Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading office docs

Hi Nina, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37, McHale, Nina wrote: > I have been having trouble uploading Word and PowerPoint documents to our > wiki. I added the file types .doc, .docx, .ppt, and .pptx to > $wgFileExtensions in LocalSettings.php, and it appears as though others ARE > able to upload

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Use of testing environment

Hi, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 16:40, bern...@bernardhulsman.nl wrote: > This is to inform you that unauthorized use of the WETE testing > environment, or derived work from the WETE, is illegal, no matter which > new name (MediaWiki testing seems to be used now) is given to the > testing environmen

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

bern...@bernardhulsman.nl wrote: > Its a meta discussion about the this community. Lets assume this > discussion is continued in an other newsgroup. And lets asume the result > would be quite weird. For example our moral standards would be that > everyone is obligated to use their full real na

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

nevio carlos de alarcão wrote: >> Of course, if you (or Bernard) see some relevance in the >> question that I have failed to see, please let me know... > Dear, I see your point. However I think we are a community either and, and > from this point of view, I think we should address this subject. >

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

Hi all, Nevio -- I'm not a list admin team either, but I am with OQ. It isn't a matter of whether a discussion doesn't belong on list X, then it must go to Y. In order for it to be relative to both X or Y, it should be about the software. How the software is used and the philosophy behind

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikia

Bobby, Bobby S wrote: > Perhaps this isn't the forum for this, but I wanted to pose it to you > all anyway to spark some debate and discussion. I understand this may > not be popular with some... > > Why isn't Wikimedia or some other non-profit organization creating the > "library" as Jimmy Wale

Re: [Mediawiki-l] it sounds strange...

Tim Starling wrote: > On 09/05/10 23:44, nevio carlos de alarcão wrote: >> Many people here refer to the wiki managed by them as "my wiki". This is >> very strange, because a wiki is not particular to anyone. A wiki is owned by >> those who use it, don't you agree? > You can call something yours i

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Web page source - "strange" characters

Hi all, Platonides wrote: > We have 7 codepoints, one per "letter". Note that this is independent of > the encoding. > If you are wondering why utf-8 uses 8 bytes instead of 14 (as would have > been used by utf-16), that's the beauty of utf-8. It will only use one > byte (like ASCII) for basic l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTF support

Hi, Platonides wrote: > Look at your table definitions. If the CREATE TABLE contains DEFAULT > CHARSET=binary or DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8, you are using the first two, and > $wgDBmysql5 should be set. Else you are using the third one and > $wgDBmysql5 should be false. Ah, thanks -- I'll take a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTF support (was: Wrong database, maybe)

Hi, Platonides wrote: > MediaWiki offers you three character sets for MySQL: > * MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary > * MySQL 4.1/5.0 UTF-8 > * MySQL 4.0 backwards-compatible UTF-8 ... Thank you for your explanation! I think I understand the differences between the 3 options. Also, looking at the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

Hi, Platonides wrote: >> So, what I did was change the database and the MySQL system to utf8. But >> then the database also has >> to be converted and this failed miserably for me. I followed these steps: >> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Convert_latin1_to_UTF-8_in_MySQL >> >> which did no

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wrong database, maybe

Hi Javier, The short answer is that I can't help you...I can only tell you what I did and maybe someone else will give a better reply so that I can learn something, too. Javier Bezos wrote: > CREATE TABLE `wl_archive` ( > `ar_namespace` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', > `ar_title` varchar(2

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Displaying .svg file

Hi, Herulee wrote: > When I click on the 'upload file' link then I could see options > Preferred file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, svg. > > as I have allowed .svg extension for uploading > $wgFileExtensions[] = 'svg'; Ah! Ok, you're the system administrator of the Mediawiki system; now I'm

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Displaying .svg file

Hi, Herulee wrote: > Does anybody have an idea how to display .svg file? > > I managed to uplaod the file using librsvg but couldnt display in mozilla > firefox I think it depends on whether you are asking as a user or a system administrator. If as a system administrator, you will need to d

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Setting up uploads (v1.12) -- working now!

Hi Benjamin and everyone, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Raymond Wan wrote: >> > Upload file >> > Upload warning >> > Protected page > It appears to be complaining that the image title is protected, though > that doesn't m

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Setting up uploads (v1.12)

Hi Benjamin, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Raymond Wan wrote: >> Anything else I'm missing? Does the error: >> >> > Upload file >> > Upload warning >> > Protected page > It appears to be complaining that the imag

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Setting up uploads (v1.12)

Hi Jan (and everyone), Thank you for your e-mail! I have looked at some of the links that you sent. I should have did this before -- but just to make sure, let me confirm what I've done and maybe my problem will be more obvious? * file_uploads = On in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini * No aliases i

[Mediawiki-l] Setting up uploads (v1.12)

Hi all, I've been trying to set up uploads and despite all the information and FAQs on the Mediawiki web site, I have been unsuccessful. One problem might be because I'm using an old version of MediaWiki -- v1.12. This old version is the current version for the latest stable version of Deb