Valid reasons for using MediaWiki on Windows in this way are either: * Your boss is making you do it, or * You want a fun and difficult technical challenge.
Or preferably both. If neither apply, you should probably look at the various ways of getting access to Linux, such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant http://aws.amazon.com/free/ http://www.hostgator.com/apps/wiki-hosting -- Tim Starling On 16/02/15 18:49, Brenton Horne wrote: > So how do I implement these changes on my PC? I am a noob when it comes to > MediaWiki and PHP, so simple step-by-step instructions would be much > appreciated. > > On 16 February 2015 at 16:13, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is >> >> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125573/ >> >> It doesn't look too hacky to me, and it was rebased just a few months >> ago. Considering who the author is, it probably works. Note that >> img_auth.php needs to be used. There is an article about img_auth.php >> here: >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorization >> >> On Bugzilla there are a lot of suggestions to use iconv() to convert >> to some random 8-bit character set, which doesn't seem like a great >> idea to me. >> >> I find it somewhat ironic that it's necessary to encode to ASCII on >> Windows, given that the Windows has been natively UCS-2/UTF-16 since >> the introduction of the Win32 API, whereas Linux has never had proper >> character set support. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> >> On 14/02/15 15:15, Arcane 21 wrote: >>> There is an extremely hacky fix that is not recommend somewhere on >>> Bugzilla/Phabricator, but otherwise, no. >>> >>> This issue does not affect Linux or Mac users, but is unsolvable on >>> Windows aside from that hacky fix (which is a pain to set up and >>> can corrupt the database if I recall right). >>> >>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:40:36 +1000 From: >>>> [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >>>> >>>> Yeah I'm running Windows. So I'm guessing there's no known way >>>> of overcoming this issue? >>>> >>>> On 14 February 2015 at 13:34, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Small correction to previous message: Windows. >>>>> >>>>> From what I understand, Windows based systems have trouble >>>>> parsing certain characters when MediaWiki is run on a WAMP >>>>> stack due to the Windows settings for saving filenames. >>>>> >>>>> From: [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file >>>>> names Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:32:58 -0600 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is your web stack on a Wnodws based system? If so, they have >>>>> known issues with special character file names. >>>>> >>>>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 From: >>>>>> [email protected] To: [email protected] >>>>>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my >>>>>> Wiki. For >>>>> example, >>>>>> currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters >>>>>> like alpha >>>>> and >>>>>> beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as >>>>>> my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my >>>>>> searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked >>>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780 >>>>> but >>>>>> I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to >>>>>> try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I >>>>>> searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the >>>>>> file with >>>>>> >>>>>>> if( $this->saveUploadedFile( >>>>>> >>>>>> in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that >>>>>> posted made >>>>> almost >>>>>> 8 years ago). >>>>>> >>>>>> I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after >>>>>> searching >>>>> for >>>>>> FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a >>>>>> MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to >>>>>> what I wanted. I also saw >>>>>> >>>>> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-file-name-issue >>>>>> >>>>> but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for your time, Brenton >>>>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
