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Template Question

Patrick Markiewicz — 2008-08-21T15:08:16

Hi, When I copied the Infobox Template from MediaWiki, I noticed that it has a bunch of Template:! And Template:!- links that were undefined. So I also copied the ! Template and !- Template from MediaWiki. When I did that, my Infobox did not match the page on MediaWiki. On MediaWiki, the Template:Infobox page displays only {{LANGUAGE1}}. On my page, it displays every parameter like {{{DESCRIPTION1}}} {{{DESCRIPTION2}}}. Plus it has a bunch of {{ #if {{ #if. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Patrick

Migrating to a new server

De Kock, Stefan — 2008-08-21T12:47:35

What would the easiest way be to move a MediaWiki installation from one server to another? I have installed MySQL and PHP already on the new server. What I had in mind was to setup the latest MediaWiki installation on the new server, export all the pages and import them on the new server. Is there an easier way? Email Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer-This email message contains information which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient (or have been authorized to receive on behalf of the intended recipient), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message or from any attachments that were sent with this email. If you have received this email message in error, please advise the sender by email and delete the message. Thank you.

Welcome to mediawiki-l (weekly posting)

River Tarnell — 2008-08-21T06:00:03

Welcome to mediawiki-l. This mailing list exists for discussion and questions about the MediaWiki software[0]. Important MediaWiki-related announcements (such as new versions) are also posted to this list. Other resources. If you only wish to receive announcements, you should subscribe to mediawiki-announce[1] instead. MediaWiki development discussion, and all Wikimedia technical questions, should be directed to the wikitech-l[2] mailing list. Several other MediaWiki-related lists exist: - mediawiki-api[5] for API discussions, - mediawiki-enterprise[6] for discussion of MediaWiki in the enterprise, - mediawiki-cvs[7] for notification of commits to the Subversion repository, - mediawiki-i18n[8] for discussion of MediaWiki internationalisation support, - wikibugs-l[9] for notification of changes to the bug tracker. List administrivia (unsubscribing, list archives). To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit [12]. Archives of previous postings can be found at [3]. This list is also

Special:Newimages

Alain — 2008-08-20T20:09:53

Hi, I would like to extend the search in the Special:Newimages page to search for keywords in the image description as well. Could anyone point me to the database string to edit? Thanks, Alain

Can't link to an anchored heading of a page fromthesidebar

2008-08-20T02:48:15

Hi-- I'm stumped. I have a mediawiki installation and am using the default monobook skin. I'd like to target an anchored heading of a page, where: (a) Main_Page is the page I am targetting. (b) The element I would like to target on the main page is called "How_We_Can_Help". Problem: In the sidebar, I typed: * About ** [[Main_Page#How_We_Can_Help]]|How We Can Help But this did not work. I also tried many variants, with and without the "[[ ]]". The exists, and I was able to do what I want successfully in normal HTML. Can I make this work in mediawiki, and if so how? Many thanks. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Can't link to an anchored heading of a page from thesidebar

2008-08-20T02:42:42

Exclude Subpages from default serach

Mediawiki — 2008-08-19T19:48:55

Hi, is there any way to exclude subpages from default search? Kind regards Albert Cremer

change {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}

Steffen Grimm — 2008-05-02T17:46:39

Hello, I've got a wiki abot a special theme. All pages, which doesn,t apply to the wiki are linked to wikipedia (with a template) But I want, that these pages aren't counted in {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}. I've got pages in other namespaces, which should be counted, too. This variable isn't working right, so I decided to change the code: mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass); < at >$x=mysql_select_db($dbdata); if (empty($x)) { echo "Fehler beim Verbinden mit dem Datenbankserver
"; exit; } $sql = "SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 OR page_namespace = 4;"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $a = 0; while ($resuld = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) { $a++; } $sql = "SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_is_redirect > 0;"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $c = 0; while ($resuld = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) { $c++; } $sql = "SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHE

Can this be done: change the "REL=" attribute forlinks to unwritten pages

The Gadget Doctor — 2008-08-19T15:23:24

I'm getting serious about SEO with a forthcoming site and I was thinking about all the edit links on my pages. I really don't want google or others crawling these links and I have stopped that with robots.txt. But, is there any way (without me hacking the core MW code) to put a rel="nofollow" directive in links pointing to action=edit pages? I'm currently achieving this in the following way: my Robots.txt file has the following line: Disallow: w/ And my wiki lives in w/. However, I've set up nice URLs so that the pages are read via mywki/ . This then catches all links to unwritten pages (because these refer to the w/ ) and also print links and so on. I'm wondering if this is a good solution long term. I'm also using Sitemaps properly to make sure every page can be found and "good" links that point to content already written are found and followed by search engines. Thoughts anyone?

Giving MediaWiki permission to use ImageMagick on anOS X System

Daniel Flaum — 2008-08-19T09:43:26

MediaWiki and ImageMagick are both installed and usable, however, MediaWiki can't use ImageMagick to make thumbnails because it doesn't have permission to execute convert. This is on an OS X system, from inside an administrator account. Anybody got any ideas? audacitor-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org "Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works."

Create a Table from RSS feed

Max "vagamente" — 2008-08-19T04:20:05

HI all... I'd like to create a page where i can put a 2 columns table. In the first column i'd like to collect data from a RSS fedd and in the second one each wiki user can put his name to say that he's going to manage that information. Obiovusly every single data from the feed must always match the name put in front of it (table should scroll...). Any chance to do that? Thanx Max

Even if default skin is well set, still old skin

Eric — 2008-08-18T18:17:56

Hello, i'd like to use my own skin as defalut skin nammed vbwikiskin. In localsetting.php : I have : $wgDefaultSkin = 'vbwikiskin'; In my file VbWikiSkin.php : I have : $this->skinname = 'vbwikiskin'; But still the old skin you can see here : http://www.baldursgateworld.com/wiki/ An idee ? Thanks

RSS Feed Caching?

Russ Lavoy — 2008-08-18T15:02:08

Hello All, I am in dire need of some help regarding RSS feed caching on mediawiki 1.12. Basically, we have thousands of uses signing up for the following RSS feeds: http://site.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss http://site.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=atom Basically, when I have the RSS feeds enabled the frontend servers get overly utilized. We have four frontend servers, one DB server and one image server all running RHEL 5. The frontend servers are running APC 3.0.18, Apache 2.2 PHP 5.1.6 and we also utilize a memcached cluster of four. The caching is working since I see cache hits on the apc statistics page and when I telnet to the memcached port it also shows cache hits. The four frontend servers are the ones that suffer when I have these feeds enabled. They get a load of 60 - 100 (Linux Load), which makes the site unresponsive until I restart Apache (but the load comes right back). I have tried using wget to get the rss feed and use mod_rewrite to direct th

Maintaining Session Information

Kevin Jones — 2008-08-18T14:00:58

Hi, I am trying to intercept page edits and send them to a PHP page that will make some modifications to the text and test to see if various conditions have been satisfied. I have changed the post action of the edit form to point to 'modify.php'. I also added another hidden form field with the original action ($action) as it's value. This way I'm able to use cURL to pass along the modified $_POST data to the page contained in $action. This all works fine until cURL passes the data on. At which point I'm redirected to a preview page that states: *"**Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in." Does anyone know how I can maintain the session data throughout this process? I have verified that $_COOKIE still contains the appropriate values. However $_SESSION does not. This seems to be the cause of the problem. Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Kevin *

NUMBEROFARTICLES ändern

Steffen Grimm — 2008-05-02T18:13:35

Guten Tag, ich habe ein Wiki über ein spezielles Thema. Alle Seiten, die nichts mit dem Thema zu tun haben, werden per Vorlage auf Wikipedia verlinkt. Ich möchte nun aber, dass diese Seiten bei {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} nicht mitgezählt werden. Außerdem befinden sich in anderen Namensräumen Artikel, dich ich ebenfalls mitzählen möchte. Da diese Variable bei mir sowieso nicht richtig funktioniert, möchte ich diese umschreiben. Ich habe bereits desn richtigen Code: mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass); < at >$x=mysql_select_db($dbdata); if (empty($x)) { echo "Fehler beim Verbinden mit dem Datenbankserver
"; exit; } $sql = "SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_namespace = 0 OR page_namespace = 4;"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $a = 0; while ($resuld = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) { $a++; } $sql = "SELECT page_namespace FROM page WHERE page_is_redirect > 0;"; $result = mysql_qu

Numbered Lists Out of Order

Chris Miller — 2008-08-16T20:35:29

Some code here
Some code here
Some code here
Some code here

# Item 3 # Item 4 - ------------------------------------------------------ The way it comes out is: - ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 Some code here Some code here Some code here Some code here 1. Item 3 2. Item 4 - ------------------------------------------------------ How do I tell it to continue using the same list? We're running MediaWiki 1.1.2.0 Thanks, Chris Miller ServerMotion www.servermotion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFIpzoRxBwlCB7CRwsRAqjIAJ4nODb+woia8ojBaM2Gk718botQhgCfTtaj ZqyvILUMhj8cZILTD/XT

Error on File Upload: This file has no extension

Chris Miller — 2008-08-16T20:33:01

Liquid Threads to be integrated into MW 2.0?

Derrick Farnell — 2008-08-16T12:43:53

Hi I'm in the process of installing MediaWiki and am interested in using the Liquid Threads extension to replace the standard talk pages: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads It states on the extension page that this extension is being developed with the aim of being integrated into MW 2.0 - is this an aspiration of just the extension developers, or also of the MW developers themselves? I'm concerned about what would happen if development on this extension stopped one day, and the extension then became incompatible with future versions of MW. If I had to uninstall the extension, does any one know what would happen to the discussions up to that point? Thanks Derrick

Align tables

Martin S — 2008-08-16T07:22:41

I am trying to align a table with variable lengths of #ask output. {| !'''Articles''' !'''Recipes''' |- |width="300" valign="top"| {{#ask:[[Category:Long article]] [[ArticleRelatedCategory::Snow cream]] |Default=No articles found so far |format=broadtable }} || {{#ask:[[Category:Recipe]] [[RecipeCategorySub::Snow Cream]] |?RecipeDate=Known since |?RecipeSource=Published in/by |format=broadtable }} |} The first column get much fewer results than the second. Turning the columns around (so that articles is the second one) is more logical but then valign="top" doesn't produce aligned columns. Is there a way of aligning the second column? Adding "valign="top"| " to the second column (after "||") only produces the text valign="op" without doing any aligning.

[Edit] link won't go away (was) Printing SectionHeader Numbers

John van V. — 2008-08-16T00:11:29

Thanks again for the help with the heading numbers; it was very useful. Sadly, when I cut+paste from a mediawiki page, the [edit] link is invisibly preserved and appears in my text. Others on the web have noticed this when exporting pages to some other CMS. Any ideas would be helpful, but I am afraid that a solution will mean a code hack. ~~John

PCRE UTF-8 problem- excuse lack of detail.

Rob Lingelbach — 2008-08-15T13:33:16

I have a functioning mediawiki installation, with a lot of extensions and users, on a production machine. I'm moving the whole shebang over to a different machine, and have most things worked out, except I'll explain what happened, which might be a good script for a sysadmin horror film. 1) installed and configured, on new machine, mysql and php-mysql, and reinstalled mediawiki (new OS CentOS; old OS Fedora), apache, exim, mailman, etc. etc. 2) I presume (excuse the fundamental question) that I have to recreate the important databases (wikidb for example) by hand (I used phpMyadmin), before reloading mysql with the db dump I did with mysqldump. This I did and the reload did seem to load without problems. 3) I ran into a problem with apache2 complaining that pcre (the perl compatible regex library) didn't understand UTF-8 (sorry don't have the exact error as you'll understand in a moment). Yet pcre reported it was compiled with UTF-8. 4) it was late. maybe you're familiar with