MediaWiki-l October 2003

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Test of the gmane.org mail-to-usenet gateway
by Walter Vermeir 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

TEST - TEST - TEST - TEST Test of the gmane.org mail-to-usenet gateway If it works; There are two different manners to use this list; - As an ordinary e-mail discussion list - As a newsgroup In order to use this list like a newsgroup you must specify the NNTP-server news.gmane.org at your newsreader. And also subscribe you on the newsgroup gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Possibly this can go automatically by selecting the following URL; news://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki For posting to the newsgroup you must be a list member. The first time you post to the newsgroup you will receive an email for verification of your email address, which is normal. If you work by means of the newsgroup you probably no longer wants to receive the messages by email. To disable email delivery go to "Edit Options". http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l All the other Wikipedia mailing lists are also available on gmane. Search for "wikipedia" and "wikimedia" on the list of newsgroups of news.gmane.org

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C++ parser : progress report
by Magnus Manske 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

My C++ parser is now a working offline browser. This is achieved by converting a mysql dump of the cur table into an sqlite database once, then using apache/php as a frontend and a php file calling the compiled C++ executable, which renders HTML on-the-fly. Browse using your favourite browser :-) Why bother with this, if a static HTML version would do the same? * Proof-of-principle * sqlite databases can be changed, allowing for edits * Encapsuled database object, can be easily switched to use mysql or any other database instead of sqlite for use on a website * Full-text search (which I'll implement next) Some things that bug me: * Is there an easy way to call an executable directly from apache, without the need for a PHP script in-between? * Is there a no-setup-needed web browser? Some .exe that I can start on a windows machine, then fire up the web browser, and view/edit my local wikipedia copy? Magnus

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Make math error
by Fred Bauder 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

While trying to install Phase 3 using mediawiki-20030829 I had the following error while making math: [colorado@tribal math]$ ls CVS html.ml mathml.mli tex.mli texvc_cgi.ml Makefile html.mli parser.mly texutil.ml texvc_test.ml README lexer.mll render.ml texutil.mli util.ml TODO mathml.ml render_info.mli texvc.ml [colorado@tribal math]$ make ocamlopt -c util.ml ocamlc -c render_info.mli ocamlc -c tex.mli ocamlyacc parser.mly ocamlc -c parser.mli ocamlopt -c parser.ml ocamlc -c html.mli ocamlopt -c html.ml ocamlc -c mathml.mli ocamlopt -c mathml.ml ocamlc -c texutil.mli ocamlopt -c texutil.ml ocamlopt -c render.ml ocamllex lexer.mll 187 states, 3221 transitions, table size 14006 bytes ocamlopt -c lexer.ml ocamlopt -c texvc.ml ocamlopt -o texvc unix.cmxa util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx texutil.cmx render.cmx lexer.cmx texvc.cmx ocamlopt -c texvc_test.ml ocamlopt -o texvc_test util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx texutil.cmx lexer.cmx texvc_test.cmx ocamlopt -o texvc_tex util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx texutil.cmx lexer.cmx texvc_tex.cmx Cannot find file texvc_tex.cmx make: *** [texvc_tex] Error 2 rm parser.ml lexer.ml [colorado@tribal math]$ [colorado@tribal math]$ ls CVS lexer.mll parser.o texutil.ml texvc_test.cmx Makefile lexer.o render.cmi texutil.mli texvc_test.ml README mathml.cmi render.cmx texutil.o texvc_test.o TODO mathml.cmx render.ml texvc util.cmi html.cmi mathml.ml render.o texvc.cmi util.cmx html.cmx mathml.mli render_info.cmi texvc.cmx util.ml html.ml mathml.o render_info.mli texvc.ml util.o html.mli parser.cmi tex.cmi texvc.o html.o parser.cmx tex.mli texvc_cgi.ml lexer.cmi parser.mli texutil.cmi texvc_test lexer.cmx parser.mly texutil.cmx texvc_test.cmi [colorado@tribal phase3]$ php install.php Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev" exists. Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev/upload" created. Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev/style" created. Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev/upload/tmp" created. Copying files... Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev/math" created. Directory "/public/html/colorado/dev/upload/math" created. Warning: copy(./math/texvc_tex): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public/html/colorado/dev/mediawiki-20030829/phase3/install.php on line 157 Failed to copy file "texvc_tex" to "/public/html/colorado/dev/math" [colorado@tribal math]$ make ocamlopt -o texvc_tex util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx texutil.cmx lexer.cmx texvc_tex.cmx Cannot find file texvc_tex.cmx make: *** [texvc_tex] Error 2 Any ideas? Fred

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Re: [Wikitech-l] installing mediawiki
by Brion Vibber 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 14:02 US/Pacific, Tomoaki Watanabe wrote: > Hi. I and others are trying to install a mediawiki into iBiblio's > server for a project, and I would like to get some help. > > It seems that installation requires command-line php, which is not > available at their server. > > Is there any quick work-around that I am missing? Or is this the way > it is? (Or am I simply wrong?) I would appreciate any input. As a workaround for the installer script, you can do it manually. I'm assuming you've got a way of running batch SQL commands, either through the mysql command-line client or through some administrative tool such as phpMyAdmin. First, create the database: CREATE DATABASE wikidb; (or whatever you'd like to name it) into this database run the table creation SQL scripts, which are in the maintenance subdirectory: tables.sql and indexes.sql. These create an empty wiki database. You may wish to create a separate MySQL user for the wiki, if so adapt users.sql to the username and password you want to use and run that on the table as a MySQL user with administrative privs. Put wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml into the destination install directory. You can put the rest of the .php files there if you like (as the installer does), but I prefer to put them in a separate directory which I then add to the PHP include path so multiple wikis can be run from the same code (and the other source files aren't exposed to the web on the off chance that something weird can be done by executing them alone). Create your LocalSettings.php and put it into the same directory with wiki.phtml. If the sample file isn't clear, refer to DefaultSettings.php and override anything that isn't going to turn out right for you. Copy the *.js and *.css files from the 'stylesheets' subdirectory into an appropriate place, which should be accessible as $wgStyleSheetPath. Security notes: * the wiki code currently requires that register_globals be on. You may not wish to turn this on server-wide because some programs may be insecure using that mode. See http://php.net/register_globals for how to enable it. * If your LocalSettings.php contains a password for the database user, make sure you're not saving backup files that will be accessible via the web served as text files. * Interpretation of PHP in the upload directory really should not be enabled, since anyone could execute arbitrary code as the webserver user. It's also recommended that you set HTML files to server as plain text to prevent cookie-stealing attacks. As an example apache config fragment: <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki/upload"> php_admin_flag engine off AddType text/plain .html .htm .shtml </Directory> * There's a bug in the upload code that may make it possible to delete files with an appropriately crafted URL. Until this is fixed, you should comment out the call to unsaveUploadedFile() in SpecialUpload.php. This may occasionally leave temporary files around from uploads that are discarded. Other notes: * iconv support is required, but it's not compiled into PHP by default. If you don't have iconv support, you can work around it by defining a dummy function like so: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconv_hack * the $wgDebugLogFile must either be writable or be set to "" or you get ugly error messages. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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State of MediaWiki
by Brion Vibber 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

Last tarball release on sourceforge was 2003-08-29. This is functional, but stable branch has changed a bit since then. A new tarball should be released in the next few days once some code is cleaned up. To check out the stable release from anonymous CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia login (hit enter) cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co -r stable phase3 (Note that SourceForge's anonymous CVS server lags about a day behind the developers' CVS server.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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