Re: [MediaWiki-l] Automated downloading all files in a set category or article on a Wikimedia project or Wikia site

2015-02-24 Thread John
This can be done fairly easily using Pywiki framework. I Suggest using the compat branch, and can walk you thru that process. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I suspect this question will not have as elegant an answer as I'd like but I was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Jobs get stuck in queue

2015-02-24 Thread James Montalvo
Doing runJobs.php never solved it for us; certain jobs spawned new jobs, which created an infinite loop. This was fixed in SMW 2.1 pull request #617 [1]. [1] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/617 On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Justin Lloyd jll...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SideBarMenu extension

2015-02-24 Thread Stephan Gambke
On 23 February 2015 at 17:54, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: 4. I then downloaded the zip file for ParamProcessor here https://codeload.github.com/JeroenDeDauw/ParamProcessor/zip/master, extracted its contents, copy-pasted it to |C:\Bitnami\mediawiki-1.24.1-0\php|

Re: [MediaWiki-l] SideBarMenu extension

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
OK I did that, and received the same error when I loaded a page on my MediaWiki installation. On 24/02/2015 6:53 PM, Stephan Gambke wrote: On 23 February 2015 at 17:54, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: 4. I then downloaded the zip file for ParamProcessor here

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding Special:PrefixIndex/FULLPAGENAME to tools section of sidebar

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
This worked perfectly, thanks! Problem solved. On 25/02/2015 12:34 AM, Hydriz Scholz wrote: This is the code that I use to add the link to the toolbox: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', mw.util.getUrl('Special:Prefixindex/' + mw.config.get('wgPageName')), 'Subpages', 'tb-prefixindex');

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding Special:PrefixIndex/FULLPAGENAME to tools section of sidebar

2015-02-24 Thread Hydriz Scholz
Hi, I believe mw.util.addPortletLink is probably what you are looking for to implement a link to Special:PrefixIndex using Javascript. This is the code that I use to add the link to the toolbox: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', mw.util.getUrl('Special:Prefixindex/' + mw.config.get('wgPageName')),

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Adding Special:PrefixIndex/FULLPAGENAME to tools section of sidebar

2015-02-24 Thread Bartosz DziewoƄski
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:04:10 +0100, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote: I have done some research into JavaScript, which is what inspired me to ask this question because I knew that quotation marks substitute variable names with their variable value leaving the rest of what is

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Jobs get stuck in queue

2015-02-24 Thread Justin Lloyd
Three of our five wikis are pretty heavily trafficked in both reads and writes, one of which is one of our busiest web sites. The other two are relatively low traffic but not worth setting up a separate job management system (e.g. cron) since they don't experience this problem. Our problem isn't

[MediaWiki-l] Automated downloading all files in a set category or article on a Wikimedia project or Wikia site

2015-02-24 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi, I suspect this question will not have as elegant an answer as I'd like but I was wondering if anyone in this mailing lists knows an easy (like easy enough for someone with as little programming understand as myself) automated way of downloading all the files in a category or an article

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is Scribunto and Lua scripting replacing 'Template:

2015-02-24 Thread John
Lua is an extension of the template process, it replaces a lot of manual advanced coding that users have done, with a better process On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:16 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: First off this is just a question not a rant or a concern, just curious. Is Scribunto

[MediaWiki-l] Is Scribunto and Lua scripting replacing 'Template:

2015-02-24 Thread John Foster
First off this is just a question not a rant or a concern, just curious. Is Scribunto and Lua scripting replacing 'Template: calls in Mediawiki. It seems that there is considerable redundancy in having both functions doing much of the same work. Just wondering so that I may make reasoned

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is Scribunto and Lua scripting replacing 'Template:

2015-02-24 Thread Max Semenik
What is the actual question? On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: First off this is just a question not a rant or a concern, just curious. Is Scribunto and Lua scripting replacing 'Template: calls in Mediawiki. It seems that there is considerable