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(RESOLVED) EmbedImg Extension, Advice rather than tech help needed on Images

 * Product Version MediaWiki 1.14alpha (r45489)
 * PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5wm1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 4.0.40-wikimedia-log
 * www.trialworks.com/wiki

Hello, This is more of an "advice needed" post. I wanted to use the Upload/Image functions in MediaWiki but I believe I cannot... my webhost does not give me easy access to php.ini and I really don't want to go through the headaches of making them enable uploads in PHP, so I've kind of given up.

I did, however, download EmbedImg Extension and absolutely love it. It lets me take a address to an JPG or PNG file and paste it into the wiki, and in turn it displays the image (Rather than the path). The problem is that it's parameters only let me change size, but not location. I need to be able to align those images "right" with text, so that it all looks good. Aside from the extension, I got around the upload system by writing, in ColdFusion, an upload agent. It lets any of my users - in a super simple fashion - upload an image to the site and obtain the link, which then goes into the Wiki Article. It's really simple but very effective for my needs.

So now, I am just dealing with a formatting issue. It needs to be uber easy for my users. How would you guys/girls handle the alignment or would you really work on getting the Wiki upload stuff to work (btw, I feel my ColdFusion app is easier to use for my users than the Wiki stuff).

Karl @ www.trialworks.com/wiki Thanks!!


 * UPDATE: sorry to waste space, I think I've solved my little crisis with

MediaWiki oes not find texvc - but texvc exist in the math folder !!!

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL: not public ... local network

Hi there,

I need help, cause I tried serveral times to setup texvc for our MediaWiki. I downloaded and installed the latest version of OCaml and run the 3 steps:

1. Change to the "math" sub-directory of your MediaWiki install 2. Run 'make' (or 'gmake' if GNU make is not your default make). This should produce the texvc executable. 3. Enable $wgUseTeX and $wgEnableUploads in your LocalSettings.php and everything should work.

I've seen no errors during the make but the MediaWiki does still not find the texvc !!! I checked the math folder and there is an texvc...

how can I resolve the problem ???

thank you !!!

Alex

I have some problem with mediawiki-1.13.3-42.fc10.x86_64 on fedora 10 x86_64 and resolved it from http://zaphod.lite.msu.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5757. The solution was to run texinfo rehash, and run fmtutil-sys --missing. Ivan

How-to restrict access to a Special Page? (Resolved)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13
 * PHP version:  5.0

Hi,

I'm using the extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadCSV where I can update pages with an CSV file. As this extension can easily cause vandalism, I want to restrict the access for just "administrators". Like when trying to access this page as a normal user: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Block

I added:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['uploadcsv'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['uploadcsv'] = true;

to LoaclSettings.php - but everyone can still access the page. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks, Chris

add to uploadCSV.php

// New user right - required to access Special:Maintenance $wgAvailableRights[] = 'uploadcsv';

function wfUploadCSVStart { global $wgMessageCache, $ExtensionTitles, $wgOut, $wgUser;

# If the user doesn't have the required 'maintenance' permission, display an error if( !$wgUser->isAllowed( 'uploadcsv' ) ) { $wgOut->permissionRequired( 'uploadcsv' ); return; }

add to LocalSettings.php

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['uploadcsv'] = true;

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.

Short page list - enhancement

 * MediaWiki version: The latest version of MediaWiki that is used in Malayalam Wikipedia
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: http://ml.wikipedia.org

This is a feature request in the MediaWiki software regarding the short pages list.

Short page in English Wikipedia
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages&limit=500&offset=0

Short page in Malayalam Wikipedia
 * http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages&limit=500&offset=0

Currently the short page link displays all the short pages irrespective of its nature. We Malayalam Wikipedians would like see some feature that will help us to sort out the (disambiguation) pages from the short pages list.

I am asking this feature specially by considering the short page list in Malayalam Wikipedia: http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages&limit=500&offset=0

We would like to see a feature that will hide all the (നാനാര്‍ത്ഥങ്ങള്‍) (equivalent of disambiguation page) pages in Malayalam Wikipedia.

—Shijualex 08:30, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

—69.63.57.3 21:29, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Latex Math functions not working

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.9 (cgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.77mm0.1-log
 * URL: http://natcguild.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The problem is that my installation does not recognize Math functions that are supposed to work. I have taken the functions from here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics

And I have verified they work in your sandbox.

I am using standard wiki installation, I have added the textvc binary to it and I have added the following in LocalSettings:

$wgMathPath        = "{$wgUploadPath}/math";

$wgMathDirectory   = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math";

$wgTmpDirectory    = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";

Some functions work and other don't. Any help or thoughts will be highly appreciated.

—87.118.135.131 10:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Uniwiki how to actually add a layout to the options when creating a new page?

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.90
 * URL:

I have installed Uniwiki and using the GenericEditPage and the CreatePage which work fine. When I create a new page it asks for a layout. I've read the docs and know the format of the layouts, but how do I actually add a layout of my own design? The docs speak of the layout namespace and I'm logged in as the admin, but I dont know where this namespace is or what format to save the custom layouts?

--> —79.141.39.188 15:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)