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Re: announcing umw: bash script to backup/update mediawiki from svn

Daniel Friesen — 2008-10-13T00:34:01

AGPL and a big page on a simple bash script that any decent bash coder could write in their sleep? There isn't even anything special about it... It doesn't even use any sane defaults when things aren't specified in the config, so the config file itself is far more verbose than it needs to be. Something fancier could go as far as to use AdminSettings.php (perhaps written in php like the rest of mw?), but this makes you write mysql login data in a third spot. The script doesn't even handle release versions of MediaWiki. So you're stuck with cryptic svn revisions which likely are for trunk. The script itself is almost 90 lines, but only runs 5 simple already existing commands that anyone could run by hand without being AGPL restricted. And while the script does do backups, it doesn't give the user a single clue on how to fix something if something is broken. So rather, this script hinders users rather than helps. True, it's simple... But if someone doesn't know enough about handling MediaWiki from the cli that they need this script to help them, then they are going to have issues restoring the wiki if something breaks. And because they've been using the script rather than learning how to handle mw on the cli, they are going to have even more issues than if they did everything by hand. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) ~Profile/Portfolio: http://nadir-seen-fire.com -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) nsk wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l< at >lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: announcing umw: bash script tobackup/updatemediawiki from svn

nsk — 2008-10-12T23:32:36

Le dimanche 12 octobre 2008 à 23:12 +0000, mediawiki-l-request< at >lists.wikimedia.org a écrit : Sorry I changed something, it's http://nsk.karastathis.org/index.php/Umw now

Re: CentralAuth problems: Help required

Brion Vibber — 2008-10-12T23:12:40

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 craigjames1984-vjJBcd4Mbrn6V6G2DxALlg< at >public.gmane.org wrote: I strongly recommend against using CentralAuth if you're setting up your own system; if you can just set up and use a shared user table to start with you won't need any of that stuff. CentralAuth is a site-specific custom tool for Wikimedia, and is very strongly coupled to updates to MediaWiki development trunk. - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjyhGgACgkQwRnhpk1wk462bACdEuQs7b0uADo0TNdNyc72F/Ae reIAn0E7XqXLnl9+bkw5OytgvPTsD37S =4zbg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: announcing umw: bash script to backup/updatemediawiki from svn

Brion Vibber — 2008-10-12T23:09:19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 nsk wrote: svn up && php maintenance/update.php ? Nothing there. - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjyg54ACgkQwRnhpk1wk47RHACgpX7bCublnI5hpWqYq1kV0ned WfgAnjfTimuE3Uxa7W2QSsseuiAXRu7k =Am4T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: How to retrieve parent page name ?

Thomas Dalton — 2008-10-12T22:20:40

2008/10/12 Frames Project lct.jussieu.fr>: Try {{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1|}} _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l< at >lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: How to retrieve parent page name ?

Frames Project — 2008-10-12T21:58:31

Le dimanche 12 octobre 2008 à 20:40 +0100, Thomas Dalton a écrit : Hello, I have already ParserFunctions installed. It does not help. Page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:ParserFunctions#.23titleparts says : {{ #titleparts: pagename | n_of_segments | starting_from }} returns n_of_segments slash-separated segments of pagename, starting from the specified starting segment. They say "slash-separated segments" while I want the "main" title that is "pagename". In other words suppose a page gives {{PAGENAME}} = "t:p/a/b" I would find n and s such that {{ #titleparts: t:p/a/b |n|s}} gives "p" There is no such example in both Help page. Thanks for helping. Francois Colonna

Re: How to retrieve parent page name ?

Thomas Dalton — 2008-10-12T19:40:07

2008/10/12 Frames Project public.gmane.org>: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:ParserFunctions#.23titleparts: looks like what you need (you will need to install the parserfunctions extension if you haven't already - see mediawiki.org).

How to retrieve parent page name ?

Frames Project — 2008-10-12T19:05:31

Hello in page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable all variables available are described using as example a fictitious page "User:Anonymous user/sandbox/my page" I did not see there any variable able to retrieve the parent page name of the current one, that is : "Anonymous user" why ? Is there a trick to get this name from inside "User:Anonymous user/sandbox/my page" ? Thanks Francois Colonna

Re: How to use the tag ?

Frames Project — 2008-10-12T18:14:45

Le dimanche 12 octobre 2008 à 12:21 -0200, Juliano F. Ravasi a écrit : I just tried to install this perl HTML::WikiConverter ... It is exactly what I need but I did not succeeded to install it. Best, Francois Colonna

Re: How to use the tag ?

Juliano F. Ravasi — 2008-10-12T14:21:25

This was posted a few weeks ago to this list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2008-September/028581.html Regards,

Re: How to use the tag ?

Frames Project — 2008-10-12T14:11:14

Le dimanche 12 octobre 2008 à 11:53 -0200, Juliano F. Ravasi a écrit : Thank you for the advice. I finally found that the tags hates blanks ! Do you eventually know hox to convert a pdf file to a mediawiki formatted page ? Or at least a html file to a MW page ? Best Francois Colonna

Re: How to use the tag ?

Juliano F. Ravasi — 2008-10-12T13:53:10

You shouldn't use this extension, it contains a major security vulnerability (I just found it and marked the extension page).

How to use the tag ?

Frames Project — 2008-10-12T13:27:00

Hello I wanted to include a pdf file into a wiki page. I tried to install the extension pdf.php http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PDF 1. I added the following line to LocalSettings.php require_once("$IP/extensions/pdf.php"); 2. I copied the code mediawiki/extensions/into pdf.php Now the documentation is so laconic that it do not really know what to do. I did t.pdf and I got Error: The file " t.pdf " was not recognized as pdf. The file extension must be .pdf. Which is wrong. Could someone tell me how to use this extension ? Thanks François Colonna

Re: Show the last N registered users

Siebrand Mazeland — 2008-10-11T14:21:07

This would require Special:Log to be an includable special page, so you could do something like {{Special:Log/newusers,10}} to show the last 10 entries from the new user log. This is not the case at the moment. A quick scan on bugzilla.wikimedia.org did not give me an open feature request in this direction yet. We would of course welcome a patch that would make this possible. Cheers! Siebrand

CentralAuth problems: Help required

2008-10-11T14:01:22

I set up CentralAuth on my localhost wiki before I move it to my webhost. It works almost well, apart from the fact two errors happen when my account is merged:You are ready to create your unified account, with the following wikis attached: Home wikiThe password and e-mail address set at this wiki will be used for your unified account. You will be able to change which is your home wiki later. localhost/$ (home wiki) Attached account The account named "WikiSysop" on each of the following sites will be automatically attached to the unified accountlocalhost/$ (confirmed by password)The accounts merge successfully, but it doesn't show the database names (in this case, wikitest1 and wikitest2) Also, when I try to change global group memberships, it says errors exist in the SpecialUserrights.php files and global rights logs don't work. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix it. Here's a sample from my LocalSettings.php: require_once( 'extensions/Makesysop/SpecialMakesysop.php' ); require_once ("$IP/extensions/CentralAuth/CentralAuth.php"); $wgLocalDatabases = array( '2008wiki', '2009wiki', ); $wgConf->wikis = $wgLocalDatabases; $wgConf->suffixes = array( 'wiki' ); $wgConf->settings = array( 'wgServer' => array( 'default' => 'http://localhost', ), 'wgScriptPath' => array( 'default' => '/wiki$lang', ), 'wgArticlePath' => array( 'default' => '/wiki$lang/index.php/$1', ), 'wgSitename' => array( 'wikisite1' => 'Testwiki', 'wikisite2' => 'WikiSite', ), 'wgLanguageCode' => array( 'default' => 'en', ), 'wgLocalInterwiki' => array( 'default' => '$lang', ), ); list( $site, $lang ) = $wgConf->siteFromDB( $wgDBname ); $params = array( 'site' => $site, 'lang' => $lang, 'wiki' => $wgDBname, ); $wgConf->extractAllGlobals( $wgDBname, $site, $params, array() ); require_once( "..\CommonSettings.php" ); $wgGroupPermissions['steward']['globalgrouppermissions'] =true; $wgGroupPermissions['steward']['globalgroupmembership'] =true; $wgGroupPermissions['steward']['globaluserrights'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['steward']['centralauth-admin'] = true; Also, anyone know how to get the user rights logs (for makesysop) to display interwiki links to user pages, like they do on http://meta.wikimedia.org - mine are just redlinked. Advice much appreciated. Craig Send Self-Destructing Instant Messages with BigString's new IM. Share your thoughts and ideas without the worry of what the receiving party may be retaining.

Show the last N registered users

Wikimini — 2008-10-11T11:46:01

Hello, I would like to show the last N registered users on a wiki page. I was disappointed not to find any extension or discussion about what could be a nice feature, couldn't it? Or did I miss something? Thank you for your help and have a nice day. Laurent

Re: Where to outsource custom programming andmodifications?

Daniel Friesen — 2008-10-10T23:15:13

^_^ I don't know how much "Professional" help you can actually find for mediawiki. But for people that actually know what their doing, you could try looking on wikihr.net, or the job boards on mwusers.com ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) ~Profile/Portfolio: http://nadir-seen-fire.com -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) Bjorn Kassoe Andersen wrote:

Where to outsource custom programming andmodifications?

Bjorn Kassoe Andersen — 2008-10-10T21:27:42

Hello, I'm not a programmer and need help for some custom programming and modifications of a Mediawiki installation. I have been looking around for qualified professional Mediawiki service providers offering competitive rates. I have looked at elance.com and opensourceexperts.org and found a few providers in Asia - but it looks as if none of them have detailed Mediawiki experience. I wonder if there are other places to look? If someone on this list would be interested or knows where ask, please send me an email. kassoe (located in Denmark)

Re: Problems with texvc when migrating to latestMediaWiki version

Platonides — 2008-10-10T19:25:39

:-) How did it went into your LocalSettings? Was it added by php update.php? Was it alreaddy there on 1.6 but not breaking? It should. Maybe it's time of removing the "THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL!" warning that has been there since 2005.

Re: Problems with texvc when migrating tolatestMediaWiki version

marco — 2008-10-10T18:06:57

Hi, Yes, thanks! That solved the problem. The "LocalSettings.php" file defaulted to "$wgDBmysql5 = true;". I'll look into switching over the entire wiki & databases to UTF-8, I hope it goes smoothly but may come back for further assistance. Thanks again for your help.

Re: Images with special characters doesnt work anymore

Platonides — 2008-10-10T16:27:51

Are you sure that it's due to the images ahving special characters and not being too big / using a different format? Could you share some image presenting that issue?