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(RESOLVED) Terminology - Call

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

Would it be correct to say that index.php "calls" the Logo image, calls the menus, etc? Smaug 22:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I would say "define", and please, Smaug, use the template to post your topic. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  19:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The logo image path is defined in LocalSettings.php which is included by index.php --Nad 21:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Smaug 18:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Lost sysop access
OH CRAP!!!!! I was trying to figure out how to turn on uploads (still haven't figured that one out yet: documentation is not easily found on this site) and I accidentally killed my bureaucrat privileges on the Userrights Page. Poof! How do I restore them???? No one else is a Bureaucrat and I can't find anything on this site to help me fix this.
 * MediaWiki: 1.10.1
 * PHP: 5.1.4
 * MySQL: 4.1.22
 * URL: I'm too embarrassed to release this!

I'm just starting to learn the ins and now especially the outs of PHP and SQL...is there a way of fixing this in MySQL? or in one of the myriad of PHP files?

Thanks!

—Keng 23:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You'll need to update the database directly with the following query. First login and go to Special:Preferences to get your user id number (I've used 999 in the example below, so replace that with your own user id), then shell in to your server or do a query with whatever means you have of accessing your database. Also note that if you're using a table prefix you'll need to prepend that to the user_groups table name.

INSERT INTO user_groups (ug_user,ug_group) VALUES(999,'sysop');
 * --Nad 02:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Also regarding uploads, you need to set $wgEnableUploads to true in your LocalSettings.php. There are also a number of other settings relating to uploads, see Category:Upload variables. --Nad 02:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

HTML inclusion
Is it possible to include the HTML code below in a wiki page without installing Google Maps extension ?

 View Larger Map

—201.21.160.180 15:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

How to integrate media wiki log in with website? (user reply needed)
How to integrate media wiki log in with website.? Please help ....


 * You mean how do you sync the MW login with non-MW login elsewhere on your site? It depends on how the rest of your website logs users in. Smaug  18:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Fatal Error on 'Recent Changes'

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.?
 * MySQL: 4.?
 * URL: Wyfopedia

My wiki has just stopped working. I can get ftp to it. Help!

-Wyfopedia 21:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi I have created an MediaWiki account now. IF you want to know what versions I'm on then please instruct me on how to find out. I'm worried that I have lost my database. I can see my wiki images. If I can download the database and images, I don't mind re-installing again from scratch. -Wyfopedia 21:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You appear to have some problems with your rewrites. As a first measure you can set $wgUsePathInfo to false in your LocalSettings.php. Bryan Tong Minh 20:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help Bryan Tong Minh. Wyfopedia 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I have backed up the database and image files, and upgraded to v. 1.12.0. The site now seems to be working again. However, I have the following error on 'Recent Changes':

'Fatal error: Class 'ChangesList' not found in /home/fhlinux182/w/wyfopedia.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/SpecialRecentchanges.php on line 221'

-Wyfopedia 20:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Pages imported by ImportTextFile.php NOT searchable

 * MediaWiki: 1.8.3
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 5.0.27
 * URL:

I am using ImportTextFile.php to import a number of pages and they show up in Recent Changes.

But if I do a search on some text that I know is in the pages, the results are NOT showing them.

Is there a way that I can ensure that these pages are also searchable?

Thanks.

—68.147.72.69 06:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Run the updateSearchIndex.php maintenance script. Emufarmers 02:23, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

That didn't work for imported pages as these pages were not selected during the run of the updateSearchIndex.php. The problem seems to be in the SELECT statement in updateSearchIndex.inc where "iaisrecentchanges" and "iaispage" tables are matched up to find the pages to be updated. The original SELECT statement is SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on    rc_cur_id=page_id AND rc_this_oldid=page_latest and since an imported page has a clean slate of attributes, they are NOT selected.

Looking at the actual attributes in the imported pages, rc_last_oldid is always set to 0, thus by changing the SELECT statement to SELECT ... FROM $recentchanges JOIN $page on     rc_cur_id=page_id AND (rc_this_oldid=page_latest OR rc_last_oldid=0) then those imported pages are also selected.

I also believe that newer versions of mediawiki might have fixed this.

68.147.72.69 16:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Changing sidebar according to article-language

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.1
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.27
 * URL: www.GS-500.info

Hi,

I'm currently translating my wiki from German to both English and Spanish. I'm happy with the solution to swap between the three languages, but as I modified the sidebar: Is there any possibility to indicate the article-language and change the sidebar accordingly? I already looked at Extension:LanguageSelector, Extension:Multilang and Extension: MultiLanguageManager but they all don't seem to tackle my problem as they assume the usage of an unchanged sidebar.

Kind regards, Timo

—82.11.169.246 11:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Nobody any idea? Timo --82.11.169.246 12:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hm. The example of http://www.art122-5.net/ given at Extension:MultiLanguageManager works with different languages in the sidebar (though I don't know if this is still MediaWiki). Elegant solution would be three wikis :-). What about additional sidebars added to Mediawiki:Sidebar? IMHO the most simple solution – there's just one "disadvantage": they will always show up together. --89.55.156.49 19:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) questions / mass actions
I have many questions :

- How can I create many pages automatically ? If I can't, is there another solution ? IS there a programm for injecting pages ( created by scripting shell) - How can I know all the pages depending on a page ? - How can I delete all the page created the same day ?

Thanks —192.54.193.51 09:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Importing_from_other_types_of_files

if you look through this site or use google you will find many helpful articles like that one JohnShep 20:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser weirdness - please investigate

 * MediaWiki: 1.13alpha from SVN
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL: it's on a localhost

I got CheckUser working, as well as Oversight and Makesysop, and surprisingly, despite what the CheckUser page here tells me, I didn't need run the command-line to get it working (to be honest, though, I actually had no PHP commandline utilities on XAMPP. Just added the SQL queries, and then copied the files to extensions directory, and for some reason, it actually worked and did a query. Is this a bug or is this meant to happen?? Should this go to Bugzilla?? Thanks, AP @ —82.42.237.84 15:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * How did en.wikipedia.org grant the rollback extension in the user rights log?? nothing in Special:Version about it. Thanks, AP @ --82.42.237.84 15:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If you ran the SQL queries that the installation script includes, then you've done its job.


 * The non-sysop rollback functionality has been in the core code since version 1.11 (Manual:User_rights_management). Emufarmers 02:13, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, so doing what I did above actually gets it working and it's not a bug?? Confused. AP @ --82.42.237.84 11:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If it's actually working, then yeah. The installation script just happens to be more convenient (and less error-prone) than running the queries directly. —Emufarmers(T 01:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Subcategories with the same name (resolved)

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.2
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: not ready

For example,I want create 3 categories: -Slackware -Ubuntu -openSuse I want,that each category must have the subcategory called "Script". But the slackware's script,must be different from ubuntu's script and suse's script. It is possible?How?

—79.3.253.38 19:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe you could just call the ubuntu subcategory "Ubuntu script" and the suse subcategory "suse script". I don't know if doing what you want to do is possible.  Is this a suitable workaround? Smaug  19:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes is a fine solution. But if I want only one category called Script foreach category(Slackware,suse,ubuntu...)it is possible?There are methods or extension that make this? thanks
 * The categories are identified by their names. How should it work with more categories using one and the same name? --Flominator 11:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Ajax Search doesn't work since 1.12.0 upgrade

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51
 * URL: I don't have URL because it is internal

Hi all,

I've upgrade MediaWiki 1.11.2 to 1.12.0 and everything went fine until I tested the AjaxSearch. It is not working anymore. In my LocalSettings.php I have $wgAjaxSearch = true; and to be sure I added $wgUseAjax = true;. I thought the problem may have been because of the upgrade, so I did a fresh install, but this did not helped at all.

Is there something new we need to do, so that the AjaxSearch actually works? Or is there a bug. I know AjaxSearch received some bugfix since the patch 1.12.0.

Thank you for your help.

Maxime.

—199.243.65.6 14:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

It seems like we now need to activate the AjaxSearch in the preferences of the user in the Search tab... Also, the new version of this Ajax search is bugged... I'll need to use the one from 1.11 + 1.12 to have a functional Search.

--199.243.65.6 14:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Reading passwords of users (resolved)

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: 4.1
 * URL: www.wikilh.tk

Hi. I have question. How I can read the password of my users? I dont want to change them, but i need to read them. I need fast answer. Thank you.

drake

—83.26.71.3 20:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You can't. —Emufarmers(T 21:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know the answer, but I must assume that since they are stored somewhere in the database, there must be some way to read them, even if it requires some decryption. Smaug 00:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki salts its MD5-hashed passwords, which, as far as I know, makes decryption impractical, if not impossible.


 * The only sort of counsel that I'll offer is that this is not ethical, and you're wasting your time anyway. —Emufarmers(T 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki optimization

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
 * URL: http://www.fan history.com/ Fan History Wiki

My wiki had problems with pages loading where we ended up with a few thousand articles in a category. This caused these pages either not to load or to load slowly. I queried my host about this. They said, among other things:

We tested the above mentioned URLs and managed to re-create the issue on our end. It is most likely caused by the timeout settings of our shared hosting servers, especially if the problematic pages contain lots of links with reference to your application's database.

Upon further investigation, we found out that the home page of your wiki is also loading a little bit slowly, due to the 274 links on this page. It loads for more than 2 seconds locally on the server, which it should not load for more than 1 second.

We will recommend you to contact a developer which is familiar with the source code of your application and possesses the required knowledge for optimizing it. The optimization usually involves reducing the number of links on the pages, reducing the overall size of the application's database, creating indexes for each table in the database, etc.

I switched to a VPS which makes some pages which previously wouldn't load now load. I also optimized the database on phpMyAdmin. I removed a few of the http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People extensions which were not being used actively. But if some pages link to certain categories, like http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People, new pages won't create and will time out. What more can be done to optimize things, fix the overly large category problem or just generally make the wiki load faster? I really want to continue to grow Fan History but this has thrown me for a loop. Is this something I can fix myself?

—PurplePopple 02:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Your site doesn't load for me, so I can't take a look at your categories, but we just had a similar query on the MWusers forums, and the simple answer was "caching." —Emufarmers(T 05:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The whole site doesn't load or just those pages? I've added the caching elements by adding     $wgUseFileCache = true; and   $wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; to the local settings but it doesn't seem to make the load any faster.  I've removed a few more extensions.  I've removed Google Analytics. It is still taking about 15 seconds for me to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Category:People Category:People to load and about 3 to get http://www.fan history.com/index.php/Main_Page the main page to load.  If I remove

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE; $wgMemCachedServers = array; $wgUseFileCache = true; $wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
 * 1) Shared memory settings


 * It actually seems to load a bit faster but not much. :/ (On a completely unrelated note, my host seems to have disabled image uploads...  *sighs*) --PurplePopple 12:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Help
This is what i get on my website.



Can somebody help me?

I will copy the text in the background for you.

, 2006 Rob Church # http://www.mediawiki.org/ # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html error_reporting( E_ALL ); header( "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8" ); @ini_set( "display_errors", true ); # In case of errors, let output be clean. $wgRequestTime = microtime( true ); # Attempt to set up the include path, to fix problems with relative includes $IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); define( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH', $IP ); # Define an entry point and include some files define( "MEDIAWIKI", true ); define( "MEDIAWIKI_INSTALL", true ); // Run version checks before including other files // so people don't see a scary parse error. require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); install_version_checks; require_once( "$IP/includes/Defines.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/AutoLoader.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/MagicWord.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Namespace.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/ProfilerStub.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/GlobalFunctions.php" ); require_once( "$IP/includes/Hooks.php" ); # If we get an exception, the user needs to know # all the details $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; ## Databases we support: $ourdb = array; $ourdb['mysql']['fullname'] = 'MySQL'; $ourdb['mysql']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['mysql']['compile'] = 'mysql'; $ourdb['mysql']['bgcolor'] = '#ffe5a7'; $ourdb['mysql']['rootuser'] = 'root'; $ourdb['postgres']['fullname'] = 'PostgreSQL'; $ourdb['postgres']['havedriver'] = 0; $ourdb['postgres']['compile'] = 'pgsql'; $ourdb['postgres']['bgcolor'] = '#aaccff'; $ourdb['postgres']['rootuser'] = 'postgres'; ?> MediaWiki Installation Setup has completed, your wiki is configured.

Please delete the /config directory for extra security. " ); } if( file_exists( "./LocalSettings.php" ) ) { writeSuccessMessage; dieout( '' ); } if( !is_writable( "." ) ) { dieout( " Can't write config file, aborting

In order to configure the wiki you have to make the config subdirectory writable by the web server. Once configuration is done you'll move the created LocalSettings.php to the parent directory, and for added safety you can then remove the config subdirectory entirely.

To make the directory writable on a Unix/Linux system:

cd /path/to/wiki chmod a+w config

Afterwards retry to start the setup. " ); } require_once( "$IP/install-utils.inc" ); require_once( "$IP/maintenance/updaters.inc" ); class ConfigData { function getEncoded( $data ) { # removing latin1 support, no need... return $data; } function getSitename { return $this->getEncoded( $this->Sitename ); } function getSysopName { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopName ); } function getSysopPass { return $this->getEncoded( $this->SysopPass ); } function setSchema( $schema, $engine ) { $this->DBschema = $schema; if ( !preg_match( '/^\w*$/', $engine ) ){ $engine = 'InnoDB'; } switch ( $this->DBschema ) { case 'mysql5': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; case 'mysql5-binary': $this->DBTableOptions = "ENGINE=$engine, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'true'; break; default: $this->DBTableOptions = "TYPE=$engine"; $this->DBmysql5 = 'false'; } $this->DBengine = $engine; # Set the global for use during install global $wgDBTableOptions; $wgDBTableOptions = $this->DBTableOptions; } } ?>

* 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 " . phpversion . " installed\n"; error_reporting( 0 ); $phpdatabases = array; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { $compname = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; if( extension_loaded( $compname ) || ( mw_have_dl && dl( "{$compname}." . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX ) ) ) { array_push($phpdatabases, $db); $ourdb[$db]['havedriver'] = 1; } } error_reporting( E_ALL ); if (!$phpdatabases) { print "Could not find a suitable database driver! o "; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { $comp = $ourdb[$db]['compile']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print "For $full, compile PHP using --with-$comp, " ."or install the $comp.so module \n"; } dieout( "

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.
 * 1) " ); } print "Found database drivers for:"; $DefaultDBtype = ; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) AS $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { if ( $DefaultDBtype ==  ) { $DefaultDBtype = $db; } print " ".$ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } } print "
 * 2) \n"; if( wfIniGetBool( "register_globals" ) ) { ?>
 * 1) Fatal: magic_quotes_runtime is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
 * 2) Fatal: magic_quotes_sybase is active! This option corrupts data input unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
 * 3) Fatal: mbstring.func_overload is active! This option causes errors and may corrupt data unpredictably; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.
 * 4) Fatal: zend.ze1_compatibility_mode is active! This option causes horrible bugs with MediaWiki; you cannot install or use MediaWiki unless this option is disabled.

Cannot install MediaWiki. " ); } if( wfIniGetBool( "safe_mode" ) ) { $conf->safeMode = true; ?> " . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . " seems too low, installation may fail!"; } else { $conf->raiseMemory = true; print "ok."; } } print "
 * 1) Warning: PHP's safe mode is active. You may have problems caused by this, particularly if using image uploads.
 * 2) safeMode = false; } $sapi = php_sapi_name; print "PHP server API is $sapi; "; $script = defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT') ? 'index.php5' : 'index.php'; if( $wgUsePathInfo ) { print "ok, using pretty URLs ($script/Page_Title)"; } else { print "using ugly URLs ($script?title=Page_Title)"; } print "
 * 3) \n"; $conf->xml = function_exists( "utf8_encode" ); if( $conf->xml ) { print "Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * 4) \n"; } else { dieout( "PHP's XML module is missing; the wiki requires functions in this module and won't work in this configuration. If you're running Mandrake, install the php-xml package." ); } # Check for session support if( !function_exists( 'session_name' ) ) dieout( "PHP's session module is missing. MediaWiki requires session support in order to function." ); # session.save_path doesn't *have* to be set, but if it is, and it's # not valid/writable/etc. then it can cause problems $sessionSavePath = mw_get_session_save_path; $ssp = htmlspecialchars( $sessionSavePath ); # Warn the user if it's not set, but let them proceed if( !$sessionSavePath ) { print "Warning: A value for session.save_path has not been set in PHP.ini. If the default value causes problems with saving session data, set it to a valid path which is read/write/execute for the user your web server is running under.
 * 5) "; } elseif ( is_dir( $sessionSavePath ) && is_writable( $sessionSavePath ) ) { # All good? Let the user know print "Session save path ({$ssp}) appears to be valid.
 * 6) "; } else { # Something not right? Warn the user, but let them proceed print "Warning: Your session.save_path value ({$ssp}) appears to be invalid or is not writable. PHP needs to be able to save data to this location for correct session operation.
 * 7) "; } # Check for PCRE support if( !function_exists( 'preg_match' ) ) dieout( "The PCRE support module appears to be missing. MediaWiki requires the Perl-compatible regular expression functions." ); $memlimit = ini_get( "memory_limit" ); $conf->raiseMemory = false; if( empty( $memlimit ) || $memlimit == -1 ) { print "PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
 * 8) \n"; } else { print "PHP's memory_limit is " . htmlspecialchars( $memlimit ) . ". "; $n = intval( $memlimit ); if( preg_match( '/^([0-9]+)[Mm]$/', trim( $memlimit ), $m ) ) { $n = intval( $m[1] * (1024*1024) ); } if( $n < 20*1024*1024 ) { print "Attempting to raise limit to 20M... "; if( false === ini_set( "memory_limit", "20M" ) ) { print "failed.
 * 1) \n"; } $conf->turck = function_exists( 'mmcache_get' ); if ( $conf->turck ) { print "Turck MMCache installed
 * 2) \n"; } $conf->xcache = function_exists( 'xcache_get' ); if( $conf->xcache ) print "XCache installed
 * 3) "; $conf->apc = function_exists('apc_fetch'); if ($conf->apc ) { print "APC installed
 * 4) "; } $conf->eaccel = function_exists( 'eaccelerator_get' ); if ( $conf->eaccel ) { $conf->turck = 'eaccelerator'; print "eAccelerator installed
 * 5) \n"; } $conf->dba = function_exists( 'dba_open' ); if( !( $conf->turck || $conf->eaccel || $conf->apc || $conf->xcache ) ) { echo( 'Couldn\'t find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.
 * 6) ' ); } $conf->diff3 = false; $diff3locations = array_merge( array( "/usr/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/gnu/bin", "/usr/sfw/bin" ), explode( PATH_SEPARATOR, getenv( "PATH" ) ) ); $diff3names = array( "gdiff3", "diff3", "diff3.exe" ); $diff3versioninfo = array( '$1 --version 2>&1', 'diff3 (GNU diffutils)' ); foreach ($diff3locations as $loc) { $exe = locate_executable($loc, $diff3names, $diff3versioninfo); if ($exe !== false) { $conf->diff3 = $exe; break; } } if ($conf->diff3) print "Found GNU diff3: $conf->diff3.
 * 7) "; else print "GNU diff3 not found.
 * 8) "; $conf->ImageMagick = false; $imcheck = array( "/usr/bin", "/opt/csw/bin", "/usr/local/bin", "/sw/bin", "/opt/local/bin" ); foreach( $imcheck as $dir ) { $im = "$dir/convert"; if( @file_exists( $im ) ) { print "Found ImageMagick: $im; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 9) \n"; $conf->ImageMagick = $im; break; } } $conf->HaveGD = function_exists( "imagejpeg" ); if( $conf->HaveGD ) { print "Found GD graphics library built-in"; if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print ", image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads"; } print ".
 * 10) \n"; } else { if( !$conf->ImageMagick ) { print "Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled.
 * 11) \n"; } } $conf->IP = dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ); print "Installation directory: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->IP ) . "
 * 12) \n"; // PHP_SELF isn't available sometimes, such as when PHP is CGI but // cgi.fix_pathinfo is disabled. In that case, fall back to SCRIPT_NAME // to get the path to the current script... hopefully it's reliable. SIGH $path = ($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] === '') ? $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] : $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $conf->ScriptPath = preg_replace( '{^(.*)/config.*$}', '$1', $path ); print "Script URI path: " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->ScriptPath ) . "
 * 13) \n"; // We may be installing from *.php5 extension file, if so, print message $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php'; if (defined('MW_INSTALL_PHP5_EXT')) { $conf->ScriptExtension = '.php5'; print "Installing MediaWiki with php5 file extensions
 * 14) \n"; } else { print "Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * 15) \n"; } print "Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
 * 16) \n"; $conf->posted = ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"); $conf->Sitename = ucfirst( importPost( "Sitename", "" ) ); $defaultEmail = empty( $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"] ) ? 'root@localhost' : $_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]; $conf->EmergencyContact = importPost( "EmergencyContact", $defaultEmail ); $conf->DBtype = importPost( "DBtype", $DefaultDBtype ); ?> DBserver = importPost( "DBserver", "localhost" ); $conf->DBname = importPost( "DBname", "wikidb" ); $conf->DBuser = importPost( "DBuser", "wikiuser" ); $conf->DBpassword = importPost( "DBpassword" ); $conf->DBpassword2 = importPost( "DBpassword2" ); $conf->SysopName = importPost( "SysopName", "WikiSysop" ); $conf->SysopPass = importPost( "SysopPass" ); $conf->SysopPass2 = importPost( "SysopPass2" ); $conf->RootUser = importPost( "RootUser", "root" ); $conf->RootPW = importPost( "RootPW", "" ); $useRoot = importCheck( 'useroot', false ); $conf->LanguageCode = importPost( "LanguageCode", "en" ); ## MySQL specific: $conf->DBprefix = importPost( "DBprefix" ); $conf->setSchema( importPost( "DBschema", "mysql4" ), importPost( "DBengine", "InnoDB" ) ); ## Postgres specific: $conf->DBport = importPost( "DBport", "5432" ); $conf->DBmwschema = importPost( "DBmwschema", "mediawiki" ); $conf->DBts2schema = importPost( "DBts2schema", "public" ); /* Check for validity */ $errs = array; if( preg_match( '/^$|^mediawiki$|#/i', $conf->Sitename ) ) { $errs["Sitename"] = "Must not be blank or \"MediaWiki\" and may not contain \"#\""; } if( $conf->DBuser == "" ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') && (strlen($conf->DBuser) > 16) ) { $errs["DBuser"] = "Username too long"; } if( $conf->DBpassword == "" && $conf->DBtype != "postgres" ) { $errs["DBpassword"] = "Must not be blank"; } if( $conf->DBpassword != $conf->DBpassword2 ) { $errs["DBpassword2"] = "Passwords don't match!"; } if( !preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z_0-9]*$/', $conf->DBprefix ) ) { $errs["DBprefix"] = "Invalid table prefix"; } error_reporting( E_ALL ); /** * Initialise $wgLang and $wgContLang to something so we can * call case-folding methods. Per Brion, this is English for * now, although we could be clever and initialise to the * user-selected language. */ $wgContLang = Language::factory( 'en' ); $wgLang = $wgContLang; /** * We're messing about with users, so we need a stub * authentication plugin... */ $wgAuth = new AuthPlugin; /** * Validate the initial administrator account; username, * password checks, etc. */ if( $conf->SysopName ) { # Check that the user can be created $u = User::newFromName( $conf->SysopName ); if( is_a($u, 'User') ) { // please do not use instanceof, it breaks PHP4 # Various password checks if( $conf->SysopPass != '' ) { if( $conf->SysopPass == $conf->SysopPass2 ) { if( !$u->isValidPassword( $conf->SysopPass ) ) { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Bad password"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass2'] = "Passwords don't match"; } } else { $errs['SysopPass'] = "Cannot be blank"; } unset( $u ); } else { $errs['SysopName'] = "Bad username"; } } $conf->License = importRequest( "License", "none" ); if( $conf->License == "gfdl" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html"; $conf->RightsText = "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2"; $conf->RightsCode = "gfdl"; $conf->RightsIcon = '${wgScriptPath}/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png'; } elseif( $conf->License == "none" ) { $conf->RightsUrl = $conf->RightsText = $conf->RightsCode = $conf->RightsIcon = ""; } else { $conf->RightsUrl = importRequest( "RightsUrl", "" ); $conf->RightsText = importRequest( "RightsText", "" ); $conf->RightsCode = importRequest( "RightsCode", "" ); $conf->RightsIcon = importRequest( "RightsIcon", "" ); } $conf->Shm = importRequest( "Shm", "none" ); $conf->MCServers = importRequest( "MCServers" ); /* Test memcached servers */ if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' && $conf->MCServers ) { $conf->MCServerArray = array_map( 'trim', explode( ',', $conf->MCServers ) ); foreach ( $conf->MCServerArray as $server ) { $error = testMemcachedServer( $server ); if ( $error ) { $errs["MCServers"] = $error; break; } } } else if ( $conf->Shm == 'memcached' ) { $errs["MCServers"] = "Please specify at least one server if you wish to use memcached"; } /* default values for installation */ $conf->Email = importRequest("Email", "email_enabled"); $conf->Emailuser = importRequest("Emailuser", "emailuser_enabled"); $conf->Enotif = importRequest("Enotif", "enotif_allpages"); $conf->Eauthent = importRequest("Eauthent", "eauthent_enabled"); if( $conf->posted && ( 0 == count( $errs ) ) ) { do { /* So we can 'continue' to end prematurely */ $conf->Root = ($conf->RootPW != ""); /* Load up the settings and get installin' */ $local = writeLocalSettings( $conf ); echo "\n"; echo "

Generating configuration file... \n"; echo " \n"; $wgCommandLineMode = false; chdir( ".." ); $ok = eval( $local ); if( $ok === false ) { dieout( "Errors in generated configuration; " . "most likely due to a bug in the installer... " . "Config file was: " . "

" .				htmlspecialchars( $local ) .				"

\n"; } else { $err = mysql_errno; $databaseSafe = htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ); if( $err == 1102 /* Invalid database name */ ) { print "
 * 1) " . "" ); } $conf->DBtypename = ''; foreach (array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($conf->DBtype === $db) $conf->DBtypename = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; } if ( ! strlen($conf->DBtype)) { $errs["DBpicktype"] = "Please choose a database type"; continue; } if (! $conf->DBtypename) { $errs["DBtype"] = "Unknown database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print "Database type: {$conf->DBtypename}
 * 2) \n"; $dbclass = 'Database'.ucfirst($conf->DBtype); $wgDBtype = $conf->DBtype; $wgDBadminuser = "root"; $wgDBadminpassword = $conf->RootPW; ## Mysql specific: $wgDBprefix = $conf->DBprefix; ## Postgres specific: $wgDBport = $conf->DBport; $wgDBmwschema = $conf->DBmwschema; $wgDBts2schema = $conf->DBts2schema; $wgCommandLineMode = true; if (! defined ( 'STDERR' ) ) define( 'STDERR', fopen("php://stderr", "wb")); $wgUseDatabaseMessages = false; /* FIXME: For database failure */ require_once( "$IP/includes/Setup.php" ); chdir( "config" ); $wgTitle = Title::newFromText( "Installation script" ); error_reporting( E_ALL ); print "Loading class: $dbclass"; $dbc = new $dbclass; if( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' ) { $mysqlOldClient = version_compare( mysql_get_client_info, "4.1.0", "lt" ); if( $mysqlOldClient ) { print "
 * 3) PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
 * 4) \n"; } $ok = true; # Let's be optimistic # Decide if we're going to use the superuser or the regular database user $conf->Root = $useRoot; if( $conf->Root ) { $db_user = $conf->RootUser; $db_pass = $conf->RootPW; } else { $db_user = $wgDBuser; $db_pass = $wgDBpassword; } # Attempt to connect echo( "Attempting to connect to database server as $db_user..." ); $wgDatabase = Database::newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $db_user, $db_pass, '', 1 ); # Check the connection and respond to errors if( $wgDatabase->isOpen ) { # Seems OK $ok = true; $wgDBadminuser = $db_user; $wgDBadminpassword = $db_pass; echo( "success.
 * 5) \n" ); $wgDatabase->ignoreErrors( true ); $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion; } else { # There were errors, report them and back out $ok = false; $errno = mysql_errno; $errtx = htmlspecialchars( mysql_error ); switch( $errno ) { case 1045: case 2000: echo( "failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords." ); if( $conf->Root ) { # The superuser details are wrong $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; } else { # The regular user details are wrong $errs["DBuser"] = "Check username"; $errs["DBpassword"] = "and password"; } break; case 2002: case 2003: default: # General connection problem echo( "failed with error [$errno] $errtx.\n" ); $errs["DBserver"] = "Connection failed"; break; } # switch } #conn. att. if( !$ok ) { continue; } } else /* not mysql */ { error_reporting( E_ALL ); $wgSuperUser = ''; ## Possible connect as a superuser if( $useRoot ) { $wgDBsuperuser = $conf->RootUser; echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"postgres\" as superuser \"$wgDBsuperuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBsuperuser, $conf->RootPW, "postgres", 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError . "
 * 6) \n"; $errs["DBserver"] = "Could not connect to database as superuser"; $errs["RootUser"] = "Check username"; $errs["RootPW"] = "and password"; continue; } $wgDatabase->initial_setup($conf->RootPW, 'postgres'); } echo( "Attempting to connect to database \"$wgDBname\" as \"$wgDBuser\"..." ); $wgDatabase = $dbc->newFromParams($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1); if (!$wgDatabase->isOpen) { print " error: " . $wgDatabase->lastError . "
 * 7) \n"; } else { $myver = $wgDatabase->getServerVersion; } $wgDatabase->initial_setup('', $wgDBname); } if ( !$wgDatabase->isOpen ) { $errs["DBserver"] = "Couldn't connect to database"; continue; } print "Connected to $myver"; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { if( version_compare( $myver, "4.0.14" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " -- mysql 4.0.14 or later required. Aborting." ); } $mysqlNewAuth = version_compare( $myver, "4.1.0", "ge" ); if( $mysqlNewAuth && $mysqlOldClient ) { print "; You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP is linked to old client libraries; if you have trouble with authentication, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } if( $wgDBmysql5 ) { if( $mysqlNewAuth ) { print "; enabling MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode"; } else { print "; MySQL 4.1/5.0 charset mode enabled, but older version detected; will likely fail."; } } print "
 * 8) \n"; @$sel = $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); if( $sel ) { print "Database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . " exists

* {$databaseSafe} is not a valid database name.

"; continue; } elseif( $err != 1049 /* Database doesn't exist */ ) { print "

* Error selecting database {$databaseSafe}: {$err} "; print htmlspecialchars( mysql_error ) . "

\n"; dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); } } } print "
 * 1) "; continue; } print "Attempting to create database...
 * 2) "; $res = $wgDatabase->query( "CREATE DATABASE `$wgDBname`" ); if( !$res ) { print "Couldn't create database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "; try with root access or check your username/pass.
 * 3) \n"; $errs["RootPW"] = "<- Enter"; continue; } print "Created database " . htmlspecialchars( $wgDBname ) . "
 * 4) \n"; } $wgDatabase->selectDB( $wgDBname ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { if( version_compare( $myver, "PostgreSQL 8.0" ) < 0 ) { dieout( " Postgres 8.0 or later is required. Aborting." ); } } if( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "cur" ) || $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { print "There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed...
 * 5) \n"; if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # Determine existing default character set if ( $wgDatabase->tableExists( "revision" ) ) { $revision = $wgDatabase->escapeLike( $conf->DBprefix . 'revision' ); $res = $wgDatabase->query( "SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE '$revision'" ); $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ); if ( !$row ) { echo "SHOW TABLE STATUS query failed!
 * 6) \n"; $existingSchema = false; $existingEngine = false; } else { if ( preg_match( '/^latin1/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql4'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^utf8/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5'; } elseif ( preg_match( '/^binary/', $row->Collation ) ) { $existingSchema = 'mysql5-binary'; } else { $existingSchema = false; echo "Warning: Unrecognised existing collation
 * 7) \n"; } if ( isset( $row->Engine ) ) { $existingEngine = $row->Engine; } else { $existingEngine = $row->Type; } } if ( $existingSchema && $existingSchema != $conf->DBschema ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBschema} schema, " . "but the existing database has the $existingSchema schema. This upgrade script ". "can't convert it, so it will remain $existingSchema.
 * 8) \n"; $conf->setSchema( $existingSchema, $conf->DBengine ); } if ( $existingEngine && $existingEngine != $conf->DBengine ) { print "Warning: you requested the {$conf->DBengine} storage " . "engine, but the existing database uses the $existingEngine engine. This upgrade " . "script can't convert it, so it will remain $existingEngine.
 * 9) \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, $existingEngine ); } } # Create user if required if ( $conf->Root ) { $conn = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if ( $conn->isOpen ) { print "DB user account ok
 * 10) \n"; $conn->close; } else { print "Granting user permissions..."; if( $mysqlOldClient && $mysqlNewAuth ) { print " If the next step fails, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help."; } print "

\n";			chdir( ".." );			flush;			do_all_updates;			chdir( "config" );			print "

\n"; print "

* Finished update checks. * \n"; } else { # Determine available storage engines if possible if ( $conf->DBtype == 'mysql' && version_compare( $myver, "4.1.2", "ge" ) ) { $res = $wgDatabase->query( 'SHOW ENGINES' ); $found = false; while ( $row = $wgDatabase->fetchObject( $res ) ) { if ( $row->Engine == $conf->DBengine ) { $found = true; break; } } $wgDatabase->freeResult( $res ); if ( !$found && $conf->DBengine != 'MyISAM' ) { echo "Warning: {$conf->DBengine} storage engine not available, " . "using MyISAM instead * \n"; $conf->setSchema( $conf->DBschema, 'MyISAM' ); } } # FIXME: Check for errors print "Creating tables..."; if ($conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { dbsource( "../maintenance/tables.sql", $wgDatabase ); dbsource( "../maintenance/interwiki.sql", $wgDatabase ); } else if ($conf->DBtype == 'postgres') { $wgDatabase->setup_database; } else { $errs["DBtype"] = "Do not know how to handle database type '$conf->DBtype'"; continue; } print " done. * \n"; print "Initializing statistics...   * \n"; $wgDatabase->insert( 'site_stats', array ( 'ss_row_id' => 1, 'ss_total_views' => 0, 'ss_total_edits' => 1, # Main page first edit 'ss_good_articles' => 0, # Main page is not a good article - no internal link 'ss_total_pages' => 1, # Main page 'ss_users' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_admins' => $conf->SysopName ? 1 : 0, # Sysop account, if created 'ss_images' => 0 ) ); # Set up the "regular user" account *if we can, and if we need to* if( $conf->Root and $conf->DBtype == 'mysql') { # See if we need to $wgDatabase2 = $dbc->newFromParams( $wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, 1 ); if( $wgDatabase2->isOpen ) { # Nope, just close the test connection and continue $wgDatabase2->close; echo( "User $wgDBuser exists. Skipping grants.    * \n" ); } else { # Yes, so run the grants echo( "Granting user permissions to $wgDBuser on $wgDBname..." ); dbsource( "../maintenance/users.sql", $wgDatabase ); echo( "success.   * \n" ); } } if( $conf->SysopName ) { $u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName ); if ( !$u ) { print "Warning: Skipped sysop account creation - invalid username!    * \n"; } else if ( 0 == $u->idForName ) { $u->addToDatabase; $u->setPassword( $conf->getSysopPass ); $u->saveSettings; $u->addGroup( "sysop" ); $u->addGroup( "bureaucrat" ); print "Created sysop account " . htmlspecialchars( $conf->SysopName ) . ".    * \n"; } else { print "Could not create user - already exists!    * \n"; } } else { print "Skipped sysop account creation, no name given.    * \n"; } $titleobj = Title::newFromText( wfMsgNoDB( "mainpage" ) ); $article = new Article( $titleobj ); $newid = $article->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $revision = new Revision( array( 'page' => $newid, 'text' => wfMsg( 'mainpagetext' ) . "\n\n" . wfMsgNoTrans( 'mainpagedocfooter' ), 'comment' => '', 'user' => 0, 'user_text' => 'MediaWiki default', ) ); $revid = $revision->insertOn( $wgDatabase ); $article->updateRevisionOn( $wgDatabase, $revision ); } /* Write out the config file now that all is well */ print "\n"; print "

Creating LocalSettings.php...     \n\n"; $localSettings = "<" . "?php$endl$local"; // Fix up a common line-ending problem (due to CVS on Windows) $localSettings = str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localSettings ); $f = fopen( "LocalSettings.php", 'xt' ); if( $f == false ) { dieout( "

Couldn't write out LocalSettings.php. Check that the directory permissions are correct and that there isn't already a file of that name here...     \n" . "

Here's the file that would have been written, try to paste it into place manually: \n" . "

\n" . htmlspecialchars( $localSettings ) . "

\n" ); } if(fwrite( $f, $localSettings ) ) { fclose( $f ); print "

\n"; writeSuccessMessage; } else { fclose( $f ); die("

An error occured while writing the config/LocalSettings.php file. Check user rights and disk space then try again. \n"); print "\n"; } } while( false ); } ?> posted ) { echo "

Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly. \n"; } ?> Site config

Preferably a short word without punctuation, i.e. "Wikipedia". Will appear as the namespace name for "meta" pages, and throughout the interface.

Displayed to users in some error messages, used as the return address for password reminders, and used as the default sender address of e-mail notifications. Language:

Select the language for your wiki's interface. Some localizations aren't fully complete. Unicode (UTF-8) is used for all localizations. Copyright/license:

*   *    * ScriptPath}/config/$script?License=cc&RightsUrl=[license_url]&RightsText=[license_name]&RightsCode=[license_code]&RightsIcon=[license_button]" ); $icon = urlencode( "$wgServer$wgUploadPath/wiki.png" ); $ccApp = htmlspecialchars( "http://creativecommons.org/license/?partner=$partner&exit_url=$exit&partner_icon_url=$icon" ); print "choose"; ?> License == "cc" ) { ?>          o RightsIcon ) . "\" alt='(Creative Commons icon)' />", "hidden" ); ?> o RightsText ), "hidden" ); ?> o RightsCode ), "hidden" ); ?> o RightsUrl ) . "\">" . htmlspecialchars( $conf->RightsUrl ) . "", "hidden" ); ?>

A notice, icon, and machine-readable copyright metadata will be displayed for the license you pick.

An admin can lock/delete pages, block users from editing, and do other maintenance tasks. A new account will be added only when creating a new wiki database.

The password cannot be the same as the username. Object caching:

*   * turck ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "Turck MMCache", "radio", "turck" ); echo "    * "; } if( $conf->xcache ) { echo( '' ); aField( $conf, 'Shm', 'XCache', 'radio', 'xcache' ); echo( ' * ' ); } if ( $conf->apc ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "APC", "radio", "apc" ); echo "   * "; } if ( $conf->eaccel ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "eAccelerator", "radio", "eaccel" ); echo "    * "; } if ( $conf->dba ) { echo ""; aField( $conf, "Shm", "DBA (not recommended)", "radio", "dba" ); echo "    * "; } ?>

An object caching system such as memcached will provide a significant performance boost, but needs to be installed. Provide the server addresses and ports in a comma-separated list.

MediaWiki can also detect and support eAccelerator, Turck MMCache, APC, and XCache, but these should not be used if the wiki will be running on multiple application servers.

DBA (Berkeley-style DB) is generally slower than using no cache at all, and is only recommended for testing. E-mail, e-mail notification and authentication setup E-mail features (global):

*   *

Use this to disable all e-mail functions (password reminders, user-to-user e-mail, and e-mail notifications) if sending mail doesn't work on your server. User-to-user e-mail:

*   *

The user-to-user e-mail feature (Special:Emailuser) lets the wiki act as a relay to allow users to exchange e-mail without publicly advertising their e-mail address. E-mail notification about changes:

*   *    *

For this feature to work, an e-mail address must be present for the user account, and the notification options in the user's preferences must be enabled. Also note the authentication option below. When testing the feature, keep in mind that your own changes will never trigger notifications to be sent to yourself.

There are additional options for fine tuning in /includes/DefaultSettings.php; copy these to your LocalSettings.php and edit them there to change them. E-mail address authentication:

*   *

If this option is enabled, users have to confirm their e-mail address using a magic link sent to them whenever they set or change it, and only authenticated e-mail addresses can receive mails from other users and/or change notification mails. Setting this option is recommended for public wikis because of potential abuse of the e-mail features above. Database config Database type: $errs[DBpicktype]\n"; ?>

If your database server isn't on your web server, enter the name or IP address here.

If you only have a single user account and database available, enter those here. If you have database root access (see below) you can specify new accounts/databases to be created. This account will not be created if it pre-exists. If this is the case, ensure that it has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE permissions on the MediaWiki database. Superuser account: checked="checked" /> Use superuser account

If the database user specified above does not exist, or does not have access to create the database (if needed) or tables within it, please check the box and provide details of a superuser account, such as root, which does.

If you need to share one database between multiple wikis, or between MediaWiki and another web application, you may choose to add a prefix to all the table names to avoid conflicts.

Avoid exotic characters; something like mw_ is good. Storage Engine Select one:

*   *

InnoDB is best for public web installations, since it has good concurrency support. MyISAM may be faster in single-user installations. MyISAM databases tend to get corrupted more often than InnoDB databases. Database character set Select one:

*   *    *

EXPERIMENTAL: You can enable explicit Unicode charset support for MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 servers. This is not well tested and may cause things to break. If upgrading an older installation, leave in backwards-compatible mode.

The username specified above (at "DB username") will have its search path set to the above schemas, so it is recommended that you create a new user. The above schemas are generally correct: only change them if you are sure you need to.

Installation successful!

To complete the installation, please do the following:

1. Download config/LocalSettings.php with your FTP client or file manager 2. Upload it to the parent directory 3. Delete config/LocalSettings.php 4. Start using your wiki!

If you are in a shared hosting environment, do not just move LocalSettings.php remotely. LocalSettings.php is currently owned by the user your webserver is running under, which means that anyone on the same server can read your database password! Downloading it and uploading it again will hopefully change the ownership to a user ID specific to you. EOT; } else { echo <<

Installation successful! Move the config/LocalSettings.php file to the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki.

You should change file permissions for LocalSettings.php as required to prevent other users on the server reading passwords and altering configuration data. \n"; } } print "\n"; } function database_switcher($db) { global $ourdb; $color = $ourdb[$db]['bgcolor']; $full = $ourdb[$db]['fullname']; print " "; } ?>
 * 1) EOT; } } function escapePhpString( $string ) { if ( is_array( $string ) || is_object( $string ) ) { return false; } return strtr( $string, array( "\n" => "\\n", "\r" => "\\r", "\t" => "\\t", "\\" => "\\\\", "\$" => "\\\$", "\"" => "\\\"" )); } function writeLocalSettings( $conf ) { $conf->PasswordSender = $conf->EmergencyContact; $magic = ($conf->ImageMagick ? "" : "# "); $convert = ($conf->ImageMagick ? $conf->ImageMagick : "/usr/bin/convert" ); $rights = ($conf->RightsUrl) ? "" : "# "; $hashedUploads = $conf->safeMode ? '' : '# '; switch ( $conf->Shm ) { case 'memcached': $cacheType = 'CACHE_MEMCACHED'; $mcservers = var_export( $conf->MCServerArray, true ); break; case 'turck': case 'xcache': case 'apc': case 'eaccel': $cacheType = 'CACHE_ACCEL'; $mcservers = 'array'; break; case 'dba': $cacheType = 'CACHE_DBA'; $mcservers = 'array'; break; default: $cacheType = 'CACHE_NONE'; $mcservers = 'array'; } if ( $conf->Email == 'email_enabled' ) { $enableemail = 'true'; $enableuseremail = ( $conf->Emailuser == 'emailuser_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; $eauthent = ( $conf->Eauthent == 'eauthent_enabled' ) ? 'true' : 'false' ; switch ( $conf->Enotif ) { case 'enotif_usertalk': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; break; case 'enotif_allpages': $enotifusertalk = 'true'; $enotifwatchlist = 'true'; break; default: $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } } else { $enableuseremail = 'false'; $enableemail = 'false'; $eauthent = 'false'; $enotifusertalk = 'false'; $enotifwatchlist = 'false'; } $file = @fopen( "/dev/urandom", "r" ); if ( $file ) { $secretKey = bin2hex( fread( $file, 32 ) ); fclose( $file ); } else { $secretKey = ""; for ( $i=0; $i<8; $i++ ) { $secretKey .= dechex(mt_rand(0, 0x7fffffff)); } print "Warning: \$wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand. Consider changing it manually.
 * 2) \n"; } # Add slashes to strings for double quoting $slconf = array_map( "escapePhpString", get_object_vars( $conf ) ); if( $conf->License == 'gfdl' ) { # Needs literal string interpolation for the current style path $slconf['RightsIcon'] = $conf->RightsIcon; } $localsettings = " # This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer. # If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to # recreate them later. # # See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings # and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_ # file, not there. # If you customize your file layout, set \$IP to the directory that contains # the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files. if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) { \$IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH; } else { \$IP = dirname( __FILE__ ); } \$path = array( \$IP, \"\$IP/includes\", \"\$IP/languages\" ); set_include_path( implode( PATH_SEPARATOR, \$path ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path ); require_once( \"\$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php\" ); # If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail. " . ($conf->raiseMemory ? '' : '# ' ) . "ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );" . " if ( \$wgCommandLineMode ) { if ( isset( \$_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', \$_SERVER ) ) { die( \"This script must be run from the command line\\n\" ); } } ## Uncomment this to disable output compression # \$wgDisableOutputCompression = true; \$wgSitename = \"{$slconf['Sitename']}\"; ## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki; ## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this. \$wgScriptPath = \"{$slconf['ScriptPath']}\"; \$wgScriptExtension = \"{$slconf['ScriptExtension']}\"; ## For more information on customizing the URLs please see: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL \$wgEnableEmail = $enableemail; \$wgEnableUserEmail = $enableuseremail; \$wgEmergencyContact = \"{$slconf['EmergencyContact']}\"; \$wgPasswordSender = \"{$slconf['PasswordSender']}\"; ## For a detailed description of the following switches see ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Email_notification ## There are many more options for fine tuning available see ## /includes/DefaultSettings.php ## UPO means: this is also a user preference option \$wgEnotifUserTalk = $enotifusertalk; # UPO \$wgEnotifWatchlist = $enotifwatchlist; # UPO \$wgEmailAuthentication = $eauthent; \$wgDBtype = \"{$slconf['DBtype']}\"; \$wgDBserver = \"{$slconf['DBserver']}\"; \$wgDBname = \"{$slconf['DBname']}\"; \$wgDBuser = \"{$slconf['DBuser']}\"; \$wgDBpassword = \"{$slconf['DBpassword']}\"; # MySQL specific settings \$wgDBprefix = \"{$slconf['DBprefix']}\"; # MySQL table options to use during installation or update \$wgDBTableOptions = \"{$slconf['DBTableOptions']}\"; # Experimental charset support for MySQL 4.1/5.0. \$wgDBmysql5 = {$conf->DBmysql5}; # Postgres specific settings \$wgDBport = \"{$slconf['DBport']}\"; \$wgDBmwschema = \"{$slconf['DBmwschema']}\"; \$wgDBts2schema = \"{$slconf['DBts2schema']}\"; ## Shared memory settings \$wgMainCacheType = $cacheType; \$wgMemCachedServers = $mcservers; ## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then set this to true: \$wgEnableUploads = false; {$magic}\$wgUseImageMagick = true; {$magic}\$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = \"{$convert}\"; ## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode, ## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and ## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment ## this, if it's not already uncommented: {$hashedUploads}\$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; ## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: \$wgUseTeX = false; \$wgLocalInterwiki = \$wgSitename; \$wgLanguageCode = \"{$slconf['LanguageCode']}\"; \$wgProxyKey = \"$secretKey\"; ## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic ## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook': \$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook'; ## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an ## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation ## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far. {$rights}\$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true; \$wgRightsPage = \"\"; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright \$wgRightsUrl = \"{$slconf['RightsUrl']}\"; \$wgRightsText = \"{$slconf['RightsText']}\"; \$wgRightsIcon = \"{$slconf['RightsIcon']}\"; # \$wgRightsCode = \"{$slconf['RightsCode']}\"; # Not yet used \$wgDiff3 = \"{$slconf['diff3']}\"; # When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make # sure that cached pages are cleared. \$wgCacheEpoch = max( \$wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ) ); "; ## End of setting the $localsettings string // Keep things in Unix line endings internally; // the system will write out as local text type. return str_replace( "\r\n", "\n", $localsettings ); } function dieout( $text ) { die( $text . "\n\n\n" ); } function importVar( &$var, $name, $default = "" ) { if( isset( $var[$name] ) ) { $retval = $var[$name]; if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc ) { $retval = stripslashes( $retval ); } } else { $retval = $default; } return $retval; } function importPost( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_POST, $name, $default ); } function importCheck( $name ) { return isset( $_POST[$name] ); } function importRequest( $name, $default = "" ) { return importVar( $_REQUEST, $name, $default ); } $radioCount = 0; function aField( &$conf, $field, $text, $type = "text", $value = "", $onclick =  ) { global $radioCount; if( $type != "" ) { $xtype = "type=\"$type\""; } else { $xtype = ""; } $id = $field; $nolabel = ($type == "radio") || ($type == "hidden"); if ($type == 'radio') $id .= $radioCount++; if( $nolabel ) { echo "\t\t"; } else { echo "\t\t$text\n"; } if( $type == "radio" && $value == $conf->$field ) { $checked = "checked='checked'"; } else { $checked = ""; } echo "\t\t$field ); } echo "\" />\n"; if( $nolabel ) { echo " $text\n"; } global $errs; if(isset($errs[$field])) echo "" . $errs[$field] . "\n"; } function getLanguageList { global $wgLanguageNames, $IP; if( !isset( $wgLanguageNames ) ) { require_once( "$IP/languages/Names.php" ); } $codes = array; $d = opendir( "../languages/messages" ); /* In case we are called from the root directory */ if (!$d) $d = opendir( "languages/messages"); while( false !== ($f = readdir( $d ) ) ) { $m = array; if( preg_match( '/Messages([A-Z][a-z_]+)\.php$/', $f, $m ) ) { $code = str_replace( '_', '-', strtolower( $m[1] ) ); if( isset( $wgLanguageNames[$code] ) ) { $name = $code . ' - ' . $wgLanguageNames[$code]; } else { $name = $code; } $codes[$code] = $name; } } closedir( $d ); ksort( $codes ); return $codes; } #Check for location of an executable # @param string $loc single location to check # @param array $names filenames to check for. # @param mixed $versioninfo array of details to use when checking version, use false for no version checking function locate_executable($loc, $names, $versioninfo = false) { if (!is_array($names)) $names = array($names); foreach ($names as $name) { $command = "$loc".DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."$name"; if (@file_exists($command)) { if (!$versioninfo) return $command; $file = str_replace('$1', $command, $versioninfo[0]); if (strstr(`$file`, $versioninfo[1]) !== false) return $command; } } return false; } # Test a memcached server function testMemcachedServer( $server ) { $hostport = explode(":", $server); $errstr = false; $fp = false; if ( !function_exists( 'fsockopen' ) ) { $errstr = "Can't connect to memcached, fsockopen not present"; } if ( !$errstr && count( $hostport ) != 2 ) { $errstr = 'Please specify host and port'; } if ( !$errstr ) { list( $host, $port ) = $hostport; $errno = 0; $fsockerr = ; $fp = @fsockopen( $host, $port, $errno, $fsockerr, 1.0 ); if ( $fp === false ) { $errstr = "Cannot connect to memcached on $host:$port : $fsockerr"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $command = "version\r\n"; $bytes = fwrite( $fp, $command ); if ( $bytes != strlen( $command ) ) { $errstr = "Cannot write to memcached socket on $host:$port"; } } if ( !$errstr ) { $expected = "VERSION "; $response = fread( $fp, strlen( $expected ) ); if ( $response != $expected ) { $errstr = "Didn't get correct memcached response from $host:$port"; } } if ( $fp ) { fclose( $fp ); } if ( !$errstr ) { echo "Connected to memcached on $host:$port successfully"; } return $errstr; } function database_picker($conf) { global $ourdb; print "\n"; foreach(array_keys($ourdb) as $db) { if ($ourdb[$db]['havedriver']) { print "
 * 3) "; aField( $conf, "DBtype", $ourdb[$db]['fullname'], 'radio', $db, 'onclick'); print "
 * 1) $full specific options\n"; } function printListItem( $item ) { print "$item

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Thank you! – i123Pie biocontribs 20:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC) --172.189.160.70 20:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Either you copied something really strange or your server doesn't execute .php files. --Flominator 17:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) help deleting pages
I took a wiki class a while ago and we created some test pages in class. I found them when I did a circuit search on validation. How can I delete these?

user: jchackba

—134.134.136.5 19:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Log in as a user with the 'delete' privilege (such as administrator) and press the delete tab (up on the level of the edit tab). Smaug 20:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Mediawiki Programmierer gesucht / Mediawiki programmersearch

 * MediaWiki: newest
 * PHP: 5.X
 * MySQL: 5.X
 * URL: local

English: We look for a German-language Mediawikiprogrammer how makes the Plugin working on our Mediawiki installation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields

German: Wir suchen einen deutschsprachigen Mediawikiprogrammierer der uns das Plugin http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Barrylb/Custom_article_editing_form_with_fields zum Laufen bringt.

Kontakt: info@gerald-mann.com

—91.17.80.214 07:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:
 * Tested with this one and it worked. --Flominator 17:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

$wgShowExceptionDetails
Hello, i'm the administrator of spiriwiki.com and have a problem with the on the right. I get the error:

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

But.. I already did that. Still i got this error ?!? Great thanks. —Spiriwiki.com 09:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Have you tried Clearing your browsers cache? 172.212.163.21 16:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) enforcing user login

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP: 5.1.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.18
 * URL:

Hello to all helpers,

I want to ask you, if there is a chance to enforce an userlogin on mediawiki.

This wiki is planned to be used only from signed users.

We want to prevent anonymous users even from reading posts in the wiki.

What can I do to enforce an userlogin before entering any post?

Thanks for your help and best regards

Marco Rudzuck

—77.178.58.147 15:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Manual:preventing access should help. --Flominator 11:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

"This page has been accessed X times"
Hi,

Can anyone tell me exactly what the counters at the bottom of the page measure? And also on the statistics page, where it lists "total pageviews", what exactly does that include? For instance, would it include PDFs stored in external file folders? All namespace pageviews? Other pages on a part of the server that hosts the wiki, but not the wiki itself? What about cache and repeated pageviews? If someone accessed a page 10 times a day, it only counts 1? If they keep accessing, when does it reset to count again, once a day? I ask these questions (a) because I want to know, and (b) because I track visitor stats using other tools such as Google Analytics and others, and occasionally I see some very strange behavior with the Mediawiki counters which are not always or usually reflected by the other tools, so should I take the Mediawiki counters to be the most accurate? One discrepancy e.g. occurred when there was a temporary jump about 10- to 20-fold in total pageviews and pageviews of most specific pages, for a period of about 24-36 hours, but this wasn't picked up by Google Analytics or the others. I have been assuming it was some kind of slashdot effect from a link on some external site, but I don't have software set up that tells me the referring URLs (yet), so I can't know that. Thanks! 69.45.178.143 19:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I would recommend you disable the counter and rely on other tools (Google Analytics, AWStats, whatever), if only for performance reasons. (That's not really a direct answer, I know, but it's the best I've got.) —Emufarmers(T 18:27, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * On a side note, which of the alternative tools do you reccomend/use, Emufarmers? Smaug 01:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I use Analytics, although statistics from server logs are going to be more accurate, strictly speaking, since they include users or robots with JavaScript turned off. Stats have mostly been more like interesting diversions than useful metrics for the relatively small sites I've run; with such sites the SearchLog extension could help me make sure people find what they search for (if I consulted it more often). —Emufarmers(T 01:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the input, Emufarmers. The reason I ask also is that the "counters" from the MediaWiki software give me numbers that are an order of magnitude different from what I get from both Google Analytics and StatCounter, the 2 tools I use. For example, both Google Analytics and StatCounter show me getting roughly 200-250 unique visitors and about 400-500 pageviews per day. Yet the MediaWiki "counter" is showing I'm getting 5,000-10,000 total pageviews per day?? Besides the anomalous "jump" I described above, the MediaWiki counter tends to have risen (relative to itself) more consistently over time then the Analytics or StatCounter (although those have risen as well). The only conclusion I can come to to resolve the discrepancy is that they're using drastically different definitions of what a "pageview" is. I have been able to find out what definition Analytics and StatCounter use, but not MediaWiki, so that's why I ask. If the MediaWiki counter stats trends over time are reliable, then I'd like to keep tracking it for a while, even if it disagrees with the other 2. Thanks. 66.233.225.115 21:15, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Views from search engine bots might explain the discrepancy: Bots don't usually have JavaScript, so Analytics will miss them (and it might do some automatic filtering of known bots anyway). MediaWiki's built-in counter probably can't discriminate much.  If you install software that analyzes your server's logs, you should be able to see what's really going on. —Emufarmers(T 21:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Highlight Cite (aka references)

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.2
 * PHP: php 5
 * MySQL: 4.**
 * URL: http://l3ga.ferrywijsman.nl

How does Wikipedia let references links highlight at the References part? Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna (film), when I click on [1], the references called become blue.

I want to embed it at my website too.

86.90.194.103 19:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * There is an addition to MediaWiki:Common.css:

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */ ol.references > li:target { background-color: #DEF; } sup.reference:target { background-color: #DEF; }


 * But I don't know, if this is all. --89.55.156.49 20:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Internal error

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0rc1
 * PHP: 5.0.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge7-log
 * URL:

it can be edited with this urls:
 * when the page has just one section

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit

or

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

if i try any invalid section number, i get message.

this url work correctly:
 * when the page has more than one section,

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit

but when i use this url i take a internal error:

http://cli.ir/index.php?title=Test&action=edit&section=0

i also take this error when i use any other valid or invalid section number, such as 1, 5, 137 etc...

The error:

internal error:

Invalid h node passed to PPNode_DOM::splitHeading

Backtrace:

0 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4605): PPNode_DOM->splitHeading

1 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Parser.php(4675): Parser->extractSections('getSection('getContent(false)

4 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(473): EditPage->initialiseForm

5 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/EditPage.php(323): EditPage->edit

6 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(444): EditPage->submit

7 /home/www/cli-ir/includes/Wiki.php(48): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))

8 /home/www/cli-ir/index.php(90): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))

9 {main}

—sepehrnoush 19:02, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Try this link. I had the same problem and it worked. --Baumanns 17:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It worked for me too. :) —sepehrnoush 13:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Need help migrating an existing Wiki to a new network domain

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.0
 * PHP: 5.2.0 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.27-community-nt
 * URL: http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page (this is an internal network and is not reachable from outside our company's network)

Our company recently revamped our internal network, changing IP addressing scheme as well as initializing a new internal network specifically meant to be used by our System Test team. The Wiki itself is hosted on a Windows XP machine running XAMPP (machine hostname "systemtest"). Anyway, I'd like to migrate the System Test Wiki from the old domain (hosted at systemtest.azteknetworks.net) to the new domain (systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net). Currently, the main Wiki page is viewable (http://systemtest.test.azteknetworks.net/wikipedia/index.php/Main_Page), but clicking any of the other page links in there results in a 404 Not Found error. This is because the hyperlinks are apparently hard coded to point to the old domain instead of the new one. Unfortunately, it doesn't just seem to be a matter of changing a bunch of html files; I searched in C:\Program Files\xampp for all instances of "systemtest.azteknetworks.net" and it seems as if the web pages are stored in a database or some binary format (the search hits were on files ending in extension .MYD and .MYI).

Can you please help me to migrate our Wiki?

Thanks in advance,

- Jeffrey Wright - System Test Engineering Manager - Aztek Networks, Inc. - jwright@azteknetworks.net

—72.25.144.182 17:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Tried changing the path at LocalSettings.php? --Flominator 11:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Licensing Per Page

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: en.codevwiki.org

Is their an extension or modification that is made that can allow licensing to be done on a page by page basis. ie When a new page is started the author can choose the license or licenses he/she wants to use. They can change the licenses from any new revision if 1) they are the only author or 2) all the authors agree to change the licensing effective from a new revision. The license(s) for the revision you are viewing would be shown by icons off to the right of the page. Subpages would be licensed the same automatically as the root page.--168.156.174.63 23:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * So does a modification like this exist? If not could someone make one...name your price.--71.217.200.78 16:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think so. But you can create license templates and show the users how to insert them. --Flominator 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I reccomend using a single template where a parameter determines what license is shown. I think there would be less chance of a singele page being double-licensed that way.
 * Then again, the fault in using a template is that any user can come along and change it. I know some MW members have made extensions that give extra rights to the creator of a page, so although it might be difficult to do it seems like it would be possible. But for now you may want to use a work around, like having a site-wide or namespace-wide license.
 * That gives me an idea. Would it work for the license of a page to be determined by namespace?  You could have "PublicDomain:yowassup" and "CopyLeft:apage". Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Namespace based licensing isn't exactly what I was hoping for but seems like a good workaround.--71.217.200.78 00:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Desperately need help on AE wiki!

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.3
 * PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.28-enterprise-gpl-log
 * URL: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I am a user on the Activating Evolution site. We desperately need some help.

There appears to be NO administrator or sysops. We are being over run with spammers. So far, I myself have cleaned well over 1500 pages that were spammed. It is a daily (if not hourly) problem, with no way to either block these yahoos or ban them.

All of the main pages are changed daily, and there are several of us that are trying to keep on top of all the cleanup, but as soon as we clean up a page, it gets spammed again. We have set up a Catagory for spammers, and don't know how to stop them with no admin or sysop on board.

Here is a link to the main page: http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

You can check out the special page for Recent Changes and see what we are going thru. Please fee free to check out my user page (Sheba98) and see how many "contributions" I've made since February. Another good one to check is Psych-Gen. And Wireless.

Is there ANY way you all can help? We have emailed NBC with absolutely no response. We are at wit's end, and hate to see the site go to trash.

Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

Sheba98 98.194.216.187 00:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well....the bottom line is that you cannot do things admins or sysops can do without being an admin or sysop yourself. Smaug 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I am very much aware of that. The supposed Admin of the site does not even have a valid email address.  We have no admin or sysop or bureaucrat.  Nada. Zilch. Nothing.  I just hate to see the site go down hill, and am asking for help to point me in the right direction as to who to contact to get help.   Sheba98  98.194.216.187 01:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Nothing can be done then. Unless you can telepathiclly tell the owner of the site to get some wiki admins.--71.217.200.78 03:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I threw an AVB on your site - (User:Avb) for the time being. Should take care of that spam while you guys are tracking down the real admins.  Tim Laqua talk 18:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You could try doing a WHOIS query on the site, and contact the registered owner (since it's an "official" link from the NBC site, you may get a response there). Dansiman (talk) 06:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Formatting Errors in IE 7

 * MediaWiki: Version 1.12
 * PHP: PHP 5
 * MySQL: MySQL 5
 * URL: http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/

I recently installed Media Wiki 1.12 on my site (http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki, with PHP5 and MySQL 5, Hosted on Linux thru Powweb) and make most of my updates on Mac OS X. My home PC uses IE 7, and I noticed tonight that the page formatting (for some pages) is incorrect when viewed in IE 7.

Here is a sample page that shows the error in IE7 (Win XP SP2) but not in Firefox or Safari (on Mac):

http://www.teachanddiscover.net/wiki/index.php?title=Doctor_Who

Suggestions and corrections are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you, in advance!

Email: captain_mills(at)yahoo(dot)com


 * Taken Care of... Thanks anyway! :) - CMills

—71.36.6.253 06:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Offensive signature and SQL help (user response needed)

 * MediaWiki: 1.13alpha
 * PHP: latest version
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

How do I edit the signatures in old revisions?? A user had particularly offensive signatures, and we need to keep his old edits, per GFDL. I renamed the user via the database, since Renameuser wasn't installed at the time, but all his old edits show with the offensive old signature. I went to the text table in phpmyAdmin but couldn't find it... anyone know how to fix this so I can edit the old revision?? any MySQL commands? —G Bowker 09:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I also need to be able to edit the old revisions as well, via the database. Any advice appreciated, thanks! --G Bowker 09:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * For now, edit the page normally to get rid of it. Then there is either an extension or built-in function that allows for the deletion of revisions.  If you search around for it you'll find it, Wikipedia makes use of it for similar purposes as yours. <font color="#006500">Smaug  21:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Tried the oversight extension.... but it doesn't remove block logs or isn't able to edit offensive old signatures. --G Bowker 12:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Why do you need to remove block logs? Signatures aren't displayed in the logs, are they?  And what do you mean isn't able to edit old signatures?  (I've also never used the extension.) <font color="#006500">Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Viewing a list of entries?
Is it possible to see a list of all pages, maybe in alphabetical order? —128.113.54.152 13:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC) David Doria


 * Special:Allpages. <font color="#006500">Smaug 19:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Templates: replace paramter if ...
Parameters: I use (desc) to create a link to desc page of which is the file name. Now sometimes it can happen that this parameter is an external link. In this case the desc link shouldn't show up. I dunno much about #if so is there a way to e.g. if param1 = http... then "(desc)" = "-" or something? --Subfader 09:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The #ifeq] parser function may be able to do what you want. <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 13:11, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks checking. Didn't know these options. I also see #if. Yay ;) --Subfader 21:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Main page title
Hello, how to remove page title and subtitle from the main page (likes mediawiki.org or en.wiki). Thank you. Rytis; 88.222.212.231 14:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't know how they do it, but Extension:NoTitle might work as well. --Flominator 12:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * See this section of the FAQ: Manual:FAQ. <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

The logs look wrong

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

I preferred it when the logs were in the old format of: 10 Jan 2008 22:54 Admin blocked User1 with an expiry time of infinite (test) rather than the current design seen here: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=

Where do I report this bug?? Thanks, AP aka —Kelsington 17:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * That's pretty much the format logs are in now (though I could be missing something obvious). Could you be specific about exactly what you're referring to? —Emufarmers(T 01:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It was being discussed on Wikipedia (the English one) but someone on SVN has reverted them back, which was probably a good move. The new-look logs in that revision probably weren't good. Thanks, AP aka --Kelsington 16:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

(UNRESOLVED) Coding a Navbox from scratch

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (isapi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
 * URL: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Template:Navbox The Official Exalted Wiki]

Is there any guide/suggestions/example code that would help someone code a collapsible navbox from scratch? - Bodhisattva 16:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You have to configure your MediaWiki:Common.css and install Extension:ParserFunctions to get your Navbox to work correctly. I did this but I still have extra div and span tags, :( -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  06:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I gave full installation instructions here. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  21:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Bodhisattva 22:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC): I appreciate the full instructions. However, I'm also getting extra  and  tags, and I'm not getting the Show/Hide link, so the template isn't displaying the contents.  :(

Bodhisattva 20:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC): Can I please get some follow-up help on this?

Installing LaTex

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-log
 * URL: http://www.mathace.net/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page

I have been trying to install LaTeX on my MediaWiki site, but I have had some difficulty since I am on a shared web server and cannot use SSH or run command lines. How can I get LaTeX and all of the necessary executables to work given these limitations, if possible?

—24.16.117.203 21:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you want to install the Extension:Wiki2LaTeX you need to have LaTeX installed before. This can only be done by your administrator. --Flominator 07:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Mailto Links

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt

Mailto links do not parse - inputting the wikitext

[mailto:me@myserver.com]

spits out this in plain text on the wiki page

[mailto:me@myserver.com]

same with

[mailto:me@myserver.com EMAILME]

also just spits out plain text.

This happens even if I disable all extensions. I did have the FCKeditor installed and running, and i'm not sure if it would have borked something. That's about all I can think of.

—Killinggameshow 21:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Do normal external links work? <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 22:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[RESOLVED] Edited Sidebar not displaying in 1.9.3

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 1.9.3
 * MySQL: 5.2.4 (apache)
 * URL: 5.0.51a

Hello,

I edited the sidebar page to:


 * navigation
 * Blackboard
 * CourseCompass
 * Hard Media
 * Pegasus

saved changes, emptied cache and refreshed but sidebar doesn't update Other changes (Icon, permissions etc) have worked for me.

Added to LocalSettings.php:

$configdate = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) ); $wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, $configdate ); $wgStyleVersion  = '42x';
 * 1) When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
 * 2) sure that cached pages are cleared.

I'm at a loss at this stage
 * Did you change MediaWiki:Sidebar or something else? --Flominator 17:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Solved. Discovered I wasn't using pipes and wasn't editing MediaWiki:Sidebar just Sidebar.

SVN download
I downloaded the latest version from SVN, (which is r33047) - how would I go back to the previous revision in SVN using the SVN client I have - TortoiseSVN?? Thanks, AP aka -Kelsington 13:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki: as used on Wikimedia sites
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:
 * In the contextual menu of TortoiseSVN (right click and then TortoiseSVN) you have a option called "Update to revision...". When you click there, select "Revision" radio button (i.e. not "HEAD"), put the revision you want to have and click OK. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  13:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Anyone know where a list of all the revisions of MediaWiki are in SVN?? That way I can revert back-and-forward if I need to... I'm currently testing it on a XAMPP server at the moment. Thanks, AP aka --Kelsington 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

(Resolved) Preventing access to blocked users
Any ideas how to disable blocked users from logging in or reading? Please reply at Manual_talk:Preventing_access. Thanks. —Flominator 06:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki: 1.6-1.12
 * Resolved by changing address and password --Flominator 09:09, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Adding Custom Tags

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log
 * URL: Wiki of Iyeru

I want to know how to make a custom tag like or like on the hrwiki.org wiki. I also would rather have answers sent in e-mail, because I will never check back here. Please e-mail me with answers at iyeru42 [/a/t/] gmail.com, I'm serious too.

Right now, instead of HRwiki's userbox samples, I'm using this right now, which is broken and very bulky.

I repeat again: I WILL NOT check back here. IT IS recommended you e-mail via the address above. —198.150.12.32 18:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

template:clickpic

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha (r26409) (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.50sp1a-enterprise-gpl-log
 * URL: RuneScape wikia

Hello, i am an editor on one of the Wiki's (RuneScape) and i mentioned the TEMPLATE:CLICKPIC template. Can you change the code to get a hover over image added?

(Buzz 9 1990)

—192.249.36.3 09:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.0
 * MySQL: 4.1.10

my questions are

which is the snippet or piece of code, that show the content of each article?

and which is the snippet or piece of code, that save this content in the database?

thanks

--200.77.227.68 21:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


 * might help you. <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Change skin in installation that has skins tab disabled?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.27
 * URL: AbiliWiki

The creators of AbiliWiki have configured their MediaWiki installation to hide the Skins tab in Special:Preferences. I know you can manually apply a skin to an individual page with the URL, as in http://abiliwiki.com/index.php?title=Home&useskin=monobook, but is there any way to permanently apply a skin to my preferences when they are hidden this way, either through URL syntax as above, or through a form submission? I'd be willing to create an HTML document on my hard drive with a simple form that will send the appropriate data to AbiliWiki's server when I click submit. I know this is kind of an advanced technical question but I sure hope there's someone who can answer it.

P.S. Please notify me at Wikipedia:User:Dansiman when this question is answered or if you need additional information. Thanks,

—71.113.146.96 06:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I received an email from a fellow AbiliWikian that helped me workaround the problem. I am sharing it here in case anyone else has this issue with their own wiki in the future.
 * Go to the Preferences page, and save the source code, editing to add this near the top:


 * <base href="http://abiliwiki.com/">


 * and then this in the form:


 * <input type='text' name='wpSkin' value="monobook" />


 * then submit.

—71.113.146.96 01:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Theme or Template Issue
Ok...I feel lost here and probably wont know how to get back here to get an answer. My email address is admin@onlinechristiancenter.com

I need to know if there is a way to make a theme be for all my Wordpress pages instead of just the first page.

I'm code illiterate. Please help if you can.

Thanks in advance.

Janet


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

Product Version MediaWiki 1.12.0 PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—217.5.177.110 12:51, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Embedding an Excel File as OLE into a Wiki page

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

Product Version MediaWiki 1.12.0 PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.41

I would like to embed an Excel File which is sitting on our File Server directly into a Wiki page as an OLE object. Is this possible?

—217.5.177.110 12:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Error using $wgWhitelistRead

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

Dear,

My MediaWiki is function, but I need to restricted access to other users. Using $wgWhitelistRead I could do it but my main page isn't load with anonymous access. Ps. my main page are in portuguese name "Página principal" and these (I think) it's my problem.

Juliana Calado

—200.195.42.2 16:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[file:// does not work

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a
 * URL:

Hello,

I just successfully migrated my Wiki to a new server. Everything works, except the external links. I have several places where I use to open directly a PDF file. It still works fine on my old server, but not on the new one. It is just getting displayed as text. Is there a special setting i have to activate?

—217.5.177.110 13:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


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

—Cowboy 04:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Permission to show recent Changes for anonymous users

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch10 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch5-log
 * URL: BromWiki

Hi Folks,

I have just upgraded my old 1.4 mediwiki to the recent version 1.12.0 and still having some minor troubles to fully understand the new user permission system. I have left most permission to the default settings. My changes in the LocalSettings.php are as followed: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edit'] = true; /** Show the amount of changed characters in recent changes */ $wgRCShowChangedSize			= false;
 * 1) Restrict editing by all non-sysop users

My question: How can I get anonymous users to see the recent changes ? When I log in, I can see them, but a default visitor sees nothing.

I did not change the DefaultSettings.php, so $wgGroupPermissions['*'   ]['read']            = true;

is still the rule. Which variable do I have to change ?  THX allready in advance, Timm from germany

—85.216.119.59 17:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Although I do not know exactly what you have to change, I went to your site. On the recent changes page, there was the text "Below are the last 0 changes in the last 0 days."  So somewhere it's set to show the 0 most recent changes.  And so it does. Clicking "show last 50", for example, causes the changes to appear. <font color="#006500">Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Smaug, THX for your answer
 * Maybe I did not express exactly what I meant. I know of course that button, but is there a variable where I can set that default value to for instance 7 days ? If I remember correctly in the older versions by clicking on the "recent changes" button as a anonymous user the wiki has allways shown the changes of the last week. A lot of those folks who are visiting my wiki are not very familiar with this software. And if they just click "recent changes" and see nothing, they leave. I have checked the manual here allready but I cannot find any that helps.
 * Timm


 * Hi to all, I found the solution. One needs to edit the LocalSettings.php and add the following lines:

$wgDefaultUserOptions = array( 	'rcdays' 		=> 7, 	'rclimit' 		=> 50, );
 * Greetings, Timm
 * --85.216.119.59 16:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

How can I get my wiki faster?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51
 * URL: DJs-ONLY-Wiki

Hello, if someone of you may take a look on my wiki, you'll see, that it takes a time until it loads complete. So, what can I do to get this faster? Thanks for your help. Best Regards. Mirko.

change Link color

 * MediaWiki: 1.7.1
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: 5

Hello, is it possible, to change the linkcolor? I have a Textfield with Backgroundcolor but in the area you can not read the Text which is a link. I want now change only the linkcolor for this Link not for the whole Page. It this possible? Thanks
 * Does no one has any Idea for me???:-(

—87.154.139.191 10:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have just tested a little bit with MediaWiki:Common.css (on 1.9.6). Try something like

a {color: color;}
 * 1) bodyContent a.external {color: color;} /* for external links */
 * 2) bodyContent a.new {color: color;}     /* for pages not yet created */


 * where color is a defined color name, color hexadecimal code or color rgb code. But without any warranty. --89.55.188.43 09:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm looking for a forum widget for my blog. Can anyone help.

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

—208.208.47.100 12:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Does this have anything to do with MW? <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Batch Enrolling Of Users

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.1
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 4.1.22

I have a list of users which i woiuld like to import into MediaWiki. Is this at all possible? Or Would i have to get each and every user to create an account individually?

-- Adam Phillips Thursday 1st May 2008 14:23 (GMT)
 * Something like this ???--87.154.137.197 04:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Trouble with Wikimapia
I'm having trouble loading wikimapia. I was wondering if anyone else is too? Is there a bug or has someone hacked into the system? It started with missing areas (places) and then, I tried reloading the maps by closing my browser, and now nothing will load. (May 1st 14:26 EST w:User:CyclePat)

create an admin

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

—72.8.67.211 22:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You need to log in with a bureaucrat account (that's usually the first account installed when installing MediaWiki, default is WikiSysop as far as I know) and then use special page Special:Userrights to assign another user admin's rights (simply with check boxes). But you have to create this user account first by special page Special:UserLogin if it does not exist. --89.55.188.43 08:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

How do I require an email address when creating an account?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12
 * PHP: 2.5.2
 * MySQL: 4.11
 * URL: http://www.kokosing.com

How do I require an email address for the 'create an account' page? I noticed in the code there is a variable called 'emailrequired' that, if set, does not display the 'e-mail address is optional' message but rather something else.

I need this because I have set the wiki to be only readable to people with authenticated email addresses.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

—Dk253 01:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

help kill spammers please

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

Would someone with power please take a look at this wiki http://wiki.okopipi.org/wiki/Main_Page spammers as using it as there own personal forum. Irony aside its hard to keep blanking pages with out any admins left who are active. The project is dead and just needs to be shutdown

—75.172.105.209 20:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Serious Update from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1

 * MediaWiki: 1.4.3 to 1.11.1
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

We updated our wiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 by running those two programs upgrade1_5.php and update.php. After that, still things are not working as we expected. Some pages are displaying the records from mkt_text table, while we expect them fom mkt_cur table; some pages are just missing. I realiz that 1.4 is really old and some tables no long in use. I can see we missed a few important steps, can anyone give me a direction here? how to upgrade the mediawiki from 1.4.3 to 1.11.1 correctly?

thanks

—12.165.188.130 19:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) How to get influence on print output (e.g. subpress system messages)?

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.6
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: http://joergmaske.de/wikip/

Hello!

When printing out a page from MediaWiki, there is not only put the pages text content on this output, but also the page's footer and some additional system messages (I think I can identify them as MediaWiki:Tagline and MediaWiki:Retrievedfrom). How can I influence these outputs (subpress footer and system messages)? I found some lines in skin.php, but as a non-programmer I don't dare to try it on my own in those heart files. Regards JörgM

—89.55.189.229 08:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have found a solution by adding some lines to MediaWiki:Common.css now :-), something like

@media print{ h1.firstHeading, h3#siteSub, div#contentSub, div.printfooter, #footer { display: none; } }


 * (IDs and classes found at source text of a page.) --89.55.153.223 20:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Infobox Help

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 	5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.24a-standard-

Hi, I was wondering how do you create an infobox?

I have searched mediawiki, wikimedia, and wikipedia. And all the answers I get aren't clear. All the answers that I get are like "enter such and such code on a template, and you should get this result" and when I do it, the results are not the same.

I tried making a table, but it ends up not being on the right side, where an infobox should go.

Is there a clear step by step instructions of creating an infobox?

—169.233.29.252 07:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * As far as I know infoboxes on Wikipedia are a combination between a template with a special table and cascading style sheets (css). For example, on German Wikipedia there is the template w:de:Vorlage:Infobox and css code at least at w:de:MediaWiki:Common.css, but I don't know if there is some more css code which you need located in other files. Perhaps ask some members of w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes to get some more specific help? --89.55.188.43 07:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Additionally I realized that in those infoboxes there are used functions ("#if" & co), for example to hide elements which are not filled in. Those functions need the Extension:ParserFunctions. --89.55.140.95 06:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

White screen of death

 * MediaWiki: 1.12
 * PHP: 5.1.6-15 el5
 * MySQL: 5.0.22
 * URL:

I am getting a whitescreen when I finished installing the DB and copied the Localsetting.php file. I am Running RHEL 5.1, have installed the MySQL and PHP through YUM installer, have also installed dotproject, working fine except when the php is used?

I am suspecting the php is at fault but is new to it so can't exactly say what is cooking there.

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP?

THANKS! —165.146.96.91 08:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You probably have a PHP error. You can check the PHP logs of your webserver or turn on the display_errors PHP setting to figure out what the error is.  See Manual:Errors and Symptoms for more information.  --Cneubauer 19:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

How to Make "Random Page" Select Only Pages from a Certain Category?

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a
 * URL: DishiWiki

My wiki is a recipe wiki. I have changed the label for Random Page in the navigation sidebar to read "Random Recipe." Of course, it randomly :) brings up a page that is not a recipe. All pages that are recipes have a category tag of.

So how can I structure the Random page link to pull up only pages categorized as recipes? I have explored but am not ready to create a custom Namespace for recipe pages. I think this "trick" would be very useful for many types of wikis! Thanks for all the help here on MediaWiki and elsewhere. -Brian7632416 23:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Probably the SQL query in SpecialRandompage.php (directory "includes") has to be rewritten, but I don't know much about SQL, and my trial this morning wasn't successful. (Tried to involve the MySQL table "categorylinks" with "cl_to" into the SQL query.) Meanwhile alternatives may be
 * usage of an extension like in Category:Random content extensions
 * usage of $wgExtraRandompageSQL
 * but both probably with a lot of pages to include or exclude manually. --89.55.152.75 20:13, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I, too, tried massaging MySQL table "categorylinks" column "cl_to." I looked at SpecialRandomPage.php but don't want to mess with it yet. $wgExtraRandompageSQL is unwieldy as long as it is wired for "page_title," but I couldn't find the category variable to substitute for "page_title." I will now look at Random conent extensions. Thanks so much. Brian7632416 21:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC) [Edit:] Nothing in that group of "random" extensions is what I need.


 * The SQL query of SpecialRandompage.php is limited to the "page" table, as far as I can see; the $wgExtraRandompageSQL variable is part of this SQL query, so it's not possible to involve parts of other tables with it (like the "cl_to" row of "categorylinks"). That's why I said that probably this SQL query has to be rewritten for this purpose.
 * You could use $wgExtraRandompageSQL in LocalSettings.php like the following:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page" AND page_title != "Page_1" AND page_title != "Page_2" AND page_title != "Page_3" AND page_title != "Page_4" AND page_title != "Page_5"';
 * but you would have to EXclude all the non-recipe pages this way. Using "OR" instead of "AND" and "=" instead of "!=" should be the other way (INcluding all the pages you want), but as there are much more recipes than other pages this would not be the way of choice, I think. Surprisingly I could not prevent the Main page to be shown this way.
 * I tried it also with the extension Extension:RandomInclude this morning, created 5 test pages (Testseite 1 bis Testseite 5) and included them on a randomtest page as templates (with ). Works on 1.9.6 (look at http://joergmaske.de/wikip/ and the link Randomtest in the navigation bar), of course showing just the content of the page, not the selected page's name, and I had to disable the cache like mentioned on the short manual. Disadvantages: You have to include all the pages you want to have selectable for random, and the disabled cache. Advantage: You have more control on which pages you don't want to show without using $wgExtraRandompageSQL or changing categories (if this would work sometime). --89.55.189.114 08:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your work. I see your Randomtest link, and I can use that extension for something else. I'm beginning to think I need a namespace for Recipes, which I have been avoiding.


 * In the meantime, I will try:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "*Tips"';


 * to try to exclude "Kitchen Tips" pages, which have titles like: "Citrus Tips," "Egg Tips," etc. Will the wild card * work, I wonder? If so, I could add "Recipe" to the title of all recipe pages and use:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title = "*Recipe"';


 * but I've never wanted pages to be so "fully titled." Like you, I have just discovered that Main_Page is not being excluded with:

$wgExtraRandompageSQL = 'page_title != "Main_Page"';


 * so I give up for now. - Brian7632416 18:20, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

How to stop text from overlapping
* MediaWiki: 1.12 * PHP: 5.0 * MySQL: 5.0.22 * URL: www.leetpwned.com Hello, I am attempting to learn how to use the MediaWiki Software and I have run into a problem. The text of the wiki entry is overlapping with my infobox. How do I prevent text from overlapping with my infobox or any other images?

Here is the sample entry I having a problem with 

I would like the sample entry to look like this page 

Thank you in advance for your help.
 * Hm. Installed totally new in the afternoon??? --89.55.153.223 20:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You seem to have fixed this since you posted. The link looks good to me.  Still having problems?  --Cneubauer 19:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Recurring issue logging in various MediaWikis

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

Logging in to various wikis powered by MediaWiki is too often a frustrating experience. I use a password manager, KeePass, so when I register at a wiki (or any other site) I create a new entry and have KeePass generate a high-security password for me. I drag-and-drop this password into the registration form.

So there should be no excuse for my password to be rejected as incorrect when I go to log in and drag-and-drop my login information, or paste from clipboard.

The current problem is with http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. I've successfully logged in there before... even earlier today! But it's suddenly rejecting my login as having an incorrect password. Grrrrrrr!!!

This time I'm not going to go through the whole process of requesting a new password and creating yet ANOTHER password to be able to log in again, because first I want to know exactly what's going on. If someone could please e-mail me at foxcole@yahoo.com, I'd like to know what the wiki thinks my password ought to be and where that password came from... or, if it does have my correct password, why exactly my login is being rejected.

I would like to note that after I go through all the motions to reset and create another new password, I generally have no further problems with that site. But I shouldn't have to be going through all this in the first place. My original login should be valid forever until I change it myself.

—63.64.39.28 21:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

A Wiki protected by htaccess gives an internal error 500 when accessing through a Proxyserver
I have may Wiki htaccess protected for educational and research reasons. However after a couple month it was not accessible anymore through a Proxy server feeding only one IP adress to the internet from our company. The server with the wiki on is outside the company. Actually some pages are readable but log in is impossible. Has this problem to do with the WIki settings or with the proxy settings. The access to the Wiki without Proxy works perfectly well.
 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5-pl1-gentoo (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-log page)

—85.1.21.79 20:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Creator special rights

 * MediaWiki: 1.12
 * PHP: -
 * MySQL: -
 * URL: local

I would like to know if there is a simple way to allow only the creator of a new page to edit it. In fact, when creating a new page, I would like the author to be able to choose whether the page can be edited by everyone, by registered users or only by himself.

I read a lot on user rights and user rights management but I could'nt find how to define a group including only the creator of a page.

Thanks for your help...

—81.220.36.67 09:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Manual:Preventing access tells that "MediaWiki was not written to provide per-page access restrictions". Perhaps have a look at Extension:EditOwn? --89.55.180.141 10:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder
Hi, I accidentally deleted the LocalSettings.php folder, and I think that's why that I can't replace the Media Wiki image on the top left corner... How can I get it back?

I changed it on the /includes/common/images/wiki.png and doesn't do anything.
 * I wonder if your wiki will do anything if you have deleted LocalSettings.php? --89.55.165.22 06:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * LocalSettings.php is a file, not a folder. Do you mean you deleted the folder it was in? I'm not going to try it out, but I think if a wiki has no LocalSettings.php it will not work.  Anyway, if you are missing a LocalSettings.php and it's not in the folder where it is supposed to be, I guess I would say just download a new one. <font color="#006500">Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 18:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

interact with Asp.Net application

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

I want to use MediaWiki in my application.

Can you please suggest me which mediawiki i have to use and let me know How does MediaWiki used in or interact with Asp.Net application?


 * MediaWiki requires PHP. I don't believe PHP and ASP can be run together so you probably can't do what you are trying to do.  You can try looking at Comparison of wiki software for a list of wiki software that runs on ASP.  --Cneubauer 19:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

link back to mediawiki from external page?

 * MediaWiki:] 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5
 * URL: http://internalsite/socwiki/ ((internal))

I've installed Mediawiki and in order to have a dynamic collapsible menu I created a menu page and dropped it in http://internalsite/socwiki/clientlisting/menu.html. The functionality I want is to have the menu links reload the page inside the wiki with data from the wiki.

For instance

- menu title (expanded) - Location0 - Location1 - Location2

When you click on Location0 it will take you to http://172.26.50.211/socwiki/index.php/Location0

I just couldn't find any other way to get the collapsible menu to work in a page other than using an IFrame - but when I link back now - it basically reloads the whole wiki into the content space. so it's like two wikis nested within each other.

Any Help/Info is appreciated.

—75.127.66.250 16:58, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

How to login and link to mediawiki from another web application?

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45
 * URL: http://flinqe.com:8010/wiki/ FlinqEpedia

I am writing a web application and I want to provide access to my copy of mediawiki via links to specific pages in the wiki. I already have a password protection scheme of my own, and would like to automatically login to mediawiki as or before I start mediawiki in a separate window. I'd also like to be able to create new mediawiki users and new pages with personalized empty-page messages.

I am a php newbie, but program in other languages including perl and C++. I have been trying to get the Api:Login working using Snoopy as suggested in the Api:Login documentation, which references this information: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2007-October/000117.html

The example 2 there works as advertised, but after completing the login, I want to start a particular mediawiki page as the now-logged-in user, preferably in a new window. Using a HREF link on the resulting page doesn't work; I get there but the user is not logged in. Using Snoopy to fetch the page and print_r the snoopy->results gets me to the page, which tells me I'm logged in. But links to new pages, such as "edit", don't maintain the login.

I'm guessing that the problem involves sessions, and in-memory cookies. I would prefer in-memory cookies for their security advantages, but can live with ordinary cookies if necessary.

I've tried searching the web for a solution, but all I've found is complex approaches (like Drupel) which I don't understand, and which seem to require extensive patches to mediawiki.

—75.147.32.154 03:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

How to validate fully upgraded wiki ?
(* URL: internal project)
 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2 (apache)
 * MySQL: 4.1.21-log

Hello, I'm quite new to this forum even though I've been using wiki for some time now, but I've recently moved from one ISP to another and at that time from a Windowsbased host to a Linuxbased one. Well, I had everything up and running smoothly on my new host, the wiki worked fine (don't remember the version but it was quite old) and I upgraded to version 1.11.2 without any problems, everything still worked fine.

But then I noticed there was a version 1.12.0 and I set out to upgrade to it. Now here's the tricky part, previously on Windows I had shell access and used to run the upgrade.php scripts, but now I don't, so I tried the reinstallation option, backed up everything, made copies of localsettings.php etc and launched the setup.

It immediately failed with some kind of script error about $wfIniGetBool not being correctly defined on line xx in /config/index.php. After some checking of access rights and everything I could think of I decided that oh well, before restoring backups I might just try to get around this and removed the checks for wfIniGetBool. This let me run the upgrader, the database checks were executed and some upgrades were reported, and then the installation was supposed to create a new localsettings.php which again failed since I had missed commenting out one section of wfIniGetBool commands.

This really didn't matter since I was going to replace it with the backup, after which done the site is working happily again and now reporting 1.12.0 as version, but this prompts my question(s).

a) what could possibly be the cause for this failure, I never saw anything about that when upgrading to 1.11.2 ? b) Was the installer supposed to do something more after creating the localsettings.php ? Is there something I might have missed that I should check for ? c) Is there some way for me to verify that my site is working correctly, i.e. both that the version now is fully upgraded and also to possibly prevent future issues like this one ?

Best regards // Mike

—213.114.35.125 15:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Mikael R.

Removing link markers in print; request for span element

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

I've run into a problem in Cite.i18n.php. I've been doing some experiments to create print-quality PDF documents from Wikipedia. In the current markup in the generated list of references, visible markers (^, a, b etc.) are added to allow users to click their way back to the source of the reference. In print, however, these markers should not be visible. Given the current markup, it's impossible to remove the markers by way of CSS as there is no wrapper element around them. I therefore suggest adding a "span" element with a class name of "backlink" or something so that one could remove these markers when printing the document.

—Howcome 21:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I suggest to move this request to Extension talk:Cite or at least to add it there. -- 89.55.182.231 07:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks — Howcome 13:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Extensions
Hi. I am looking for extension wchih will allow me to upload images from url, not only from hdd. Is there any? pogo

How to force all users to use the monobook style

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP: 5.2.3
 * MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there I was wondering if there's an easy way to force all users to use the monobook style, making impossible for them to change the style at the user's preferences. Leaving the style as it's defined in the LocalSettings.php file. Thanks in advance. —Juanan 22:40, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Put some thing like

$wgSkipSkins = array("chick", "cologneblue", "myskin", "nostalgia", "simple", "standard");

into LocalSettings.php, with all the skins included in the array aside from monobook skins. Then users won't have any other option. <font color="#006500">Smaug  20:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Navigation Tabs?
Does anyone know how to integrate this feature into a wiki? I've tried copying code into the MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js, failing to work at every attempt.

E.g. example of use: original source code:

Help? --90.200.52.124 11:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

control User Preferences
Does anyone know how to globally change a custom user preference? this is the code i belief that is adding the check box to the special:preferences / misc. page: 	public function onUserToggles( &$extraToggles ) { $extraToggles[] = 'riched_disable'; $extraToggles = array_merge($extraToggles, self::$nsToggles); return true; But I can't seem to have 'riched_disable' checked by default. Matt 19:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

QUESTION: How to EXPORT to WORD format

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

Is there a way to EXPORT an .xml wiki page to WORD .doc or .docx  format?

—129.219.57.164 21:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * There seems to be just a project (?) the other way (Word → Wiki). Additionally, I have just found a shareware converter on the web so far, and I don't know if it will meet your needs. But isn't WORD able to import web pages? (Sorry, the latest version I have used is WORD 2000, and that's a long time ago ...) Regards -- 89.55.190.92 08:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Must be logged in to edit pages. How?
How do I set my wiki so that guests can't edit the pages. They must be logged in. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.9.156.1 (talk • contribs) 23:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * See Manual:Preventing access. Regards -- 89.55.190.92 08:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Embedding external media without extensions

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.1.20-standard-log

My organization runs a secure MediaWiki wiki. Users must be on a list of allowed users to read or edit wiki content. Authentication is handled with an Apache module and a wrapper for MW.

With these security features in place, we decided that rather than installing extensions to help us with embedding YouTube videos or Google maps in MW articles, we would set the configuration variable $wgRawHtml to true. Since we've done that, we are able to put a larger range of HTML tags in our MW articles.

However, it doesn't work with the "object" tags for embedding a YouTube video or the "iframe" tags for embedding a Google map. Instead, MW just displays the HTML in the article. Using "nowiki" tags around the HTML doesn't help, either.

How can I make this work?

—Lance E Sloan 16:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Permission Issue

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

Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. If I type a path directly to the index.php file I get this:

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

Even former solutions offered have not helped. I installed php with the IIS install. I must use IIS because I also have .net on my computer. PHP works fine. I have run a phpinfo page. I installed phpMyAdmin but when I try to run it I get the above messages.

I have tried the solutions offered in different forum. Including this one: Right click on CMD.exe and "Run as administrator" and then type the commands below

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant Users:(CI)(S,WD,AD,X)

icacls %windir%\serviceprofiles\networkservice\AppData\Local\Temp /grant "CREATOR OWNER":(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)

I got a message: 'icacls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

I also right clicked the phpMyAdmin file and set permissions to read. It asked if I wanted it to apply to the child index.php as well I clicked yes.

I stll get the above messages. What now?

just a quick question, is this server side? if so, use a ftp client and right click on your root folder that the php files are in and CHMOD it by typing in 777 into the box. i know filezilla requires you to right click, others actually have option in the file menu for this as well.

edit: when you right click there should be a "setup permisisons" dialog box on the right click menu.

I am still very much a novice so some of that went over my head. I am doing what could be server side, but on my own machine. I really don't know what you mean by ftp client, unless I was accessing it from another computer, which I am not. When I right click on it I don't get a box of any sort that I can type in or any "set up permissions" dialogue box, but a box that says open, search, search, refresh thumbnail.. etc. at the bottom is properties.

Ok, I see now. It looks to me you are using your own computer as a server with IIS, my mistake. Well, first and foremost, you do have php installed on your machine, correct? then you will need mySql along with it. here is a great tutorial I found:

Installing phpmyadmin http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/install_and_configure_phpmyadmin_on_iis

you also need to change the code $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ; in your config.in.php file to $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = yourpathhere";

for example: $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''localhost/ASP/admin";

and change to

register_Global=ON

This post has been edited by duritz: May 20 2008, 10:53

Yes MySQL is installed.

It said that $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';. is an option. I might not need to actually do that. I did anyway. The instructions say, "log into your new phpMyAdmin install using the root account" That does not happen. I still get the error message! I still get the error message! I still get the error message!

In Internet Explorer it looks like this: The website declined to show this webpage HTTP 403 Most likely causes: This website requires you to log in.

What you can try: Go back to the previous page.

More information

This error (HTTP 403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission to view the webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.

I can mess around with the configuration all i want, but I still don't have permission.

I found no "$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = ''; " so I added that command. I also added the "register_Global=ON" cause it wasn't there either.

—71.82.6.222 19:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Unable to add OpenSearch from my wiki to my browser

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6 (cgi)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
 * URL: http://network.the-orc.com/wikimini

Hi guys,

I'm trying to add my wiki's (details above) OpenSearch to the search engines my browser uses, and am failing miserably.

On IE7 (7.0.5730.11), I get the following error message when trying to add the provider: “Internet Explorer could not install this search provider. There was a problem with the search provider's information.”

On Mozilla Firefox 2 (2.0.0.14), it just fails silently.

I’ve trying to save the output of opensearch_desc.php to a local file and add it from there, but it fails with the same error(s), although to my naked eye, the format seems fine.

Any bright ideas?

Thanks in advance<BR> —OgmiosProject 18:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Password protected?
Hey, guys, is there any way to create a password protected page? I only want my group members to edit it Pingsong 17:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC) pandean
 * no one knows?

Add Groups
Does simply adding a group in LocalSettings.php cause MediaWiki to allow users to be added?


 * Yes. 86.138.46.182 17:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

And how to add a group? I can't find anything about adding groups to mediawiki.

I found that you can add groups simply by creating permissions for them in localsettings.php. For example entering: "$wgGroupPermissions['internaluser']['read']  = true;" Will create the group "internaluser", and also provide them with read access.

Executing external code
How can a link be used to execute other code (PHP, java etc)? I would like to allow the user to click something on the page (button, link, whatever) which would then cause an external program to run.


 * There are various methods of executing external code. You may want to investigate writing an extension (see Manual:MediaWiki hooks for some further information, or try Google).  A more specific question detailing what you are actually trying to achieve would be helpful. --HappyDog 14:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

????? ??? ????? ????????

Mediawiki-logo
If I run my own wiki, is it necessary that I show a link to www.mediawiki.org on my site or to note that my site was set up by using mediqiki-software? I tried to figure this out by reading the GPL but didn't find anything about that. As far as I have come I wouldn't need to mention this ... what do you say?? --149.148.230.94 18:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki itself adds a "powered by" icon to all skins and the version page has copyright information. Under the GPL, I believe this attribution is required. 86.138.46.182 17:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Could someone confirm whether or not the MediaWiki logo is supposed to be kept in place? I could not find any mention in the supplied documentation that this is requested to remain. Thus I have removed it on my Wiki, but will glady re-add it if it is requested by the creators. Furthermoor, there is no mention of leaving the copyright in place on the Footer editing page. -- A User 16:04, 04 Oct 2006 (UTC)
 * (Could this be added to the FAQ as well) To change/edit/add the powered by or copyright logos, the code is located around lines 1090 (copyright) and 1112. Just change the $url to your url. This should work for all skins that use the normal getPoweredBy and getCopyrightIcon functions. Adammw 12:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

To change the logo in 1.11, place this line in LocalSettings.php: $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/skins/common/images/mywikilogo.png"; In this example, "mywikilogo.png" would be placed at C:\wamp\www\mywikipedia\skins\common\images. The $wgLogo line should be placed at the end of the file. Svanslyck 14:20, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no obligation to show the logo, the GPL applies specifically to the code and requires that the licence not be removed or modified from any of the code it appears in. --Nad 21:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Special Symbols for Editing Screen
A colleague from my university's computer center helped me download mediawiki to our provider because I'd like to use it for linguistic projects. However, in the editing mode the table of special characters and symbols that you find in Wikipedia is not available. How can we get that? Can anybody help us? Thanks. --Joachim 132.180.7.27 15:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * You need the Charinsert extension. Look at w:MediaWiki_talk:Edittools/Archive_02. Bradleyb 23:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Editing template sections
Hey all, I help maintain a WIKI dealing with game archive formats (XeNTaXWIKI), and I recently started implementing a new layout that makes extensive use of templates. However, I've run into a bit of trouble - when trying to edit a section, it takes you to the template edit screen instead of that for the page. I have looked at the documentation here, but haven't found a solution to this. Is there any way around it, apart from either using a seperate template for each section, or hitting the main 'Edit' link every time?


 * -Dinoguy1000


 * Anytime a template uses a section header, clicking the edit link for that section will take you to the template. The easiest workaround is to not include the section headers in the templates--only show the content of the section--and then put the headers in the page itself.  Alternatively, you can include the magicword  (double underscores on each side) anywhere in the page (even on the templates being included) and you will not have the edit section links appear anywhere in the page.  --76.215.127.150 15:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Changing the interface text / updating to 1.6.6
Changing the interface text as described in the FAQ (via editing system messages listed in Special:Allmessages) works well. However, while updating from MW 1.6.5 to 1.6.6 today, I realised that the MediaWiki namespaces was re-initialised, thus blowing away all changes I had carefully made! Note that this did not happen while upgrading from 1.6.3 to 1.6.5 only weeks ago!

There was nothing I could do but to go back to my (luckily) backed-up 1.6.5 installation.

Is there any way to make the update script leave the MW namespace untouched?
 * Already answered you here. Greetings -- :Bdk: 00:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Images not showing after upgrading to 1.6.5
Greetings, this isn't a problem I'm having but more-so a post hoping to help anyone else who ran into the same problem I did after upgrading. I also posted this in the Project:Forum page as well. If this is in the wrong place, my apologies admins but I wanted to share this information for anyone else who might have had this problem.

After I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.6.5 none of my images worked, thumbed or normal. The weird part was if I reuploaded the file, I received the standard warning that the image already existed. If I proceeded to reupload it, the image would then show normally. I ran the rebuildImages.php script both with and without the --missing switch but no luck.

What it boiled down to was I had to move all of my images. They were in sub folders in images like /1/10, /1/11 etc. I had to move all of the files from those folders to the root folder images/. Once this was done, every image loaded up just fine without having to take any further action. Anything with the |thumb option regenerated a new thumbnail into the root of the folder thumbs/. To avoid wasting space, I deleted all of the sub folders in my thumbs/ folder since they were not being referenced and were duplicates anyways. --Brownc4 02:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Example: opera.jpg is in images/o/o2/opera.jpg. Move it from images/o/o2 to just images/.


 * In future, check the effective value of  and set it to true, to see if that helps. robchurch | talk 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Smiley
How can I add smiley functionality so that if I write :P or :lol: it will be replaced automatically with the appropriate image? Thx Semut 18:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No such functionality exists. -- Sysy / (talk) 16:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * This functionality is not available in MediaWiki, and will not be added. However, an extension may be available to do this.  If not, you could try writing your own. --HappyDog 12:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hook the pre-save transform, rip out  sections etc. then do a regular expression replacement. robchurch | talk 13:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Running maintenance scripts from command line
Why are maintenance scripts restricted to running from comand line? Could not it be left up to the administrator (with a suggestion that it should better be done from the command line)?

I, for example, don't have a command line access to my site on a shared host, so I cannot do all those maintenances! For example - how to change a language? You write in the FAQ: change the language variable and run "rebuildMessages.php". So, how do I run it?... --Knakts 17:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Have you looked at phpShell? The scripts have to be run from the command line for a mixture of security and because certain scripts will take a longer time to run than PHP is allowed when running over the web. robchurch | talk 13:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

How do I rename my wiki?
I would like to change the name of my wiki. Is it possible to do this without re-installing everything?

The essential thing is:

1) Edit LocalSettings.php and change the $wgSitename setting.

You may also wish to:

2) run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php --update to re-source localized messages. Shouldn't be strictly required with current versions of MediaWiki, but some older versions hardcoded information into the wiki at install time.

3) Run maintenance/namespaceDupes.php --fix in case your new name produced any namespace conflicts which could make existing pages inaccessible.

4) Run maintenance/refreshLinks.php to update link tables.

5) Check Special:Allmessages and Special:Allpages for pages which might need to be moved and links that need to be fixed

Thanks to Brion Vibber on the mailing list. This info is presumed to be accurate as of MediaWiki 1.6. I have not tested it. -- Sy / (talk) 15:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Importing large amounts of existing material?
I'm new to wiki in general and mediawiki in particular. I'm skilled in SQL but unskilled in PHP. My company has a large amount of existing information in online help files, customer support databases, etc. Are there any guides to converting that information to wiki format? I've looked at amazon and bookpool for books that cover these topics, but it looks like the best book is outdated (Perl-based) and the others don't address conversion very much.


 * Try http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki or Import, Export function http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import - Lesiu

Making cleanup template look like wikipedia's
I'm trying to figure out why I cannot make the cleanup template look like Wikipedia's. I took the template text, so that it has the same information, although the blue box is not appearing as well. How do I add the blue box? 12.223.26.3 06:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Going direct to Edit page when article does not yet exist from link or search
Just set up a new Wiki last week, and during initial customization I found instructions on how to configure it to automatically bring up an edit page with text editor whenever a page is not found. Sounded efficient, so I did it. Since our users are all Wiki Newbies, it turned out not to be so good an idea, after all, but now I can't find the instructions in order to set it back! I would have sworn this info was in the FAQ, but during install and setup I was bouncing back and forth between meta, here, and some third-party sites trying to figure out what to do next, so I could very well be wrong. Can someone please tell me how to set this feature back to the default, and perhaps it should be included in the faq. Thanks.


 * It's ; remove the override line from LocalSettings.php or set it to false. robchurch | talk 12:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Protect Namespace
Only sysops can add pages to Mediawiki namespace. Is it possible to create new namespace, where only sysops will have permission in adding and editing pages? Or change preferences for existing namespace, i.e. Help: ?
 * Setting user rights in MediaWiki and Hidden pages. Seb35 16:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fast answer! I've never use and don't know php language, but I found in includes/Title.php this code: if( NS_MEDIAWIKI == $this->mNamespace &&		   !$wgUser->isAllowed('editinterface') ) { wfProfileOut( $fname ); return false; } I copied it again, and changed NS_MEDIAWIKI in i.e. 100 - number of my custom namespace. And it works! - Only sysops can add and edit pages in this namespace, but everyone can read it. I would like to ask you - is it good and safe solution? 21:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, but you will lose the change when you next upgrade your copy of MediaWiki, unless you take care. Make sure you note the changes you have made to a separate (new) file so that you can re-apply them after an upgrade. Also be sure to lock your wiki when you perform an upgrade, otherwise there will be a period of time between upgrading to the new version and re-applying your fix when these pages will be editable by everyone! Note that subsequent versions of MediaWiki may not work in the same way, so your fix is not guaranteed to work in the future, however I don't know of any method of achieving the above using the existing settings so unless I am mistaken then hacking the code is the best way, for now.   --HappyDog 12:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Editing 'Expand this page'
How do i change the 'expand this page' html, that is how do i change what it says when i use the command? 24.110.3.148 08:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Edit Template:Expand -- Barrylb 18:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Error when clicking "Please setup the wiki first."
I get this error when trying to install: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NEW in /includes/MagicWord.php on line 203

Please give response or email fvercuiel@gmail.com


 * You're using an older version of PHP that MediaWiki 1.7 does not support. MediaWiki 1.7.0 and later require PHP 5 (5.1.x is recommended). robchurch | talk 12:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I get the same error with PHP 5.0.5 (specifically, 5.0.5-2ubuntu1.4, built 7 Sep 2006 08:02:47).

Change the mulitple-links-to-one-host-style
How can I keep the wiki from translating multiple links to the same host to [1], [2], ...? I try to use the Mediawiki as an Intranet and therefore Documentations often reside on the same host but I still want to provide a visible Link-Title. --VVA 08:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Either use the labelled external link syntax, e.g.  or investigate the use of interwiki links which allow linking such as  . robchurch | talk 13:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

How do I change a user's password?
Assuming that $wgPasswordSalt is set to true (the default), you can use the following SQL query:

UPDATE user SET user_password = MD5(CONCAT(user_id, '-', MD5('somepass'))) WHERE user_name = 'someuser'; Where obviously "somepass" is changed to the password you want to set and "someuser" is changed to the user name as it is listed in the table "user".

Note: the user_id in the CONCAT string is a column name and is not meant to be replaced with 'someuser'

Note: For error of table 'dbname.user' does not exist, please check the LocalSettings.php for $wgDBPrefix, the user table might be named to ($wgDBPreix)user.

Underscore in title
I want to use MediaWiki for a manual and reference. As several of my functions have '_' within their name, it would be nice if the name of the function would be displayed with _ instead of blank especially in the title of the page. Is there any possibility to tell MediaWiki that the lemma must have a _ instead of a blank? --87.78.154.2 15:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * No. 164.11.204.56 01:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

1.7.1 and $wgDBtransactions
After a fresh Mediawiki 1.7.1 install and albeit many tables use the 'InnoDB' storage engine, the default '$wgDBtransactions' remains at its historical 'false' value. It is used in 'includes/Article.php' clauses.

May I set "$wgDBtransactions = true" in LocalSettings.php? Is this variable obsolete?

Thank you Natmaka 16:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hiding some titles
How is Wikipedia hiding the main page's title but not the titles within? I would like to be able to choose whether the title is shown, but cannot figure out how it is done, despite Wikipedia clearly doing so on the main page. I know how to hide the titles completely using my .php file for my skin, but I am not figuring out how to make the title disappear at will. It would be nice to have a __NOTITLE__ magic word that would just do this for me.


 * Short answer; JavaScript. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js. A magic word as discussed was not implemented because some of the developers felt it would be abused and was not needed. 86.134.116.228 04:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Content Migration from different existing wikis to one
We do have some wikis in our organization (all mediawiki but different server, different versions, mostly v. 1.3.x)) and now plan to insatll one (media)wiki (v 1.7.1) instead. Of course there's lots of content we dont't want to loose, but also old stuff that does not need to be transferred to the new wiki. Is there a user friendly way of selecting specific pages and transfer those to the new wiki (instead of copy&paste or some work in MySQL (which cannot be done by the users))?

I know of the Special:Export page. Only that Import is not working for older versions and I Don't know whether Export from 1.3.wiki works for import in wiki 1.7.

18 July 2006


 * The XML format from earlier versions should be 100% compatible with the current development, release and the most recent legacy (1.6) branches. 86.134.116.228 04:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Delete a file
We just installed a wiki at work and I need to know how to delete a file as the steps aren't in the article yet. Thanks. Rlevse 13:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, how to delete a user and reset a password.140.32.75.204 18:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

From the mysql prompt:

mysql> DELETE FROM user WHERE user_name = 'Jcarr'; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Note that mediawiki seems to like to capitalize the first letter of your login name. If you don't have the username correct, mysql will return "Query OK, 0 rows affected" Jeff Carr 20:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Note that deleting users in that manner does not remove the copious references to them from the rest of the database, and could cause odd problems later. A safer method is to run reassignEdits.php</tt> on the account, assign the edits to a name that does not exist, and then delete the account. As an alternative, consider blocking the user or scrambling their password.


 * To delete a page, log in as an administrator, and select the Delete option from the context menu which appears, in the Monobook (default) skin, at the top of each page.


 * To reset a user's password, the simpler option is to ensure there's an email address associated with the account, and ask the user to click "lost password" when logging in. If this is not an option, then look at the maintenance/changePassword.php</tt> script or search the web for mediawiki password md5. 86.134.116.228 04:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Sessions errors
I've been trying to fix our install of MediaWiki, and have found that some pages (main page, in particular) do not show up correctly unless logged in. I attempted to edit the page to see if that would fix it, and I got this error:

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in.

and the edits never go through. In getting the wiki to work again, I had copied data from a new objectcache to and older one, could this be related? Thanks very much! --128.113.63.60 13:44, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The first problem sounds like caching. Set $wgCacheEpoch</tt> in LocalSettings.php</tt> as follows to force MediaWiki to clear old caches:




 * The second problem, if the edits aren't being saved, could be due to PHP not saving session data in the right location. Check the value of session.save_path</tt> in the php.ini</tt> configuration file and check it points to a valid, writable path. 86.134.116.228 04:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection and time limit
I've searched for it quite extensively, but I cannot find it anywhere. How to implement a 4 day waiting period for registered users to be able to edit semi-protected pages, like it is the case in en.w? If someone could point me to the place (which I am almost sure exists) on how to implement that, I'd appreciate it.


 * Set $wgAutoConfirmAge</tt>, e.g.




 * in LocalSettings.php</tt>. 86.134.116.228 04:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

change the font size
Hi. How can I change the font size of my own wiki? I cannot find the place to change that.


 * Browse to the MediaWiki:Common.css page on your wiki and add in your CSS as usual, e.g.




 * 86.134.116.228 04:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Passing a space as argument to an extension
Don't know if this is the right space to discuss this. If not, please point me ...

I am trying to pass a space as an argument to an extension.

Example: text

The extension code registering the extension is as follows: function extension { global $wgParser; $wgParser->setHook( 'extension', 'doit' ); } function doit( $input, $args, &$parser ) {

...

}

The $args in the function 'doit' are already space free. It seems that the arguments get trimmed, because something like  goes through but   results in just a single   without leading and trailing space.

Is there a way to avoid this?

--83.171.153.127 22:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Remove Edit tab for non logged in users
Ok, I've read the FAQ, but I can't seem to understand it. Can someone show me how the final code should look when its done? I use the MonoBook skin.--70.33.138.121 23:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops, this is me, didnt realize I wasnt logged in.--Trek84 23:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Does this item make sense anymore anyway? "How can I prevent editing by anonymous users?" looks more like one actually wants and the "Remove Edit tab" tip does only remove the edit tab but not the in page section edit links anyway Hholzgra 21:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you can hide it in your global CSS by modifying the skin files, or you could just disable page editing by anonymous users, and they would get the "View source" tab instead of the "edit" tab. Tito<font color="#008000">xd (?!?) 08:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

differences between 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x
Where can I find a list of the main differences between the version 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.7x ?


 * Compare the release notes in each version. The release notes shipped with 1.6.0 detail changes since the 1.5 branch, for instance. robchurch | talk 02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sign Up as an Administrator
How do I sign up as an administrator? How can I create an sysop account?
 * If you are the system administrator of the wiki, when you has create your wiki the installation script should ask you the pseudo and the password for a sysop-and-bucreaucrat account. You can use this account for give sysop rights to other users.
 * If you aren't system admin, you must ask a bureaucrat the sysop rights or perhaps be eleted. ~ Seb35 18:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The 1.8 MediaWiki installation script does not ask for this information, it sets up the first user as the administrator. To make an account a sysop you may want to look into the Makesysop extension used here on Mediawiki (which surprising has no page at all describing it nor including the code).  Also a good resource is here at Managing User Rights, however as that currently redirects you to Meta you can go directly here: Meta: Help:User Levels --Grymwulf 04:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Transclusion
Is there a way of Transcluding a template only if that temaplte exists? I don't want to get the red link if it doesn't exist.

The reason I want to do this is as follows:

I want to use templates on my wiki's main page and  which will display any special information for that day. If nothing is happening on that day then I don't want anything to show up.

[Zabdiel] 15:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know if it's possible, but you can hack with the ParserFunctions (you must install this on your wiki) :
 * Create an intermediate template Template:DisplayTemplate</tt> (or other name) with
 * You use  and will display only if Template:today&#123;{CURRENTDAY}}</tt>
 * ~ Seb35 18:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * ~ Seb35 18:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

How to change the date format ?
I want to change the date format on the footer

this page was last modifed 16:24, etc I want to remove the timestamp and leave just the date

how would I do this ?

How to remove the title of "Main Page"
Hi, I would like to remove the title from the Main Page the same way as in Wikipedia. I searched google and found a solution, which included editing monobook.js, but couldn't get it working.

I've got a ?
what is the newest version of MediaWiki that works on PHP 4.4.4?
 * MW 1.6.8 -- :Bdk: 22:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thumbnail Image File Size Not Optimized
I have noticed that thumbnail image sizes are not optimized. For example, a PNG image that is 63KB turns into a thumbnail that is approximatly 53KB. But when I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro, I can further reduce the size of the thumbnail to 16KB with no noticeable quality loss. How do I make it so thumbnail file sizes become more optimized?

Linking to .mov files (Quick Time) won't work
After: allowing uploading of .mov files to my wiki, successfully uploading a certain .mov file and watching it from the page I've been directed to, I found my wiki won't link to it. If I type, for instance, [[Media:Example.mov]] (assuming my .mov file's named Example), I'd get a red link, leading to "Upload file" page. What am I doing wrong? --87.69.58.71 17:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Check your apache error logs. Most likely you're running into PHP's 8MB upload limit.  I came across this discussion because I was searching for a way around it, which I still haven't found. --Anonymous User, 16 November 2006

Search in different wikis
Proth 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC) Many thanks in advance.
 * Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to, from one wiki, search words also in a different wiki and have all the results shown in the first Wiki?
 * ex: Type words to search in Wiki A, wiki A search in itself and also in Wiki B and show all the results in Wiki A.

Search spécial characters
Proth 16:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC) Many thanks in advance.
 * Hello, We still have a recurent problem in searching for special caracters, like accents, in Wiki.
 * ex: Search for word "eglise" doesn't give articles containing word "église".
 * We can't find any information/solution for this problem. If anybody have a idea...


 * I'm currently working on an extension, DidYouMean that finds titles which differ only by capitalisation, hyphenation, and use of accents and ligatures. It's primarily for the English Wiktionary but once it exists people will be able to massage it into something more general for other wikis. &mdash; Hippietrail 12:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Does Webscapia's Coconut CMS work with MediaWiki?
Yes, to run mediawiki side-by-side with Coconut CMS you must have version 1.2+ installed! After you have ensured that version 1.2+ is installed, do the following: 1. Login as administrator in the admin panel. 2. Click on modules, and click on the software install tab. 3. Select mediawiki. 4. DO NOT CLICK ON DOWNLOAD. Under the mediawiki click on integration and wait for the installer to configure Coconut CMS. 5. And your done. A new tab should appear in the main menu called Wiki. If this does not happen make sure in /Coconut/admin_cp/functions/func_menucreate.php has a chmod of 777. And then run the integration installer once again.

setup not working
* PHP 5.2.0 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used. * GNU diff3 not found. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: C:\Apache\htdocs\w * Script URI path: /w * 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 wikiuser...success. * Connected to 5.0.27-community-nt * Database wikidb exists * Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs...Query "CREATE TABLE `user` ( user_id int(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default , user_password tinyblob NOT NULL default , user_newpassword tinyblob NOT NULL default , user_email tinytext NOT NULL default , user_options blob NOT NULL default , user_touched char(14) binary NOT NULL default , user_token char(32) binary NOT NULL default , user_email_authenticated char(14) binary, user_email_token char(32) binary, user_email_token_expires char(14) binary, user_registration char(14) binary, PRIMARY KEY user_id (user_id), UNIQUE INDEX user_name (user_name), INDEX (user_email_token) ) TYPE=InnoDB " failed with error code "BLOB/TEXT column 'user_password' can't have a default value (localhost)".

i fixed it by turning off strict mode


 * Please submit this to the Bug Tracker --Grymwulf 05:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit sidebar, part 2
I understand how to edit the sidebar above the search box, by editing MediaWiki:Sidebar, But how do I edit the sidebar below it. Some wiki's have an additional box below the toolbox section, for seperate links, such as "Site in a different langusge" or containing Google Adsense.

--Steve Gallagher 22:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * To do this edit MediaWiki:Sidebar-lower. I dont know if this works in all versions.--George Drummond 22:41, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

How do I use the same user-table for different wikis?
How do I use the same users table for differents wikis that use the same datebase? (Asked by Eloy 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Could this be answered please? --Zervon 18:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe you can create a view with MySQL 5.x:
 * create view schema1.user as select * from schema2.user --Maletin 14:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Upgrades
I just upgraded MW v1.9 to 1.9.2.

Background: My server has php5 installed but it runs php4 as a default. So, I had to do a little trick to install the MW v.1.9 originall by adding .access file and  and place it at the root directory of my server to tell it to use php5 instead of php4. <br ?>I hope this helps others save their time and alleviate pain.--Kohyin 09:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The update instruction tells you to go to command line and type
 * So, as simpleminded as I was, I typed  but it didn't work
 * It's because I should have ignored $ symbol at the command line
 * So, I typed, but I got the message that this MW version requires php5 but my server is running on php4.
 * I found out that I had to type  in my case.
 * So, I typed  but now it told me I had to have a LocalConfig.php -- well I am a total beginner, so I just followed the instruction and there was no mention of creating a LocalSettings.php before the update command, but it make sense that I had to have the file...to come to think of it. My bad.
 * So, I moved my LocalSettings.php file along with all the customized files into the new wiki files.
 * This time it told me that it couldn't connect to the database and told me to check the database name, user name, and password.
 * This, I couldn't figure out why it didn't work as all the information on my LocalSettings.php were correct.
 * I gave up on update and went for install -- good news is that this worked and I didn't loose anything other than the time I spent on trying to update -- I had the database backed up just in case.

How can i remove the external.png arrow from appearing next to external links?
In /skins/monobook/main.css Ctrl+F "this can be used in the content area to switch off" and uncomment (remove the #). Also remove the following code:


 * 1) bodyContent a.external,


 * 1) bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {

background: url(external.png) center right no-repeat;

padding-right: 13px;

}

Blank Pages despite successful installation
Am trying to use MediaWiki on WIMP. Win2k Prof, IIS 6, MySQL 4.1.22, PHP 5.2.1. Downloaded MediaWiki 1.9.3. Installation is successful and main page has come up. But clicking on any link on the Main page is displaying a blank page in IE. What could be the problem. Pls help. Am trying to figure it out for the last 3 days and haven't found a solution. - Radha


 * what do the error logs of IIS and PHP say? -- Duesentrieb ? 12:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to interpret the log. sorry. But these are the last 2 entries: 12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 301 12:03:17 127.0.0.1 GET /enlighten/index.php 200 Today, I reinstalled PHP, recreated the vdir in IIS and put in $wgCachePages = false; in localsetttings.php. And guess what? The main page is itself blank. :( Don't know what to do. - Radha

Bug in hide section editing? (3.16)
works fine for deactivating the section editing links. But if the "raw" action is disabled, the section editing links show up again.

Why is that?

Promote user MySQL statement update
For MediaWiki version 1.9.3 the mysql command to promote a user to a sysop is incorrect. INSERT INTO user_group SET ug_id = youruserid, ug_group = "sysop" the table is now 'user_groups' and the ug_id field has changed to ug_user, hence the correct command would be: INSERT INTO user_groups SET ug_user = <int, user_userid>, ug_group = "sysop"

Also, you would probably want to do a select user_id, user_name from user; first, so you can find the correct user_id value
 * Thanks! Interestingly enough, that SQL must have been wrong since the beginning, because I don't see any changes that were done to that table... Tito<font color="#008000">xd (?!?) 04:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Thumbnails do not work
http://www.khakain.com/wiki2/index.php?title=Special:Newimages

As you can see, only a few images can been seen in their thumbnail form. This has been going on for over a year. Would upgrading solve this problem? If this isn't the right place to ask, please tell me a good place to go. I've been trying for months to find the reason for this.

note: I don't want to see this on any interwiki pages, by the way.

How can I make the categories box appear on top of an article page instead of the bottom?
This is handled by the "catlinks". Edit the skin. E.g. skins/Monobook.php: Find this section: Switch the 2 lines to:

Using deleteOldRevisions.php
It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to use this:
 * Run PuTTY
 * cd yourdomain
 * cd yourwikidirectory
 * cd maintenance
 * If you're using php5 then type in:  /usr/local/php5/bin/php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete
 * If you're using php4 then you can just type: php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

This procedure will work for all of the scripts in the maintenance directory. Make sure you download and look at the script before running it to see if it has any notes or usage guidelines. David Shenk 18:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

making mediawiki faster?
I remember during install it asked me if I had certain things on my server to make the software faster. In the future, if I do get these things, how do I implement them into my wiki later on? Also, I can't recall the names of them? Sorry for my ignorance, any help is appreciated. 66.192.186.99 19:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Removing logo picture
To remove logo removing of wgLogo variable and setting NOT works if you splitted navigation bar into two parts, you have to set this too: display:none; height: 0px; width: 0px; } otherwise it redirects you to logo link when you click on first few links in (new splitted) navigation bar
 * 1) column-one { padding-top: 21px; }
 * 1) p-logo {

--Betlista 15:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

How can I force users to preview before they save in version 1.10?
Does anyone know how to fix this issue (How can I force users to preview before they save) for MediaWiki 1.10? Thanks in advance. /Minken


 * I do it this way on my wiki: (in diff format) --203.217.47.76, aka en:User:Jeremy.Visser 22:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Index: includes/EditPage.php =================================================================== --- includes/EditPage.php      (revision 22056) +++ includes/EditPage.php      (working copy) @@ -1152,6 +1152,10 @@                $checkboxhtml = implode( $checkboxes, "\n" ); $buttons = $this->getEditButtons( $tabindex ); + +              if ( $this->formtype !== 'preview' ) +                      unset($buttons['save']); +                $buttonshtml = implode( $buttons, "\n" ); $safemodehtml = $this->checkUnicodeCompliantBrowser


 * Thank you very much, Jeremy Visser. It works fine! /Minken

Removing Edit Tab Doesn't Work
i'm trying to remove the edit tab so that users who do not have an account cannot edit information on my wiki. i've tried exactly what the FAQ answer says to do. My wiki is a default wiki at the moment. i'm wondering if anyone who comes to the site is logged in by default with their IP address being their username. The IP Address shows up next to the login/signup link at the top right with a "my talk" page link next to it. Does this have anything to do with it my "edit tab" problem? Thanks, Lefedy 14:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Title Extension
What is the name of the Extension that allows you to change the titles of pages? Plumber 23:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

How to start over
As a first-time creator of a wiki, I am unsure about some choices on the MediaWiki site config form. Will I be able to go back and do any of them over again, without having to drop all tables in the database and starting from a fresh copy of the MediaWiki software? Are those two steps enough to ensure a fresh start?

How do I remove the "Talk for this IP" link at the top right when $wgDisableAnonTalk is true
When I add this in 1.10, after I log in I get an error on getText. any ideas? 68.4.226.3 05:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

test

Changing tabs?
How do I change the tabs on the header above, like "manual" "discussion" "edit" "history". I´d like to use my own labels for these expressions...

Background color on namespaces
Hi,

How do we change the background color on namespaces? For example, on mediawiki the "Manual" namespace has a grey background, and normal articles has a white one. It's the same on wikipedia. So how can we do this?

Thank you.

--83.68.199.212 19:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

mail features
Howto set up mail features?


 * The easy way (need to be able to install stuff on the server)


 * install the package php-pear : apt-get install php-pear
 * then as root : pear install --alldeps mail
 * then edit LocalSettings.php and add : $wgSMTP = array(

'host'    => "smtp.yourprovider.com", 'IDHost'  => "domain for MessageID", 'port'    => 25, 'auth'    => false, 'username' => "my_user_name", 'password' => "my_password" );
 * then you will be able to send email confirmation or else


 * the hard way (need to have a MTA installed)


 * don't know how to do that

Disable editing
How do I disable editing?

Category "Access Denied"
I doubt I'll get a response here, given the lack of responses to many previous questions, but here goes. I can't add categories (or even links to categories) on my MediaWiki site. I get an "Access Denied" error. Eep² 11:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Consider moving this question to Project:Support desk. Does that only happen with categories or with all articles? --Flominator 11:55, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't have any existing categories and was/am trying to create new ones. Oddly, the "Access Denied" only happens if I enter summary text but if I leave the summary blank, the category links show up fine. I don't get it... Eep² 12:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Basil White is Too Stupid to Load MediaWiki
I give up. I have no administrative control over a shared S:/ drive. I want to load a "blank Wikipedia" on S:/ with all the enabling software at S:/wiki so people who can get to S:/ can build wiki topics under S:/ and link to files in "parallel" directories, like s:/abc, s:/schedule, etc. I loaded WAMP5 and followed the instructions as best I could and looked at what I loaded at http://basilwhite.com/WAMP5/www/ to figure out how to actually create pages of content. I'd use pbwiki but I don't want any content to exist anywhere than on the S:/drive. I've read all the directions in mediawiki.org, and to this Liberal Arts major, they read like quotes from THX-1138. Won't you help a Liberal Arts major? --> basilwhite @7 basilwhite d0Oo7 c0Oom Basilwhite 08:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)


 * http://community.livejournal.com/wikipedians/117121.html sent me to http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php


 * ...which I'll try, but it's not the same as Wikipedia. Sigh... Basilwhite 00:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php?
I have a question: How can I make DefaultSettings.php to Localsttings.php?

PLEASE make this page editable
there is no explanation in the hide the main title section where you should add this code. I was going to add this:


 * Paste the following code into your user:username/monobook.js page

I also wanted to add this link:


 * Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives

Can someone do this? Odessaukrain 00:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

What is this Wiki?
What type of Wiki is this?(76.247.222.101 08:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC))
 * See About this site--Brian 22:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Change the value of $wgLogo to point to the URL of your own logo image does not work.
I changed the URL to point my Logo.jpg but it only shows on random pages.

88.115.194.214 12:00, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Search for short words not working after proposed changes
I've changed the fulltext index to 2 and 2 for both mysql variables and rebuilt the indexes (using the maintenance script), but this did not fix the problem. I still don't find anything when searching for XY or XYZ, even though the pages containing these words are in the searchindex table. Anything else I can do about that?

Can you hide the titles of namespaces a user doesnt have access to in the search page?
Does anyone know of a way to hide namespaces to which a user has no access in the search page where you select the namespaces to be searched? I've modified the search so the results don't contain text from hidden pages, but it would be nice to hide the fact that a namespace exists at all to avoid hacking attempts. It would also be nice to just hide some of the inherent mediawiki namespaces to have less clutter. I thought I read how to do this somewhere awhile back but I just can't find it now! Thanks for any help.


 * I user the extension "Blacklist" to hide my special-pages (and others) from the users (admin has to place a userdefined list into the LocalSettings.php), and this works properly. It should also work with specified namespaces.--FSLEP 08:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

How Can I Change the Text on the Create Account Page?
Specifically, I want to change the "Already got an account? Log in." text.
 * Mark some text from a row, copy it, search/find it on Special:Allmessages --Subfader 02:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

How can I change User Links on top?
I'd like to add a new User Link on the very right top of the page and remove some. Where can I change it? --Subfader 00:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

How do I add more buttons on the edit page? - Does not work
Hello,

i added in two different wikis the same for additional buttons in MediaWiki:Common.js, but in one the buttons do not appear. is there any variable that needs to be added to local setting to support additional buttons or what else might be the reason? thanks in advance kind regards --TurboKanne 11:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month?
Using DPL, how do I get a listing of "lastedited" for a specific month?

Recentchanges only shows max. 7 days????
My machine:

MediaWiki: 1.11.1

PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler)

MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt

My problem:

the function Recentchanges only shows maximum the last changes of the last 7 days, even if you change to "show the last changes of the last 30 days" (&days=30), result: only the last 7 days are displayed. example:

http://[...]/dewiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen&limit=500&days=30

(there are not many changes, the limit of 500 is enough)

Am I doing something wrong?

Is it a bug?

Is there a "hidden" maximum anywhere, maybe in the LocalSettings.php, or somewhere else?--FSLEP 07:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * 7 days is the default, yes -- it's called recent changes for a reason :) The limit can be configured using Manual:$wgRCMaxAge.
 * The fact that there's a "30 days" link on the page even if the DB only has 7 is confusing though. -- 217.234.218.114 09:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your answers. This seems to be the solution for my problem.


 * Is it to be placed in the LocalSetting.php?


 * Example: $wgRCMaxAge= "7 * 24 * 3600 ";</tt>  --FSLEP 06:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Imaging problem

 * MediaWiki: wiki-site.com
 * PHP: ?
 * MySQL: no
 * URL: http://nuclearvacuum.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page

Whenever an image is uploaded to my Wiki, it uploads OK, but it will not thumb into any other size other then the one it currently is. What code would this be and how could I fix this? -- NuclearVacuum 00:48, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I do not believe that this is happening simply because I did not download it to my desktop. It seems to be working fine on others using the same site (and at the same level as mine).  What is the problem here, and please answer me.  Here is a link to one of my articles that I put a picture on, so I can show you what it looks like.  When I try to resize or put the picture in a thumb, it just says "Error creating thumbnail:" and does not show the picture. -- NuclearVacuum 00:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Which OS and platform? — VasilievVV 17:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * My OC is Microsoft Windows and my platform (I believe) is Java. Does this help you out? --  17:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Try to set  — VasilievVV 17:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Where is this found? -- 17:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Add the line to your LocalSettings.php. <font color="#006500">Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 17:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Where is my LocalSettings.php? Where would it be found? NuclearVacuum 17:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * В папке, в которую Вы поставили MediaWiki — VasilievVV 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I did not download this wiki. It does not require me to download it.  I have no folder for it.  -- NuclearVacuum 17:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * *Notices your url.* You seem to be on a wiki-farm.  You should contact wiki-site and get them to help you, since they have access to your LocalSettings.php and other files if you don't. <font color="#006500">Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 20:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Uneeded Copyright removal

 * MediaWiki: 1.12.0
 * PHP: 5.2.6(cgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51-log
 * URL: http://osirius.co.uk/wiki/

I don't own the afformentioned wiki, but I was wondering, how can I tell the owner how to removed the second copyright he has on the bottom of every page? He has it loading on the bottom left of every page, in addition to the pre-loaded copyright notice, so, could I given step by step instructions on how to remove this uneeded copyright? Thanks! —Logestic 20:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

PS: Is there anything I can add to my common.css to make it disappear? - Logestic 20:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

How to change the destination of the login/register link on the right top of the screen
* MediaWiki: 1.11 * PHP: 5.2.3 * MySQL: 5.0.41

Hi there mates i'm trying to force that when you click on this link it will redirect you to another site i have on my localhost system. So i can log in thru CAS authentication. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks a lot!

—Juanan 10:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)