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MediaWiki-l October 2005

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by James Gardiner

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

15?years, 10?months

Re: Never delete users !

by Rob Church

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

16?years, 4?months

globalfunctions.php on line 32 or index.php on line 122

by Sacco

Hi all, I'm really sorry to bother you with such a question but I can’t seem to find an answer (even in the list archives). This morning I tried to connect to my wiki and I receive a violent : Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(./normal/UtfNormalUtil.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/ var/www/tmp/dedalus:/var/www/users/dedalus:/var/www/dns/ dedalus.freezee.org:/usr/share/php) in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/ includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 32 Warning: main(normal/UtfNormalUtil.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/ includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 32 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'normal/UtfNormalUtil.php' (include_path='.:/var/www/users/dedalus/ wiki:/var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/includes:/var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/ languages') in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/includes/ GlobalFunctions.php on line 32 Now, I tought that by upgrading to 1.5.0, I’d be able to resolve the problem (seeing that 1.4.3 isn’t compatible with PHP 5.0.5 and all), but it didn’t work… So I tried to reinstall everything but during the setup phase of the installation I now receive: Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(./includes/Defines.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/ www/tmp/dedalus:/var/www/users/dedalus:/var/www/dns/ dedalus.freezee.org:/usr/share/php) in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/ config/index.php on line 122 Warning: main(includes/Defines.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/config/ index.php on line 122 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/Defines.php' (include_path='.:/var/www/users/dedalus/wiki:/ var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/includes:/var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/ languages') in /var/www/users/dedalus/wiki/config/index.php on line 122 I really don’t know what to do next… Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Sacco.

18?years, 4?months

imitating commons on private mediawiki installations

by Yongho Kim

How does commons.wikipedia work? Can this be imitated in other people's own installation of MediaWiki? Is there a technical document under meta explaining this, I can't find any. Yongho

18?years, 6?months

RSS ?

by David J. Biesack

Is there any RSS support for MediaWiki - i.e. generating a .rss stream for a site? I am aware of an extension that parses/embeds rss files within MediaWiki pages with <rss>url</rss> but I want the inverse: to allow others to use RSS to see what's new on my MediaWiki site. -- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

18?years, 6?months

image folder permissions

by jdd

Hello. I have a question, not really a problem. I've seen in the doc (don't remember where) that to have the upload of images allowed, the image folder should be writtable by all (chmod 777). When looking at my config, I see that at an unknown moment (I think I was tired and forgot to document the change) I made this foder "wwwrun:www" and chmod 755 rwxr-xr-x 14 wwwrun www 392 2005-10-13 20:07 images I beg wwwrun is the apache user on my suse linux 9.0. this works ok. thus a reader gives me as a clue to use suphp with an unix user and a chmod 700 what do you think of this? what is the best method? second, I plan to upload my wiki on my ISP server, but there I will not have any chmod available, however php is commonly used and is said to have the necessary permissions. Do you think there may be a problem? thanks jdd -- pour m'ecrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

18?years, 6?months

How to activate trackback?

by G.Bierens＠fontys.nl

I'm using MediaWiki 1.5, and I'm trying to activate the trackback-function. As far as I understand all I need to do is add this code to localsettings.php: $wgUseTrackbacks = true; Did that, but now what? I thought I would see a trackback-url at the bottom of the page, or in the toolbox, but that is not happening. Did I miss something? -Gerard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. ----------------------------------------------------------------

18?years, 6?months

Wiki vandalized

by Cyril Pavillard

Hello, I hope this is the right place to request some support for this subject. Our wiki ( http://www.wikimac.fr ) has been vandalized and even though I found some informations on the mediawiki site, I can't really figure out how to resolve quickly this problem and how to protect our wiki to avoid such a problem again. 1) Is there any quick way to recover the pages that have been erase without having to go on the history and recover the content article after article ? 2) I guess to avoid this problem, the best way would be to move our wiki to version 1.5, is that right and is there some extra things to do on the default install to protect it ? 3) Is there a place where I can post (if this can help) the IP that vandalized our wiki ? Thank you for your precious help Cyril

18?years, 6?months

How to receive a mail on every page change ?

by Nicolas STRANSKY

Hi, I have a wiki with some pages changing quite often. I'd like to receive an e-mail on every page change, whether I have visited the page since the last change or not. Sometimes I can't even visit the page since the wiki is on a private network but still I'd like to know if there was a page change... Is that possible ? Thanks for any hint, -- Nicolas STRANSKY

18?years, 7?months

Help: namespace tarball

by Randall Hopper

Is there a tarball somewhere of the Help namespace available here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Our local network gets pretty slow during the day, and I'd like to pre-load our Help: namespace with this tree. Thanks, Randall

18?years, 7?months

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