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Mediawiki OCR Plugin

Hi, Is there any Plugin or feature which enables the feature of recognizing Text in Documents, something like PDf files or so on. If you search for a word, then it should also show you the pdf file.

Any Ideas? 93.200.205.78 (talk) 06:41, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Extension:FileIndexer claims to be able to do what you want. I've never used it so no idea if it works well, but you might want to check it out. Bawolff 06:07, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

66.165.176.62 13:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

CategoryTree - information

The "System Messages" / categorytree-member-num part in the CategoryTree page doesn't explain it's usage very well I think. It shows you have 5 parameter options, but not where you should set this or how you can add these settings to your CategorySetup. Also the link MediaWiki:categorytree-member-num is quite empty.

Would it be possible to expand these pages? Or do you think there is no need for it? 89.184.178.115 (talk) 09:54, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

You can change it by editing the page MediaWiki:categorytree-member-num in your wiki (for example on this wiki it is set to "($1 C, $2 P, $3 F)") which means category tree should output a bracket followed by number of categories ($1), followed by the letter C, and so on.

I can't really think of a better way to put it than whats currently on the extension page Bawolff 06:43, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Parameters when embedding Special:WhatLinksHere

• MediaWiki version: 1.13.5
• PHP version: 5.2.14 (cgi-fcgi)
• MySQL version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny4
• URL: not available to the public

(should work also on

• MediaWiki version: 1.15.4 (to be updated ...)
• PHP version: 5.2.5
• MySQL version: 5.0.51
• URL: not available to the public)

Embedding special page Special:WhatLinksHere works when using the solution on m:Help:Embed_page#Embedded_Special_Pages (i.e. changing an array at includes/SpecialPage.php). So it can embedded using {{Special:WhatLinksHere/Pagename}}.

What I am looking for is if there is any possibility to add a parameter for a certain namespace (something like {{Special:WhatLinksHere/Pagename|namespace=X}}), maybe by using a programmed template or something else. I have got solutions which

• change standard parameters in includes/specials/SpecialWhatlinkshere.php (this is site-wide; results in disability for giving links from ALL namespaces),
• give just a pre-defined link instead of embedding (user has to click on the link),
• embed an iframe with a pre-defined link (user gets a whole wiki page in the iframe including links, which results maybe in further reading and editing in the iframe),

but there is always something not being that convenient (as described above). Any ideas? 84.156.149.242 (talk) 16:26, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I think you need to upgrade MediaWiki. The feature you are trying to use was added in 2011; MediaWiki 1.15 is from 2009. This, that and the other (talk) 12:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) common.js & .css

Where do i have to put common.js and common.css and how do i get them working?

MediaWiki: 1.13.0 PHP: 5.2.13 (cgi) MySQL: 4.1.22-log 77.11.198.225 (talk) 11:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Those pages are located at MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js respectively (also at your MediaWiki installation). Usually they are empty. Edit them like a wiki page (you need admin status on your wiki), fill them with your CSS code or JavaScript code and save them. As examples you may take the respective pages on this wiki here or at English or German Wikipedia:

• English
  • en:MediaWiki:Common.css
  • en:MediaWiki:Common.js
• German
  • de:MediaWiki:Common.css
  • de:MediaWiki:Common.js -- JörgM 84.156.151.50 14:55, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It works, thank you very much. 217.191.245.59 09:37, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfProfileIn()

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wfProfileIn() in D:\Hosting\6414048\html\Wiki\index.php on line 48

I have been using the Wiki for a few weeks. I use GoDaddy hosting and it has been working until about an hour ago. It started giving me this error. I haven't installed any new extensions for about a week so I don't understand why it suddenly broke. I tried searching google and these forums but I didn't see anyone with an issue that look related to mine.

Can anyone help?

I am using MediaWiki 1.16 MySQL My URL is: http://frontiervillefriends.net/Wiki/ 72.161.215.81 (talk) 22:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

It just works now... -- Bryan (talk|commons) 11:45, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

troubleshooting (INVALID)

I downloaded "Stellarium v0.10.5 Setup.exe", file version 0.0.0.0, size=44,965,130, from website. It is for Windows XP. I have never downloaded anything from, or even heard of "mediawiki.org" before. I ran the setup program, and installed to D: Drive. After completion with no problems, I attempted running the program. I got an error message, indicating that openGL32.dll could not be found. I re-installed the program, but got the same results. WHAT'S WRONG? Another question: is the name of the program "Stellarium" or "MediaWiki"? 75.20.204.168 (talk) 20:41, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Our software is called MediaWiki and it is unrelated to Stellarium or whatever you have, so this is the wrong place to ask this question. Max Semenik 01:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Page Tags/Categories

I'd like to create a wiki where users can add pages, and tag them. For example all pages will need to have one country, one type and one year tag. Is this possible with wikimedia? Is there a way to then vet and list all pages with 0 or 2+ year tags (ie not exactly one), and/or force the choice of tags at creation time?

Then for navigating the site: is there a way to build a search page where tags are used and categorised? For example: Navigation example 1: in the year section, list all year tags (does this mean tags must be tagged? As in: tag "1999" is a "year" tag, but tag "japan" is a "country" tag) so users can select zero or more, in the country section, list all country tags so users can pick zero or more, etc, and matching pages are returned?

Or navigation by drill-down: pick a type, and all countries and years with this type are shown, then pick a year and matching countries are shown, etc.

Can wikimedia do this? How? Thanks. 116.89.224.147 (talk) 03:52, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Help:Categories. Max Semenik 04:14, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Max, I had seen the categories help page, but it doesn't tell me how easy it is for people creating pages to assign categories (hopefully from drop-down a list rather than typing free-text as the help page suggests), or for people browsing pages to search using them, or for admins to check they have been used properly (exactly one of each kind per page). Thanks again. 116.89.224.147 05:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

The problem with the categories is that they are done like a simple internal link in the main editing field, not in a separate field where there may be extra conditions. And as you can put a link to let's say jtvznruitqae :-), you can also choose a category YOU want to put a page to, like Category:jitzntrap. So in WP or Commons there always is the danger that there are categories which are double or triple or which are useless or senseless or something else, and there are also people whose work is just cleaning all those category "errors". As I say, as it's simple text in the content field you can't prevent what people are doing there, just cleaning it afterwards or banning people who don't look at or ignore any conventions. Maybe there is an extension which add separate category fields, but probably it does not prevent adding categories to the text. -- JörgM 84.156.150.22 07:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Creating Infoboxes

I am attempting to create standard boxes like on most Wikipedia articles. They're usually on the right and have a picture of the person and basic details and so on.

I not really sure of the steps I need to take in order to create one. I want to use this template: w:en:Template:Infobox_ReligiousBio

I made a new page titled "Template:person" and copied the template data from that Wikipedia page. Then I tried to use it in the article by doing {{Template:person and putting all the fields in as is done in Wikipedia articles. But it comes up with a template loop error and doesn't work.

I don't think I'm on the right track at all. Where can I find the proper process for using Infoboxes on Mediawiki?

Thanks 115.69.144.74 (talk) 04:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Check out FAQ#Templates imported from other wikis (such as Wikipedia) don't work for me. Max Semenik 04:50, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

What did you copy? If you copied the usage instructions or example, that will create a template loop. You have to copy the source, and not an example in the documentation. Clicking the edit button will give you code that you can copy to your wiki, but there's still no guarantee it will work particularly if it relies on extensions or templates not present on your wiki. Reach Out to the Truth 04:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Li.wikt has a negative number of active users

[1] - you can sort it on active users. Rather remarkable :) Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 18:31, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Template:Admin showing code that shouldn't be visible? (CLOSED)

Hi, I'm running on the 1.16.0 build, and my admin has attempted to place in what seems to be a simple template: Template:Admin. For some reason, as you can see, it gives the following:
{{#vardefine:Admin|}} {{#var:Admin}}

I'm really stumped on this one, myself. It seems that one of the editors copied the code directly from elsewhere, and since then it has stopped working... does anybody have any idea why? ~JoJo, Wars Wiki Founder 08:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

NOTE: DISREGARD; I found the issue in that I had simply uploaded my other Wiki's LocalSettings file. Whoops! ~JoJo 08:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Multilingual articles

Hi, I need to set up my wiki multilingual. Users should have the posibility to read and create articles in more than one language. Reading the same article in another language should be available in one click. Is there any chance to do so? Right now I have not found the answers, I am thankful for any advice. Thanks. 88.79.95.218 (talk) 10:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Have a look at Manual:Interwiki#Interwiki links to other languages and Manual:Wiki family. That's the way Wikipedia works. (Usually the links to the different languages are edited by bots, but you can do manually ...) Of course you can do the same on one wiki, let's say you can create different namespaces for the different languages (but there are many :-) ), but the links to the same article in other languages have to be put there manually (or by a bot), too. -- JörgM 84.156.144.14 16:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Take a look how multilingualism works on this wiki. Basically, pages in English just have normal titles and their translations into other languages are postfixed with language codes. For example, Main Page (in English) and Main Page/sq (in Albanian). All we need to connect different translations is to slap {{Languages }} on a page, that template will do the rest. Max Semenik 17:24, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Of course, the disadvantage there is that all the pages in other languages will be named after their English version, or whichever language is the main language of the wiki. Perhaps not a problem, but it's definitely something to keep in mind when deciding how you want to do this. Reach Out to the Truth 21:19, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I read the whole docs and spend 3 days but could not find the solution. Can you help me with this issue? I cannot made Template:Languages works?

I inserted

{{languages}}

on the different pages but could only see the red link "Template:Languages" istead of the box . What should I do? the link http://vadzim.com/wiki/index.php5/Vadzim/ru 183.174.200.162 16:47, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I've done it. Donot know how. 183.174.200.162 05:39, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

"E-mail me when a page on my watchlist is changed" by default

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to activate the option "E-mail me when a page on my watchlist is changed" by default for all new users. I have added $wgEnotifWatchlist = true but it didn't work.

any ideas ?hko Sebastianovide (talk) 10:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Try if a password sending works. If this does not work, you have to take care of the emailing options of your server (whether PHP mailing service or another email programme). On one of our company's wikis we had to add $wgSMTP, because PHP mails are blocked by firewall (at least the majority of them ...), and there had to be a link to our Lotus Notes mail server. -- JörgM 84.156.144.14 16:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

User contributions disappeared

(MediaWiki 1.13, PHP 5.2.4, and MySQL 5.0.45)

There is a "superuser" on our internal wiki whose contributions page has disappeared. We get an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error when we try to access it. We are unaware of anyone else's contributions pages disappearing, however he definitely has more contributions than anyone else contributing to our wiki. Have you ever heard of this happening before? Any ideas on the issue or thoughts on how to get the page back? Please advise. Thanks.

LGGreen 19:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

You need to look up the error in logs. See Manual:How to debug. Max Semenik 20:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Networklink extension question

I've installed NetworkLink extention to enable me to link to locations on our network. The problem is that I can't find a way of making it display just the destination and not the entire path. For example:

<link>network\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\destination</link>

produces a link that looks like: network\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\destination

When I would like it to just say: destination

I've tried every combination of pipes and parentheses of various kinds that I can think of.

If I can't solve this problem my pages are going to become massive, bloated and impractical. Any help much appreciated. 202.45.119.22 (talk) 00:13, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

[RESOLVED] 500 error thrown on a specific word?

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.13 (cgi) MySQL 4.1.22-standard

http://www.sunth.com/marschapters/index.php?title=Mars_Society_Chapters:Community_portal&oldid=68

This page was working fine before exporting database from a MoWeS installation and importing to a production server. After migration, section edits appeared to be working fine, but page edits would fail with 500 error on submit. No trace in Apache error logs. Virtual host does not provide php error_log.

As shown in page history, proceeded to cut entire content of page, then began pasting back a little at a time. Finally localized issue to text in section "1.6 Look and Feel". Further cutting and pasting identified issue in second order bullet "** transclude public data (glue from tms.org)". Issue finally narrowed to word "from". If word changed to "fro" or "fro m", submit of edits would succeed. Restored to "from", submit of page edits (and edits for that section) fail.

http://www.sunth.com/marschapters/index.php?title=Mars_Society_Chapters:Community_portal&oldid=90

Any clues appreciated. 99.103.194.50 (talk) 05:52, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

I have set up an account "Nobody", password "testing" to facilitate testing and reproduction of this error. 99.103.194.50 06:09, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Error has reappeared:

http://www.sunth.com/marschapters/index.php?title=Mars_Society_Chapters:Community_portal&oldid=104

Try editing and submitting edits (without making any changes) 500 error.

This is a refactor of

http://www.sunth.com/marschapters/index.php?title=Mars_Society_Chapters:Community_portal&oldid=96

I went into oldid 96, made a number of edits, and tried to save. 500 error. Cut all of the text from 96, pasted in a little, saved, opened bottom section, pasted in a bit more, saved. Rinse repeat. This time, I was able to do the whole thing without ever getting an error on any section edit submit, but again the whole page errors out on edit submit.

What is going on here?!? 99.103.194.50 07:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Probably, an out of memory condition? See Manual:Errors and symptoms#Fatal error: Allowed memory size of nnnnnnn bytes exhausted (tried to allocate nnnnnnnn bytes) for solution (you may not see the exact message due to server configuration).

If the problem is not due to OOM, take a look here for information on investigating errors. Max Semenik 07:19, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Max, TY. I guess it was you just testing. I'd suspect a memory size or buffer error, except that it is content specific. See the current example on the effected page. Submit the page with one letter ("t") and it errors out. Submit it with another (for example, "e") and it does error out. The two scenarios place identical demands on memory.

Looking at link you've provided on debugging now. 99.103.194.50 07:32, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Submitting just "t" didn't err it for me[2] Max Semenik 07:54, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh? Did you edit page or section? What browser are you using? 99.103.194.50 08:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

No, not "t" by itself. Edit so that "Selec" on last bullet read "Select" and try to submit. 99.103.194.50 08:05, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

pa pa birica 92.87.17.202 17:30, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

pa pa birica 92.87.17.202 17:30, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Probably shouldn't try submitting error descriptions in wee hours of morning the above should read:

"Submit it with another (for example, 'e') and it doesnt error out."

Any additional ideas from the community would be appreciated. 99.103.194.50 16:22, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this appears to be a fatal error, as none of the debugging settings added to LocalSettings.php provide any info before the 500. May need to move this to another server just to get at php error_log. 99.103.194.50 07:51, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

TY to whoever has been attempting to debug this just now. I've localized a variation of the bug now on top of page. Add the letter 't' to the word in the last bullet, and try to save. Add an 'e' instead, and it saves without error. 99.103.194.50 07:26, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Status Update:

PHP error logging enabled, no trace to either Apache or PHP error logs.

As this has happened both with "select" and "from", but no other words identified, an ISP technician has suggested that somehow the data is being passed in the clear to mysql. Not sure why data would successfully submit absent such keywords, however.

Escalated by ISP. Looking into getting mysql logs. 99.103.194.50 21:33, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

So much for that theory. Although "from" in a prior instance caused the error. The same string "from" in the current page version passes without a 500. If it was SQL keywords monkeywrenching the submit, it would be consistent for all instances of said keywords.

http://www.sunth.com/marschapters/index.php?title=Mars_Society_Chapters:Community_portal&oldid=135 99.103.194.50 21:43, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Eeek. Found another instance, this time the word is "update". Yet "select" and "from" in the same place produce no 500 error. 99.103.194.50 22:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

$wgShowSQLErrors = true;
$wgDebugDumpSql  = true;
$wgDebugLogFile = 'somepath';

Max Semenik 22:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Yep, got that from your earlier link, Max. TY. It's at the top of LocalSettings.php. Yet, like PHP's and Apache's error logs, this application side debug log file remains empty no matter how many 500 errors I generate.

I'm trying to get my ISP to show me mysql server logs. 99.103.194.50 23:00, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Do they have mod_security or some other "auto-magical" security feature? Max Semenik 05:55, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

A good question. I'll ask. In the meantime, I've resintalled mediawiki on another host that explicitly supports it. Mysterious bug is absent. 99.103.194.50 17:38, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

ISP has confirmed mod_security as the culprit. Still no answer as to why I couldn't see this in the logs. They're doing further testing.

I see several people asking about incompatibilities when I search for this in google. Is there any gospel as to how to get the mod_security and mediawiki to play well together? 99.103.194.50 07:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

about the wiki page frame (CLOSED)

Hi everyone:

Is it possible to display a compare of different opinion at the same page and same time? Like: Topic A 'facts' opinion 1 vs opinion 2, maybe 3

Thanks a lot. 124.77.155.61 (talk) 02:44, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

This is currently not possible, but displaying side-by-side will do it:

MediaWiki Reviews

User 1	User 2	User 3
It's cool	It's not cool, but awesome!	It sucks, badly.

{|
|+ MediaWiki Reviews
|-
! User 1 !! User 2 !! User 3
|-
| It's cool || It's not cool, but awesome! || It sucks, badly.
|}

I-20 03:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

got you, thanks. 124.77.155.61 04:49, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

(RESOLVED (by upgrading)) Value for $wgStatsMethod setting is not in permitted (given: , permitted: Cache, UDP, None)

Whenever I try to update settings for my wiki, whether I'm actually changing something or not, I get the subject of this post as an error. The full error is as follows:

Value for $wgStatsMethod setting is not in permitted (given: , permitted: Cache, UDP, None)

Backtrace:

1. 0 /var/lib/mediawiki1.7/extensions/Configure/Configure.page.php(108): ConfigurationPage->importFromRequest()
2. 1 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/SpecialPage.php(372): ConfigurationPage->execute(NULL)
3. 2 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Wiki.php(156): SpecialPage->executePath(Object(Title))
4. 3 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Wiki.php(47): MediaWiki->initializeSpecialCases(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(WebRequest))
5. 4 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/index.php(123): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest))
6. 5 {main}

Also, in the top frame of every page is the following error:

Warning: fopen(/messages-terriswikidb) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/MessageCache.php on line 99

I have a feeling the two are connected. The $wgStatsMethod is not available in the version of MediaWiki I am using. It appears as though the wiki is trying to perform the option anyway, and thereby returning a cache error. Mind you, I am not a PHP coder. So please try to keep this in mind when responding. 174.30.139.243 (talk) 00:15, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Which version of Configure are you using? The versions section of the extension page recommends a specific version for MediaWiki 1.7, but it's possible that you're using a newer version of Configure that is incompatible with that version of MediaWiki. Reach Out to the Truth 00:35, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki: 1.7.1

PHP: 5.2.0-8 (apache2handler)

MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_3-log

Extensions:

Special pages:

Configure (version 0.6.3), Allow authorised users to configure the wiki by a web-based interface, by Alexandre Emsenhuber

Parser extension tags:

Hooks:
LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases: efConfigureLoadAliases
LangugeGetSpecialPageAliases: efConfigureLoadAliases
LoadAllMessages: efConfigureLoadMessages

174.30.139.243 02:21, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

 15:39, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 15:39, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

MediaWiki: 1.7.1

PHP: 5.2.0-8 (apache2handler)

MySQL: 5.0.32-Debian_3-log

Extensions:

Special pages:

Configure (version 0.6.3), Allow authorised users to configure the wiki by a web-based interface, by Alexandre Emsenhuber

Parser extension tags:

Hooks:
LanguageGetSpecialPageAliases: efConfigureLoadAliases
LangugeGetSpecialPageAliases: efConfigureLoadAliases
LoadAllMessages: efConfigureLoadMessages

174.30.139.243 02:22, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry for the repeat. That's the version number and everything. 174.30.139.243 02:23, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Can someone please offer some advice on how to fix the problem? 174.30.139.243 01:01, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell you're using the correct version, but I'm not too familiar with Configure. You're not likely to get better responses from others though, since you're using an old unsupported version of MediaWiki. Upgrading is recommended if possible. Reach Out to the Truth 13:10, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

i get this problem when i write

$val = "mysql";

at configuration page so this variable is not just for $wgDBtype

please if you solve this problem could you help me 64.15.156.209 08:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Content box at top of page...

I am sort of new to this but i was not sure if this is possible or not so here it goes. It seems as if the contents key box is dynamically populated by the contents of the Wiki page. Considering this, is it possible instead of having the contents box, have tabs be automatically populated instead? Aharvilla (talk) 03:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Problem with Upload Files

Hello! MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.14 installed I can not upload a file. $wgEnableUploads = true;

Error Upload warning

Could not find file "C:\Windows\Temp\xxx", where xxx is php2461.tmp, php0071.tmp etc.

Help to correct. 109.87.140.2 (talk) 18:35, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Help! 109.87.140.2 05:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

HELP!!!!!!!!!! From UA!!! 109.87.140.2 16:21, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I posted on this elsewhere, but you may find like I did that I can use Windows XP successfully to upload a file, but with Vista I get the error you report. Same IE 8 version and settings. MediaWiki 1.15.1

Budsy 216.98.232.41 05:15, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

blank page, no php errors, memory set at 64M

Hi,

I get this dreaded blank page error. Actually, it shows a > bracket. This is on a Godaddy Free Hosting account, so that could be the problem. If I add an "echo" to the index.php file, it shows MediaWiki.

MediaWiki: 1.5.5 PHP: 5.2.8 mySQL: 5.0.91

http://femaanswers.org/femawiki http://femaanswers.org/info.php

Thanks. 168.103.238.244 (talk) 22:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, im having the same problem. Its probably because of the free account and GoDaddy tries to display an ad at the top of every page and this somehow messes up the output. Anyone have any ideas how to get it to display? 128.211.160.3 15:09, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?5042-MediaWiki-ee-Ad-supported%29on-Godaddy-%28Fr

1. 1. Uncomment this to disable output compression

$wgDisableOutputCompression = true; 88.251.79.132 13:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Customizing MonoBook Skin

Hello all:

I like the layout of the MonoBook Skin. However, I want the wiki to match the color schemes of my main website page.

• Can you tell me how to modify the skin file so, the backgrounds on all frames are black.

• How to set the default text color to white.

AND

• How to set the default link color to gray (I want to keep visited links violet).

Thanks.

I tried to look at the MonoBook file, but am not sure what to change. 174.30.139.243 (talk) 02:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Page cannot be found, Error 404

Mediawiki 1.16.0, MySql 5.0.24 and PHP 5.3.3 windows server 2003 and IIS 6

I have installed my wiki on the default web site and everything went smooth, but I moved the website to a different port and now my Main Page will not display. I did set it up so it would still listen to the old port. I keep getting a Page cannot be found with a http 404 error. Why can I not get to the main page anymore. 136.205.16.3 (talk) 14:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm having this same issue. Did you ever solve it?

I setup mediawiki according to instructions. It is on the default web site. Typing in http://localhost/mediawiki on the server works fine. Using http://servername/mediawiki gives a 404 error. The known issues section of the manual says to add the locationsection to the web.config file. I DONT EVEN HAVE ONE! So I created one. Still the same error. Other faq's say to check the error pages in IIS for the website. But the manual never has you to create the website in IIS. It simply says to copy the contents to the wwwroot folder. ???? 70.61.199.99 20:27, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18270#c19 —Emufarmers^(T|C) 07:15, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

I've tried that, and like I said above, the manual never instructs to create the website in IIS. Even if I create the website in IIS under the default website, when I go to the Error Pages section for the site there is no option to set 404 to default. IIS7 70.61.199.99 13:27, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind, I saw later down the list someone had the fix for IIS7. Seems to have worked. Thanks. 70.61.199.99 13:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

How do I get wikipedia's new look on my own wiki?

My mediawiki installation is 1.16.0, but I still have the old look. How do I get the new appearance and new online editor of wikipedia? Thanks! CyberSnoopy (talk) 16:04, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

FAQ#How can I use Wikipedia's new skin (Vector) on my wiki?. Max Semenik 16:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! CyberSnoopy 16:27, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Issues with file uploading

So I am continuously getting the following error: Internal error The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver.

I have done the following in attempts to resolve this:

• Changed the permissions of the wiki/images folder to 777 (CentOS 5.5 Linux)
• "ps aux | grep httpd" shows

root 21749 0.0 0.0 283676 9168 ? Ss 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21751 0.1 0.0 303180 27164 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21752 0.0 0.0 304204 28400 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21753 0.0 0.0 304204 28404 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21754 0.0 0.0 302156 26944 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21755 0.0 0.0 283676 5644 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21756 0.0 0.0 283676 5644 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21757 0.0 0.0 303180 27768 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 21758 0.0 0.0 303180 27180 ? S 11:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd


So I have changed the directory owner between apache and root with no success.

• Did a "sudo service restart httpd" after every change.
• Checked Apache's httpd.conf for an images alias

I am still getting the error. 128.9.132.170 (talk) 18:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

byteoffset in section

Hey, I wanna ask, how to interpret the byteoffset-argument when i use the parsemodul.

Where did the offset start at?

And which format do i have to use?

Thanks for now! Martin 93.218.137.83 (talk) 10:05, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Section transcluding

Hi,

How can I make an interwiki transclusion of a section?

For example say we have page A:

Section 1

Text 1

Section 2

Text 2

Section 2.1

Text 2.1

Section 2.2

Text 2.2

I would like to make a page B where the code would look like:
{{:A|section="Section 1"}}
{{:A|section="Section 2.1"}}

that would result in:
Text 1
Text 2.1

You might tell me to use <includeonly> elements, but that is not convenient, as I would like to have another page C to transclude other sections, for example:
{{:A|section="Section 2"}}

would result in:
Text 2

Section 2.1

Text 2.1

Section 2.2

Text 2.2

The idea is simple, but I have not found anything on google that looks like {{:A|section="Section 2.1"}}, etc.

David 69.196.160.57 (talk) 18:04, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion. Max Semenik 19:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

User preferences won't save (no error)

MediaWiki 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.10 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.0.77-log http://www.svencoop.com/wiki/

For some reason, User Preferences will not save. Clicking 'Save' just returns you to Special:Preferences, without any changes having taken effect.

Everything else seems to work without problems. Pages can be created and edited, users can be created and have their usergroups changed, etc. Have tried re-installing with all default settings, changing various settings, etc. Unfortunately I cannot access the server logs. 210.56.88.152 (talk) 09:31, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Same here except when logged in i can't edit pages i get some lost session error :(

Is mediawiki bugged or the database? 86.134.134.225 12:20, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Can no one provide a solution to this? I am using a custom skin derived from Monobook. I can't seem to figure out why anyone's preferences won't save. EnlightenedShadow 04:19, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I also got same issue after upgrading to MediaWiki 1.19.0. Not able to save the user preferences. Anyone have suggestion to fix this issue please? 155.49.134.109 15:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Hard to diagnose with so little information. At the very least a link to your wiki would be helpful. Bawolff (talk) 16:53, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I got a "403: Forbidden" when I clicked on the link above. Allen4names (talk) 19:55, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I have upgraded the Meiawiki1.12.0 to Mediawiki1.19.0

After the upgrade i do see new table got created in the database to store the user properties (table Name: user_properties) with various preference automatically moved from old MediaWiki version (1.12.0) to upgraded MediaWiki version(1.19.0).

After the MediaWiki upgrade i tried to change the user preferences like Gender, New Signature. When i click the Save button with new values it does not seems to be updating in the user_properties table. In the Preferences screen I get back the same old details as it was before. I do not see any error in the log files.

I have even queried the user_properties table, but there also no change.

I tried to do step by step upgrade from version 1.12 to 1.13 and then 1.14… till 1.19. In that case, I saw the same above issue started from version 1.16. I believe there was a major schema change happed for the user preference in MediaWiki 1.16 version.

Again, I use SiteminderAuthPlugin.php for automatic login. Here we use password as ‘no_login’. That means user_password field in user table contains value ‘no-login’. Is that causing the issue? Why I am suspecting that because, if I manually create new login (without using Siteminder autologin) then user preference update works fine. Havaldma (talk) 15:13, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, sounds like an extension issue then. I would complain to the extension's maintainer. Bawolff (talk) 14:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Any input on above query please? Havaldma (talk) 14:18, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Above issue got resolved after setting $wgServer in LocalSettings.php

In my case it is

$wgServer = 'https://<your domain>'; Havaldma (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm getting the same error on a fresh install on:

• MediaWiki — 1.20.1
• PHP — 5.3.3 (apache2handler)
• MySQL — 5.1.61
• uname -a on my Centos 6.3 machine with SELinux disabled:

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 21:05:14 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

PHP throws this error:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: DatabaseMysql::$mTrxDoneWrites in ...includes/db/Database.php on line 512 Daniel Renfro ^talk/_email 00:12, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Its the same here. Frech install with 1.20.1 and no user can save personal settings. Furthermore Users can't conform their email adresses . MW always says that the confirmation code is timed out. Carchaias (talk) 10:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

The second issue is reported here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#Adress_confirmation_does_not_work_anymore_with_MW_1.20.1_20918 Carchaias (talk) 11:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Carchaias (talk) 11:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

That was filed as a bug on:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42592 Carchaias (talk) 11:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Same error here, on an upgrade from MW 1.17 to 1.19.3. RHEL 6.3, PHP 5.3.3. Wiki is at https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/.

Not using any custom login extensions... just stock Mediawiki auth.

$wgServer is set properly.

I can manually manipulate the user_preferences table in the database without issue. I've run "CHECK TABLE" on all tables, no corruption reported.

"php update.php" was run... schema is up-to-date.

No errors in Apache error_log.

No errors displayed on-screen... LocalSettings.php sets error_reporting and display_errors.

I *do not* get the "Your preferences have been saved." notification. It just goes back to the prefs page, but the change isn't present and the DB isn't changed.

Any ideas? Jakem (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Your wiki has Short URLs wrongly configured, or there's something wrong with server alias or rewrite rules.

When saving Special:Preferences it does a HTTP POST to /index.php/Special:Preferences, but the server is responding with a HTTP 302 Redirect to /Special:Preferences, which causes the browser to do a GET request instead of a POST one and the POST data is lost on the redirect. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:16, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I've been helping mozilla with their wiki. and I knew this was a problem but hadn't had time to dig into it yet. I'm updating the bug that they have for this. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

The same error was happening to my wikis after upgrading to 1.19.3-2. After installing a fresh wiki, this one has worked good from the beginning. For some reason I've compared the databases and what I've found is that emptying the field "user_options" from table "mwuser" leads to the former wikis to work again saving user preferences and all.

Hope it helps. efedoso (talk) 23:26, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

(RESOLVED)$wgWhitelistRead don't work in Spanish

I'm wanting put the "Main Page" out of the restrictions with the path $wgWhitelistRead but don't is working. The other pages are working in normally.

The language is Spanish.

I used all this codes but doesn't work:

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Página_Principal","Special:Userlogin","Ayuda:Ayuda","-");

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Página Principal","Special:Userlogin","Ayuda:Ayuda","-");

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main_Page","Special:Userlogin","Ayuda:Ayuda","-");

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page","Special:Userlogin","Ayuda:Ayuda","-");

$wgWhitelistRead = array ("P%C3%A1gina_Principal","Special:Userlogin","Ayuda:Ayuda","-");

The problem is on the "Página Principal" only.

Someone know the solution for this problem? Please!

Thanks' Marioike (talk) 15:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

It might be an encoding problem. Try "P\xC3\xA1gina_Principal" -- Bryan (talk|commons) 10:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

It's works! Thanks Marioike 14:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

It's works! Thanks Marioike 14:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello! My problem is to put this «_La_Minute_Neuromuscle_» in the white list.

I've tried :

$wgWhitelistRead = array ('%AB_La_Minute_Neuromuscle_%BB');

But it's not working...

any help? 69.70.252.142 17:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Same thing for you - just save it as UTF-8 in your text editor. Max Semenik 18:55, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) Username formatting

Versions:

• MediaWiki 1.16.0
• PHP 5.2.14 (not relevant)
• MySQL 5.0.91 (not relevant)

How do you use username formatting like at http://testwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Test_Wiki:Request_for_permissions&action=history (e.g. bold, color, etc.)? Kudu ^~I/O~ 18:39, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

http://testwiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css Max Semenik 18:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind: it's set in their MediaWiki:Common.css. Waterfox 18:51, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

(RESOLVED)img_auth.php and IE

Hi, I'm using mediawiki 1.15.5 with img_auth.php. Everything works great on Opera and Firefox but in IE I can't seem to open files that are not images. This seems like its the same problem as mine: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18858 but editing the headers don't fix my problem. Does anybody have any tips? 129.240.203.77 (talk) 11:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

The problem turned out to be IE and downloading files over SSL. I changed the following line in img_auth.php, and everything worked great:

wfStreamFile( $filename, array("Expires: 0", "Cache-Control: private", "Pragma: cache")); 129.240.203.77 09:37, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Email notificaiton system

Hello Guys,

is it possible to set a automatic notification via email for entries where the last change date is older then one year?

Thank you for your help Darkhaze (talk) 13:58, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Not trivially. You need to configure MediaWiki to send an email on all changes, and then write an extension that filters out those younger than a year. This requires some core changes though, since there is no hook in UserMailer.php -- Bryan (talk|commons) 09:50, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

search for &

Hi,

i have a Problem with the search. My special Users search for example & und the Wiki call a technical problem with the Server. The Error you can even get on www.Wikipedia.de and www.mediawiki.org.

My Settings: Mediawiki: 1.16.0 PHP 5.2.1 MySQL 5.0.26 146.234.100.106 (talk) 14:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry the & is convert. I mean the HTML Code & 146.234.100.106 14:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Are you using squid or some other reverse proxy? -- Bryan (talk|commons) 09:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I think we use reverse proxy. 146.234.100.106 09:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Then it is unfortunately a bug in your reverse proxy. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 20:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

(RESOLVED) MediaWiki expanded menu

Hello, I'm new in MediaWiki and i have a question about something that kills my time for a last 24 hours. MediaWiki default sidebar with expanding function. HOW can i do exact one that you have here guys.? I have article lets call it "Test" and inside it i have Test1 and Test2. I want my users clicking "Test" ant menu will auto expand...

PLEASE HELP!!!! DanSmir~mediawikiwiki (talk) 17:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

It is a feature of the Extension:UsabilityInitiative. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 09:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey,

Thank you for the answer, but i can't find this extension. Is it accessible for download?

DS DanSmir 09:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

The "Download snapshot" link in the box on the right. iAlex 16:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC)