MediaWiki-l August 2006

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Multiple languages
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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Uploading files
by Green, Chris 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

I've been able to enable uploading of files and set the $wgFileExtensions[] line in LocalSettings.php to enable me to upload pdf files. My problem is how to set this to enable different types of files to be uploaded e.g. pdf's and word docs and Powerpoint etc. Does anyone know the correct syntax for specifying multiple file extensions for files that can be uploaded. Thank Chris This e-mail (and any attachments) may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please reply and tell us and then delete it. Should you wish to communicate with us by e-mail we cannot guarantee the security of any data outside our own computer systems. For the protection of Legal & General's systems and staff, incoming emails will be automatically scanned. Any information contained in this message may be subject to applicable terms and conditions and must not be construed as giving investment advice within or outside the United Kingdom. The following companies are subsidiary companies of the Legal & General Group Plc which are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for advising and arranging the products shown: Legal & General Partnership Services Limited (insurance and mortgages), Legal & General Insurance Limited (insurance), Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (life assurance, pensions and investments), Legal & General Unit Trust Managers Limited and Legal & General Portfolio Management Services Limited (investments). They are registered in England under numbers shown. The registered office is Temple Court, 11 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4N 4TP. Legal & General Partnership Services Limited: 5045000 Legal & General Assurance Society Limited: 166055 Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited: 1009418 Legal & General (Portfolio Management Services) Limited: 2457525 Legal & General Insurance Limited: 423930 They are registered with the Financial Services Authority under numbers shown. You can check this at www.fsa.gov.uk/register Legal & General Partnership Services Limited: 300792 Legal & General Assurance Society Limited: 117659 Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited: 119273 Legal & General (Portfolio Management Services) Limited: 146786 Legal & General Insurance Limited: 202050

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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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Uploading obscenely large files
by Travaglini, Joseph 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, For some reason when I upload a very large file (15MB +) on a private wiki, it doesn't work, but returns no error (neither on the Wiki or in the Apache logs). It just brings me back to the upload screen as if nothing had occurred. Nothing is shown in the upload log. I thought it might be a php.ini issue, but it isn't. (as I've had fatal errors returned in the past - but I incremented both the upload limit and the memory limit accordingly) Has anyone experienced similar behavior?

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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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personalize toolbox mediawiki
by city wiki 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I've seen some wikis have managed to personalize their toolbox, such as http://www.chelseawiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. Is there a simple way to do it, besides altering monobook skin? Basicly, to eliminate whatlinkshere, recentchageslinked, printable version, and permalink. Thanks.

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Install problem / still get setup page
by News Assi 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Hi, I tried to install MediaWiki 1.7.1, but I get only the setup page The precheck information are: --- SNIP --- Checking environment... Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. PHP 5.1.2-1 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Found GD graphics library built-in. Installation directory: /var/xxxx/wiki Script URI path: /wiki Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. --- SNAP --- In enter all datas (mysql w/o experimental unicode, no cache) then I get that information: --- SNIP --- Checking environment... Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. PHP 5.1.2-1 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL PostgreSQL PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator nor APC are installed, can't use object caching functions Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Found GD graphics library built-in. Installation directory: /var/xxx/wiki Script URI path: /wiki Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. Generating configuration file... Database type: MySQL --- SNAP --- And after this I had to install MediaWiki again. What could get wrong on my installation? Perhaps someone could help me, please... Thanks a lot...

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