MediaWiki-l February 2006

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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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Re: Never delete users !
by Rob Church 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell out of the software. MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will. Rob Church

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Re: Get Mediawiki to read template variables within extension tags?
by Jan Steinman 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

> From: Billy Covington <wrcovington(a)gmail.com> > > I am attempting to create a template in which all anyone needs to do > to put a Google Map on a page is use a template with 3 variables > (longitude, latitude, and description) using Evan Miller's Google Maps > extension (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emiller/ > GoogleMapsExtension). > > The only problem is, Mediawiki won't read the variables if they're > inside the <googlemap></googlemap> extension tags. You will have to modify the extension to feed the included text through the wiki parser. > I am definitely no expert or even novice at php... This would seem to be beyond your scope, then. It sounds like an interesting project, but I have no extra time to help you right now! Perhaps someone else with an interest will want to craft a solution. :::: We may no longer have a free press, but it is reasonably priced. -- John Cory :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>

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Getting started - echo type stuff disabled?
by Hugh Prior 29 May '06

29 May '06

I downloaded and installed Mediawiki 1.5.5 a few days ago, and have been having a look. I have pretty good experience in PHP, but it's my first look at Mediawiki. One of the biggest things I have noticed is: a) echo, doesn't b) if I try and create my own "test_wiki.php" file calling wiki functions/methods, I get I think errors but all that is displayed on the screen is a complete blank I suppose these things are basically the same thing. Is "echo" disabled? Is there some other global setting I haven't seen which is stopping output to the screen? Is there some magic constant that I have to set to get debug output (I have found $wgDebugLogFile, $wgDebugRedirects, $wgDebugRawPage, $wgDebugComments, $wgReadOnly, $wgLogQueries, $wgDebugDumpSql but they don't seem to help much). Thanks for any help. Hugh Prior

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logo only shows up on some pages
by Matt Morgan 11 May '06

11 May '06

I changed my logo by setting $wgLogo in LocalSettings.php. I believe that's the right way. It only shows up on some pages. It seems like it likes to show up on editing pages, login pages--pages with forms. It doesn't show up on content pages (when you're only reading them), the main page, etc. When it doesn't show up, I don't see a broken image box or anything, it's just not there. It doesn't seem to matter what skin I use, and I've been sure to clear cache and restart httpd, etc. It's actually happening the same way in two different installations. In both cases the logos are nice and small; one of them is a png with transparency and the other is a non-transparent png. Any ideas? Side note: I'm new to MediaWiki, but I'm having a really hard time googling for help. If I include "MediaWiki" in the search string, the results seem to return every third wiki out there, rather than help about MediaWiki. Any tips there? Thanks, Matt

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How to upload bigger files
by MediaWiki-l.20.stefan817＠spamgourmet.com 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I run a wiki and like to upload bigger files (no matter what file type or extension). When I try to upload e.g. pdf- or zip-files with a size of 4 MB with the image upload function I got an error message "the uploaded file is empty". Is there a special parameter, which I have to configure? I did not find that in the docu... Here my only settings, which are out of the standard: DefaultSettings.php $wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf' ); $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; $wgUploadSizeWarning = 5000 * 1024; LocalSettings.php $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert"; #$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; My version: 1.5.6 on apache 1.3.33, php4.3.10-16, MySQL 4.0.24, ImageMagick version 6.0.6, PHP imagick version 0.9.11, debian 3.1. Cheerio Stefan -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++

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share images between different Wikis
by Andrea Arena 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

hello, at the beginning, my english is not very well. I've two different wikis (a German & an Italian WIki), they are connected via interwiki links. These Wikis have a CommonSettings.php. How I can use images for the German and Italian Wiki at the same time? At the moment the CommonSettings.php looks like: ## To enable image ads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then uncomment this: $wgEnableUploads = true; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/local/bin/convert"; ###################################### # If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload # path here. Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they # will be put into $wgUploadDirectory. # # If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the # shared repository if no file of the given name is found in # the local repository (for [[Image:..]], [[Media:..]] links). # Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this # directory. # $wgSharedUploadPath = 'http://www.xxx.ch/common/wiki/images'; # Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found $wgSharedUploadDirectory = '/home/xxx/public_html/common/wiki/images'; # Set this to false especially if you have a set of files that need to be # accessible by all wikis, and you do not want to use the hash (path/a/aa/) # directory layout. $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory = true; $wgSharedUploadDBname = 'The German(default) Wiki'; $wgUploadPath = "http://www.xxx.ch/common/wiki/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "/home/xxx/public_html/common/wiki/images"; ####################################### andy

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Cologneblue background Color
by Josiah Ritchie 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

I'm working on a site at washingtonbibleforums.com using the Cologneblue skin. I noticed that the background color is different on the main page than on others. I tracked this down to the body tag. In the body tag of the main page, the source shows FFFFFF as the background color. In other pages, this is set to FFFFce. I can't find anywhere in the code to get rid of that so I can set this with CSS. Does anyone else know where to find it in the source? Thanks, JSR/

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Google's crawlers
by Mauro do Carmo 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi all, Someone knows about any program (crawler) which I could install in my PC/win XP in order to get a look of whatsoever Google's crawlers are getting from my website? Thanks a lot, mauro. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/257 - Release Date: 2/10/2006

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Unwanted tags from the parser in my extension, can they be turned off?
by LJ 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Howdy, So tonight I set off writing a short little extension for mediawiki, and got in a fight with the parser. My extensions characteristics, in short, are that: it takes arguments from my defined tags and the content between the tags, and inserts them into a javascript function. To make my javascript 'pretty', I like to stick a few \n's in the $input strings (the content between the tags). Of course the parser is more then happy to turn these into: <pre> (for 5 \n's), which really busts up the javascript. :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_can_I_avoid_mod… ... implies the parser would have to be mucked with to prevent conversion of the newlines. But!!!!... a section or two above, it's stated that when you forcibly render text with the parser, you can turn off the tags with a simple 'false': http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_do_I_render_wik… I'd think it'd be a short step to allow the extension to set a variable, or call a method, essentially giving the parser the same 'false', as when it is called directly: $wgOut->parse('text', false); That sure would make life easier. E.g. $wgParser->setHook( "MyExtension", "renderMyExtension", 'false'); ... or maybe $wgParser->setPtag('false'); Hopefully somebody can tell me if I've missed some easy answer, or this functionality is already there (no, I haven't read through Parser.php yet). Or a second best: that there would be interest into adding this into nearby release? I'm aware there is probably a 'long way' around this problem, i.e.: set a hook for ParserAfterTidy, then find my tags+content, strip my tags and their args, re-insert my args+content, and finally dump all of the page again... bleh... Thanks, Luke

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MediaWiki-l February 2006