MediaWiki-l November 2007

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Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB
by Jim Hu 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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Custom namespaces and discussion pages
by Snowolf 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've created some custom namespaced on one of my wikis, Botwiki (previously known as pywikipedia). I've put these lines in my LocalSettings.php file: - --- #Custom namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Manual", 101 => "Manual talk", 102 => "Python", 103 => "Python talk", 104 => "Php", 105 => "Php talk", 106 => "Perl", 107 => "Perl talk", 108 => "AWB", 109 => "AWB talk", 110 => "IRC", 111 => "IRC talk", 112 => "Other", 113 => "Other talk" ); $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112; - --- However, I have a big problem: when I go to a page in one of these new namespaces (not the discussion, the main ones), for example http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot , I found the red link to the discussion page. It's right, as there is no discussion page for that article. But if you click on it, it brings you to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… correct, of course. But have a look of the article and discussion tabs: they are both red! The first, "article", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot and the second, "discussion", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_… , when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… . It's the first time I deal with custom namespaces :-( but I have some ideas of what it can be. Can the problem be with the $wgContentNamespaces settings? So it detects everything as ns0? (don't think so). Or can it be the fact that I haven't used an underscore in the $wgExtraNamespaces definition? Snowolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWhk7sdafW5NQMtERAuX+AKDQ7QLNjXv9cu+ZbSLXidMzgi/vNgCaA7VT +VTgR3iI/BI7FVDqcyRZVJ0= =a4yP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Moving lots pages to a different namespace?
by Mark London 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

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Database error
by Veronica Lopez Diaz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hello everybody, When I search after some terms, which have not been defined yet, or after editing an entry (but not always???), I get the following error message: Database error >From MiWiki For query "sales" Jump to: navigation, search 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 "". MySQL returned error "1030: Got error 127 from storage engine (localhost)". Has anybody had this error before? How may I fix it? Thanks a lot in advance for your help and best regards, Veronica P.S: I found a similar message at the The Wikitech-l Archives, but in my case no table name was written, so what shall I do???? -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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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: [Mediawiki-l] Creating a Google Friendly Sitemap?
by Caitlin Dempsey 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

On Mar 21, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Caitlin Dempsey wrote: > I've been trying to find a way to create a Google friendly sitemap > for my wiki. The few solutions I have found that are specific to > Wikimedia haven't worked on my wiki. I found this page which has an extension that worked on my wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Sitemap

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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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Somewhat OT: wiki about corporate wikis?
by David Gerard 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

The topic of corporate intranet wikis seems to come up a lot. Does anyone know of a wiki about corporate intranet wikis? Both technical and social aspects. Of course, Googling "corporate wiki" produces commercial wiki engine sites and occasional news and blog posts ... - d.

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table templates behaving differently in IE?
by Herta Van den Eynde 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

I have a template looking like this: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" |- |+ '''{{{rack_name| }}}''' |- ! slot !! name !! contact !! customer !! comment |- | 47 || {{{47-name|-}}} || {{{47-contact| }}} || {{{47-customer| }}} || {{{47-comment| }}} |- | 46 || {{{46-name|-}}} || {{{46-contact| }}} || {{{46-customer| }}} || {{{46-comment| }}} |- | 45 || {{{45-name|-}}} || {{{45-contact| }}} || {{{45-customer| }}} || {{{45-comment| }}} |- | 44 || {{{44-name|-}}} || {{{44-contact| }}} || {{{44-customer| }}} || {{{44-comment| }}} |- | 43 || {{{43-name|-}}} || {{{43-contact| }}} || {{{43-customer| }}} || {{{43-comment| }}} |- | 42 || {{{42-name|-}}} || {{{42-contact| }}} || {{{42-customer| }}} || {{{42-comment| }}} |- | 41 || {{{41-name|-}}} || {{{41-contact| }}} || {{{41-customer| }}} || {{{41-comment| }}} |- | 40 || {{{40-name|-}}} || {{{40-contact| }}} || {{{40-customer| }}} || {{{40-comment| }}} |- |} Which is being called like this: {{DC Rack | 43-name=[[HW_SWCAR52|SWCAR52]] | 43-contact=[[DC_People#Erik_Vandenbergh|Erik Vandenbergh]] | 43-comment=BGC Belbone internal }} When I display this in Firefox or Konqueror, all table cells are displayed. When I display this in Internet Explorer (both 6 and 7), only cells with values different from a space are displayed. Is there a solution/workaround for this problem? Kind regards, Herta

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Revision control of images via subversion?
by Daniel Barrett 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Does anyone know of a MediaWiki extension to provide revision control for uploaded images, say, via subversion? On first thought it seems easy -- just let the /images folder be a subversion working copy, and run hooks to do "svn add/commit" on upload or "svn delete/commit" on deletion, providing the user comment as an svn comment. Maybe the hardest parts would be: * The necessary "svn add" operations when new subfolders get created in /images. * Adding this extension to an existing wiki that hasn't been running it before (i.e., only some historical images will be in subversion) * Doing a "history" command on an image file, as opposed to the article in the Image: namespace... UI considerations.... A very simple, though incomplete, implementation, would be to run an svn commit (and associated adds & deletes) every N minutes on /images. That might yield 80% of the benefits without writing an extension. Thoughts? DanB

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