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

2010-11-24 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

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MS SQL

2010-11-24 Thread Chad
For certain values of "support" greater than "it doesn't exist at all." -Chad On Nov 24, 2010 4:15 PM, "Platonides" wrote: Gary Roush wrote: > Will Mediawiki work with MS SQL? I have not been able to find > a reference to... There is support for MS SQL database, so it could work. It may not be

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread David Benfell
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, K. Peachey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, David Benfell > wrote: > > Hmmm  Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it.  I put it in as > > Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and > > I don't see the "mass rollback" tab. > > > > Thanks! > In 1

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, David Benfell > wrote: > > Hmmm  Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it.  I put it in as > > Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and > > I don't see the "mass rollback" tab. > > Did you empty y

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread aude
On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, David Benfell > wrote: >> Hmmm Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it. I put it in as >> Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and >> I don't see the "mass rollback" tab. > > Did you em

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, David Benfell wrote: > Hmmm  Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it.  I put it in as > Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and > I don't see the "mass rollback" tab. > > Thanks! In 1.16.0 there are no user common pages for users (eg: User

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Hmmm  Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it.  I put it in as > Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and > I don't see the "mass rollback" tab. Did you empty your cache? Did you remember to set $wgAllowUserJs = true

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Benfell > wrote: > > Good to know, but there's no documentation. How does one use it? > Throw the code in Special:MyPage/common.js and you should see a "mass > rollback" tab at the top of user pages and user contr

[Mediawiki-l] Managing uploads for a cluster of Wiki servers

2010-11-24 Thread Jani Patokallio
Greetings, I'm managing a two-node cluster of Wikis, and I'd like to enable uploads. Only problem is, since uploads are stored locally, a file uploaded to node 1 is not visible from node 2. How is this usually managed? I'm a little surprised that there appears to be no option to upload directly

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Good to know, but there's no documentation. How does one use it? Throw the code in Special:MyPage/common.js and you should see a "mass rollback" tab at the top of user pages and user contributions lists. Make sure you've set $wgAllowUserJs =

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread 2...@gmaskfx.com
Those are all good questions.. I also wonder if there is a tool to download all the pages at their current version so you could flush the database and then re-import the pages cleanly? I don't really care about the history of these pages.. most of them are very short and they history are tiny e

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:56 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:52:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, > 2...@gmaskfx.com writes: > > > > < > was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of > work. > > > > There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to figure out wherer the link red or not?

2010-11-24 Thread Juriy Katkov
Thanks a lot! Sorry, I haven't noticed that first. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Platonides wrote: > Juriy Katkov wrote: > > Hello, everyone! > > I'm writing an extension now where I have to know for the given link > whether > > it's red or not. How can I easily do that? I read some articles

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:52:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, 2...@gmaskfx.com writes: > < was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of work. > > There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created > conflicts unless you did them in the right order. I r

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread 2...@gmaskfx.com
Well after upgrading to the newest version and using a few extensions I was able to clean up the mess but it still took a good days worth of work. There were three "users" making edits so rolling them back created conflicts unless you did them in the right order. I resolved the conflicts by copy

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Benjamin Lees wrote: > As far as I know, there isn't any mass-revert extension, but there are > some scripts and bots floating around that can do it client-side. > Off-hand, I remember > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Splarka/ajaxmassrollback.js and it > still seems to work

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
As far as I know, there isn't any mass-revert extension, but there are some scripts and bots floating around that can do it client-side. Off-hand, I remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Splarka/ajaxmassrollback.js and it still seems to work. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Benfell wr

[Mediawiki-l] Dieser Benutzer hat keine gültige E-Mail-Adresse angegeben.

2010-11-24 Thread uv22e Alcott
hi, now I got it with the Contact form but now its saying something like this "this user has not provided a guilty emailaddeess" where can I change this? I set the Localsettings already $wgEmergencyContact = "i...@mydomain.com"; $wgPasswordSender = "i...@mydomain.com"; The ContactPage.php #

[Mediawiki-l] /Special:Contact

2010-11-24 Thread uv22e Alcott
hello, I installed the Extension:ContactPage so I did the following: downloaded the files extracted them on my computer uploaded the directory into my extension folder changed the localsettings but what do I need to do now? Sorry I am really new to this

Re: [Mediawiki-l] MS SQL

2010-11-24 Thread Platonides
Gary Roush wrote: > Will Mediawiki work with MS SQL? I have not been able to find > a reference to MS SQL in any of the help files. > > Thanks, > Gary Roush There is support for MS SQL database, so it could work. It may not be as complete or stable as it should, though. __

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Database import / export breaks page titles with non-ascii characters, but not page contents

2010-11-24 Thread Platonides
Sulka Haro wrote: > I'm trying to move a MediaWiki 1.16 instance from one hosting provider to > other, and the move is breaking all page titles that have non-us ascii > characters in them, in what looks like an UTF decoding problem. Strangely > the page contents are fine after import, and I can cre

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to figure out wherer the link red or not?

2010-11-24 Thread Platonides
Juriy Katkov wrote: > Hello, everyone! > I'm writing an extension now where I have to know for the given link whether > it's red or not. How can I easily do that? I read some articles like that : > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_existence and see how can I check > existence as user. > Is

[Mediawiki-l] Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

2010-11-24 Thread uv22e Alcott
Hello, I love this kind of how the banner is integrated into the site. Is there a chance to do that also on my wiki (with my message and my photo banner?) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/li

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Tech Geek wrote: > Can't you restore the mediawiki database to the date just before the > vandalization happened? I guess this assumes that any legitimate edits that > were made during the period when the vandalization took place will get lost > too. Based on my own brief exp

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread Tech Geek
Can't you restore the mediawiki database to the date just before the vandalization happened? I guess this assumes that any legitimate edits that were made during the period when the vandalization took place will get lost too. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

[Mediawiki-l] How to figure out wherer the link red or not?

2010-11-24 Thread Juriy Katkov
Hello, everyone! I'm writing an extension now where I have to know for the given link whether it's red or not. How can I easily do that? I read some articles like that : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_existence and see how can I check existence as user. Is there any function to check page

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Lockdown.php question

2010-11-24 Thread Robin Krahl
Hi Graham, On 24.11.2010 15:35, Graham wrote: > $wgSpecialPageLockdown allows you to specify for each special page which > user groups have access to it. For example, to limit the use of > Special:Export to logged in users, use this in LocalSettings.php: > > $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] =

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Lockdown.php question

2010-11-24 Thread Graham
On 24/11/2010 10:35 AM, Graham wrote: >On 24/11/2010 9:21 AM, Robin Krahl wrote: >> Hi Graham, >> >> On 24.11.2010 14:16, Graham wrote: >>> - $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = array('bureaucrat'); >>> >>> It didn't prevent users in the bureaucrat group from accessing the >>> Export page. Any

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Lockdown.php question

2010-11-24 Thread Graham
On 24/11/2010 9:21 AM, Robin Krahl wrote: > Hi Graham, > > On 24.11.2010 14:16, Graham wrote: >> - $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = array('bureaucrat'); >> >> It didn't prevent users in the bureaucrat group from accessing the >> Export page. Any ideas of what could be the cause, would be apprec

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Lockdown.php question

2010-11-24 Thread Robin Krahl
Hi Graham, On 24.11.2010 14:16, Graham wrote: > - $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = array('bureaucrat'); > > It didn't prevent users in the bureaucrat group from accessing the > Export page. Any ideas of what could be the cause, would be appreciated. actually, it made ‘bureaucrat’ the only use

[Mediawiki-l] Lockdown.php question

2010-11-24 Thread Graham
Hello, I would like to prevent specific users from viewing some Special pages: Special:ListFiles Special:upload log & a few others. Here is the what I did: Downloaded and extracted, Lockdown-MW1.16-r70092.tar.gz to (/extensions/Lockdown) Inserted the following into Localsettings.php: - requi

[Mediawiki-l] Antwort: Article navigation tabs linking to sub-pages

2010-11-24 Thread amuenzeb
mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org schrieb am 24.11.2010 12:02:59: > Hello! > > I want to add navigation tabs linking to sub-pages at the top of > *articles* (i.e., pages in the main name-space). In particular, I'd > like to add a "Bib" tab, which would link to /Bibliography, > and a "Links"

[Mediawiki-l] Article navigation tabs linking to sub-pages

2010-11-24 Thread Thomas Larsen
Hello! I want to add navigation tabs linking to sub-pages at the top of *articles* (i.e., pages in the main name-space). In particular, I'd like to add a "Bib" tab, which would link to /Bibliography, and a "Links" tab, which would link to /Links. The DynamicTabs extension (http://www.mediawiki.or