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MediaWiki-l September 2008

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by Jim Hu

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables. Is there an advantage to using InnoDB tables? The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341 We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM. Any thoughts? ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

12?years, 5?months

Custom namespaces and discussion pages

by Snowolf

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've created some custom namespaced on one of my wikis, Botwiki (previously known as pywikipedia). I've put these lines in my LocalSettings.php file: - --- #Custom namespaces $wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "Manual", 101 => "Manual talk", 102 => "Python", 103 => "Python talk", 104 => "Php", 105 => "Php talk", 106 => "Perl", 107 => "Perl talk", 108 => "AWB", 109 => "AWB talk", 110 => "IRC", 111 => "IRC talk", 112 => "Other", 113 => "Other talk" ); $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110; $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112; - --- However, I have a big problem: when I go to a page in one of these new namespaces (not the discussion, the main ones), for example http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot , I found the red link to the discussion page. It's right, as there is no discussion page for that article. But if you click on it, it brings you to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… correct, of course. But have a look of the article and discussion tabs: they are both red! The first, "article", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Perl:Copyright_Violation_Bot and the second, "discussion", leads to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_… , when it should lead to http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/index.php?title=Perl_talk:Copyright_Violation_Bot&a… . It's the first time I deal with custom namespaces :-( but I have some ideas of what it can be. Can the problem be with the $wgContentNamespaces settings? So it detects everything as ns0? (don't think so). Or can it be the fact that I haven't used an underscore in the $wgExtraNamespaces definition? Snowolf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWhk7sdafW5NQMtERAuX+AKDQ7QLNjXv9cu+ZbSLXidMzgi/vNgCaA7VT +VTgR3iI/BI7FVDqcyRZVJ0= =a4yP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

13?years, 4?months

Moving lots pages to a different namespace?

by Mark London

I want to moving all pages in a certain namespace (about 60 pages) into the the "main" namespace. I couldn't find how to do this, so I tried exporting the pages and importing them and I ran into all sorts of problems. Is there a way to do what I want without using the import and export features (and without having to move each of them manually)? Thanks.

14?years, 8?months

How to make an intranet nomad Wikipedia like Wiki with Mediawiki

by Olivier

Hi, Cooperation-iws howto with mediawiki is available here: http://cooperation-iws.gensys-net.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=howto_make_your_own_i… Cooperation-iws is a Live Operating system that offers web services of web applications like mediawiki. Demo CD /DVD as well as debian package or sources live-scripts are available here: http://cooperation-iws.gensys-net.eu Cheers, Oliv

15?years, 6?months

Upgrading from 1.4 to 1.10

by Rick Blair

After the upgrade I get this error Database error A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "MessageCache::loadFromDB". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'wikidb.text' doesn't exist (localhost)". Here is the output from the update.php script # php maintenance/update.php MediaWiki 1.10.4 Updater Going to run database updates for wikidb Depending on the size of your database this may take a while! Abort with control-c in the next five seconds...0 ...hitcounter table already exists. ...querycache table already exists. ...objectcache table already exists. ...categorylinks table already exists. ...logging table already exists. ...user_newtalk table already exists. ...transcache table already exists. ...trackbacks table already exists. ...externallinks table already exists. ...job table already exists. ...langlinks table already exists. ...querycache_info table already exists. ...filearchive table already exists. ...querycachetwo table already exists. ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table. ...have rc_type field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_id field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_old_len field in recentchanges table. ...have user_real_name field in user table. ...have user_token field in user table. ...have user_email_token field in user table. ...have user_registration field in user table. ...have log_params field in logging table. ...have ar_rev_id field in archive table. ...have ar_text_id field in archive table. ...have page_len field in page table. ...have rev_deleted field in revision table. ...have img_width field in image table. ...have img_metadata field in image table. ...have img_media_type field in image table. ...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table. ...have iw_trans field in interwiki table. ...have ipb_range_start field in ipblocks table. ...have ss_images field in site_stats table. ...have ipb_anon_only field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_enable_autoblock field in ipblocks table. ...have user_newpass_time field in user table. ...have user_editcount field in user table. ...have rc_deleted field in recentchanges table. ...have log_id field in logging table. ...have log_deleted field in logging table. ...have ar_deleted field in archive table. ...have ipb_deleted field in ipblocks table. ...have fa_deleted field in filearchive table. ...have rev_len field in revision table. ...have ar_len field in archive table. ...have rev_parent_id field in revision table. ...have pr_id field in page_restrictions table. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards Already have pagelinks; skipping old links table updates. ...image primary key already set. The watchlist table is already set up for email notification. ...watchlist talk page rows already present ...user table does not contain old email authentication field. Logging table has correct title encoding. ...page table already exists. revision timestamp indexes already up to 2005-03-13 ...rev_text_id already in place. ...page_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...ar_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...rc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...wl_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...qc_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...log_namespace is already a full int (int(11)). ...already have pagelinks table. ...templatelinks table already exists No img_type field in image table; Good. Already have unique user_name index. ...user_groups table already exists. ...user_groups is in current format. ...wl_notificationtimestamp is already nullable. ...timestamp key on logging already exists. Setting page_random to a random value on rows where it equals 0...changed 0 rows Checking for additional recent changes indices... ...index on ( rc_namespace, rc_user_text ) seems to be ok ...index on ( rc_user_text, rc_timestamp ) seems to be ok ...redirect table already exists. Checking for backlinking indices... Checking if pagelinks index pl_namespace includes field pl_from... ...index pl_namespace on table pagelinks seems to be ok Checking if templatelinks index tl_namespace includes field tl_from... ...index tl_namespace on table templatelinks seems to be ok Checking if imagelinks index il_to includes field il_from... ...index il_to on table imagelinks seems to be ok ...page_restrictions table already exists. Deleting old default messages (this may take a long time!)...Done Checking site_stats row...ok. Purging caches...done. Done. Here is my wikidb: show tables -> ; +-------------------+ | Tables_in_wikidb | +-------------------+ | archive | | blobs | | brokenlinks | | categorylinks | | cur | | externallinks | | filearchive | | hitcounter | | image | | imagelinks | | interwiki | | ipblocks | | ipblocks_old | | job | | langlinks | | links | | linkscc | | logging | | math | | objectcache | | old | | oldimage | | page | | page_restrictions | | pagelinks | | querycache | | querycache_info | | querycachetwo | | recentchanges | | redirect | | revision | | searchindex | | site_stats | | templatelinks | | trackbacks | | transcache | | user | | user_groups | | user_newtalk | | user_rights | | validate | | watchlist | +-------------------+ Rick Blair Web Services Systems Engineer USFW 303.202.2687

15?years, 7?months

Lost EDITING new page

by Dave Sigafoos

Version Info * MediaWiki < http://www.mediawiki.org/ > : 1.10.0 * PHP < http://www.php.net/ > : 5.2.0-8+etch11 (apache2handler) * MySQL < http://www.mysql.com/ > : 5.0.32-Debian_7etch6-log In the last week we have somehow lost the ability to 'edit' a new page. You can go to a page and edit the whole page or a section of the page. But If you enter "FOOBAR PAGE" in the search then click on edit new page you will get a blank page with no header/footer .. nothing (guess that is what 'blank' means) Has anyone seen this before? Ideas on what could change in a system (outside of mediawiki) to do this? tia DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com

15?years, 8?months

Delete single revisions from database

by Georg Jaehnig

Hello, some spammers made my "text" table explode, its size is now 170 MB, many rows with 2 MB. I've already deleted the spam revisions in the wiki with deleting the page and restoring only spam-free revisions (as described on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators#Deletion ). But the spam rows are still in the "text" table. Is it safe to delete them manually? I'm using Mediawiki 1.12.0. -- Georg | http://serchilo.net - command the web

15?years, 8?months

autoAuthenticate to UserLoadFromSession issues

by Michael B Allen

I'm trying to modify my extension to account for the autoAuthenticate -> UserLoadFromSession change (moving SpecialUserlogin.php out of the include path was also a surprise). The problem is user info in the upper right nav, for the front page only, does not update when I create a LoginForm and do initUser in the UserLoadFromSession handler. What do I have to do to tell the front page that the user's identity has changed? Has anything else has changed WRT non-username/password authentication? Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Active Directory SPNEGO SSO http://www.ioplex.com/

15?years, 8?months

wikipedia link into my wiki

by Alessandra

Hi all, I would like linked many words about my wiki to wikipedia pages. Now, I use [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SomeThing something] but I would like use [[w:SomeThing|something]] is it possible? can you help me about it? -- Alessandra Bilardi, Ph. D. ---- CRIBI, University of Padova, Italy http://www.linkedin.com/in/bilardi ---- La semplicita e la piu alta forma di perfezione (Leonardo Da Vinci) Keep simple, stupid (KISS, IT) ----

15?years, 8?months

SpamBlacklist does not keep spambot away

by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen

I have one or more spambots that keep coming back on a specific page, you can see it in action here: http://www.whatleadership.us/wiki/Special:Recentchanges (this is a test set up - the site is not ready for visitors yet) Tried to install SpamBlacklist. Used the simple setup suggested for localsettings.php (without including array). Did not get it to work. Also tried to protect the page with no result. The SpamBlacklist extension's talk page has old discussions about it not working, no apparent solution at hand. Any hints? kassoe

15?years, 8?months

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MediaWiki-l September 2008