren - Sent from my iPod Try Fedora 10 today. Fire it up. http://fedoraproject.org/ On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:20, "Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)" wrote: > Sorry chmod'd. > >> -Original Message- >> From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lis

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Joel Uckelman
Thus spake "Christensen, Courtney": > Would you be comfortable writing an extension to MediaWiki? I believe you co > uld put the addresses in a custom tag that checked the user's rights before d > isplaying the link. If anonymous users were able to view wiki-text they coul > d still see the email

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Would you be comfortable writing an extension to MediaWiki? I believe you could put the addresses in a custom tag that checked the user's rights before displaying the link. If anonymous users were able to view wiki-text they could still see the email addresses, but I think you can turn that of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Joel Uckelman
Thus spake Philip Beach: > Surely there are many different ways to do this but the most > straightforward way would be to place all the email addresses in a > page only viewable by logged-in users. Search mediawiki.org for user > rights management. Sorry, but neither setting the whole page to be v

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)
Sorry chmod'd. > -Original Message- > From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- > boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare) > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:19 AM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)
i chowned -R 777 on testwiki and still received the errors. I set up mysql and confirmed that the wikiuser can logon, etc. I don't see how this could be a perm issue at this point, considering it's open to everyone. The SQLite DB is the MySQL DB, right? > -Original Message- > From: mediaw

Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Philip Beach
Surely there are many different ways to do this but the most straightforward way would be to place all the email addresses in a page only viewable by logged-in users. Search mediawiki.org for user rights management. On 1/28/09, Joel Uckelman wrote: > I'm migrating from a custom web site to MediaW

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Darren VanBuren
People use HP-UX?? Considering you're gonna most likely put up designs of new products (just guessing), you'll definitely want ImageMagick to get thumbnails. Try setting a different location for your SQLite DB, like /var/ wikidata/db/, which is owned by the webserver, or do a chown -R webser

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect

2009-01-28 Thread Lane, Ryan
> -Original Message- > From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > Philip Beach > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:22 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect > > That g

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Question about path

2009-01-28 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message- >From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org >[mailto:mediawiki-l->boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Philip Beach >How can I set my path to be mywiki.com/Pagename instead of >mywiki.com/index.php/Pagename as it is now? __

[Mediawiki-l] FW: Install errors

2009-01-28 Thread Peterson, Adam (GE Healthcare)
Hello, I'm attempting to install mediawiki on hp-ux. I'm receiving the following errors when using the quick install page. I do not see an issue with the file permissions. Any help on resolving the issue is appreciated. -Adam MediaWiki 1.13.3 Installation Don't forget security updates

[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki as oligarchic CMS

2009-01-28 Thread Benct Philip Jonsson
Is there a howto on running MW as a CMS where only a few persons/admins can edit, but others could still create user pages and tweak their display? /BP ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/list

[Mediawiki-l] hiding mailto links from users who are not logged in

2009-01-28 Thread Joel Uckelman
I'm migrating from a custom web site to MediaWiki a collection of pages which contain information for various games, including player lists with contact information (mostly email addresses). The old site only shows the email addresses (as mailto links) when a user is loged in; if you browse to one

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Can't See Table Line

2009-01-28 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jean-Marc van Leerdam wrote: > > the prettytable style class is not part of the default skins AFAIK. You have > to set it up yourself in MediaWIki:Common.css > > Try adding something to that file like: > > .prettytable, .prettytable table > { >border: 1px solid