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88.130.68.156 (talk) edited a post on "[RESOLVED] __NOEDITSECTION__ is not working on my Mediawiki install"

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88.130.68.156:

Hi!

You miss one underline at the beginning of the magic word. It must not be "_NOEDITSECTION__", but "<nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki>".

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88.130.68.156 (talk) commented on "[RESOLVED] __NOEDITSECTION__ is not working on my Mediawiki install" (Hi! You miss one underline at the beginning of the magic word. It must not be "_NOEDITSECTION__", but "".)

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== How to contact an administrator ==

A got a thing telling me to contact an administrator, however the email this user funtion doesn't work, and I don't want to put it on a page. Is there a way to find other users email addresses? If so, how do you do it?

The wiki is version 1.20.2 [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can use Special:Emailuser on the wiki if email functions are enabled on the wiki, and if both you and the other person have a valid email address in preferences and have "Enable email from other users".
:If the admin doesn't have a valid email or doesn't allow the reception of emails from other users, ask in his/her talk page to enable it so you can contact him/her [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::The "email this user" isn't working, and I don't want to discuss it on their talk page. Is there a way to find the email addresses of users with valid email addresses? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 21:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::No, there isn't any access to the user's email. You might try using WHOIS to find the domain's owner, but that may not be who you are looking for. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 04:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] remove pages from navigation bar ==

Hi!
I need some help. I want to remove (or hide) the "Current events" and the "Random page" from the navigation bar on the left.
How can I do that? I deleted this code lines from the Commmon.css and common.js but the pages are still there.
Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] ([[User talk:46.251.31.104|talk]]) 09:06, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Those lines shouldn't be in Commmon.css nor common.js. They are in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:34, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you very much, Its worked :) I have one more question.. can I upload documents (.doc) to my mediawiki? Thanks!! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] 09:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Look at [[Manual:Configuring file uploads]], and create a new thread if your question is not related to the sidebar. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:19, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Best way to handle same page but in several languages ==

Hi,

I'm from Belgium and we're using the mediawiki, but be need to have the pages in several languages, like Dutch, French and English. What is the best way to do this?

Jvuz [[User:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|Jvuz~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 12:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Look at how this is done on MediaWiki.org. For example, see the [[API]] page which (buried in the [[:Template:API|API template]]) uses the [[Template:Languages|"Languages" template]] in the following way:
:<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>
{{Languages|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}
</syntaxhighlight> ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:24, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== MediaWiki:Vector.css, Broken! ==

hello, when I try to change the theme css Vector in "MediaWiki:Vector.css" appears the following error message:

Could not acquire 'wssouza01-wiki_:messages:en:status' lock.
Backtrace:
#0 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(710): MessageCache->load('en')
#1 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(650): MessageCache->getMsgFromNamespace('January/en', 'en')
#2 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(720): MessageCache->get('january', true, Object(Language))
#3 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(464): Message->fetchMessage()
#4 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(553): Message->toString()
#5 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(923): Message->text()
#6 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(942): Language->getMessageFromDB('january')
#7 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(951): Language->getMonthName(1)
#8 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(3025): Language->getMonthNamesArray()
#9 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2770): OutputPage->getJSVars()
#10 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2475): OutputPage->getHeadScripts()
#11 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php(462): OutputPage->headElement(Object(SkinVector))
#12 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2034): SkinTemplate->outputPage()
#13 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(572): OutputPage->output()
#14 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#15 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#16 {main}

how can I fix this error? [[Special:Contributions/200.239.65.5|200.239.65.5]] ([[User talk:200.239.65.5|talk]]) 13:31, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Try it again, it may be a temporary problem. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Is it possible to create a list of recent added articles by author? ==

I tried to do it with dynamic page list extension, but it doesn't work [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 16:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you please elaborate? [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::I tried to use this [[Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)]]
::and these code:
::<syntaxhighlight lang='text'><DynamicPageList>
namespace = User:UserName
order = descending
count = 5
</DynamicPageList>
</syntaxhighlight>
::So there was a list, but it has all recent registered articles and it was not ordered by username
::May be I did something wrong? [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 13:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I doubt that list would display a list of ''all recent registered articles'', since you're filtering by <code>namespace = User:UserName</code>, which is also not a valid namespace.
:::Have you tried reading the documentation of the extension in the first place?
:::Also, from my understanding, this extension doesn't provide that functionality. You'd need [[Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party)]] [http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Criteria_for_page_selection#createdby] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I have read the documentation, but I don't understand clearly if it is possible to make a list of recent added articles ordered by author with standard extension, not third party extension [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 12:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== Recreate the REVISIONS table ==

Hallo all,
I have wrongly deleted the revisions table of my mediawiki and now I cannot see more any page.
There is a way to reconstruct the revision data, also with some standard infos about the author etc?

Thank you very much.
Claudio [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] ([[User talk:188.217.54.242|talk]]) 19:17, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:The revision table is used for page history and user contributions listings. There are maintenance scripts (like rebuildall.php) which can populate the categorylinks, pagelinks, and imagelinks tables and refresh the search index, but these scripts ''require'' the revisions table - they cannot ''fill'' it. The manual on [[Manual:deleteArchivedRevisions.php|deleteArchivedRevisions.php]] tells you that this script can delete certain revisions (more or less what you did) and - the interesting part - that '''these revisions will no longer be restorable'''.
:So I think it is not possible to refill the revisions table. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 19:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Sigh, so I cannot do anymore that leaving the project... çç
::I'm very sad [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] 21:25, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Let's try to recreate the whole table before we begin with fiddly manual work:
:::You can use a backup and restore the table from there. Maybe your host regularly does backups for you? Maybe you or a friend or another admin has an older backup somewhere? Or maybe you still have one somewhere on the server?
:::Another idea: MySQL has options to create logs of recent actions. I think the interesting log is called binary log. If it is activated, this log can be used to rollback actions, which MySQL did. The log content is rotated, meaning: If you ask quickly enough, your DROP query might still be in and so can be rolled back.
:::And doesn't MySQL maintain backups of the raw database data? I think that is in the data folder of MySQL, inside the subfolder backup/. I don't know how often these backups are refreshed, but I at least saw a system where that does not happen immediately, but exactly once a day. Having this data might help you as well.
:::Does anything of that help you? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 22:38, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If your page is in Google, you can use the texts from the Google cache and paste them back into your database. This should at least bring "some" pages back.
::::If all that does not help, there still is another way to get your information back - a hard way:
::::All your texts are still there, see the table "text". The page names also are still there, see the table "page". What you lost is the relation of the entries in "text" to the pages in "page". Both were [[Manual:Page_table|connected]] in this way:
::::"The text of the page itself is stored in the text table. To retrieve the text of an article, MediaWiki first searches the page table for page_title. Then, page_latest is used to search the revision table for rev_id, and rev_text_id is obtained in the process. The value obtained for rev_text_id is used to search for old_id in the text table to retrieve the text."
::::So as a last help you can check the texts from the table "text" and try to manually put them into the right pages again. To do that, it might be wise to use a new database, so that you do not build upon the missing relations in the old DB. However, this task will be cumbersome, take a long time and won't be fun at all. Estimate yourself, if your data is worth the hassle!
::::Whatever you do: You should '''really''' start using backups! ''Automatically'' generated backups; what has to be done manually ''will'' be forgotten. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.65.67|88.130.65.67]] 13:07, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:When you say <code>[[Manual:Revision_table|revision]]</code> table, you mean only that one, or also the <code>[[Manual:Text_table|text]]</code> table?
:Depending on what method you used to delete them all, the text table is likely still intact. That table is what contains the actual page contents.
:However the revision table is what links these content versions to a page, user and timestamp.
:It's going to be hard to reconstruct the history, but at least you have all the content still (although without knowing which version is what page).
:You could use a combination of Google (and other caches/backups) to figure out what pages you had, and perhaps search through the text table for the actual content (by looking for a piece of text on that page).
:Since Google's cache is html only, if you'd import from that directly, you loose all semantics (e.g. things that came from templates etc.,) and possibly the markup as well (e.g. headings, bold, lists etc.) though markup you could re-add manually. By then re-creating the page with the content from the text table you restore the complete and unaltered wikitext.
:See also [[DB]]. Good luck! [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 17:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Upload images to diff server extension ==

I have a Windows-based Wiki site and I'd like to have the images in another account (i.e. diff IP address). Is there an extension which allows to upload images via a FTP account?

I searched for one but could not find, but perhaps I was looking for the worng phrase or what not.

i.e. www.mysite.com is my Wiki site at 200.200.200.200
and my images are on images.mysite.com at 100.100.100.100 [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 21:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:I don't know about putting them on an ftp server, but there are tools like [[Extension:LocalS3Repo]], [[Extension:AWS]], and [[Extension:WindowsAzureStorage]] that let you store them "in the cloud." You might also look at [[Extension:UploadLocal]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:12, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Help with extension "InviteSignup ==

I am attempting to use the InviteSignup extension so I can invite users to an otherwise private wiki. The extension shows as loaded on the version page and I am able to bring up the page on which I can enter an email, and select what groups I want to give access to. This information is laid out as if it is a row in a table, and at the end there is an "add" button. When clicking add I am taken to a InviteSignup page which appears to be nothing more than a blank wiki page of that name. I have tried entering several different valid email addresses and none have received an invite. The wiki page for this extension does not offer a way to contact the developer which is why I am posting here, and I apologize if this is an inappropriate forum. However, if anyone can offer assistance I would appreciate the help.

In addition to adding the extension in the extensions folder I made the following change to localsettings.php
require_once "extensions/InviteSignup/InviteSignup.php";
$wgISGroups = array( 'StateA', 'StateB', 'StateC' );
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['invitesignup'] = true;

Wiki version 1.21.1, PHP 5.3.4.

Thanks [[Special:Contributions/12.111.71.19|12.111.71.19]] ([[User talk:12.111.71.19|talk]]) 01:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are you sure? [[User:Nikerabbit]] is an active developer and I'm sure you can find him regularly on IRC. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:44, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks, I don't currently have access to IRC but will try contacting him that way. [[Special:Contributions/199.19.250.44|199.19.250.44]] 12:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Specialpage Listfile - Searching doesnt work properly ==

Hi. I've a problem on using the search function on the specialpage Filelist.
I dont find an solution for this bug. So may i will get some help here.

The filelist counts more than 900 files. If i search for an specified file or name it works fine.
But if i search for an user or only an fileextension, i can wait hours and get no results. It seems that the function works in an infinite loop.

Perhaps the result list is to big.

Im using mediawiki 1.21.2. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] ([[User talk:87.193.155.78|talk]]) 11:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Doesn't anybody have an idea? Perhaps this "bug" is already listed? [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::I solved it.
::More RAM. We use imagemagic für displaying gif-Files. The lib needed more memory in cause of this count of files. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:53, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Allowing a user to edit one page, but restrict all others ==

Is there a way to allow a user to edit one (or multiple) pages of a wiki anonymously, yet restrict everything else to require a login/registration? This is a private wiki inaccessible from outside the company.

Version information follows:
MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.3.3 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.95

Thanks,

Wayne [[Special:Contributions/64.214.53.2|64.214.53.2]] ([[User talk:64.214.53.2|talk]]) 15:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:[[Manual:$wgWhitelistRead]] looks like it could help you. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Getting "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2." When testing infobox. ==

MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.4.11 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.1.53-log
Lua 5.1.5

URL: http://www.sportscardwiki.com/index.php?title=Infoboxtest

I'm getting an error of: "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2."

I have also enabled error details and logging in LocalSettings.php, but neither seem to be working in this case so I do not have a backtrace to provide more details. [[Special:Contributions/161.165.196.102|161.165.196.102]] ([[User talk:161.165.196.102|talk]]) 18:01, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:What OS are you using? Are you sure your web server has permission to write to the error log file? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] How to use mediawiki API to edit a page on local server ==

I created a web page on my own local server using MediaWiki. The url is "http:\localhost\mediawiki\index.php\newPage". I intend to edit the page using the MediaWiki API in PHP, and plan to use API:edit. But how can I set the title or pageid parameter? Is there any other methods to edit this page on my local server using MediaWiki API?

Thanks in advance! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 03:16, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Did you follow [[API:Edit]]?
:Also, the api is meant to be used by a client machine. If you want to edit it from the same server, in PHP, you may want to use the [[Manual:edit.php|edit.php]] maintenance script. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::The problem is how to access to the certain page created by mediawiki on my local server. The example showing on Mediawiki API Main page access to the page by setting the "title" parameter, but that page is a wikipedia page. If I want to direct to a certain page on my local server, what should I do? How can I direct to that page or server? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 13:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You should go to http://localhost/mediawiki/api.php. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:01, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Yes, it can work now. Thank you so much!!! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 17:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== Admin user is hijacked, what to do? ==

My superadmin user is hijacked! Our wiki, http://wiki.studiebyen.no, is now nothing but spam and my superadmin user/password no longer works. I preferably just would like to kill the whole wiki, but how? I cannot get access with my user hijacked.

Regards, Kim Sorenssen/StudiebyEN/Norway [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] ([[User talk:78.91.39.251|talk]]) 12:03, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi Kim,
:in those cases I always recommend reverting to a backup from before the hijacking. This is the easiest and a clean solution. Everything else will be more difficult und far more time-consuming. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 12:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! Yes, that should probably do it.
::Kim [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] 13:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::I was wondering if this ever happened to my wiki, what should I do if I didn't want to kill the whole wiki, and revert back to a earlier back up? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Hi Kyle!
:::Reverting to a backup really is the recommended procedure in this case.
:::If you really want to clean the wiki up, you can do the following: Use the maintenance script createAndPromote.php from the shell to create yourself a new admin user. With this user block the hijacked account and take his rights away. Then revert all the spam inside the wiki; this might be a ''hugh'' task depending on "how hacked" your wiki is. Remove all files, which might have been uploaded and check the MediaWiki source code on your server; these files may have been manipulated as well. And do not forget to check extensions; they might also be affected.
:::Check the server logs to see which URLs have been accessed during the hack. Information by mod_security (if active) might help as well.
:::Finally you have to close the hole, through which the attacker came in. This can basically be anything: An insecure web application (maybe not even MediaWiki, but possibly something completely different), maybe an outdated extension, maybe a vulnerability in MediaWiki or in PHP or in MySQL or in the operating system....... Anyway: The hole '''must''' be fixed; otherwise you will soon be hacked again. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 12:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Permission to edit pages only if user belongs to that group ==

Hello All,
I am new to MediaWiki, I wanted to know is there a way to allow user to edit a specific page only if that page is created by the user who is of the same group.
For instance if user A who belongs to a group YYY creates a page XYZ, and the user B can edit XYZ page only if that person belongs to YYY group.

Please let me know what setting I need to make to achieve this.

Thanks
Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 13:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can set aside a namespace (say "YYY:") that is only editable by people in the YYY group using [[Extension:Lockdown]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Hi,
::First of all thanks for replying, I tried creating a custom namespace and created a page (yyy group), but even the user who belongs to "xxx" was able to edit,
::below is the setting that i used, please let me know where I have gone wrong.
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_YYY', 100);
define('NS_XXX', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_YYY] = 'yyy';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_XXX] = 'xxx';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['read'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['edit'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['read'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['edit'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_YYY;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_XXX;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Thanks
::Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You have a typo above. If you fix these, does it work?
:::I'm looking at these two lines:
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::These should be
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::Those syntax errors make me wonder if MediaWiki was even reading the file where you put these changes. If the file were read as PHP, it should error out. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:12, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Sorry it was a typo error while posting, its fine in the code which I have. [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 06:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::ok, I've editted your post to show that. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::in the <code>$wgGroupPermissions</code> section, you've given "YYY" and "XXX" as the group names, but in the <code>$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown</code> section, you've given "yyy" and "xxx". Group names are case sensitive, so you have four different groups.
:::Also, I recommend using "YYY" and "XXX" instead of the lower-case versions for your namespace names. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::ya I modified that, but still the issue persists :( [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::To avoid me misinterpreting what you currently have, could you paste your updated file here ''sans'' typos? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Sorry for the confusion caused, I have pasted the entire settings present in LocalSettings.php file
::::::{{collapse top}}
::::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki 1.21.2
# installer. If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you
# need to recreate them later.
#
# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings
# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_
# file, not there.
#
# Further documentation for configuration settings may be found at:
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
# Protect against web entry
if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
exit;
}
## Uncomment this to disable output compression
# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;
$wgSitename = "xxx wiki";
$wgMetaNamespace = "xxx_wiki";
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs
## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs
$wgServer = "http://192.168.10.113:8888";
## The relative URL path to the skins directory
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
## The relative URL path to the logo. Make sure you change this from the default,
## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade!
$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/sb_logo.png";
## UPO means: this is also a user preference option
$wgEnableEmail = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO
$wgEmergencyContact = "xxx@gmail.com";
$wgPasswordSender = "xxx";
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
## Database settings
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "my_wiki";
$wgDBuser = "root";
$wgDBpassword = "";
# MySQL specific settings
$wgDBprefix = "";
# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";
# Experimental charset support for MySQL 5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = false;
## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads = true;
#$wgUseImageMagick = true;
#$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org
$wgUseInstantCommons = true;
## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a
## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an
## available UTF-8 locale
$wgShellLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
#$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server
## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not
## be publically accessible from the web.
#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
# Site language code, should be one of the list in ./languages/Names.php
$wgLanguageCode = "en";
$wgSecretKey = "xxx";
# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the
# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place
$wgUpgradeKey = "xxx";
## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook', 'vector':
$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";
## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an
## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation
## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.
$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "";
$wgRightsText = "";
$wgRightsIcon = "";
# Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution.
$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";
# Query string length limit for ResourceLoader. You should only set this if
# your web server has a query string length limit (then set it to that limit),
# or if you have suhosin.get.max_value_length set in php.ini (then set it to
# that value)
$wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength = -1;
# Enabled Extensions. Most extensions are enabled by including the base extension file here
# but check specific extension documentation for more details
# The following extensions were automatically enabled:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Cite/Cite.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Interwiki/Interwiki.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/LocalisationUpdate.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Nuke/Nuke.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/PdfHandler/PdfHandler.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Poem/Poem.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Vector/Vector.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" );
//require_once( "$IP/extensions/EditOnlyYourOwnPage.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
# End of automatically generated settings.
# Add more configuration options below.
# Requires that a user be registered before they can edit.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
# Requires users to confirm their eamail to edit a page
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
# hide user tools for anonymous (IP address) visitors
//$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
# Users cannot edit pages
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
# Anonymous users can't create pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['aec'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_RERUN', 100);
define('NS_AEC', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_RERUN] = 'rerun';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_AEC] = 'aec';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['read'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['edit'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['createpage'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['read'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['edit'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['createpage'] = array('aec');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_RERUN;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_AEC;
</syntaxhighlight>
::::::{{collapse bottom}} [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I used your settings on a 1.20.2 wiki and it worked for me. What version is your wiki? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:19, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::I am using 1.21.2 wiki version [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 05:06, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== Wikidata test repo at Wikimedia.de down ==

Hi wikimedia seems to be having a problem with http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki this website [[Special:Contributions/90.217.5.92|90.217.5.92]] ([[User talk:90.217.5.92|talk]]) 15:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Errors 1170 and 1146 (ConfirmAccount) ==

Hello all, and thank you for your time

I am using Mediawiki 1.19 and using the ConfirmAccount extension. When I go to accept an account, I receive this error:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "AccountConfirmSubmission::acceptRequest". Database returned error "1146: Table 'tuxmicro_mwiki.account_credentials' doesn't exist (localhost)".

I researched and found that it is because I need to run my update for php, so I ran

php maintenance/update.php

In doing so, I receive this error:

Database returned error "1170: BLOB/TEXT column 'acr_email' used in key specification without a key length (localhost)"

I went to extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql and deleted "ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg"

When I rerun the php update script, I then get a 1064 error. From here, I am lost [[User:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|Odyssey~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 16:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Also, here is the structure of my account_requests table under phpmyadmin
:http://i41.tinypic.com/if4k6c.png [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 16:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:What does your 1064 error say? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::from within function "Database:Base::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".
::Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (
::acd_id int unsugned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)" [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 19:59, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It looks like you accidentally put a typo in the file. It is complaining about the "unsugned" which should be "unsigned'. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:59, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ahh, that was my fault when typing in here. When running the update script again, it says "unsigned"
::::<code> The last attempted database query was:</code>
::::<code> "ALTER TABLE `account_requests`</code>
::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::<code> ) ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8</code>
::::<code> "</code>
::::<code> from within function "DatabaseBase::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".</code>
::::<code> Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)"</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just to test, I commented out the acd_id int line, and I reran the update script, and it seems to error at the very next acd line [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Here is my patch-account_credentials.sql page as it exists:
::::::<code> -- (c) Aaron Schulz, 2007</code>
::::::<code> ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/account_requests</code>
::::::<code> -- ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg (acr_type,acr_deleted,acr_registration);</code>
::::::<code> -- This stores all of credential information</code>
::::::<code> -- When accounts are confirmed, the identity info goes here</code>
::::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS /*_*/account_credentials (</code>
::::::<code> -- Revision ID #</code>
::::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::::<code> -- Foreign key to user.user_id</code>
::::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Optional 'real name' to be displayed in credit listings</code>
::::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Note: email should be restricted, not public info.</code>
::::::<code> -- Same with passwords.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Initially NULL; when a user's e-mail address has been</code>
::::::<code> -- validated by returning with a mailed token, this is</code>
::::::<code> -- set to the current timestamp.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- A little about this user</code>
::::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Private info for reviewers to look at when considering request</code>
::::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Links to recognize/identify this user, CSV, may not be public</code>
::::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- IP address</code>
::::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Name of attached file (.pdf,.doc,.txt etc...)</code>
::::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Areas of interest</code>
::::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of account registration.</code>
::::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of acceptance</code>
::::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::::<code> -- The user who accepted it</code>
::::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::::<code> -- Reason given in email</code>
::::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::::<code> ) /*$wgDBTableOptions*/;</code>
::::::<code> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX /*i*/acd_user_id ON /*_*/account_credentials (acd_user_id,acd_id);</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi why not go into the extension confirm account and then click back end and then click MySQL and then click the first ConfirmAccount SQL and upload it to MySQL directly [[Special:Contributions/86.179.149.75|86.179.149.75]] 06:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::There needs to be a semi-colon after each statement. You've commented out the semi-colon for the first ALTER statement, so it looks like it says
:::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
ALTER TABLE `account_requests`
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` ...
</syntaxhighlight>
:::::[https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmAccount/HEAD/backend%2Fschema%2Fmysql%2Fpatch-account_credentials.sql Here is the latest copy] of patch-account_credentials.sql. Try it and see if it works. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::I pasted your patch-account_credentials.sql into my directory. I ran my update and this is what I get:
::::::<code> A database query syntax error has occurred.</code>
::::::<code> The last attempted database query was:</code>
::::::<code> "ALTER TABLE `account_requests`</code>
::::::<code> ADD acr_type tinyint(255) unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::::<code> ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg (acr_type,acr_deleted,acr_registration)</code>
::::::<code> "</code>
::::::<code> from within function "DatabaseBase::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".</code>
::::::<code> Database returned error "1060: Duplicate column name 'acr_type' (localhost)"</code>
::::::I tried, just to test, commenting out the "ADD acr_type tinyint(255) unsigned NOT NULL default 0," line, but then I am back to my 1170 error [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 14:19, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== moved my mediawiki - images dont appear ==

Hi , I moved my mediawiki to another server, all of the data in the content is showing up , but none of the images show. I have moved the entire /image directory. What reason could there be for the images not showing up? I get this message where the images should be Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination [[User:Dcastillo|Dcastillo]] ([[User talk:Dcastillo|talk]]) 17:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I guess you have a permission problem. Make sure that the webserver user has access to the image directory. He must be able to read and write to the folder and to subfolders. Maybe you don't even have to change the file permissions themselves; it might already be enough to modify owner and group of these files. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 20:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::You should also check/change the owner of those files and folders, because when transferred from one host to another (depending on how did you do that) they may still have the "old" owners, that may not match the user and group running the apache server, which would cause problems when doing deletes or renames of files. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] extraneous text at top of page ==

Hi,

How can I stop some extraneous text from showing at the top of every page on my new installation of wikimedia onto Debian mint 15 using synaptics?

MediaWiki 1.19.7+dfsg-1
PHP 5.5.1-2 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.5.31-1

The text showing is from some php code prepended to the page, as shown in the page source below, it starts with "Wikidiff2" (i.e. after the first closing angle bracket) and flows up to the DOCTYPE tag.

The page source:
<pre> <?
$wgExtensionCredits['wikidiff2'][] = array(
'name' => 'Wikidiff2',
'version' => '',
'author' => 'Tim Starling',
'description' => 'external diff engine for MediaWiki',
'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidiff2'
);
$wgExternalDiffEngine = 'wikidiff2';
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs">
<head>
</pre> [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] ([[User talk:203.97.250.223|talk]]) 23:48, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Your PHP configuration may include the option to disable short open tags.
:Find the file in extensions that contains the above text (probably called Wikidiff2.php?), and change the "<?" to "<?php". That should resolve the issue. [[User:Brion VIBBER|brion]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|talk]]) 23:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks brion,
::I changed the apache php.ini to allow short open tags, and that fixed the issue.
::I'm not happy with this solution, apparently that setting is strongly contra-indicated, but, hey! It works.
::Every php file in <code>/usr/share/mediawiki/**</code> starts with the correct <code>'<?php'</code> open tag. No file contains a resemblance of the string being inserted, however there is a function referencing $wgExtensionCredits. My PHP is weak, but I'm guessing that this might be generating the text. I'll have to experiment.
::Thanks again. [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] 05:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Fix search bug in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please could someone please fix a search bug in this extension because it now doesent let you use the search bar to search for something it doesent show drop down list you have to know what you want it doesent show suggestion please fix it. I am using Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Requests for bug fixes are sually collected in the Bugzilla database or where else the extension author chooses to create an issue collection for further processing.
:Please add your request there!
:Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:57, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Ok I have asked on bugzilla now [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Create account / login in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please update login and create account buttons because the layout and look of them was changed in 1.20 when the separated them into create account and then login so please update the looks and the create account could be redirect to special request account. I am running Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:33, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:The buttons look nice - what's the issue? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:55, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Because it looks a little wired do to the new way you login and create account so could someone redo the way it looks please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 13:09, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you want that fixed, you should file a [[BUGREPORT]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:19, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ok I have reported it on bugzilla [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Different colours sides ==

Hi in Mediawiki could the background in vector automatically get bigger when the writing over goes the size of the page for example if you look on the support page and you see to different colour background one write one grey and the other blue could it automatic le adjust for the size of the text instead of having a side white please [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:That sounds like a css/js question which is not the sort of question we're ready to answer here. Please try a more appropriate forum.
:If you had some css/js that could do this, we could tell you how to make sure it is loaded correctly. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] I copied my IIS based-Wiki to Linux ==

It went smooth, after simply copy-pasting the images and files to the new server, using the same database.

One thing I notices doesnt work properly: The site's namespace and my custom namespaces are unaccesible from the new Linux based-wiki, even tho they exist in the database. It's as if the Wiki doesnt realize the site's namespace and the custom namespaces exist, even tho I didnt not change LocalSettings.php. See the site's search on Windows:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06ab58.png/
and on the Linux copy:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06c5b0.png/

How can I fix the linux site?

Thanks,
Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 09:25, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are those custom namespaces defined in your LocalSettings.php on the linux machine? They should be the same as the windows one. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::Yes, they are defined the same way (I used the same LocalSettings.php file - just copied everything to the Linux server):
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
define("NS_PORTAL", 100);
define("NS_PORTAL_TALK", 101);

$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL] = "פורטל";
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = "שיחת_פורטל";
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL] = true;
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = true;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Also, in the "Prefixindex" special page, the namespaces can be found but the name it blanked, as seen in the screenshot:
::http://jpg.co.il/view/5251a99dcfe9b.png/
::Do you have any idea how I can get the software to recognize my main namespace and my custom namespaces?
::Thank,
::Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 18:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I found the problem, thought I'd put it in writing for the records.
:::When I changed to Linux, the LocalSettings.php gave a "Warning: Cannot modify header information..." message. I found that BOM was the problem so I saved the file as text/ansi which got rid of the message but I didnt realize it messed up my Hebrew-texted namespaces (the editor didnt show the problem). I changed the coding to UTF-8 without DOM in Notepad++ and retyped all the Hebrew text and that fixed it. [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 14:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Good to know, thanks!
::::This would be hard to diagnose otherwise [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Name changing template ==

Hi how can I create a template that I can change the name of a title of a page without moving so that other template using it and showing the name would show the name differently please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 13:36, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused. Could you clarify what you want, exactly?
:You want to change the title of a page (say <nowiki>[[Foo]]</nowiki>) using a template so that the page can be refered to by the new title (say <nowiki>[[Bar]]</nowiki>) without actually moving the page? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:19, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Update bugzilla ==

Hi please update bugzilla at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org because Mozilla has released an update at http://www.bugzilla.org/news/#release44 [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 16:34, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I am not sure, ho is responsible for maintaining bugzilla, but you should be able to find out via IRC. Or do you want to say that you can help with the update? Help is always appreciated very much! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.75.79|88.130.75.79]] 19:50, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::Well I carnt help I just notify them because if they update bugzilla who ever is responsible of looking after it. Because if they update it will fix bugs and some new things to make requesting bugs easer and more faster to find so they should update it [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 09:34, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::See [[bugzilla:49597|Bug 49597]]. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:17, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:18, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::I am responsible for Bugzilla - see the ticket that Ciencia linked to already. We will upgrade to 4.4 in the next 4 or 5 months. [[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 09:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Ok thanks [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 15:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I create both left-to-right and right-to-left pages in MediaWiki? ==

(Apologies for what may be a simple question, but zillions of searches for "bidi" and "right-to-left languages" have just left me more confused than before.)

MediaWiki 1.21.1
PHP 5.3.24 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.0.96-log
http://horawiki.org/

I would like users of my wiki to be able to contribute pages in both LTR and RTL languages, specifically English and Hebrew. I seem to have the interface working correctly per-language (I'm using the Universal Language Selector extension) but things don't work in content pages. How do I tell MediaWiki that a content page is RTL rather than LTR?

For example, I have pages [http://horawiki.org/page/Welcome_to_HoraWiki!] and [http://horawiki.org/page/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99] which are more-or-less translations of each other. The latter page, however, displays generally as LTR---notice that everything is crammed against the left margin, not the right margin.

On the other hand, when I look at the page in the WikiEditor "Preview" tab (after edit and before publish) everything looks great. Indeed, I can (mostly) use directional markers amp-lrm-; and amp-rlm-; to get the punctuation correct. (Still struggling with references, but that might work too.) How come the previewer shows the page correctly, but in the wiki it still looks wrong?

From the documentation, it looks like I might need to set the "PageContentLanguage" or the like. But I can find only hooks and so forth to do this---how does a user set it for a page he is creating?

Any help greatly appreciated. [[Special:Contributions/216.15.119.210|216.15.119.210]] ([[User talk:216.15.119.210|talk]]) 21:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Comment: The paragraph in my original post that starts "For example, I have pages..." continues with two example URLs. The first of these URLs ends with an exclamation point, which is not being rendered correctly here. It shows up '''after''' the external-link icon and isn't part of the URL. That seems to be a bug. I haven't seen it anywhere else and it's irrelevant to my current question. In any case, clicking that URL will take you to a nonexistent page unless you put the exclamation point back onto the end.
:I hope the second URL works for you. It simply says "Welcome to HoraWiki" in Hebrew. /Larry D 21:41, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::I've fixed the link.
::You may try [[Extension:PageLanguage]].
::Creating pages on a different text direction than the configured one is hard. You may be able to "partially" solve it wrapping all the contents inside <code><nowiki><div dir="rtl"></div></nowiki></code> and also inserting the RLO character (RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, U+202E) at the start of the code and the PDF character (POP DIREC‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬TIO‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬NAL FORMATTING, U+202C) at the end. Those characters are just for the textarea to display the text in the correct direction, since the t‬‬‬extarea doe‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬sn't pa‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬r‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬se dir="rtl". Example (without those unicode characters that KDE doesn't allow me to easily insert here):
::<div dir="rtl">
::כדי למצוא אינפורמציה על ריקודים, יוצרים, ארועים ועוד, התחילו בתפריט הניווט הנמצא בצד ימין‏.
::אחר ההרשמה, הגולשים מוזמנים לתרום לאתר, לערוך, להוסיף, לתקן, וליצור דפים על פי רצונם. בצד שמאל תחת "עזרה" נמצאים הקישורים הדרושים לכך‏.
::יבואו הגולשים ללמוד ולהשתעשע. אין חשׁשׁ לקלקל דבר.
::</div> [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Catchable fatal error on new installation : Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure ==

Hi,

I am getting this on a new installation of Mediawiki on Centos 5 with PHP 5.4.20. After a successful install, and upload of LocalSettings, I get the following error when I try to access the site:

<code>PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure, unknown given, called in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/cache/MessageCache.php on line 344 and defined in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/ScopedCallback.php on line 33</code>

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. [[User:Ttasovac|Ttasovac]] ([[User talk:Ttasovac|talk]]) 11:35, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Looks like the bit you ran into was backed out after release. I'll see if we can backport the fix. [https://git.wikimedia.org/patch/mediawiki%2Fcore/3b7c4f692e099491f91a8fa94f408291f620d43d Try this patch]. The drupal documentation for [https://drupal.org/patch/apply applying a patch] may help here. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:03, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Filling parser function input with Semantic forms ==

Hi,

I have a parser function for integrating with [https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira JIRA].

So when I give {{#jira : JIRA-223}} the parser functions would fetch the Type and Status of the issue corresponding to the jira issue id ( in eg : JIRA-223 ) and displays in the page.

I wanted capture the Jira issue id from a Semantic form. So that the jira issue id is a semantic property and is displayed in a more user friendly manner.

I tried reading through the materials provided and checked the examples and code of extensions. I couldn't sort out the problem. Can any one please help to solve this. [[User:Arunvgchat|Arunvgchat]] ([[User talk:Arunvgchat|talk]]) 12:04, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you show us what you've tried? Is SemanticForms installed properly? What does the page you're expecting to get the data from look like? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Move the "last modifed"-string ==

Hi

To fulfill an ISO certified demand I have to add something in the header of the document that shows who and when the document was last edited. This because a printed document should also be mapped to a revision of the same doc in the mediawiki. I have tried to dig into the code, CSS, and all PHPs to find out a way to add that line. I can see that the info is there, the user who last edited, and when he did it, but how do I put it above the "name-of-the-document" with small letters?
Very grateful for some help.

Regards
Claes Lindvall [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 12:15, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:I found an extension named PageNotice that saved my bacon.
:Case is closed. [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 20:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== Uploading files require create page permissions ==

Hi,

I'm currently using MediWiki 1.15.3, PHP 5.2.14 and MySQL 5.5.8
I have disabled the user page creation by adding this: 
'''$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;'''

However, editing still works fine and I also want users to be able to upload files, but everytime I try to upload it says: 
"Permissions Errors
You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:
You do not have permission to create new pages."

What configuration is required in order to prevent regular users from creating pages BUT still allowing them to upload files?

Thanks,
Antonio Gomez [[Special:Contributions/134.191.232.71|134.191.232.71]] ([[User talk:134.191.232.71|talk]]) 12:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi please upgrade Mediawiki from 1.15.3 to Mediawiki 1.19 please because Mediawiki 1.15 is now unsupported [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:14, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::will this solve it? [[Special:Contributions/46.19.81.160|46.19.81.160]] 16:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It might help but know one can help you because Mediawiki 1.15 being discontinued so please upgrade to Mediawiki 1.19 or latter because it is still supported so people can help you. The difference between 1.15 and 1.19 is a big update and adds some new skins [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:49, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:50, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::If you can upgrade your php from php 5.2 to 5.3 or later you can get Mediawiki 1.20 or Mediawiki 1.21 [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:57, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::ok Thanks, i'll give it a try [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 19:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Ok I hope it works please make sure to read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading this because a lot of the files have been removed and a lot updated and some which arnt needed any more or required [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 19:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Many thanks for replying quickly. Off topic question - when uploading an image ,for example, wiki creates a description page with all the meta data of the file, and I assume that's were my problem is. Is a description/file page equal to a regular page in wiki? does it have special rights as far as you are familiar with?
::::::::Thanks in advance [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 20:24, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::As long as you are log in it should allow you to upload files and should have description and file page with it. [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 06:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::What 109.155 says is true, except when <code>$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;</code> is in use, as the original message say.
::::::::::Even if you upgrade, you'll still have the same problem. Maybe [[Extension:Lockdown]] may help on that, restricting page creation only for certain namespaces (and not the main one), but IMHO, this kind of restriction seems a bit weird.
::::::::::Another option is [[Extension:AbuseFilter]], where you can define rules for that. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I limit the Special:WantedPages range to only main space? ==

Currently my wiki have about 7000 articles, and their are some related article really need to be created. However, one of that wiki's editor use bot create tons of template, and these template sooo many uncreated links, which push all the real urgent pages to very back.

Therefore, I need to block all the wanted link created by templates to show pages that really need to be created. Are their any setting could limit the Special:WantedPages range to NS=0? [[User:Deletedaccount4567435|Deletedaccount4567435]] ([[User talk:Deletedaccount4567435|talk]]) 18:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:There isn't anything to do this out of the box. I would suggest writing your own Special:WantedPages to override the installed one in order to accomplish this. That, or file a [[BUGREPORT|bug report]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding some Text before output ==

Hello,

I'd like to add some text at the beginning of an article depending on a query parameter. What is the right hook for it and how can I realize this generally.

Thank you [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 07:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:Hooks/ArticleViewHeader|ArticleViewHeader]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:12, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks a lot. Works great! [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 13:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Backend Authentication ==

Hello there, 

can you please give me some food for thought, i don´t get it which could be wrong :/

 

'''Settings'''
- MediaWiki 1.21.2
- using XAMPP 3.2.1
 

'''Informationen:''' 

Domain= Test.local 

OU with Users= Users 

LDAPserver= 192.168.100.10
 

'''LocalSettings.php:'''"
 
<pre># End of automatically generated settings.

# Add more configuration options below.

require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" );

$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
'test.local'
);

$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
'test.local' => '192.168.100.10.test.local'
);

$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
'test.local' => 'uid=USER-NAME,ou=Users,dc=192.168.100.1,dc=test,dc=com'
);

$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
'test.local' => 'ssl'
);

$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;
</pre> [[User:Wechdenmuell|Wechdenmuell]] ([[User talk:Wechdenmuell|talk]]) 10:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:You have not posted a question. Do you have problems with LDAP? The [[Extension:LDAP_Authentication|LDAP documentation is here]]. Or is something else not working? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.120.213|88.130.120.213]] 12:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::sry I forgot :/
::I´ve read the documentation for the biggest part and also for my issue.
::I've got the problem that I always get the error "Error at authentication. Passwod is wrong..."
::but I know it´s the right one, because it´s very simple (test network)
::thank you for help [[Special:Contributions/193.158.119.196|193.158.119.196]] 13:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you check the logs of your ldap server, do you see the authentication being tried?
:::Have you tried bumping up the verbosity of the ldap server's log to see if you can get more information? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:26, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ==

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/curl.so' - libasn1.so.8: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory in Unknown on line 0
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] ([[User talk:91.98.122.229|talk]]) 12:49, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:That is really a Linux, PHP, or Apache question, not a MediaWiki question. But I'll give it a shot anyway. What is your Linux version?
:Also, looks like your system is running out of memory. What are apache and php's memory limits set to? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks :)
::I installed Mediawiki on my own PC, Ubuntu Desktop 64bit 12.04.
::I increased php memory limit to 1024mb from php.ini but still I see error in apache2 log. Honestly I don't know how increase apach2 memory limit.
::Maybe this happens because I installed mediawiki on a desktop??! [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:02, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I run MediaWiki on my desktop system all the time, so that shouldn't be the problem. And, actually, I just found [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16981347/php-warning-php-startup-unable-to-load-dynamic-library-failed-to-map-seg a stackoverflow question] that says that you might need to set [[Manual:$wgMaxShellMemory]]. If you adjust that, does it help? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::It worked! Thank you very much [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Navigation panel and treeview ==

Hi,

How do i modify the left navigation pane and replace that with a treeview?
I have tried so many things.
i tried using the treeandmenu extension but to no avail. (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TreeAndMenu)
Maybe i did something wrong?
theses were the steps i followed:
# I downloaded the zip file required.
# Extracted the file and took only the treeandmenu folder and followed the instructions.
From then on i followed the details but maybe i messed somewhere.
can someone help in this? There are a few threads on this but none have seemed to fix my issue. [[User:Chambugong|Chambugong]] ([[User talk:Chambugong|talk]]) 12:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:By "tree view", do you mean sidebars like on Wikipedia? If so, you need to install and use the [[Extension:Vector]] for that. This is in addition to the Vector skin. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Default Licenses for file upload ==

I will a Default Licenses for image upload in a wiki use, becorse its a game wiki. 90% of the images are screenshots or ingame image (extract with a tool out of the game). And all images are under Copyright of the developer, and we have a Default Licenses for them. Only we upload a image from other source we need to select a other Licenses.

And now my Question.

How i configur mediawiki to use a Default Licenses without select one? [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] 15:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See if [[Manual:Image_administration#Licensing|this page in the manual]] helps. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:07, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::How i edit the MediaWiki:Licenses i know, but i need a Licenses preselection and not the default "none selection" after opern the file:upload.
::For example the preselection is "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5", then anyone will upload a image and he open the file:upload. Then is as preselection the "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5" Licenses to seen and not the " none selection". [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] ([[User talk:Shadowslight|talk]]) 04:29, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Because "nolicense" is hard-coded as the default option, the only way I can see to do this is to make all links to the Special:Upload page, include wpLicense in them. For instance: [{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link] which looks like <nowiki>[{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link]</nowiki>. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Mediawiki connection to MySQL on FreeBSD through IPv6 ==

Hi,

I'm having issue figuring out how to set up connection between my Apache web server and MySQL database using IPv6 as oppose to IPv4. My Apache and MySQL are on separate VMs and I know you direct MediaWiki to its database using $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php, but does $wgDBserver support an IPv6 address? As far as I know there is support for IPv6 in MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:IPv6_support) but I can't figure out how to set up the IPv6 connection, I've tried using IPv6 address like $wgDBserver = "fe80::1" but it doesn't work. My setup works with an IPv4 setup so I feel like there should be a way around it using IPv6.

If anyone has any suggestion that'd be great. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] ([[User talk:74.93.209.209|talk]]) 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:What do you use on the command line to connect to the server over IPv6? Also, what software versions are you using? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:15, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::I'm using PHP 5.4.7, MediaWiki 1.19, MySQL 5.5 and Apache 2.2 for my setup. As for the command line, I'm not using any aside from allowing MySQL to accept any connection from fe80::*, other than that I've just been playing around with the $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 18:28, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Can you ssh in and use a command line to access the server? Do you have access to the MySQL server? Can you check its logs? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::fwiw, there is [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55489 this bug] for php. You might try opening another bug there. In my searching, I came across [http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2010/06/11/php-5-3-and-mysql-connectivity-problem.aspx this blog post] about php 5.3, MySQL and IPv6.
:::Bottom line, I don't think this is a MediaWiki problem ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I don't believe it's an issue with php, MySQL and IPv6. I ran nc and a test php script and they both succeeded in connecting to my MySQL server. It seems my versions of the software all support IPv6. Although, I changed my $wgDBserver syntax from $wgDBserver = "fe80::2b%em0"; to $wgDBserver = "[fe80::2b%em0]"; and now I'm getting a "Failed to parse IPv6 address" error instead of a "Failed to connect to database" error message. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 20:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::For some reason I can't save my edits, but for clarification, the % link part is there because I'm using a link-local address. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 21:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::If your php script can connect, then you're right, it probably indicates a MW problem.
::::::Could you post your php test script for IPv6 with passwords removed? I haven't really tried IPv6, so I need to see how you're connecting. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I would personally never use link-local addresses anyways, and MediaWiki likely does not support them ([https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/IP_8php_source.html IP.php] makes no provision for it). Use global IPv6 addresses or IPv4 if possible.
:::::::In any case, those are invalid link-local addresses because after % there can be only a number from 0 to 15, no letter m. [[User:Jasper Deng|Jasper Deng]] ([[User talk:Jasper Deng|talk]]) 07:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi Mark, thanks for your help so far. I thought I had reply to you but I guess not. Anyway, I'm just using ''mysql_connect("[fc00::2b]", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());''. Note that I've changed my address to a unique local address to avoid using % and yet it's still giving me '''Warning:''' mysql_connect(): Failed to parse IPv6 address "fc00:3306". I also did some more digging on my own and everything is pointing to the lack of IPv6 support in php even though my phpinfo page says my IPv6 is enabled so one would assume this would work, but I guess it might only work for some other functions. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 19:43, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Yep, I would try filing a bug against php, then. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::I've searched for ''mysql_connect(): Failed to parse IPv6 address'' and I've only came with 3 results... So my guess is that the IPv6 address you're using is not valid.
:::::::::Also, the error message mentions fc00:3306 while your input address was fc00::2b, which doesn't match. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:31, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== [Resolved] Decipher failure message - file/directory permission ==

The following failure message occurred when attempting database entry. Examples include submitting new wiki entries, edit pre-existing pages and sending email verification. Please advise for appropriate course of action.

Warning: require(/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160 [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] ([[User talk:72.225.247.172|talk]]) 18:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:The important bits are these two:
:<code> failed to open stream: Permission denied</code>
:<code> Failed opening required '.../includes/UserMailer.php'</code>
:There appears to be a problem with the permissions of the files or their directories.
:Check that the includes directory has something like rwxr-xr-x as permissions and that UserMailer.php has rw-r--r--.
:If they don't, change them. If that looks ok, then let me know. We'll have to do some more digging. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::That actually did it. Thank you so much!
::notes: The usermailer.php was 000 or ----- prior to the change. [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] 19:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section, but maintain the title of the section ==

Hi,

I intend to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section. For example, I plan to edit the section name "Wiki" which is the No.1(from 0) section. I set the parameter section as "section('1')". When I run the script, the page changed - the content of section 1 changed but the title was missed. The new content followed with the content of section 0. How can I maintain the title of the section?

Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused by your explanation of what is happening. Could you point to your wiki where this is happening? Alternatively, could you list out the API calls you're making and the order that you're making them in?
:You may be using the API incorrectly.
:An alternative would be to edit the entire page using the API. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you for replying!
::I am learning how to use mediawiki API editing pages and testing on my local server. The previous page is like as following:
::<code> Page Title</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 1</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 2</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::I want to change the content of section 1. I set the parameter "section" as "section('1')" and add the parameter "text(...)" followed by. Then I run the script (written in PHP), the content of Section 1 changed, but the title "Section 1" was missed. I want to keep the title. How can I do? [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::The title is part of the section, so you have to make sure it is the first line of whatever your replacement text is. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:39, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thank you! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If the section title is deleted with its contents, how can I create a title for this part after I replace it with new contents? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just put a title there in the wikitext that you post.
:::::For example, if you have an old section like this:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with its title, is deleted.</code>
:::::Then you can post a replacement like this:
:::::<code> == Replacment title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with the replacement title, is what is here now.</code>
:::::You could even "keep" the title if you just post it when you edit the section:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This is new section text.</code>
:::::What have you tried so far? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I check the existing pages ==

Hi,
I intend to see all the existing pages. It's said that all the pages are stored in page table. But where the page table is? I didn't find one in my database.

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/99.246.238.137|99.246.238.137]] ([[User talk:99.246.238.137|talk]]) 03:15, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:page_table|page_table]], check out Special:AllPages on your wiki, or use [[API:Allpages]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to check whether a page exists or not ==

Hi,
I intend to check whether a page exists or not. I know how to use mediawiki api to show its properties, but I don't know how to get the content(information of the file in xml) from a url which called a api for my php script. So I plan to check the mediawiki database. Any suggestions?

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/198.164.227.134|198.164.227.134]] ([[User talk:198.164.227.134|talk]]) 19:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:The API does return information in XML format.
:Example: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Page%20that%20does%20not%20exist&prop=info&inprop=&format=xml]. Check for the <code>missing=""</code> property.
:If you want to fiddle with the database, look at the [[Manual:page table|page table]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Limiting access to view certain pages ==

We are on MediaWiki.

I am an administrator and our manager is using our wiki page to store some information that should only be viewable/editable by management (ex. bank account information, tax IDs). Is there a way to limit viewing to only a few users and/or not allow certain users to view a page?

Thank you. [[Special:Contributions/66.147.0.46|66.147.0.46]] ([[User talk:66.147.0.46|talk]]) 19:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:You would want to read [[Manual:Preventing access]], specifically the ''Simple private wiki'' example. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:In addition to the page Ciencia gave you, also see [[Extension:Lockdown]] for restricting access to a namespace for everyone not in a particular group. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Translate extension not displaying languages menu ==

Hello,

Versions

MediaWiki 1.21.1

PHP 5.3.23 (litespeed)

MySQL 5.1.70-cll

I've installed Translate extension and everything worked great but when I create a translation for a given page the language menu doesn't appear
so I can't link a page and its translated version.

Example : for http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon I've created a French version (http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon/fr)
but the two are not linked automatically.

I can of course add the language markup myself but it gets messy because when I'm in the French version I don't have the language menu.

Thanks,

Bruno Da Silva [[Special:Contributions/79.94.11.78|79.94.11.78]] ([[User talk:79.94.11.78|talk]]) 19:34, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Thumbnails not generating ==

For some reason thumbnails not generating in articles. Please see [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/Problems_of_the_Day this article] for example. Thank you. [[User:Titodutta|Titodutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 03:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Works for me [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Does MediaWiki run slower from a portable stick? ==

Hi, just wanted to ask: is running a wiki on a stick slower than running it from your computer?

I had a small wiki that I ran off of localhost, but my computer died. I'm thinking about starting it back up, but I'd like to make it a bit more portable. [[User:Jpman22|Jpman22]] ([[User talk:Jpman22|talk]]) 06:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:It is probably slower unless you have USB 3.0. But if this is just for personal use, it will probably be ok. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::A USB stick usually contains a SSD (and not harddisc with rotating parts). SSDs ''are'' much faster than old HDD drives, but to ''be'' faster, they must be connected as a harddrive. When in contrast you use a USB port, this will be notably slower than any internal device; also slower than an internal HDD. If you have the choice, you get the fastest results with an internal SSD.
::However, apart from the purchase advice you might want to start backing up your stuff regularly. That way you won't have to start over again in the future. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.156|88.130.68.156]] 22:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Internal error when creating a new user ==

Hi,

I've just installed Mediawiki with sqlite support and I got the following error when trying to create a new user account:

Fatal exception of type MWException

Enabling [[Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails|$wgShowExceptionDetails]], I get the following instead:

User::addToDatabase: hit a key conflict attempting to insert a user row, but then it doesn't exist when we select it!
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(468): User->addToDatabase()
#1 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(453): LoginForm->initUser(Object(User), false)
#2 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(236): LoginForm->addNewAccountInternal()
#3 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(178): LoginForm->addNewAccount()
#4 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPage.php(613): LoginForm->execute(NULL)
#5 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(487): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
#6 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(291): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext))
#7 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(565): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#8 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#9 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#10 {main}

This is my actual configuration:
Mediawiki - 1.21.2
SQLite - 3.7.17
PHP - 5.5.4

Any clue what might be causing the problem? [[Special:Contributions/81.47.192.243|81.47.192.243]] ([[User talk:81.47.192.243|talk]]) 10:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Couldn't reproduce with MW 1.21.2, sqlite 3.7.13 and php 5.4.4... trying php 5.5 ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you file a [[BUGREPORT]]? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::Done! => [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55552 Bug#55552] [[Special:Contributions/81.47.192.243|81.47.192.243]] 08:22, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding a text or link to registration page ==

How can I add a text or link to registration page without editing mediawiki source files? Is there any way? [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:07, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes there is: View the registration page and add to the URL &uselang=qqx. That will show you the name of the different labels. Once you know the name of the label, which you want to change, you can edit the according text inside the MediaWiki namespace of your wiki.
:For example, when the label is shown as "(mytalk)", go to the wiki page MediaWiki:mytalk to edit the text for this label.
:You can edit the text in the different languages by adding the language code to the URL.
:E.g. to edit the German (de) text of the former label go to MediaWiki:mytalk/de. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Change links position on header ==

Is there any way to change positions of links on the header? I mean the "Register", "Login and ... links [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes, you can do that with CSS. You can put your own CSS rules into the wiki page MediaWiki:Common.css; they will then overwrite the rules, which come with the skin by default. You can use a tool like Furebug to see, which rules you want to modify. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== How do I get [[Template:Languages]] to work on other wikis? ==

I exported it selecting "include templates" to get all the templates included in it. Are there still any sub dependent templates? What do I need to do to get this to work?

http://development.sashaweb.net/Main_Page Lieutenant [[User:Lieutenant S. Reznov|Aleksandr Reznov]] 00:56, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== Hide a top level category on the [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] ==

Hello 
How I can hide (prevent the apperance) a top level category on the [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] page?
At the moment I've assigned 'Main' category to the 'Main' category. But it isn't probably a good solution? 
I've used MW-1.21.2. [[User:Dracorp|Dracorp]] ([[User talk:Dracorp|talk]]) 12:14, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] __NOEDITSECTION__ is not working on my Mediawiki install ==

The magic word __NOEDITSECTION__ is not working on my Mediawiki install; it simply appears as text on the page in which it is used. I am using version 1.21.1 of Mediawiki. I have seen two suggestions for solving this problem that have not helped.

The first is to use $htEditTabLink = false; I'm not sure what that does but when applied in my localsettings.php it doesn't help.
The second I have seen is to upgrade the Mediwiki install; the cases I have seen are users with 1.18 or so and the suggestions is 1.20 or higher which I have.

My page is here where you can see the error and the error can be seen at the top:

http://wiki.tankpedia.org/Tankpedia:Picture_of_the_day/October_2013 [[Special:Contributions/173.165.184.50|173.165.184.50]] ([[User talk:173.165.184.50|talk]]) 14:23, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:You miss one underline at the beginning of the magic word. It must not be "_NOEDITSECTION__", but "__NOEDITSECTION__". [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.156|88.130.68.156]] 14:38, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi!

You miss one underline at the beginning of the magic word. It must not be "_NOEDITSECTION__", but "__NOEDITSECTION__".

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== How to contact an administrator ==

A got a thing telling me to contact an administrator, however the email this user funtion doesn't work, and I don't want to put it on a page. Is there a way to find other users email addresses? If so, how do you do it?

The wiki is version 1.20.2 [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can use Special:Emailuser on the wiki if email functions are enabled on the wiki, and if both you and the other person have a valid email address in preferences and have "Enable email from other users".
:If the admin doesn't have a valid email or doesn't allow the reception of emails from other users, ask in his/her talk page to enable it so you can contact him/her [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::The "email this user" isn't working, and I don't want to discuss it on their talk page. Is there a way to find the email addresses of users with valid email addresses? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 21:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::No, there isn't any access to the user's email. You might try using WHOIS to find the domain's owner, but that may not be who you are looking for. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 04:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] remove pages from navigation bar ==

Hi!
I need some help. I want to remove (or hide) the "Current events" and the "Random page" from the navigation bar on the left.
How can I do that? I deleted this code lines from the Commmon.css and common.js but the pages are still there.
Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] ([[User talk:46.251.31.104|talk]]) 09:06, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Those lines shouldn't be in Commmon.css nor common.js. They are in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:34, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you very much, Its worked :) I have one more question.. can I upload documents (.doc) to my mediawiki? Thanks!! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] 09:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Look at [[Manual:Configuring file uploads]], and create a new thread if your question is not related to the sidebar. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:19, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Best way to handle same page but in several languages ==

Hi,

I'm from Belgium and we're using the mediawiki, but be need to have the pages in several languages, like Dutch, French and English. What is the best way to do this?

Jvuz [[User:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|Jvuz~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 12:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Look at how this is done on MediaWiki.org. For example, see the [[API]] page which (buried in the [[:Template:API|API template]]) uses the [[Template:Languages|"Languages" template]] in the following way:
:<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>
{{Languages|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}
</syntaxhighlight> ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:24, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== MediaWiki:Vector.css, Broken! ==

hello, when I try to change the theme css Vector in "MediaWiki:Vector.css" appears the following error message:

Could not acquire 'wssouza01-wiki_:messages:en:status' lock.
Backtrace:
#0 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(710): MessageCache->load('en')
#1 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(650): MessageCache->getMsgFromNamespace('January/en', 'en')
#2 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(720): MessageCache->get('january', true, Object(Language))
#3 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(464): Message->fetchMessage()
#4 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(553): Message->toString()
#5 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(923): Message->text()
#6 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(942): Language->getMessageFromDB('january')
#7 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(951): Language->getMonthName(1)
#8 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(3025): Language->getMonthNamesArray()
#9 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2770): OutputPage->getJSVars()
#10 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2475): OutputPage->getHeadScripts()
#11 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php(462): OutputPage->headElement(Object(SkinVector))
#12 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2034): SkinTemplate->outputPage()
#13 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(572): OutputPage->output()
#14 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#15 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#16 {main}

how can I fix this error? [[Special:Contributions/200.239.65.5|200.239.65.5]] ([[User talk:200.239.65.5|talk]]) 13:31, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Try it again, it may be a temporary problem. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Is it possible to create a list of recent added articles by author? ==

I tried to do it with dynamic page list extension, but it doesn't work [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 16:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you please elaborate? [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::I tried to use this [[Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)]]
::and these code:
::<syntaxhighlight lang='text'><DynamicPageList>
namespace = User:UserName
order = descending
count = 5
</DynamicPageList>
</syntaxhighlight>
::So there was a list, but it has all recent registered articles and it was not ordered by username
::May be I did something wrong? [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 13:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I doubt that list would display a list of ''all recent registered articles'', since you're filtering by <code>namespace = User:UserName</code>, which is also not a valid namespace.
:::Have you tried reading the documentation of the extension in the first place?
:::Also, from my understanding, this extension doesn't provide that functionality. You'd need [[Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party)]] [http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Criteria_for_page_selection#createdby] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I have read the documentation, but I don't understand clearly if it is possible to make a list of recent added articles ordered by author with standard extension, not third party extension [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 12:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== Recreate the REVISIONS table ==

Hallo all,
I have wrongly deleted the revisions table of my mediawiki and now I cannot see more any page.
There is a way to reconstruct the revision data, also with some standard infos about the author etc?

Thank you very much.
Claudio [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] ([[User talk:188.217.54.242|talk]]) 19:17, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:The revision table is used for page history and user contributions listings. There are maintenance scripts (like rebuildall.php) which can populate the categorylinks, pagelinks, and imagelinks tables and refresh the search index, but these scripts ''require'' the revisions table - they cannot ''fill'' it. The manual on [[Manual:deleteArchivedRevisions.php|deleteArchivedRevisions.php]] tells you that this script can delete certain revisions (more or less what you did) and - the interesting part - that '''these revisions will no longer be restorable'''.
:So I think it is not possible to refill the revisions table. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 19:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Sigh, so I cannot do anymore that leaving the project... çç
::I'm very sad [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] 21:25, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Let's try to recreate the whole table before we begin with fiddly manual work:
:::You can use a backup and restore the table from there. Maybe your host regularly does backups for you? Maybe you or a friend or another admin has an older backup somewhere? Or maybe you still have one somewhere on the server?
:::Another idea: MySQL has options to create logs of recent actions. I think the interesting log is called binary log. If it is activated, this log can be used to rollback actions, which MySQL did. The log content is rotated, meaning: If you ask quickly enough, your DROP query might still be in and so can be rolled back.
:::And doesn't MySQL maintain backups of the raw database data? I think that is in the data folder of MySQL, inside the subfolder backup/. I don't know how often these backups are refreshed, but I at least saw a system where that does not happen immediately, but exactly once a day. Having this data might help you as well.
:::Does anything of that help you? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 22:38, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If your page is in Google, you can use the texts from the Google cache and paste them back into your database. This should at least bring "some" pages back.
::::If all that does not help, there still is another way to get your information back - a hard way:
::::All your texts are still there, see the table "text". The page names also are still there, see the table "page". What you lost is the relation of the entries in "text" to the pages in "page". Both were [[Manual:Page_table|connected]] in this way:
::::"The text of the page itself is stored in the text table. To retrieve the text of an article, MediaWiki first searches the page table for page_title. Then, page_latest is used to search the revision table for rev_id, and rev_text_id is obtained in the process. The value obtained for rev_text_id is used to search for old_id in the text table to retrieve the text."
::::So as a last help you can check the texts from the table "text" and try to manually put them into the right pages again. To do that, it might be wise to use a new database, so that you do not build upon the missing relations in the old DB. However, this task will be cumbersome, take a long time and won't be fun at all. Estimate yourself, if your data is worth the hassle!
::::Whatever you do: You should '''really''' start using backups! ''Automatically'' generated backups; what has to be done manually ''will'' be forgotten. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.65.67|88.130.65.67]] 13:07, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:When you say <code>[[Manual:Revision_table|revision]]</code> table, you mean only that one, or also the <code>[[Manual:Text_table|text]]</code> table?
:Depending on what method you used to delete them all, the text table is likely still intact. That table is what contains the actual page contents.
:However the revision table is what links these content versions to a page, user and timestamp.
:It's going to be hard to reconstruct the history, but at least you have all the content still (although without knowing which version is what page).
:You could use a combination of Google (and other caches/backups) to figure out what pages you had, and perhaps search through the text table for the actual content (by looking for a piece of text on that page).
:Since Google's cache is html only, if you'd import from that directly, you loose all semantics (e.g. things that came from templates etc.,) and possibly the markup as well (e.g. headings, bold, lists etc.) though markup you could re-add manually. By then re-creating the page with the content from the text table you restore the complete and unaltered wikitext.
:See also [[DB]]. Good luck! [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 17:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Upload images to diff server extension ==

I have a Windows-based Wiki site and I'd like to have the images in another account (i.e. diff IP address). Is there an extension which allows to upload images via a FTP account?

I searched for one but could not find, but perhaps I was looking for the worng phrase or what not.

i.e. www.mysite.com is my Wiki site at 200.200.200.200
and my images are on images.mysite.com at 100.100.100.100 [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 21:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:I don't know about putting them on an ftp server, but there are tools like [[Extension:LocalS3Repo]], [[Extension:AWS]], and [[Extension:WindowsAzureStorage]] that let you store them "in the cloud." You might also look at [[Extension:UploadLocal]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:12, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Help with extension "InviteSignup ==

I am attempting to use the InviteSignup extension so I can invite users to an otherwise private wiki. The extension shows as loaded on the version page and I am able to bring up the page on which I can enter an email, and select what groups I want to give access to. This information is laid out as if it is a row in a table, and at the end there is an "add" button. When clicking add I am taken to a InviteSignup page which appears to be nothing more than a blank wiki page of that name. I have tried entering several different valid email addresses and none have received an invite. The wiki page for this extension does not offer a way to contact the developer which is why I am posting here, and I apologize if this is an inappropriate forum. However, if anyone can offer assistance I would appreciate the help.

In addition to adding the extension in the extensions folder I made the following change to localsettings.php
require_once "extensions/InviteSignup/InviteSignup.php";
$wgISGroups = array( 'StateA', 'StateB', 'StateC' );
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['invitesignup'] = true;

Wiki version 1.21.1, PHP 5.3.4.

Thanks [[Special:Contributions/12.111.71.19|12.111.71.19]] ([[User talk:12.111.71.19|talk]]) 01:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are you sure? [[User:Nikerabbit]] is an active developer and I'm sure you can find him regularly on IRC. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:44, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks, I don't currently have access to IRC but will try contacting him that way. [[Special:Contributions/199.19.250.44|199.19.250.44]] 12:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Specialpage Listfile - Searching doesnt work properly ==

Hi. I've a problem on using the search function on the specialpage Filelist.
I dont find an solution for this bug. So may i will get some help here.

The filelist counts more than 900 files. If i search for an specified file or name it works fine.
But if i search for an user or only an fileextension, i can wait hours and get no results. It seems that the function works in an infinite loop.

Perhaps the result list is to big.

Im using mediawiki 1.21.2. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] ([[User talk:87.193.155.78|talk]]) 11:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Doesn't anybody have an idea? Perhaps this "bug" is already listed? [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::I solved it.
::More RAM. We use imagemagic für displaying gif-Files. The lib needed more memory in cause of this count of files. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:53, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Allowing a user to edit one page, but restrict all others ==

Is there a way to allow a user to edit one (or multiple) pages of a wiki anonymously, yet restrict everything else to require a login/registration? This is a private wiki inaccessible from outside the company.

Version information follows:
MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.3.3 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.95

Thanks,

Wayne [[Special:Contributions/64.214.53.2|64.214.53.2]] ([[User talk:64.214.53.2|talk]]) 15:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:[[Manual:$wgWhitelistRead]] looks like it could help you. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Getting "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2." When testing infobox. ==

MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.4.11 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.1.53-log
Lua 5.1.5

URL: http://www.sportscardwiki.com/index.php?title=Infoboxtest

I'm getting an error of: "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2."

I have also enabled error details and logging in LocalSettings.php, but neither seem to be working in this case so I do not have a backtrace to provide more details. [[Special:Contributions/161.165.196.102|161.165.196.102]] ([[User talk:161.165.196.102|talk]]) 18:01, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:What OS are you using? Are you sure your web server has permission to write to the error log file? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] How to use mediawiki API to edit a page on local server ==

I created a web page on my own local server using MediaWiki. The url is "http:\localhost\mediawiki\index.php\newPage". I intend to edit the page using the MediaWiki API in PHP, and plan to use API:edit. But how can I set the title or pageid parameter? Is there any other methods to edit this page on my local server using MediaWiki API?

Thanks in advance! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 03:16, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Did you follow [[API:Edit]]?
:Also, the api is meant to be used by a client machine. If you want to edit it from the same server, in PHP, you may want to use the [[Manual:edit.php|edit.php]] maintenance script. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::The problem is how to access to the certain page created by mediawiki on my local server. The example showing on Mediawiki API Main page access to the page by setting the "title" parameter, but that page is a wikipedia page. If I want to direct to a certain page on my local server, what should I do? How can I direct to that page or server? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 13:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You should go to http://localhost/mediawiki/api.php. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:01, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Yes, it can work now. Thank you so much!!! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 17:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== Admin user is hijacked, what to do? ==

My superadmin user is hijacked! Our wiki, http://wiki.studiebyen.no, is now nothing but spam and my superadmin user/password no longer works. I preferably just would like to kill the whole wiki, but how? I cannot get access with my user hijacked.

Regards, Kim Sorenssen/StudiebyEN/Norway [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] ([[User talk:78.91.39.251|talk]]) 12:03, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi Kim,
:in those cases I always recommend reverting to a backup from before the hijacking. This is the easiest and a clean solution. Everything else will be more difficult und far more time-consuming. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 12:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! Yes, that should probably do it.
::Kim [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] 13:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::I was wondering if this ever happened to my wiki, what should I do if I didn't want to kill the whole wiki, and revert back to a earlier back up? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Hi Kyle!
:::Reverting to a backup really is the recommended procedure in this case.
:::If you really want to clean the wiki up, you can do the following: Use the maintenance script createAndPromote.php from the shell to create yourself a new admin user. With this user block the hijacked account and take his rights away. Then revert all the spam inside the wiki; this might be a ''hugh'' task depending on "how hacked" your wiki is. Remove all files, which might have been uploaded and check the MediaWiki source code on your server; these files may have been manipulated as well. And do not forget to check extensions; they might also be affected.
:::Check the server logs to see which URLs have been accessed during the hack. Information by mod_security (if active) might help as well.
:::Finally you have to close the hole, through which the attacker came in. This can basically be anything: An insecure web application (maybe not even MediaWiki, but possibly something completely different), maybe an outdated extension, maybe a vulnerability in MediaWiki or in PHP or in MySQL or in the operating system....... Anyway: The hole '''must''' be fixed; otherwise you will soon be hacked again. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 12:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Permission to edit pages only if user belongs to that group ==

Hello All,
I am new to MediaWiki, I wanted to know is there a way to allow user to edit a specific page only if that page is created by the user who is of the same group.
For instance if user A who belongs to a group YYY creates a page XYZ, and the user B can edit XYZ page only if that person belongs to YYY group.

Please let me know what setting I need to make to achieve this.

Thanks
Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 13:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can set aside a namespace (say "YYY:") that is only editable by people in the YYY group using [[Extension:Lockdown]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Hi,
::First of all thanks for replying, I tried creating a custom namespace and created a page (yyy group), but even the user who belongs to "xxx" was able to edit,
::below is the setting that i used, please let me know where I have gone wrong.
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_YYY', 100);
define('NS_XXX', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_YYY] = 'yyy';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_XXX] = 'xxx';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['read'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['edit'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['read'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['edit'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_YYY;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_XXX;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Thanks
::Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You have a typo above. If you fix these, does it work?
:::I'm looking at these two lines:
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::These should be
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::Those syntax errors make me wonder if MediaWiki was even reading the file where you put these changes. If the file were read as PHP, it should error out. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:12, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Sorry it was a typo error while posting, its fine in the code which I have. [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 06:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::ok, I've editted your post to show that. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::in the <code>$wgGroupPermissions</code> section, you've given "YYY" and "XXX" as the group names, but in the <code>$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown</code> section, you've given "yyy" and "xxx". Group names are case sensitive, so you have four different groups.
:::Also, I recommend using "YYY" and "XXX" instead of the lower-case versions for your namespace names. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::ya I modified that, but still the issue persists :( [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::To avoid me misinterpreting what you currently have, could you paste your updated file here ''sans'' typos? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Sorry for the confusion caused, I have pasted the entire settings present in LocalSettings.php file
::::::{{collapse top}}
::::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki 1.21.2
# installer. If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you
# need to recreate them later.
#
# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings
# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_
# file, not there.
#
# Further documentation for configuration settings may be found at:
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
# Protect against web entry
if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
exit;
}
## Uncomment this to disable output compression
# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;
$wgSitename = "xxx wiki";
$wgMetaNamespace = "xxx_wiki";
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs
## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs
$wgServer = "http://192.168.10.113:8888";
## The relative URL path to the skins directory
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
## The relative URL path to the logo. Make sure you change this from the default,
## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade!
$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/sb_logo.png";
## UPO means: this is also a user preference option
$wgEnableEmail = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO
$wgEmergencyContact = "xxx@gmail.com";
$wgPasswordSender = "xxx";
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
## Database settings
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "my_wiki";
$wgDBuser = "root";
$wgDBpassword = "";
# MySQL specific settings
$wgDBprefix = "";
# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";
# Experimental charset support for MySQL 5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = false;
## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads = true;
#$wgUseImageMagick = true;
#$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org
$wgUseInstantCommons = true;
## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a
## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an
## available UTF-8 locale
$wgShellLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
#$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server
## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not
## be publically accessible from the web.
#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
# Site language code, should be one of the list in ./languages/Names.php
$wgLanguageCode = "en";
$wgSecretKey = "xxx";
# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the
# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place
$wgUpgradeKey = "xxx";
## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook', 'vector':
$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";
## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an
## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation
## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.
$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "";
$wgRightsText = "";
$wgRightsIcon = "";
# Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution.
$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";
# Query string length limit for ResourceLoader. You should only set this if
# your web server has a query string length limit (then set it to that limit),
# or if you have suhosin.get.max_value_length set in php.ini (then set it to
# that value)
$wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength = -1;
# Enabled Extensions. Most extensions are enabled by including the base extension file here
# but check specific extension documentation for more details
# The following extensions were automatically enabled:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Cite/Cite.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Interwiki/Interwiki.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/LocalisationUpdate.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Nuke/Nuke.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/PdfHandler/PdfHandler.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Poem/Poem.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Vector/Vector.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" );
//require_once( "$IP/extensions/EditOnlyYourOwnPage.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
# End of automatically generated settings.
# Add more configuration options below.
# Requires that a user be registered before they can edit.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
# Requires users to confirm their eamail to edit a page
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
# hide user tools for anonymous (IP address) visitors
//$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
# Users cannot edit pages
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
# Anonymous users can't create pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['aec'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_RERUN', 100);
define('NS_AEC', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_RERUN] = 'rerun';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_AEC] = 'aec';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['read'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['edit'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['createpage'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['read'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['edit'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['createpage'] = array('aec');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_RERUN;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_AEC;
</syntaxhighlight>
::::::{{collapse bottom}} [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I used your settings on a 1.20.2 wiki and it worked for me. What version is your wiki? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:19, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::I am using 1.21.2 wiki version [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 05:06, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== Wikidata test repo at Wikimedia.de down ==

Hi wikimedia seems to be having a problem with http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki this website [[Special:Contributions/90.217.5.92|90.217.5.92]] ([[User talk:90.217.5.92|talk]]) 15:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Errors 1170 and 1146 (ConfirmAccount) ==

Hello all, and thank you for your time

I am using Mediawiki 1.19 and using the ConfirmAccount extension. When I go to accept an account, I receive this error:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "AccountConfirmSubmission::acceptRequest". Database returned error "1146: Table 'tuxmicro_mwiki.account_credentials' doesn't exist (localhost)".

I researched and found that it is because I need to run my update for php, so I ran

php maintenance/update.php

In doing so, I receive this error:

Database returned error "1170: BLOB/TEXT column 'acr_email' used in key specification without a key length (localhost)"

I went to extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql and deleted "ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg"

When I rerun the php update script, I then get a 1064 error. From here, I am lost [[User:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|Odyssey~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 16:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Also, here is the structure of my account_requests table under phpmyadmin
:http://i41.tinypic.com/if4k6c.png [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 16:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:What does your 1064 error say? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::from within function "Database:Base::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".
::Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (
::acd_id int unsugned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)" [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 19:59, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It looks like you accidentally put a typo in the file. It is complaining about the "unsugned" which should be "unsigned'. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:59, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ahh, that was my fault when typing in here. When running the update script again, it says "unsigned"
::::<code> The last attempted database query was:</code>
::::<code> "ALTER TABLE `account_requests`</code>
::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::<code> ) ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8</code>
::::<code> "</code>
::::<code> from within function "DatabaseBase::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".</code>
::::<code> Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)"</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just to test, I commented out the acd_id int line, and I reran the update script, and it seems to error at the very next acd line [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Here is my patch-account_credentials.sql page as it exists:
::::::<code> -- (c) Aaron Schulz, 2007</code>
::::::<code> ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/account_requests</code>
::::::<code> -- ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg (acr_type,acr_deleted,acr_registration);</code>
::::::<code> -- This stores all of credential information</code>
::::::<code> -- When accounts are confirmed, the identity info goes here</code>
::::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS /*_*/account_credentials (</code>
::::::<code> -- Revision ID #</code>
::::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::::<code> -- Foreign key to user.user_id</code>
::::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Optional 'real name' to be displayed in credit listings</code>
::::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Note: email should be restricted, not public info.</code>
::::::<code> -- Same with passwords.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Initially NULL; when a user's e-mail address has been</code>
::::::<code> -- validated by returning with a mailed token, this is</code>
::::::<code> -- set to the current timestamp.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- A little about this user</code>
::::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Private info for reviewers to look at when considering request</code>
::::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Links to recognize/identify this user, CSV, may not be public</code>
::::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- IP address</code>
::::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Name of attached file (.pdf,.doc,.txt etc...)</code>
::::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Areas of interest</code>
::::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of account registration.</code>
::::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of acceptance</code>
::::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::::<code> -- The user who accepted it</code>
::::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::::<code> -- Reason given in email</code>
::::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::::<code> ) /*$wgDBTableOptions*/;</code>
::::::<code> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX /*i*/acd_user_id ON /*_*/account_credentials (acd_user_id,acd_id);</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi why not go into the extension confirm account and then click back end and then click MySQL and then click the first ConfirmAccount SQL and upload it to MySQL directly [[Special:Contributions/86.179.149.75|86.179.149.75]] 06:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::There needs to be a semi-colon after each statement. You've commented out the semi-colon for the first ALTER statement, so it looks like it says
:::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
ALTER TABLE `account_requests`
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` ...
</syntaxhighlight>
:::::[https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmAccount/HEAD/backend%2Fschema%2Fmysql%2Fpatch-account_credentials.sql Here is the latest copy] of patch-account_credentials.sql. Try it and see if it works. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== moved my mediawiki - images dont appear ==

Hi , I moved my mediawiki to another server, all of the data in the content is showing up , but none of the images show. I have moved the entire /image directory. What reason could there be for the images not showing up? I get this message where the images should be Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination [[User:Dcastillo|Dcastillo]] ([[User talk:Dcastillo|talk]]) 17:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I guess you have a permission problem. Make sure that the webserver user has access to the image directory. He must be able to read and write to the folder and to subfolders. Maybe you don't even have to change the file permissions themselves; it might already be enough to modify owner and group of these files. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 20:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::You should also check/change the owner of those files and folders, because when transferred from one host to another (depending on how did you do that) they may still have the "old" owners, that may not match the user and group running the apache server, which would cause problems when doing deletes or renames of files. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] extraneous text at top of page ==

Hi,

How can I stop some extraneous text from showing at the top of every page on my new installation of wikimedia onto Debian mint 15 using synaptics?

MediaWiki 1.19.7+dfsg-1
PHP 5.5.1-2 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.5.31-1

The text showing is from some php code prepended to the page, as shown in the page source below, it starts with "Wikidiff2" (i.e. after the first closing angle bracket) and flows up to the DOCTYPE tag.

The page source:
<pre> <?
$wgExtensionCredits['wikidiff2'][] = array(
'name' => 'Wikidiff2',
'version' => '',
'author' => 'Tim Starling',
'description' => 'external diff engine for MediaWiki',
'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidiff2'
);
$wgExternalDiffEngine = 'wikidiff2';
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs">
<head>
</pre> [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] ([[User talk:203.97.250.223|talk]]) 23:48, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Your PHP configuration may include the option to disable short open tags.
:Find the file in extensions that contains the above text (probably called Wikidiff2.php?), and change the "<?" to "<?php". That should resolve the issue. [[User:Brion VIBBER|brion]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|talk]]) 23:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks brion,
::I changed the apache php.ini to allow short open tags, and that fixed the issue.
::I'm not happy with this solution, apparently that setting is strongly contra-indicated, but, hey! It works.
::Every php file in <code>/usr/share/mediawiki/**</code> starts with the correct <code>'<?php'</code> open tag. No file contains a resemblance of the string being inserted, however there is a function referencing $wgExtensionCredits. My PHP is weak, but I'm guessing that this might be generating the text. I'll have to experiment.
::Thanks again. [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] 05:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Fix search bug in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please could someone please fix a search bug in this extension because it now doesent let you use the search bar to search for something it doesent show drop down list you have to know what you want it doesent show suggestion please fix it. I am using Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Requests for bug fixes are sually collected in the Bugzilla database or where else the extension author chooses to create an issue collection for further processing.
:Please add your request there!
:Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:57, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Ok I have asked on bugzilla now [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Create account / login in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please update login and create account buttons because the layout and look of them was changed in 1.20 when the separated them into create account and then login so please update the looks and the create account could be redirect to special request account. I am running Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:33, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:The buttons look nice - what's the issue? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:55, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Because it looks a little wired do to the new way you login and create account so could someone redo the way it looks please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 13:09, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you want that fixed, you should file a [[BUGREPORT]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:19, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ok I have reported it on bugzilla [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Different colours sides ==

Hi in Mediawiki could the background in vector automatically get bigger when the writing over goes the size of the page for example if you look on the support page and you see to different colour background one write one grey and the other blue could it automatic le adjust for the size of the text instead of having a side white please [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:That sounds like a css/js question which is not the sort of question we're ready to answer here. Please try a more appropriate forum.
:If you had some css/js that could do this, we could tell you how to make sure it is loaded correctly. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] I copied my IIS based-Wiki to Linux ==

It went smooth, after simply copy-pasting the images and files to the new server, using the same database.

One thing I notices doesnt work properly: The site's namespace and my custom namespaces are unaccesible from the new Linux based-wiki, even tho they exist in the database. It's as if the Wiki doesnt realize the site's namespace and the custom namespaces exist, even tho I didnt not change LocalSettings.php. See the site's search on Windows:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06ab58.png/
and on the Linux copy:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06c5b0.png/

How can I fix the linux site?

Thanks,
Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 09:25, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are those custom namespaces defined in your LocalSettings.php on the linux machine? They should be the same as the windows one. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::Yes, they are defined the same way (I used the same LocalSettings.php file - just copied everything to the Linux server):
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
define("NS_PORTAL", 100);
define("NS_PORTAL_TALK", 101);

$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL] = "פורטל";
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = "שיחת_פורטל";
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL] = true;
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = true;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Also, in the "Prefixindex" special page, the namespaces can be found but the name it blanked, as seen in the screenshot:
::http://jpg.co.il/view/5251a99dcfe9b.png/
::Do you have any idea how I can get the software to recognize my main namespace and my custom namespaces?
::Thank,
::Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 18:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I found the problem, thought I'd put it in writing for the records.
:::When I changed to Linux, the LocalSettings.php gave a "Warning: Cannot modify header information..." message. I found that BOM was the problem so I saved the file as text/ansi which got rid of the message but I didnt realize it messed up my Hebrew-texted namespaces (the editor didnt show the problem). I changed the coding to UTF-8 without DOM in Notepad++ and retyped all the Hebrew text and that fixed it. [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 14:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Good to know, thanks!
::::This would be hard to diagnose otherwise [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Name changing template ==

Hi how can I create a template that I can change the name of a title of a page without moving so that other template using it and showing the name would show the name differently please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 13:36, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused. Could you clarify what you want, exactly?
:You want to change the title of a page (say <nowiki>[[Foo]]</nowiki>) using a template so that the page can be refered to by the new title (say <nowiki>[[Bar]]</nowiki>) without actually moving the page? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:19, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Update bugzilla ==

Hi please update bugzilla at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org because Mozilla has released an update at http://www.bugzilla.org/news/#release44 [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 16:34, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I am not sure, ho is responsible for maintaining bugzilla, but you should be able to find out via IRC. Or do you want to say that you can help with the update? Help is always appreciated very much! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.75.79|88.130.75.79]] 19:50, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::Well I carnt help I just notify them because if they update bugzilla who ever is responsible of looking after it. Because if they update it will fix bugs and some new things to make requesting bugs easer and more faster to find so they should update it [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 09:34, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::See [[bugzilla:49597|Bug 49597]]. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:17, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:18, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::I am responsible for Bugzilla - see the ticket that Ciencia linked to already. We will upgrade to 4.4 in the next 4 or 5 months. [[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 09:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Ok thanks [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 15:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I create both left-to-right and right-to-left pages in MediaWiki? ==

(Apologies for what may be a simple question, but zillions of searches for "bidi" and "right-to-left languages" have just left me more confused than before.)

MediaWiki 1.21.1
PHP 5.3.24 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.0.96-log
http://horawiki.org/

I would like users of my wiki to be able to contribute pages in both LTR and RTL languages, specifically English and Hebrew. I seem to have the interface working correctly per-language (I'm using the Universal Language Selector extension) but things don't work in content pages. How do I tell MediaWiki that a content page is RTL rather than LTR?

For example, I have pages [http://horawiki.org/page/Welcome_to_HoraWiki!] and [http://horawiki.org/page/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99] which are more-or-less translations of each other. The latter page, however, displays generally as LTR---notice that everything is crammed against the left margin, not the right margin.

On the other hand, when I look at the page in the WikiEditor "Preview" tab (after edit and before publish) everything looks great. Indeed, I can (mostly) use directional markers amp-lrm-; and amp-rlm-; to get the punctuation correct. (Still struggling with references, but that might work too.) How come the previewer shows the page correctly, but in the wiki it still looks wrong?

From the documentation, it looks like I might need to set the "PageContentLanguage" or the like. But I can find only hooks and so forth to do this---how does a user set it for a page he is creating?

Any help greatly appreciated. [[Special:Contributions/216.15.119.210|216.15.119.210]] ([[User talk:216.15.119.210|talk]]) 21:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Comment: The paragraph in my original post that starts "For example, I have pages..." continues with two example URLs. The first of these URLs ends with an exclamation point, which is not being rendered correctly here. It shows up '''after''' the external-link icon and isn't part of the URL. That seems to be a bug. I haven't seen it anywhere else and it's irrelevant to my current question. In any case, clicking that URL will take you to a nonexistent page unless you put the exclamation point back onto the end.
:I hope the second URL works for you. It simply says "Welcome to HoraWiki" in Hebrew. /Larry D 21:41, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::I've fixed the link.
::You may try [[Extension:PageLanguage]].
::Creating pages on a different text direction than the configured one is hard. You may be able to "partially" solve it wrapping all the contents inside <code><nowiki><div dir="rtl"></div></nowiki></code> and also inserting the RLO character (RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, U+202E) at the start of the code and the PDF character (POP DIREC‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬TIO‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬NAL FORMATTING, U+202C) at the end. Those characters are just for the textarea to display the text in the correct direction, since the t‬‬‬extarea doe‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬sn't pa‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬r‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬se dir="rtl". Example (without those unicode characters that KDE doesn't allow me to easily insert here):
::<div dir="rtl">
::כדי למצוא אינפורמציה על ריקודים, יוצרים, ארועים ועוד, התחילו בתפריט הניווט הנמצא בצד ימין‏.
::אחר ההרשמה, הגולשים מוזמנים לתרום לאתר, לערוך, להוסיף, לתקן, וליצור דפים על פי רצונם. בצד שמאל תחת "עזרה" נמצאים הקישורים הדרושים לכך‏.
::יבואו הגולשים ללמוד ולהשתעשע. אין חשׁשׁ לקלקל דבר.
::</div> [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Catchable fatal error on new installation : Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure ==

Hi,

I am getting this on a new installation of Mediawiki on Centos 5 with PHP 5.4.20. After a successful install, and upload of LocalSettings, I get the following error when I try to access the site:

<code>PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure, unknown given, called in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/cache/MessageCache.php on line 344 and defined in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/ScopedCallback.php on line 33</code>

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. [[User:Ttasovac|Ttasovac]] ([[User talk:Ttasovac|talk]]) 11:35, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Looks like the bit you ran into was backed out after release. I'll see if we can backport the fix. [https://git.wikimedia.org/patch/mediawiki%2Fcore/3b7c4f692e099491f91a8fa94f408291f620d43d Try this patch]. The drupal documentation for [https://drupal.org/patch/apply applying a patch] may help here. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:03, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Filling parser function input with Semantic forms ==

Hi,

I have a parser function for integrating with [https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira JIRA].

So when I give {{#jira : JIRA-223}} the parser functions would fetch the Type and Status of the issue corresponding to the jira issue id ( in eg : JIRA-223 ) and displays in the page.

I wanted capture the Jira issue id from a Semantic form. So that the jira issue id is a semantic property and is displayed in a more user friendly manner.

I tried reading through the materials provided and checked the examples and code of extensions. I couldn't sort out the problem. Can any one please help to solve this. [[User:Arunvgchat|Arunvgchat]] ([[User talk:Arunvgchat|talk]]) 12:04, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you show us what you've tried? Is SemanticForms installed properly? What does the page you're expecting to get the data from look like? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Move the "last modifed"-string ==

Hi

To fulfill an ISO certified demand I have to add something in the header of the document that shows who and when the document was last edited. This because a printed document should also be mapped to a revision of the same doc in the mediawiki. I have tried to dig into the code, CSS, and all PHPs to find out a way to add that line. I can see that the info is there, the user who last edited, and when he did it, but how do I put it above the "name-of-the-document" with small letters?
Very grateful for some help.

Regards
Claes Lindvall [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 12:15, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:I found an extension named PageNotice that saved my bacon.
:Case is closed. [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 20:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== Uploading files require create page permissions ==

Hi,

I'm currently using MediWiki 1.15.3, PHP 5.2.14 and MySQL 5.5.8
I have disabled the user page creation by adding this: 
'''$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;'''

However, editing still works fine and I also want users to be able to upload files, but everytime I try to upload it says: 
"Permissions Errors
You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:
You do not have permission to create new pages."

What configuration is required in order to prevent regular users from creating pages BUT still allowing them to upload files?

Thanks,
Antonio Gomez [[Special:Contributions/134.191.232.71|134.191.232.71]] ([[User talk:134.191.232.71|talk]]) 12:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi please upgrade Mediawiki from 1.15.3 to Mediawiki 1.19 please because Mediawiki 1.15 is now unsupported [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:14, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::will this solve it? [[Special:Contributions/46.19.81.160|46.19.81.160]] 16:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It might help but know one can help you because Mediawiki 1.15 being discontinued so please upgrade to Mediawiki 1.19 or latter because it is still supported so people can help you. The difference between 1.15 and 1.19 is a big update and adds some new skins [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:49, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:50, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::If you can upgrade your php from php 5.2 to 5.3 or later you can get Mediawiki 1.20 or Mediawiki 1.21 [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:57, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::ok Thanks, i'll give it a try [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 19:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Ok I hope it works please make sure to read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading this because a lot of the files have been removed and a lot updated and some which arnt needed any more or required [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 19:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Many thanks for replying quickly. Off topic question - when uploading an image ,for example, wiki creates a description page with all the meta data of the file, and I assume that's were my problem is. Is a description/file page equal to a regular page in wiki? does it have special rights as far as you are familiar with?
::::::::Thanks in advance [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 20:24, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::As long as you are log in it should allow you to upload files and should have description and file page with it. [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 06:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::What 109.155 says is true, except when <code>$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;</code> is in use, as the original message say.
::::::::::Even if you upgrade, you'll still have the same problem. Maybe [[Extension:Lockdown]] may help on that, restricting page creation only for certain namespaces (and not the main one), but IMHO, this kind of restriction seems a bit weird.
::::::::::Another option is [[Extension:AbuseFilter]], where you can define rules for that. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I limit the Special:WantedPages range to only main space? ==

Currently my wiki have about 7000 articles, and their are some related article really need to be created. However, one of that wiki's editor use bot create tons of template, and these template sooo many uncreated links, which push all the real urgent pages to very back.

Therefore, I need to block all the wanted link created by templates to show pages that really need to be created. Are their any setting could limit the Special:WantedPages range to NS=0? [[User:Deletedaccount4567435|Deletedaccount4567435]] ([[User talk:Deletedaccount4567435|talk]]) 18:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:There isn't anything to do this out of the box. I would suggest writing your own Special:WantedPages to override the installed one in order to accomplish this. That, or file a [[BUGREPORT|bug report]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding some Text before output ==

Hello,

I'd like to add some text at the beginning of an article depending on a query parameter. What is the right hook for it and how can I realize this generally.

Thank you [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 07:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:Hooks/ArticleViewHeader|ArticleViewHeader]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:12, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks a lot. Works great! [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 13:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Backend Authentication ==

Hello there, 

can you please give me some food for thought, i don´t get it which could be wrong :/

 

'''Settings'''
- MediaWiki 1.21.2
- using XAMPP 3.2.1
 

'''Informationen:''' 

Domain= Test.local 

OU with Users= Users 

LDAPserver= 192.168.100.10
 

'''LocalSettings.php:'''"
 
<pre># End of automatically generated settings.

# Add more configuration options below.

require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" );

$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
'test.local'
);

$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
'test.local' => '192.168.100.10.test.local'
);

$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
'test.local' => 'uid=USER-NAME,ou=Users,dc=192.168.100.1,dc=test,dc=com'
);

$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
'test.local' => 'ssl'
);

$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;
</pre> [[User:Wechdenmuell|Wechdenmuell]] ([[User talk:Wechdenmuell|talk]]) 10:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:You have not posted a question. Do you have problems with LDAP? The [[Extension:LDAP_Authentication|LDAP documentation is here]]. Or is something else not working? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.120.213|88.130.120.213]] 12:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::sry I forgot :/
::I´ve read the documentation for the biggest part and also for my issue.
::I've got the problem that I always get the error "Error at authentication. Passwod is wrong..."
::but I know it´s the right one, because it´s very simple (test network)
::thank you for help [[Special:Contributions/193.158.119.196|193.158.119.196]] 13:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you check the logs of your ldap server, do you see the authentication being tried?
:::Have you tried bumping up the verbosity of the ldap server's log to see if you can get more information? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:26, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ==

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/curl.so' - libasn1.so.8: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory in Unknown on line 0
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] ([[User talk:91.98.122.229|talk]]) 12:49, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:That is really a Linux, PHP, or Apache question, not a MediaWiki question. But I'll give it a shot anyway. What is your Linux version?
:Also, looks like your system is running out of memory. What are apache and php's memory limits set to? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks :)
::I installed Mediawiki on my own PC, Ubuntu Desktop 64bit 12.04.
::I increased php memory limit to 1024mb from php.ini but still I see error in apache2 log. Honestly I don't know how increase apach2 memory limit.
::Maybe this happens because I installed mediawiki on a desktop??! [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:02, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I run MediaWiki on my desktop system all the time, so that shouldn't be the problem. And, actually, I just found [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16981347/php-warning-php-startup-unable-to-load-dynamic-library-failed-to-map-seg a stackoverflow question] that says that you might need to set [[Manual:$wgMaxShellMemory]]. If you adjust that, does it help? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::It worked! Thank you very much [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Navigation panel and treeview ==

Hi,

How do i modify the left navigation pane and replace that with a treeview?
I have tried so many things.
i tried using the treeandmenu extension but to no avail. (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TreeAndMenu)
Maybe i did something wrong?
theses were the steps i followed:
# I downloaded the zip file required.
# Extracted the file and took only the treeandmenu folder and followed the instructions.
From then on i followed the details but maybe i messed somewhere.
can someone help in this? There are a few threads on this but none have seemed to fix my issue. [[User:Chambugong|Chambugong]] ([[User talk:Chambugong|talk]]) 12:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:By "tree view", do you mean sidebars like on Wikipedia? If so, you need to install and use the [[Extension:Vector]] for that. This is in addition to the Vector skin. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Default Licenses for file upload ==

I will a Default Licenses for image upload in a wiki use, becorse its a game wiki. 90% of the images are screenshots or ingame image (extract with a tool out of the game). And all images are under Copyright of the developer, and we have a Default Licenses for them. Only we upload a image from other source we need to select a other Licenses.

And now my Question.

How i configur mediawiki to use a Default Licenses without select one? [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] 15:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See if [[Manual:Image_administration#Licensing|this page in the manual]] helps. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:07, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::How i edit the MediaWiki:Licenses i know, but i need a Licenses preselection and not the default "none selection" after opern the file:upload.
::For example the preselection is "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5", then anyone will upload a image and he open the file:upload. Then is as preselection the "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5" Licenses to seen and not the " none selection". [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] ([[User talk:Shadowslight|talk]]) 04:29, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Because "nolicense" is hard-coded as the default option, the only way I can see to do this is to make all links to the Special:Upload page, include wpLicense in them. For instance: [{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link] which looks like <nowiki>[{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link]</nowiki>. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Mediawiki connection to MySQL on FreeBSD through IPv6 ==

Hi,

I'm having issue figuring out how to set up connection between my Apache web server and MySQL database using IPv6 as oppose to IPv4. My Apache and MySQL are on separate VMs and I know you direct MediaWiki to its database using $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php, but does $wgDBserver support an IPv6 address? As far as I know there is support for IPv6 in MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:IPv6_support) but I can't figure out how to set up the IPv6 connection, I've tried using IPv6 address like $wgDBserver = "fe80::1" but it doesn't work. My setup works with an IPv4 setup so I feel like there should be a way around it using IPv6.

If anyone has any suggestion that'd be great. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] ([[User talk:74.93.209.209|talk]]) 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:What do you use on the command line to connect to the server over IPv6? Also, what software versions are you using? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:15, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::I'm using PHP 5.4.7, MediaWiki 1.19, MySQL 5.5 and Apache 2.2 for my setup. As for the command line, I'm not using any aside from allowing MySQL to accept any connection from fe80::*, other than that I've just been playing around with the $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 18:28, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Can you ssh in and use a command line to access the server? Do you have access to the MySQL server? Can you check its logs? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::fwiw, there is [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55489 this bug] for php. You might try opening another bug there. In my searching, I came across [http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2010/06/11/php-5-3-and-mysql-connectivity-problem.aspx this blog post] about php 5.3, MySQL and IPv6.
:::Bottom line, I don't think this is a MediaWiki problem ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I don't believe it's an issue with php, MySQL and IPv6. I ran nc and a test php script and they both succeeded in connecting to my MySQL server. It seems my versions of the software all support IPv6. Although, I changed my $wgDBserver syntax from $wgDBserver = "fe80::2b%em0"; to $wgDBserver = "[fe80::2b%em0]"; and now I'm getting a "Failed to parse IPv6 address" error instead of a "Failed to connect to database" error message. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 20:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::For some reason I can't save my edits, but for clarification, the % link part is there because I'm using a link-local address. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 21:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::If your php script can connect, then you're right, it probably indicates a MW problem.
::::::Could you post your php test script for IPv6 with passwords removed? I haven't really tried IPv6, so I need to see how you're connecting. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I would personally never use link-local addresses anyways, and MediaWiki likely does not support them ([https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/IP_8php_source.html IP.php] makes no provision for it). Use global IPv6 addresses or IPv4 if possible.
:::::::In any case, those are invalid link-local addresses because after % there can be only a number from 0 to 15, no letter m. [[User:Jasper Deng|Jasper Deng]] ([[User talk:Jasper Deng|talk]]) 07:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi Mark, thanks for your help so far. I thought I had reply to you but I guess not. Anyway, I'm just using ''mysql_connect("[fc00::2b]", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());''. Note that I've changed my address to a unique local address to avoid using % and yet it's still giving me '''Warning:''' mysql_connect(): Failed to parse IPv6 address "fc00:3306". I also did some more digging on my own and everything is pointing to the lack of IPv6 support in php even though my phpinfo page says my IPv6 is enabled so one would assume this would work, but I guess it might only work for some other functions. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 19:43, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Yep, I would try filing a bug against php, then. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::I've searched for ''mysql_connect(): Failed to parse IPv6 address'' and I've only came with 3 results... So my guess is that the IPv6 address you're using is not valid.
:::::::::Also, the error message mentions fc00:3306 while your input address was fc00::2b, which doesn't match. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:31, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== [Resolved] Decipher failure message - file/directory permission ==

The following failure message occurred when attempting database entry. Examples include submitting new wiki entries, edit pre-existing pages and sending email verification. Please advise for appropriate course of action.

Warning: require(/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160 [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] ([[User talk:72.225.247.172|talk]]) 18:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:The important bits are these two:
:<code> failed to open stream: Permission denied</code>
:<code> Failed opening required '.../includes/UserMailer.php'</code>
:There appears to be a problem with the permissions of the files or their directories.
:Check that the includes directory has something like rwxr-xr-x as permissions and that UserMailer.php has rw-r--r--.
:If they don't, change them. If that looks ok, then let me know. We'll have to do some more digging. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::That actually did it. Thank you so much!
::notes: The usermailer.php was 000 or ----- prior to the change. [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] 19:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section, but maintain the title of the section ==

Hi,

I intend to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section. For example, I plan to edit the section name "Wiki" which is the No.1(from 0) section. I set the parameter section as "section('1')". When I run the script, the page changed - the content of section 1 changed but the title was missed. The new content followed with the content of section 0. How can I maintain the title of the section?

Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused by your explanation of what is happening. Could you point to your wiki where this is happening? Alternatively, could you list out the API calls you're making and the order that you're making them in?
:You may be using the API incorrectly.
:An alternative would be to edit the entire page using the API. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you for replying!
::I am learning how to use mediawiki API editing pages and testing on my local server. The previous page is like as following:
::<code> Page Title</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 1</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 2</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::I want to change the content of section 1. I set the parameter "section" as "section('1')" and add the parameter "text(...)" followed by. Then I run the script (written in PHP), the content of Section 1 changed, but the title "Section 1" was missed. I want to keep the title. How can I do? [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::The title is part of the section, so you have to make sure it is the first line of whatever your replacement text is. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:39, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thank you! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If the section title is deleted with its contents, how can I create a title for this part after I replace it with new contents? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just put a title there in the wikitext that you post.
:::::For example, if you have an old section like this:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with its title, is deleted.</code>
:::::Then you can post a replacement like this:
:::::<code> == Replacment title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with the replacement title, is what is here now.</code>
:::::You could even "keep" the title if you just post it when you edit the section:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This is new section text.</code>
:::::What have you tried so far? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I check the existing pages ==

Hi,
I intend to see all the existing pages. It's said that all the pages are stored in page table. But where the page table is? I didn't find one in my database.

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/99.246.238.137|99.246.238.137]] ([[User talk:99.246.238.137|talk]]) 03:15, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:page_table|page_table]], check out Special:AllPages on your wiki, or use [[API:Allpages]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to check whether a page exists or not ==

Hi,
I intend to check whether a page exists or not. I know how to use mediawiki api to show its properties, but I don't know how to get the content(information of the file in xml) from a url which called a api for my php script. So I plan to check the mediawiki database. Any suggestions?

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/198.164.227.134|198.164.227.134]] ([[User talk:198.164.227.134|talk]]) 19:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:The API does return information in XML format.
:Example: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Page%20that%20does%20not%20exist&prop=info&inprop=&format=xml]. Check for the <code>missing=""</code> property.
:If you want to fiddle with the database, look at the [[Manual:page table|page table]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Limiting access to view certain pages ==

We are on MediaWiki.

I am an administrator and our manager is using our wiki page to store some information that should only be viewable/editable by management (ex. bank account information, tax IDs). Is there a way to limit viewing to only a few users and/or not allow certain users to view a page?

Thank you. [[Special:Contributions/66.147.0.46|66.147.0.46]] ([[User talk:66.147.0.46|talk]]) 19:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:You would want to read [[Manual:Preventing access]], specifically the ''Simple private wiki'' example. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:In addition to the page Ciencia gave you, also see [[Extension:Lockdown]] for restricting access to a namespace for everyone not in a particular group. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Translate extension not displaying languages menu ==

Hello,

Versions

MediaWiki 1.21.1

PHP 5.3.23 (litespeed)

MySQL 5.1.70-cll

I've installed Translate extension and everything worked great but when I create a translation for a given page the language menu doesn't appear
so I can't link a page and its translated version.

Example : for http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon I've created a French version (http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon/fr)
but the two are not linked automatically.

I can of course add the language markup myself but it gets messy because when I'm in the French version I don't have the language menu.

Thanks,

Bruno Da Silva [[Special:Contributions/79.94.11.78|79.94.11.78]] ([[User talk:79.94.11.78|talk]]) 19:34, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Thumbnails not generating ==

For some reason thumbnails not generating in articles. Please see [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/Problems_of_the_Day this article] for example. Thank you. [[User:Titodutta|Titodutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 03:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Works for me [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Does MediaWiki run slower from a portable stick? ==

Hi, just wanted to ask: is running a wiki on a stick slower than running it from your computer?

I had a small wiki that I ran off of localhost, but my computer died. I'm thinking about starting it back up, but I'd like to make it a bit more portable. [[User:Jpman22|Jpman22]] ([[User talk:Jpman22|talk]]) 06:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:It is probably slower unless you have USB 3.0. But if this is just for personal use, it will probably be ok. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::A USB stick usually contains a SSD (and not harddisc with rotating parts). SSDs ''are'' much faster than old HDD drives, but to ''be'' faster, they must be connected as a harddrive. When in contrast you use a USB port, this will be notably slower than any internal device; also slower than an internal HDD. If you have the choice, you get the fastest results with an internal SSD.
::However, apart from the purchase advice you might want to start backing up your stuff regularly. That way you won't have to start over again in the future. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.156|88.130.68.156]] 22:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Internal error when creating a new user ==

Hi,

I've just installed Mediawiki with sqlite support and I got the following error when trying to create a new user account:

Fatal exception of type MWException

Enabling [[Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails|$wgShowExceptionDetails]], I get the following instead:

User::addToDatabase: hit a key conflict attempting to insert a user row, but then it doesn't exist when we select it!
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(468): User->addToDatabase()
#1 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(453): LoginForm->initUser(Object(User), false)
#2 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(236): LoginForm->addNewAccountInternal()
#3 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(178): LoginForm->addNewAccount()
#4 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPage.php(613): LoginForm->execute(NULL)
#5 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(487): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
#6 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(291): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext))
#7 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(565): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#8 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#9 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#10 {main}

This is my actual configuration:
Mediawiki - 1.21.2
SQLite - 3.7.17
PHP - 5.5.4

Any clue what might be causing the problem? [[Special:Contributions/81.47.192.243|81.47.192.243]] ([[User talk:81.47.192.243|talk]]) 10:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Couldn't reproduce with MW 1.21.2, sqlite 3.7.13 and php 5.4.4... trying php 5.5 ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you file a [[BUGREPORT]]? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::Done! => [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55552 Bug#55552] [[Special:Contributions/81.47.192.243|81.47.192.243]] 08:22, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding a text or link to registration page ==

How can I add a text or link to registration page without editing mediawiki source files? Is there any way? [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:07, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes there is: View the registration page and add to the URL &uselang=qqx. That will show you the name of the different labels. Once you know the name of the label, which you want to change, you can edit the according text inside the MediaWiki namespace of your wiki.
:For example, when the label is shown as "(mytalk)", go to the wiki page MediaWiki:mytalk to edit the text for this label.
:You can edit the text in the different languages by adding the language code to the URL.
:E.g. to edit the German (de) text of the former label go to MediaWiki:mytalk/de. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Change links position on header ==

Is there any way to change positions of links on the header? I mean the "Register", "Login and ... links [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes, you can do that with CSS. You can put your own CSS rules into the wiki page MediaWiki:Common.css; they will then overwrite the rules, which come with the skin by default. You can use a tool like Furebug to see, which rules you want to modify. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== How do I get [[Template:Languages]] to work on other wikis? ==

I exported it selecting "include templates" to get all the templates included in it. Are there still any sub dependent templates? What do I need to do to get this to work?

http://development.sashaweb.net/Main_Page Lieutenant [[User:Lieutenant S. Reznov|Aleksandr Reznov]] 00:56, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Thread:Project:Support desk/Is Running a Wiki on a Stick Slower?/reply (2)

2013-10-10T11:16:00Z

88.130.68.156:

A USB stick usually contains a SSD (and not harddisc with rotating parts). SSDs ''are'' much faster than old HDD drives, but to ''be'' faster, they must be connected as a harddrive. When in contrast you use a USB port, this will be notably slower than any internal device; also slower than an internal HDD. If you have the choice, you get the fastest results with an internal SSD.

However, apart from the purchase advice you might want to start backing up your stuff regularly. That way you won't have to start over again in the future.

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== How to contact an administrator ==

A got a thing telling me to contact an administrator, however the email this user funtion doesn't work, and I don't want to put it on a page. Is there a way to find other users email addresses? If so, how do you do it?

The wiki is version 1.20.2 [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can use Special:Emailuser on the wiki if email functions are enabled on the wiki, and if both you and the other person have a valid email address in preferences and have "Enable email from other users".
:If the admin doesn't have a valid email or doesn't allow the reception of emails from other users, ask in his/her talk page to enable it so you can contact him/her [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:33, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::The "email this user" isn't working, and I don't want to discuss it on their talk page. Is there a way to find the email addresses of users with valid email addresses? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 21:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::No, there isn't any access to the user's email. You might try using WHOIS to find the domain's owner, but that may not be who you are looking for. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 04:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] remove pages from navigation bar ==

Hi!
I need some help. I want to remove (or hide) the "Current events" and the "Random page" from the navigation bar on the left.
How can I do that? I deleted this code lines from the Commmon.css and common.js but the pages are still there.
Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] ([[User talk:46.251.31.104|talk]]) 09:06, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Those lines shouldn't be in Commmon.css nor common.js. They are in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:34, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you very much, Its worked :) I have one more question.. can I upload documents (.doc) to my mediawiki? Thanks!! [[Special:Contributions/46.251.31.104|46.251.31.104]] 09:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Look at [[Manual:Configuring file uploads]], and create a new thread if your question is not related to the sidebar. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:19, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Best way to handle same page but in several languages ==

Hi,

I'm from Belgium and we're using the mediawiki, but be need to have the pages in several languages, like Dutch, French and English. What is the best way to do this?

Jvuz [[User:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|Jvuz~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Jvuz~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 12:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Look at how this is done on MediaWiki.org. For example, see the [[API]] page which (buried in the [[:Template:API|API template]]) uses the [[Template:Languages|"Languages" template]] in the following way:
:<syntaxhighlight lang='text'>
{{Languages|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}
</syntaxhighlight> ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:24, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== MediaWiki:Vector.css, Broken! ==

hello, when I try to change the theme css Vector in "MediaWiki:Vector.css" appears the following error message:

Could not acquire 'wssouza01-wiki_:messages:en:status' lock.
Backtrace:
#0 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(710): MessageCache->load('en')
#1 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(650): MessageCache->getMsgFromNamespace('January/en', 'en')
#2 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(720): MessageCache->get('january', true, Object(Language))
#3 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(464): Message->fetchMessage()
#4 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Message.php(553): Message->toString()
#5 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(923): Message->text()
#6 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(942): Language->getMessageFromDB('january')
#7 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/languages/Language.php(951): Language->getMonthName(1)
#8 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(3025): Language->getMonthNamesArray()
#9 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2770): OutputPage->getJSVars()
#10 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2475): OutputPage->getHeadScripts()
#11 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php(462): OutputPage->headElement(Object(SkinVector))
#12 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2034): SkinTemplate->outputPage()
#13 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(572): OutputPage->output()
#14 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#15 /home/wteachers/www/wiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#16 {main}

how can I fix this error? [[Special:Contributions/200.239.65.5|200.239.65.5]] ([[User talk:200.239.65.5|talk]]) 13:31, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Try it again, it may be a temporary problem. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Is it possible to create a list of recent added articles by author? ==

I tried to do it with dynamic page list extension, but it doesn't work [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 16:29, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you please elaborate? [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::I tried to use this [[Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)]]
::and these code:
::<syntaxhighlight lang='text'><DynamicPageList>
namespace = User:UserName
order = descending
count = 5
</DynamicPageList>
</syntaxhighlight>
::So there was a list, but it has all recent registered articles and it was not ordered by username
::May be I did something wrong? [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 13:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I doubt that list would display a list of ''all recent registered articles'', since you're filtering by <code>namespace = User:UserName</code>, which is also not a valid namespace.
:::Have you tried reading the documentation of the extension in the first place?
:::Also, from my understanding, this extension doesn't provide that functionality. You'd need [[Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party)]] [http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual_-_DPL_parameters:_Criteria_for_page_selection#createdby] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I have read the documentation, but I don't understand clearly if it is possible to make a list of recent added articles ordered by author with standard extension, not third party extension [[User:Fokebox|Fokebox]] ([[User talk:Fokebox|talk]]) 12:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== Recreate the REVISIONS table ==

Hallo all,
I have wrongly deleted the revisions table of my mediawiki and now I cannot see more any page.
There is a way to reconstruct the revision data, also with some standard infos about the author etc?

Thank you very much.
Claudio [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] ([[User talk:188.217.54.242|talk]]) 19:17, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:The revision table is used for page history and user contributions listings. There are maintenance scripts (like rebuildall.php) which can populate the categorylinks, pagelinks, and imagelinks tables and refresh the search index, but these scripts ''require'' the revisions table - they cannot ''fill'' it. The manual on [[Manual:deleteArchivedRevisions.php|deleteArchivedRevisions.php]] tells you that this script can delete certain revisions (more or less what you did) and - the interesting part - that '''these revisions will no longer be restorable'''.
:So I think it is not possible to refill the revisions table. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 19:50, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::Sigh, so I cannot do anymore that leaving the project... çç
::I'm very sad [[Special:Contributions/188.217.54.242|188.217.54.242]] 21:25, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Let's try to recreate the whole table before we begin with fiddly manual work:
:::You can use a backup and restore the table from there. Maybe your host regularly does backups for you? Maybe you or a friend or another admin has an older backup somewhere? Or maybe you still have one somewhere on the server?
:::Another idea: MySQL has options to create logs of recent actions. I think the interesting log is called binary log. If it is activated, this log can be used to rollback actions, which MySQL did. The log content is rotated, meaning: If you ask quickly enough, your DROP query might still be in and so can be rolled back.
:::And doesn't MySQL maintain backups of the raw database data? I think that is in the data folder of MySQL, inside the subfolder backup/. I don't know how often these backups are refreshed, but I at least saw a system where that does not happen immediately, but exactly once a day. Having this data might help you as well.
:::Does anything of that help you? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.103.16|88.130.103.16]] 22:38, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If your page is in Google, you can use the texts from the Google cache and paste them back into your database. This should at least bring "some" pages back.
::::If all that does not help, there still is another way to get your information back - a hard way:
::::All your texts are still there, see the table "text". The page names also are still there, see the table "page". What you lost is the relation of the entries in "text" to the pages in "page". Both were [[Manual:Page_table|connected]] in this way:
::::"The text of the page itself is stored in the text table. To retrieve the text of an article, MediaWiki first searches the page table for page_title. Then, page_latest is used to search the revision table for rev_id, and rev_text_id is obtained in the process. The value obtained for rev_text_id is used to search for old_id in the text table to retrieve the text."
::::So as a last help you can check the texts from the table "text" and try to manually put them into the right pages again. To do that, it might be wise to use a new database, so that you do not build upon the missing relations in the old DB. However, this task will be cumbersome, take a long time and won't be fun at all. Estimate yourself, if your data is worth the hassle!
::::Whatever you do: You should '''really''' start using backups! ''Automatically'' generated backups; what has to be done manually ''will'' be forgotten. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.65.67|88.130.65.67]] 13:07, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:When you say <code>[[Manual:Revision_table|revision]]</code> table, you mean only that one, or also the <code>[[Manual:Text_table|text]]</code> table?
:Depending on what method you used to delete them all, the text table is likely still intact. That table is what contains the actual page contents.
:However the revision table is what links these content versions to a page, user and timestamp.
:It's going to be hard to reconstruct the history, but at least you have all the content still (although without knowing which version is what page).
:You could use a combination of Google (and other caches/backups) to figure out what pages you had, and perhaps search through the text table for the actual content (by looking for a piece of text on that page).
:Since Google's cache is html only, if you'd import from that directly, you loose all semantics (e.g. things that came from templates etc.,) and possibly the markup as well (e.g. headings, bold, lists etc.) though markup you could re-add manually. By then re-creating the page with the content from the text table you restore the complete and unaltered wikitext.
:See also [[DB]]. Good luck! [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 17:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Upload images to diff server extension ==

I have a Windows-based Wiki site and I'd like to have the images in another account (i.e. diff IP address). Is there an extension which allows to upload images via a FTP account?

I searched for one but could not find, but perhaps I was looking for the worng phrase or what not.

i.e. www.mysite.com is my Wiki site at 200.200.200.200
and my images are on images.mysite.com at 100.100.100.100 [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 21:20, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
:I don't know about putting them on an ftp server, but there are tools like [[Extension:LocalS3Repo]], [[Extension:AWS]], and [[Extension:WindowsAzureStorage]] that let you store them "in the cloud." You might also look at [[Extension:UploadLocal]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:12, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Help with extension "InviteSignup ==

I am attempting to use the InviteSignup extension so I can invite users to an otherwise private wiki. The extension shows as loaded on the version page and I am able to bring up the page on which I can enter an email, and select what groups I want to give access to. This information is laid out as if it is a row in a table, and at the end there is an "add" button. When clicking add I am taken to a InviteSignup page which appears to be nothing more than a blank wiki page of that name. I have tried entering several different valid email addresses and none have received an invite. The wiki page for this extension does not offer a way to contact the developer which is why I am posting here, and I apologize if this is an inappropriate forum. However, if anyone can offer assistance I would appreciate the help.

In addition to adding the extension in the extensions folder I made the following change to localsettings.php
require_once "extensions/InviteSignup/InviteSignup.php";
$wgISGroups = array( 'StateA', 'StateB', 'StateC' );
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['invitesignup'] = true;

Wiki version 1.21.1, PHP 5.3.4.

Thanks [[Special:Contributions/12.111.71.19|12.111.71.19]] ([[User talk:12.111.71.19|talk]]) 01:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are you sure? [[User:Nikerabbit]] is an active developer and I'm sure you can find him regularly on IRC. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:44, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks, I don't currently have access to IRC but will try contacting him that way. [[Special:Contributions/199.19.250.44|199.19.250.44]] 12:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Specialpage Listfile - Searching doesnt work properly ==

Hi. I've a problem on using the search function on the specialpage Filelist.
I dont find an solution for this bug. So may i will get some help here.

The filelist counts more than 900 files. If i search for an specified file or name it works fine.
But if i search for an user or only an fileextension, i can wait hours and get no results. It seems that the function works in an infinite loop.

Perhaps the result list is to big.

Im using mediawiki 1.21.2. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] ([[User talk:87.193.155.78|talk]]) 11:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:Doesn't anybody have an idea? Perhaps this "bug" is already listed? [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::I solved it.
::More RAM. We use imagemagic für displaying gif-Files. The lib needed more memory in cause of this count of files. [[Special:Contributions/87.193.155.78|87.193.155.78]] 06:53, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Allowing a user to edit one page, but restrict all others ==

Is there a way to allow a user to edit one (or multiple) pages of a wiki anonymously, yet restrict everything else to require a login/registration? This is a private wiki inaccessible from outside the company.

Version information follows:
MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.3.3 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.95

Thanks,

Wayne [[Special:Contributions/64.214.53.2|64.214.53.2]] ([[User talk:64.214.53.2|talk]]) 15:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:[[Manual:$wgWhitelistRead]] looks like it could help you. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Getting "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2." When testing infobox. ==

MediaWiki 1.21.2
PHP 5.4.11 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.1.53-log
Lua 5.1.5

URL: http://www.sportscardwiki.com/index.php?title=Infoboxtest

I'm getting an error of: "Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 2."

I have also enabled error details and logging in LocalSettings.php, but neither seem to be working in this case so I do not have a backtrace to provide more details. [[Special:Contributions/161.165.196.102|161.165.196.102]] ([[User talk:161.165.196.102|talk]]) 18:01, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:What OS are you using? Are you sure your web server has permission to write to the error log file? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] How to use mediawiki API to edit a page on local server ==

I created a web page on my own local server using MediaWiki. The url is "http:\localhost\mediawiki\index.php\newPage". I intend to edit the page using the MediaWiki API in PHP, and plan to use API:edit. But how can I set the title or pageid parameter? Is there any other methods to edit this page on my local server using MediaWiki API?

Thanks in advance! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 03:16, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Did you follow [[API:Edit]]?
:Also, the api is meant to be used by a client machine. If you want to edit it from the same server, in PHP, you may want to use the [[Manual:edit.php|edit.php]] maintenance script. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::The problem is how to access to the certain page created by mediawiki on my local server. The example showing on Mediawiki API Main page access to the page by setting the "title" parameter, but that page is a wikipedia page. If I want to direct to a certain page on my local server, what should I do? How can I direct to that page or server? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 13:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You should go to http://localhost/mediawiki/api.php. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:01, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Yes, it can work now. Thank you so much!!! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 17:17, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== Admin user is hijacked, what to do? ==

My superadmin user is hijacked! Our wiki, http://wiki.studiebyen.no, is now nothing but spam and my superadmin user/password no longer works. I preferably just would like to kill the whole wiki, but how? I cannot get access with my user hijacked.

Regards, Kim Sorenssen/StudiebyEN/Norway [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] ([[User talk:78.91.39.251|talk]]) 12:03, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi Kim,
:in those cases I always recommend reverting to a backup from before the hijacking. This is the easiest and a clean solution. Everything else will be more difficult und far more time-consuming. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 12:33, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! Yes, that should probably do it.
::Kim [[Special:Contributions/78.91.39.251|78.91.39.251]] 13:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::I was wondering if this ever happened to my wiki, what should I do if I didn't want to kill the whole wiki, and revert back to a earlier back up? [[User:Kyle 44|Kyle 44]] ([[User talk:Kyle 44|talk]]) 03:50, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Hi Kyle!
:::Reverting to a backup really is the recommended procedure in this case.
:::If you really want to clean the wiki up, you can do the following: Use the maintenance script createAndPromote.php from the shell to create yourself a new admin user. With this user block the hijacked account and take his rights away. Then revert all the spam inside the wiki; this might be a ''hugh'' task depending on "how hacked" your wiki is. Remove all files, which might have been uploaded and check the MediaWiki source code on your server; these files may have been manipulated as well. And do not forget to check extensions; they might also be affected.
:::Check the server logs to see which URLs have been accessed during the hack. Information by mod_security (if active) might help as well.
:::Finally you have to close the hole, through which the attacker came in. This can basically be anything: An insecure web application (maybe not even MediaWiki, but possibly something completely different), maybe an outdated extension, maybe a vulnerability in MediaWiki or in PHP or in MySQL or in the operating system....... Anyway: The hole '''must''' be fixed; otherwise you will soon be hacked again. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 12:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Permission to edit pages only if user belongs to that group ==

Hello All,
I am new to MediaWiki, I wanted to know is there a way to allow user to edit a specific page only if that page is created by the user who is of the same group.
For instance if user A who belongs to a group YYY creates a page XYZ, and the user B can edit XYZ page only if that person belongs to YYY group.

Please let me know what setting I need to make to achieve this.

Thanks
Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 13:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:You can set aside a namespace (say "YYY:") that is only editable by people in the YYY group using [[Extension:Lockdown]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::Hi,
::First of all thanks for replying, I tried creating a custom namespace and created a page (yyy group), but even the user who belongs to "xxx" was able to edit,
::below is the setting that i used, please let me know where I have gone wrong.
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['YYY']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['XXX']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_YYY', 100);
define('NS_XXX', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_YYY] = 'yyy';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_XXX] = 'xxx';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['read'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['edit'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['read'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['edit'] = array('xxx');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_YYY;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_XXX;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Thanks
::Chethan K [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::You have a typo above. If you fix these, does it work?
:::I'm looking at these two lines:
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::These should be
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_YYY]['createpage'] = array('yyy');
#...
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_XXX]['createpage'] = array('xxx');
</syntaxhighlight>
:::Those syntax errors make me wonder if MediaWiki was even reading the file where you put these changes. If the file were read as PHP, it should error out. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:12, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Sorry it was a typo error while posting, its fine in the code which I have. [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 06:41, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::ok, I've editted your post to show that. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::in the <code>$wgGroupPermissions</code> section, you've given "YYY" and "XXX" as the group names, but in the <code>$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown</code> section, you've given "yyy" and "xxx". Group names are case sensitive, so you have four different groups.
:::Also, I recommend using "YYY" and "XXX" instead of the lower-case versions for your namespace names. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::ya I modified that, but still the issue persists :( [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::To avoid me misinterpreting what you currently have, could you paste your updated file here ''sans'' typos? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Sorry for the confusion caused, I have pasted the entire settings present in LocalSettings.php file
::::::{{collapse top}}
::::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
<?php
# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki 1.21.2
# installer. If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you
# need to recreate them later.
#
# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings
# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_
# file, not there.
#
# Further documentation for configuration settings may be found at:
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
# Protect against web entry
if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
exit;
}
## Uncomment this to disable output compression
# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;
$wgSitename = "xxx wiki";
$wgMetaNamespace = "xxx_wiki";
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs
## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs
$wgServer = "http://192.168.10.113:8888";
## The relative URL path to the skins directory
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
## The relative URL path to the logo. Make sure you change this from the default,
## or else you'll overwrite your logo when you upgrade!
$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/sb_logo.png";
## UPO means: this is also a user preference option
$wgEnableEmail = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO
$wgEmergencyContact = "xxx@gmail.com";
$wgPasswordSender = "xxx";
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
## Database settings
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgDBserver = "localhost";
$wgDBname = "my_wiki";
$wgDBuser = "root";
$wgDBpassword = "";
# MySQL specific settings
$wgDBprefix = "";
# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=binary";
# Experimental charset support for MySQL 5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = false;
## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();
## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads = true;
#$wgUseImageMagick = true;
#$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";
# InstantCommons allows wiki to use images from http://commons.wikimedia.org
$wgUseInstantCommons = true;
## If you use ImageMagick (or any other shell command) on a
## Linux server, this will need to be set to the name of an
## available UTF-8 locale
$wgShellLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
#$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;
## Set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable directory on the web server
## to make your wiki go slightly faster. The directory should not
## be publically accessible from the web.
#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
# Site language code, should be one of the list in ./languages/Names.php
$wgLanguageCode = "en";
$wgSecretKey = "xxx";
# Site upgrade key. Must be set to a string (default provided) to turn on the
# web installer while LocalSettings.php is in place
$wgUpgradeKey = "xxx";
## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook', 'vector':
$wgDefaultSkin = "vector";
## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an
## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation
## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.
$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "";
$wgRightsText = "";
$wgRightsIcon = "";
# Path to the GNU diff3 utility. Used for conflict resolution.
$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";
# Query string length limit for ResourceLoader. You should only set this if
# your web server has a query string length limit (then set it to that limit),
# or if you have suhosin.get.max_value_length set in php.ini (then set it to
# that value)
$wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength = -1;
# Enabled Extensions. Most extensions are enabled by including the base extension file here
# but check specific extension documentation for more details
# The following extensions were automatically enabled:
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Cite/Cite.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Gadgets/Gadgets.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/InputBox/InputBox.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Interwiki/Interwiki.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/LocalisationUpdate.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Nuke/Nuke.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/PdfHandler/PdfHandler.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Poem/Poem.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/TitleBlacklist/TitleBlacklist.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Vector/Vector.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/WikiEditor/WikiEditor.php" );
//require_once( "$IP/extensions/EditOnlyYourOwnPage.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/Lockdown/Lockdown.php" );
# End of automatically generated settings.
# Add more configuration options below.
# Requires that a user be registered before they can edit.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
# Requires users to confirm their eamail to edit a page
$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;
# hide user tools for anonymous (IP address) visitors
//$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
# Users cannot edit pages
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['edit'] = false;
# Anonymous users can't create pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['rerun']['createpage'] = true;
# Start with assigning the default permissions from group "user"
$wgGroupPermissions['aec'] = $wgGroupPermissions['user'];
# Now modify these rights:
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['delete'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['protect'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['purge'] = true; # delete the cache of a page
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['edit'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['aec']['createpage'] = true;
#define constants for your custom namespaces, for a more readable configuration
define('NS_RERUN', 100);
define('NS_AEC', 101);

#define custom namespaces
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_RERUN] = 'rerun';
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_AEC] = 'aec';

#restrict "read" permission to logged in users
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['read'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['edit'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_RERUN]['createpage'] = array('rerun');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['read'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['edit'] = array('aec');
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[NS_AEC]['createpage'] = array('aec');
#prevent inclusion of pages from that namespace
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_RERUN;
$wgNonincludableNamespaces[] = NS_AEC;
</syntaxhighlight>
::::::{{collapse bottom}} [[User:Chethankswamy|Chethankswamy]] ([[User talk:Chethankswamy|talk]]) 12:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I used your settings on a 1.20.2 wiki and it worked for me. What version is your wiki? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:19, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Wikidata test repo at Wikimedia.de down ==

Hi wikimedia seems to be having a problem with http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki this website [[Special:Contributions/90.217.5.92|90.217.5.92]] ([[User talk:90.217.5.92|talk]]) 15:37, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Errors 1170 and 1146 (ConfirmAccount) ==

Hello all, and thank you for your time

I am using Mediawiki 1.19 and using the ConfirmAccount extension. When I go to accept an account, I receive this error:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "AccountConfirmSubmission::acceptRequest". Database returned error "1146: Table 'tuxmicro_mwiki.account_credentials' doesn't exist (localhost)".

I researched and found that it is because I need to run my update for php, so I ran

php maintenance/update.php

In doing so, I receive this error:

Database returned error "1170: BLOB/TEXT column 'acr_email' used in key specification without a key length (localhost)"

I went to extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql and deleted "ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg"

When I rerun the php update script, I then get a 1064 error. From here, I am lost [[User:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|Odyssey~mediawikiwiki]] ([[User talk:Odyssey~mediawikiwiki|talk]]) 16:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Also, here is the structure of my account_requests table under phpmyadmin
:http://i41.tinypic.com/if4k6c.png [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 16:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:What does your 1064 error say? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::from within function "Database:Base::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".
::Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (
::acd_id int unsugned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)" [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 19:59, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It looks like you accidentally put a typo in the file. It is complaining about the "unsugned" which should be "unsigned'. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:59, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ahh, that was my fault when typing in here. When running the update script again, it says "unsigned"
::::<code> The last attempted database query was:</code>
::::<code> "ALTER TABLE `account_requests`</code>
::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::<code> ) ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8</code>
::::<code> "</code>
::::<code> from within function "DatabaseBase::sourceFile( /var/www/info/extensions/ConfirmAccount/backend/schema/mysql/patch-account_credentials.sql )".</code>
::::<code> Database returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` (</code>
::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL' at line 2 (localhost)"</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:44, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just to test, I commented out the acd_id int line, and I reran the update script, and it seems to error at the very next acd line [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Here is my patch-account_credentials.sql page as it exists:
::::::<code> -- (c) Aaron Schulz, 2007</code>
::::::<code> ALTER TABLE /*$wgDBprefix*/account_requests</code>
::::::<code> -- ADD INDEX acr_type_del_reg (acr_type,acr_deleted,acr_registration);</code>
::::::<code> -- This stores all of credential information</code>
::::::<code> -- When accounts are confirmed, the identity info goes here</code>
::::::<code> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS /*_*/account_credentials (</code>
::::::<code> -- Revision ID #</code>
::::::<code> acd_id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,</code>
::::::<code> -- Foreign key to user.user_id</code>
::::::<code> acd_user_id int unsigned NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Optional 'real name' to be displayed in credit listings</code>
::::::<code> acd_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Note: email should be restricted, not public info.</code>
::::::<code> -- Same with passwords.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email tinytext NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Initially NULL; when a user's e-mail address has been</code>
::::::<code> -- validated by returning with a mailed token, this is</code>
::::::<code> -- set to the current timestamp.</code>
::::::<code> acd_email_authenticated varbinary(14) default NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- A little about this user</code>
::::::<code> acd_bio mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Private info for reviewers to look at when considering request</code>
::::::<code> acd_notes mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Links to recognize/identify this user, CSV, may not be public</code>
::::::<code> acd_urls mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- IP address</code>
::::::<code> acd_ip VARCHAR(255) NULL default '',''</code>
::::::<code> -- Name of attached file (.pdf,.doc,.txt etc...)</code>
::::::<code> acd_filename VARCHAR(255) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> acd_storage_key VARCHAR(64) NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Areas of interest</code>
::::::<code> acd_areas mediumblob NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of account registration.</code>
::::::<code> acd_registration varbinary(14) NOT NULL,</code>
::::::<code> -- Timestamp of acceptance</code>
::::::<code> acd_accepted varbinary(14),</code>
::::::<code> -- The user who accepted it</code>
::::::<code> acd_user int unsigned NOT NULL default 0,</code>
::::::<code> -- Reason given in email</code>
::::::<code> acd_comment varchar(255) NOT NULL default </code>
::::::<code> ) /*$wgDBTableOptions*/;</code>
::::::<code> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX /*i*/acd_user_id ON /*_*/account_credentials (acd_user_id,acd_id);</code> [[User:Odyssey|Odyssey]] ([[User talk:Odyssey|talk]]) 20:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi why not go into the extension confirm account and then click back end and then click MySQL and then click the first ConfirmAccount SQL and upload it to MySQL directly [[Special:Contributions/86.179.149.75|86.179.149.75]] 06:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::There needs to be a semi-colon after each statement. You've commented out the semi-colon for the first ALTER statement, so it looks like it says
:::::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
ALTER TABLE `account_requests`
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `account_credentials` ...
</syntaxhighlight>
:::::[https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FConfirmAccount/HEAD/backend%2Fschema%2Fmysql%2Fpatch-account_credentials.sql Here is the latest copy] of patch-account_credentials.sql. Try it and see if it works. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== moved my mediawiki - images dont appear ==

Hi , I moved my mediawiki to another server, all of the data in the content is showing up , but none of the images show. I have moved the entire /image directory. What reason could there be for the images not showing up? I get this message where the images should be Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination [[User:Dcastillo|Dcastillo]] ([[User talk:Dcastillo|talk]]) 17:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I guess you have a permission problem. Make sure that the webserver user has access to the image directory. He must be able to read and write to the folder and to subfolders. Maybe you don't even have to change the file permissions themselves; it might already be enough to modify owner and group of these files. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.191|88.130.68.191]] 20:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::You should also check/change the owner of those files and folders, because when transferred from one host to another (depending on how did you do that) they may still have the "old" owners, that may not match the user and group running the apache server, which would cause problems when doing deletes or renames of files. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:39, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] extraneous text at top of page ==

Hi,

How can I stop some extraneous text from showing at the top of every page on my new installation of wikimedia onto Debian mint 15 using synaptics?

MediaWiki 1.19.7+dfsg-1
PHP 5.5.1-2 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.5.31-1

The text showing is from some php code prepended to the page, as shown in the page source below, it starts with "Wikidiff2" (i.e. after the first closing angle bracket) and flows up to the DOCTYPE tag.

The page source:
<pre> <?
$wgExtensionCredits['wikidiff2'][] = array(
'name' => 'Wikidiff2',
'version' => '',
'author' => 'Tim Starling',
'description' => 'external diff engine for MediaWiki',
'url' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidiff2'
);
$wgExternalDiffEngine = 'wikidiff2';
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs">
<head>
</pre> [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] ([[User talk:203.97.250.223|talk]]) 23:48, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Your PHP configuration may include the option to disable short open tags.
:Find the file in extensions that contains the above text (probably called Wikidiff2.php?), and change the "<?" to "<?php". That should resolve the issue. [[User:Brion VIBBER|brion]] ([[User talk:Brion VIBBER|talk]]) 23:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks brion,
::I changed the apache php.ini to allow short open tags, and that fixed the issue.
::I'm not happy with this solution, apparently that setting is strongly contra-indicated, but, hey! It works.
::Every php file in <code>/usr/share/mediawiki/**</code> starts with the correct <code>'<?php'</code> open tag. No file contains a resemblance of the string being inserted, however there is a function referencing $wgExtensionCredits. My PHP is weak, but I'm guessing that this might be generating the text. I'll have to experiment.
::Thanks again. [[Special:Contributions/203.97.250.223|203.97.250.223]] 05:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Fix search bug in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please could someone please fix a search bug in this extension because it now doesent let you use the search bar to search for something it doesent show drop down list you have to know what you want it doesent show suggestion please fix it. I am using Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Requests for bug fixes are sually collected in the Bugzilla database or where else the extension author chooses to create an issue collection for further processing.
:Please add your request there!
:Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:57, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Ok I have asked on bugzilla now [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

== Create account / login in extension:confirmaccount ==

Hi please update login and create account buttons because the layout and look of them was changed in 1.20 when the separated them into create account and then login so please update the looks and the create account could be redirect to special request account. I am running Mediawiki 1.22 Wmf 20 [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:33, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:The buttons look nice - what's the issue? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.110.97|88.130.110.97]] 15:55, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
::Because it looks a little wired do to the new way you login and create account so could someone redo the way it looks please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 13:09, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you want that fixed, you should file a [[BUGREPORT]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 00:19, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Ok I have reported it on bugzilla [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 16:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Different colours sides ==

Hi in Mediawiki could the background in vector automatically get bigger when the writing over goes the size of the page for example if you look on the support page and you see to different colour background one write one grey and the other blue could it automatic le adjust for the size of the text instead of having a side white please [[Special:Contributions/90.199.55.106|90.199.55.106]] ([[User talk:90.199.55.106|talk]]) 15:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:That sounds like a css/js question which is not the sort of question we're ready to answer here. Please try a more appropriate forum.
:If you had some css/js that could do this, we could tell you how to make sure it is loaded correctly. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] I copied my IIS based-Wiki to Linux ==

It went smooth, after simply copy-pasting the images and files to the new server, using the same database.

One thing I notices doesnt work properly: The site's namespace and my custom namespaces are unaccesible from the new Linux based-wiki, even tho they exist in the database. It's as if the Wiki doesnt realize the site's namespace and the custom namespaces exist, even tho I didnt not change LocalSettings.php. See the site's search on Windows:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06ab58.png/
and on the Linux copy:
http://jpg.co.il/view/524fdab06c5b0.png/

How can I fix the linux site?

Thanks,
Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] ([[User talk:87.69.146.131|talk]]) 09:25, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Are those custom namespaces defined in your LocalSettings.php on the linux machine? They should be the same as the windows one. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::Yes, they are defined the same way (I used the same LocalSettings.php file - just copied everything to the Linux server):
::<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
define("NS_PORTAL", 100);
define("NS_PORTAL_TALK", 101);

$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL] = "פורטל";
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = "שיחת_פורטל";
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL] = true;
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_PORTAL_TALK] = true;
</syntaxhighlight>
::Also, in the "Prefixindex" special page, the namespaces can be found but the name it blanked, as seen in the screenshot:
::http://jpg.co.il/view/5251a99dcfe9b.png/
::Do you have any idea how I can get the software to recognize my main namespace and my custom namespaces?
::Thank,
::Yoni [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 18:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I found the problem, thought I'd put it in writing for the records.
:::When I changed to Linux, the LocalSettings.php gave a "Warning: Cannot modify header information..." message. I found that BOM was the problem so I saved the file as text/ansi which got rid of the message but I didnt realize it messed up my Hebrew-texted namespaces (the editor didnt show the problem). I changed the coding to UTF-8 without DOM in Notepad++ and retyped all the Hebrew text and that fixed it. [[Special:Contributions/87.69.146.131|87.69.146.131]] 14:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Good to know, thanks!
::::This would be hard to diagnose otherwise [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Name changing template ==

Hi how can I create a template that I can change the name of a title of a page without moving so that other template using it and showing the name would show the name differently please [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 13:36, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused. Could you clarify what you want, exactly?
:You want to change the title of a page (say <nowiki>[[Foo]]</nowiki>) using a template so that the page can be refered to by the new title (say <nowiki>[[Bar]]</nowiki>) without actually moving the page? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:19, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Update bugzilla ==

Hi please update bugzilla at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org because Mozilla has released an update at http://www.bugzilla.org/news/#release44 [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] ([[User talk:90.212.81.76|talk]]) 16:34, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:I am not sure, ho is responsible for maintaining bugzilla, but you should be able to find out via IRC. Or do you want to say that you can help with the update? Help is always appreciated very much! [[Special:Contributions/88.130.75.79|88.130.75.79]] 19:50, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::Well I carnt help I just notify them because if they update bugzilla who ever is responsible of looking after it. Because if they update it will fix bugs and some new things to make requesting bugs easer and more faster to find so they should update it [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 09:34, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::See [[bugzilla:49597|Bug 49597]]. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:17, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:18, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::I am responsible for Bugzilla - see the ticket that Ciencia linked to already. We will upgrade to 4.4 in the next 4 or 5 months. [[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 09:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::Ok thanks [[Special:Contributions/90.212.81.76|90.212.81.76]] 15:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I create both left-to-right and right-to-left pages in MediaWiki? ==

(Apologies for what may be a simple question, but zillions of searches for "bidi" and "right-to-left languages" have just left me more confused than before.)

MediaWiki 1.21.1
PHP 5.3.24 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL 5.0.96-log
http://horawiki.org/

I would like users of my wiki to be able to contribute pages in both LTR and RTL languages, specifically English and Hebrew. I seem to have the interface working correctly per-language (I'm using the Universal Language Selector extension) but things don't work in content pages. How do I tell MediaWiki that a content page is RTL rather than LTR?

For example, I have pages [http://horawiki.org/page/Welcome_to_HoraWiki!] and [http://horawiki.org/page/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99] which are more-or-less translations of each other. The latter page, however, displays generally as LTR---notice that everything is crammed against the left margin, not the right margin.

On the other hand, when I look at the page in the WikiEditor "Preview" tab (after edit and before publish) everything looks great. Indeed, I can (mostly) use directional markers amp-lrm-; and amp-rlm-; to get the punctuation correct. (Still struggling with references, but that might work too.) How come the previewer shows the page correctly, but in the wiki it still looks wrong?

From the documentation, it looks like I might need to set the "PageContentLanguage" or the like. But I can find only hooks and so forth to do this---how does a user set it for a page he is creating?

Any help greatly appreciated. [[Special:Contributions/216.15.119.210|216.15.119.210]] ([[User talk:216.15.119.210|talk]]) 21:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:Comment: The paragraph in my original post that starts "For example, I have pages..." continues with two example URLs. The first of these URLs ends with an exclamation point, which is not being rendered correctly here. It shows up '''after''' the external-link icon and isn't part of the URL. That seems to be a bug. I haven't seen it anywhere else and it's irrelevant to my current question. In any case, clicking that URL will take you to a nonexistent page unless you put the exclamation point back onto the end.
:I hope the second URL works for you. It simply says "Welcome to HoraWiki" in Hebrew. /Larry D 21:41, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
::I've fixed the link.
::You may try [[Extension:PageLanguage]].
::Creating pages on a different text direction than the configured one is hard. You may be able to "partially" solve it wrapping all the contents inside <code><nowiki><div dir="rtl"></div></nowiki></code> and also inserting the RLO character (RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, U+202E) at the start of the code and the PDF character (POP DIREC‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬TIO‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬NAL FORMATTING, U+202C) at the end. Those characters are just for the textarea to display the text in the correct direction, since the t‬‬‬extarea doe‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬sn't pa‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬r‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬se dir="rtl". Example (without those unicode characters that KDE doesn't allow me to easily insert here):
::<div dir="rtl">
::כדי למצוא אינפורמציה על ריקודים, יוצרים, ארועים ועוד, התחילו בתפריט הניווט הנמצא בצד ימין‏.
::אחר ההרשמה, הגולשים מוזמנים לתרום לאתר, לערוך, להוסיף, לתקן, וליצור דפים על פי רצונם. בצד שמאל תחת "עזרה" נמצאים הקישורים הדרושים לכך‏.
::יבואו הגולשים ללמוד ולהשתעשע. אין חשׁשׁ לקלקל דבר.
::</div> [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 11:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Catchable fatal error on new installation : Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure ==

Hi,

I am getting this on a new installation of Mediawiki on Centos 5 with PHP 5.4.20. After a successful install, and upload of LocalSettings, I get the following error when I try to access the site:

<code>PHP Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to ScopedCallback::__construct() must be an instance of Closure, unknown given, called in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/cache/MessageCache.php on line 344 and defined in /var/www/html/mediawiki.prepis.org/includes/ScopedCallback.php on line 33</code>

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. [[User:Ttasovac|Ttasovac]] ([[User talk:Ttasovac|talk]]) 11:35, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Looks like the bit you ran into was backed out after release. I'll see if we can backport the fix. [https://git.wikimedia.org/patch/mediawiki%2Fcore/3b7c4f692e099491f91a8fa94f408291f620d43d Try this patch]. The drupal documentation for [https://drupal.org/patch/apply applying a patch] may help here. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:03, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Filling parser function input with Semantic forms ==

Hi,

I have a parser function for integrating with [https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira JIRA].

So when I give {{#jira : JIRA-223}} the parser functions would fetch the Type and Status of the issue corresponding to the jira issue id ( in eg : JIRA-223 ) and displays in the page.

I wanted capture the Jira issue id from a Semantic form. So that the jira issue id is a semantic property and is displayed in a more user friendly manner.

I tried reading through the materials provided and checked the examples and code of extensions. I couldn't sort out the problem. Can any one please help to solve this. [[User:Arunvgchat|Arunvgchat]] ([[User talk:Arunvgchat|talk]]) 12:04, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you show us what you've tried? Is SemanticForms installed properly? What does the page you're expecting to get the data from look like? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Move the "last modifed"-string ==

Hi

To fulfill an ISO certified demand I have to add something in the header of the document that shows who and when the document was last edited. This because a printed document should also be mapped to a revision of the same doc in the mediawiki. I have tried to dig into the code, CSS, and all PHPs to find out a way to add that line. I can see that the info is there, the user who last edited, and when he did it, but how do I put it above the "name-of-the-document" with small letters?
Very grateful for some help.

Regards
Claes Lindvall [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 12:15, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:I found an extension named PageNotice that saved my bacon.
:Case is closed. [[User:Clanli|Clanli]] ([[User talk:Clanli|talk]]) 20:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

== Uploading files require create page permissions ==

Hi,

I'm currently using MediWiki 1.15.3, PHP 5.2.14 and MySQL 5.5.8
I have disabled the user page creation by adding this: 
'''$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;'''

However, editing still works fine and I also want users to be able to upload files, but everytime I try to upload it says: 
"Permissions Errors
You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:
You do not have permission to create new pages."

What configuration is required in order to prevent regular users from creating pages BUT still allowing them to upload files?

Thanks,
Antonio Gomez [[Special:Contributions/134.191.232.71|134.191.232.71]] ([[User talk:134.191.232.71|talk]]) 12:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi please upgrade Mediawiki from 1.15.3 to Mediawiki 1.19 please because Mediawiki 1.15 is now unsupported [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 13:14, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::will this solve it? [[Special:Contributions/46.19.81.160|46.19.81.160]] 16:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::It might help but know one can help you because Mediawiki 1.15 being discontinued so please upgrade to Mediawiki 1.19 or latter because it is still supported so people can help you. The difference between 1.15 and 1.19 is a big update and adds some new skins [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:49, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:50, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::If you can upgrade your php from php 5.2 to 5.3 or later you can get Mediawiki 1.20 or Mediawiki 1.21 [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 16:57, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::ok Thanks, i'll give it a try [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 19:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Ok I hope it works please make sure to read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading this because a lot of the files have been removed and a lot updated and some which arnt needed any more or required [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 19:26, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Many thanks for replying quickly. Off topic question - when uploading an image ,for example, wiki creates a description page with all the meta data of the file, and I assume that's were my problem is. Is a description/file page equal to a regular page in wiki? does it have special rights as far as you are familiar with?
::::::::Thanks in advance [[Special:Contributions/109.67.249.77|109.67.249.77]] 20:24, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::As long as you are log in it should allow you to upload files and should have description and file page with it. [[Special:Contributions/109.155.50.90|109.155.50.90]] 06:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::What 109.155 says is true, except when <code>$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createpage'] = false;</code> is in use, as the original message say.
::::::::::Even if you upgrade, you'll still have the same problem. Maybe [[Extension:Lockdown]] may help on that, restricting page creation only for certain namespaces (and not the main one), but IMHO, this kind of restriction seems a bit weird.
::::::::::Another option is [[Extension:AbuseFilter]], where you can define rules for that. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I limit the Special:WantedPages range to only main space? ==

Currently my wiki have about 7000 articles, and their are some related article really need to be created. However, one of that wiki's editor use bot create tons of template, and these template sooo many uncreated links, which push all the real urgent pages to very back.

Therefore, I need to block all the wanted link created by templates to show pages that really need to be created. Are their any setting could limit the Special:WantedPages range to NS=0? [[User:Deletedaccount4567435|Deletedaccount4567435]] ([[User talk:Deletedaccount4567435|talk]]) 18:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:There isn't anything to do this out of the box. I would suggest writing your own Special:WantedPages to override the installed one in order to accomplish this. That, or file a [[BUGREPORT|bug report]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding some Text before output ==

Hello,

I'd like to add some text at the beginning of an article depending on a query parameter. What is the right hook for it and how can I realize this generally.

Thank you [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 07:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:Hooks/ArticleViewHeader|ArticleViewHeader]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:12, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks a lot. Works great! [[User:Finswimmer|Finswimmer]] ([[User talk:Finswimmer|talk]]) 13:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Backend Authentication ==

Hello there, 

can you please give me some food for thought, i don´t get it which could be wrong :/

 

'''Settings'''
- MediaWiki 1.21.2
- using XAMPP 3.2.1
 

'''Informationen:''' 

Domain= Test.local 

OU with Users= Users 

LDAPserver= 192.168.100.10
 

'''LocalSettings.php:'''"
 
<pre># End of automatically generated settings.

# Add more configuration options below.

require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" );

$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
'test.local'
);

$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
'test.local' => '192.168.100.10.test.local'
);

$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
'test.local' => 'uid=USER-NAME,ou=Users,dc=192.168.100.1,dc=test,dc=com'
);

$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
'test.local' => 'ssl'
);

$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;
</pre> [[User:Wechdenmuell|Wechdenmuell]] ([[User talk:Wechdenmuell|talk]]) 10:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:You have not posted a question. Do you have problems with LDAP? The [[Extension:LDAP_Authentication|LDAP documentation is here]]. Or is something else not working? [[Special:Contributions/88.130.120.213|88.130.120.213]] 12:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::sry I forgot :/
::I´ve read the documentation for the biggest part and also for my issue.
::I've got the problem that I always get the error "Error at authentication. Passwod is wrong..."
::but I know it´s the right one, because it´s very simple (test network)
::thank you for help [[Special:Contributions/193.158.119.196|193.158.119.196]] 13:36, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::If you check the logs of your ldap server, do you see the authentication being tried?
:::Have you tried bumping up the verbosity of the ldap server's log to see if you can get more information? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:26, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ==

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/curl.so' - libasn1.so.8: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory in Unknown on line 0
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] ([[User talk:91.98.122.229|talk]]) 12:49, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:That is really a Linux, PHP, or Apache question, not a MediaWiki question. But I'll give it a shot anyway. What is your Linux version?
:Also, looks like your system is running out of memory. What are apache and php's memory limits set to? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks :)
::I installed Mediawiki on my own PC, Ubuntu Desktop 64bit 12.04.
::I increased php memory limit to 1024mb from php.ini but still I see error in apache2 log. Honestly I don't know how increase apach2 memory limit.
::Maybe this happens because I installed mediawiki on a desktop??! [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:02, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::I run MediaWiki on my desktop system all the time, so that shouldn't be the problem. And, actually, I just found [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16981347/php-warning-php-startup-unable-to-load-dynamic-library-failed-to-map-seg a stackoverflow question] that says that you might need to set [[Manual:$wgMaxShellMemory]]. If you adjust that, does it help? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:18, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::It worked! Thank you very much [[Special:Contributions/91.98.122.229|91.98.122.229]] 19:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Navigation panel and treeview ==

Hi,

How do i modify the left navigation pane and replace that with a treeview?
I have tried so many things.
i tried using the treeandmenu extension but to no avail. (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TreeAndMenu)
Maybe i did something wrong?
theses were the steps i followed:
# I downloaded the zip file required.
# Extracted the file and took only the treeandmenu folder and followed the instructions.
From then on i followed the details but maybe i messed somewhere.
can someone help in this? There are a few threads on this but none have seemed to fix my issue. [[User:Chambugong|Chambugong]] ([[User talk:Chambugong|talk]]) 12:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:By "tree view", do you mean sidebars like on Wikipedia? If so, you need to install and use the [[Extension:Vector]] for that. This is in addition to the Vector skin. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== Default Licenses for file upload ==

I will a Default Licenses for image upload in a wiki use, becorse its a game wiki. 90% of the images are screenshots or ingame image (extract with a tool out of the game). And all images are under Copyright of the developer, and we have a Default Licenses for them. Only we upload a image from other source we need to select a other Licenses.

And now my Question.

How i configur mediawiki to use a Default Licenses without select one? [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] 15:32, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:See if [[Manual:Image_administration#Licensing|this page in the manual]] helps. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:07, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::How i edit the MediaWiki:Licenses i know, but i need a Licenses preselection and not the default "none selection" after opern the file:upload.
::For example the preselection is "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5", then anyone will upload a image and he open the file:upload. Then is as preselection the "cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5" Licenses to seen and not the " none selection". [[User:Shadowslight|Shadowslight]] ([[User talk:Shadowslight|talk]]) 04:29, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Because "nolicense" is hard-coded as the default option, the only way I can see to do this is to make all links to the Special:Upload page, include wpLicense in them. For instance: [{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link] which looks like <nowiki>[{{fullurl:Special:Upload|wpLicense=CC-by-sa-2.5}} this link]</nowiki>. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 14:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Mediawiki connection to MySQL on FreeBSD through IPv6 ==

Hi,

I'm having issue figuring out how to set up connection between my Apache web server and MySQL database using IPv6 as oppose to IPv4. My Apache and MySQL are on separate VMs and I know you direct MediaWiki to its database using $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php, but does $wgDBserver support an IPv6 address? As far as I know there is support for IPv6 in MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:IPv6_support) but I can't figure out how to set up the IPv6 connection, I've tried using IPv6 address like $wgDBserver = "fe80::1" but it doesn't work. My setup works with an IPv4 setup so I feel like there should be a way around it using IPv6.

If anyone has any suggestion that'd be great. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] ([[User talk:74.93.209.209|talk]]) 17:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:What do you use on the command line to connect to the server over IPv6? Also, what software versions are you using? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:15, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::I'm using PHP 5.4.7, MediaWiki 1.19, MySQL 5.5 and Apache 2.2 for my setup. As for the command line, I'm not using any aside from allowing MySQL to accept any connection from fe80::*, other than that I've just been playing around with the $wgDBserver in LocalSetting.php. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 18:28, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::Can you ssh in and use a command line to access the server? Do you have access to the MySQL server? Can you check its logs? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::fwiw, there is [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55489 this bug] for php. You might try opening another bug there. In my searching, I came across [http://blogs.iis.net/donraman/archive/2010/06/11/php-5-3-and-mysql-connectivity-problem.aspx this blog post] about php 5.3, MySQL and IPv6.
:::Bottom line, I don't think this is a MediaWiki problem ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::I don't believe it's an issue with php, MySQL and IPv6. I ran nc and a test php script and they both succeeded in connecting to my MySQL server. It seems my versions of the software all support IPv6. Although, I changed my $wgDBserver syntax from $wgDBserver = "fe80::2b%em0"; to $wgDBserver = "[fe80::2b%em0]"; and now I'm getting a "Failed to parse IPv6 address" error instead of a "Failed to connect to database" error message. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 20:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::For some reason I can't save my edits, but for clarification, the % link part is there because I'm using a link-local address. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 21:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::If your php script can connect, then you're right, it probably indicates a MW problem.
::::::Could you post your php test script for IPv6 with passwords removed? I haven't really tried IPv6, so I need to see how you're connecting. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 23:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::I would personally never use link-local addresses anyways, and MediaWiki likely does not support them ([https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/IP_8php_source.html IP.php] makes no provision for it). Use global IPv6 addresses or IPv4 if possible.
:::::::In any case, those are invalid link-local addresses because after % there can be only a number from 0 to 15, no letter m. [[User:Jasper Deng|Jasper Deng]] ([[User talk:Jasper Deng|talk]]) 07:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Hi Mark, thanks for your help so far. I thought I had reply to you but I guess not. Anyway, I'm just using ''mysql_connect("[fc00::2b]", "user", "pass") or die(mysql_error());''. Note that I've changed my address to a unique local address to avoid using % and yet it's still giving me '''Warning:''' mysql_connect(): Failed to parse IPv6 address "fc00:3306". I also did some more digging on my own and everything is pointing to the lack of IPv6 support in php even though my phpinfo page says my IPv6 is enabled so one would assume this would work, but I guess it might only work for some other functions. [[Special:Contributions/74.93.209.209|74.93.209.209]] 19:43, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::::::::Yep, I would try filing a bug against php, then. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:15, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== [Resolved] Decipher failure message - file/directory permission ==

The following failure message occurred when attempting database entry. Examples include submitting new wiki entries, edit pre-existing pages and sending email verification. Please advise for appropriate course of action.

Warning: require(/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/UserMailer.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in/mnt/target03/360794/605927/www.gamification.co/web/content/EngageDB/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 1160 [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] ([[User talk:72.225.247.172|talk]]) 18:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:The important bits are these two:
:<code> failed to open stream: Permission denied</code>
:<code> Failed opening required '.../includes/UserMailer.php'</code>
:There appears to be a problem with the permissions of the files or their directories.
:Check that the includes directory has something like rwxr-xr-x as permissions and that UserMailer.php has rw-r--r--.
:If they don't, change them. If that looks ok, then let me know. We'll have to do some more digging. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 19:04, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::That actually did it. Thank you so much!
::notes: The usermailer.php was 000 or ----- prior to the change. [[Special:Contributions/72.225.247.172|72.225.247.172]] 19:30, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section, but maintain the title of the section ==

Hi,

I intend to use API:Edit to edit the content of a section. For example, I plan to edit the section name "Wiki" which is the No.1(from 0) section. I set the parameter section as "section('1')". When I run the script, the page changed - the content of section 1 changed but the title was missed. The new content followed with the content of section 0. How can I maintain the title of the section?

Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:I'm confused by your explanation of what is happening. Could you point to your wiki where this is happening? Alternatively, could you list out the API calls you're making and the order that you're making them in?
:You may be using the API incorrectly.
:An alternative would be to edit the entire page using the API. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thank you for replying!
::I am learning how to use mediawiki API editing pages and testing on my local server. The previous page is like as following:
::<code> Page Title</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 1</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::<code> Section 2</code>
::<code> ....</code>
::I want to change the content of section 1. I set the parameter "section" as "section('1')" and add the parameter "text(...)" followed by. Then I run the script (written in PHP), the content of Section 1 changed, but the title "Section 1" was missed. I want to keep the title. How can I do? [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
:::The title is part of the section, so you have to make sure it is the first line of whatever your replacement text is. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 20:39, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Thank you! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 19:07, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
::::If the section title is deleted with its contents, how can I create a title for this part after I replace it with new contents? Thanks! [[User:Asdk77|Asdk77]] ([[User talk:Asdk77|talk]]) 18:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Just put a title there in the wikitext that you post.
:::::For example, if you have an old section like this:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with its title, is deleted.</code>
:::::Then you can post a replacement like this:
:::::<code> == Replacment title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This section, with the replacement title, is what is here now.</code>
:::::You could even "keep" the title if you just post it when you edit the section:
:::::<code> == Original title ==</code>
:::::
:::::<code> This is new section text.</code>
:::::What have you tried so far? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 21:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== How can I check the existing pages ==

Hi,
I intend to see all the existing pages. It's said that all the pages are stored in page table. But where the page table is? I didn't find one in my database.

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/99.246.238.137|99.246.238.137]] ([[User talk:99.246.238.137|talk]]) 03:15, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:See [[Manual:page_table|page_table]], check out Special:AllPages on your wiki, or use [[API:Allpages]]. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 16:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== How to check whether a page exists or not ==

Hi,
I intend to check whether a page exists or not. I know how to use mediawiki api to show its properties, but I don't know how to get the content(information of the file in xml) from a url which called a api for my php script. So I plan to check the mediawiki database. Any suggestions?

Thanks! [[Special:Contributions/198.164.227.134|198.164.227.134]] ([[User talk:198.164.227.134|talk]]) 19:18, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:The API does return information in XML format.
:Example: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Page%20that%20does%20not%20exist&prop=info&inprop=&format=xml]. Check for the <code>missing=""</code> property.
:If you want to fiddle with the database, look at the [[Manual:page table|page table]] [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Limiting access to view certain pages ==

We are on MediaWiki.

I am an administrator and our manager is using our wiki page to store some information that should only be viewable/editable by management (ex. bank account information, tax IDs). Is there a way to limit viewing to only a few users and/or not allow certain users to view a page?

Thank you. [[Special:Contributions/66.147.0.46|66.147.0.46]] ([[User talk:66.147.0.46|talk]]) 19:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
:You would want to read [[Manual:Preventing access]], specifically the ''Simple private wiki'' example. [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:In addition to the page Ciencia gave you, also see [[Extension:Lockdown]] for restricting access to a namespace for everyone not in a particular group. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Translate extension not displaying languages menu ==

Hello,

Versions

MediaWiki 1.21.1

PHP 5.3.23 (litespeed)

MySQL 5.1.70-cll

I've installed Translate extension and everything worked great but when I create a translation for a given page the language menu doesn't appear
so I can't link a page and its translated version.

Example : for http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon I've created a French version (http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon/fr)
but the two are not linked automatically.

I can of course add the language markup myself but it gets messy because when I'm in the French version I don't have the language menu.

Thanks,

Bruno Da Silva [[Special:Contributions/79.94.11.78|79.94.11.78]] ([[User talk:79.94.11.78|talk]]) 19:34, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

== Thumbnails not generating ==

For some reason thumbnails not generating in articles. Please see [http://sarkarverse.org/wiki/Problems_of_the_Day this article] for example. Thank you. [[User:Titodutta|Titodutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 03:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Works for me [[User:Ciencia Al Poder|Ciencia Al Poder]] ([[User talk:Ciencia Al Poder|talk]]) 09:37, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Does MediaWiki run slower from a portable stick? ==

Hi, just wanted to ask: is running a wiki on a stick slower than running it from your computer?

I had a small wiki that I ran off of localhost, but my computer died. I'm thinking about starting it back up, but I'd like to make it a bit more portable. [[User:Jpman22|Jpman22]] ([[User talk:Jpman22|talk]]) 06:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:It is probably slower unless you have USB 3.0. But if this is just for personal use, it will probably be ok. ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 11:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::A USB stick usually contains a SSD (and not harddisc with rotating parts). SSDs ''are'' much faster than old HDD drives, but to ''be'' faster, they must be conected as a harddrive. When you use a USB port, this will be notably slower than any internal device; also slower than an internal HDD. If you have the choice, you get the fastest results with an internal SSD.
::However, apart from the purchase advice you might want t start backing up your stuff regularly. That way you won't have to strt over again in the future. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.68.156|88.130.68.156]] 22:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Internal error when creating a new user ==

Hi,

I've just installed Mediawiki with sqlite support and I got the following error when trying to create a new user account:

Fatal exception of type MWException

Enabling [[Manual:$wgShowExceptionDetails|$wgShowExceptionDetails]], I get the following instead:

User::addToDatabase: hit a key conflict attempting to insert a user row, but then it doesn't exist when we select it!
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(468): User->addToDatabase()
#1 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(453): LoginForm->initUser(Object(User), false)
#2 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(236): LoginForm->addNewAccountInternal()
#3 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(178): LoginForm->addNewAccount()
#4 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPage.php(613): LoginForm->execute(NULL)
#5 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SpecialPageFactory.php(487): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
#6 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(291): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Object(Title), Object(RequestContext))
#7 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(565): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#8 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/Wiki.php(458): MediaWiki->main()
#9 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/index.php(59): MediaWiki->run()
#10 {main}

This is my actual configuration:
Mediawiki - 1.21.2
SQLite - 3.7.17
PHP - 5.5.4

Any clue what might be causing the problem? [[Special:Contributions/81.47.192.243|81.47.192.243]] ([[User talk:81.47.192.243|talk]]) 10:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Couldn't reproduce with MW 1.21.2, sqlite 3.7.13 and php 5.4.4... trying php 5.5 ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 17:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Could you file a [[BUGREPORT]]? ☠[[User:MarkAHershberger|MarkAHershberger]]☢([[User_talk:MarkAHershberger|talk]])☣ 18:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== [RESOLVED] Adding a text or link to registration page ==

How can I add a text or link to registration page without editing mediawiki source files? Is there any way? [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:07, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes there is: View the registration page and add to the URL &uselang=qqx. That will show you the name of the different labels. Once you know the name of the label, which you want to change, you can edit the according text inside the MediaWiki namespace of your wiki.
:For example, when the label is shown as "(mytalk)", go to the wiki page MediaWiki:mytalk to edit the text for this label.
:You can edit the text in the different languages by adding the language code to the URL.
:E.g. to edit the German (de) text of the former label go to MediaWiki:mytalk/de. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:51, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

== Change links position on header ==

Is there any way to change positions of links on the header? I mean the "Register", "Login and ... links [[User:Omidh|Omidh]] ([[User talk:Omidh|talk]]) 14:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
:Hi!
:Yes, you can do that with CSS. You can put your own CSS rules into the wiki page MediaWiki:Common.css; they will then overwrite the rules, which come with the skin by default. You can use a tool like Furebug to see, which rules you want to modify. [[Special:Contributions/88.130.127.184|88.130.127.184]] 14:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Thread:Project:Support desk/Is Running a Wiki on a Stick Slower?/reply (2)

2013-10-09T22:04:58Z

88.130.68.156: Reply to Does MediaWiki run slower from a portable stick?

A USB stick usually contains a SSD (and not harddisc with rotating parts). SSDs ''are'' much faster than old HDD drives, but to ''be'' faster, they must be conected as a harddrive. When you use a USB port, this will be notably slower than any internal device; also slower than an internal HDD. If you have the choice, you get the fastest results with an internal SSD.

However, apart from the purchase advice you might want t start backing up your stuff regularly. That way you won't have to strt over again in the future.