MediaWiki-l July 2006

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by James Gardiner 08 Jul '08

08 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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Still can't get rid of "privacy" policy link at bottom of page.
by Ken McDonald 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Thanks to the helpful comment of another group user, I tried placing the following in the "main.css" file of the monobook skin folder: #privacy { display: none; } My skin is definitely set to monobook, and my browser is Firefox 1.5.0.4 on OS X. From viewing the page source and reading my CSS book, I've concluded that this should indeed hide the "display" link--but it doesn't. Anyone know what might be going wrong? Thanks, Ken

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Image: link alias
by Nicolas STRANSKY 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi, For some time I've been using the following syntax successfuly on Mediawiki 1.5.x: [[Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]] which used to produce the following output as a link to the "Image:" page: My document XYZ Now this doesn't work anymore, at least with mediawiki 1.5.6 and 1.5.7 and for the same syntax I just see this link as if no alias had been given after the pipe: Image:document-xyz.pdf Is there any reason why I should observe that ? I have noticed that the following alternative syntax works as I want it to work but I wonder if this is the right way to do it (I added a colon at the beginning): [[:Image:document-xyz.pdf | My document XYZ]] Thanks for your help, Regards, -- Nicolas STRANSKY Équipe Oncologie Moléculaire Institut Curie - UMR 144 - CNRS Tel : +33 1 42 34 63 40 26, rue d'Ulm - 75248 Paris Cedex 5 - FRANCE Fax : +33 1 42 34 63 49

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OpenSearch Support
by Gregory Szorc 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

I have created a special page extension that implements OpenSearch 1.1 ( http://opensearch.a9.com) for MediaWiki 1.5 and greater. More details can be found at http://opensource.case.edu/projects/MediaWikiHacks/wiki/OpenSearch and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc(a)gmail.com

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File delete error
by Simon Renshaw 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi, I tried to delete a file that was uploaded on my Wiki and got the following error: A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Article::doDeleteArticle". MySQL returned error "1364: Field 'ar_text' doesn't have a default value (localhost)". Any idea what is causing this? That DB was originally running on MySQL 4 so maybe I forgot to do something when I imported it to version 5. But everything else is working fine on the Wiki. I'm running: MediaWiki: 1.6.6 PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 5.0.22-community-nt Will update to 1.7 soon :) Thanks! Simon

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] getParentCategoryTree()
by a＠kid 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Sorry, I pushed send on that last email a little too quickly ... i should have dug a little deeper before posting here. I now realize that getParentCategoryTree() is in fact retreiving the data i expected. It looks like it is storing the tree in a multidimensional array. Each parent category is stored in a key and its value is an array of its own parent categories. So my question is ... Is there a built in mediawiki function that can take the results from getParentCategoryTree() and produce a list or do i need to do this manually? And ... is getParentCategoryTree() the most efficient way (maybe it's the only way?) to retrieve the category tree for an article? thanks again

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] FCKEditor on MediaWiki 1.6.7
by Familie Arndt 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

> I disabled all extensions and the FCKeditor > worked. I reactivated the extensions step by step and found out that > there is a conflict with the semantic mediawiki extension. How can I > make sure that both are working properly? Is there a way that the > FCKeditor and the semantic mediawiki can use different hooks? I had a quick look on the sourcecode of the semantic mediawiki (current version). The semantic mediawiki and the FCKeditor extension use one parser hook in common which in itself is no problem. However, there are more hook calls involved and here we are all in all in trouble as FCKeditor extension bypasses the parser and the semantic mediawiki uses parser hooks for modifying the output text. Your initial problem was that you did not see any output text when using both extensions. Here I am still lost. Although the extensions cannot work correctly you should see at least something. Provided that this issue could be solved, it might be possible to adapt the FCKeditor extension in such a way that both extension can coexists - at least until the next software update. Hence, sooner or later you will be again in trouble. Sorry, there is no easy solution to your problem Markus

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Apache error code 20024 & MediaWiki
by Jean-Lou Dupont 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

My config: Windows XP HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/"MediaWiki: 1.6.7 HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/"PHP: 5.1.4 HYPERLINK "http://www.mysql.com/"MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt-log Apache 2.2.2 I get the error: [Thu Jul 27 22:45:52 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /XYZ_Wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: ... [Thu Jul 27 23:28:53 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. + a crash report from windows about Apache... I have read the following thread: HYPERLINK "http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-April/011156.html"http ://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-April/011156.html but can't seem to find an answer. Any hint? There problems started soon after I edited "MediaWiki:Sidebar" but I can't tell for sure if there is a correlation. jld. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 26/07/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/402 - Release Date: 27/07/2006

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Setting Permissions for Namespace
by Cedric Weber 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

I am trying to set read only permissions for a all except sysops on a custom namespace I use in my wiki. First I tried to use the extension for that (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:NamespacePermissions_Extension) but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using mediawiki 1.5.6 -does that extension require a newer version? Anyway, I found this link (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Setting_permissions_for_a_…) that explains how to do that manually, but I don't really get it: I managed to restrict read access, but thats not what I wanted. Here's what I've done so far: ----------------------------------- in includes/Title.php if( $wgUser->isAllowed('edit') ) { if( $this->getNamespace() == 106 ) { if( $wgUser->isAllowed('editforbidden') ) { return true; } else { return false; } } else { return true; } } else { global $wgWhitelistRead; in Localsettings.php $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editforbidden'] = true; ------------------------------------- I hope someone can give advice, thanx. -- Cedric Weber, cedric.weber(a)gmail.com http://m.zung.us / http://zungu.NET

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