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[Mediawiki-l] Correct way to modify specialupload.php?

I want to comment out couple of lines of code in the file /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialupload.php file. Here are the lines: //if( $this->detectScript ( $tmpfile, $mime, $extension ) ) { // return new WikiErrorMsg( 'uploadscripted' ); //} Now I know that it is not a good idea to modify t

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Anti-Spam Help

When I install the new files to the database it seems to cause problems and when I do a fresh clean install of the media wiki 1.16 I get a weird error associated with permissions files on the database. Originally the problem was PHP4, but found I could switch to PHP5 by activating a prompt within

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path

Daniel Steiner wrote: > While testing this, I got the a error like: > > "Warning: require_once(/usr/local/... /Common/includes/SkinTemplate.php) > [function.require-once > > ]: failed to open stream: No such file or director

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Name of articles or categories

Steve VanSlyck wrote: > He inputs "My Name" and it comes out "My name" - i.e., he doesn't want > sentence-style capitalization. That's what he explained, but that's not what MediaWiki does. Bernard, you were probably thinking on {{DISPLAYTITLE: }} as the third solution.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hiding Images

Scheid, Bernhard wrote: > I wonder whether Extension:Lockdown wouldn't do the job. Thereby you can > specify reading rights for specific namespaces, "file" in this case. I do not > know what happens at Special Pages, though. > > Bernhard It allows you to set permissions on Special pages, too. B

Re: [Mediawiki-l] modify search engine

Scheid, Bernhard wrote: > Wow, thank you very much! I'll also go and read me through. As far as I see, > the basic feature I need is a kind of parsing before the text is searched, > whereby all middots in the text-to-search are eliminated. The other method > would be to multiply the term-to-find

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Subpages in English

Anne Wilson wrote: > Currently I'm using "{{:Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}" in some > situations, but that returns all translated pages as well as English ones. Is > there any way to restrict this to English only? If it can't be done > natively, > is it possibly to restrict it to a c

Re: [Mediawiki-l] editing the edition buttons

André Meunier wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to modify the edition buttons (the buttons you have above the > edition frame when you modify a page), to remove the date from the > signature button, and keep only the name. > It works manually when removing one of the '~' from the signature added >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Anti-Spam Help

Christopher Eicher wrote: > I'm preping myself to install a couple of anti-spam methods to protect my > wiki site (I hope). Unfortunately i've had little success installing the > newest version of the wikimedia software (1.16) so i'm relying on the 1.6 > version. Looking at this article here > ht

Re: [Mediawiki-l] DB size - reducing and backing up

Eric K wrote: > I had two questions about database issues. The SQL database for me is now > 800MB. > > 1) On the shared server the wiki is hosted, I have to email support to create > a backup that I can download. I can no longer download it myself from the > PHPMyAdmin interface as its too big

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change upload path for pdf files

Tech Geek wrote: > So I have enabled uploading pdf files on my mediawiki 1.12 installation on > Linux machine. By default, all the uploads goes into the "images" directory > which is fine. > > My question: > Is it possible to change the upload path just for pdf files? For example, I > would like t

[Mediawiki-l] Change upload path for pdf files

So I have enabled uploading pdf files on my mediawiki 1.12 installation on Linux machine. By default, all the uploads goes into the "images" directory which is fine. My question: Is it possible to change the upload path just for pdf files? For example, I would like that all my pdf files are upload

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Name of articles or categories

He inputs "My Name" and it comes out "My name" - i.e., he doesn't want sentence-style capitalization. - Original Message - From: "Scheid, Bernhard" To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:26:58 +0200 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Name of articles or categ

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Name of articles or categories

Are you sure that it is not the other way round: "my Name" --> "My Name" This would be normal Wiki behavior (first character uppercase), apart from that you get what you write. You can override this behaviour: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCapitalLinks (for no capitals at all) http://

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path

I'm on shared server with no console access and it's not possible trough the web-based file manager. But anyway, why is $IP not working/available in MonoBook.deps.php Thanks for help Daniel Steiner -- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Does Lucene-Search Support Japanese?

Hi Ross, 1) The character doubling in CJK languages is a known bug, and the only remedy right now is to have MediaWiki (instead of the lucene backend) do the snippet extraction. To do this, make you setup like this: [SearchGroup] your_host : wikidb wikidb.spell (instead of using wildcard char

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wgGroupPermissions question

Hello Łukasz, I had already tried that, and it didn't resolve the issue. On 28/09/2010 3:25 PM, Łukasz Garczewski wrote: > $wgGroupPermissions['user']['read'] = true; > $wgGourpPmierssions['user']['edit'] = true; // this one is optional, of course > _

Re: [Mediawiki-l] statistics, counter

Thank you. Since I am a bit skeptical concerning Google analytics, I have turned to PIWIK, which seem to work quite similar as OWA. Any reason, why OWA might be preferable? B. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wiki

Re: [Mediawiki-l] statistics, counter

Try Open Web Analytics. It comes with a built in extension for tracking users of your mediawiki. metrics include page views, visits, article creation/edit/deletion and a whole lot more. http://www.openwebanalytics.com -P- -- Peter Adams Open Web Analytics http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with custom skin path

Why not just use symlinks? - Trevor On 9/28/10 11:07 PM, Daniel Steiner wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to use a common skin path for two different wikis to share file > resources. > > Directory structure is as follows: > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki1 > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/wiki2 > > /DOCUMENT_ROOT/Common/skins