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(RESOLVED) All web pages I access from IE or Firefox look lined up verticaly

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: still in the intranet space

I am running Apache 2.2.10 on Fedora 8. It does no matter which skin I appply. I have installed a few additional skins: Daddio, Drupal and WordPress. When a new user logs in, the page look changes but all the UI elements are still lined up vertically.

Thank you for your time and help, Alex —Alexkovsky 18:30, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Most likely your issue is described here (including a solution)
 * Tamalotes 05:59, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

How can I put our Bulletin Board in our MediaWiki?

 * MediaWiki version:1.7.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch11
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch6-log
 * URL: local

So my problem is, I want to take our Bulletin Board into our Mediawiki! Are there any opportunitys? I've got no idea except the Copy-Paste function! But we have so many textes in it that it will be stupid to copy all the textes :)

Many Thanks

Marc — 08:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Merging data from Confluence into MediaWiki
Hello,
 * MediaWiki version:  	1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.16-standard-log
 * URL: internal

I have been using Confluence and MediaWiki side by side for a while now. All users have stopped confluence and now use MediaWiki but i am trying to merge the data over from confluence into the existing MediaWiki. I am wondering if somebody has accomplished this migration before and how it is done. Thanks

-Anthony acaiafa@mypublisher.com December 12 2008 —65.242.204.162 23:35, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki sites / scan for buzzwords
Hi everyone ;-)
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch13
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL: ---

Are there any Tools for MediaWiki that scans the entire Page for Page-Buzzwords and automatically sets a Link to the existing Site?

Example: maybe i´m writing an article with a topic like "server-management" and in this article is a word like "SQL-Server"... this tool should automatically sets the reference to the exiting Page "SQL-Server"...

Greetings,

Seth —62.96.20.21 10:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Username specifications

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL: (intranet)

Why does a username must start with a capitalized letter? Is this just for formal reasons or does it produce a conflict with the system, PHP or MySQL?

I'd like to add a tilde to the names of ex-users like "~ Alfred" to get them sorted below the active users. Will it work that way?

Thank you very much and hava merry x-mas :o) —85.115.0.242 16:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Not an answer to your issue, but Why dont you just apend a Z or a Z- to the beginning of the username, this allows you to conform to the requirements, it sorts the user to the end of the list, and if anyone asks you could say that those are sleeping users. --Luminary 22:45, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Luminary, thanks for your idea, but it is not quite the seperation of sleeping users I have in mind. Meanwhile I browsed the user list of the Wikipedia and found numerous different letters and symbols that are listed below the alphabet. Obviously the technical demand is only not to use a small letter, but anything else. On my test-environment the tilde-combination seem to work properly. I think I'll do it that way. But it's really a pity, that none of the staff is answering this simple question :o( Bye --62.214.242.56 21:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Configuring MediaWiki With nginx

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 4.1.22-standard
 * URL: http://www.zeldawiki.org/

Hello, all - I'm experiencing quite the dilemma. I've recently moved to nginx from apache, but there seem to be no resources to configure URL rewriting with nginx and MediaWiki. As a result, all of the image pages on Zelda Wiki.org produce a 404 error. I'd like to keep my URL structure the same (as in, site.com/pagetitle), but have no idea how to configure nginx to support this. If anybody has any clue how they would go about configuring MediaWiki with nginx, please help!

Thanks for your time! —69.115.161.97 00:20, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

HTML rendering order vs. Transclusion

 * MediaWiki version: 1.14alpha (r43900)
 * PHP version: 5.2.1
 * MySQL version: 5.0.22
 * URL: http://reformedword.org

Meta uses a template H that just does this: }

That is, it takes the first parameter and makes it the roll-over (hover) text for the second parameter. My problem is when I try to do this:  That is, take the first parameter as a page (hopefully small) to transclude and make it be the text of the roll over. My suspicion is that there is some rule of HTML rendering order or allowed moves that prevents the text from being transcluded before the HTML is rendered. When I look at the source of the page on my wiki, I see a span without any  attribute at all. Do I need to use Manual:$wgRawHtml or one of the extensions, or is there some other variable which might help me? Thanks for your time. —Aquatiki 17:23, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Notification on changes without login

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51

We use our wiki to announce changes on our network. Every user is encouraged to watch the news page so he is getting updates via email. The problem is that after such an email is sent, the user has to visit the news page in order to get further notifications. Furthermore visiting only is not sufficient, he has to log in.

Is it possible to configure MediaWiki to send out notification-emails whether the user has visited the page since the last change or not?

—Windy 14:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Admin accounts?
I need to know how handle admin side that is checking the article and deleting it if it is not following regulations in my customised Wikipedia which I have installed last week for my organisation. In other words I want to know the procedure to set admin side after its installation, which will take care of deleting the contents with unwanted or wrong information.
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

Rakesh Pandita, Software Deveoper —Rakesh.pandita 04:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

how to send automatic Emails to users when a New page is created

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12
 * PHP version: 5.0
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL: intranet

Wanted to know if there is a way to intimate all wiki users whenever a New page is created ?

Thanx —59.164.116.156 17:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Installed MW, confirmation screen ok, goto home page and get IE blank page

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.0.5
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: Internal network can not suppply

When I go to main page (http://192.168.1.9/index.php?title=Main_Page) says Ie cannot display page.

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

PHP 5.0.5 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can. MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. Session save path (d:\apps\php505\sessiondata) appears to be valid. PHP is configured with no memory_limit. Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. GNU diff3 not found. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: D:\data\Inetpub\wwwweb_wiki Script URI path: Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand. Consider changing it manually. Generating configuration file...

Database type: MySQL Loading class: DatabaseMysql Attempting to connect to database server as fwwiki...success. Connected to 4.1.16-nt; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode Attempting to create database... Created database fwwiki Creating tables... done. Initializing statistics... Created sysop account admin2. Creating LocalSettings.php

—Rjdjohnston 22:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Editing Conflicts that won't go away.

 * MediaWiki 	1.12.0
 * PHP 	5.2.6 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL 	5.0.51-log
 * URL: http://securitywire.org

I am repeatedly running into Editing Conflict errors - even when I am the ONLY user editing. How can I just turn this off? Because doing as it says and merging my changes only resorts to another Editing Conflict. Im in a conflict loop and its driving me crazy.

—oldr4ver 14:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

a wiki where users can claim their record, and upload documents

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.1.1
 * MySQL version: 5.1
 * URL: none yet

We're working on a project whereby we need the notion of a claimant-- someone who owns the John Doe record, because they are indeed John Doe, and then they upload 1-n documents in html, word or pdf format, which will be converted to html if not html to start, that any other user can peruse, and comment upon. Will MediaWiki support such an endeavour?

—Petecamp 20:39, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) MediaWiki editor is removing the leading spaces at the front of lines when editting

 * MediaWiki version: 1.10.0
 * PHP version: 5.0.3
 * MySQL version: 5.0.41
 * URL: internal intranet, no public url

If I create a page with lines with leadings spaces (e.g. a block of formatted source code within source tags) and save it, it is displayed correctly, with the lines in a box. But when I edit the page again, within the editor the leading spaces are all removed from the text, and I have to remember to put them all back in again manually. I have searched the web and the help pages but cannot find what setting is causing this in my MediaWiki. Help would be appreciated! Thanks, Cathy Hemsley.


 * Note: I have found what appears to be the fault, by debugging the source code.  It is the SelectCategory and SelectCategoryTagCloud extensions that are causing the problem, afaics, when they strip out the categories they are using 'trim' to remove white space:  if I change this in the code to 'rtrim' it seems OK.
 * —213.106.210.154 09:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) authorisation system
I would like to ask if there is any authorisation system in MediaWIki. I need to know if MediaWiki supports authorisation permission to confirm the content (eg. editor write something and then moderator confirm content to make it visible on the webpage). Thanks for your help.
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

—89.76.156.101 10:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You should be able to do this with the FlaggedRevs extension. —Emufarmers(T 06:21, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) No wikisysop acct

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 4.4.9
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67

I installed MediaWiki for the first time and it seems to be running fine, but it appears I did not create a wikisysop account. How do I change this manually? I don't want to to reinstall.—Steve3849 08:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, the account exists. I was not being case sensitive. Problem solved. Steve3849 08:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Access error when creating an article

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51b-community-nt

When trying to create an article I get: Access error or: Permission errors - You do not have permission to edit pages in the Page namespace.

This doesn't appear with discussion pages.

—91.78.223.109 19:18, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

New Skin problem

 * MediaWiki version: 1.9.3
 * PHP version: 5.0
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL: http://www.thegeckocam.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hoofdpagina

Hi I've just installed a new skin and set it but the problem is, it only starts when I log in my own site but it doesn't show when you just look at the site and not log in.

Can somebody help me because then my site is finisht.

Thanks Greetfull.

--77.164.218.186 10:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Cant write swedish letters å, ä and ö

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL: http://www.skoltidningswiki.se/

i cant use the swedish letters å,ä and ö if i do so i get error 500 in internet explorer and just a white page in Firefox when clicking submit

—Itanium 22:14, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Add this to you LocalSettings.php:

ini_set( 'memory_limit', '32M' );

Had the same problem but this solved it.

Deleting error

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community

When trying to delete an article I get 500 Internal Server Error...

Ph-Menace Owner 18:55, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

blank pages

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

Hi there,

i got a strange problem:

After editing a site, by clicking on save or preview, all i get is a blank page. I am really helpless. Every hint is appreaciated.

—62.214.217.175 06:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Did you check Manual:Errors and Symptoms? -- :bdk: 09:38, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Case insensitivity article names for Russian language

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.1.30-community
 * URL:

Hello!

I`ve got the following problem - MediaWiki treats Russian article`s name in case sensitive way. For example, "RUSSIAN ARTICLE" and "Russian article" (in Russian symbols) are treated as different articles, while "ENGLISH ARTICLE" and "English article" are treated as the same article. How may I make MediaWiki to be case insensitive for article names in Russian language? Is there any config param of tweak available?

Thank you in advance!

Gleb.

—81.211.120.22 09:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Can Not Edit Sidebar (SOLVED)

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-log
 * URL: http://karaoke.kjams.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * Auth_phpBB version: 3.0.3 (2008-03-03)

I've googled. I've searched high and low. I've looked in the forums, I've looked everywhere. In all these places I see people who have the exact same problem as I do, and nobody has offered a solution that actually works.

I am the sysop, I own the wiki. But there is no edit tab on the Sidebar page. http://kjams.com/screenshots/no_edit_sidebar.png I am using Auth_phpBB, and i suspect it is interfering (however removing it did not solve the problem, but that also does not rule it out). And yes I tried ?action=edit, to no avail. Why am i able to delete a page (an obviously sysop priv) but I can't edit it?

I would be satisfied to know how to grant myself or a specific user permission to edit the Sidebar. —Davecotter 00:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Update: I solved this by deleting the page and re-creating it. Now i have edit privs again Davecotter 21:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Error
(all this doesn't work)
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

I can't access my wiki, I get this error: Error, Setup.php must be included from the file scope, after DefaultSettings.php

My host: http://klas1s1.oxyhost.com/wiki/

—62.140.137.30 19:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Strange output of contents

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL: intranet only

Hello,

I encounter misformatting on our intranet website. We have a running mediawiki on our intranet since July 2008. We didn't have had any problems, neither formatting nor anything else. And we didn't manupulate the database or contents through any other tools but mediawiki only! But since today apparently random errors are occuring, without having done anything on the server (no update or something like that):


 * our sitename is shown as "" on recently edited pages, which is the strongest hint I can give
 * the letters before and after some line endings are getting scrambled, even when no editing is done, but only saving the unchanged contents once again.

I have difficulties to produce the error to show the effects more clearly, but I think, the misformatting of should be enough to get a clue ??

Norbert —84.145.134.116 12:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Update: I found a description of a similar bug on bugzilla.wikimedia. The solution was to raise the memory limit for php above 20Mb, but our setting is already 128Mb, so it should be no memory issue

—Norbert 14:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating templates

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6 (isapi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community-nt
 * URL:

Is it possible to create a template or checklist from which each new entry can be created? We want each user in our organization to use the same list of categories when creating a new page, and we thought that a checklist, where they could simply select the appropriate categories, would be the most convenient and help avoid human error or data-entry issues. A template would be similarly helpful.

—Sputnika08 16:46, 27 January 2009 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version: 1.10.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.2
 * MySQL version: 5.0.41
 * URL: intranet only

For some WIKIs that are running in our Intranet, I need to authenticate our users using LDAP and the following two WIKI groups: Readers (testgroup) and Writers (testgroup2). Anonymous should not be able to read the WIKI pages.

my problem is, that using the syntax:

$wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array( "testLDAPdomain"=>array( "cn=testgroup,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com", "cn=testgroup2,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com" ),

I cannot define different rights for users in the testgroup than the users in the testgroup2 have. This mean, if a user is in one of each two groups, he will always get the Writers access.

Can you please explain how I can define two groups, with different rights (Readers & Writers)?

—194.150.244.93 12:22, 29 January 2009 (UTC)Alex Durrer

LDAP Authentication

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
 * PHP version: 5.1.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.22
 * URL: Intranet only

For some WIKIs that are running in our Intranet, I need to authenticate our users using LDAP and the following two WIKI groups: Readers (testgroup) and Writers (testgroup2). Anonymous should not be able to read the WIKI pages.

my problem is, that using the syntax:

$wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array(

"testLDAPdomain"=>array(    "cn=testgroup,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com",     "cn=testgroup2,ou=groups,dc=LDAP,dc=example,dc=com"     ), I cannot define different rights for users in the testgroup than the users in the testgroup2 have. This mean, if a user is in one of each two groups, he will always get the Writers access.

Can you please explain how I can define two groups, with different rights (Readers & Writers)?

—194.150.244.93 12:28, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Alex Durrer

I can see my editing only when i'm logged in

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.10
 * PHP: 4.3.9 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22
 * URL: http://socialwork.wiki.co.il

Since last week, i can only see my editing on my wiki site, when i'm logged in. When i'm signing out of my wiki site, trying to see the changes i made - The old page data appears, without the changes i made. I tried to check in different computers, but the problem persists. More strangely that there are few pages that does work - I can edit them and see the changes i make, even when i'm logged out. I tried to find any differences between the pages who works to those that doesn't work - didn't find any...

Most Regards, Energidi 08:47, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Unable to create or edit after pretty URLs installed.

 * MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community-log
 * URL:

Hello,

I recently installed pretty URLs using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_title_--_no_root_access

After running into problems with pages not displaying I found some solutions and got the wiki to display.

Here are my changes to teh LocalSettings.php

$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";        # Path to the actual files (right part of first rewrite rule). Should already be there $wgArticlePath = "/$1"; # Virtual path (left part of first rewrite rule). MUST be DIFFERENT from the path above! $wgUsePathInfo = true;

$actions = array('view', 'edit', 'watch', 'unwatch', 'delete','revert', 'rollback', 'protect', 'unprotect','info','markpatrolled','validate','render','deletetrackback','print',  'dublincore','creativecommons','credits','submit','viewsource','history','purge'); foreach ($actions as $a) $wgActionPaths[$a] = "$wgScriptPath/action/$a/$1"; Here is my .htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 Options +FollowSymLinks

The wiki displays properly, but I am not unable to edit content, create content or search. When searching it always comes up with no results.

—76.246.107.198 21:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki start page

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://www.nutripedia.se/wiki/

Hello dudes! :-)

I have installed MediaWiki and used the short url as pointed out here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Short_URL#Setup_steps (I asked my webhost to check httpd.conf) And it works fine. My issue is that I want the entrance to be loading the MediaWiki script as well. So that http://www.nutripedia.se/ loads up MediaWiki Start page. How would you go about to do that? :-)

Happy for any answers I can get, I'm a newbie on MediaWiki.. Cheers, Erik

—193.11.226.25 21:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Running MediaWiki inside a template like phpBB3

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.8 (cgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-community-log
 * URL:

I feel like it would help others if there were a solution to this. Most of my site is based on phpBB3. That allows for creating template pages and inserting a .php page within the standard framework. I tried to simply run the index.php from inside the phpBB template, but there were problems with finding files / directory paths. I manually edited some of the paths just to see if it might work, but there were other problems - calling member function getVal on a on-object, for example. PhpBB is installed in the root directory, and MediaWiki is inside /wiki. I guess it might solve some problems to put MediaWiki in the root directory, but that would be pretty bad for organization. I also tried including the phpBB header code in the MediaWiki file but that didn't work well at all. Since there's an excellent extension to share logins, it would be fantastic to be able to share the header from phpBB3 and keep the site continuity. Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this? Thank you very much for your time, Matt

—75.34.66.85 20:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false causes the "edit" link to be shown

 * MediaWiki version: 1.5.8
 * PHP version: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.67-log
 * URL:

I thought that $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; in LocalSettings.php could cause the "edit" link not to appear when an user is not logged in (documentation doesn't say it explicitly), but maybe I was wrong. Can you help me to hide the "edit" link when the user is not logged in?

Thanks Jaime

—190.8.102.216 20:21, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Upgrade MediaWiki. —Emufarmers(T 04:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.1.31
 * URL: Intranet documentation site

—206.83.145.28 21:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)