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

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] ANNOUNCE: MediaWiki book now in French

I'd like to announce that my O'Reilly book, "MediaWiki," has just been published in a French language edition: http://www.amazon.fr/Media-Wiki-efficace-Installer-administrer/dp/221212466X/ The English is still available too, of course. :-) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/ -- Dan B

Re: [Mediawiki-l] svn update mediawiki and extensions at same time

Brion Vibber writes: >> How does one update mediawiki and installed extensions at the same time? > 'svn up' has always been quite sufficient for us. >> Ensure that the 'extensions' subdirectory is an actual working > directory, and not some fresh empty directory that you created. Sorry, the best I

[Mediawiki-l] Wikimania 2009 Scholarships

Wikimania 2009 [1], this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia [2] projects around the globe, is now accepting *applications for scholarships*to the conference. This year's conference will be handled from August 26-28 in Buenos Aires [3], Argentina [4]. The scholarship can be used to help offset

Re: [Mediawiki-l] svn update mediawiki and extensions at same time

On 4/5/09 5:37 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > How does one update mediawiki and installed extensions at the same time? > The best I can come up with is: > $ svn update . extensions/NewestPages 'svn up' has always been quite sufficient for us. Ensure that the 'extensions' subdirectory is an actu

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikimania 2009: Call for Participation reminder

On 4/4/09 4:06 PM, Mark (Markie) wrote: > Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009 > closes soon. You can view the Call for Participation on the following page: > http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with many > translations available. > >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wikibugs-l?

On 4/3/09 2:17 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting) > >> Several other MediaWiki-related lists exist: >>- wikibugs-l[9] for notification of changes to the bug tracker. >> [9] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l > It seems there was never a

[Mediawiki-l] Right List?

Hi all, Is this the right list to ask questions about extension development or do I want another list? The wikitech-l didn't seem like a great match either. Specifically I'm looking for information about the correct hook to use to process submitted content just before it is committed to the datab

[Mediawiki-l] rewrite rule for incomplete url like /Namespace:

Hello,I have a page with a very long title mysite.com/Namespace:This_page_title_is_so_long_that_the_email_client_broke_it In my case, the link became mysite.com/Namespace: and the page title was not linked The result of the link is a "bad title" error, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] recent enwiki history dumps

Since the dump process had some problems, there are no dumps which are newer than that one. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Farkas, Illes wrote: > Thanks. > > In what respect are later history dumps not complete ? > > Do you happen to know whom one could contact for recent history dumps ? > > On

Re: [Mediawiki-l] recent enwiki history dumps

Thanks. In what respect are later history dumps not complete ? Do you happen to know whom one could contact for recent history dumps ? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, wrote: > That's only a partial dump. The last full dump was on 20080103. I'm hosting > a copy: > > http://grey.colorado.edu/enw

[Mediawiki-l] Image Conversions Using All Available Memory

I've run into a problem on my wiki where it appears image conversions are consuming all my available memory. I've uploaded a screen shot of the the processes currently running, you can see it here: http://www.richardson.co.nz/load.jpg Note the "convert" process that is consuming 99megs per insta

[Mediawiki-l] Wiki Farm with Shared tables on one wiki - additional info

Sorry, I forgot to include my system data in the first message. Product Version MediaWiki 1.14.0 PHP 5.2.9 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.67-log I want to setup 4 wikis ol, ml, ssip and v4v with the last 3 s

[Mediawiki-l] Wiki Farm with Shared tables on one wiki

I want to setup 4 wikis ol, ml, ssip and v4v with the last 3 sharing the tables: 'user', 'user_groups', 'interwiki', 'ipblocks' of the first one: ol I know that I can do this by using only one database for all 4 wikis and different table prefixes for each. However, I was hoping to be able to us