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Preferably without installing any extension, I would like to display the username or IP address of the browser that visits the page.

Within magic words and ParserFunctions I did not find what I am looking for.

This extension Extension:UserFunctions contains some severe warnings.

The extension Extension:GetUserName displays only a name, but not an IP

Perhaps the extension Extension:MyVariables provides a solution.

The extension Extension:Variables indicates that WMF prefers not to work with it and points to Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual

Given that my username gets displayed at the top right corner, I would expect that a page or template could also display that name.

What are my options?

The reason you can't find this sort of thing is because it isn't something that works well with the level of caching needed by Wikipedia.

To get around that, you need something that happens at the browser level. It seems like to me that the best way to handle that would be to insert a marker like

<span class="substitute-username-here">User's name</span>

wherever you want to have the user's name to be displayed and then use Javascript to find instances of span.substitute-username-here and replace the body with the user's name or ip.

I have installed the updated version of mediawiki on a new directory and now it can be accessed via test-update.clinicianwiki.com. The original site is clinicianwiki.com. I tried to change the directory in the /etc/apache2/sites-avaiable/*.conf files to the directory hosting test-update.clinicianwiki.com and then use a2ensite but it is not working (despite changes being brought forward to sites-enabled. Now I have to do it in a very clumsy way by changing the $wgServer in the LocalSetting.php of clinicianwiki.com so that it will be redirected to test-update.clinicianwiki.com where new features are available. What should I do so that clinicianwiki.com will be serving the same content as test-update.clinicianwiki.com? (it is not necessary that the same directory is served twice, on clinicianwiki.com alone will do but I can't figure out a way to do it...). Thanks!

I'm confused by your question. Do you want the test site and the original site to work at the same time but have different data? Are you trying to move the test site to the original site?

I'm running MediaWiki-1.35 (stable) on Raspbian 10 (Buster), with VisualEditor-0.1.2 and php 7.3.19. I honestly can't figure out how to get the new php-parsoid to work, and the documentation hasn't been updated yet for me to follow it. Can anybody help me out? I keep getting the HTTP 500 error whenever I attempt to use the visual editor on my wiki.

I haven't gotten debug logs to function, so I'm currently installing wireshark to see if I can capture the issue this way.

• What did you do to try and produce debug logs?
• Are you upgrading or is this a fresh install?

I keep running into issues with various thing not working due to file permissions. Is their a definative guide to what folders and files should be set to?

The locations pointed to by $wpUploadDirectory, $wgCacheDirectory, and $wgTmpDirectory are about the only ones that should be writable. Some extensions need a writable directory (e.g. Widgets needs $IP/extensions/Widgets/compiled_templates/, and SemanticMediaWiki would like $smwgConfigFileDir to be writable), but that covers most of the cases.

But it is possible I've missed some. Do you see any missing?

@MarkAHershberger, Well I keep trying to run deleteArchivedFiles.php --delete and get Could not acquire lock on ffilename, skipping.

I can't really find anything, but it seems like a permissions issue.

That sounds like you should run the script as whatever user owns the files under images.

I have the error after installing 1.35 and using certbot https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-apache.html to install SSL certificate.

I chose 2 for the following cert option: 1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver configuration.

2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access. Choose this for new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can undo this change by editing your web server's configuration.

My question is, how to set up https redirect and visual editor together? it works fine under just http but may not be the safest option. Or should I selectively redirect (i.e. redirect all users to https but parsoid stays in http?) If so how can I do that?

Thanks a lot!

You should redirect all requests to https and $wgServer should point to https. If you do that, you should not have a problem with 301.

problem solved thanks!

I upgraded from a very old version (25?) to 1.35.0 and get an internal error. I don't know what wikimedia services are but it sounds like I dodn't need it at all.

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [3ae6162e9b487b54644fa2ee] /index.php?title=Main_Page Wikimedia\Services\RecursiveServiceDependencyException from line 437 of /vendor/wikimedia/services/src/ServiceContainer.php: Recursive service instantiation: Circular dependency when creating service! Parser -> Parser Backtrace:

1. 0 /vendor/wikimedia/services/src/ServiceContainer.php(416): Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer->createService(string)
2. 1 /includes/MediaWikiServices.php(1000): Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer->getService(string)
3. 2 /includes/Setup.php(794): MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices->getParser()
4. 3 /vendor/wikimedia/object-factory/src/ObjectFactory.php(172): {closure}()
5. 4 /includes/StubObject.php(128): Wikimedia\ObjectFactory::getObjectFromSpec(array)
6. 5 /includes/DeprecatedGlobal.php(55): StubObject->_newObject()
7. 6 /includes/StubObject.php(172): DeprecatedGlobal->_newObject()
8. 7 /includes/StubObject.php(115): StubObject->_unstub(string, integer)
9. 8 /includes/StubObject.php(142): StubObject->_call(string, array)
10. 9 /LocalSettings.php(238): StubObject->__call(string, array)
11. 10 /includes/HookContainer/HookContainer.php(320): wfbreakExtension(Parser)
12. 11 /includes/HookContainer/HookContainer.php(131): MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookContainer->callLegacyHook(string, array, array, array)
13. 12 /includes/HookContainer/HookRunner.php(2959): MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookContainer->run(string, array)
14. 13 /includes/parser/Parser.php(532): MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookRunner->onParserFirstCallInit(Parser)
15. 14 /includes/parser/Parser.php(477): Parser->firstCallInit()
16. 15 /includes/parser/ParserFactory.php(142): Parser->__construct(MediaWiki\Config\ServiceOptions, MagicWordFactory, LanguageEn, ParserFactory, string, MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory, MediaWiki\Linker\LinkRendererFactory, NamespaceInfo, MediaWiki\Logger\LegacyLogger, MediaWiki\BadFileLookup, MediaWiki\Languages\LanguageConverterFactory, MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookContainer)
17. 16 /includes/ServiceWiring.php(816): ParserFactory->create()
18. 17 /vendor/wikimedia/services/src/ServiceContainer.php(447): Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer->{closure}(MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices)
19. 18 /vendor/wikimedia/services/src/ServiceContainer.php(416): Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer->createService(string)
20. 19 /includes/MediaWikiServices.php(1000): Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer->getService(string)
21. 20 /includes/content/WikitextContent.php(373): MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices->getParser()
22. 21 /includes/content/AbstractContent.php(590): WikitextContent->fillParserOutput(Title, integer, ParserOptions, boolean, ParserOutput)
23. 22 /includes/Revision/RenderedRevision.php(263): AbstractContent->getParserOutput(Title, integer, ParserOptions, boolean)
24. 23 /includes/Revision/RenderedRevision.php(235): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getSlotParserOutputUncached(WikitextContent, boolean)
25. 24 /includes/Revision/RevisionRenderer.php(215): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getSlotParserOutput(string)
26. 25 /includes/Revision/RevisionRenderer.php(152): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRenderer->combineSlotOutput(MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)
27. 26 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRenderer->MediaWiki\Revision\{closure}(MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)
28. 27 /includes/Revision/RenderedRevision.php(197): call_user_func(Closure, MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)
29. 28 /includes/poolcounter/PoolWorkArticleView.php(216): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getRevisionParserOutput()
30. 29 /includes/poolcounter/PoolCounterWork.php(162): PoolWorkArticleView->doWork()
31. 30 /includes/page/Article.php(810): PoolCounterWork->execute()
32. 31 /includes/actions/ViewAction.php(74): Article->view()
33. 32 /includes/MediaWiki.php(527): ViewAction->show()
34. 33 /includes/MediaWiki.php(313): MediaWiki->performAction(Article, Title)
35. 34 /includes/MediaWiki.php(940): MediaWiki->performRequest()
36. 35 /includes/MediaWiki.php(543): MediaWiki->main()
37. 36 /index.php(53): MediaWiki->run()
38. 37 /index.php(46): wfIndexMain()
39. 38 {main}

@Subfader Why would you move to an outdated insecure ancient version (1.30) with known and public security vulnerabilities, instead of upgrading to a supported and secure version?

Sorry, 1.35.0 ;)

whats the code/extension defining the wfbreakExtension() function and what hook is it using?

At a glance it looks like its calling $wgParser (which creates a new parser) while executing a Parser initialization hook, which is causing a loop. If the extension is being passed a Parser, it should use that instance instead of $wgParser.

Thanks, it was a mini extension I had added directly in LocalSettings and didn't recognize.

Resolved

I have a problem at my wiki, most of the users are school pupils and they often create just empty pages adding just a couple words. Are there any tool that can prevent to create empty pages or pages with just couple of words?

Extension:AbuseFilter

Extension:AbuseFilter will work for this. You can create a rule like this:

 page_id==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 20)

Guys, can you help me please. How to download Extension:AbuseFilter for older version of my wiki. I have 1.29.1

you should use a newer version. Mediawiki 1.29 hasnt been recieving security updates for over a year.

That said, you can get old versions from github https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-AbuseFilter/archive/REL1_29.zip . I'm not sure if github downloads include vendor dependencies (prob not) so you also have to run composer install --no-dev in the AbuseFilter directory after you have unpacked it

It seems to be that I have successfully installed the extension. So we shall I put this code?:

page_id==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 20)

In localsettings.php file?

Have you tried reading the manual at Extension:AbuseFilter?

Yes, now I try to use it ) Thanks

So, when I try to save the filter in this code:

page_id==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 20)

I have a system mistake, that there is an error in syntax

Syntax seems fine to me, are you sure you tried to add that code exactly?

Here what I have, see the screenshot:

https://hkar.ru/119Ck

Try

article_articleid==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 20)

instead (older versions of abusefilter might require that instead).

Thanks! Now all seems to be fine, all works!

Can you also help me how to create a filter that will not allow to non-registered users to insert external links in articles?

action == 'edit'
& user_age == 0
& article_namespace == 0
& added_lines rlike 'https?://'

Hi! Can you please help me. I want to make an exception for uploaded files. So it it necessary to provide description and the filter blocks uploading if there isn't such description. So I want users allow to upload files without descriptions

Adding article_namespace !== 6 & or action !== 'upload' & should suffice.

Thanks!

The whole code looks now so:

article_articleid==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 30)
 & action !== 'upload'

Hello! I have updated my wiki to 1.35 and enables VisualEditor. So if I upload the image via VisualEditor, it shows me a message that cannot create empty page. Shall I add to the code exception for uploading a file via VisualEditor

Maybe set exception to "File" namespace.

I can try, can you please let me know how to make such exception to the code I have already

Change action !== 'upload' to article_namespace !== 6

I guess I do something wrong. I have following code:

article_articleid==0
 &!("#redirec" in lcase(added_lines))
 & (new_size < 30)
 & action !== 'upload' to article_namespace !== 6

And I cannot save it as I have message with error

That to isn't valid. You were recommended to replace action !== 'upload' with article_namespace !== 6.

Now all is fine. Thanks

Thx! Works perfect!

Hi everyone. I upgraded my rather uncustomized wiki from 1.32.1 to 1.35 and I am encountering a strange issue which I don't quite know where to start fixing: Files are not aligning (images), so e.g. (ignore the spaces this is just to not throw this editor off): [ [ File : Something.jpg | right ] ] but it is not aligning this file to the right. My wiki is now full of weird layouts because all the images jumped back to their default no/left alignment. Any ideas? Much appreciated!

Is your wiki publicly viewable so we can see the problem?

yes, wiki.tarantino.info in fact. "Quentin_Tarantino_by_Ed_Gallafent" is an article there u can open as an example

Ok, it looks like there was a change in some of the core CSS and foreground (the skin you use), didn't adapt. But I can't be sure because less files make only a smidgen of sense to me.

In any case, you can add

div.tright,
div.floatright,
table.floatright {
  clear: right;
  float: right;
}
div.tleft,
div.floatleft,
table.floatleft {
  float: left;
  clear: left;
}

to your common.css and that should fix the problem.

I couldn't find anything reported against the foreground skin about this, so you might try filing an issue there.

Thanks! I will definitely report it there, they are currently looking into 1.35 compatibility anyway :)

Hi I'm using version 1.30.0 (yes I know I should update), PhP 7.0.27 (fpm-fcgi) and MySQL 5.7.25.

I recently installed the confirmaccount extension and most seems to be working well (request account page, e-mails being sent, admin gets notified), but when we navigate to the special:confirmaccounts page as admin and go to the 'open requests' page, we just see this error:

[a1a8cfd5e7d86316d99833c5] /index.php?title=Special:ConfirmAccounts/authors&wpShowHeld=0 Error from line 811 of /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/frontend/specialpages/actions/ConfirmAccount_body.php: Call to undefined method LanguageEn::truncateForVisual()

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/frontend/specialpages/actions/ConfirmAccountsPager.php(48): ConfirmAccountsPage->formatRow(stdClass)

#1 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/pager/IndexPager.php(445): ConfirmAccountsPager->formatRow(stdClass)

#2 /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/frontend/specialpages/actions/ConfirmAccount_body.php(715): IndexPager->getBody()

#3 /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmAccount/frontend/specialpages/actions/ConfirmAccount_body.php(106): ConfirmAccountsPage->showList()

#4 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(522): ConfirmAccountsPage->execute(string)

#5 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(578): SpecialPage->run(string)

#6 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(287): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#7 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(851): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#8 /var/www/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(523): MediaWiki->main()

#9 /var/www/mediawiki/index.php(43): MediaWiki->run()

#10 {main}

Any advice to solve this would be helpful (or even explain to me what this error is actually saying).

Are you using the Extension:ConfirmAccount version corresponding to your MediaWiki core version?

No, latest stable version (so 1.33) although it did mention it should work across multiple versions of mediawiki. I guess I'll just need to update my core version and see if it resolves the issue. Thanks anyway!

My MediaWiki was up to date, but the extension itself was not, so my solution was to download ConfirmAccount .gz file to my host and then extract it in the extensions directory, which made my errors go away. The fact that MW updated itself and broke ConfirmAccount is kind of a bug. I re-opened this issue just to help. I don't have an issue any more. Someone more adept than I might want to close this issue and open one for the mis-aligned updates problem.

Hi, at the moment I am trying to use restbase with cassandra on localhost. The objective is to end up using Amazon Keyspaces...

The error I am getting is related to options.log not being a function. Does anybody know what I can be doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

 /{domain:localhost}/{api:sys}:
   x-modules:
     - path: projects/proxy.yaml
       options:
        backend_host_template: '{{"/{domain}/sys/legacy"}}'
     - spec:
         paths:
           /table:
             x-modules:
               - name: restbase-mod-table-cassandra
                 type: npm
                 options:
                   conf:
                     version: 1
                     hosts: [localhost]
                     defaultConsistency: one
                     domains: /./
                     storage_groups:
                       - name: default.group.local
                         domains: /./

This is the error stack I get:

{"name":"restbase","hostname":"myhost","pid":51052,"level":60,"err":
 {"message":"options.log is not a function","name":"TypeError",
 "stack":
 "TypeError: options.log is not a function
   at Client.client.on (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/lib/index.js:107:17)
   at Client.emit (events.js:198:13)
   at Client.log (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:97:8)
   at Client._connectCb (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/client.js:406:8)
   at handlerWrapper (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:416:13)
   at tryCatcher (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
   at Promise.fromNode.Promise.fromCallback (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:209:30)
   at Client.promiseWrapper (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:415:10)
   at Client.connect (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/client.js:384:31)
   at makeClient (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/lib/index.js:115:19)
   at RBCassandra.setup (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/index.js:210:16)
   at makeRBCassandra (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/index.js:226:15)
   at Router._loadModule (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/hyperswitch/lib/router.js:272:26)
   at P.each (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/hyperswitch/lib/router.js:298:25)
   at tryCatcher (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
   at Object.gotValue (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:166:18)"},
 "stack":
 "TypeError: options.log is not a function
   at Client.client.on (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/lib/index.js:107:17)
   at Client.emit (events.js:198:13)
   at Client.log (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:97:8)
   at Client._connectCb (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/client.js:406:8)
   at handlerWrapper (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:416:13)
   at tryCatcher (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
   at Promise.fromNode.Promise.fromCallback (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:209:30)
   at Client.promiseWrapper (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/utils.js:415:10)
   at Client.connect (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/cassandra-driver/lib/client.js:384:31)
   at makeClient (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/lib/index.js:115:19)
   at RBCassandra.setup (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/index.js:210:16)
   at makeRBCassandra (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/restbase-mod-table-cassandra/index.js:226:15)
   at Router._loadModule (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/hyperswitch/lib/router.js:272:26)
   at P.each (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/hyperswitch/lib/router.js:298:25)
   at tryCatcher (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
   at Object.gotValue (/path/to/restbase/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:166:18)",
  "levelPath":"fatal/startup","msg":"Message not supplied","time":"2020-10-24T10:07:32.028Z","v":0}

If I console.log(options), I get

{ conf:
   { version: 1,
     hosts: [ 'localhost' ],
     username: 'cassandra',
     password: 'cassandra',
     defaultConsistency: 'localOne',
     storage_groups: [ [Object] ],
     localDc: 'datacenter1',
     datacenters: [ 'datacenter1' ] },
   templates: undefined,
   logger:
   Logger {
     _sampled_levels: {},
     _logger:
      Logger {
        _events: [Object],
        _eventsCount: 1,
        _maxListeners: undefined,
        _level: 10,
        streams: [Array],
        serializers: [Object],
        src: false,
        fields: [Object] },
     _levelMatcher: /^(trace|debug|info|warn|error|fatal)(?=\/|$)/,
     _componentLoggers: {},
     _traceLogger:
      Logger {
        _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
        _eventsCount: 0,
        _maxListeners: undefined,
        _level: 10,
        streams: [Array],
        serializers: [Object],
        src: false,
        fields: [Object] },
     args: { name: 'restbase' } } }

It seems like this options.log function missing could be a bug? (or maybe the documentation is incomplete)