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= Miscellaneous (unsorted) Issues =


 * 1) REDIRECT == Linking pages by words ==

Hi, is there a plugin that automatically links key words to other Wiki pages? At the moment I am manually creating links but I'm sure there must be another way?

Any help would be much appreciated!

How to add certain structured info to a list or table by an inputbox or submit button
MediaWiki 1.14.0 PHP 5.2.9 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.33-community URL local

I would like to make a list on a wikipage. This list must contain "name", "date" and "in" or "out" fields wich can be filled in by an inputbox. The goal is someting like a log for our users, so we can have an overview of who is taking hardware on the road.

Can this be done in wiki (php)? And how?

Thanks in advance.

Fatal Error...
I got this on a free webserver (so I don't have an access to it), after trying to save the page or to log in:

Fatal error: session_start [function.session-start]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /mnt/md1/public/d/o/dob/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2453 What should I do now? :-D

Drkazmer

character before DOCTYPE "<<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC .."

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: local

I got a character above the logo "<" and I don't know what is generating it

and it is always there when I use the rich editor "disabling the rich editor doesn't help"

also with every preview it appends one more character as follow

< < one more thing

viewing page source I find that character before <!DOCTYPE..

<<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC .....

looks like something is appending that character "<" to the (output stream) How to debug such behavior?

FireFox error console shows

help>questions). What is the code that the path infix in the page?

thanks for help


 * Do you mean using subpages? What sort of path do you mean? Wikademia

embed copies of authoritative versions of pages from other mediawiki instances, sharing one page history between mediawikis

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

There appear to be many ways of including content from one page to another, including templates and the "embed page" capability (which seems restricted to Special pages). The terms "transwiki", "inclusion" and "interwiki" are used in a confusing way making it difficult or impossible to answer some simple questions:


 * How, exactly and with examples, does one specify that the master or authoritative version of a page is at some other mediawiki, providing both a link to the editable version of that page and a visible & protected copy of it as if it were a page within one's own wiki (identical to the features of wikinfo?
 * How, exactly and with examples, does one simply include an entire non-Special non-template page from the same wiki? Is it possible to include from another wiki that is hosted on the same MySQL installation?
 * How, exactly and with examples, would one implement two-way transclusion so that the page could be edited in either one of two wikis, and the edits would be made reliably on the other to unify the page histories?
 * 1) Are there any good examples of public mediawikis sharing content in any of these ways with private ones?
 * 2) What other approaches, such as "auto-import of Wiki articles via XML using PHP's Expat Library" are used in Mediawiki extensions, and what are the advantages/disadvantages of doing this inclusion using XML rather than mediawiki's internal facilities?

Concurrent users and Add ons to Wiki
Do you know if there are any Microsoft word add ons that can be used with Wiki? Is there a way to lock a document so that no 2 users are updating the same file?

Completely Anonymous Editting (No IP)
Is there a way to allow complete anonymity? Or how about a system whereby an ID is shown instead of showing IPs?
 * MediaWiki	1.13.3
 * PHP	5.2.8 (cgi)
 * MySQL	5.0.67-community

Untitled
Remarque : Les versions de PHP et MySql sont celles fournies par Xampp 1.1.1.2
 * MediaWiki version: 1.14.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.8
 * MySQL version: 5.0
 * URL:

Comment puis-je afficher la valeur d'une variable contenue dans LocalSettings.php ?

How may I post(show) the value of a variable like $wgStylePath?

Many thanks

How to combine regular expression so that you get the number of contributors per article ? (Extension:contributors)
I would like to use a reg ex to get from:    > the number of users (here is 5).

So that i could use : in a Reg Ex to get the number of contributors in Article.


 * Then, how to get an average on every articles or articles from a special cat ? Thx!

Cannot Create Pages
I'm using Mediawiki 1.6 and whenever I or any of my users click "save page" it leads us to a blank screen and our browser reads "done".

As far as I can see, all the permissions are in place, so I'm really not sure what to do.

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What have I do?
I had to start new MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 Installation but received:


 * Don't forget security updates! Keep an eye on the low-traffic release announcements mailing list.


 * Checking environment...

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


 * PHP 5.2.6 installed
 * Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite
 * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
 * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
 * Session save path (/var/lib/php/session) 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.
 * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
 * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
 * Installation directory: /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www
 * Script URI path: Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions
 * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function taint in /usr/local/www/name_of_site.com/www/config/index.php on line 1905

Username/password issue

 * MediaWiki version: n/a
 * PHP version: n/a
 * MySQL version: n/a
 * URL: n/a

Hi! I have a common user for other wikipedia-instances, (English: User:KristianS, Norwegian: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruker:KristianS), but due to password and email setting problems my user on this wiki (User:KristianS) is no longer under my control. Is it possible to remove it so that I can re-create it? Or in some other way modify it, e.g. by changing the contact email to one I use, so I can change the password myself?

—(KristianS), 88.87.57.60 09:32, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

SUGGESTION

Hi, all the users on the wiki are located on mw_user table on your wiki database and if you have access to that database you are going to be able to modify email and different things on the user, on mysql you run the following

mysql> select user_id,user_name from mw_user order by user_id;

this is going to give you a list of users and user ID like the following +-++ +-++
 * user_id | user_name     |
 * 1 | Admin         |
 * 3 | user1         |
 * 4 | KristianS     |
 * 5 | JSmith        |

for example your User name is user_id is 4 and from here you can change contact email by running the following :

UPDATE mw_user SET user_email='youremail@domain.com' WHERE user_id='4';

Hope it Helps. --Shinehah 01:24, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

LocalSettings.php
Hi!

I just created my wiki on MediaWiki and it says to send LocalSettings.php to the parent directory.

What is the parent directory?

Cam Arsenault Wikia user "Cam12343"

Me
It is the root directory of MediaWiki --85.16.36.170 17:23, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

But where do I put it exactly?

Cam12343 23:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

SUGESTION

Hi, you just go a level up for example if you have you Local Settings at /home/user/LocalSettings.php ,you just need to move it a level up that means move it to /home/LocalSettings.php

hope it helps --Shinehah 01:27, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

mediawiki "edit" requests take very long

 * MediaWiki 	1.12.0
 * PHP 	5.2.6-1+lenny3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny1
 * URL: (no public access)

Running media wiki on apache/debian lenny, I get from remote sides very slow responses, i.e. 10 to 20 seconds even though there is enough bandwidth and server resources. The apache access log shows up always messages like this between request and response completion: ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:34 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:35 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:36 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:37 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:38 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:39 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" ::1 - - [23/Aug/2009:11:58:40 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 (internal dummy connection)" Any ideas where's the problem? Thank for your help!

—80.226.19.87 15:38, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

can you make "top-level categories", or a hidden category?

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.75
 * URL:

Is it possible to mark off a "node" as a certain "type", yet without using a (mediawiki) category? Essentially I want to have a "top-level" set of categories that each node must be associated to ... yet, I don't want to use a category, or at least I'd like it to now display.

... a "hidden" category might work -- though is that possible?

—69.109.171.23 04:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

mediawiki version 1.16

 * MediaWiki version:1.14
 * PHP version: 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
 * URL:

I would like to install this extension :http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsabilityInitiative which requires version 1.16

This version 1.16 is dated on the main page of mediawiki.org as to be available since 2009.02...? But no way to download it???

Thanks a lot for your work. Isayel 12:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

NEED recent changes to be able to be read on RSS feeds READER
Hi, i have a wiki as knowledge base at my job and we also use Lotus Notes Email which has a feeds reader on it and i want to know if is possible to maybe transform recent changes page to RSS feed so everyone on the company can suscribe to the recent changes feed and put i it on the RSS feeds reader on Lotus notes Email... i really appreciatte your help

Product Version
 * MediaWiki 1.13.2
 * PHP 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 5.0.22

--Shinehah

Protect my User subpage
Would a mediawiki.org admin please protect my user subpage User:Michael Daly2/SSH2PublicKey? I need to provide an SSH public key for Mediawiki SVN access and have no other location I can link too (losing my server in two days...). I'd like to ensure that the public key is not vandalized. --Michael Daly2 16:21, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Does MediaWiki have access counter function?
I want to know that how many times is every page accessed. Can every page show its access times as the home page（main page）do? For example, japanese edition home page show "このページは 1 回アクセスされました. "(English: This page is accessed 1 times.)

If MediaWiki has this function, how do I configure it? If not, do I need to modify MediaWiki's source? How?


 * Wiki Environment:
 * MediaWiki 1.14.0
 * PHP 5.2.9 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 5.1.33

Thanks & Best Regards ZhuZengyang

Remove the username's first letter auto-capitalization

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.10 (cgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.82sp1-log
 * URL: (with password...)

hi, when i register a new user the first letter is automatic capitalized. for example: i register the new user "neti", the otuput it isn't "neti" but "Neti". what can i do to remove this thing?

it's like the "text-transform: uppercase" in the CSS... i have to remove it

thank you!

—217.133.63.2 10:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


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

Thank you in advance for your time. I appologize for asking such an easy question. I tried to follow the instructions and could not. Again I am sorry. How do I bring in an image? I have tried various ways and none seem to work for me:

H:picture1.png:picture1.png

The picture is on my H drive. Should I have it somewhere else? When I click preview I want to see the image along with words on the same page so that I can explain the image in the text.

Please help me. Do I have to create a separate page for the image alone? Even if I want to type text next to the image?

—Graysm2 21:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Special pages missing

 * MediaWiki version: Unknown (Version page not present)
 * PHP version: Unknown (Version page not present)
 * MySQL version: Unknown (Version page not present)
 * URL: www.wiki-site.com

This site has been having problems with a vandal, and I was about to move in and help out - but the admin has removed the "Recent changes" and the "All pages" special pages from that listing. "Version" is also missing. Is there another way anyone can see these statistics? Or is that now the sole domain of the admin (if anyone at all). User contributions is also inaccessible.

— TLPG  HOME YACK 04:49, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.wiki-site.com/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges Splarka 05:22, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply, Splarka. A bit hard though when my browser rejected the XML format. And this might seem like a dim question, but what time period does that list cover? TLPG  HOME YACK 08:14, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually - a better question. Is there a way to expand those results from just ten? TLPG  HOME YACK 13:18, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

To have the same editor like Wikipedia
Hello !

I have just installed MediaWiki (last version), but when i am editing a page, on the bottom of it, there is no tools or specials caracters and syntax avaible like in the real Wikipedia editor.

How to install a full editor like the one used in WikiPedia ?

Thanks !

--96.20.180.204 20:32, 13 September 2009 (UTC)BlueMan.

Nur Kleinbuchstaben im Artikel-reiter?
MediaWiki 1.15.1 PHP 5.2.8 (cgi) MySQL 4.1.22-standard-log
 * URL:

Habe eine Update von Version 13 auf 15 gemacht. Oben in Artikel-Reiter sind jetzt nur noch Kleinbuchstaben:

Admin eigene diskussion einstellungen beobachtungsliste eigene beiträge abmelden

statt

Admin Eigene Diskussion Einstellungen Beobachtungsliste Eigene Beiträge Abmelden

Woran kann das liegen?

Gruß und Danke für Hilfe. Mirko

—Djmirko 19:55, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Some characters broken in XML export
* MediaWiki: 1.9.3 * PHP: 5.2.6-3 (apache2handler) * MySQL: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2-log * URL: private

everything Debian GNU/Linux packaged on Lenny except MediaWiki which was kept from an old version

I followed the advise to create an XML dump to convert a Wiki containing German Umlauts. All other suggested methods failed for one or the other reason. The XML export sounded promissing and so I created a dump file but realised that the characters '?' and 'Ä' are broken in the export. Strangely enough 'äöü' are perfectly fine. I tried to find a substitution rule but learned that '?' and 'Ä' are represented by the very same combination of four Bytes (0xEF 0xBF 0xBD 0x3F) so I can not distinguish the characters and manually replace them. It could help if there would ba a way for instance to "mark" the 'Ä' characters in the Wiki before exporting to enable some regular expression doing the conversion somehow. Any other help would be really welcome.

— Andreas Tille 77.87.224.99 09:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC)