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= Extension Support =

Displaying Categories in Pages
Sorry if this is the wrong place. I am fairly new to all of this.

I am looking for a way to use what I think of as more common database accessing within wikimedia where for example I add a word as a page and on that page I define the word, and the I have a page called words or something that goes through and picks out those pages based on them being in the category:word and spitting them out into a table. Is that possible? I have tried a couple of extensions, but no luck so far.

Thanks.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Hi there,

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

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

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

how can I resolve the problem ???

thank you !!!

Alex

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

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

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13
 * PHP version:  5.0

Hi,

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

I added:

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

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

Thanks, Chris

add to uploadCSV.php

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

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

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

add to LocalSettings.php

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

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

Sphinx Search Special Page Query Failed
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 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1
 * URL:

Special pages SphinxSearch (Version 0.7.0)

When I run Sphinx Search Special Page it returns Query Failed If I run the same search from the command line it returns

root@twosinfo:~# /usr/local/sphinx/bin/search --config /usr/local/sphinx/sphinx.conf "Checks" Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/usr/local/sphinx/sphinx.conf'... index 'wiki_main': query 'Checks ': returned 2 matches of 2 total in 0.003 sec

displaying matches: 1. document=2, weight=1, page_namespace=0, old_id=3, category= page_title=A+_A/R page_namespace=0 2. document=3, weight=1, page_namespace=0, old_id=6, category= page_title=A+_A/P page_namespace=0

words: 1. 'check': 2 documents, 2814 hits

index 'wiki_incremental': query 'Checks ': returned 0 matches of 0 total in 0.000 sec

words: 1. 'check': 0 documents, 0 hits

autocomplete search
Is there a simple extension I can use for autocomplete in a searchbox with the default search enginge of MediaWiki? -R. Broersma
 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.10
 * MySQL version: 4.1.21
 * URL: http://www.hymenoptera.nl/nev/thijsse/


 * Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest --Rainman 09:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Add to wanted categories page
How can I add to the wanted categories page? --Bigone5500 03:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:
 * Add a category to a page that doesn't exist? Reedy 09:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

using #time in other languages

 * MediaWiki 	1.16wmf4 (r66620)
 * PHP 	5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7wm1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 	4.0.40-wikimedia-log
 * URL: http://ta.wikinews.org/wiki/வார்ப்புரு:Daycategory1

(வார்ப்புரு=Template)

I tried to use #time magic word for the above site but its throwing error. gives something like ஜூன் 7 (=June 7) passing = throws error. How can i achieve it?. also i cannot able to use #replace too. thanks —Mahir78 09:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Some extensions doesn't work on PHP 5

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4
 * PHP version: 	5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.3

Hello, sorry for my english Why some extensions doesn't work with PHP 5.3.2 For example this extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateArticle or (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AddHTML) not work with my PHP configuration, why ? Maybe something needs to be configured on the server ? Help me please.

—79.111.43.106 18:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Modifications are causing corrupted output

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4
 * PHP version: 5.2.13 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.1.47-log

When I'm installing extensions in MediaWiki, the wiki is showing the code of the extension -- but very crippled. At the end of the page there are some random Chinese symbols. The wiki is not reachable at all. I'm saving the modifications as Unicode because the code contains special characters. I'm adding the require_once at the end of the LocalSettings.php file.

Thanks.

—Lembamjunior 11:32, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Output text after content of article

 * MediaWiki version: Current
 * PHP version: 5.3
 * MySQL version: sqlite
 * URL: http://editthis.info

I am writing an extension that needs to output html content after the content of an article (in the white area where the content resides but after all the content). Is there a hook I can use, and how do I use it?

—RobKohr 18:37, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Better search

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51
 * URL: localhost

When I search i get prompts as last searched items. Can be possibility to be filtering existing article names as prompt like Wikipedia? Can install such extension?

—Borneq 20:27, 28 June 2010 (UTC)