So, I'm just thinking out loud here to blow off steam. I've seen
mod_security block MW edits and some other weird things on shared hosting.
Apparently, a shared host I admin for a project must have enabled some type
of proactive scanning with ClamAV or more like a ClamAV Frankenstein and it
is
If you are not sending data to a 3rd party or using analytics for ads. You do
not even need to seek consent as long as you are anonymizing ip’s. Everyone
seems to forget about two exclusions. Analytics can be viewed as historical
data. As long as you’re not doing any third-party tracking -
Oops... some clarity
Run a php -i | grep memory (stupid auto capitalization)
And.. are you using APC?
Tom
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Couple questions for more debugging info...
What is your setup? Distribution running? Memory? If you are running a VM with
512MB of memory, you could easily be running out of memory if the site has high
traffic.
What are the older jobs that are stuck? Type of job - aka job_cmd column in the
So it goes a even a bit further.
@mat54: so even if you are an invite only, even if only one of your users
resides in a country in the EU (including the UK until they break) you must be
in compliance with GDPR.
@Derk-Jan: Not only why you need the data and what the data is, the data has to
Ah, cool that gives me a direction to go in. I'll work up something and test
it, then update the docs because it is not clear on how to achieve this.
Thanks Brian!
Tom
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Hi all
Perhaps I am missing it, but is there anyway to stop users from using the
"create2" function and only allow sysops and * to create a user accounts. I
am not talking about "create" or "createaccount" as a permission. What I
don't want is existing logged in users to go to
Thanks Florian, I'll take a look at ConfirmEdit.
Personally, I would have the symlinks put the outside the root custom
/extensions into the public www location of /extensions and not have bundled
them all together into a custom subdirectory in the /extensions directory. I
can't see the benefit
Hi all
Quick question, is there any downside to doing this:
wfLoadExtension('Foo/Bar'); ? It loads the extension and the extension works
as expected.
I wrote an extension for a project which another developer(s) set up with
custom extensions outside of the public www directory. They
Hi Bartosz,
It gets real interesting... and I had a full circle moment when the host tech
tried telling me it was MW problem referencing this thread!!!
So here is what I have finally debugged and for the record even though it isn't
supported "MW 1.23.15 works with php 7.0.15" just fine. I also
Upgraded to 1.27, worked great on my local dev box running 7.0.15. Updated at
the host and still having issues. Two backtraces instead of one. Here are the
Errors...
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: [WI2ZAMY2ckcAAXoh3Uor] /wiki/Main_Page MWException from
line 1285 of
I think you mean 5.6, there is no such thing as php version 6.5. PHP skipped
from 5.x to 7.x version wise.
Tom
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To:
Hmm, now I'm curious. Why are you using DPL with SMW? If you are doing just a
mw update.php DPL will *cough* and error out the update from 1.19 to a higher
version. Just comment out DPL in LocalSettings.php, update and then uncomment
it. Tom
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php rebuildData.php
Hmm Did you read this?[0] Running mw-config is not required with shell. Tom
[0] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
I’m attempting to upgrade from MW 1.22.7 to 1.23 and am getting this error when
going to the web config at
wiki-pathmw-config/index.php :
Error starting
Did you purge the page? Then try clicking link again? Tom
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I'm trying to figure out how to Open External Links in new tab/window or even
internal links in a new tab/window.
I found this
$wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank';
Does not seem to work for links like
This?$wgVectorFeatures['collapsiblenav']['global'] = false;Only thing
I'm seeing is the navbar collapsing unless I'm missing something. Tom
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On my the header of the first sidebar section (usually Navigation) will
appear and then disappear.
Sometimes
Hmm which I don't see collapsing on semantic mw. What mw version. I think you
don't have to call the vector extension any longer in localsettings if you're
1.22+. Vaguely remember that from somewhere. Could cause issues. Tom
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This?
, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Tom Hutchison t...@hutch4.us wrote:
Hmm which I don't see collapsing on semantic mw. What mw version. I think
you don't have to call the vector extension any longer in localsettings if
you're 1.22+. Vaguely remember that from somewhere. Could cause issues.
Tom
That's ok if they are on different continents. That is actually a plus because
work is getting done 24 hours a day. What they need is a support group chat for
each other. They would all be able to read English if they are translating
right? Teach a few simple wiki markup such as links and what
Did you account for /images or /skins and a whole lot of other things in your
.htaccess file? Always a bad idea to put the install in the root. This is only
the start of what you need to think of. Robots.txt, google verification file,
/extensions which store files such as processed widgets.
Hi Shirley Perhaps you could better explain what exactly you are trying to
accomplish? You stated dynamically, which to me (and probably others) mean 'on
the fly' or based on content of the page, user group, date, etc... Chris
pointed you at Mediawiki:Sidebar which is how you would build the
Did you look at this?
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual%3AHooks%2FSkinBuildSidebar
or you could look at the code for ideas for this extension
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension%3ADynamicSidebar Tom
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Am drilling down through the
Maybe I'm missing something, but is there a way to check the
$wgContentNamespaces against (or should it) $this-data['isarticle'] to
include or not include something in output in a skin.
I have about 6 namespaces considered content with $wgContentNamespaces
in the array. So using
?php if (
If you want to check it out, just go to
http://www.univie.ac.at/rel_jap/an/
and ask for Buddha in the search box. You will see that among the
results, there are several https links
Well, the SSL cert question is answered. Looks like you are on a
University server in a subfolder so I would
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Scheid, Bernhard
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. März 2014 14:33
An: Tom Hutchison; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Betreff: Re: [MediaWiki-l] https
The other wikis are also mine.
The rel_jap/an.. Wiki
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From: Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: 3/18/2014 2:34:47 AM
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] https
Why do that when you can just use a redirect in an apache vhost accept
the
Just use .htaccess to rewrite incoming https to http and send a 301 back. Tom
From: Scheid, Bernhard bernhard.sch...@oeaw.ac.at
For unknown reasons, google sometimes refers to my wiki-pages by using https
instead of http. The result is that the page is displayed, but without css.
Hey Jeroen
I got it all sorted out. I think I figured out what I did. I was using
the instructions on
https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/ExtensionInstaller/blob/master/README.md.
The default contents of the json file specifies nothing should be
installed, and looks as follows:
{
require:
Hi All
Don't know what I missed, but everything appeared to run right from the
command line. I was trying to install subpagelist v1.0. I installed
composer in the ExtensionInstaller v2.2 directory per directions. Ran
php composer.phar after I created the json file. Output threw everything
First thing I would check is: $wgMaxImageArea = ' some value ';
See if it is accidentally explicitly set to a smaller value in LocalSettings as
this will make
thumbnailing fail. e.g. 40 for 2000px X 2000px image would prevent thumbs
on a 2200x1900
image which is 418000 in size or any
Hi all
Is there a recommended apc.stat setting for Mediawiki? I've read all the
apc.stat=0 (production) vs apc.stat=1 (development), but is there any
hard data on the impact of =0 vs =1?
What I'm finding is LocalSettings.php can live for 40 mins, sometimes 2
hours before any changes are
The site is redirecting just fine.
You said:
I have recently moved my wiki from
http://www.knitting-and.com/wiki to http://www.knitting-and.com/w and
want
the entries to still show at http://www.knitting-and.com/wiki
They are and all short URL work fine. I am guessing from your original
Hi All
Just wanted to run this by some on the list. Been scratching my head on
how to deal with file caching and using the MobileFrontend extension on
one domain. I know the preferred method is a mobile domain and a desktop
domain. I have no way of installing AMF and the manual page is a
Hi All
Looking for some advice. Trying to do version noticingand archived
notices on a Open Source software docs wiki.
Trying to keep it light and simple but I wonder if OutputPageBeforeHTML
is the better choice. I forked the Page Notice extension, just don't
know if I should consider
On 4/6/2013 8:27 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
FWIW the bug (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078)
has been reopened by somebody else requesting this feature to be
re-added, and Aaron already commented
Did you set:
$wgGroupPermissions['editsd']['writeapi'] = true;
Tom
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Behalf Of Al Johnson
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 5:25 PM
To:
Yep, Collection is forcing the printable to its section:
// Move the 'printable' link into our section for consistency
if ( $action == 'view' || $action == 'purge' ) {
global $wgOut;
if ( !$wgOut-isPrintable() ) {
On 2/2/2013 5:28 PM, Platonides wrote:
What do you mean?
The print version link pointing to title=fooprintable=yes even on
article bar? That should never happen, the sidebar cache refers to the
upper part of the sidebar,
On 1/12/2013 8:18 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
Yep, tried that. Wouldn't work. It reported, We found a rel=EditRSD
for your wiki, however the resulting document did not declare the
location of a MediaWiki installation's API
Perhaps I might have figured out what is going on, just someone a bit
more knowledgeable about the table structures to double check me.
page table page_title set to varchar with a collation of UFT-8
on other wikis
page table page_title set to varbinary(255)
Storing the %3F as a ?, could
UTF-8 is what I meant. Being a little dyslexic today.
Not making myself clear. Trying again.
%3F is a special encoding specific to URL encoding and decoding. ascii
nor UTF-8 should matter, it is a hexadecimal value and reserved, %
escapes and the 3F is the value for aquestion mark.
What I
Thanks Theirry
Good tutorial for newbies on how article titles are parsed by Mediawiki
and basic URL encoding. I'm pretty well versed in all the mechanics of
Rewriting, and URL encoding and the use of ?, , Mediawiki, etc.
I am now convinced the problem I'm having seems to be with the host,
On 11/20/2012 12:16 PM, Mathew Davies wrote:
I've followed the install
instructionshttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphVizfor the
GraphViz extension and so far everything seems OK - GraphViz dot
commands work, permissions look fine - but although the page is
parsing the
graphviz
Wondering if anyone else has run into this. Clicking on the edit link in
a portal styled page which uses the magic word, {{fullurl}} like this,
[{{fullurl:{{{editpage|/}}}|... Seems as if some are DNS'ing back to
this wiki and the actual link when hovered over the word edit is
resolving back
the
correct domain?
Thanks
Tom
On 9/25/2012 2:28 PM, Tom Hutchison wrote:
Wondering if anyone else has run into this. Clicking on the edit link
in a portal styled page which uses the magic word, {{fullurl}} like
Permissions would be the first thing I would look at. What are they for
the /images directory?
Tom
On 9/19/2012 3:06 PM, Michel Balmont wrote:
Since I moved my mediawiki from
What are Mediawiki views on providing links in their Extension pages
which point to an virus/malware infected site? This Dynamic Page List
3rd party extension,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(third-party) is
flagged as a major security risk by Mediawiki. Which oddly is
On 7/22/2012 10:04 AM, Platonides wrote:
Hi Tom,
You shouldn't have any problem in using a period in the namespace name.
If you're making a constant for the namespace name, you can't reference
a constant with a period on its name, but the constant could be anything
(eg. NS_FOO11), as it isn't
Oops
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_FOO] = Foo1.1;
should be
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_FOO11] = Foo1.1;
On 7/22/2012 10:52 AM, Tom Hutchison wrote:
On 7/22/2012 10:04 AM, Platonides wrote:
Hi Tom,
You shouldn't have any problem
Hope Platonides, Jeroen or someone else very familiar with Mediawiki's
core can answer this and provide a quick explanation or recommendation.
I know it is recommended when setting custom namespaces to use
standards, like FOO or FOO_TALK. What are the pitfalls of FOO1.0 or
FOO1.1 as a
From: Benjamin Lees [mailto:emufarm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 2:14 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; t...@hutch4.us
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] 16.5 to 19.1 install issue update.php adds only 1
table
The updater isn't looking at the right database (or it's
On 7/5/2012 5:54 AM, Brandon Pimenta wrote:
My code in LocalSettings.php:
$wgUseRCPatrol = true;
$wgUseNPPatrol = true;
So what went wrong?
Brandon,
Missed the Flagged Rev extension in your very first post. IMO, many
times it is an extension which causes unexpected results. I don't use
Hoping someone can help me figure out why 1.19.1 update.php script is
dying by what is coming next in the script
MediaWiki 1.19.1 Updater
Going to run database updates for mw_update
Depending on the size of your database this may take a while!
Abort with control-c in the next five seconds
Here is the Localsettings.php code...
session_save_path( '/absolute/path/to/sessions/folder' );
Usually something like, /home/youraccountname/thefolder
Like Platonides said, make sure it is writable by your web server. I
have one host I deal with which is a bit twitchy, so I have to use this
Hurm, I guess I maybe did not explain well, if article/page lives inside of
the STAR namespace id like it to just not show any page with that, my
other thought would be some how to make the template smart and know that if
the title/pagename contains ^STAR: to not add it to the category
Hi all-
Is there anyone who knows of an extension or work around for retrieving the
REVISIONTIMESTAMP of a template without it picking up the page’s timestamp. I
have a page which is a complex table/chart. The columns of the table are
constructed from Templates, which all call a standard
It's fine as is but the standard way is the have mediawiki live in
subdir of the docroot like /w/ and then some other path (like /wiki/)
is where the pretty (aka short) URLs live.
Yes, heed Jeremy's advice, drop it in wiki/w/ which will allow for
wiki.thesii.org/w/index.php to work,
That did it, thanks Yaron.
Tom
From: Yaron Koren
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:11 PM
To: Tom Hutchison
Cc: mediawik...@wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] [DT] - View XLM Page blank
Hi Tom,
Indeed - it looks like no one, or at least very few people, have used the
Special:ViewXML page
Just use a template to call magicwords in a nice infobox.
American date mo-day-year-username with a link to user page. Only shows the
last page revision
user though.
{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY}}-{{REVISIONYEAR}}-by:[[User:{{REVISIONUSER}}|{{REVISIONUSER}}]]
Tom
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Is there a bug in Data Transfer?
2 wikis I have it installed on, View XLM Page after a select is blank. I
checked discoursedb.org and it shows a blank page too.
$wgShowSQLErrors = true;
$wgDebugDumpSql = true;
error_reporting( E_ALL );
ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 );
shows nothing.
Tom
, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Tom Hutchison t...@hutch4.us wrote:
NS_MY_WIKI_NAME, NS_My_Wiki_Name, 'NS_My Wiki Name' (had to use ' ' to
enclose, 500 error without), and every variation I can think of, but it
still excludes the Wiki's NameSpace. I even tried %20 in between.
The value you use
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