[Mediawiki-l] when will convertUserOptions.php be run by update.php?

2009-05-11 Thread jidanni
When will convertUserOptions.php be run by update.php? I see newer users have their preferences stored in a different database table than older users. Will they be merged one day or just used in parallel forever? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

[Mediawiki-l] Category updates and templates (1.14)

2009-05-11 Thread John McC
I'm having a problem with categories that are template-updated. The templates are set to add a category at a certain number of days after the template on the page is updated, which should then be picked up by DPL to keep a to-do list up to date (it's supposed to track farm chores), but the

[Mediawiki-l] Propagating notes on Category pages to subcategories

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Hu
I'd like to have a parser extension that would copy specific text from a category page to all of its subcategories. I'm imagining that it would be something where there would be a tag to mark text to propagate below to all subcategories, sub-subcategories etc, and another set of tags that

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Announcing Easy Lucene Search for Mediawiki

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Hu
On May 8, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: IMHO, the #1 usability need is an interactive table editor. I wish we would have FCKeditor's table editor alone. We don't need the rest of FCKeditor's functionality, but the table editor is the best I've ever worked with on a web

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Announcing Easy Lucene Search for Mediawiki

2009-05-11 Thread Lane, Ryan
Ryan, could I have a brief overview of your config? I added this to the wiki discussion page, under one of your comments: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:EzMwLucene#service.sh_always_fa ils_.28with_FAIL.29 I changed stuff as to not fully disclose how my server is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Unable to make SVG's thumbnail

2009-05-11 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/10/09 10:58 PM, Aldo Latino escribió: Warning: passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in /path/to/home/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2131 The server admin, in fact, has disabled passthru(). I have always used this to render my SVGs: $wgSVGConverter = rsvg; What can

Re: [Mediawiki-l] when will convertUserOptions.php be run by update.php?

2009-05-11 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/10/09 11:01 PM, jida...@jidanni.org escribió: When will convertUserOptions.php be run by update.php? There's no particular reason to by default, since they're updated on demand and we try to avoid unnecessarily slow updater steps. Feel free to run it yourself if you want to do statistical

[Mediawiki-l] Authentication

2009-05-11 Thread Soriano, Melissa
Hi Mediawiki folks, I am trying to set up authentication for our existing wiki against an external database. I currently do this successfully for my subversion database using Apache's mod_auth_pam module. For our wiki, I would like to use a similar approach. I tried to use

[Mediawiki-l] Template:reflist on Wikipedia - how do I edit the content

2009-05-11 Thread Tim Ware
I have a client with a product that's on Wikipedia, absinthe, actually. They changed their website but under references there is an incorrect URL to the old site which they want changed. But I have no idea how to find the content that populates that reflist template. Does anybody know?

[Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia question re dealing with someone poisoning your entry

2009-05-11 Thread Tim Ware
Tim again. We have identified the offending user as Vapeur. My client, Le Tourment Vert, originally created the Wikipedia entry a year or so ago. Is there anything we can do other than set the page to watch and just undo this guy's changes whenever he puts them in? Thanks! Tim

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Authentication

2009-05-11 Thread Lane, Ryan
session_start(); if ((!empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) !empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])) || $_COOKIE['fpwiki_en_UserID']) { require_once($IP/extensions/HttpAuthPlugin.php); $wgAuth = new HttpAuthPlugin(); $wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] =

[Mediawiki-l] multiple errors in logs

2009-05-11 Thread Enrique
hello all i noticed many error in may /var/log/apache/error.log refering to /var/www/w file this file do no exist really, and this error is degrading my system response. [Mon May 11 11:28:39 2009] [error] [client 192.168.157.100] File does not exist: /var/www/w, referer:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Authentication

2009-05-11 Thread Soriano, Melissa
Hi Ryan, Thanks for your response! You were right. I changed my if statement in LocalSettings.php to: session_start(); if ((!empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) !empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'])) || $_COOKIE[$wgDBserver . UserID]) { require_once($IP/extensions/HttpAuthPlugin.php);

[Mediawiki-l] Random articles within a particular category

2009-05-11 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi, is it possible to generate random articles within a particular category? PM Poon ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l