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(RESOLVED) Need to leave the user names as they are typed to integrate mediawiki into logging using CAS.

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

Hello there! I noticed thta wikimedia uses the php funcion ucfirst to convert the first character in the username to capitals. I am trying to integrate the mediawiki into my faculty site using CAS authentication, so i would need to leave the names as they appear. So far i've noticed that in user.php at line 413 and also at line 532 it uses the function ucfirst. I changed it to ignore it yet it keeps doing this, and it shouldn't. Am I missing somewhere else where this function gets called? I know it's against the usual way mediawiki works, but can this problem be solved? Thanks - Juanan —147.83.181.16 18:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The LocalSettings.php configuration global Manual:$wgCapitalLinks may be useful here without having to modify the codebase --Zven 20:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The thing is that this seems to apply only in the 1st letter of links (including included pages, images and categories). Not to usernames, (wich i need) - Juanan


 * How doesn't it? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Edit Toolbar not shown...

 * MediaWiki: newest
 * PHP: 5.X
 * MySQL: 5.X
 * URL: http://iwenzo.de/wiki/

I Could not see Edittoolbar! Whats wrong?

User: test34

PW: gerald

PS: Please don´t post URL correctly, i want no index into google "thanks"

PS2: On Firefox is see on Sourcecode:

 /*<![CDATA[*/ addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_bold.png','Fetter Text','\'\'\,'\'\'\,'Fetter Text','mw-editbutton-bold'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_italic.png','Kursiver Text','\'\,'\'\,'Kursiver Text','mw-editbutton-italic'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_link.png','Interner Link',,,'Link-Text','mw-editbutton-link'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_extlink.png','Externer Link (http:// beachten)','[',']','http://www.beispiel.de Link-Text','mw-editbutton-extlink'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_headline.png','Ebene 2 Überschrift','\n== ',' ==\n','Ebene 2 Überschrift','mw-editbutton-headline'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_image.png','Bildlink','Bild:','','Beispiel.jpg','mw-editbutton-image'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_media.png','Mediendatei-Link','[[Media:',']]','Beispiel.ogg','mw-editbutton-media'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_math.png','Mathematische Formel (LaTeX)','','<\/math>','Formel hier einfügen','mw-editbutton-math'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_nowiki.png','Unformatierter Text',' ','<\/nowiki>','Unformatierten Text hier einfügen','mw-editbutton-nowiki'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_sig.png','Deine Signatur mit Zeitstempel','--~',,,'mw-editbutton-signature'); addButton('/wiki/skins/common/images/button_hr.png','Horizontale Linie (sparsam verwenden)','\n\n',,,'mw-editbutton-hr'); /*]]>*/

So whats wrong!?!? (The Imagefiles are in the folder!) —91.17.107.104 08:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Unless you install a bot that keeps your wiki from being searched by google (such php programming exists on phpBB3 forums for example), there is no way to stop Google from indexing your wiki. That being said could you please give a link to a page being edited so we can see what is wrong? I cannot read German and thus cannot find the Special:Randompage to see the toolbar problem. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  21:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) code question/ how to change the code for a wiki page?

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

hi there i want to add some meta informations to the code of some wiki pages



i can view the code but cant work with it and since i dont have a html data to work with cuz its stored in the db how can i work with it? —62.225.191.42 07:22, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You can add this code snippet to your LocalSettings which should do the trick --Nad 20:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

thx for answer but i want to add some meta informations to like 500+ Pages dont think this trick will work here :(


 * Why won't it work? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  22:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Can't get my wiki back after loosing some tables in database

 * MediaWiki: 1.5.7
 * PHP: 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.0.24_Debian-10sarge2-log
 * URL: http://elearning.itinet.fr/wikibibi/index.php/

Hi, I had a hard disk crash an now only certain tables seems to contain information in my database. I tried to put on the wiki back, but it says that it can't find some tables.

My important information is most in searchindex table. Is there any way to get this information back in a wiki ? or any other possibility ?

I already tried to move only the searchindex table to another wiki but it didn't work.

Thanks, Eric.

—195.25.195.79 16:24, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * What is the content that your Wiki displays when "it says that it can't find some tables"? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  22:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If it's just the searchindex? That should be possible to rebuild, try php maintenance/upgrade.php then try maintenance/rebuildall.php. Note that, if MySQL has marked the table as "crashed", you will need to use MySQL's tools to repair the database before attempting to rebuild the table content in MediaWiki. --Carlb 19:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Uploaded Files with "Umlauts" won't be found
My Wiki runs in German.

Whenever I upload a file that contains an umlaut in its filename, "schäden.png" for instance, the file will be upload under "sch#%&den.png" (something like that). Renaming that file by hand to "schäden.png" makes it be found again.

How can I get those umlauts to be kept within the filenames?

I just can't find any solutions here.

Thanks a lot!

--195.200.70.22 08:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you still having this problem? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. I wonder if it has to do with Windows? Since my first entry, I have one Wiki set up on Win XP, one Wiki on Win 2000 and one Wiki set up under Mac OSX. All in German. All set up from scratch. All with their own resources and extensions. While I have no problem at all with uploading files with German umlauts under Mac OSX, it won't work -- as described -- under Win XP and Win 2000.  Same Browsers used under those systems (Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE7 on Windows). I use WOSportable on Windows and MAMP on OSX. Or is it WOSportable? --84.145.122.49 15:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I think you have to upload them in unicode format. Is your wiki set in German language code? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  20:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) 1.6.10 Install problems
I Am trying ti install 1.6.10 as that is the version the install recommended as I am running PHP Version 4.4.7 and can not upgrade at this time.

Here are all the lines of the install page, including the error:


 * 1) PHP 4.4.7 installed
 * 2) PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
 * 3) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * 4) PHP is configured with no memory_limit.
 * 5) Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
 * 6) Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions
 * 7) Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
 * 8) Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 9) Found GD graphics library built-in.
 * 10) Installation directory: /home/laplante/public_html/wiki
 * 11) Script URI path: /wiki
 * 12) Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Generating configuration file...
 * 1) Database type: mysql

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare initialisemessages (previously declared in /home/laplante/public_html/wiki/config/maintenance/InitialiseMessages.inc:14) in /home/laplante/public_html/wiki/maintenance/InitialiseMessages.inc on line 14

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide! —66.82.9.108 02:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you still having this problem? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki doesn't load with display_errors = On in php.ini?
This should be a trivial thing, so I don't feel too guilty asking anyone this question. Can someone else do a test on MediaWiki 1.11 to see what happens when switching  and   in php.ini? It seems that on my machine, under Apache 2.2.4/Win32 on Windows XP, MediaWiki fails silently and returns a blank page if the server has enabled error display. Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 11:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It shouldn't fail silently if error reporting is on. Try seting error_reporting to E_ALL, and check the error log too --Nad 20:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It's been on  the whole time, but nothing shows up in the error log. I did just uninstall php_exif.dll, which was throwing errors that the file couldn't be found (which is BS and another problem to be solved at some point). It's just toggling   that makes it work or not; which is really strange, because I could swear that I used it with error display on in previous versions and it didn't make any difference. Could it be something to do with Windows, or a bug in Apache 2.2.4 or PHP 5.2.4 that I should upgrade to fix? (Not that I want to. Last time I tried updating Apache, I very nearly hosed my entire setup. I know now why there are servers still using Apache 1.1.3 and other old versions like that.) Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] 18:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Systemmessage 'mainpagetext' and 'mainpagedocfooter' not editable throu MessagesYY.php
Hi! i edited the MessagesYY.php, to extend some descriptions. Some messages of the array are correctly displayed, after editing. But some are not. e.g. 'mainpagetext' and 'mainpagedocfooter'. And none of this messages are Specialpages (listed also in the FAQ). The modified text is displayed in Allmessages correctly, but only there (e.g. 'mainpagetext' and 'mainpagedocfooter'). I don' use cachemechanism and purged the page (which use the messages) allready. In the FAQ are listed an maintenance script rebuildMessages.php, but it seems been removed.
 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.3.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.41
 * URL:

How can i modify this messages 'mainpagetext' and 'mainpagedocfooter' without using Special:Allmessages?

Thank you! --Ozz 07:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Presumably MediaWiki: .  Mønobi 03:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Viewing Previous Revisions Crashes mysql

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community
 * URL: not publicly viewable: accessible on intranet only

Trying to view older revisions is crashing MySQL and MediaWiki is displaying the following error:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "Database::selectField". MySQL returned error "2006: MySQL server has gone away (localhost)".

The original revision and the last couple revisions work fine. All the other revisions cause this error. I can use the mysql command line client and SELECT * from text WHERE old_id= for all the old revisions that cause the crash with no problem.

Any ideas what is going on?

Glen

—209.222.206.50 19:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it might have to do something with your MySQL. Are you sure that your database isn't just full? —The TattleTale Strangler [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  01:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Further to previous enquiries
At the beginning of January I came on here as an anon asking about the size of the Media and general queries following up from the PHP version I needed, and consequent contact with my provider revealed that I could upgrade to PHP 5, but it would cost. I can't afford it, so I have to put up with PHP 4.4.7. That means if I am to put MediaWiki onto my domain, it will have to start with version 1.6.15.

Now my question(s);


 * 1) Where do I find version 1.6.15 to download?
 * 2) Are the installation instructions any different to any other installation, including that of the current version?
 * 3) Are the following features a part of V1.6.15;
 * 4) Check User (the main reason why I am installing)
 * 5) Colourful signatures (a la Wikipedia)
 * 6) Making the default editing having an account (Wiki-Site's default is anonymous editing as an example of what I DON'T want)
 * 7) More groups than just "User, Sysop and Bureaucrat"
 * 8) The ability to change the side nav bar and add stuff
 * 9) Once installed where do I find the security updates to V1.6.15 and anything else I may need or might want for that version

Sorry if these questions seem dim, but I am making sure I have all the information I need so I can proceed with as little assistance as possible. TLPG 00:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Hope this helps --Chris  01:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) here
 * 2) Nope just unzip and setup the wiki via browser
 * 3) The CheckUser Extension won't work with 1.6.15 but you may be able to do some tweaking to get it to work
 * 4) If you mean disabling anon editing then see here
 * 5) Default groups are User, Sysop, Bureaucrat and bot, see here for how to add extra groups
 * 6) see Manual:Interface/Sidebar
 * You might be able to use userIP check user's predecessor SVN --Chris  01:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * First off, it's 1.6.10, not 15. And to answer your very last question, 1.6.10 is the latest security update for that version, and there will be no more official upgrades of that version, as it is no longer a supported version. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  03:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh great! Now I'm caught between a rock and a hard place - unsupported version equals susceptibility to hacking. Not only that "tweaking" to get the CheckUser working is not within my computer capabilities. Balance that with the cost to switch servers on my domain host to get PHP 5.......it hurts thinking about it!

I'll talk to my domain host again. Thanks for your help so far, guys. Just one more question (a general one) - because my computer knowledge is so basic I hope you lot can help me with some simple queries should the need arise once I finally get around to whatever ends up being done. TLPG 10:32, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Might I just add that I think charging for a PHP upgrade is ridiculous. What host are you using? I'd like to make sure never to use them. (The number of hosts who still use PHP 4 and even 3 is also ridiculous, I might add again.) Tuvok[Talk/en.wp] [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  12:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Source Forge still uses php 4, they say they have a plan to upgrade to php 5 but they haven't put a date and nothing seems to be happening, very annoying! And that's on top of all the other config you need to do to get mediawiki running! --Chris  02:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

How to show NEW Pages on main page

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

Is there a quick way I can list, say the last 5 or 10 New Pages with just titles created and have this list show on the Main Page. Also, same for most recent Revised pages.

—81.156.192.201 14:29, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * For newest page, you can include  (replace 5 by the number of pages you want to show), for most recent Revised pages, if you think about Special:Recentchanges, you can do the same (but it's not possible with all special pages). i Alex  18:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Is there a way I can display just the title of the page. So:

12:33, 4 February 2008 ‎Scratchpad (hist) ‎[22 bytes] ‎127.0.0.1 (Talk)

becomes

Scratchpad


 * Not w/o writing a script.  Mønobi 03:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Any suggestions?


 * Arg, there is a way to do this, I was on a wiki without any date stamps and all usernames, I thought it was this one, but that is the opposite, datestamps and no usernames.
 * The solution exists somewhere and it is going to drive me crazy until I find it, stay posted. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  20:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Nothing in Special:Version info will displayed (blank page)

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.51
 * URL: This is an intranet URL and cannot be accessed

After I've installed the Extension:Prefix Security extension, I've the problem of displaying something in Special:Version. I know, this is now only my problem or the problem of the developer of this extension :) But maybe someone can give me a hint about this problem of displaying a blank Special:Version Page? What does Special:Version need to display the versions of the installed software...?

Many thanks in advance!

—Timotheus.elias 11:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Blank pages mean PHP errors, so see this page, then come back with the specific errors that have been reported. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  01:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Try uninstalling the extension and reinstalling it. The most likely problem is a one-time installation error. Titoxd (?!?) 04:39, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Statistic of search requests
Hello. Is there a way to get a statistic of search requests? I'd like to know, what users are looking for in my wiki. Something like Special:Wantedpages, but based on "not found" users queries? —213.148.8.233 22:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Special:Statistics has most pages visited, which is similar, if you wanted what is searched the most then it would probably be a plug-in to this page. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:38, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Then again MediaWiki (the site not the code) has this option turned off, so look here. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:39, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You might want to check out Extension:SearchLog, this gives a tabular summary of search requests. You could also check the server logs of search requests by filtering on specific query string requests, although searches will be urlencoded --Zven 01:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

The SearchLog - is very close to what I need, Special:Statistics shows popularity of existing pages, but I need "What pages I have to add, that readers looking for". The only problem: SearchLog incorrectly shows UTF-8 chars. --89.175.73.253 12:12, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have modified Extension:SearchLog to display raw Unicode/UTF-8 characters by escaping the ampersands. A special page example is running on OrganicDesign:Special:SearchLog, see if that is what you want. --Zven 23:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Still not working, the same black diamonds :-( --Konstbel 18:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Is your wiki site publically accessible? Can you tell me what the characters are in the source generating the diamonds? The UTF-8 character &#38;#xFFFD; is a diamond with a question mark inside '�'. Try putting each of these searches in to the new version -See Extension talk:SearchLog --Zven 20:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * No, site is inside intranet. The HTML code of the generated page is looking like


 * If I open the log file in editor with UTF-8 support, I can read the search phrases, they are really in UTF-8. --Konstbel 15:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wait, what do you mean with the table? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  20:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Navbox

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

http://www.maporchestra.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Navbox

I don't know why there is that extra and  there, any help?

—-PatPeter,  MediaWiki Support Team  23:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Wiki Encoding Problem

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.37-community-nt
 * URL: http://wiki.myelectrical.com/

I have had a wiki up and running for a year or so without problems. Recently I have just moved to Dubai and when I first tried the wiki here I received the following error (on some pages only):

''Content Encoding Error (content_encoding_error) Server response could not be decoded using encoding type returned by server. This is typically caused by a Web Site presenting a content encoding header of one type, and then encoding the data differently. For assistance, contact your network support team.''

The wiki was fully functional before I arrived in Dubai (and may still be in other countries). After further investigation I found that the wiki is functional except for certain pages:

http://wiki.myelectrical.com

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?title=Special:Random

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?search=iec

etc.

Example working pages are:

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?title=CT_Dimensioning

... most article pages seem to be working

http://wiki.myelectrical.com/index.php?xx (where xx can be a lot of things)

etc.

I've tried quite a lot of things to resolve this without success. Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated.

—62.140.211.130 06:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The non-working pages are now working. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  21:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Variables not expanded to value

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1 and 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.3-1ubuntu6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-Debian_1ubuntu3-log
 * URL: private

I have a problem with MediaWiki standard variables like SITENAME which to not get expanded to their value on certain occasions. For instance, SITENAME in the footer doesn't get expanded and the wiki displays "About " literaly. The weird thing is that the same variable gets expanded correctly on the window title / page name. I have absolutely no idea what is going on and have tried debuging the Parser a bit but without any success. I have the GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter extension installed but disconnecting it doesn't change anything.

—195.154.168.90 15:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Only certain MediaWiki messages allow for wiki code to be placed into them. Most do not, which is why you are experiencing that issue. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  21:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Well in fact, appart from the page titles, variables like don't work in any of the wiki pages that I edit so I'm a bit puzzled. Is there something to enable in LocalSettings.php? 195.154.168.90 15:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

We got exactly the same mistake, 'resolved' by creating a new account, one of the administrator/Bureaucrate account was causing that trouble ... Why ? We don't know. We also use the GeSHi extension. Maybee is-it comming from there ... --84.101.142.60 09:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Problem not resolved ... 1 hour after ower change, the variables are bugging again ... --84.101.142.60 09:26, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * This could be a side issue but which extension for GeSHi were you using? If it was Extension:GeSHiCodeTag, there are some issues with Tags conflicting with HTML tags, for example the  tag, as that is a language specified in GeSHi. You could check out what tags surround the non rendering  in the source code. You may need to purge server side caching aswell with the query string key/value pair &action=purge in a long url request to see changes taking effect--Zven 01:15, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No changes, I guess it is a charset problem, because when it bug, chars are saving in ISO and they have to be in UTF ... (Rhombus with Question mark) --84.101.142.229 08:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * is it possible the problem to come from mysql 5 ? cause when i see other wiki like wikipedia they are still on mysql 4!


 * It seems the problems is coming from apache / php and mbstring functions, we have a website in UTF8 and mediawiki on the same server, and when a client connect to the site, it makes the wiki go wrong because it doesnt like mbstring functions. We set mbstring.func_overload in each .htaccess with the value 6 for the site and 0 for the wiki, but sometime it seem that the value stay to 6 when we connect to the wiki. In fact, we don't have any solution --86.71.108.138 10:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Excluding pages from "article count" and "random page" searches

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

Is there a way of excluding pages from the "article count" function and the Random Page function? For example, I don't want to include FAQ or About pages in those totals.

—74.128.207.61 23:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Funny, I was just about to ask how to include more articles in the article count (i.e. count my extra namespaces) and add Random page to encompass those extra namespaces also. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:19, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I am wondering if there is some sort of code I can insert (much like the code) to prevent certain pages from being counted as "articles" or showing up in random pages/articles.

Does anyone have any insight into this? 74.128.207.61 17:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You could place those articles in other namespaces, for instance your "Project:" namespace. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  21:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) 500 Internal Server Error while trying to access config/index.php

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP: 5.2.5
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
 * URL:

I replaced the wiki files with the files for the latest version and I am trying to run the web based config script to upgrade.

I get a 500 Internet server error page instead. The server log shows this

Premature end of script headers: /home/malvagit/public_html/hqwiki/config/index.php

Any ideas?

—Darkwater 06:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Can you include a URL to your wiki?  Mønobi 03:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorting of category page

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt

On a Category:XX page of my wiki I see page links grouped by first letter, that is OK, but groups themselves (letters) are arranged in random order (page names are non-english!), is it possible to alphabetize them?

—Konstbel 16:55, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The order is imposed by the database, and the order is probably not "random", but byte-wise, instead of alphabetically. You may get better results when using the "experimental utf8" veriation of the database setup, instead of "compatibility mode". This is an option diring installation, i have no idea how to change it later. Also note that "experimental utf8" mode relies on mysql's own utf8 support, which is incomplete. It may work better than "compatibe" (binary) mode for your language, but as soon as you use a character from some ''very' odd language (like, for example, gothic), it will not work at all, producing a fatal error.
 * Sadly, I don't know a good way out of this dilemma, short of waiting for real unicode support in mysql. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 10:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I looked at wiki database, and noticed, that most varchar fields have utf8_bin comparison instead of utf8_general_ci. Is this the reason? I tried to change to utf8_general_ci, but without visible effect :-( --Konstbel 15:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Need help: PHP has encrusted an Access violation at 01EDAE66

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5.2.1
 * MySQL: 5.0.27
 * URL:

PHP has encrusted an Access violation at 01EDAE66

web sever: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

Dear friends,

I am a new mediawiki administrator, the previous one installed it and left.the wiki is set as a intranet site. recently, our wiki is down so often with error message "PHP has encrusted an Access violation at 01EDAE66", I searched google, mediawiki sites for several days, but did not have any clue. any body has the same experience? any suggestion is appreciated!

Thanks. Susan


 * That's a system crash which probably means PHP or IIS is not configured or set up properly --Nad 09:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * We installed other components in e107 with wiki together, including Forum, call serivces, etc, it works fine, they are installed in a same server with same PHP and IIS setting, this problem happens just on WIKI. Could you please give me more detail information, or I have to reinstall php, wiki? appreciate.--Susan9508 14:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

install-utils.inc

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

My wiki is not yet installed. I get a error on the config directory in my wiki, when i point my browser there, and the wiki directory doesn't work i get 403 error. It says i don't have install-utils.inc when i looked through and i do have it.

—Smwape 23:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know what it could be, but if it's a new install you could just try deleting everything and starting all over, then see if the problem occurs again. Smaug 00:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Permissions and ownership of files a problem? --Zven 00:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's probably right, 403 means forbidden, try chmod -R 755 * on your wiki base-dir --Nad 09:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Error with Checkuser and Makesysop

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha
 * PHP: 5.15
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

CheckUser is hard to install: I tried doing it via Phpshell for my XAMPP install which has a working copy of MediaWiki 1.12alpha - but couldn't get it to work.

I can't really just add it to extensions folder, with ExtensionFunctions.php and then it'll be installed (not forgetting $wgCheckUserLog directory).

See this image: http://aycu34.webshots.com/image/45033/2003150385021445665_rs.jpg When I say it "doesn't work", I'm not sure how to get it working with phpShell. and when it's installed: http://aycu05.webshots.com/image/44124/2003185015665829825_rs.jpg

It does not create a log in the log directory, and says "No matches found", even though they were.

This is what the log creates: http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/45063/2004716913533090621_rs.jpg

Makesysop, as mentioned at Extension:Makesysop installs OK, but apparently I have to use

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['userrights-interwiki'] = true;

in order to get user rights changed on my other wikis: e.g. checkuser sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser, oversight sysop, bureaucrat, steward
 * Admin changed user rights for Testuser1@testwiki from sysop to sysop,
 * Admin changed user rights for Exampleuser@mywiki from sysop, bureaucrat to
 * Admin changed user rights for FooBar@examplewiki from sysop, bureaucrat to

I find it strange that Special:Userrights has taken over from Special:Makesysop to configure cross-wiki permissions change, and also why is the line: $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['userrights-interwiki'] = true;

needed??

The makesysop page here says "Special:Makesysop shows the same form in Special:Userrights. In the "user name" field the database name should be added after the account, e.g. MyUser@foowikidb instead of just "MyUser".

I'm trying to copy Wikimedia's setup for my wiki farm: hopefully my report will benefit others here.

How do I get it to work properly??

—82.42.237.84 16:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Makesysop was just a limited version of Userrights to begin with, it became deprecated the moment $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups took effect. The userrights-interwiki permission is needed because that's what the form checks for when you type an @wiki in the username field when using Special:Userrights. As for CheckUser, see if your hosting company will run the install script for you. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  03:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm actually testing it on a XAMPP server, thanks for explaining the steward thing. Can't get CheckUser to work on XAMPP though... well, unless you know a good terminal emulator for Windows XP... --82.42.237.84 10:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Simple: download the files from SVN, which I assume you've done. Then, open up phpMyAdmin, select your wiki's database, click the SQL tab and create two tables, cu_changes</tt> and cu_log</tt>. The query used to create cu_changes can be found here (current version, as of 10:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)) and the query for cu_log is here (current, most up-to-date version as of 10:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)). When you've created the tables, add include_once('extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php');</tt> to your LocalSettings.php and you're done. Give yourself checkuser permission, browse to Special:CheckUser and enjoy. -- Sayuri 10:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * So the $wgCheckUserLog is no longer relevant?? I added that to LocalSettings.php, added the SQL into my database - I just found it weird that no checkuser.log was generated - is this meant to happen?? Thanks anyway. --82.42.237.84 13:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Shared uploads error

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

I configured image uploading, and it works fine, but getting it to be shared across my 3 wikis is a nightmare. This is my image upload script which is used in my wiki's CommonSettings.php - require_once( '../wikiset/CommonSettings.php' );: /** * If you operate multiple wikis, you can define a shared upload path here. * Uploads to this wiki will NOT be put there - they will be put into * $wgUploadDirectory. * If $wgUseSharedUploads is set, the wiki will look in the shared repository if * no file of the given name is found in the local repository (for, * [[Media:..]] links). Thumbnails will also be looked for and generated in this * directory. * * Note that these configuration settings can now be defined on a per- * repository basis for an arbitrary number of file repositories, using the * $wgForeignFileRepos variable. */ $wgUseSharedUploads = true; /** Full path on the web server where shared uploads can be found */ $wgSharedUploadPath = "http://127.0.0.1/testwiki/images/"; /** Fetch commons image description pages and display them on the local wiki? */ $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = true; /** Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found. */ $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "http://127.0.0.1/testwiki/images/"; /** DB name with metadata about shared directory. Set this to false if the uploads do not come from a wiki. */ $wgSharedUploadDBname = "testwiki"; /** Optional table prefix used in database. */ $wgSharedUploadDBprefix = '';

However, the images don't appear at all on the other 2 wikis, only testwiki. How do I get this to work?? —82.42.237.84 14:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * No support available for unstable releases. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  16:50, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * This is the same version that all the wikimedia projects are using - also I don't think you should mark items as "resolved" when you haven't resolved it. --Nad 21:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The value for $wgSharedUploadDirectory should be local FS path to images, not http --Nad 21:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

External links colours
Is there an easy way to change the colour of external links? I'd like internal links to remain blue, but would like external links to be green in colour. Is it possible?

—74.128.207.61 22:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You can add a css rule for eg a.external { color: pink } in your MediaWiki:Common.css article. --Nad 23:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


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

Gave that a try, but it did not seem to work for me. Any other ideas? -74.128.207.61 16:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You'll need to do a ctrl+shift+refresh to ensure your browser reloads the css. Also what version of MW are you using? you'll need to use MediaWiki:Monobook.css instead of Common.css if you're pre 1.9 --Nad 19:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I've done the "force refresh" bit, but nothing is happening. (I am using MW 1.11.1.

Perhaps I wrote the code wrong, inserted/removed spaces where there should be none? Here is what I wrote in MediaWiki:Common.css:

a.external { color:#228B22 }

-74.128.207.61 00:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah yes sorry, there's a more specific rule in the main css which takes precendence, you can fix it by making the rule more specific as follows:


 * 1) content a.external { color:#228B22 }
 * --Nad 03:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

That did the trick....excellent! Many thanks. -74.128.207.61 03:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Resetting the hit counter on the main page

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

Is there a way to "reset" Wikimedia's hit count (the This page has been accessed ### times) bit?

—74.128.207.61 05:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you'll need to update the db directly, the following query would do it,

update page set page_counter=0 where page_title='Main_Page';
 * (you'll need to add a prefix to page if your using table prefixes) --Nad 06:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

That did it. Muchas Gracias. 74.128.207.61 16:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser oddity

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

I set up CheckUser, and it works OK, however, I set up a folder called "logs" for $wgCheckUserLog and it comes out blank... why?? NOTE: I'm using XAMPP if that's of any use. —82.42.237.84 18:12, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you use the latest version of the extension, the log is now stored in the database in a table named cu_log, so you don't need to set a file for the log. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  08:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the anon's asking us why he can't view a log cross-wiki - am I right or wrong in thinking that Wikimedia's CheckUser logs are cross-wiki. --Jazsen 10:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd be interested to know if the logs are cross-wiki, as well. --Jazsen 10:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Should all non-unique wiki entries be categories?
(or: "My Big Wiki Design Theory Conundrum")

Here's my problem*. I noticed early on that the MediaWiki software doesn't particularly distinguish Page names for singular & plural**. Example: if I have a Page, "Vegetables," where I talk about all kindsa veggies, right? and I have a Page, "Aunt Betty's Mutant Carrot Shaped Like A Doberman," then I can't post on Aunt Betty's Page, "This carrot is a vegetable but looks like a dog," because the link vegetable will NOT take me to the "Vegetables" Page. I have to use a link like vegetable, or I have to use a #redirect like Wikipedia does for plurals.

I'm kinda a neat freak. I thought, how can I theorize, philosophize, and specify an official style for using plural or singular in a Page title? Well, if there's only one of a thing, like Benedict XVI, obviously the Page title has to be singular. But what about "Pope." There's more than one. In fact, most things in life come down to unique items or ... aha! ... CATEGORIES.

This leads me to the initially absurd-sounding notion of making all wiki Pages for non-unique things into Categories!

Bear with me ... MediaWiki's Category functionality really works great! I love the fact that it auto-generates a list of every Page that has the little inclusion tag (   ). And you can put up at the top of any Category Page all the same kinds of wiki text and info that you can put in a regular (non-Category) wiki Page. So I should NOT have a Page for Vegetable. I should have a Category for Vegetables (plural), and Popes (plural), and anything else that's not a unique item. This solves the singular/plural Page titling conundrum completely! And never would I have to worry about making a manual list of things within that Category, like "See also: Aunt Jane's Christ Ginger." It would be up to the Christ Ginger Page itself to maintain its inclusion tag for the Category. Neat! Clean!

Small downside is, I have to make a #redirect Page for "vegetable" and "vegetables," to catch any links where people didn't categorize or interlink properly, because otherwise I'll have bashed the wonderfully easy wiki linking system of just sticking a couple square brackets on any word to link to that word's Page. Is that too high a price to pay for consistency? I'm thinking not ...

But I don't know. I don't see other wikis doing this to any large degree. Lookit that Wikipedia Page again. They went with the singular title, and it's not a Category.

... Why not? Seriously. What am I (newbie) missing?

--Töff 18:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

( * I know this isn't a tech support question. I'd post it elsewhere if I knew where.) ( ** Not that they could, really. Tough algorithm! It'd have to be a massive lookup table.)
 * I've thought about that too, and even set up a test wiki in which all articles are automatically categories (ie the default namespace is CATEGORY but not seen). But this was done so that all articles could potentially contain other member articles like a folder. You didn't specify exactly what the problem was with using redirects for plurals etc - I think redirects are more appropriate for that (since that's what they were created for), and semantic mediawiki is best for maintaining more sophisticated relations between articles than simple categorisation (eg an isSynonymOf or isPluralOf relation). --Nad 19:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * didn't specify exactly what the problem was with using redirects for plurals ... More an organizational concern than a problem; because anything that's plural is basically, philosophically, a Category! But I'd say the main "problem" is that a redirect to another Page doesn't have the Category functionality, and you have to list items within that Page as "hard-coded" links rather than the auto-included list in a Category.
 * (eg an isSynonymOf or isPluralOf relation) ... What that!? --Töff
 * See SMW, it basically extends the categorisation idea to allow arbitrary relationships and attributes in articles instead of just an "isMemberOf" relationship which normal categorisation is basically doing --Nad 20:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

This is why it's a bad idea ... because Categories are not half as 'movable' as Pages. And, let's face it, pages get moved! --Töff 19:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Replace the search box?

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

Hi all

I don't like the search capabilities of MediaWiki so I decided to spider my wiki using Sphider, a php based spider in the style of Google's.

Now I'd like to replace the default search form with one that sends the entered params to Sphider's search page. But I don't have a clue where I can change that, is there some sort of MediaWiki:Searchbox where i can change the links?

Thanks a lot for helping me get started,

—62.225.191.42 08:49, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * See Sidebar, you can add a wikitext page into the sidebar which can contain your custom search which could be in the form of a tag or parser function --Nad 10:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Table Problem

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

I have a page on my wiki where I introduce the members of the community, their titles, and their places of employment. As you can imagine, this list is getting quite long (and still has a ways to go). What I would like is to make three equal-sized columns (with about 20% slack space at the right end of the screen). I tried doing this, but I must have screwed it up, because it didn't quite work...one of my biggest issues was that whenever I had a row with only two names instead of three (like near the end of the list), and it would screw up the spacing.

Is there a simpler code I can use to do this? —74.128.207.61 16:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you have a link to the site? if not, please show your table here (with just a few rows including a stuffing up one or two --Nad 19:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

www.windrep.org/Community

Any help would be appreciated. That list at the bottom is going to grow by some 30-40 names in the next few weeks.

(I am not using the table right now, obviously).
 * I can't fix it if you're not using it - create the table in another article or something so I can see what's going wrong and fix it --Nad 05:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Images problem!

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL: mediawiki

Hi, I have exactly started with mediawiki and I have a litle problem with the images! I tried to set an image in the article, but the picture will not appear. How do I do so the image will be appear?

/ Kim Klasson, hope you can send me an e-mail how to fix it. Sorry for my bad English, I'm from sweden^^

—217.208.144.120 17:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * There are no images uploaded into your wiki and your file uploads are disabled, set $wgEnableUploads to true in your LocalSettings --Nad 20:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Please advise what the minimum hardware configuration requirement is to run Media Wiki

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

—204.187.93.195 19:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki itself will run on anything which has PHP, MySQL and a webserver. The main resource requirement is from MySQL which works best with at least 256MB RAM. The MediaWikiLite extension (which works, but is very new and still considered experimental) allows you to run it using the SQLite database instead of a large database server which allows you to run MediaWiki on much smaller systems such as iPod's or small client PC's much more efficiently. --Nad 19:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It is already documented here: Installation -- Dr DBW |  talk  05:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

How do I hide the namespace prefix
How do I hide the namespace prefix in a page title in MediaWiki 11.1? I would want the prefix hidden in the whole namespace (i.e., don't need a per-page option)—Töff 21:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think you'd have to add some code called in setup (ie a callback in $wgExtensionFunctions) which sets the page title using $wgParser->mOutput->setDisplayTitle('whatever'). You'd have to check whether it was a normal title as opposed to an error page or a title with preceding action (eg "editing foo") etc --Nad 22:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Sidebar width
How do you change the width of the column on the left? — Jeremy Parker
 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: MySQL 5 Database
 * URL: http://www.snoodlers.com
 * I've added a section to sidebar explaining how to do that --Nad 02:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

But I can't find the file I got to edit all that information.
 * There are no files involved, it refers to articles --Nad 18:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Category alphabetization...

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

Alright, here's an interesting one. I run a wiki that has two categorized main lists, one of compositions, and one of composers. I just noticed that the composer category list just happens to be alphabetized by the composer's last names, even though I listed them FIRST NAME LAST NAME when I created the page (Steven Bryant, for example). It somehow recognized all of the composers I have entered so far, except for one. The composer Fred Stride is being listed under "F" for Fred.

Under compositions, the listings are being done by the first letter of the composition, as one would expect.

My question is....how the heck does MediaWiki figure out to categorize by last name, and why is it not categorizing that one particular composer correctly?

—74.128.207.61 04:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

DOH! I think I just figured it out.

NEEEEEEEVER MIND.


 * Sounds like you are using sort keys --Zven 05:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Would be good for future people with the same problem / question if you actually responded here with what the issue was, why it was doing that. -- Dr DBW |  talk  05:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem:

I was leaving out the all-important code. If you don't use that at the bottom of your page code (or anywhere, really), then WikiMedia automatically alphabetizes by the first letter of the article title. In the case of proper nouns, you can set the sorting to correspond to the last name as such:  so that it will sort categories by last name.

-74.128.207.61 15:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Editing the Navigation Menu

 * MediaWiki: Nothing shows, should be latest version 1.11.xxxx
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 5.0.22-community-max-nt
 * URL: http://www.bandwiki.net/

How do you remove the 'Donations' link from the navigation menu? I have edited mediawiki:sidebar and have added and removed items, but when I save the changes nothing actually changes in the menus.

—216.223.16.33 05:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You've done it the correct way, I think you must have something else wrong for it not to take effect. I noticed that no matter what page you go to, the URL is just the plain domain name which could have effects on caching. --Nad 19:27, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope that is not it, I just recently added that domain name, and my attempts to fix it was tried before i bought the domain... I have now since changed the domain name though to forward not mask. Still see donate, even though it nolonger appears in the page. --216.223.16.33 19:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * there appears to be a couple of hooks in your Special:Version,

MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd	efContributorsToolbox SkinTemplateBuildNavUrlsNav_urlsAfterPermalink	efContributorsNavigation Are these associated with a skinning extension which is overriding mediawiki:sidebar? --Zven 22:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Good point, there's a lot of extensions installed, try commenting out the extension includes in your locasettings, then see if changes to MediaWiki:Sidebar still fails, if not put extensions back one-by one until the offending one is found. --Nad 06:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have disabled all of the extensions; I have verified that the donations link has been removed from mediawiki:sidebar; but the donations link still appears.--216.223.16.33 14:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wait wait wait you removed the link from the side bar, but it still appears? Where? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  04:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Customize Printable Version & Formatting Question

 * MediaWiki: 1.9.2
 * PHP: 5.1.6
 * MySQL: 5.0.22

Hello there,

is it possible to customize the "Printable Version"? For example i want to fill in a header and footer. Which file must be edited?

And the other question is: Is there a formatting tag to tell the wiki, that tabulators and breaks should be interpreted as normal? So they should look like normal tabulators and breaks. The tag   doesn't give me any formatting.

Thanks for your help in advance! Flo

—217.7.54.186 12:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Have you found a solution yet? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  04:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Server Problems...

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

I've been some problems with my server (I think). There are several times when I will visit my wiki and the resulting page will be completely blank. This is not a 404 error, the URl is clearly visible in the address bar, but the page is completely blank....even the source code.

It doesn't happen for very long (the longest "outage" so far was 10 minutes), usually it is only down for 1-2 minutes, and then it comes right back. But it is very annoying, and if someone is visiting my page for the first time and encounters the blank age, they may not come back, thinking it a dead site.

My hosting company (Siteground) insists that there is no problem and that it must be my internet connection. However, I have a friend in another state whom I was chatting with via IM, and I asked them to look at the site at the exact moment, and they got the same thing, a blank page, so it cannot be just me.

My questions are:


 * Has this happened to anyone else?
 * Is Siteground a good server, or should I look into someone else?
 * If I need to transfer to another server...how easy/difficult is it to move an entire wiki database? Is it just a matter of exporting and re-importing the MySQL database? I am sure there are more steps than this.

Sorry for the long post, but....this is getting frustrating. It happens 3-4 times an hour as of late.

—74.128.207.61 16:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If its an intermittent problem like that and you're not experiencing the same thing with other sites, then I can't see how the provider can say its not their problem. It should be no problem moving the site elsewhere, just take a complete copy of your wiki directory structure so you get your localsettings and uploaded files, and export your database as SQL (not XML or other custom format or you may not have the same tools on your target server). When you set up your new database, try and keep all the login and database name the same to avoid need to do any configuration changes. --Nad 19:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

This is what they told me: The issue you have experienced was explained in my previous reply. That is why I have used the same response. I apologize if it sounded unprofessional.

I have now double checked the error logs on the server and the error_log under the public_html folder on your account. There is not errors which may cause this issue.

That means that the issue could be caused only from a script which is timing out. This caused the blank screen on location from which there is a lack of Internet to our Data-Center.

Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to prevent such network glitches because they are not on our network.

Please let us know if we may assist you further on this matter.

Looking forward to your reply.

I don't understand how it can be happening to me and to other viewers of the site...from another state even...and it is our faults and not the servers! Maybe someone here can explain it?

-74.128.207.61 22:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Mozilla Firefox display problem

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * MySQL: 5.022

I'd like to know why this very short piece of code is displayed differently in Internet Explorer and Mozilla:

<LI>description. <br style="clear:both;"/> <LI>description. <br style="clear:both;"/>


 * It's always risky doing invalid html and assuming that different browsers will correct it the same way. You should close your LI's and contain them within a UL. --Nad 19:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

In internet explorer photos are well positioned, alligned to the very left of the page; in Firefox Mozilla, instead, pictures are not alligned on the left but the latter starts at former end right border. The problem doesn't appear before loading the 2 images.

Any help?

Thanks, Ettore —87.9.121.35 17:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Try fixing your HTML and then come back and tell us how it worked out. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  22:12, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Faulty date/time in "last modified"

 * MediaWiki: 1.7.1 (on Ubuntu 7.04 server)
 * PHP: 5.2.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: PostgreSQL 8.2.6 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4), Hooks: AutoAuthenticate: (HttpAuthPlugin, autoAuthenticate)
 * URL: http://kakrafoon.dyndns.org/guiden (guest, guest)

Hello,

I get the last modified date displayed as 1970-01-01 on all pages in my wiki. Signature (four ~ ) works fine. The list in recent changes is also showing the wrong date.

I hade a look in the db in the tables pages and recentchanges. The timestamps there seems to be fine, eg "2008-02-12 20:16:01+01"

Cheers

—erk 20:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Upgraded to latest version of MediaWiki, 1.11.1 -> Problem solved. erk 14:49, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Embedding image from internal share

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.2.3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt
 * URL: internal

Hi,

Is there a way to a way to embed an image from an internal share? ie. \\computer\share\image.jpg

Thanks, Tim

—159.140.254.10 23:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Try $wgSharedUploadDirectory. You may need to map a drive to the path as a UNC (\\computer...) may not work. Also the location will need to be available from the http side and set in $wgSharedUploadPath. --Nad 23:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Looking for Database-Backup-Plugin with scheduler
I am looking for a MediaWiki Database-Backup-Plugin. It should have an integrated scheduler that can backup the database and maybe send it via E-Mail. WordPress has a very nice Plugin that can do this: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/ Does this kind of plugin exist for MediaWiki?

—PMay 10:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

How can I print the Wiki Page without problems concerning to its format?
I made a Wiki in which I included many texts and figures ordered in such a way that they appear perfectly displayed on the screen. The problem is that, when I sent the pages to the print, the printed version created is not as well ordenated as the text and figures that appears on the screen. This means that the printed pages has figures on wrong places and its not a good version.

I was wondering if someone coudl help me to print the pages just like they appear on the screen. Please, I need help!

- Jack


 * MediaWiki should automatically turn the page printer-friendly upon printing. Check to see if it's just your skin messing it up. Click here for more information. —The TattleTale Strangler [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  19:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect UTF-8 chars conversion
I suppose, that UTF-8 chars converted to lower/uppercase incorrectly. It makes a really HUGE problems in wiki: the search does not find what I'm looking for, the categories sorted incorrectly (see problem above), the Extension:SearchLog also displays incorrect characters (also see problem above). Is it possible to fix that? —Konstbel 10:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt


 * Searching and sorting are done by the database, and per default, mediawiki tells mysql to treat all data as binary. The reason is that mysql's utf-8 support is broken for some "rare" scripts (those using 4-byte codes), like gothic. You can specify "experimental utf-8 mode" during installation, then unicode collation should apply correctly (but you will get database errors when you try to use "unsupported" characters). I don't know how this can be changed after the wiki has already been installed. I suppose you would have to change the charset/collations on all tables manually. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 11:54, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Do I need to convert only database or I need also some modifications in wiki code? --Konstbel 09:32, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

NavFrame not working

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha (r30403)
 * PHP: 5.2.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 4.0.26-wikimedia-google-log
 * URL: Tagalog Wiktionary

There is quite a problem here in the Tagalog Wiktionary. We have already put the code for the navFrame in the Common.js and css. Yet it's not working. There might be some problem in the code. Please help us. Use this wikt:tl:Template:Salinan and the Common.css and Common.js at our wiki. Thanks a lot! <font color= "#FCD116">-- <font color= "#0038A8">Felipe  <font color="#CE1126">Aira  08:06, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You have a syntax error in your Monobook.js in the section MediaWiki tooltips and access keys, you can simply remove this section (all what is above the addLoadEvent section ) to fix that problem, it's not used anymore. <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  15:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I'll tell the sysop. <font color= "#FCD116">-- <font color= "#0038A8">Felipe  <font color="#CE1126">Aira  01:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi again I reposted this, since the solution offered does not work! <font color= "#FCD116">-- <font color= "#0038A8">Felipe  <font color="#CE1126">Aira  12:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


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

—69.205.34.81 15:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


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

Version: PHP 5.2.5 MySQL 5.0.45 MediaWiki 1.11.1

The issue we are having pertains to group access in the wiki. The code that we have lets users log in with there LDAP credentials; which is what we want. We want everyone who has a logon for our domain to have access to the information. The part that we can't get to work is we only want one group in AD to be able to edit the information on the wiki. As it stands anyone that can sign in can edit and add pages. This is the code that we are currently using. We are all new PHP so some of the code may be incorrect.

$wgLDAPGroupUseRetrievedUsername = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPGroupObjectclass = array( "domain"=>"group" ); $wgLDAPGroupAttribute = array( "domain"=>"member" ); $wgLDAPGroupNameAttribute = array( "domain"=>"cn" ); $wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array( "domain"=> array("group name") ); $wgLDAPUseLDAPGroups = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPGroupsPrevail = array( "domain"=>false ); $wgLDAPGroupSearchNestedGroups = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPRetrievePrefs = array( "domain"=>true ); We have commented out the stuff in bold, it makes the code fail when we let it run.

—198.182.163.125 18:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

LDAP Groups in Wiki

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

Version: PHP 5.2.5 MySQL 5.0.45 MediaWiki 1.11.1

The issue we are having pertains to group access in the wiki. The code that we have lets users log in with there LDAP credentials; which is what we want. We want everyone who has a logon for our domain to have access to the information. The part that we can't get to work is we only want one group in AD to be able to edit the information on the wiki. As it stands anyone that can sign in can edit and add pages. This is the code that we are currently using. We are all new PHP so some of the code may be incorrect.

$wgLDAPGroupUseRetrievedUsername = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPGroupObjectclass = array( "domain"=>"group" ); $wgLDAPGroupAttribute = array( "domain"=>"member" ); $wgLDAPGroupNameAttribute = array( "domain"=>"cn" ); $wgLDAPRequiredGroups = array( "domain"=> array("AD group name") ); $wgLDAPUseLDAPGroups = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPGroupsPrevail = array( "domain"=>false ); $wgLDAPGroupSearchNestedGroups = array( "domain"=>true ); $wgLDAPRetrievePrefs = array( "domain"=>true ); We have commented out the stuff in bold, it makes the code fail when we let it run.

—198.182.163.125 18:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

PHP problems, possibly doe to the way I have to edit the software

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-log
 * URL: WikiVerse Might have to use this one

I have a Wiki that I wanted to add a user group to. After a considerable amount of confusion about LocalSettings.php, I decided to just try it, and revert the changes if it failed. What ended up happening was the group was successfully created, but it added repeated lines of "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/g/a/e/gaeamil/html/wikiverse/LocalSettings.php:2) in /home/content/g/a/e/gaeamil/html/wikiverse/includes/WebResponse.php on line 10". Also, no redirects work. I don't know about page redirects, but neither an edit nor typing in the URL without the whole ?title= bit allows you to reach a page. The second link above can send you right to the main page. I reverted every edit, and tried replacing WebResponse.php with a fresh version just downloaded from here, even though I never edited it. It may be caused by the fact that I have not found a way to replace files on my server without first deleting the old copy, thus making a gap which could have messed up the Wiki. I really wish I had editing capabilities, but I do not. Can someone help me get my wiki back to the way it was? Thank you.

—204.132.36.104 06:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC) &mdash;(Gaeamil, not logged in.)
 * This can be due to a space or a line break at the start of your LocalSettings.php, that will start the output and disallow any newer header to be send, be sure that there is no space nor line break (and maybe no BOM caracter). <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  20:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Also spaces at the end after the ?> will cause that problem, it's best to simply remove the ?> completely. --Nad 21:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll try these. When I downloaded the file, however, the line break was already there.  Maybe it's my download algorithm or something stupid like that.  Or perhaps I hit enter and never realized.
 * OK, now it says "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/g/a/e/gaeamil/html/wikiverse/LocalSettings.php on line 126", but when I look at the file, there is no "$end". -- Gaeamil --204.132.36.53 23:03, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you please paste lines 124-126 of your LocalSettings.php file here? I'm guessing it is due to some syntax error. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  15:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see... I use Notepad to edit it, and it doesn't split the lines very well.  I'll just re-upload the LocalSettings file and link it, OK? LocalSettings, directly copied from the wiki--204.132.36.53 00:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Wait, you use Notepad to edit the file? That may explain your issues then. Notepad usually adds a BOM character, which messes up the PHP file. Try using a different text editing program (I use Notepad++, but it's up to you really) and see if that helps. --Skizzerz talk - contribs  MediaWiki Support Team  01:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Er, I don't have another. Perhaps I could use a Hex editor.  It shows the ASCII version...  I just need to know what needs to be done to get this back to how it was before.--Gaeamil --204.132.36.53 01:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Notepad++ is downloadable here, or if you can't/don't want to download and install a new program, Windows WordPad does not attach BOMs to files. Also, you will need to use a hex editor to remove the BOM from the file. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  04:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, so you know, I truly have no clue what I'm doing here. Is it possible to just get someone to fix the file, or at least give me a full step-by-step? --Gaeamil--204.132.36.104 07:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Configuration error
My |configuration page shows this:

Checking environment...

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

* PHP 5.2.5 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. * Session save path (/tmp) appears to be valid. * PHP's memory_limit is 32M. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching.

Warning: file_exists [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/gdiff3) is not within the allowed path(s): (/tmp:/var/tmp/:/var/www/errors/:/usr/share/php/:/home/vol2/xtreemhost.com/xth_1580987/htdocs) in /home/vol2/xtreemhost.com/xth_1580987/htdocs/wiki/config/index.php on line 1793

What should I do? (I've chmodded the wiki directory to 777)

—122.169.11.133 09:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki by default search for the gnu diff3 executable to try to merge version in case of conflict but can work properly without it. You can simply not take care of it. The error is caused by a restriction on your sever (you can only access files/directories that are in /tmp</tt>, /var/tmp/</tt>, /var/www/errors/</tt> and /usr/share/php/:/home/vol2/xtreemhost.com/xth_1580987/htdocs</tt>). <font color="#66A7CC">i <font color="#9966CC">Alex  12:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Image error with resizing

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP:
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

OK, so my wiki's hosted on quotaless.com, I've got image upload enabled in CommonSettings.php for my 2 wikis and that's linked to in the LocalSettings.php, and it seems to work as: but resizing the image, e.g as: produces an error, as mentioned above.

My host doesn't have ImageMagick installed, but image upload seems to work anyway.

Anyone able to help?? —Whitsun 12:04, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * What's the error? --Nad 21:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * the image doesn't show. --82.42.237.84 23:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Is $wgUseImageMagick set to false? and do you have PHP's GD library installed? you need to install some means of resizing images and tell mediawiki to use it. --Nad 23:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing it's because quotaless has exec disabled, which is required in order to produce thumbnails (not quite sure of that though). Try enabling PHP errors (put  near the top of LocalSettings.php) and see what messages it pipes out to you. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  15:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Xammp failing with mediawiki 1.11.1

 * Apache HTTPD 2.2.8 + Openssl 0.9.8g
 * MySQL 5.0.51
 * PHP 5.2.5
 * PHP 4.4.8 (RC2)
 * phpMyAdmin 2.11.4
 * FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.25
 * Mercury Mail Transport System 4.52

I have encountered a problem, which concerns php (Came in the xampp package, what I use.) and mediawiki. The error message I get is here:

I have checked all php.ini files, that exist in the xampp installation directory, and all have magic_quotes_runtime and etcetera options disabled. (The error report says the opposite.)

Do you know how to solve this problem?

And yes I HAVE installed xampp correctly.

—John


 * Alright I applied the source lang tags to see easier what is going on, and are you sure you cut and pasted this right? Because it looks really messy. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  18:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Can Search ignore case?

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

Is there a way I can make the search bar ignore the case of a search term? If I am searching for mozart, I want it to be able to pull up Mozart as well.

—74.128.207.61 01:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Extension:Newuserlog is breaking my Special:Version page
Now I notice that Extension:Newuserlog is breaking my Special:Version page!

If I disable it (#) in LocalSettings, then my Special:Version page works fine: <font color=blue face=Courier># require_once( "$IP/extensions/Newuserlog/Newuserlog.php" ); but if I re-enable it, my Version page breaks. Lookit.

I reinstalled the extension fresh, just to make sure I hadn't hacked it somehow. Didn't help.

I did create those extra pages to solve the language error ... and I even went back and deleted them all, to troubleshoot this thing, but it didn't help. (Now I will go undelete them cuz they did fix that laguage error, after all.)

I turned on error tracking (which is how I found the offset error in InterWiki), but I'm not getting any error code. Just the broken Special:Version page.

Help oh help, fall down can't get up ... again ... please thank you ... *gasp* —Töff 03:06, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

p.s. (( MediaWiki: 1.11.0, PHP: 5.2.5 (cgi-fcgi), MySQL: 5.0.45-community-log, URL: http://wiki.paleravens.com ))
 * Does this occur still with all other extensions disabled, but Extension:Newuserlog enabled? --Zven 04:04, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just about to try that! I swear! lol hang on Töff 04:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * RESOLVED. Okay, good news is, a simple fresh reinstall fixed it. *blush* ... Long story short, always download straight from SVN to disk, and upload in ASCII mode with a good FTP client. I suppose the way I was uploading files somehow broke something. Maybe using an online text editor might have been the problem ... although I just tried my onlin editor again, and it didn't break the extension. Hmm. So how DID I break it in the first place!? And what did I do wrong when I fresh-reinstalled it a few hours ago? $%#@! computers! Anyway, I also did try disabling every other extension 1 by 1, and that didn't help, but we know now it wasn't the problem. Thanks again Zven! (Again). --Töff 05:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Changing background...

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

Can I use Common.css to change the background of all my pages from white to a light grey? If so, what is the command to use?

—74.128.207.61 23:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can. Use  (change e5e5e5 to another color of your choice, if you so wish. This sentence has a background color of #e5e5e5 - for comparison purposes). --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  23:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I misspoke. I meant the background colour of the articles (and sidebar) themselves. Is there a similar command?

-74.128.207.61 00:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * View the page source of the page (like View->Page Source in Firefox, not sure about IE) to find the id's of the elements that wrap the article and sidebars, and use that instead. You will of course need to know how to write CSS, so google "CSS tutorial" if you need help with that. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  01:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Add : to MediaWiki:Common.css replace #808080 with the color you want to use(see here) Note: These changes  will only apply to pages in the main namespace. To make it apply to extra namespaces add extra lines changing .ns-0 to .ns-<OTHER NAMESPACE NUMBER> (see here for a list of namespce numbers) --<font style="color:Red;">Chris  07:11, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If you want to apply it to all namespaces just remove the .ns-0 --<font style="color:Red;">Chris  07:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Best strategy for multiple mediawikis?

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

I am going to install multiple mediawikis with the view of merging them into one later. What is the best strategy for this?

—195.59.43.240 09:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

See Manual:Wiki family --<font style="color:Red;">Chris  11:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Highly Available Wiki System

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1 (latest)
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL: 5.0
 * URL: (internal)

I am trying to use loadbalancing to create a highly available Wiki system. My idea is to have the wiki write to a master and read from a slave. This way, when the master fails, it can still keep on reading of the slave.

I edited the setup.php and DefaultSettings.php and added the correct values to use multiple servers, but when the master goes down, it doesn't read from the slave, it keeps on trying to go to the master...

Thanks in advance !

EDIT: It seems that when the master is up, the wiki IS conneting to the slave... Problem is that when the master goes down, the wiki crashes (which it shouldn't, it should just read from the slave)

—213.193.161.137 13:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * /See Category:Database variables and particularly Manual:$wgDBservers. Try connecting to your slave server manually and test if it contains the proper data etc. Also it's bad practice to change codebase files, you should do all configuration from LocalSettings.php. --Nad 21:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply ! Well, I followed the manual of wgDBservers, and edited the values that are there ! When I manually connect, the slave responds and all of the data that should be there, is there :-)
 * If the slave is synchronising ok, then I don't know. All I can suggest is to analyse what's happening when it crashes. I.e are there any errors logged? is it timing out? etc --Nad 22:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, I took the following steps:

-Edited the files according to the manual (change $wgDBservers to true and added the server to the server array).

-Set up a MySQL-master-slave replication (outside of MediaWiki, or is MediaWiki supposed to do this itself?)

Also, the slave IS NOT down, MediaWiki just doesn't seem to want to connect to it when the master goes down... I now put the following code in the LocalSettings.php and restored the other files to default...

$wgDBservers=true;

$wgMasterWaitTimeOut=1;

$wgClusterTimeOut=1;

$wgDBerrorlog="/var/log/wiki/dberrors.log";

$wgDBservers = array( array(
 * 'host'=> "192.168.2.150",
 * 'user' => "user",
 * 'password' => "password",
 * 'dbname' => "wiki",
 * 'type' => "mysql",
 * 'load' => 0

), array(
 * 'host'=> "127.0.0.1",
 * 'user' => "user",
 * 'password' => "password",
 * 'dbname' => "wiki",
 * 'type' => "mysql",
 * 'load' => 1

));

When I put the master down, I get the following errorcode:

"Lost connection to MySQLServer during query (192.168.2.150))"

Thanks for your interest btw :)

CaucusWiki
There is a lot of interest now in the caucus states, such as Colorado and, of course, Iowa.

I'm a big believer that the caucus system is a much better thing for the average person, the true grassroots. That's why powerful forces are slowly crushing the system.

Here's my question. How could I learn enough to build a Cucus Wiki? It could become a central source of information for journalists and activists who want to preserve and spread the system to other states.
 * What is your question exactly? how to set up a wiki? see Manual:Installation, where to set it up? see Comparison of wiki farms --Nad 20:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I Limiting edits by all users to approval only.

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

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

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

Lining up the table text correctly...

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

Can someone take a look at this page's source: http://www.windrep.org/Community

and perhaps tell me what I have to do in order to get all the columns to line up. I realise that some of the rows won't line up because some have more lines than others, but...I thought I had enough space to make the columns work out.

—74.128.207.61 02:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Set the table row style so that they each take 1/3 of the width, which should solve your problem. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  03:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Currently, I have the tables set like this: {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;width:90%" which leaves me with a 10% buffer. Is there something else I can do?
 * - style="background-color:#efefef;"

-74.128.207.61 05:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * See W:Help:Table, you can specify each header or column as a relative percentage or pixel width --Zven 05:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Category page, contents breakdown
Cripes - what a load of text to wade through just to make a help desk request! I don't think any of it was relevant, so I deleted it all.

Here is my (version and platform independent) problem;

By default, pages in a category are broken down by the first letter of the page title (or the first letter of the category index) on the page for the category. i.e.

A A page A page by any other name Another page Annex All pages B Because Become By the way ...

To change that behaviour, for example to break down pages by the first two letters of the page title (or the category index), i.e.

A A page A page by any other name An Another page Annex Al All pages Be Because Become By By the way ...

Should I,


 * 1) Add a magic word to the category page,
 * 2) tweek a global parameter setting somewhere,
 * 3) install an extension,
 * 4) hack the source code,
 * 5) all of the above?

Thanks for help ppl. --Dmb 08:31, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well dude, you could hack the 'firstChar' function in ./languages/Language.php - it seems that the only code to use this function is exactly the call under ./includes/CategoryPage.php that you want to hack. Try to substitute this code, and you will see double character category indexing;

/**	 * Get the first character of a string. *	 * @param string $s * @return string */	function firstChar( $s ) { $matches = array; preg_match( '/^([\x00-\x7f]|[\xc0-\xdf][\x80-\xbf]|'. '[\xe0-\xef][\x80-\xbf]{2}|[\xf0-\xf7][\x80-\xbf]{3})([\x00-\x7f]|[\xc0-\xdf][\x80-\xbf]|'. '[\xe0-\xef][\x80-\xbf]{2}|[\xf0-\xf7][\x80-\xbf]{3})/', $s, $matches);

return isset( $matches[1] ) ? $matches[1]. $matches[2] : ""; }

Of course you should probably rename that function, and add an option to activate this behaviour somehow. --Dmb 13:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, now I have renamed the above function 'firstTwoChar' (keeping firstChar as it was). The relevant line to edit in ./includes/CategoryPage.php is within the addPage function ...

$this->articles_start_char[] = $wgContLang->convert( $wgContLang->firstTwoChar( $sortkey ) );

Now we need to call that selectively in response to some option... Suggestions? --Dmb 13:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Configurin LDAP authentication
Hi,

we are using mediawiki pages for our intranet and configured one more server with same setup for redudant. know ldap authentication is not working. Can i know the simple setup for Ldap autentication. Currently iam using this server in india and ldap server is there at us.

Plz let me know the simple steps to do the Ldap authentication.

Regards, Manjunath
 * Are you using Extension:LDAP Authentication? --Nad 19:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

no .. I using openldap

Crosswiki checkuser problem

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

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

Anyone know how to fix it?? —Whitsun 21:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

A different sort of Tables question...

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

Ok, another question regarding lining up materials. First, take a look at this page:

www.windrep.org

You'll notice that the first column of portal links in the category sections line up...but then everything kind of goes haywire and some line up in the second columns, and none in the third columns. I've messed around with the code a bunch, and I suspect it has to do with the length of the links but would dearly love for them to be lined up vertically.

Is there a way I can do this while maintaining this "look," or is it impossible?

—74.128.207.61 02:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You have more than one table there, so the browser parses the column widths independently. You could try setting col widths manually, but it's be a tough call with text like that. I suggest making it all into one table, and everything will line up easily that way, although you will lose the white space between rows and you'll have to settle for something else (like a white-background row spanning all columns).--Töff 17:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

How would I go about setting the col widths manually? I've tried doing it the same as I would in a regular table, but that does not work. -74.128.207.61 16:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of your tables do not have the opening  {|  ... maybe that's the problem.--Töff 15:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll just soapbox briefly and say that the reason I don't care for manual col width is that text of varying length often "just doesn't look right" in even-width columns. Long text strings looked cramped and short text strings look lonely. Browsers seems to understand this (don't ask me how) and they vary the width of the columns to balance the text better (as you can see on your own tables!) This is why I would choose to make this a single table, and let the browser set the col widths, rather than set manual col widths on several separate tables. (Plus, one other minor thing, if you want to change a col width later, you have to do so for every table. Not atrocious when you have only 3-4 tables, but I have a pet peeve against a single value set in more than one place.) Okay, /end rant--Töff 15:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Setting header <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="" href="/rss.php">
how can I set <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="" href="/rss.php">

so Internet explorer will see there is feeds on my site?

--194.182.67.194 12:51, 20 February 2008 (UTC)  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)   MW Support Team  13:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Just copy copy the code from User:DJ Jeri/LinkTag to the file named LinkTag.php</tt>, then save it to your extensions directory and at the end of your LocalSettings.php add following line:

Cannot access my Mediawiki

 * MediaWiki: v 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.0.5
 * MySQL: 4.4.7
 * URL: http://wheeler-roots.org/wiki GenesWiki

I'm a newbie, but I finally got my Mediawiki installed and running yesterday. All went fine all day. Used it until late last night. Then, this morning, when I tried to access it, I got an HTTP 500 error - Webpage cannot be displayed. This happens repeatedly.

I have made NO changes to ANYTHING since using it successfully yesterday. Can you please help me sort this out? Thanks!

Gene bridgebum@gmail.com

—76.101.229.225 15:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Check your apache error logs (or IIS error logs if you're using that). --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Log shows the following typical error: File does not exist: /home/gwheele6/public_html/404.shtml

Gene --76.101.229.225 22:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser - cu_log empty, cu_changes not empty.

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

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

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

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

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

Backtrace:


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

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


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

Large font size in table headings cutting off top and bottom of text
[[Media:Example.ogg]]*MediaWiki: 1.11.1    (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
 * URL: Intranet (unreachable on the web)

I'm using Wiki version 1.11.1 and trying to create a bit of a heading for a page. I want the font size larger than normal (not as large in the sample below but this is to show the problem I'm getting). When I specify a large font size it appears to be doing this correctly but for some reason the height of the heading row does not adjust to accommodate the font and therefore it appears to be cut off at the top and bottom.

I want orange text so I've used the font tag. Is there another (better?) way?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Darren. 203.134.124.36 05:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Example:

—203.134.124.36 05:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey... Which browser are you using? IE? On my Opera, Firefox and Konqueror on Linux exerything's OK :). Maybe you should add some fixes for your browser in css files. Peter de Sowaro 12:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The above looks broken fro me in FireFox on Linux... odd. Same when using style="font-size:370%; color:orange" btw:

TRy to set the line hight: style="font-size:370%; color:orange; line-height:1.7ex;" (this is a hack - check if it makes things worse in other browsers):

-- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:34, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Problems with Extension:Renameuser

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

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

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

Massimport Images

 * MediaWiki: 1.10.0
 * PHP: 5.1.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.18

I need to massimport images into my MediaWiki. I watched the database and found the table the imagesinformation are stored in. But i don't understand the way how the directories are created and how MediaWiki knows where wich images was placed.

Can anyone tell me how that works?

—192.166.87.111 12:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

To import images, use the maintenance/importImages.php</tt> script. For the curious: the category structure is based on an MD5 hash of the file name. But don't try to mimic mediawiki internals to improt stuff - let mediawiki do it. -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 14:29, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Custom CSS Pages

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log
 * URL: TribalWars Wiki

When using the custom CSS for each user, it does not load the CSS so does not effect the CSS at all. To use the custom CSS you use User:Username/Monobook.css but for some reason it does not load the CSS :S Any Help?

—212.135.1.53 13:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)  mgrabovský  | talk  (DJ Jeri)   MW Support Team  13:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello. If I understood correctly, you must set $wgAllowUserCss to true</tt>. Just go to the end of your LocalSettings.php and add following line:
 * Ah ok... There is no other way possible, or some technician that can do this as i only run the wiki, the actualy Codes etc are on a different server. The Tribalwars wiki is on Innogames's server, but i of course do not have access to that page. Any help? --212.135.1.186 15:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Also. Is there a way to check if  is true/false? --212.135.1.57 15:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


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

Hi there, I was wondering if there's a way to purge all the logs under the Special:Log window without leaving the database corrupt or inconsistent. I mean, if I delete all the rows in the "logging" table will something bad happen? -Juanan 18:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Deleting the rows from the logging table won't delete the corresponding entries in special:recentchanges (which uses the recentchanges table) so the recent log entries would still be on that page. Other than that, no, it shouldn't cause your server to explode and burst into flames. --Carlb 20:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Templates + MW1.12alpha = SLOW page rendering

 * MediaWiki: 1.12alpha (r30976)
 * PHP: 	5.2.2 (apache)
 * MySQL: 5.0.22
 * URL: desciclopedia.pt

I'm finding that pages that make heavy use of templates (or templates combined with extension or parser functions) are taking significantly longer to generate on MediaWiki 1.12alpha than on previous versions, including 1.11

For instance, this appears (based on the &lt;!-- Served by sophia.uncyclomedia.org in 42.645 secs. --&gt; at the bottom of the HTML source) to be taking ten times as long to generate as this (four to seven seconds, in MW1.11). Both are the same page, generated from the same data, same server, same extensions - the only difference is that one of the URL's points to a MediaWiki 1.11 installation and the other to 1.12alpha.

I've been seeing this in various 1.12alpha revisions over the last two months or more. A page like this which uses many template inclusions seems too slow to be usable.

I'd presume that there have been major changes in the way template transclusion is handled in the code, but would like to know if there is a fix (other than rolling affected sites back to 1.11) at this time.

—Carlb 19:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Some questions

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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


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


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


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

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

(RESOLVED)Installation script reports following error:

 * MediaWiki: (Reported by your Wiki's Special:Version page)
 * PHP: 5.2.3
 * MySQL: 4.1.22
 * URL:

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) PHP 5.2.3 installed
 * 1) PHP server API is cgi-fcgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title)
 * 2) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * 3) PHP's memory_limit is 16M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok.
 * 4) Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
 * 5) Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions
 * 6) GNU diff3 not found.
 * 7) Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * 8) Installation directory: D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual
 * 9) Script URI path: /BitManual
 * 10) Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
 * 11) Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand. Consider changing it manually.

Generating configuration file...
 * 1) Database type: mysql

Warning: require_once(DatabaseMysql.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual\config\index.php on line 495

Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DatabaseMysql.php' (include_path='D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual;D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual/includes;D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual/languages') in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual\config\index.php on line 495 PHP Warning: require_once(DatabaseMysql.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual\config\index.php on line 495 PHP Fatal error: require_once [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DatabaseMysql.php' (include_path='D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual;D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual/includes;D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual/languages') in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\bitmarine.net\html\BitManual\config\index.php on line 495

—71.203.254.205 22:19, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you have a complete codebase? check if the DatabaseMysql.php file exists in the includes dir, if not download again --Nad 10:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Resolved: I installed version 1.6.10 and then upgraded to the current version. Seems to be fine now. I noticed that the file i was missing (DatabaseMysql.php) was not included in any of the versions between 1.6.10 and the current.

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance.

-Paul-

—204.2.209.2 23:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Try Extension:FileSync --Nad 10:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

SVG image types / ImageMagick

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 5.0.22-community-max-nt
 * URL: http://www.bandwiki.net/

I recently was able to guilt my hosting company into installing ImageMagick so that we can upload and convert SVG image types. They installed the component on a Windows Server to "c:\imagemagick ". Now I want to configure my LocalSettings.php file to use the component.

I have set the following:

$wgEnableUploads = true; #false $wgUseImageMagick = true; $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin"; #"/usr/bin/convert"; .... I have used several variations on the above to see I could get it to work. No luck. ....

And the following:

$wgAllowTitlesInSVG = true; $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = true; $wgIgnoreImageErrors = true; $wgSVGConverters = "ImageMagick"; $wgSVGConverterPath = "/ImageMagick/VisualMagick/bin"; $wgUseImageResize = true; $wgMediaHandlers = array(   'image/jpeg' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/png' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/gif' => 'BitmapHandler',    'image/x-ms-bmp' => 'BmpHandler',    'image/svg+xml' => 'SvgHandler', // official    'image/svg' => 'SvgHandler', // compat    'image/vnd.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // official    'image/x.djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat    'image/x-djvu' => 'DjVuHandler', // compat );

I really don't want to annoy my host any further about this issue at this time, and would greatly appreciate any help that can be given.

Follow this link to see the error I am getting and what happens with the images: http://wiki.spokanebands.com/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedimages

—216.223.16.33 02:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If ImageMagick is installed to c:\imagemagick (use single quotes not doubles or the backspaces won't work), then the paths for the commands should be pointing to the executables within that same dir. Another issue is that ImageMagick is about the worst choice of the available options for dealing with SVG. The one preferred by the WikiMedia projects is rsvg. --Nad 10:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have changed the path to '/imagemagick/bin/convert.exe' using single quotes instead of double quotes, but still have no joy. As you can see I also changed the path. After installing the component on my local workstation, I was able to see the directory structure and base the path on that. Did I do something wrong? 216.223.16.33 14:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Why are you setting the path to '/imagemagick...' when it's located at 'c:\imagemagick...', set it to the same path the executables are located at --Nad 19:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Because when I do that, I get the following error, I don't believe it wants a physical path as it is using the forward slash (indicating virtual paths), not the back slash (indicating a physical path) in its defaults.--216.223.16.33 00:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216 PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in D:\hosting\member\northwestpos\spokanebands\wiki\LocalSettings.php on line 216
 * It's not a virtual path, it needs to be a direct local FS location. The default setting uses forward slash because the software is designed to run on Linux, If you're running it on windows you need to include the full pathname including drive specification. Try using forward slashes, but keep the drive at the start not a leading slash as that makes no sense on a windows system. --Nad 06:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

disabled access for spezial pages (with german umlaut) for not logged in users causes error

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.0
 * MySQL: 5.0.26
 * URL: local testing

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array("Hauptseite", "Special:Userlogin"); $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
 * disabled access for most pages :

Interner Fehler
 * Error Message appears trying to access e.q "Spezial:Letzte_Änderungen" without login :

Invalid special page name ""

Backtrace:


 * 1) 0 /.../test/includes/Title.php(1305): SpecialPage::getTitleFor(false)
 * 2) 1 /.../test/includes/Wiki.php(132): Title->userCanRead
 * 3) 2 /.../test/includes/Wiki.php(43): MediaWiki->preliminaryChecks(Object(Title), Object(StubObject), Object(WebRequest))
 * 4) 3 /.../test/index.php(89): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(StubObject), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
 * 5) 4 /.../test/index.php5(1): require('/srv/www/...')
 * 6) 5 {main}

I'm not a developer, but I compared the functions and found a solution : Is this a way, or can I get other problems without these lines ?

Function in Title.php : userCanRead

/** * If it's a special page, ditch the subpage bit * and check again */ if( $this->getNamespace == NS_SPECIAL ) { $name = $this->getText; list( $name, /* $subpage */) = SpecialPage::resolveAliasWithSubpage( $name ); $pure = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( $name )->getPrefixedText; if( in_array( $pure, $wgWhitelistRead, true ) ) return true; }
 * I disabled all the folling lines, so it works again, like in MediaWiki 1.10

—79.199.9.25 09:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to change the logo in the LocalSettings.php but the $wgLogo is not there
I wanted to change the logo in the LocalSettings.php but the $wgLogo is not there where do i change it then?

—66.176.143.166 18:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Add it. <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> Mønobi 19:59, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

A N S W E R : The image for $wgLogo is wiki.png.

And this image resides in skins/common/images/wiki.png.

Rename your image to wiki.png, even if it is .jpg.

$wgLogo should be able to be defined in includes/DefaultSettings.php. --Detlef Lindenthal 20:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You should never adjust the codebase files, set your logo using the Manual:$wgLogo global in the LocalSettings.php file. Do not adjust DefaultSettings.php or rename image files from the codebase. --Nad 22:02, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Dropping $wgLogo = "/images/b/bc/Wiki.png";</tt> into LocalSettings.php</tt> may be easiest; this allows you to upload Image:Wiki.png to the wiki as just another image. --Carlb 01:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Email notification won't work

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.2.0-8+etch7 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log
 * URL: http://werkwelt.de/mw

Hello,

I'm trying to install Mw 1.11.1; everything works fine

except for email notification :-(

Email address confirmation does work, this means that the PHP-Mailer works.

I switched on any switch in
 * LocalSettings.php and
 * includes/DefaultSettings.php and
 * Special:Preferences (Spezial:Einstellungen).

Does somebody have any idea what is missing?

mailto:detlef(at)lindenthal.com —Detlef Lindenthal 20:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Are all settings you need of Manual:Configuration settings enabled ? ~ Seb35 09:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Question about Extension:KeepYourHandsToYourself and $wgNamespaceAliases
This looks like a pretty great extension, it's just what I need. But, if I have set$wgNamespaceAliases and changed the namespace name of "NS_USER", would it at all mess up the extension? <font color="#006500">Smaug 00:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


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


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

Generating New Pages with Script

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

I need to create a batch of new pages using data from a separate MySQL database. I have a script that extracts the appropriate data and creates the wikitext, but I don't know of a way to create new pages other than copying and pasting the wikitext into the web interface. Is there a way to create new pages via PHP scripting?

Thanks. —98.214.108.155 02:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, but you will probably have to write a bot. See Wikipedia:Creating a bot for different frameworks, including one in PHP. <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> Mønobi 03:14, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Pywikipediabot's pagefromfile.py</tt> script can do exactly this; http://botwiki.sno.cc or sourceforge.net should have info or a downloadable copy. --Carlb 01:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello. If I had to create, say, 15 or 1500 pages, I would do this directly by MySQL. The procedure ist not so difficult, you have to use the INSERT syntax two times:
 * INSERT INTO text SET old_text = "..... put here your new text (which may not contain double quotes) ...";
 * INSERT INTO page SET page_title = "..... put here your page title ...";
 * YOU NEED: SSH access, MySQL access.
 * First make a copy / dump of the database. (I can do all this for you if you want me to.)
 * Question in return: Does email notification work?? --Detlef Lindenthal 20:30, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED)Unicode chars in namespace?
Is it possible to have a namespace with unicode chars. I tried to create a namespace like this:
 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
 * URL:

define("NS_जै.सि.को.", 100); define("NS_जै.सि.को._TALK", 101); $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_जै.सि.को.] = "जैन सिद्धांत कोष"; $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_जै.सि.को._TALK] = "जैन सिद्धांत कोष_talk";

I updated above in LocalSettings.php and had to save file as Unicode. When tried to open the wiki after this page, it showed weird php page source. Did I create namespace wrongly or this is not allowed to have Hindi chars in namespace? Thanks for your help.

Vikas

—Vikasnd 05:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The NS_whatever... is an internal label for use within the code - it is never displayed to the user. There is nothing to be gained by putting Unicode there. It needs to consist of letters, numbers, underscores only. The text displayed to the user, however, may contain as much Unicode as you like. So this would be valid:


 * define('NS_100', 100);
 * define('NS_100_TALK', 101);
 * $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_100] = "जैन सिद्धांत कोष";
 * $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_100_TALK] = "जैन सिद्धांत कोष_talk";
 * $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_100_TALK] = "जैन सिद्धांत कोष_talk";

...and it would indeed create a namespace pair of "जैन सिद्धांत कोष:" and "जैन सिद्धांत कोष talk:" as you wanted. --Carlb 01:20, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. --69.226.211.168 06:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Pages are blank after adding Extension:Cite

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.1
 * PHP: 5.1.4 (apache)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard-log
 * URL: Cricipedia

I recently added the Cite extension and now any pages that have the ‹ref› tags are coming up blank.

Any ideas?

—58.172.162.206 06:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Can you put ref tags on a page and then link to that? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  17:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Would that solve anything? If you get zero-byte responses (completely blank), almost always that means there's something in the code that's causing a fatal PHP error. The server attempts to invoke the extension, it gets an error, it stops without generating a page. The only obvious way to find the problem is to look in your webserver's error.log, where the cause of the PHP fatal error will be identified. --Carlb 01:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * We don't know by his/her post if the entire page is coming up blank or just the body of the article, Carl.
 * I would suggest reinstalling Extension:Cite. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The entire page is coming up blank. I'll look in the error.log and see if there is anything there to suggest. Will also try reinstalling the extension I guess. --58.172.162.206 05:31, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, checked out the error log and found this. PHP Warning: MessageCache::require(/public_html/cricipedia/extensions/Cite/Cite.i18n.php) [<a href='function.MessageCache-require'>function.MessageCache-require</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/cricipedia/includes/MessageCache.php on line 699 --58.172.162.206 05:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, when I have the extension enabled, I get a blank page for every page with Internet Explorer. --58.172.162.206 23:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) v1.6 Common.js doesn't seem to be loading

 * MediaWiki: 1.6.10
 * PHP: 4.4.8 (apache)
 * MySQL: 4.1.22-standard
 * Extensions:
 * o Other:
 * + HTMLets, lets you inline HTML snippets from files, by Daniel Kinzler
 * o Extension functions:
 * + wfCgiIrcLoginExtension and wfHTMLetsExtension
 * o Parser extension tags:
 * + and


 * URL: http://dbdb.digitaldevildb.com/wiki/

Common.js doesn't seem to be loading... reason why looks like this line in the preprocessed sources:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/wiki/index.php?title=-&amp;amp;action=raw&amp;amp;smaxage=0&&amp;amp;gen=js"> === RAW TEXT INSIDE === <script type="text/javascript" src="/wiki/index.php?title=-&amp;action=raw&amp;smaxage=0&amp;gen=js">

I presume this is where the various custom javascript files should be included. I've noticed this line for quite a while, perhaps the 1.6 install base downloaded from your site might be bungled. But just as well I could've done somehting to cause it I'm certain! For the record, there are other instances of this line boogered the same way across the google-scape. Perhaps an upgrade might fix it, but I would appreciate any suggestions in the meantime!

—12.213.80.37 07:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The page MediaWiki:Common.js has been added to the software in the version 1.9, so it's normal. You have to upgrade at least to this version, but PHP 4 is no longer supported from the version 1.7. You can choice to keep this version or upgrade PHP (if you can) and MediaWiki. ~ Seb35 08:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

PHP Errors

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.4 (isapi)
 * MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt
 * URL:

We are experiencing intermittent errors as below:-

The error may not occur for days - but when it does occur, it generally happens repeatedly for all users for a period of time before stopping again. I have checked the permissions on the files and they seem fine. I've tried editing the file to replace the relative path with an absolute path and this works - but just seems to move the same problem to a later point in the code.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

—Darkenergy 09:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure to have the solution, but the file index.php has been modified in this place since 1.11 : in the revision 30751 diff nikerabbit has changed the code to have full paths.
 * You can try to modify this like he has made, but keep a clean copy of the file before modifying.
 * Or you can wait some days (I think) to upgrade MediaWiki with the version 1.12.
 * ~ Seb35 08:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Legalities of using Wikimedia material

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

OK, so here's my problem. I've got MW 1.11 installed on my server, image uploads configured, extensions added - ParserFunctions, Nuke and Oversight. Soon to add on Makesysop and Checkuser too.

What's the legalities of using material from Meta wikimedia and Wikisource (the one that's en.wikisource.org) under the GFDL and how do I transwiki them into my wiki getting all revisions?? On some Wikimedia projects it says they can't get all revisions via transwiki.

and what's the way in the database to change an offensive signature in old revisions??

I need some help, just trying to learn some stuff on this wonderful new software!

Ta, —84.45.219.185 12:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Did you try using Special:Import? -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * oh, and how do you get spam blacklisting to work?? plus one more question, what's the legalities of using the logos from Wikisource for my wiki? --84.45.219.185 12:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Is there a spam blacklisting extension that you are referring to? Or if you are referring to an IP address you want to block? Go to the IP's userpage or talkpage and you will have a link in your Toolbox named "Block user" or you can go to Special:Blockip. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Plus, how will I add extra namespaces/talk page namespaces?? --84.45.219.185 13:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * See Manual:Using custom namespaces. -PatPeter, [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  00:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Updated links to point to correct locations. As for legalities, check each images image page and look at the copyright status. Some are Public Domain, others are copyrighted and cannot be used. --Skizzerz talk - contribs [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] MediaWiki Support Team  02:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

~ Seb35 09:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Category:Spam management extensions
 * To import pages from Wikimedia, you can use Special:Import but you need to have a file which comes from Special:Export ; the pages you import must have the GFDL license, see en:Wikipedia:Copyrights. To download all pages of Wikipedia, see http://download.wikimedia.org/
 * For Wikipedia, Wikisource and other logos, they are trademarked by the Wikimedia Foundation.


 * Thanks so far for the help. I did try Special:Import but I couldn't get every revision of a page, e.g. en:w:Template:Hoax for example. However, I'm not sure how to get transwiki working properly. Thanks so far. Alex @ --84.45.219.185 13:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the IPs vandalism on other Wikimedia projects: it was wardriving that turned this IP into an open proxy, but it should be secure now. --84.45.219.185 13:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I was trying to copy Wikimedia's setup on a WAMP server, just for testing purposes, but can't qyite figure out how to do it. I got steward rights working fine, e.g. Testuser@wikinumber1 from (none) to sysop, bureaucrat e.g. Testuser@wikisite2 from sysop to sysop, checkuser

Anyone know how Wikimedia uses their LocalSettings.php file. Alex @ --84.45.219.185 13:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Custom Skins, more information.
I have done what was suggested above, set the allowcustomskin to true. I know its true because the information about clearing your cache is at the top. Why then when i add CSS coding, that is correct, does it not work? I reload the cache, and it reloads the page without making the chances i code. Why? If you want a link, to the website, here it is: Tribalwars Wiki

Thanks! --212.135.1.53 13:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeh anyone want to answer? --84.68.167.86

Long String of Numbers after moving Wiki

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

My company has an internal wiki which we use for internal standardization. We just recently moved the wiki from one box to a newer more up to date box. I did a SQL Dump of the database, recreated the username with all the permssions, copied the Wiki directory to the new box, everything seemed to go smoothly but then when I opened the main page in the content area there is a long string of number of letters. This is on every page. I have no idea where to trouble shoot on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve,  mailto:sbarbera@newportharbor.com —24.249.29.209 14:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You should post those strange string right here, maybe someone knows what it means ... letters or numbers or both??
 * And don't forget to complete those version lines above. --Detlef Lindenthal 20:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Establishing a wiki farm

 * MediaWiki: 1.11
 * PHP: 5
 * MySQL:
 * URL:

Where can I find documentation on setting up a wiki farm? I want to have a single instance of MediaWiki running several wiki sites. I operate example1.com, example2.com, and example3.com. I want them all to use the same MediaWiki installation (with different databases and configurations, obviously) so I don't have to worry about maintaining three separate ones. Thanks. –Jonathan Kovaciny 03:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

—Jonathan Kovaciny 03:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Manual:Wiki family. This seems respond to your demand. ~ Seb35 09:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

content bar

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

How can remove the content bar on the top of each page from the startpage or any page i dont need it?

—84.57.49.247 06:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipdf/Penn dental journal
Hello, I found a few references to older issues of the penn dental journal, going back to 1968 in wikipdf. Apparently people are being encouraged to upload older copies of the articles. This newsletter has online access going back to 2004. Can I upload an article that I have from 1960? It is not available in worldcat or any other venue. james
 * You probably need to talk to the admins of the wiki you're talking about, this site is concerned with the MediaWiki software, not with the content or policies of various sites using the software. --Nad 20:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Installation - mysqli db authentication issue

 * MediaWiki: 1.11.0
 * PHP: 5.2.5 with the Suhosin Patch 0.9.6.2
 * MySQL: 5.0.18
 * URL: intranet site http://mywiki/
 * OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE#0

I have been unable to install via http://mywiki/config/index.php. I keep getting the following error:

Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Generating configuration file...

Database type: MySQL Loading class: DatabaseMysql Attempting to connect to database server as root...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords. Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled out correctly.

The Superuser name and password fields are flaged "check username" and "check password".

super user was created: mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO testuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'testing' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> flush privileges;

I have tried changing the user password to the old_password support via: mysql> set password for testuser@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('testing') mysql> flush privileges;

I have had trouble in the past with apps that use mysql instead of mysqli extensions. eg:

result:

Protocol version: 10

Could not connect: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated !!

Thank you,

—jeff 216.8.138.75 18:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's saying it's failing to connect as root, but the passwrod you're setting is for testuser --Nad 20:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

infobox template code

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

I was wondering if some one can help me with this Infobox thing.. How can i create a template for infobox? I wan this K2 template from here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes/Geography

I need the source/code for that template so i can have something similar to that in my wiki (i won't be using it for mountain but i need that)

thank you

—Ghorzang 19:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC) $$Insert formula here$$


 * You can always view the source code of a wiki template page. <font color="#006500">Smaug 20:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

—Smaug 19:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC) $$Insert formula here$$


 * thanks buddy.. so how exactly does this work?? i mean how do you create an infobox? I just want to know what you do.. <font color="#006500">Ghrozang 20:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

How to run/use on PHP 6?
Greetings,

I have asked this question elsewhere on this site, but never got an answer...

Is there any way to run/use MediaWiki while using PHP 6 ? Also with MySQL 6 ?

Thanks,

CielProfond 23:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)