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Extension:Google Custom Search Engine

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-log
 * Database: Unknown, if you know how to figure it out please tell me.
 * URL: Red Orchestra Wiki

Alright so how do I get this extension to work? I made the page as said here, but any search returns to the main page, I actually wanted it to look like Wikipedia, where you can choose between Google search and MediaWiki search on the SpecialSearch.php.

—-PatPeter, MediaWiki Support Team  20:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Anyone else use this extension? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  16:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Here is the "Search box code" content ("Paste this code in the page where you'd like your search box to appear."):

     


 * "Search results code" ("Paste this code on http://, where you would like your search results to appear."):

  var googleSearchIframeName = "results_002538290091482747803:gffn9ipskde"; var googleSearchFormName = "searchbox_002538290091482747803:gffn9ipskde"; var googleSearchFrameWidth = 600; var googleSearchFrameborder = 0; var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com"; var googleSearchPath = "/cse"; 

-PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  02:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I Limiting edits by all users to approval only.

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

I want to be able to approve all edits by non sysop users before they go live. Is this possible?

_Matt (mattnewrock[AT]yahoo.com)


 * You may want to check out Extension:FlaggedRevisions, which does mostly what you want in that only approved edits are shown by default but the latest is still accessible. If this is still not what you desire, consider getting a proper CMS instead of MediaWiki. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  03:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Crosswiki checkuser problem

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

I'm running MediaWiki 1.11 on a webhost, got Makesysop, Makebot and a few more extensions running. Checkuser works, but isn't actually doing a crosswiki log in the format:
 * 127.0.0.1 FooBar got IPs for TestingUser on wiki1
 * 127.0.0.1 FooBar got IPs for User2 on theotherwiki

Anyone know how to fix it?? —Whitsun 21:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * What is it doing? I'd need more info. Aaron 06:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I couldn't install it via command-prompt on my webhost, so just copied the files from SVN to my website - http://sunstarnet.quotaless.com/testwiki and although it lets me do checkuser, it doesn't log properly. If you register an account I'll give you checkuser privileges so you can see what I mean. I can't get it to do a checkuser log that's cross-wiki like on Wikimedia's, e.g User:Testuser@enwiki got IPs for Testuser1 User:Testuser2@fpwiki got users for 127.0.0.1 Thanks, --82.42.237.84 19:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * "doesn't log properly"? As in gives errors or as in a local-only log. As of recently, the log was redone to use the database, but for the moment (due to complexities with global DBs) it is local-only. This is true even on WMF sites now. Aaron 20:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * A bit of both actually. For some reason my host doesn't allow command-line stuff (well, not that I know of for quotaless.com), so it is hard. As for WMF sites, well, thanks for the note. So when a steward views the checkuser log on Meta or here for example, the log they see is only for this wiki?? --82.42.237.84 19:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser - cu_log empty, cu_changes not empty.

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.4_p20070914-pl2-gentoo (cgi-fcgi)
 * PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 8.2.6 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)

I have already installed this extension and found it not working. What is the problem? The cu_log is empty, so empty... And it is all that I have found out of my database and from the Special:CheckUser site, which tells me the same.

Of course, I've tried doing installation next time (deleting old thing and creating them using cu_log.pg.sql and cu_changes.pg.sql). Nothing happened.

And the second thing I've noticed: when I try to check smb's IP, I get the following warning: Warning: pg_query [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: relation "cu_log_cul_id" does not exist in /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/DatabasePostgres.php on line 515 Błąd wewnętrzny

A database error has occurred Query: SELECT nextval('cu_log_cul_id') Function: Error: 1 ERROR: relation "cu_log_cul_id" does not exist

Backtrace:


 * 1) 0 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/Database.php(795): DatabasePostgres->reportQueryError('ERROR: relatio...', 1, 'SELECT nextval(...', '', false)
 * 2) 1 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/DatabasePostgres.php(764): Database->query('SELECT nextval(...')
 * 3) 2 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser_body.php(811): DatabasePostgres->nextSequenceValue('cu_log_cul_id')
 * 4) 3 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser_body.php(634): CheckUser->addLogEntry('userips', 'user', 'Shaql', '', '2')
 * 5) 4 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser_body.php(71): CheckUser->doUserIPsRequest('Shaql', '')
 * 6) 5 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/SpecialPage.php(459): CheckUser->execute(NULL)
 * 7) 6 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/Wiki.php(201): SpecialPage::executePath(Object(Title))
 * 8) 7 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/includes/Wiki.php(45): MediaWiki->initializeSpecialCases(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(WebRequest))
 * 9) 8 /home/k07_b/petersa/.homepage/mw/index.php(89): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
 * 10) 9 {main}

--Peter de Sowaro 00:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you run the command-line install script? --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:23, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Now I've cleared the database from cu_* things once again and run install.php. Nothing new: I've changed one page, deleted another, tried if there is anything in cu_log - and there's nothing right now, as it was. And the same error, too. Peter de Sowaro 01:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed in r31448. Re-do the checkuser log table again. Aaron 06:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Problems with Extension:Renameuser

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1
 * URL: this

Hello! If I include require_once( "extensions/RenameUser/SpecialRenameuser.php" ); into my LocalSettings.php then on my MW the Spezial:Version will be shown as empty. Only the background and the header of the page is shown. If I comment the line in the LocalSettings.php (as in the moment is done) all works very well. The files for the extension I copied from there: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_11/extensions/Renameuser/

—Astrid 10:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello. Try to escape non-standard characters in the 'author' field. Replace
 * 'author' => 'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason',
 * to
 * 'author' => '&amp;#198;var Arnfj&amp;#246;r&amp;#240; Bjarmason',
 *  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)  [[Image:Tournesol.png|25px]] MW Support Team  13:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, it does it now. :-) As suggestion for extension-authors: perhaps that they use only standard characters. --Astrid 10:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Some questions

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4
 * MySQL: 2.8.0.2
 * URL: RockCiclopedia

Some questions: Is there an extension I have to install?
 * I've seen that in Wikipedia there's a function (mainly used in templates) like this: . I've tried to copy some lines on my wiki but that function doesn't work!


 * After I've installed the extension CharInsert.php when I try to access to Special:SpecialPages I receive this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare setupspecialchars (previously declared in /home/mhd-01/www.rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php:46) in /home/mhd-01/www.rockciclopedia.com/htdocs/extensions/CharInsert/CharInsert.php on line 48

If I remove the extension the problem is fixed..... why??


 * How do I edit the 404 error page that ask you if you want to create that article? There should be a MediaWiki:Newpage or something like this, I don't remember.......

—Lorenzone92 20:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It's MediaWiki:Noarticletext. A few others are MediaWiki:Noarticletextanon, MediaWiki:Badtitletext, MediaWiki:Noimage, but that seems to be the main one. --66.102.80.212 23:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks! And for the other questions? --Lorenzone92 21:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Extension:ParserFunctions provides #if:SOMETHING among its various functions; the docs for CharInsert are here. --Carlb 03:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks!! And how can I export all my pages? In Special:Export I have to add them manually, how can I export/import all together (template/Mediawiki:xxx also)? --Lorenzone92 14:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

If you have access to the command line on your server:
 * php maintenance/dumpBackup.php exports every page in all namespaces
 * php maintenance/importDump.php imports them all together. --Carlb 01:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to have an article that pulls in content from another file at load time? (or at any time really.)

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.4
 * PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.27

Is there a way to have a wiki page that pulls its content from another file stored on my server? For example, I have a file on my server, already using MediaWiki markup, called "CHANGELIST" and whenever its updated, I'd like a specific wiki page to update its content based on whats in the "CHANGELIST" file.

I feel like this isn't something too difficult, and probably has been covered before, but my searching skills are just terrible and I can't find it.

Thanks in advance.

-Paul-

—204.2.209.2 23:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Try Extension:FileSync --Nad 10:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Special:Import? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Question about Extension:KeepYourHandsToYourself and $wgNamespaceAliases
This looks like a pretty great extension, it's just what I need. But, if I have set$wgNamespaceAliases and changed the namespace name of "NS_USER", would it at all mess up the extension? Smaug 00:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It should be fine; the extension is using !in_array($ns, array(NS_USER, NS_IMAGE)) to check for namespaces #4 (user) and #6 (image) by number, not by name, so the namespaces themselves may be named in any language without problems. --Carlb 01:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response! <font color="#006500">Smaug 20:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

#if function (all parserfunctions) isn't working

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.x
 * URL: http://www.firmalog.com/index.php/%C5%9Eablon:Metakutu#Netice

I want to do Modèle:Début des onglets parserfunctions didin't work. I upload css and js. What will I do? --85.99.200.191 01:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Install ParserFunctions extension. According to http://www.firmalog.com/index.php/Special:Version, you haven't installed it. -- Sayuri 00:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

CSS/Stylesheets used on user created pages

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.8
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (apache)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: http://www.evolution-rpg.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I'd like to be able to either use CSS coding on pages or be able to link to a CSS stylesheet hosted from my domain. Can this be accomplished and if so, how would I go about doing this? —75.167.200.148 00:42, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

PARSER extensions not working

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.1.16-max
 * URL: INTRANET... Sic

I've got a problem with the image directory, where many images disappeared without explanation (I haven't found yet and I've checked the filesystem of the RAID1 device, reviewed all the logs from wiki, mysql and apache). The info associated to those "deleted" images is still in the database, though. Therefore, I decided to update the wiki (the "old" one was a 1.9.3) to the later stable build, say here 1.11.1. The database migration went smoothly.

I've upgraded the extensions and included some extra new ones. However, I cannot get three of them working: ParserFunctions, StringFunctions and ImageLink (but they appear to be OK at the Special:Version page). I've tried without success all the suggestions I've found on your help pages, the bugtracking search system, etc..., even google (web, groups, bizzcode, ...). I've also played to leave uncommented only one of them on the LocalSettings.php file. Having "display_errors" enabled, the wiki (and the corresponding apache logs with the variable disabled) produces the following warnings, one per "parsing" function:

Notice: Undefined index: if in *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1145 Warning: array_slice [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in  *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1153

Notice: Undefined index: ifeq in *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1145 Warning: array_slice [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in  *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1153

...

Notice: Undefined index: img in *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1145 Warning: array_slice [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in   *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php on line 1153

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at  *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php:1145) in *wiki_root_dir*/includes/WebResponse.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at  *wiki_root_dir*/languages/Language.php:1145) in *wiki_root_dir*/includes/WebResponse.php on line 10

The wiki then displays the corresponding page but all the templates containing the "parser" functions are embed "as is", without running the corresponding command. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your attention. [mailto:jabril@ub.edu Josep F Abril]

—161.116.70.152 20:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I'VE GOT IT ... X^D

Although I was looking forward a reply on this section, I've been trying many things. Finally, I've found what was going on. On the newer configuration file (LocalSettings.php), the initialization of the array $wgHooks</tt> is provided after the "Extensions" section. As I haven't found any counter indication on the installation manual or the embed comments; when migrating to the newer version of MediWiki, I put the require</tt>s to local installed extensions within that section (not at the end of the file), as follows:

/***************************************************************************** * Extensions */

/** * A list of callback functions which are called once MediaWiki is fully initialised */ $wgExtensionFunctions = array;

/** ... Lines of code and comments from $wgExtensionFunctions to $wgExtensionCredits initialization ... *** * Where $type is 'specialpage', 'parserhook', or 'other'. */ $wgExtensionCredits = array;

/** * LOCAL INSTALLED EXTENSIONS */

// to view all possible errors found in a page $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; error_reporting( E_ALL ); ini_set( "display_errors", true );

/* * end extensions ******************************************************************************/

By moving the following code, that initially I've found many lines after the extensions section,

/** * Global list of hooks. * Add a hook by doing: *    $wgHooks['event_name'][] = $function; * or: *    $wgHooks['event_name'][] = array($function, $data); * or: *    $wgHooks['event_name'][] = array($object, 'method'); */ $wgHooks = array;

just after the $wgExtensionCredits = array;</tt> line, everything started to work: no errors on pages, no errors on logs, all parser extensions being replaced...

I hope this will help anybody else having problems with the parser extensions. Cheers... Josep F. Abril

—161.116.70.152 19:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

FileProtocolLink not working on Mac

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.24

Hi,

I have the FileProtocolLink Extension installed and working fine for Windows Users, but not for Mac users. Is there a solution to getting this working on Macs or is it not possible? Is there an extension like this one that will work on macs aswell?

Cheers

—62.49.155.133 12:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Blank Page after Executing Hook

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.0 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.26
 * URL: http://playground.bradley.edu/wiki/

Hello, I've attached a function to the ArticleSaveComplete hook. The function completes successfully, but the user is then presented with a blank page rather than being directed back to the article page like they were before. Do I have to return a special value or do something special in order to redirect the user to the article? Or does this mean that I've done something wrong with the called function?

—98.214.108.155 02:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, I figured it out. One of my local variables had the same name as a variable passed by the hook, so it was causing an error when I changed it.

98.214.108.155 17:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.4-2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51-3-log
 * URL:

after installing IssueTracker extension and adding issues tag, i see only a very long line begining with @ENCODED....

—217.11.252.243 01:05, 11 March 2008 (UTC)