Re: [Mediawiki-l] Restricted characters in Mediawiki filenames

2009-01-09 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Linda Rose l...@qad.com wrote: I'm using ePublisher to convert Framemaker source files to MediaWiki output. The output files are named based on the heading text where the files are mapped to a new file. I'm finding that certain characters in the headings,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Redirect

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin Lees
Alias /index.php /var/www/w/index.php On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Philip Beach beachboy4...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks, that works. But what if someone were to type mysite.com/pagename, that won't redirect them to mysite.com/wiki/pagename. Do you know how to do that? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site errors caused by load?

2009-01-31 Thread Benjamin Lees
Assuming you have Wikimedia-style URLs: User-agent: * Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /wiki/Special:Search Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random Your server will be able to handle a lot more if you set up as much caching as you can http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache. No sense letting all that spare RAM

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site errors caused by load?

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
off google (if it were wrong). Is there some way to validate it in the context of my site? Thanks again On 2/1/09, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: TryUser-agent: * Disallow: /index.php Disallow: /skins/ Disallow: /Special:Search Disallow: /Special:Random Some other

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Searching finds obsolete pages

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
-_Configure_Incremental_Updates On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Linda Rose l...@qad.com wrote: Sorry. I meant the un-updated pages are appearing in the results of both the built-in search and the Sphinx Search. Thanks, Linda Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com Sent by: mediawiki-l-boun

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Host switched my FTP servers and now I can't connect to MW db.

2009-02-15 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Tim Ware t...@hyperarts.com wrote: Hello, I'm hosted at Dreamhost (and don't really recommend it). Sometime last night I got an email informing me that they'd switched me from one server to another (an emergency) and that everything'd be alright. Nope.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Site name questions

2009-03-20 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Philip Beach beachboy4...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like my wiki name, My Wiki, to be in the title bar, but I'd like the namespace to be mWiki. On my PC version, I've set $wgSitename to be mWiki, and I read somewhere on the MediaWiki site that you can have the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] http://graffiti.cs.brown.edu/info

2009-04-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com 2...@gmaskfx.com wrote: This morning I found three spam entries in my wiki. Looked suspiciously like previous encoded entries except they had the following at the top of the page. NOTICE: The data below is posted by a program which is part

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Does 1.14 need more memory? Or a exif problem?

2009-04-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Alejandro Exojo a...@disperso.net wrote: Hi. After upgrading to 1.14, I found a problem when previewing a page. The server reported this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in

Re: [Mediawiki-l] importImages.php out of memory (jailshell)?

2009-04-22 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: MediaWiki also sets a php.ini memory limit. Check LocalSettings and elsewhere LocalSettings.php comes with # ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );, but that's too large to be causing this problem, and it's commented out by

Re: [Mediawiki-l] importImages.php out of memory (jailshell)?

2009-04-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Daniel Barrett d...@vistaprint.com wrote: I threw an echo phpinfo() into the importImages.php script and got: memory_limit = 64M = 32M So I wonder if there's another memory limit imposed by jailshell along the lines of ulimit? ulimit -a says: core file

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

2009-05-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
One rather obvious point you could make is that $wgUseSiteJs is enabled by default (and on Wikimedia projects!); if it were a gaping security vulnerability, it would be disabled. Somebody could potentially do nasty things with JS, of course, but to do that he would need to have already

Re: [Mediawiki-l] (no subject)

2009-05-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Henny Savenije webmas...@henny-savenije.pe.kr wrote: I installed a wiki for my son and since he's crazy about math, I tried to install the math extension. I followed the instructions * Change to the math sub-directory of your MediaWiki install * Run

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Blocking/Allowing IP ranges

2009-06-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Tony Molloy tony.mol...@ul.ie wrote: Hi, I've just set up a mediawiki site and everything went ok. I've set up both a test and production server. Before bringing the production server online I'd like to restrict access to a group of IP addresses at least

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installing 1.15 InnoDB = MYISAM...?

2009-06-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I tried to make a fresh install of MW 1.15rc1 on an empty InnoDB (latin1_swedish_ci) database, but to my surprise I see only MYISAM tables in the resulting database after the setup (see below). either you

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installing 1.15 InnoDB = MYISAM...?

2009-06-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't the installer complain if it has to use a different storage engine from the one selected? Lots of people would get complaints then. Lots of hosting providers don't have InnoDB enabled (for various

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Strange MediaWiki Session Problems

2009-06-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
Mark, by chance, did you select Remember my login on this computer when logging in, and Curt, did you not? On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mark (Markie) newsmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Well it works for me here, so I'd guess it is your local setup. Check you have cookies enabled on your

Re: [Mediawiki-l] logo oddity

2009-06-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Martin Smith marti...@gn.apc.org wrote: I have set up a test server and yesterday installed 1.15.0 and got it up and running, no problem there. However I have added a logo $wgLogo = images/courgette.png the logo is the right size, again no problem but on

Re: [Mediawiki-l] logo oddity

2009-06-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Martin Smith marti...@gn.apc.org wrote: Benjamin Lees wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Martin Smith marti...@gn.apc.org wrote: I have set up a test server and yesterday installed 1.15.0 and got it up and running, no problem there. However I have

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cache strategy for a single small machine

2009-06-17 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Rolf Lampa [RIL] rolf.la...@rilnet.comwrote: Benjamin Lees wrote: File caching is definitely worth it ... fetching a page stored in the file cache was about 5 times faster than Memcached/eAccelerator. ... In any event, you still need the other cache

Re: [Mediawiki-l] dumpHTML.php failing to create a static dump in /tmp

2009-06-20 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have write permission to that folder? The folder is in /tmp - yes. All users have permissions in /tmp. The second output I printed

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Extremely slow import of pagelinks

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Rolf Lampa [RIL] rolf.la...@rilnet.comwrote: Hi all, I experience extremely slow import of pagelinks.sql (MYISAM). It's only about 13 000 000 rows of data so it shouldn't take many minutes. Now it takes hours. I noticed that time for inserts increase as the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Fatal error: Out of memory

2009-07-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On 7/2/09, Enrique enri...@banmet.cu wrote: I'm importing eswiki-pages-articles.xml with importdump.php scritp i trying many times and allways recive this error somes times refering to other include but always when reached the line 52600 (1.87 pages/sec 1.87 revs/sec) on progres.log line

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Block New Users

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Matthias Korn mat...@rockinchina.comwrote: Hi, can I block the creation of new user accounts based on a user name pattern (preferably REGPEXP or something similar) somehow? This is a targeted anti-spam measure. Try the Title Blacklist extension.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com 2...@gmaskfx.com wrote: I haven't had a chance to test it but doesn't the keyword blacklist block the usage of those words in usernames and userpages? Not unless you've installed and configured it. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com 2...@gmaskfx.com wrote: --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't had a chance to test it but doesn't the keyword blacklist block the usage of those words in usernames and userpages? Not unless you've

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Recent changes clean up extension?

2009-07-18 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Eric K ek79...@yahoo.com wrote: Suppose a vandal moves a page to an offensive name and I revert it back. Its still there in the Recent changes. Does any extension exist to clean that up or do I have to go into myPHPAdmin every time to do that?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

2009-07-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Esben Stienb...@esben-stien.name wrote: Angela bees...@gmail.com writes: FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these too. You mean a bot is able to bypass your FancyCaptchas?. Yes,

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

2009-08-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:12 AM, carl c...@ender.quim.ucm.es wrote: Dear MediaWiki developers, I am wondering if it is possible to add the value of the wikiFactor for a MediaWiki site to the Special:Statistics page? Unfortunately I have no php programming experience, so I am unable to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] : Security, Login and Files in Images directory

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Pierre Labrecque pierre.labrec...@live.cawrote: Now : if I copy this address and send it to a user that IS NOT loggued on the wiki, he's able to open the file. He have direct access to the file, without login to the wiki. This is MediaWiki's standard behavior.

[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: Job Opportunity: The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School

2009-10-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
This seems like it might be of interest to y'all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:29 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-boston] Fwd: Job Opportunity: The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School To: English

[Mediawiki-l] Default path settings

2009-10-23 Thread Benjamin Lees
Is there a reason a bunch of paths get set in Setup.php, rather than DefaultSettings.php? Or rather, is there any reason not to change this? Some problems I've seen with it: * It's confusing—people look up a variable like $wgStylePath in DefaultSettings.php only to find that it's false and

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Apache Errors after Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.15.1

2009-11-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Patricia Barden webmas...@prwatch.orgwrote: Hello: I recently did an upgrade from MediaWiki 1.8.2 to 1.15.1. I have a question post-upgrade that I'm hoping someone on the list can help me with. Since upgrading, Apache server has been throwing errors like:

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PHP Accelerator

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Patricia Barden webmas...@prwatch.orgwrote: Hi all: I recently upgraded our wiki from 1.8.2 to 1.15.1 and, since the upgrade, the site has been white-screening at various times. Our hosting provider suggested this morning that there may be a compatibility bug

Re: [Mediawiki-l] memory size exhausted while diff

2010-01-08 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have a problem with the following wiki page: http://www.oxidforge.org/wiki/index.php?title=Languages/Sloveniancurid=180diff=1035oldid=1034 It always throws an error message at me. I tried raising the PHP

Re: [Mediawiki-l] memory size exhausted while diff

2010-01-08 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@gmail.comwrote: HI, It always throws an error message at me. I tried raising the PHP limit to 128 MB and 60 seconds You haven't actually done so; your memory limit is ~34 MB. You may be unintentionally overriding it with an

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Setting up uploads (v1.12)

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Raymond Wan r@aist.go.jp wrote: Anything else I'm missing? Does the error: Upload file Upload warning Protected page give any indication whether it is a problem with Mediawiki's php settings or the directory structure/permissions. I haven't

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Reading contents from file to speed up development on localhost...

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Antonio Orlando an...@libero.it wrote: I'm trying to have a way to speed up development of the initial setup of my wiki before moving to the remote server. I mean, I want to do and see changes in a wiki page with *just* the following steps (not one more!):

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Sidebar protection..

2010-03-18 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Mike Hutchinson packetl...@ping.net.nzwrote: Our Wiki is running just fine. We are wondering, however, if it is possible to protect the Sidebar from being edited by anyone who is not an Admin or Bureaucrat.. We simply don't want our regular users to be able

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Performance Problems

2010-04-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Matthias Korn mat...@rockinchina.comwrote: We are on a shared web hoster. So caching is not really an option for now. To be frank, I was a little surprised to have that big of a performance impact with only 2000 visitors per day. Do you think that claim is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Best way to migrate from 1.6 to 1.15

2010-05-03 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Toshi Esumi em...@toshiesumi.com wrote: Or can anybody point me to a wiki page(s) where I can find the info I'm looking for? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] renaming mysql tables name

2010-05-20 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Riccardo Veraldi riccardo.vera...@cnaf.infn.it wrote: I wanted to ask if it is possible for me to change all the tables name into something more readable like the default mediawiki tables remoing the awful prefix: This is fine; don't forget to change

Re: [Mediawiki-l] SecurePages extension problem

2010-05-26 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.comwrote: I have installed the secure pages extension on my Wiki. Here's the extension: http://pluto.htu.tuwien.ac.at/devel_wiki/SecurePages And I get no error messages - but it seems to simply not work. Has anybody used

Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to Hide User List

2010-06-08 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Ross Xu rossxu...@yahoo.ca wrote: Thanks Platonides. The Lockdown extension seems not applying to the Special:ListUsers page. It works well with its example which is the Special:Export page. That's saying ... $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] = array('user');

Re: [Mediawiki-l] fck editor

2010-06-23 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, nevio carlos de alarcão nevinhoalar...@gmail.com wrote: On a recent discussion the only one argument against it to be employed was a trick on history pages wich would cause the loss of its edit history because the html code would make all page content new,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Difficulty with changing the alias in Ubuntu 10.04 with mediawiki

2010-06-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Vincent Baier (RIT Student) vjb4...@rit.edu wrote: Also, I have been trying to find this for some time, but is there any place where the ubuntu packages are ACTUALLY documented? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MediaWiki It's the package maintainers'

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Annoying File Upload Change in 1.16b3

2010-06-29 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Douglas Mason douglasma...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone else observed this? Any solutions? How did a broken system just get... brokener? I believe this was a regression in the security fix for 1.16b3. It was fixed in trunk in r68236, but it hasn't been backported

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Permissions Issue

2010-07-15 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Tolliver tolli...@dal.ca wrote: However, any users just in the Bureaucrat and or Sysop group doesn't have access to either of the four groups - unable to access any pages with the Namespaces outlined below. You haven't given bureaucrats or sysops access.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installation question

2010-07-16 Thread Benjamin Lees
You probably have both PHP 4.x and 5.x available, with PHP 4 serving as the default. See what happens when you visit config/index.php5 instead of config/index.php. If that makes it work, you can probably fix this by creating an .htaccess file containing something like AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is there one way to see the setting value of one config variable???

2010-07-21 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:30 AM, yihe.chen yih...@juliantec.info wrote: But NOW I haven't see anay exclamation marks at all even using another newly created user account to log in and edit. The patrolling features are limited to admins by default, so make sure you're logged in with your

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Update 1.14.0 to 1.15.4 queries

2010-07-25 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Lucas kilu...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: 1) my installation instructions said to place v1.14.0 in a version- related directory so it's in /var/www/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.14.0. Which instructions say that?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

2010-07-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Hiram Clawson hi...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend.  (version 1.13.0)  The attack evidently had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the authorized user email allowed to edit setting. Which

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Protect tab not working the way I expected

2010-08-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Michael Kingery (HL7) mking...@hl7.org wrote: No, I don't think it's not a wrong message, it's not working correctly. It is correctly telling me that the page is protected; the problem is that it's still letting me edit the page despite that. It should stop me

Re: [Mediawiki-l] installation issue with 1.16.0 - mysql user privilege

2010-08-04 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Have the privilege requirements for the database user privileges changed from 1.15 to 1.16 for installing mediawiki?  I did not see any mention of this in the release notes. Yes, it's in the release

Re: [Mediawiki-l] installation issue with 1.16.0 - mysql user privilege

2010-08-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sulli...@mail.nih.gov wrote: That bug (20634)is about having privilege to create tables. During my 1.16.0 installation tables were successfully created. It was granting the wiki database user ALL privilege that was the problem

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deadlocks on Recent changes when using Article::doEdit()

2010-08-06 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Jani Patokallio jpato...@iki.fi wrote: 2) If I set EDIT_SUPPRESS_RC for the edits, is there any way I can run the updates as a batch after the import job is finished? Yes: you can run the rebuildrecentchanges.php maintenance script.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] logging out after inactivity

2010-09-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, my installation of MediaWiki 1.16 logs me out after a certain time of inactivity, but I couldn't find out where to configure this. If I leave the window open for some minutes (15-30, I'd guess), and click on

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Links to special pages not working after 1.16 update

2010-09-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: I disabled mod_rewrite stuff in my Apache config file in case that was causing a problem. There might be more rewrite rules you forgot about: check for hidden .htaccess files in the wiki directory or the directory

Re: [Mediawiki-l] restricting file downloads

2010-09-12 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any mod_rewrite rule that requires MediaWiki authentication before offering file downloads (from the images directory), or an extension that does not let users download files directly, but rather uses a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade Question

2010-10-23 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Christopher Eicher pred...@gmail.com wrote: I would be upgrading from the media wiki 1.6 to 1.16 version. Make sure your host has PHP 5 (rather than PHP 4). What files would I need to backup on the database and once done do I need to reinsert those files into

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Upgrade Question

2010-10-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Christopher Eicher pred...@gmail.com wrote:  How would I backup the entire Wiki Directory? You should be able to use whichever method you used to upload the wiki files in the first place. That's probably your FTP client, if you have one, or else a file manager

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Searching a page

2010-11-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
You can limit the scope of a search using the prefix: operator. For example: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearchsearch=image+prefix%3ARelease+notes Unfortunately, I think you need Lucene-search for that functionality. If that's not an option, vanilla MediaWiki does let you

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PHP 5.2.x and ini_set( 'pcre.backtrack_limit', '2M' ); in LocalSettings.php

2010-11-09 Thread Benjamin Lees
Current versions of MediaWiki (1.16+) will actually check the memory limit on every pageview and raise it if it's below 50MB, by default. (The installer used to add an ini_set line in LocalSettings.php; see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMemoryLimit ). There shouldn't be any need to futz

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Update 1.16 and download image

2010-11-14 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Martine martine.bonis...@gennievre.net wrote: Warning! The upload directory (public) is not writable from the web server. Rather than give permission anyway, maybe there specific instructions? You need to make the /images directory writable by the web server.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cannot Disable RecentChanges Special Page

2010-11-21 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Tech Geek techgeek12...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Using Lockdown extension I added the following in my LocalSettings.php require_once( $IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php ); $wgSpecialPageLockdown['RecentChanges'] = array('sysop'); $wgSpecialPageLockdown['Export'] =

Re: [Mediawiki-l] So what about User Login?

2010-11-22 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Since I the the drupal authorization extension, I've been wanting to disable the User Login page on the wiki--I want people to log in securely through Drupal, which has modules that handle this well. So I assume

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

2010-11-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Good to know, but there's no documentation. How does one use it? Throw the code in Special:MyPage/common.js and you should see a mass rollback tab at the top of user pages and user contributions lists. Make sure

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

2010-11-24 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, 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. Did you empty your cache? Did you remember to set

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: I can not figure out how to get images to appear in an edited page.  According to the edit instructions, entering [[File:example.jpg|center|100px|caption]] should work, but I get just the word caption as a link to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-29 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: The search does not find the image file even though it is in the images directory.  When I try to upload the image file using Special:upload, I get this error message The upload directory (public) is missing and could not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Gary Roush grou...@earthlink.net wrote: Interesting that public is actually the images directory. Yeah, that's rather unhelpful behavior. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13812 (which I'm re-adding to my to-do list). $wgUploadPath = true; ///

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Basic help

2010-11-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
More precisely, chmod the images directory so that the webserver can write to it. (If you don't have access to chown or chgrp, then you will indeed have to chmod it to 777.) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, trueskew trues...@gmail.com wrote: chmod -R 777 images -Original Message-

Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to download stable version of plugin?

2010-12-05 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: There is, however, no link to download stable version, going along download links I can get latest snapshot, which is not what I want. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/LdapAuthentication has

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete user

2010-12-06 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: If they've never edited (including deleted edits), then it should be safe to delete them from the database, but you would have to do it manually as far as I know.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] subversion

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I was wondering about a script or something like a script I could run with a cronjob. I have /home/ww/trunk on my server and I keep there the mediawiki trunk version I keep that up to date by doing a manual

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Create a new group and add users to it?

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Tech Geek techgeek12...@gmail.com wrote: Now I would like to create a new group called managers and add few users (for example john, tim and rick) to that group. How do I do this? You create a group by assigning a right to it with $wgGroupPermissions. You add

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problem with animated GIF scaling

2010-12-25 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Thomas Larsen larse...@basicprogramming.org wrote: (2) a working animation (albeit scaled on the client's side, which is not ideal) for animations where #px is greater than or equal to the original dimensions. Files are only downscaled server-side, not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] FW: Issue with Wiki site and databases?

2010-12-30 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Jack Sickels mrsick...@msn.com wrote: It sounds like Apache was reinstalled by somebody, which may be the root cause of all this.  Does that shed any light? That shouldn't cause tables to vanish. Have you looked at the database? Did someone rename some of the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PHP error Autoloader.php line 654

2011-01-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Cathie Sherwood cathie.sherw...@gmail.com wrote: I¹ve checked for missing files and the only file that is not in the /includes directory is HTMLCacheUpdate.php. When I try to upload that file to the server, it can¹t be done and the file transfer just hangs. Is

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PHP error Autoloader.php line 654

2011-01-03 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Cathie Sherwood cathie.sherw...@gmail.com wrote: Further to my last post, I¹ve been able to upload the HTMLCacheUpdate.php file and now get the following error.  I¹ve checked the file (which hasn¹t been changed from the original installation downloaded from

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Updating MediaWiki

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Lees
2011/1/4 Filippo A. Salustri salus...@ryerson.ca: Quick followup. I'm still running 1.16 beta.  How do I update to the latest version of 1.16?  A pointer to a web page would be enough.  I couldn't find it myself when I looked. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading The only difference

Re: [Mediawiki-l] PHP 5.1.6

2011-01-07 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Tolliver tolli...@dal.ca wrote: I have upgraded to MediaWiki 1.16.0 on my test wiki's. However, we currently run PHP 5.1.6 (upgrading within a month). Would you suggest waiting until PHP has been upgraded, or is there folks running a non supported version

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Yahoo drops confirmation email

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
Yahoo's spam filter is notoriously bad. Not using a Yahoo email address would be a wise first step. Beyond that, there are some things you could try: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92022 You might not be able to do all of them on shared hosting, unfortunately.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category: Noindexed pages puzzle

2011-01-18 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: A new category was automatically created - Noindexed_pages.  All four of the pages now in the Archive namespace bear a link to that category, yet when I use the link I find that only one of the four pages is listed. Did you try

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category: Noindexed pages puzzle

2011-01-18 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: No.  Since it was created automatically I don't feel comfortable in messing with it.  It doesn't feel as though it should be handled as any normal category.  Do you know any reading about such automatically-created categories?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is there a contact extension

2011-01-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:23 AM, 尹永宏 yinyongh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all Do you konw there's a contact extension or other similar extensions? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Email_extensions

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Dablink

2011-01-27 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Ekompute .info ekomp...@gmail.com wrote: Unable to get it to work, I changed it to: div class=dablink style=padding:0 0 20px 20px;''{{{1}}}''/div I assume you also copied over the corresponding CSS at some point? Try fetching an updated version of that.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] reCaptcha

2011-02-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:33 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com 2...@gmaskfx.com wrote: I want to configure reCaptcha so that anonymous user trigger on any edit and Users trigger it when the add URLs but right now it appears I can't configure those two differently? Yes, I believe so. At some point

Re: [Mediawiki-l] ConfirmEdit

2011-02-06 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Klaus Becker colon...@free.fr wrote: But when I try to test it by editing a page, there is no captcha on both sites. By default, the CAPTCHA only gets triggered on edits that add a link. If you'd like to change that, see

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Excessive cpu usage

2011-02-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Erik Luken elu...@pentarch.org wrote: Is there any reason a stock mediawiki installation would peg the cpu usage on a server? Yes. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Performance_tuning ___ MediaWiki-l mailing

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Spam account creation, circumventing recaptcha

2011-03-10 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Dan Kohn d...@dankohn.com wrote: So, it looks like someone has programmed a MediaWiki/ConfirmEdit-focused spambot that can defeat SimpleCatcha (simple math problems) and -- shockingly -- ReCaptcha. But not that they're using human beings to do the spamming.

Re: [Mediawiki-l] questyCaptcha errors

2011-03-14 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Bill Traynor btray...@gmail.com wrote: I switched to questyCaptcha and am now seeing errors such as: Catchable fatal error: Object of class WebRequest could not be converted to string in/var/www/elinux.org/extensions/ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha.class.php on

Re: [Mediawiki-l] maintaining extensions code

2011-03-21 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately you have to check for updates yourself. I'd like to see this fixed this year, it's absurd our extension process still requires so much manual labor. Hear, hear! In the meantime, if you're using SVN, you can

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wanted: List moderator

2011-04-10 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to get less time for doing list administrator stuff but there is getting more work every week. The queue with this that needed to be done was one a week when I started but its grown to 10 a week. With the

Re: [Mediawiki-l] spam, spam, spam, and spam

2011-04-15 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:09 PM, 2...@gmaskfx.com 2...@gmaskfx.com wrote: As of now the only type of captcha that appears to work %100 is questycaptcha unless ReCaptcha has been fixed. FancyCaptcha still seems to stop almost all spam. ___

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Customizing the sidebar...I must be missing something...?

2011-04-16 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:30 AM, andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org wrote: - edited (created) MediaWiki:Sidebar and added a single wiki link.  Sidebar still shows default. What exactly did you add? The sidebar has its own format for links;[0] if you put in something like [[foo]], it will refuse

Re: [Mediawiki-l] slow MediaWiki

2011-05-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
It doesn't look like eAccelerator is getting enough memory. You should increase eaccelerator.shm_size. Beyond that, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Performance_tuning ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Increment page counter through API

2011-06-25 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Adam Meyer mey...@mindspring.com wrote: Any idea what function is called internally to increment the page count? Article::incViewCount before r79430; ViewCountUpdate::doUpdate after. ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list

Re: [Mediawiki-l] lost password

2011-06-28 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: MediaWiki doesn't provide such option. Since emails are considered private information, information such as someone with this email is registered here is not disclosed.* Such an option wouldn't have to disclose that: it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Cannot upgrade beyond 1.6.12?

2011-07-06 Thread Benjamin Lees
It sounds like you're trying a whole bunch of different things, which makes it difficult to provide help. Choose a supported upgrade path (either 1.16 or 1.17) in a sane operating system environment and provide the output from it. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Ragansi ragansi.i...@gmail.com

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