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Page Linking Help Needed
Hi, is there a plugin that automatically links key words to other Wiki pages? At the moment I am manually creating links but I'm sure there must be another way?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Mediawiki Appliance Version 1.13.20 Problems
Downloaded rPath Mediawiki Appliance, Running it on VMwear PLayer but can't find the localsettings.php file to edit.

Can't find much documentation. Any help or documentation would be great!

HUGE Troubles in mediawiki 1.14.0
my bureau/admin account can not access Restricted special pages WHY?????????

MW 1.14.0 PHP Version 5.2.9 MySQL Version 5.0.67-community


 * What error message is given? Wikademia

Untitled
Hello! My name is Pilar and I'm an extranet oficer suporting now our extranet development project.One of the things we are thinking to add media wiki to our extranet as BT did. Now I couldn't find any information about whether media wiki can be implemented with a password regulated site as an extranet. Another question is can we get an media wiki expert some where to support with instalation and training us on how to manage the site? All this information here is quite heavy and difficult to understand for not developers minds.
 * MediaWiki version: media wiki
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:
 * You can post an advertisement for a MediaWiki consultant at MWusers.com. Dr. Eme
 * Manual:Preventing access. Max Semenik 08:56, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Extension Licensing Guidelines
I was wondering if there were licensing guidelines for extensions. I am combined several extensions with MediaWiki and noticed that some of the extensions have licenses that are incompatible with other extensions (e.g. Affero v.3 with a majority of extensions under GPL v.2). There are also several extensions that have no license indicated--is there a default license if you are coding for combination with MediaWiki? I was wondering if there was already guidance or if there could be some written on these topics. Thanks.

Unable to view the php created

 * MediaWiki version: 1.11.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: -
 * URL:

I have installed PHP and also made the necessary changes to the IIS. Still I am unable to view the .php file I created in the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder. Everytime I try to view the file using the browse option I get an error saying I am unauthorised to view that page.

I do have administrative rights and installed it using the same.

Thanks in advance Maya

What have I do?
I had to start new MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 Installation but received:


 * Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.


 * Checking environment...

Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.


 * PHP 5.2.6 installed
 * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite
 * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
 * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) appears to be valid.
 * PHP's memory_limit is 32M.
 * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
 * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
 * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * Installation directory: /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www
 * Script URI path: Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function taint in /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www/config/index.php on line 1905

mySQL database username

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.1.33

I am configuring MediaWiki, except the one part I am having problems with is when it is asking me for a database username and password and confirm password. Below that is the superuser account, which is root.

>>>''Granting user permissions... Query "GRANT DELETE,INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON `wikidb`.* TO 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' " failed with error code "Can't find file: 'user' (errno: 2) (localhost)".'' <<<<

But it will not let me continue the configuration unless I specify a user and password since it will not let me leave it blank.

I am installing on Windows XP, just need some help with this issue. I am not very familiar with databases, i know the root user account info, but it is asking for a username and password and confirm password.

Any help would be much appreciated.

homerm@rosedale.ca

What server variables are needed
My neywork admin needs to set server variables to allow the upload to be successful...

Trying to load to www.high12.org,

current php and all info can be seen at www.high12.org/phpinfo.php

currently receive "?"s when attempt to load php is made...admin requesting server settings needed

attempted to register for the forum but never receive conformation email...so hear i am.

What server variables are needed
My neywork admin needs to set server variables to allow the upload to be successful...

Trying to load to www.high12.org,

current php and all info can be seen at www.high12.org/phpinfo.php

currently receive "?"s when attempt to load php is made...admin requesting server settings needed

attempted to register for the forum but never receive conformation email...so hear i am.

Blank Page After Install

 * MediaWiki Version: 1.15.1
 * PHP Version: 5.2.11
 * MySQL Version: 5.1.35

I have tried the quick solution of placing:

$wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash';

in my LocalSettings.php file and still nothing. The 'LocalSettings.php' is in the parent directory and the /config directory has been deleted. The install went great, no errors, no signs of problems, but still I've got nothing.

Any help would be awesome!

Respectfully,

Bryan
 * Manual:Errors_and_Symptoms. Max Semenik 08:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Error message after upgrading
I have upgraded my wiki from an old version (not to old, maybe 1.13 but I didn't note because I never had any issues...) After installing successfully and moving the Localsettings.php, I have the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method StringUtils::explode in /home/hosted/usersSpace/1331/ftp/sebban.org/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 669

What can I do?

Thanks

Sam samonthewebecp(at)hotmail.com
 * Looks like messed up update, reupload the files. Max Semenik 08:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Updating MediaWiki installed via Synaptic
Hi at all, I've just installed MediaWiki via Synaptic on Ubuntu 9.04 but in there repository there is only the 1.13.3 version. How could I update MediaWiki, in this case? Or is there any repository to be added in my sources.list? —Airon90 17:01, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: Don't know, sorry
 * URL: Intranet


 * If you use a package, you're dependent on that package for upgrades. There's nothing anyone here can do for you, unless you want help switching to a manual setup of MediaWiki. —Emufarmers(T 18:20, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Ubuntu 9.10 comes with MediaWiki 1.15.1. Max Semenik 08:52, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Fatal error

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5
 * MySQL version: Don't know, sorry
 * URL: Intranet

Second problem, now that I installed MW it shows me a strange error when I try to save my changes: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 13 bytes) in /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/UserMailer.php on line 141 If I add only one or two character sometimes MW saves that changes. Why? --Airon90 11:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Manual:Errors and Symptoms. Max Semenik 08:54, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Indexable (Browsable) directories?

 * MediaWiki version: 1:1.13.3ubuntu2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.1.3
 * Server: Apache on Ubuntu Linux

Should the following directories and their contents be indexed (browsable) through a web browser: mediawiki/includes, mediawiki/languages, mediawiki/maintenances, mediawiki/skins after setting up? I am able, for instance, to see all the php files in maintenance, along with some other various files and folders through Firefox. The following folders are not browsable through a browser (permission denied): mediawiki/extensions, mediawiki/images. Is this correct?

—Gasman007007 05:53, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * None of them needs to be browsable, though files in skins and images need to be readable by web server. Max Semenik 16:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

There is no administrator

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.0.81-community
 * URL: www.choasgaming.com/wiki/

I have no administrator. When i installed the script it all installed fine, but it did not create a administrator. I registered a new account and it is account number 1. How can i set this user as admin.

—70.193.185.93 04:33, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * createAndPromote.php. Max Semenik 16:50, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I can't run pywikipediabot on my wiki
Hi, I have installed 5 months ago my wiki. I tried to run a python bot and it gives me
 * MediaWiki version: 1.16alpha
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.0.82-community
 * URL: intranet

Microsoft Windows XP [Versión 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador>"C:\Enciclopedia DG\pywikipedia\login.py " File "C:\Enciclopedia DG\pywikipedia\login.py", line 66 'en': u'Wikipedia:Registered bots', ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What can I do? --MisterWiki 20:31, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Path error following Installation

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.81.community
 * URL: http://www.cijedi.com/wiki/index.php

I had a little trouble getting my filemanager to move the localsettings.php file after the install finished, so I downloaded it, then uploaded it into the wiki directory. Then when I tried to load the page, I got the following error:

Warning: require_once(/home/cimaster/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/cimaster/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 113

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/cimaster/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/cimaster/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 113

I really don't know any php, and wouldn't know where to start, but I was a little encouraged to see a similar (unresolved) issue in the archives: "Localsettings changes ownership during installation" dated 9-25-09.

MARK

—99.36.104.170 11:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Make LocalSettings.php readable by the webserver. In your case, that probably means CHMODing it to 755 644. —Emufarmers(T 12:06, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * This solution worked, though I was surprised because the installation instructions said to put strict permission of "600" on LocalSettings.php. Thank you very much.