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How to add add "My sandbox" in personal url section as en.wikipedia.org does?

Chee-Yang Chau — 2012-05-26T05:12:15

The logon account in en.wikipedia.org page has "My sandbox" link in top
left part.

How can I do that in my private mediawiki site?  Is there any extension to
do so?

Thank you.

Problem loading wikipedia xml data to database usingmwdumper

Khanh Nguyen — 2012-05-24T22:01:55

 Hi all,
 I'm loading compressed wikipedia xml data into mysql database using
mwdumper. The input is the following file gotten from
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/:

          enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history1.xml-p000000010p000002130.bz2

 In mysql, I have a user named wikiuser and have an empty database for that
user named wikidb.
 I run the following command to load data into my db:

          java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 [the_bz2_file_name] |
mysql -u wikiuser -p wikidb

 However, I got this error: "ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 33: Table
'wikidb.text' doesn't exist".
 You can see the detail output messages from the link below:
          http://pastebin.com/Y6WXhxnq

 Can someone help me fix this error please?

 Many thanks,
 Chepukha

Short URL using rewriterule without rename wiki to w

Chee-Yang Chau — 2012-05-24T01:00:25

Hi,

Here is my environment:

1. Fedora Core 16
2. Apache httpd 2.2.22
3. MediaWiki 1.19

Most of the short url solution provided are using renaming method: e.g.:
wiki to w

What if I want to stay with wiki directory without renaming?  Can I enjoy
short url too ?

This is what I have tried:

File: LocalSettings.php:

  $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
  $wgUsePathInfo = true;

File: .htaccess

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^wiki/index.php - [L]
  RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ wiki/index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

When I access my wiki site:  http://localhost/wiki/

I get a page without skin.  Is there anything else I miss in rewriterule?

adding style sheets with http urls

Poornima Pochana — 2012-05-22T15:15:44

Hi,

I am creating a new theme with mediawiki 1.18.1 and 1.19.0 source code and I have a couple of style sheets from a remote site. I am not able to add these style sheets in the resource loader styles array with a url like 'http://mysite.com/css/screen.css'. When I do, I get the following errors:

For 1.18.1, the error is:

[error] [client ::1] PHP Warning:  filemtime(): stat failed for /home/user/public_html/mw-1.18.1/skins/https://mysite.com/brand/styles/3.0/css/bg/backsplash-green_bg.css in /home/user/public_html/mw-1.18.1/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderFileModule.php on line 380

For 1.19.0, the error is:
error] [client ::1] PHP Warning:  array_map(): An error occurred while invoking the map callback in /home/user/public_html/mediawiki-1.19.0/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderFileModule.php on line 589

I have to download the style sheets locally and mention a local file path to the styles array.  Is this a limitation/restriction in mediawiki to add style sheets only with a file path?

Thanks,
Poornima.

Bot for rewriting external links as wiki links?

David J. Biesack — 2012-05-21T16:41:34

Is there a bot which will repair external URL coded links to the same wikinand rewrite them as wiki links?

For example, if MediaWikis were installed in www.example.com/wiki and pages contains
links using external link notation

  blah http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page blah
  blah [http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page some text] blah
  blah [http://www.example.com/wiki/Some_page#some_section some text] blah

then the "What links here" feature would not work because such links are not recognized.

The bot would replace those with wiki links:

 blah [[Some page]] blah
 blah [[Some page | some text]] blah
 blah [[Some page#some_section | some text]] blah or  blah {{there|some section|Some page | some text}} blah

In addition, if the link is to a section of the current page, i.e. on [[Some page]],
the second link would be updated as

 {{here|some section|some text}}

There may need to be some way to disable this (i.e. in help or project pages
that discuss link notation).

Alternatively, could Special:WhatLinksHere be "taught" to recognize the
wiki's own URL and count those links?

I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots_by_purpose
but none of those categories seemed to match what I'm looking for.

thanks,
djb

php error message on update.php output

John W. Foster — 2012-05-16T13:49:50

When I run update.php I get this error message, since last php update.
Any tips on clearing it.

PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated
in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated
in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ps.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
MediaWiki 1.19.0 Updater

BTW: seems to update databases OK though.
Thanks
frosty

Indexing Wikipedia with Solr/Lucene

vineet yadav — 2012-05-13T18:53:27

Hi all,
I want to create Lucene/Solr index of wikipedia xml dump. I used Solr
example(http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler#Example:_Indexing_wikipedia)
to index wikipedia xml dump. Since in wikipedia, Category and external
links are part of wikipedia text, I am not able to index category and
external links separately.     I want to index  Category, Externals
links etc separately and store them in separate fields.
Would anyone please be kind enough to give me a bit of advice?
Thanks
Vineet Yadav

Merging Two User Accounts

Stephen Wanjau — 2012-05-13T12:50:01

Hello Nice People,

I would like to ask whether it is possible my two User accounts that I
have been using on the Wikimedia Projects.

If it is possible, kindly advise on the steps to follow.

Regards,
Stephen
--
Wikimedia Kenya
Board Member & Treasurer

Issue with recent Php5 update

John W. Foster — 2012-05-12T17:28:11

For a couple of years I have used this type of link to bring content
into my mediawiki:

{{Offsite Disclaimer}}
{{wikipedia::Inductive reasoning}}

And it has always worked well.

I recently upgraded my Debian Linux Php to:
PHP Version 5.3.3-7+squeeze9

Since then This link does not work, nor do any of the others that are
formatted to this style.

Any Tips please!!
Thanks 
frosty

newbie question: connecting wiki to our CRM system

Ron Arts — 2012-05-12T16:20:49

Hello,

We run a CRM system which holds ten of thousands of customers. It does not have a built-in wiki,
but I can add links to it, for example I can make the page header of a customer page to link
directly to our wiki, for example: if our customer's name would be ACME Corporation, I
can build an http link around it pointing to our wiki like this:

<a href="http://wiki.ourcompany.com/index.php/Customer_25653>ACME Corporation</a>

This worked. Some customers now have their own Wiki page. I used our customer number and
not the name, because customers' name sometimes change, and we have customers with the same name,
but which are in fact different companies.

But now in the Wiki I want to create an automatic list of all customers that have a wiki page.
I thought I could create a Category:Customer for this, but now the Category page shows a long list
of pages with names like Customer_25653, Customer_25956 etc, all shown under the letter 'C'

Now I'm stuck because there does not seem to be a way to change the displayed pagename in
the category page list.

I probably used the wrong solution. Is there a better solution?

Thanks for any pointers,
Ron Arts

site mirror and master-slave question

chris — 2012-05-12T16:04:17

I'm trying to find some further documentation or guidance (if any) on 
site duplication and then master-slave replication.

The scenario is this:

We have 2 Wiki's, each in their own network. The first wiki is available 
to our users now.  The second one is a clone of the first which was made 
a couple of months ago and hasn't been touched since. What I'd like to 
do is have the clone be the slave and the first one be the master. I'm 
thinking that the database would not contain the extensions, skins, 
possibly photos, templates ?  So I would have to push those over.  The 
clone or slave would only be for reading and not writing.

Can anyone give any guidance ?

thanks,
Chris

Bug in v1.18.3

Bertrand Caplet — 2012-05-11T15:45:34

Hi,
I wanted to inform you that there is a bug in 1.18.3 on login page.. You 
might already know that. I installed v1.19 and no bug.
Regards,

Page Protection

Turnbough, Bradley E. — 2012-05-09T21:05:18

Hello,

Version 1.14 MediaWiki

I need to be able to utilize "Page Protection" in my MediaWiki installation.

I have absolutely no clue how to do it and the explanations I've found via google are only confusing me.

Can someone please provide me with a step by step solution (including the why and how for each step)

The ONLY thing that I've been able to figure out so far is that I had to create a group "DrawingQuality" and assign it the "protect" right in LocalSettings.php.  The group shows up in the Special:ListGroupRights mediawiki page, so I believe that is correct.  I'm not sure if that group has all of the rights that they should have, however.

I want that group to be able to protect pages.  If they are the ones who protect the page, I want them and only them to be able to unprotect it.

Thanks for your help,

Brad

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sanitizing tag extension parameters for js output

Jim Hu — 2012-05-09T15:27:02

I just threw together a simple tag extension to embed a twitter live stream search widget from 

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

in a wiki page.  It just takes the following parameters from $input:

title=<title>
subject=<subject>
query=<query>

These get dropped into a <script> that is returned.  It works, but now I'm wondering what I should do to sanitize the values of title, subject, and query.  I don't want to just use  In the js, the values are all inside single quotes. I was thinking that I would use strip_tags combined with substituting single quotes with &#39; 

preg_replace('/\W/', '', $t)

would disallow hashtags and < at >'s, right?

Jim

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user creation policy

Boris Epstein — 2012-05-08T21:28:54

Hello listmates,

How do I make it so that no one gets to become a user unless they are
cleared by an administrator of the MW installation?

Thanks.

Boris.

Mediawiki extension distributor issue

John W. Foster — 2012-05-08T15:02:53

I have been getting this error for the last few days when I try to
download an extension from Mediawiki. Since other downloads are working
OK I am wondering if there is a problem with the server. Linux system.
FYI
frosty

Signs in Mediawiki

Isabell Alcott — 2012-05-08T00:42:51

Hello,

I would like to include special signs in my new 1.19 Mediawiki
installation, but they are showing not right. I have 200 *.doc files which
need to be indexed all into one MW Installation.

http://s14.directupload.net/images/120508/ooantyz5.jpg


So How can realize, that the signs are getting included aswell?

Your help is highly appreciated

Screen Artifacts question

John W. Foster — 2012-05-07T15:27:31

On my Mediawiki installation I use some links to Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Mediawiki; for providing completeness to some supporting but not
essential areas.

If I use this as the link:
{{wikipedia::Inductive reasoning}}

I get a page that has the site logo and border instructions and menu
from my website overlaid onto the Wikipedia page. This does not happen
every time I use this type of link, only about 15% of the time.

If I use this link;
{{raw:wikipedia::Inductive reasoning}}

The page format is correct, but of course the Templates & links within
the transcluded page do not work.

The fact that it varies from linked content, to linked content, tells me
that there is something I am doing wrong or that there is some element
of formatting that I'm missing.

Any ideas/tips, etc.
Thanks!
frosty

why can't I copy-paste the "Template:Citation Needed"onto my own wiki?

kaare mikkelsen — 2012-05-07T15:07:22

Hi, when I try to use

----------
{{ {{{|safesubst:}}}ifsubst |<includeonly>{{subst:Unsubst|Citation needed|
name|{{{name|¬}}}|reason|{{{reason|¬}}}|
date|{{{date|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}}
}}</includeonly>|
{{Fix
|name={{{name|Citation needed}}}
|link=Wikipedia:Citation needed
|text=citation needed
|class=Template-Fact
|title=This claim needs references to reliable sources
|date={{{date|}}}
|cat=[[Category:All articles with unsourced statements]]
|cat-date=Category:Articles with unsourced statements
}}

}}
-----------

which is copied directly from wikipedia, and which works perfectly in my
wikipedia sandbox, all I get at my own wiki is (in red):

Template:Ifsubst<http://www.phaust.dk/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Ifsubst&action=edit&redlink=1>

We are using Mediawiki 1.17.0, if that makes any difference. I've tried
searching for various things on the mediawiki-wiki, but it all seems to be
standard commands?

I hope some one can clear it up :)

Kaare

UserLoadFromSession problem

Paweł Muszyński — 2012-05-07T13:13:49

Hello.

I try to implement my own authorization scheme - connect MediaWiki to 
the user database of my other site.


When someone is logged into my portal, and he has an account in 
MediaWiki, I want him to be logged into MediaWiki.

As a first step to achieve this, I wanted to do an autologin of 
Pmuszynski. This is my function attaced to UserLoadFromSession hook:

function pmUserAuth($user, &$result) {

                 $user = User::NewFromName('Pmuszynski');
                 $id = User::idFromName('Pmuszynski');
                 $user->setId( $id );
                 $user->loadfromId();
                 wfSetupSession();
                 $user->setCookies();
                 $user->setToken();
                 $user->saveSettings();
                 $user->saveToCache() ;
                 $result = true;
                 return true;
};


But I'm getting following error on entering Wiki:

Warning: array_merge(): Argument #1 is not an array in 
/wiki/includes/User.php on line 2298 Warning: array_unique() expects 
parameter 1 to be array, null given in /wiki/includes/User.php on line 
2298 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in 
/wiki/includes/User.php on line 3472 Warning: Invalid argument supplied 
for foreach() in /wiki/includes/User.php on line 3481 MediaWiki internal 
error.


What am I missing?

Thanks for any help :-)


Pawel

Empty page

Henny Savenije — 2012-05-07T00:09:56

After a crash of the plesk I had to do a new install of plesk but 
luckily the database is backed up every two hours and the files are 
on a seperate hard disk as well

However after the restore I just get a blank page. It was working 
while I couldn't get to the server very well but now it isn't

Any suggestions? I have put error logging on but nothing.




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