Extension talk:Wikilog

Parse error: syntax error, WikilogUtils.php on line 100

Continued in the 2010 archives. --Juliano 03:21, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Namespace Restriction

Is there a way to restrict the functionality of this extension so that it is only applied to certain namespaces or pages in MediaWiki? For example, would I be able to have Wikilog only function under the 'talk' namespace for registered users, or have it only apply to pages that belong to certain categories?

Thanks

--Enterprise user 20:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Answered in the mailing list. --Juliano 19:23, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Got it; thanks --Enterprise user 22:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

How to use Wikilog functions in Main Namespace?

Is there a way to use Wikilog fucnctions in Main Namespace or file Namespace ? --Iwikia 01:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

It may be possible, but such configuration is not supported. You may try adding NS_MAIN to $wgWikilogNamespaces, but this was never intended or tested. Use at your own risk. The extension was designed to operate on its own namespaces. It definitely won't work in the File/Image namespace, since that namespace has a specific handler that cannot coexist with the Wikilog handler.

--Juliano 14:09, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

I want to use Wikilog Comment function in All Namespace?How to use it?

Wikilog Comment is a nice disccussion function,I don't want to use other comment extension in my website,How to use Wikilog Comment in all Namespace?Thank you!

--Iwikia 01:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

As I said before, it is in the list of features to be considered, but it is considered of low importance, since it is out of the scope of the extension. The extension creates a blog in a wiki, the commenting interface is a bonus to make blog articles more interactive like traditional blogs. Other people showed interest in having the commenting interface in other articles, but this is beyond what Wikilog was intended for. There are other extensions, like LiquidThreads that already fill this niche. I know and I agree that LiquidThreads is bloated, and the simplicity of WikilogComments is attractive, that is why I'm considering the feature. But again, I have other high-priority features to implement and little free time to employ.

See: https://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-wikilog/issues/detail?id=10

--Juliano 14:15, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

[SOLVED] Dedicated User Blog

I'm attempting to setup my Wiki so that a recently created/logged in user will automatically have a dedicated blog; an alternative to having their own talk page. The only solution I've come up with thus far is to create an automatic link in the sidebar that retrieves the username and uses it in the title of a blog page. In other words, I would place a link similar to this in the sidebar:

http://www.mywiki.com/index.php/Blog:[$USERNAME]

The issue I'm finding is that MediaWiki, by default, doesn't provide a magic word for the retrieval of a username in its Wiki syntax. Does anyone have experience with, or know of a way by which I can retrieve the username of the logged in user for inclusion in a wikilog link?

Thanks --Enterprise user 17:21, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Use [[Blog:{{PAGENAME}}]] in the user page.

--Juliano 17:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

A possible alternative, but it somewhat defeats the purpose of placing the link in the Sidebar. Most of the users won't be spending time, or even exploring their user pages, and hence will be unaware of the link. A Sidebar link will be something they immediately observe regardless of where they are in the Wiki.

As a solution, I've decided to utilize the extension CustomSidebar, since it generates the magic word {{#__USERNAME}}. I set $wgDefaultSideBarText to MediaWiki:Sidebar, and placed the link blog:{{#_USERNAME}} in my sidebar. --Enterprise user 17:56, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Extension namespace registration

Hi, perhaps you might want to register a namespace for this extension. Cheers --[[kgh]] 23:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikilog is designed so that the users are completely free to choose any namespace they want. The extension doesn't require any specific namespace. Even the number of namespaces is free: the extension is completely fine with one, two, three or even more namespaces configured as wikilog namespaces.-- I don't think we would get any benefit from registering namespaces, and may contribute for general user confusion instead.

--Juliano 19:52, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Juliano, actually it is quite good that it does not require a specific number for a namespace. This makes it flexible. However I have seen a couple of extensions here which suggest 100 as the number to use. On top the instructions for wiki specific namespaces suggests 100 too. Inexperienced admins might run into trouble here. A "registration" would at least block your suggestion for this extension and prevent other developers to use it. Still I might overdo it a bit at the moment. :) Cheers and thank you again for this cool extension. Cheers --[[kgh]] 14:44, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi kgh. You are welcome. The number 100 is the first namespace number available for custom namespaces (see Manual:Using custom namespaces). From the little research I've done, it seems that there is little support for the namespace registry in Extension namespace registration from the MediaWiki developers. The whole idea of namespace numbers need to be revised. I'm quite divided about this. I do not want to make it look that Wikilog has a fixed namespace number, or that it only supports a single namespace assigned. I'll think about it. --Juliano 00:16, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Juliano, I agree entirely with you. This issue should have been treated with much more attention from the beginning to avoid the mess. Thankfully it is now picking up more and more attention. Yeah, your extension it special in many ways and thus I fully understand your hesitance. :) Perhaps it should be left as is until there is some kind of real problem and not a hypothetical one . Cheers --[[kgh]] 17:13, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

How to enable e-mail notification for comments?

How to enable e-mail notification for comments? --Корогодин Илья 20:06, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikilog still doesn't offer a feature to watch and receive notifications when new comments are added. You can suggest this feature in the bugtracker. --Juliano 23:40, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

added to bugtracker here - feel free to extend it :-) --Erkan Yilmaz 16:25, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I second this request... how is one supposed to know that a comment has been posted in the case where they are moderated? Imagine the case of multiple blogs! 188.104.118.206 07:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Liquid Threads & Wikilog

Liquid Threads is installed across WMF's wikis, and is becoming popular outside WMF... It's not clear that Wikilog has been tested with Liquid Threads installed, as it's count of blog comments is always zero... could Liquid Threads be accommodated here? Thanks very much for the extension.... john

Wikilog comments are a intended to be a very simple and friendly interface for leaving comments on Wikilog posts, exactly like in normal blogs. Liquid Threads goes in the opposite direction, with full-featured interface for supporting long discussions between multiple people. Wikilog was not designed to be used with Liquid Threads, and will not support it.

--Juliano 21:58, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

I have posted a solution for excluding LiquidThreads from the namespace "Blog_talk" and thus avoiding a conflict between LiquidThreads and Wikilog: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:LiquidThreads#Solution:_Exclude_LiquidThreads_from_certain_namespaces_.2F_avoid_conflict_with_Wikilog_17440 Kappa (talk) 15:39, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

[SOLVED] PHP Error when creating blog page

When I create a new blog page, I get thew following errors in apache's error.log:

[Tue Jul 12 10:43:16 2011] [error] [client 10.49.20.149] PHP Warning:  Illegal offset type in isset or empty in 
 /srv/www/mwiki/includes/Title.php on line 137, referer: http://tbwebface/mwiki/index.php?title=Blog:News&action=submit

[Tue Jul 12 10:43:16 2011] [error] [client 10.49.20.149] PHP Warning:  trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in 
 /srv/www/mwiki/includes/Title.php on line 2591, referer: http://tbwebface/mwiki/index.php?title=Blog:News&action=submit

[Tue Jul 12 10:43:16 2011] [error] [client 10.49.20.149] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function registerWatcher() on a non-object in 
 /srv/www/mwiki/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 191, referer: http://tbwebface/mwiki/index.php?title=Blog:News&action=submit

Mediawiki 1.17 --Oliver Wieland 09:19, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

The last error message is similar to this bug report which I just had in MW 1.17.0, --Erkan Yilmaz 16:23, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Error is gone since Wikilog V1.1.2. Thanks! --Oliver Wieland 10:45, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

thank you (for 3 years of blogging possibility)

Hello Juliano,

I just saw I'm using Wikilog for 2.5 years (now also with Mediawiki 1.17.0). Thanks for this goo dpiece of software. Keep on! --Erkan Yilmaz 05:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

You are welcome!

I've been neglecting Wikilog a little lately due to overwhelming amount of work, but I should be able to update it in a few months.

Thank you,

--Juliano 23:02, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

good news

if you need a guinea pig for the new version: ping me, --Erkan Yilmaz 16:03, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

3 years and still happy :-) --Erkan Yilmaz (talk) 18:06, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Blog disappears

Hello,

first I want to say that my English is very bad, but I need a little Help with my Wikilog. I have installed the Wikilog after the description on this site. When I create a new Blog like Blog:Test I can edit and save the site. But there is only a blank site without any error message. I have tried to execute the update.php-script again and now there is the site available. Its everytime the same. When I update I can blog a post and I see it. But also when I want to comment a post there come a blank site. And this problem even can't solve with update.php. Can anyone help me? The version informations of my system are here: "MediaWiki 1.17.0, PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze1 (apache2handler), MySQL 5.1.49-3"

Can you enable debugging? see here (my wikilog) - perhaps that shows you some specific errors. --Erkan Yilmaz 17:09, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

There comes this message

Fatal error: Call to a member function registerWatcher() on a non-object in /var/www/ratswiki/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 191"

Im a really greenhorn. Can you help me to fix this problem? --84.185.139.55 17:28, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

see the fix here, --Erkan Yilmaz 17:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

first I want to thank you for your fast help. I have tried to delete the 4 rows from the WikilogCommentPager.php but know the error is also at the blog-pages which have worked after I use the update.php. --84.185.139.55 17:42, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Then I guess you'll have to wait for dev feedback. e.g. add a note or a new report here.

(You are using the newest Wikilog 1.1.1? As I see also my php + mysql are lower versions than yours), --Erkan Yilmaz 17:50, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

In the second try deleting the 4 rows the comment-part of the problem is fixed. But the same error message came when i create a new blog-page. Here is a blank page like before. This part isn't fixed. I will follow the report on your linked site. Maybe there comes a new solution. thanks for your help --84.185.139.55 17:54, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

The Wikilog-Version from my special:version-page is "Wikilog (Version 1.1.99.1dev)"

here are official releases, I don't see yours there. So if you ask me, make a backup + try 1.1.1 --Erkan Yilmaz 17:59, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

done! but problem is still alive :) i have replaced all files ins extensions/wikilog with the 1.1.1-version-files and then i run the update.php. i will continue tomorrow. thanks erkan! --84.185.139.55 18:12, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Solved!!! I have forgot to to the fix the first part in issue12 and add the line in the WikilogItemPager.php ... a really greenhorn mistake. Thank you for all.

This should be fixed now.

Wikilog 1.1.99.1dev is simply the current development version from hg or svn, a few things may be only partially implemented or not working completely. The current released version is 1.1.2.

--Juliano 03:37, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

New template parameter

I needed a template parameter which gives me a unique ID for each Wikilog entry. So I added the following line to WikilogItemPager.php, line 369:

# Template parameters.
$vars = array(
        'class'         => $divclass,
        'wikilogTitle'  => $item->mParentName,
        'wikilogPage'   => $item->mParentTitle->getPrefixedText(),
        'title'         => $item->mName,
        'page'          => $item->mTitle->getPrefixedText(),
        'authors'       => $authors,
        'tags'          => $tags,
        'published'     => $item->getIsPublished() ? '*' : '',
        'pubdate'       => $pubdate, # Deprecated, to be removed on Wl 1.2.0.
        'date'          => $publishedDate,
        'time'          => $publishedTime,
        'updated'       => $updated, # Deprecated, to be removed on Wl 1.2.0.
        'updatedDate'   => $updatedDate,
        'updatedTime'   => $updatedTime,
        'summary'       => $wgParser->insertStripItem( $summary ),
        'hasMore'       => $hasMore ? '*' : '',
        'comments'      => $comments,
/* New template parameter START */
        'pageId'        => $item->mID
/* New template parameter END */
);

--Oliver Wieland 14:35, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

publishedTime doesn't consider time zones

Is it possible to consider the time zone which the actual user set in his settings? --Oliver Wieland 14:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

MW 1.18.0 Beta1 should be used with wikilog development branch

Note: Current MW version 1.18.0 Beta1 needs the installation of wikilog development branch. Wikilog 1.1.2 has some issues with this version, e.g. loading of comment pages is broken and some other php errors are produced. --Singlespeedfahrer 09:19, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Renaming WlFeed

Heiya, I would like to suggest renaming "WlFeed" into something like "WikilogFeed" or "Wikilog - Feed". This would make their relation much more clear. Cheers --[[kgh]] 13:50, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

There is already a class (and its corresponding file) named "WikilogFeed".

WlFeed is an utility sub-extension that is actually independent of Wikilog. The "Wl" prefix is rather arbitrary, it just denotes that it originally derived from Wikilog. WlFeed can be used by any other extension without any relation to or dependency on Wikilog. I could have named it "EnhancedFeedClasses" or something else, but I just kept "WlFeed" for simplicity. On the other hand, the WikilogFeed class is an actual part of Wikilog (hence the name), which uses WlFeed to render RSS and Atom feeds for wikilog pages.

In the future, I intend to also split the commenting code into another sub-extension, "WlComments" which, again, will be independent of Wikilog.

--Juliano 20:12, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Heiya Juliano, that you for your detailed response which I appreciate a lot. Just by reading it I believe to rename it would be even more recommendable. Perhaps an independant extension page would be good too. I do not know how many people out there are aware that it may be used independently from Wikilog. It may be useful to them and so far the have only a minimum chance of detecting it. Cheers --[[kgh]] 21:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello kgh,

Yeah, perhaps I could make WlFeed more visible. I just keep forgetting this mostly because WlFeed is not an extension that does anything that is user-visible... if you make an analogy with operating systems, WlFeed is like a library or shared object file (.DLL on Windows): the file itself does nothing for the user, it is used by other programs instead. Since WlFeed is virtually invisible to the end user, I never bothered creating a page for it (since it would only confuse most users).

But I don't know if I want to make a separate extension. I intend to maintain WlFeed as part of the Wikilog package to simplify my job (and to keep both Wikilog and WlFeed in the same Hg repository and the same directory in MediaWiki's SVN repo). Changes to WlFeed are motivated by changes on Wikilog, both also share the same version number and both are always updated and released together. This is why I want to keep them together.

Other extensions may still use WlFeed freely.

I originally intended to write a page for it, at Extension:Wikilog/WlFeed (and perhaps with a Extension:WlFeed redirect). I'll see if I do this in the following weeks.

About the name, I don't really see a problem with the current name. As I said, the "Wl" prefix is arbitrary, just to make a unique name for that component. I could have called it "JFeed" (the "J" is from my name), for example (except that "JFeed" is already the name of jQuery plugin). On the other hand, changing the name now may cause some problems, since the "WlFeed" is already recognized and registered at least in translatewiki.net. I'd rather keep the name as it is.

--Juliano 23:37, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Heiya Juliano, I am getting to it right now. It is reasonable to do it like you did. A subpage with a redirect will be a good solution. I believe this makes WlFeed visible in the extension matrix and you could still treat this extension as one "extension organism". Another reason for not renaming it would also be that WlFeed is established under this name. I agree with you. Thank you for all this information and cheers --[[kgh]] 16:13, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

There you can find the field: "Create new wikilog article" (see 1st picture below)

Hello, I dont have this "field" / "button". What did I do wrong?

Any more info would be great, e.g.

What versions of Mediawiki, WikiLog(, pjhp, OS) do you use?

Perhaps a screenshot (or description which buttons are available)? --Erkan Yilmaz 16:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

thank you for your fast reply!

I will send you a tinyurl but please dont post the original url here :o)

tinyurl.com/8yjqouw

I am using Mediawiki the actual version. I just updated a few days ago. In addition I am using Semantic Mediawiki, maybe this could cause problems(?)

I just installed the actual Wikilog Edition

(, pjhp, OS) dont know what u mean here

again thank you so much for your help which is highly appreciated!

• Have a look at how I did it: here.
• most of my questions I can answer when I visit your Spezial:Version page
• pjhp is a typo: php
• I assume you did all the install steps correct?
• if you've generated a blog post you should see it also on this page: Spezial:Wikilog, --Erkan Yilmaz 17:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

here is my specialpage: tinyurl.com/796ndwz

I mean this button here, which does not show up:

I had the same problem after moving mediawiki from windows to ubuntu. After logging out and in the button showed up again. Maybe it works for you too. 187.75.2.16 13:56, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

PROBLEM: blog don't display articles

Hello, I use MW 1.18.1 and last version of wikilog.

Blog:My_Blog is OK I created Blog:My_Blog/First_article, on Blog:My_Blog, wikilog menu tells me that there is one article not published, I click on the link, it displays a table with not published article: the table is empty.

I publish the article, adding --~~~~ or checking the checkbox, it doesn't show in the blog. Still "one article not published"

I used the "Create article" button to create Blog:My_Blog/Second_article. I writed it and signed with --~~~~. Not shown and the wikilog menu tells me that there is only ONE article not published. Where is the second one?!

--88.125.47.2 20:18, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

If you add something like {{wl-publish: 2012-06-17 00:00:00 +0000}} to the end of your article and save, does it get published? It may be some problem with the conversion of the Juliano (talk)-style signature to the actual markup.

Did you remember to actually create "Blog:My_Blog" page before the article page? You need to create a page, even if it contains just some <!-- comment -->, that is just to make Wikilog know that that wikilog exists.

--Juliano (talk) 20:46, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Tables in database are empty

When I created my Blog:My_blog, I got the "wikilog" tab to create a new article. I looked into the DB, and all wiki_wikilog_xxx tables are EMPTY.

What happen ? --Iubito (talk) 20:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

It depends on the specific table you are looking at.

It is normal for some tables to stay empty until you create the front wikilog page, and then the first actual article.

--Juliano (talk) 20:46, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

User permissions

Hi, is it possible to forbid anonymous user writing a blog article ? Thanks for an answer ! --hollosch (talk) 10:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this is not really specific of Wikilog, it is a standard MediaWiki feature.

Take a look at Manual:User rights.

--Juliano (talk) 20:50, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

RSS Graffiti (RSS -> Facebook) links don't work

I had a problem of links to wikilog blogs from Facebook posts created with https://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti not working. Below is a workaround from within Apache; I don't know enough about PHP / RSS to know if the problem is actually with RSS Gradditi or Wikilog. Just sharing this in case anyone else has the same problem.

# Fix Wikilog URLs in Facebook
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=Blog:Recipes&view=archives&show=published&feed=rss/pikans\.org/public/Blog:Recipes(.*)
RewriteRule ^/w/index\.php$ /w/index\.php?title=Blog:Recipes%1 [R=302,NE,L]

Hi,

I don't know RSS.Graffiti, but this URL is really broken. I had a look over at your feeds, and your MediaWiki installation appears to have something misconfigured. Take a look at the URLs that are appearing in your Atom feed:

<link rel="alternate" href="//pikans.org/public/Blog:Recipes" type="text/html" />

Note the missing "http:" in front of the URL? This shouldn't happen.

Without looking at your configuration, I can't guess why this is happening. I suggest you to try a new, pristine MediaWiki installation (using the installation Wizard), then install just the Wikilog in this new installation. If it works correctly, compare the new configuration side-by-side with your current one and try to spot anything suspicious.

--Juliano (talk) 20:55, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

For some reason the "wikilog" tab is not working...

I am using mediawiki 1.18.4, I don't know why it isn't working, I need it to work so it is easier for editors to make blog posts rather than typing in the dirty url followed by "&action=wikilog". Any help will be much appreciated! --Muqman 52 (talk) 20:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Bugs

We are currently running MediaWiki 1.18.4 and have run into a few bugs with this extension. The first one is a big issue, as Wikilog allows blocked users to add comments. At present we have no way to prevent spam bots and troublesome users from posting, we have even tried to block such troublesome edits with other extensions such as Extension:AbuseFilter, once the core software failed. It seems Wikilogs ignores any kind of restrictions and allows the comment to be posted.

The other issue is deleted comments, they leave a persistent comment just containing the footer (the user links etc.) and nothing else. Based on the styling guide and also some of the related MediaWiki messages, it should add a message stating the comment has been deleted and appended the class with -deleted. Neither of these are happening.

Finally, restoring a already deleted comment dose nothing to add it back into the comment section. It restores the original page it is parsed from, but does not add it back to the comments. Many thanks in advance. 81.98.7.19 00:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Mediawiki 1.20.3 - Strict standards

With PHP 5.4.7, MySQL 5.5.27 and MediaWiki 1.20.3 I have this error message:

Strict Standards:
Declaration of WikilogWikiItemPage::newFromID() should be compatible with
WikiPage::newFromID($id, $from = 'fromdb') in .... on line 212

I assume this is for Strict standards enabled in PHP and different declaration of child Class but can't fix it by myself Tank you --Federicodip (talk) 11:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC)