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Dear Duesentrieb, Welcome to MediaWiki.org!

Yes, Welcome! This site is dedicated to the documentation of the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site a beneficial documentation of the MediaWiki software.

Thanks, and regards, -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 23:08, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


Me at the German Wikipedia: Duesentrieb. That's my primary account, so if I don't respond here, try on my talk page there.

Me at the Commons: Duesentrieb.

Me at the Meta: Duesentrieb.

Me at the English Wikipedia: Gearloose. I'm not there often.

Hehe, herzlich willkommen :D --:Bdk: 18:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes rob, it's me. -- Duesentrieb 00:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Displaying Watchers in PageBy

Hi Duesentrieb. I've extended the PageBy code, adding a "watchers" parameter. If you set it true, it displays who is watching the page, in the same manner the contributors are displayed.

I administer a wiki and this feature has been one of the most requested by our users. I'm sure others would be interested in this feature. Would you like me to send you this code to add it to the PageBy extension? -- Robert Thew 13:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

You can put a patch on Extension:PageBy or the talk page. Not sure if I would want to add it... the feature is cool, but it would make more sense to have it as a separate extension IMHO.
Thanks for sharing your code :) -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 15:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] regarding User_talk:84.190.37.196

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:84.190.37.196&oldid=70082

discussion imported from there:

If you really want to contribute useful content, talk to us, be sinsible, don't start a crusade. As every wiki, this place has conventions. As in any other wiki, contributions that don't meet those conventions are moved/removed/changed. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you kidding? This place is ruled by User:Robchurch and his friends. He is vandalizing , simply deleting away content, making flase edit summaries, marks deletions as minor, blocks User:Tobias Conradi without giving a reason. Vandalizies Tobias' user and Tobias' talk page. User:Robchurch should be blocked.

  • You have been blocked for vandalizing his user page. That's a very valid reason.
  • Reverts are automatically marked as minor - since the don't contribute content.
  • "ruled by User:Robchurch and his friends" basically means "MediaWiki developers". Which is exactly who this wiki should be maintained by, don't you think?
  • Your actions over the last few days pretty much disqualify you to make any complaint about people being rude. Crossposting accusations would get you blocked from any wiki.
  • When your contributions on a wiki are undone, look for consensus, don't pick a fight. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 17:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mediawiki ca

Perhaps this is not the way, but. Would you help me?

I need help at the main-page ca, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/ca . I don't understand the reason why the older news (Informacions antigues ), appear in the front (main-page). Allman

Sorry, I have no clue about the main page template system. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. --HappyDog 17:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Makesysop

For some reason, when I used Makesysop, it didn't work! What do I need to do to make it work like the Wikimedia wikis??

I tried to set rights for "User:Westholm@northmidlandswiki" but it said no such user existed, even though I have an installation with this user.

What should I do to get it working and to make it work like the Wikimedia meta wiki?? --Westholm 12:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

what exactly does "I have an installation with this user" mean? Makesysop only works for its "own" installation. Other than that, I have no idea. I never looked at Makesysop. Why are you asking me? -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 12:56, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extension Matrix

A HappyDog!

Fantastic page - thank you. You make a HappyDog very happy :-) --HappyDog 02:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad someone is using it :P -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 17:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SimpleFeed extension

Regarding Extension:SimpleFeed,

Firstly, thanks for inforrming me of an XSS flaw in my extension.However, I am a little unsure where the flaw(s) is/are. Before anything gets sent back to the page it is parsed using $parser->parse. This seems to escape any HTML chars such as <. Is this not sufficient, or am I overlooking something else? Thanks in advance!

Jonnylamb 12:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Oops, you are right, my bad - I missed the parser call at the bottom. Calling the variable holding the unparsed wikitext "itemhtml" added to the confusion :) I'll remove the warning. Thanks for looking into it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah I see- I'll clean up the variable names ASAP. Thanks again for looking into it though! Jonnylamb 16:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Applet extension

Hi,

I see you noticed a huge vulnerability in the Applet extension that I posted. I want to fix that. Do you have any examples of validation code that I can use to exclude characters with special meaning?

Thanks,Sanchom 15:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

htmlspecialchars -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 19:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Considering your News Extension

I have posted a patch for MW < 1.10 on the talk page of the extension. Jean-Lou Dupont 19:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Hm, as far as I know it's not always safe to recycle the parser... but how's that related to 1.9 compatibility anyway? Cloning the parser should work in earlier version too. Can you supply a diff of your changes? that would make it mach easier for me to see what you did. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SVN access

Do you think I could get SVN access for the extensions I have crafted? Jean-Lou Dupont 12:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

To get SVN access, post patches to Bugzilla. Do some small improvements / bug fixes. Maybe submit some extensions that way. Someone will review your patches and apply them (or complain to you). At some point, people will know your work well enough, and be tired of committing for you - and you'll get commit access. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GG Extension

I've write something in Extension_talk:GG but I don't understand what you mean. Why I should use htmlspecialhars for a digit input variable? --193.39.71.4 22:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguating extensions

Hi Duesentrieb. I saw this conversation and thought I should let you know that there is precedent for disambiguation pages to be held in the extension namespace (e.g. [1] [2]). Personally I think this is fine. The early disambiguation pages were designed to deal with extensions that have the same name (e.g. there were several that were just called 'calendar') without giving any undue prominence, but the way that page has evolved to include all calendar-style extensions is, I think, quite useful, and best kept within the extension namespace. --HappyDog 01:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amazon extensions

I created the Amazon extensions. How do I make it XSS proof? Any tip on how to escape in javascript. Thanks! 69.177.128.119 05:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

First of all, post at the bottom of talk pages.
You can use Xml::escapeJsString to make safe javascript strings. Test with nasty stuff, like '"<>&\ -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:31, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I have changed the code to use Xml::escapeJsString instead of htmlspecialchars. 69.177.128.119 00:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for telling one more wiki PHP code for Extension:Anysite!

Thanks.. --Gabeyg 21:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Gabeyg

[edit] Extension matrix & sub-pages

Hi - please see this comment. --HappyDog 01:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


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I put the Categorytree in my wiki but it didn´t work !!!

I edit with:

<categorytree>User Pages</categorytree> <categorytree>Sysops</categorytree>

and I put the lines below in my LocalSettings.php

$wgUseAjax = true; require_once( 'extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php' );

What is happening ? Could you help me, please ?

Thanks

Fernanda

[edit] RDF extension : download dead

Gutentag,

der Link zu http://wikitravel.org/~evan/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz auf die Extension:RDF-Seite ist Tot.

The link to http://wikitravel.org/~evan/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz seems to be dead. http://wikitravel.org/~evan redirects to http://evan.prodromou.name/, which hasn't got the gz-file http://evan.prodromou.name/mw-rdf-0.3.tar.gz.

Danke ! --193.190.154.22 10:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Uh, what does that have to do with me? I can't do anything about it... -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 23:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
At Extension:RDF you're listed as one of the authors, and on the same page the same dead download link is provided, so I assumed you could do something about it. Like providing another link for a download. --193.190.154.22

Huh, interresting. I talked a lot about this stuff with Evan back when he started this stuff, but he wrote all the code. I didn't even know I was mentioned on that page :) I guess Evan was being overly nice... -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 11:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Would you be overly nice and respond to the Extension talk:CategoryTree questions as mentioned below? Thanks. —Eep² 07:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extension Player

Can you add the mp3 format on THE Extension PlayeR? - Zizanzu

[edit] CategoryTree suggestions

Well, I tried contacting you on the German Wikipedia but you never replied so now I'm trying here. Please see Extension talk:CategoryTree#Articles in more than one Category for suggestions starting there (and other recent discussions that have gone unanswered...) —Eep² 10:45, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll respond there.
I'm currently studying for my final exam... I have accumulated a backlock of more than 100 mails, wiki messages and bug reports i need to deal with... sorry.
-- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extension Matrix Type Page for Hooks?

Hi. If we added a category and a proper Template:MediaWikiHook to every hook page, would you be willing to modify User:DuesenBot to create and maintain a table similar to this: Manual:Hooks#Alphabetical_list_of_hooks? Thanks. --Cneubauer 19:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Would be nice, but I don't have time right now. Ask again in a month or two :) -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, its been two months or so :). Any time to look at this again? --Cneubauer 13:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Upload from Web - Thanks!

Re: MW:Project:Support_desk#Upload_File_from_URL Thanks for the quick help. I can't believe that didn't come up in all my Google searching.

I've added the following to LocalSettings.php and the Special:Upload page has changed to show both 'local' and 'web' upload boxes, however the Web upload one is grayed out. Am I missing something?

$wgAllowCopyUploads = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['upload_by_url'] = true;

Thanks again, -Blckdmnd99 13:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

There are checkboxes (or more accurately, radiobuttons) to the left of the two fields (file and url). Click the one to the left of the URL field to activate it (this will also grey out the file field). If this doesn't work for you, please try again with a different browser, and report it as a bug, clearly stating with which browsers on which OS it does or does not work. Disabling JavaScript would be another option to try.
Btw, you shouldn't need to thouch $wgGroupPermissions to use this - at least I didn't have to when testing this. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 20:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Ooops, seems to be restricted to sysop (admin) per default. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 21:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I think I've narrowed it down. The issue occurs on Firefox, IE6, and Safari cross platform but based on the error 'toggle_element_activation' I see in Firefox, it looks like this has to do with MediaWiki Javascript Support Functions. Not sure exactly what that means but I'm thinking I'm missing something in my custom themes that I need to incorporate. Thanks again. Blckdmnd99 14:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Turns out I was missing the closing '>' on my opening <html> tag in my skin. Not sure why that didn't break a ton of other stuff but it's working now! Thanks again. Blckdmnd99 14:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot requests

Hi Duesentrieb. Just a quick note to let you know that I have just created Project:Bot requests. I don't know if you are interested in dealing with any of the requests there, but if so drop me a line. Cheers. --HappyDog 20:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)



[edit] Please delete my crap

Hi Gyro Gearloose,

May I have a question with you, Sir? Could you help me implement the erasing of my bad named files which are already in use with their proper names? In case of yes, there are some cyber lemon drops available. In case of no, have a nice time for the rest of your life. De-Arapaima.mp3.OGG De-Fische.mp3.OGG De-Gewässer.mp3.OGG De-Karpfen-plural.mp3.OGG teacoolish 23:15 2007-10-27

Uh, that would be on Commons, yes? Why are you asking that here? And why are you asking me? simply tag them with {{badname|Image:the better name.ogg}}. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 09:13, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to make portals

I have put some resources together from your post and suggestion on documenting Project:Support_desk#How_to_make_portals (which nobody responded to). --Zven 01:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with extension matrix

Hi Duesentrieb - please see this comment regarding a problem with the Extension Matrix. --HappyDog 00:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Support team

Any interest in joining the MediaWiki Support Team?

Also I am going to put a warning message on the top of your page and see if you like it, just so that people start going to the support desk instead. -PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team 17:02, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TalkHere

TalkHere looks like a a great extension, but I am running 1.11 and it doesn't seem to work. Has there been any fixes found for this? I've installed the latest trunk of TalkHere, but no go. Just shows up at the bottom, without CSS, and non functional. Any ideas, would love to have this working on my site. Thanks--Rovo 17:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Works fine for me with on [1], currently using 12.alpha, and using 1.11 before that. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 22:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extension:Gadgets

Dear Duesentrieb, I install Gadget extension on wiki.irkutsk.ru, but after installation I can't see MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition in the page the users definition. Please help me.--Дмитрий Гавриков 04:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

It's not there unless you create it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 08:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Please see test:Usertalk:Splarka#general comments. Thanks in advance. Best regards Gangleri 03:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extension Matrix scrolling

I think I found a cause for the horizontal scrolling. (Though I'm not sure how to fix it.) See my comment in Talk:Extension_Matrix#Scrolling. - Pronoiac 10:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extension:ContactPage

Hi, could you help me with Extension:ContactPage? I added this into my LocalSettings:

$wgContactUser = '<my name>';
$wgContactSender = '<my e-mail>' . $wgServerName;
$wgContactSenderName = '<organisation>' . $wgSitename;

But I still don't receive the e-mails... I hope you can help me with this. Regards, 81.205.35.85 15:05, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Check if normal wiki-mail works ("email this user"). If it doesn't, fix it :) -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 20:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
It works... ;) Regards, 81.205.35.85 16:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extension:AjaxWhosOnline

Hello Duesentrieb, On the matrix page I can see my extension as "WARNING: failed to fetch Extension:AjaxWhosOnline". I have a feeling this might be the result of moving it from Extension:WhosOnlineAjax to Extension:AjaxWhosOnline. I thought it was a bright idea at the time but now it appears to be fubar'ed. Before I go mucking around with any more bright ideas I thought I'd ask you how to proceed. Regards --Supertick 15:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Perhaps can you have a look...

Hello,

I'm a french guy ; so, first, I have to apologize for my poor English speaking level.

I post this message on your talk page, because I am proposing a new Extension : Extension:WikiMindMap. Personally, I think the idea is good :-) ; but my competence in programming are very limited. So I have a lot of difficulties to finalise the job, especially concerning the usage of a javascript script.

Seeing your Gadgets extension, I comes to you to ask if you know someone who should be able to give me some helps.

Best regards--Eric Larcher 13:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Since this afternoon, I have solved this issue (i.e. the usage of a javascript script) by using your Gadgets extension (thanks a lot !). But I have still some works to do before WikiMindMap becomes a decent extension ! --Eric Larcher 18:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MIME types

Hi Duesentrieb, thank you for improving my solution. Can you maybe add the approriate lines to Manual:Mime type detection? Thanks in advance, --Flominator 10:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Uh? They are already there? to quote the example for mime.types:
 text/xml xml xsl xslt rss rdf
 application/zip zip jar xpi  sxc stc  sxd std   sxi sti   sxm stm   sxw stw  
 application/msword doc xls ppt
you need to find out what the mime type is, and assign the file extension to that. is that so unclear? -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request to change an extension name in the extension matrix

Hi, It's Ido from kaltura.com. We have an extension page here. We changed its name and moved the content to here, just wanted to ask to change it in the matrix as well. Thanks! IdoSet 12:25, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes the in history of extension matrix, you can see that it updates on a regular basis. You method of moving content probably wasn't the best, you just made new page called Extension:VideoWiki, and left the old page Extension:KalturaCollaborativeVideo, if you had used the move tab you would have made a redirect and all the history would have transported across for the article. I will try and fix... --Zven 23:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
This is now fixed --Zven 01:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How did you hide the "Category" word from the word "Manual" in the category tree of the page?

Since the mode is "page", Mediawiki gives me "Category:Manual", how to get rid of this "category" word? Congratulations for the page/extension. Thanks!

This changed in the version of CategoryTree fro MediaWiki 1.13: the category: prefix is hidden per default, the exact hehavior is controlled by the hideprefix option. This is described in detail on Extension:CategoryTree -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 19:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Extension Matrix not updating

Hi Duesentrieb - the last edit by DuesenBot was at 09:41 on 11 June 2008. Any chance you could look into this sometime? --HappyDog 23:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Needs a complete rewrite, we have too many extensions :) I have no clue when i will get around to it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 23:33, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] my extention not working

i installed media wiki and upload embedvedio extention in ponkavanam.com . but there is error. can you help me? azeeznm@gmail.com--212.138.47.16 06:16, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Nope. Because I don't know anything about that extension, and you didn's say what the error is. Perhaps try to ask the extension's author, and provide some more details?... -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 23:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lockdown Bug

Hi Duesentrieb. I'm looking to use Lockdown on my wiki, but Mifter has discovered a bug in it. Nuking the page is still possible, and the "attacker" can go into the Special:Undelete page to get the copy of the deleted revision. Could you fix it, please? Cmelbye 00:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hm... not really. I hook into the UserCan function, and MediaWiki should always call it to check if a user hast the permission to perform a given action. Can you please explain exactly which rights where denied/given to the "attacking" user, and what the attack scenario ist? Was the "undelete" permission involved?
As a workaround, you should be able to restrict access to Special:Undelete. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 13:31, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Extension:Polyglot

Hallo Düsentrieb! I just found your extension Polyglot, thank you for it. On your next version could you please correct a spelling error in the name of these two settings? $wfPolyglotExcemptNamespaces and $wfPolyglotExcemptTalkPages should be $wfPolyglotExemptNamespaces and $wfPolyglotExemptTalkPages. Thank you! Capmo 15:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Need a little help here

im trying to get the category tree to list pages under subcategories instead of listing more sub categories. i added the defualt tag to localsettings but it didnt seem to help.

$wgUseAjax = true;
require_once("{$IP}/extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php");
$wgCategoryTreeDefaultOptions['mode'] = 'pages';

is that correct?

ive tried a view things but i just cant figure out how to make this work. here is the page im trying to get this to work on. all i want it to do is list the pages under the categories and not just the subs.[2]

any help would be great Thanks


I think what you want is this:
    $wgCategoryTreeCategoryPageMode = CT_MODE_PAGES;
-- Duesentrieb ⇌ 19:54, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


Thanks so much that worked perfectly!

[edit] Me again

once again my wiki is [www.lassolife.com] i want to disable the talk here comment box on my main page. how can do that? im ever grateful for any help you can give.

[edit] Language Selector in Searchbox

Hi.

excuse me for asking ... but is there an easy hack to put the language switcher in or directly under the search box?

I see the options for putting it in the portlet but I was hoping it could be possible to put it directly under searchbox.

Thanks in advance. --Nonegiven108 15:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Quick bugfix report. I do not know if this is universal or related to my skin.
When using Languageselector in the portlet, I find that although the Mediawiki pages change language, the actual language in the selector does not ... until one refreshes the page.
settings: LANGUAGE_SELECTOR_AS_PORTLET
Don't know if this helps. I am using GuMaxDD skin. --Nonegiven108 02:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
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