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MediaWiki-l September 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

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

RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption

by Arthur Guy

I have had another go with this today but the same message keeps coming back about permissions I can't see what other permissions the maintenance scripts need Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Guy [mailto:arthur@astarsolutions.co.uk] Sent: 29 June 2005 19:48 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption Thanks for replying, I hadn't filled out the details in adminsettings.php. I created a new database user and put the account details in that file and re-ran the rebuild script, it came back with a message saying the user I had created didn't have permission. I gave the user the following privileges SELECT INSERT UPDATE DELETE INDEX ALTER Are there any other privileges it needs? Thanks Arthur arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk -----Original Message----- Make sure AdminSettings.php is present and contains correct username and password settings as per AdminSettings.sample. Note that rebuildIndex.php requires ALTER TABLE permission (iirc) to drop and re-add the fulltext index. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com ) 'a star solutions' disclaimer The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. We believe that this communication is free from viruses and other potentially dangerous programmes, but the recipient opens this communication at their own risk. We assume no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use of this communication

18?years, 7?months

any review/rating extension?

by Lili Wu

Hi, Is there any review/rating extension that allows user to give reviews and to rate the quality of a book, a movie, a game, etc. ? Thanks! Lili --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

18?years, 7?months

Can't access Mediawiki on Windows 2000 Server from clients

by Ferry

Hi there! - I'm new - :) I'm been attempting to install Mediawiki on Windows 2000 Server to use over a LAN. Installation method: EasyPHP. If I use the server directly, the wiki works (using http:\\localhost\wmwiki). But I can't access the wiki from any of the client computers (using http:\\wmserver\wmwiki). "wmserver" is the DNS name for my server. I do have IIS installed, but I have moved it to port 8080, while Apache runs on port 80. (I can access the IIS websites from the client computers with no problems.) So how do I get the client computers to see my wiki? Thanks for any advice! Ferry

18?years, 8?months

Re: xhtml to wiki ?

by RA Sebastian Dosch

Hi, there, what a pity. I tried it out, sometimes it works, but sometimes I get the error "'Laufzeitfehler 5941': Das angeforderte Element ist nicht in der Sammlung vorhanden." which, in English, is something like "'Run time error 5941': The requested element is not available in the library." If I start the debug mode, the following line is highlited: .Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Default Paragraph Font") More suggestions, anyone? cu S. Dosch -----Dominique Dumont wrote:----- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:20:18 +0200 From: Dominique Dumont <domi(a)komarr.grenoble.hp.com> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] xhtml to wiki ? To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <kgiu0g358el.fsf(a)komarr.grenoble.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jonathan Underwood <j.underwood(a)open.ac.uk> writes: > I am in the process of trying to build a wiki starting from some legacy > word documents with heavy amounts of mathematical content. I have > succesfully exported to xhtml with equations represented in mathml > (using MathType), but am now stuck with converting the xhtml to wiki > markup. Suggestions, anyone? Some guy wrote a VB script to translate word to wiki [1]. You may give it a try. Cheers [1] http://infpro.com/downloads/downloads/wordmedia.htm -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner

18?years, 8?months

Install: is putting www in front of URL

by Coombes, Andrew

Hi, I have just installed on a local intranet with URL http: //cad.ha...etc The install went perfectly. However, now, every time I try to go anywhere a "www" is prefixed to the URL, so http: //www.cad.ha... With the www the link fails, where can I get rid of this please? I have looked in the documentation, but cannot see the fix anywhere. Thanks, Andrew MediaWiki: 1.4.10 PHP: 4.3.10 (cgi) MySQL: 4.0.25-standard

18?years, 8?months

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Difference in SQL statements b/w 1.4.6 and 1.5

by Ryan Hudy

Thanks... Just to make sure I'm on the same page, that would mean this statement using v 1.5: select page_title, old_text from page, text, categorylinks, revision where page_id=cl_from and cl_to='$cat' and page_latest=rev_id and rev_text_id=old_id would translate in v 1.4 to: select cur_title, cur_text from cur, old, categorylinks where cur_id=cl_from and cl_to='$cat' Correct? Ryan Ryan Hudy wrote: I am running a wiki using version 1.5 and the below SQL statement outputs the correct information. I am trying to develop the same functionality with a wiki runiing 1.4.6. First, please don't forget to upgrade that 1.4.6 wiki to 1.4.10. There are security and data loss issues. I know the database schema is different among the two versions and I have seen the table name comparision in the mediawiki site, but I'm still having troubles determing what table names I need to change in the SQL statement to achive the same result. What tables in version 1.4 will create the same SQL statement result in version 5? Any help would be greatly appreciated! "select old_text from text, page, revision where page_latest=rev_id and rev_text_id=old_id and page_title='$pageTitle' and page_namespaced=$ns" select cur_text from cur where cur_title='$pageTitle' and cur_namespace=$ns (Make sure that your $pageTitle is properly escaped for SQL, in both cases!)

18?years, 8?months

the 'nogomatch' msg

by Pini Gorelick

hello. I have changed the value of the nogomatch msg as explained in the folowing link. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_do_I_show_a_link_to_create… I have found that msg in my local language file. but the change did not take efect. any idea why? other changes are compiled sucsesfuly into the DB. Pini

18?years, 8?months

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MediaWiki-l September 2005