MediaWiki-l May 2005

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by James Gardiner 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Morning! I am building a web site for a family member who is in the process of completing a PhD and MediaWiki looks like the ideal CMS to use as they will be able to update their own web site (delegation is always important :-) Two questions: 1) There may be a need to have certain pages in multiple languages. Is the best way to do this for a small site is to add a language identifier to the page title eg: here is the CV in [[CV.en|English]] or in [[CV.nl|Dutch]]. Is there a way to do this and still have a more readable title eg "English CV" rathern than "CV.en"? 2) I see from the LocalSettings.php that it is possible to prevent access to certain pages for users who are not logged in. Do I need to list all the pages I want blocked or is it possible to do wildcards eg internal* TIA James

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imitating commons on private mediawiki installations
by Yongho Kim 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document under meta explaining this, I can't find any. Yongho

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RSS ?
by David J. Biesack 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Is there any RSS support for MediaWiki - i.e. generating a .rss stream for a site? I am aware of an extension that parses/embeds rss files within MediaWiki pages with <rss>url</rss> but I want the inverse: to allow others to use RSS to see what's new on my MediaWiki site. -- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

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Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4
by dankohn.8523763＠bloglines.com 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I documented the steps to add AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4, as I suspect others will also find this useful. If you're not familiar with it, AdSense pays you ~70% of the click-though revenues Google receives by placing ads on your page. http://www.dankohn.com/archives/000338.html You can see the results at http://www.pwsnotes.org - dan -- Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com> <http://www.dankohn.com/> <tel:+1-650-327-2600>

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persistent session problems for two wikis on one server (log into one, always logged out of other)
by Julian Rendell 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi there- We have two media-wiki (1.3.9) based wikis installed on a single server. The problem we're facing is that when we log into one of the wikis, and then go to the other (e.g. two windows/tabs in firefox), then try to edit in the first, it *always* forces us to re-login. This *really* sucks :-(. Everything else is working really, really well. Some details: the server is running linux/apache2, both wikis have alias directives in the apache config to do 'index.php' url hiding. One wiki is limited access, controlled by the apache mod_auth_ldap via apache access restriction directives. (Note, we're not using Apache's own mod_auth_ldap, but an alternate one that supports nested groups.) Both are on running from the same domain, just different directories/sub-URLs (e.g. http://foo.bar/wikiA & http://foo.bar/wikiB .) I've done some googling/read the release notes, and can't find any pointers, other than some notes in earlier version release notes that imply this problem shouldn't be happening. Any help greatly appreciated, I'm relatively new to setting up apache/php/media-wiki. (PS- unless there's a known bug, I don't want to upgrade media-wiki just to see if that fixes it... unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to support these sites, and need to 'save' time for an expected upcoming hardware upgrade, which is when I hope to update the software.) Thanks in advance- Julian

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Error in customizing navigation tool
by Ext-Munish.Mittal＠nokia.com 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi In order to add new link to navigation tool, I did the following steps. 1. Add a line of the form array( 'text'=>'something', 'href'=>'something-url' ) in LocalSettings.php It is showing me <Something> in navigation tool instead of something I dont know why? when I click this link I get error -Link target missing. 2. Then it is written in FAQ to edit (create) the pages in your wiki (substituting the names you chose); the first should contain whatever you want the link's text to be (e.g. "Contact us") (Blue above), and the second either the name of a wiki page (e.g. "Project:Get in touch") or the full URL of an external document . I did'nt get it clearly.How many pages should i create here. How will I create new pages with what names and how will they be linked in namespace. Please help me here. Thanks and Regards, Munish Mittal

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)
by Scott T. Emery 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Clocks may be the issue, that is being worked. > Scott T. Emery wrote: > > MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4rc1 > > Before investigating *anything* else, this needs to be upgraded to the > current 1.4 stable release. > > As for possible caching issues: check that clocks are correct, headers > are being sent correctly, and if a reverse squid proxy is being used > make sure that it's set up properly and purge requests are being sent > and accepted. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

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missing mysql.so after compiling php 4.0/5.0 from sources
by Pablo Chamorro C. 31 May '05

31 May '05

I installed MySQL 4.0 under Fedora Core 3 using the RPMs obtained from http://dev.mysql.com (server, client, shared and devel), and I compiled successfully php 5.0 from sources using: ./configure --with-mysql --disable-cgi and then make and make install, but this warning appears at wikimedia setup time: Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php4/mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/mediawiki-1.4.4/install-utils.inc on line 17 Could not load MySQL driver! Please compile php --with-mysql or install the mysql.so module. but the mysql.so file is not found under /usr/local/ neither in other directory (the same for php4). Am I doing something wrong? My last resort is to use the mysql and php RPMs included in Fedora but I would like to have mysql 4.0 not only for the mediawiki recommendation but due to e.g. mysql-administrator works with mysql 4.0. What else can I try? Thanks in advance, Pablo -- Tel: +57 (2) 7314752/3222/2595 - Fax: +57 (2) 7310514 Carrera 31 #18-07 Parque Infantil - PO Box 1795 - Pasto

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After installing wikimedia I am getting weird errors
by Ext-Munish.Mittal＠nokia.com 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi I have installed basic requirements using EasyPHP on windows2000 and then installed wikimedia. There are some steps written in installation help on wikimedia.org site :- Edit /includes/DefaultSettings.php As the first variable declaration, insert $IP="{Actual Pathname of MediaWiki}" e.g $IP = "C:\\EasyPHP\\www\\mediawiki" (note the double backslashes) Change stylepath to $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/stylesheets"; Remove all curly brackets inside strings - anything like "{$this}/foo" should be "$this/foo" Change logo path to $wgLogo= "$wgScriptPath/stylesheets/images/wiki.png"; after doing all this I accessed http://localhost/mediawiki-1.4.4/ but it shows error like Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 382 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 315 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 343 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 344 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 346 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\DefaultSettings.php:1) in c:\users\mmittal\easyphp1-8\www\mediawiki-1.4.4\includes\OutputPage.php on line 395 I am not able to get why these errors appear.Also in Apache error log along with these errors 2 more errors appear: [Mon May 30 16:56:22 2005] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\\users\\mmittal\\easyphp1-8\\www\\mediawiki-1.4.4\\includes\\DefaultSettings.php:1) in Unknown on line 0 [Mon May 30 16:56:22 2005] [error] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\\users\\mmittal\\easyphp1-8\\www\\mediawiki-1.4.4\\includes\\DefaultSettings.php:1) in Unknown on line 0 Could you please suggest what is the solution.I have been trying for last 2 days but no success. Please help. Thanks and Regards, Munish Mittal

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] forums/phpBB again...
by Alistair Johnson 30 May '05

30 May '05

We did something similar to integrate MediaWiki authentication with IIS authentication. It involved all of around 10 lines of additional code in User.php. I'm not sure how much more complicated it would be to read another application's cookies - but I don't imagine it would be significantly more complex. Al. -----Original Message----- From: Carlton B [mailto:carltonb@mindspring.com] Sent: Saturday, 28 May 2005 1:08 p.m. To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] forums/phpBB again... Actually, in my system, users are not concurrently logged on. In a web-based system, there really is no such state as "logged on." You enter your username and password, and you receive an authentication cookie and session for that site. As long as you have the authenticated cookie or session, you can access the site without entering your password again. Theoretically you could have vBB honor the MW auth cookie, or vice versa, but this would involve changing large amounts of the MW distribution for a questionable amount of benefit. I think it's better just to let MW check passwords off of the vBB database, and then let MW set up its own cookies if the passwords check out OK. True, the user must log into each site individually, but the password is the same between sites. > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Muzaffer Ozakca > Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:40 AM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] forums/phpBB again... > > > Thanks for sharing. So, in your approach when a user logs into vBB, > are they automatically logged in to MW, too? It is usually easier to > change login procedures to change tables against which users are > authenticated but I'm yet to find a flexible solution to make people > log into MW and be logged in to others at the same time. > > Well, I guess there's no universal solution to this if we consider > that most successful open source software are feature bloats. I find > MW especially written well and flexible. I guess, open source should > go into integratibility rather than aiming at being feature rich monsters. > > Just thoughts... > > Muzaffer > > Carlton B wrote: > > I went with vBB and wrote an MW authenticator by extending AuthPlugin. > > AuthPlugin works as advertised, and you can do it if you are > familiar with > > the security part of your forum's database schema. I was able > to create the > > following features: > > > > 1) AuthPlugin validates vBB username/password combos and > creates them in MW > > if they don't exist > > 2) AuthPlugin integrates into vBB "5 strikes and you're locked > out for 15 > > minutes" security feature > > 3) AuthPlugin gets the user's vBB email address and assigns it > to their MW > > account > > 4) MW rejects users if they are in vBB "Banned" groups, or custom > > "WikiBanned" groups. > > > > I did have one tiny problem that might or might not happen to > you... for odd > > reasons that nobody was ever able to figure, on my MW 1.4.3 I > had to edit > > one line of MW code to get it to work. This is not specific to > your forum > > or external authenticator... it seemed to be something in my > > environment that nobody else could reproduce. If you get it to a > > point where usernames/passwords validate in AuthPlugin but you still > > can't > get logged > > in, consider trying this: > > > > amend line 264 of SpecialUserlogin.php from this: > > $u =& $this->initUser( $u ); > > to this: > > $u = $this->initUser( $u ); > > > > I blame it on PHP4's shoddy implementation of OO and references. > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org > >>[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Muzaffer > >>Ozakca > >>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:27 AM > >>To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > >>Subject: [Mediawiki-l] forums/phpBB again... > >> > >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>Has anybody figured a way to integrate authentication with a forum > >>tool like phpBB? I know Auth plugin is for this job, I'd be glad if > >>somebody wants to share their implementation with me/us. Is it > >>possible to make someone log in to one (mw or the forum) and > >>automatically be logged in to the other? > >> > >>Another question would be which forum s/w is better? I would prefer > >>if the forum is directly integrated or at least would look similar > >>to Monobook. Has anyone found a good solution? > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >>Muzaffer > >>_______________________________________________ > >>MediaWiki-l mailing list > >>MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > >>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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