[MediaWiki-l] Don't forgot: only 4 more days to become eligible to vote in Board elections

2022-07-01 Thread K. Peachey
Hi all, Just a small reminder for any developers that they only have 4 more days to become eligible to vote in the 2022 WMF Board of Trustees election. Developers can confirm their eligibility by reviewing the below list: * are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access * or have made at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Syntax Highlighter question

2020-10-11 Thread K. Peachey
SyntaxHighlight changed rendering libraries from Geshi a few years ago to Pygments. Information on how to write custom lexers (custom language highlighters) in Pygments can be found here: https://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/ On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 13:58, John wrote: > I am assisting in

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Required rebuildAll.php run

2020-03-05 Thread K. Peachey
What type of script is it? How does it create the pages? API? Direct db edits? On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 8:58 pm Sebastian Trueg, wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am running a script which periodically generates a lot of Wiki pages > which are all categorized via a [[Category:XXX]] statement. > > Every

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing: Professional.Wiki

2019-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
Continuing this is unrelated to the list thread, if you would like to continue this discussion, please create a new thread with a descriptive subject relating to your email. On Thu, 9 May 2019, 3:57 pm Pine W, wrote: > The mailing list description says that the permitted types of announcements

Re: [MediaWiki-l] non-server side wiki dumps

2019-03-16 Thread K. Peachey
There is also MWOffliner which might work you, which is maintained by the kiwix team iirc. On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 00:04, Isarra Yos wrote: > > Not exactly the same thing, but there is a set of grabber scripts > designed to get and import an entire wiki via the api, but these are > currently

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Help needed with CentralAuth

2018-11-15 Thread K. Peachey
Hi Huji, If they are fresh wikis, Try having a look at doing a Shared Database setup[1], compared to centralauth. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Shared_database On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 12:05, Huji Lee wrote: > > Admittedly, I never learned how to properly set up and configure >

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Limited External Mirror

2017-12-30 Thread K. Peachey
You could try DumpHTML and then have a chron task to copy the selected outputs to a area where areas can access them On 30 December 2017 at 09:40, Bryan Hilderbrand wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for all the responses. I suppose I'll try the Collection extension > for now

Re: [MediaWiki-l] The [Maniphest] [Created] emails

2017-09-20 Thread K. Peachey
. > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:29 PM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Phabricator isn't broken, gmail will group based on the first email > > (or when it splits the thread at 100? emails) so it re-uses the same > > subject heading in the display. > &g

Re: [MediaWiki-l] The [Maniphest] [Created] emails

2017-09-19 Thread K. Peachey
Phabricator isn't broken, gmail will group based on the first email (or when it splits the thread at 100? emails) so it re-uses the same subject heading in the display. The easiest fix is to disable "Vary Subjects" which can be found in your Phab settings under Email format then it will email

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

2017-04-03 Thread K. Peachey
On 4 April 2017 at 05:43, Jasmine Smith wrote: > Question, will the 'new features' mainly benefit the wider MediaWiki > community or the wikimedia foundation? > > Are site owners able to request features? > > Jasmine. Site owners have always been able to suggest new

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Using a hook to change the logo

2017-01-17 Thread K. Peachey
You can set a blank logo, then use [[Mediawiki:Group-user.css]] to overwrite the displayed logo. On 18 January 2017 at 13:59, Jean Valjean wrote: > I have a super-secret wiki. Therefore, I want to set up my wiki so that > when a user is logged in, the logo will

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Embed audio files: {{listen}} declaration and creation of Module:Listen page

2017-01-12 Thread K. Peachey
You will need E:TimedMediaHandler as well to actually handle the audio (and/or video) files so they can be played. On 12 January 2017 at 19:34, David Carrasco de Busturia wrote: > Hello, > > I have

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Username collisions when merging domains?

2017-01-07 Thread K. Peachey
Honestly, I would deal with this above MediaWiki, because otherwise you will end up with maintenance work going forward, in addition to possibly having to repeat this for other business areas going forward. Easiest way is to get them into a central AD, Domain Trusts will probably be the easiest

Re: [MediaWiki-l] accessing page views for articles on MW1.26

2016-09-13 Thread K. Peachey
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters is the extension you need. On 14 September 2016 at 00:00, Andrew Geary wrote: > Is there a way to obtain the page views for articles on MW1.26? In the > previous versions, the page views would be listed on the bottom of the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Localisation fallback between Slovak and Czech languages

2016-08-21 Thread K. Peachey
On 22 August 2016 at 03:17, Sébastien Santoro wrote: > … > If you don't have a Phabricator account, you can use e-mail and I'll > forward your opinion. Everyone has a account on Phabricator if they have a account on the Wikis. (On the login screen, hit the Mediawiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Cargo] Submitting a patch?

2015-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
Have you added your public key in Gerrit? ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/ssh-keys) On 6 December 2015 at 18:01, Ed wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small patch to submit. I got dev access. However, I'm getting a > "Permission denied (publickey)" error when

Re: [MediaWiki-l] how to make mediawiki make TOC with less than 4 sections ?

2015-10-15 Thread K. Peachey
There should probably be a bug raised in Phab about this. On 16 October 2015 at 03:25, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On 2015-10-14 16:44, shirish wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> A temporary way to generate Table of Contents (TOC) is to write >> __FORCETOC__ or _TOC_ before starting

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Wanted messages

2015-07-25 Thread K. Peachey
[[Special:AllMessages]] On 25 July 2015 at 20:40, Ad Strack van Schijndel ad.strackvanschijn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to get a list of messages that are used in the wiki, for example with {{int: a-message }} but that don't have a message defined for it? Thanks! Ad

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Word document saving as MediaWiki.txt file

2015-06-17 Thread K. Peachey
Which plugin? On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Vinodini Arya vinodinia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Need help for resolving below issue. I started using MS word plugin for MediaWiki by using - file save as step. Q1. This was successful for few small word documents but failed for 2 documents

Re: [MediaWiki-l] script for SQLite installation

2014-10-22 Thread K. Peachey
Is there any reason you can't use the pre-existing install methods? On 23 October 2014 03:08, JFC Morfin jef...@jefsey.com wrote: I wish to write a complete script set to install and manage small specialized wikis under SQLite and using the same MediaWiki code. I know how to create the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] installation help sought

2014-08-10 Thread K. Peachey
Why can't you install it via the web installer? Can you post what the script path setting is in your local settings file? On Monday, August 11, 2014, Greg Bennett greg.t.benn...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Have used MediaWiki for years at work, but have never had to install it before. So

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Please remove me from your mail list

2014-07-07 Thread K. Peachey
Albert, Heather requested that herself be unsubscribed from the mailing list. They just forwarded a message and changed the subject to accomplish that. On 8 July 2014 03:02, Albert Coder eralbert9...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Maybe at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] (Praise) Lower CPU usage for 1.23

2014-06-26 Thread K. Peachey
On 26 June 2014 22:43, Tommy Heyser tommy.hey...@gmail.com wrote: Wait until you get to 1.24. I had to revert back to 1.23. Tommy Heyser Have you filed a bug for this? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Older patches for 1.19?

2014-03-02 Thread K. Peachey
There is a open bug about their missing state iirc. On 2 March 2014 21:12, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 01/03/2014 12:45, David Gerard a écrit : I have discovered to my horror that I'm responsible for a MediaWiki that's at 1.19.4. Obviously, I want to bring it up to 1.19.12.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] fixing custom skins based on Vector?

2014-01-11 Thread K. Peachey
Have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial as a starting point. On 12 January 2014 01:06, Bill Traynor btray...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've inherited a custom skin based on Vector from MW 1.16. Using it with 1.22 causes the left sideBar navigation to

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Failed: run MySQL on a different port

2014-01-04 Thread K. Peachey
Can you guys please make sure bugs are filed in our bugtracker about these issues, it can be found at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org to get the widest set of eyes looking at them. On 4 January 2014 19:18, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi everybody, I had another problem with Mediawiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Patch files for 1.22 release

2013-12-23 Thread K. Peachey
There is a bug opened and assigned to Hex about this already. On 23 December 2013 19:46, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Hah, David Gerard has not asked yet! Can we have patch files? https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual: Upgradingcurid=8407diff=847810oldid=847658

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Links to Filesystem not work after Update

2013-12-11 Thread K. Peachey
Check the Extension is loading by visiting [[Special:Version]]. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Ramm Thomas thomas.r...@manserv.de wrote: Hi, I have updated my Intranet Wiki from Version 1.19 to Version 1.21. After Update links in Mediawiki to Intranet Filesystem doesn’t work. For example

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

2013-12-05 Thread K. Peachey
Bad idea [to package/install],… Is what I believe beta was saying Tyler. On Friday, December 6, 2013, Tyler Romeo wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: VE is a BAD idea, its full of holes and bugs Those are two separate concepts. Just

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Page Protect button/tab is missing

2013-12-02 Thread K. Peachey
You need to be logged into a account with the appropriate user rights, By default Sysops will have these rights. You can check what group a account is in at [[Special:UserRights]] On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM, John W. Foster jfoster81...@gmail.comwrote: Like it says, my Page protection

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is there a a way to mass create category pages for wanted categories

2013-11-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Geth N7 infiltrato...@gmail.com wrote: From what I understand, a category doesn't exist until the page for the category is edited, so even if there are categories listed on a page, unless those categories have been created, they do not actually exist until

Re: [MediaWiki-l] extension matrix bot

2013-10-14 Thread K. Peachey
there should be the stats on pageviews have you considered a labs instance for it? On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.eduwrote: Hi all, I wrote the extension matrix bot. However, I no longer rely on it and the web server it is hosted on was upgraded,

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Import Content to Mediawiki

2013-10-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am migrating a site to mediawiki. All the articles are stored in separate files and i also have some related images. For converting the HTML and importing to my mediawiki site i am using the MwImporter

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki virtual file system. Call for feedback.

2013-09-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.cawrote: No I do't. It's some sans-serif. (in Chrome 29.0.1547.76 same as Safari 5.1.10. Firefox ... Good Lord! you are right. MacOS 10.6.8) a third advantage that comes to mind is using alt-drag for block text selections

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki virtual file system. Call for feedback.

2013-09-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Boris Steipe boris.ste...@utoronto.cawrote: Find/replace would be one. Working in a fixed-width font another ... B. You should already have a fixed width font by default in our edit windows... (unless you are using a language setting that ULS currently breaks)

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Spam!

2013-09-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Sanders ivansand...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent - sometimes I get notifications, other times I don't URL is at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Spam!

2013-09-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Sanders ivansand...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I thought I had this sorted, but I clearly dont. I have new users being created and content uploaded. Email seems to be intermittent - sometimes I get notifications, other times I don't URL is at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Have released a modified version of the Monaco skin

2013-09-14 Thread K. Peachey
Is there any reason in particular you forked it instead of submitting patches? On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote: I have just finished making a fork of Daniel Friesen (Dantman's) port of the Monaco skin for anyone who likes using the skin but has found it has

Re: [MediaWiki-l] replicate a complete namespace from one wiki to others

2013-09-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: There is also pretty mature extension for that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Push - Yury Katkov, WikiVote Or we could work on getting that GSoC work finished from last year, since this seems to be

Re: [MediaWiki-l] LocalSettings.php file exactly as used on Wikipedia

2013-08-29 Thread K. Peachey
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/, You want CommonSettings.php and InitialiseSettings.php. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:54 PM, John W. Foster jfoster81...@gmail.comwrote: I want to see what is in the LocalSettings.php that runs Wikipedia. Surely there is a public copy somewhere. I wish to see why

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [API] Can't edit with API in custom namespace

2013-02-22 Thread K. Peachey
Is the API logged in as a user with permissions that cover editing the namespace? On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Al Johnson alj62...@yahoo.com wrote: I hope someone can help. I have a custom namespace. I can edit via API in the _main_ namespace, thus, my custom bot is logging in, getting

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I turn-off wiki exports?

2012-12-25 Thread K. Peachey
Even if you did this, Without checking I imagine it will require hacking at the core since I doubt we already have a config switch for this, People can still scrape the page or grab it via the API... As long as the person can see the page, they will be able to copy it... On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at

Re: [MediaWiki-l] rewriting old MediaWiki skins

2012-11-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what's the usual procedure with backporting things; maybe it could be landed in 1.20.1 or something. -- Matma Rex / Bartosz Dziewoński We tend to not back-port unless its to fix [major] breakage.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] What to do with an overstressed server?

2012-10-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: We live on a 4GB Linode. I don't have a full handle on what we've got on it - it's accreted in an ad-hoc fashion with some horrible bodges - but there's several MediaWikis, only one of which (rationalwiki.org) has any

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Bug in v1.18.3

2012-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Bertrand Caplet bertrand.cap...@okira.net wrote: Hi, I wanted to inform you that there is a bug in 1.18.3 on login page.. You might already know that. I installed v1.19 and no bug. Descriptive bug report is descriptive. Also bugs should be filed in our

Re: [Mediawiki-l] wiki auxiliary: for files you cannot upload to Mediawiki

2012-03-30 Thread K. Peachey
Just set your wiki to support uploading the file types you want? While yes, we are a bit strict out of the box, these settings can be altered to allowed whatever you desired to be uploaded. We have better office format support in the 1.18.X (or was that back in 1.17.X?) releases as well iirc

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extension used in WikiMedia's fundraising drive

2012-03-15 Thread K. Peachey
That would be the CentralNotice[1] extension. although, If it just a single wiki you can just use a SiteNotice[2]. [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralNotice [2]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sitenotice ___

Re: [Mediawiki-l] After Upgrade to 1.18 - every page blocked

2012-02-25 Thread K. Peachey
Did you update all your extensions when you updated the install [to 1.18]? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] An Administration Page

2012-02-05 Thread K. Peachey
Chad (^demon) did do some work to start supporting a DB based config setup, although I don't believe he had the time to really work on that so it has stagnated (If anyone else wants to pick it up and do some work on it) ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we/the mentors could get them working on a easy bug or two at first, just to ease them into the MediaWiki world. Perhaps if there are any closely related to the projects they choose to work on. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] User migration

2011-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: Tried that, it broke the wiki.  Some pages wouldn't come up at all, just a blank web browser window.  That's why I exported all the pages from the old wiki/server to the new wiki/server.  My

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [MediaWiki-l] Skin-Synagonism

2011-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Kaseluris-Nikos-1959 kaseluris.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Please, If commiters are interesting in my skin's functionality, docode review and commit my skin for me. Reporting bugs to me, I'll do my best. Have you considered apply for commit access[0] yourself? That

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Memory Leak Issue

2011-12-06 Thread K. Peachey
Turn off your extensions one by one and see if it still happening? Also apart from ExternalData what other extensions are you running? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Magic words for user rights?

2011-11-26 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think there is anything currently like that implemented in ParserFunctions due to caching issues that would arise from that I believe. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Why Facebook and others can't see a wiki's most important image

2011-07-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Ha Ha, Ha Ha, told you so *for years*. Now when anybody quotes a MediaWiki article on Facebook, there is a 95% chance it will look bad... serves you all right! Plus (Google+? Dare not also test it there to see what happens), it is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Handling MIME detection for .docx and friends

2011-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandol...@esri.com wrote: Apologies for replying to my own post, but it looks like this may have been addressed[1] although the modified code is certainly not present in my 1.16 version (perhaps this fix is only in 1.17+?). Ray Yes, there was

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar Customization

2011-04-08 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Henny Savenije webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr wrote: Thanks, but I couldn't find the UsabilityInitiative extension. I mean when I downloaded that one there was only a readme file. I've fixed the download link at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any ideas why $wgReadOnly doesn't work ?

2011-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote: I'm not the most experienced here but I assume $wgReadOnly would require a TRUE/FALSE argument rather than a text string. No it takes a string so it can display the reason. Did you try to save a page edit whilst read

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Need Liquid Threads help

2010-12-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Evelyn Yoder eyo...@gmail.com wrote: So far, so good - we installed Liquid Threads successfully. From a Talk/Discussion page, I can add a thread, so that is working as expected. What I'd like to do is set up a page like this

Re: [Mediawiki-l] What extension is used in the Support Desk page?

2010-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[Mediawiki-l] Hi! I'm a extension, And I would like some documentation please.

2010-12-05 Thread K. Peachey
The following list of 98 extensions are extensions that have no documentation on wiki based on their SVN name (The name of the directory), If you notice one of yours on there or feel like getting your hands dirty please document it. I'm not going to hunt anyone down over these, Because I'm just

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Hi! I'm a extension, And I would like some documentation please.

2010-12-05 Thread K. Peachey
And that link should be http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peachey88/Sandbox/SVNext , the other one is the list of extensions in WMF deployment. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Options for adding Terms and Conditions upon account creation

2010-12-02 Thread K. Peachey
The ConfirmAccount extension[1] can handle displaying TOS pages as well as a few other nifty things. -Peachey [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Overwrite Images with no user accounts

2010-12-02 Thread K. Peachey
You will be wanting to look at the reupload and reupload-own user rights[1]. -Peachey [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Userrights ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Mediawiki-l] Google's New Meta-Tags For News Story Authors

2010-11-28 Thread K. Peachey
Vis slashdot: Google's New Meta-Tags For News Story Authors Source: http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=viewtype=storysid=10/11/27/0117252 Some of these might be useful for some of the wmf sites such as wikinews if someone designed a extension to inject them into the page.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] deleting an account and rollingback all edits and new pages...

2010-11-24 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Hmmm  Perhaps my skin doesn't allow it.  I put it in as Special:MyPage/common.js, but it created User:Benfell/common.js and I don't see the mass rollback tab. Thanks! In 1.16.0 there are no user common pages

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Escaping highlighting tags

2010-11-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Because it is a function tag instead of a parser function. {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|{{{1}}} }} would do it, but I'm not sure if lang=cmake can be provided that way. Yes, {{#tag:source|{{{2}}}|lang={{{1}. Revelant bug

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade Question

2010-10-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Christopher Eicher pred...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately it will be a moot point now the upgrade installer the company i'm with kinda...screwed up. Even though I had a small backup area of the 1.6.5 wiki files and backed up the wiki database prior to upgrading

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Go doesn't search for article title first

2010-10-18 Thread K. Peachey
When searching for something, if its in another namespace that is set to be searched by default, it will find it (eg: searching for Images, and you have a page by that name in another NS such as help) and will list it as the first result but it won't auto redirect to the pae if that is what you're

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users rights and importing users

2010-10-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Jim Hu ji...@tamu.edu wrote: Hi Andre, Looking at the code, the error is due to a weird kludge I did for MW1.13. I need to decide whether I still need to support the older versions and do some testing, but in the meantime, could you check to see if this

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread K. Peachey
What is the languages comittee view on this since they approve new wikis they should also have a hand in deleteions/closures. -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Renaming Wikisysop -- Bad idea?

2010-10-03 Thread K. Peachey
Only if there are contribs belonging to that user. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Renaming Wikisysop -- Bad idea?

2010-10-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Support Simpsonspedia supp...@simpsonspedia.net wrote: ?why? you should delete the entry/line NOT the table or the database if you don't know how a database works (i.e. the basics) - don't try to change anything on the database Because mediawiki uses a very

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books

2010-09-12 Thread K. Peachey
Eww, Use [[special:export]] and [[special:import]] instead of copying pasting... -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Quoting code with line numbers

2010-08-12 Thread K. Peachey
Try the SyntaxHighlight (Geshi) extension, It does that and syntax highlighting (if the name didn't give it away). ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How long is an InstantCommons failure cached?

2010-07-31 Thread K. Peachey
InstantCommons[1] which is just a shortcut for ForeignFilesRepo[2] was introduced in 1.16.0[1] where as FFR has been around since 1.11.0[2]. Which means it would be manually configured since you mention 1.14.x, If the person used the default settings we show it should be set for 12 hours. The

Re: [Mediawiki-l] lsearchd daemon quitting when I close terminal.

2010-07-27 Thread K. Peachey
Run it in screen ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Registration by Admin

2010-07-25 Thread K. Peachey
[[Special:CreateAccount]] (Any user can use that, unless you take away the rights to create accounts) -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Protected Area and perl extension

2010-07-13 Thread K. Peachey
perhaps just use a iframe evil / to display your otrs session inside the wiki? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable new features of MW 1.16?

2010-07-03 Thread K. Peachey
You would be looking for: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsabilityInitiative ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logging in

2010-05-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:40 AM, OQ overlo...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it did this already? No, it offers a link to where you were. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Direct Redirect to login page?

2010-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead Whitelist your main page or the like. -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Email Extensions - New Page Creation Emailing to all wiki user

2010-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: nevio carlos de alarcão wrote: SELECT user_email FROM user WHERE user_email != ''; rss it doesn't ring a bell rss. Thank you very much, though. You would run that SQL statement on the wiki database with your favourite

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Resolving or fixing Wiki page names with a leading colon or invalid namespaces?

2010-03-29 Thread K. Peachey
Try running /maintance/namespaceDupes.php. -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Capital Letters in navigation etc.

2010-03-10 Thread K. Peachey
They are most likely over riding the defaults using css in either [[Mediawiki:Common.css]] or [[Mediawiki:SKIN-NAME.css]] (example: [[Mediawiki:Monobook.css]]) for the capitalization rules. -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] list interwiki/interlanguage links?

2010-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: I would like to use the opportunity to suggest that such a SpecialPage as in [1] becomes part of MediaWiki and all Wikipedias implementations. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki The Interwiki feature

Re: [Mediawiki-l] list interwiki/interlanguage links?

2010-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 March 2010 01:36, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: The Interwiki feature isn't really enabled used in default MW installations. Are you sure about that? I thought that's how doing [[wikipedia:foo

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to get logged-in user?

2009-11-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: Are you using any sort of cahceing, because that would just plain break it? -Peachey ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade from 1.10 on Ubuntu to 1.15 on CentOS

2009-10-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Richards matthew.richa...@contentkeeper.com wrote: Hi All, My Ubuntu server running mediawiki 1.10 died and I am moving to mediawiki 1.15 on CentOS. Both installations use mysql. I have temporarily resurrected my 1.10 install so that I can recover the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] import mediawiki markup using a script

2009-09-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Wieger Wesselink wie...@operamail.com wrote: Is it possible to import generated mediawiki markup using a script, instead of manually having to cut and paste it? Perhaps there is a maintenance script that does this, but I couldn't figure out which one. It

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Header Tabs Extension

2009-09-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 PM, David Price david.pr...@austinsmithlord.com wrote: Dear All, We are using the Header Tab extension which is causing major frustration to our users.  When edits are made to a particular tab, previewed and saved.   The page then returns back to the first header

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Special:Statistics and wikiFactor.

2009-08-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chadinnocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't seem to be a terribly useful metric to put in core. -Chad Maybe a extension for the wikifactor stuff that hooks into stats page without editing the code? -Peachey ___

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Database error msg?

2009-07-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Lyndie Chioulyn...@researchpipeline.com wrote: After much finagling I ran the update script (I don't have command-line access so I had to set up a cron job). My wiki works again! Thanks for the tip - I guess I have to run the update script from now on instead of

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Template Nesting

2009-06-15 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack D. Pondjack.p...@psitex.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUM I was unaware this topic had been addressed.  Whether or not I agree with the discussion, I certainly do not want to reopen old wounds.  Obviously the correct approach would be

Re: [Mediawiki-l] [PATCH] anonymous editing

2009-05-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Hanno Böck ha...@hboeck.de wrote: Sounds good, see attachment. You can't send attachments to the mailing list. If i have opened a bugzilla report (#18981) [1], please attach the patch to that bug report following the standard [2]. [1].

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Enabling the Common.js feature

2009-05-23 Thread K. Peachey
All pages within the Mediawiki: namespace are automatically full protected [hard so they can't be unprotected], so only users with sysop/admin rights on the wiki would be able to edit it. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Logon security for MW

2009-05-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Mike Maughan m...@maughan.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'd like to set up security on a MW site so that:   - the world can see the main page   - only logged-on users can go further   - users have to be approved before gaining initial access Failing this, all

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Permissions in Mediawiki v. 1.17

2009-04-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tim Ware t...@hyperarts.com wrote: Where can I view a good resource on setting permissions in MW v.1.17? I'd like to somehow set them by category, if that seems the best way. Thanks. Tim You might want to check that version number again at

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikipedia robots

2009-03-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Katalin Orosz katalin.or...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, We tried to filter the list of Wikipedia page editors (obtained from the page histories) to be able to get the list of nonrobot contributors. As we realized, the first one of the following links with the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] featured articles date of promotion

2009-03-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Katalin Orosz katalin.or...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, We would need the date of promotion for some featured articles promoted in 2006. As we noticed, in featured logs from 2006 the exact date of promotion is not shown like for example in the logs from 2007

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