MediaWiki-l March 2004

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Re: MediaWiki 1.2.2 release
by Sheldon Rampton 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I just installed the 1.2.2 release, and everything went reasonably well. I used the update.php script. However, I did notice one thing that appears to be a bug. The $wgAllMessagesEn array includes values for "sitesupport" and "sitesupportpage," and the instructions say that if "sitesupportpage" is not set, the donations link "won't appear." The problem is that it didn't appear even when I DID set "sitesupportpage" to the URL of our donations page. I was able to get it working by adding the following line to LocalSettings.php: $wgSiteSupportPage = "https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2344-0|1118-0"; I figured this out by noticing that inside DefaultSettings.php, there is a line that reads: $wgSiteSupportPage = ""; This should do something more intelligent, such as setting $wgSiteSupportPage to the value of "sitesupportpage," shouldn't it? --Sheldon Rampton

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Still problems - with release candidate this time
by Timwi 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Hi, due to the problems I was having with the current CVS version, I tried the release candidate that Brion mentioned. However, it seems that the following input text: Test - [[Test]] - Test yields the following output: Test - - Test In other words, it just removes links. Interestingly, it *does* work if the link contains a namespace name: Test - [[Talk:Test]] - Test yields (correctly): Test - <a href="/~ajh65/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Test&action=edit" class='new' title ="Talk:Test">Talk:Test</a> - Test Thanks for any help you can give. Timwi

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Notice level fixes
by ross.nicoll＠zen.co.uk 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I've recently started using Mediawiki, and one of the things I've noticed is that if you don't ignore notice level errors from PHP, you get a lot of warnings about undefined variables. So, I've started work on fixing this, and have attached a patch that fixes the most common of the problems. I've been testing these for a few days now, without any problems, but would appreciate other people looking over the patch too, see if they can see any flaws in what I've done. Also, who would I send this patch to, to get it included in Mediawiki?

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MediaWiki in Linux Magazine
by erik_moeller＠gmx.de 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

My article about MediaWiki for the German Linux-Magazin has now been translated into English: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/42/Mediawiki.pdf Keep in mind that the pre-final of this article was finished on Jan 22. I sent them a few updates but it doesn't describe the in-place installer yet. Nevertheless the installation procedure as described should still work. Regards, Erik

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Non-root installation
by James Reed 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Greetings! I would like to install MediaWiki on a remote server to which I do not have root access. PHP 4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23.49 are available. Has anyone here done this before, or know of someone who has? If so, I would like to contact him/her. Also, I would like to be able to install MediaWiki by unpacking the files into the directory of choice, run an installation script in my browser into which I input my host, directory, database, and software version information, run a configuration script to setup admin accounts, display preferences, and the like, and start using the product. Is there any possibility of this being implemented in the near future? I hope that I am not asking for too much.... ~ James Reed

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] TOC
by Richards,Michael 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Table of Contents auto generation and the magic __NOTOC__ keyword are mentioned on the main "How to edit a page" article, near the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Placement_of_the_… And also in the Section article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section#Table_of_contents_(TOC) Michael Richards -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Olivier Riche Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:07 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] TOC thanks very much for your answer. Where would these kind of features be documented? -- Olivier RICHE, University of Ulster, School of Biomedical Sciences, Cromore Road, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland phone: +44-(0)28-70-323205 Juho Heikkurinen wrote: > > Olivier Riche kirjoittaa maanantaina, 29. maaliskuuta 2004, kello 18:19: > >> Sorry if this list is not the right place. >> I am looking for information on how to generate TOCs in my wikimedia >> documents. I have looked in the Users guide but did not find anything... > > > TOCs are autogenerated if you have more then three ==headings== or > ===subheadings=== in the page > This feature is included starting from mediawiki-20030829, MediaWiki > 1.10 and later > > If you wish to disable TOC for some page add __NOTOC__ magic word in the > wikicode > > -juxho

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Custom Book sources text?
by Dan Carlson 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Someone might have already reported this, but I figured I might as well, too. It seems that the custom text that was previously available on the [[Special:Booksources]] page (replacing the default four-site list) has disappeared. Is there an alternative method to change the list and have the automatically-generated ISBN number links created? Thanks, Dan Carlson http://memoryalpha.st-minutiae.com/

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Image Size Limit?
by Dan Carlson 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Is there a preference where we can enforce the size limit on uploads to the wiki? Yesterday, I had a newbie who uploaded a 1.2 *megabyte* BMP image to the site. It would be useful if users were not permitted to override the "recommended" size setting. Is there a preference where I can set that? Thanks, Dan Carlson http://memoryalpha.st-minutiae.com/

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MediaWiki 1.2.1 release
by Brion Vibber 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Installation, compatibility, security fixlets vs 1.2.0: * Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs * Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present * Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries) * Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems) * French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name There are no database format changes since 1.2.1. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: MediaWiki 1.2.2 release
by Sheldon Rampton 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

It appears, as far as I can tell, that the open proxy blocker is not included in the 1.2.2 release. Is that correct? Any word on when it will be included? --Sheldon Rampton

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