I'm interested using MediaWiki as our intranet wiki. Rather than making
everyone create a new account, I am hoping to find an easy way to hook
the login into our existing LDAP database. One low-tech way to do this
is to shell out of PHP and somehow ask UNIX. Has anyone looked into
this before?
Thanks Ashar. That worked great.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Rename user account
Chuck Bishop wrote:
> Is there a simple mysql command to rename a user account?
Hello,
Have a look at ./maintenance/changeuser.sql :o)
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Is there a simple mysql command to rename a user account?
Thanks,
Chuck
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Hello all
I just finished the installation of a mediawiki on a shared hosting
environment; everything went well, I even managed to compile the texvc
binary in the math-subdirectory.
However, here's where the trouble start.
I am trying to convert a formula using texvc on a command prompt (for
testing reasons), but I'll get an error fmtutil.cnf can't be found.
I had to compile the whole tex-packages in a temp-directory and have now
moved the following files into a final directory (which lies in my path):
latex (a symbolic link to tex), tex, dvips, mktexfmt (a symbolic link to
fmtutil), fmtutil, kpsewhich and now, because of the error message,
fmtutil.cnf.
As I said, the directory containing fmtutil.cnf lies in the path, but for
some reason, fmtutil does not find it.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks very much
thomas
MySQL 4.1.7 has just been declared a production-ready 'general
availability' release. Before you all rush out and upgrade, note that a
number of people have reported some problems with MediaWiki failing
during installation on MySQL 4.1, due to a change in the authentication
protocol.
I've done a little testing, and it looks like the proper fix for this
is to recompile PHP after you've upgraded MySQL, so it uses the updated
MySQL client libraries.
The other workaround is to fiddle with the user account to set it to a
backwards-compatible mode (if you upgrade an existing database from 4.0
to 4.1, existing accounts should already be in this mode), as described
here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi,
I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?
My research and experience has shown that MediaWiki is one of the best Wiki's around and I would really like to use it. Is this possible or am I SOL? If I can't use it what would be a second best wiki?
Thanks
--
Rich Points
Rich(a)RichPoints.com
http://RichPoints.com
It might be useful to include a robots.txt file that'll tell search
spiders not to bother with any of the active pages such as 'Edit'. While
it isn't hard to make this kind of file it could be useful to include it
for the sake of giving people a starting place. As most wiki's would
have the same robots.txt file anyway. On most of my sites anyway they
get hit by spiders several times a day so keeping spiders from wasting
time on pages they don't need to index minimizes the wasted server time.
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Michael <mogmios(a)mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org
I recently upgraded my media wiki installation. I had a few problems, but
one of the more annoying is that new links seem to have action=edit
enabled. I've googled, but can't seem to find the solution. Any help is
appreciated.
Christopher
Hi,
For the needs of my projects http://www.nerdypc.org and
http://www.adapedia.org I need the following feature in the software:
The users when they click Edit see a form with a textarea where they can
change the article but also some radio boxes or checkboxes below the textarea
labelled with the copyright licenses that the site supports.
If the edited page is a new article, then the user can choose any license
he/she loves.
If the edited page is an existing article, the software needs to determine
under which license it is available and force the user to submit his/her
changes under the same license.
So, the first author of each wikipage will decide what license the wikipage
will have.
Currently the supported licenses are GFDL and CC-by-sa2, but I may soon
support more like the BSDDOC and more CC. The software needs to allow easy
addition of new licenses.
Of course, the software will have an option (perhaps in LocalSettings.php) to
disable this "copyright management" module and apply a single copyright
license on the whole site, like the GFDLed Wikipedia or the GFDLed JnanaBase
at http://jnana.wikinerds.org
Also, the user preferences could have some checkboxes where the users can
choose what licenses they love and the software will only let them to edit
articles marked with that licenses.
Is the MediaWiki team interested to work together in order to incorporate this
feature in MediaWiki 1.4 ?
If you don't need it in MW, is there any developer who would like to practice
his/her PHP skills by implementing this feature in MediaWiki 1.3.7 ?
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Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org
Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org
I have a lot of spare server space and bandwidth and was considering
offering free (or cheap?) wiki hosting. It seems to me that if you don't
allow uploading of images to the wiki, and serving those images back
out, that a wiki shouldn't eat up a huge amount of bandwidth. Would such
free hosting be useful or are there already a lot of places offering
that? I wouldn't insert ads or anything annoying like that - I just like
providing community resources. Thanks.
--
Michael <mogmios(a)mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org