Hi,
I have made a Captcha plugin for ConfirmEdit called MCQ (Multiple Choice
Questions)
Below is the usage of it
sample Captcha:
Pick the correct Option Number
We pray to 1.Time 1.God 3.Lion 4.Tomato ?
Answer 2
Why Beneficial ?
* Bots don't have common sense
* No Images so loads faster
* Most Important - Good support for i18n
* Further plans to let the user just select the right option rather
than typing text
It is currently hosted on github at https://github.com/nischayn22/MCQCaptcha
.
This is my first Extension/Plugin so it may have many faults, my apologies
for that.
Please leave your comments
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With Regards
Nischay Nahata
B.tech 3rd year
Department of Information Technology
NITK,Surathkal
IRC nick- nischayn22
hello,
I downloaded a project wiki from sourceforge (mediawiki 1.14.1),
configured apache with php 5.3.10 in /home/felix/public_html as
localhost/~felix and copied the wiki/ directory to
/home/felix/public_html.
I configured php with display_errors=On, and I have seen php errors in
the browser window until I did a "chmod -R 777 wiki/". Once that is
fixed, I simply get an empty page when requesting index.php.
I don't see any relevant errors in the apache2 error log
(and couldn't find any php log).
The affected wiki is here:
http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
(yes, the color is terrible, that's why I'm working on it ;-)
How can I debug this?
Thanks in advance!
--
Felix Natter
Hello,
I just saw the wonderful editor helps in Wikipedia, which lets you
aditional choose "Advanced", "Special Characters" and "help"
at the end there is also another Box, where I can choose a wide range of
symbols "Latin Creek, Cyrillic, Maths"
I think this would be a nice feature in my Wiki also. So the question is,
which extensions I need to install.
Thank you so much in advance, your Help is highly appreciated
Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon!
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco)
Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012).
We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types
of sessions.
We want the technical track to be the best possible and we need your help!
We want submission on various aspects of MediaWiki technology, mobile
apps, operations, and more.
How do we make Wikipedia scale? visual editor? Wikipedia and wiktionary
mobile apps, wikidata, semantic mediawiki, GLAM tech, toolserver projects
and tools, MediaWiki extensions, OpenStreetMap and other maps/geo,
Wikimedia labs, and everything else that I'm forgetting to mention. :)
Among all these topics, we're also interested in highlight accessibility as
a topic for presentations and during the hackathon.
You can view the call for participation and make submissions here:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Don't forget there will also be a hackathon during the preconference:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Cheers,
Katie
--
President, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
I'm currently trying to run a nightly backup/copy of my production media wiki to a "read only" copy on another system. I wrote a script to do everything through ssh:
----
#!/usr/bin/ksh
scripts=/scripts
mysqldump --opt wikidb -u root -psomePass > $scripts/wikidb.sql
scp $scripts/wikidb.sql 10.4.3.1:tmp || exit
sleep 3
ssh 10.4.3.1 '/usr/bin/mysql -u root -psomePass wikidb < tmp/wikidb.sql' || exit
echo replica wiki database updated
echo syncing attachments and files
rsync --delete -avz -e ssh /var/www/htdocs/wiki/images root@10.4.3.1:/var/www/htdocs/wiki
----
My copy/replica has an entry in the LocalSettings.php to make it a read-only wiki:
$wgReadOnly = 'Read Only';
It works great.
However, when I access the replica after a period of time, it's VERY slow/sluggish. If I edit the LocalSettings.php file and disable the 'read only' line, it's lightning fast again. If I then change it back to 'read only', it's still fast but slows down over the course of the night.
The only way around this was to make a little script which places a normal edit-able LocalSettings.php file into place, then does a wget to one of the wiki pages, then copies the 'read only' version of the LocalSettings.php file back into place. After I run the script, it's fast again.
Anyone know why this slowness occurs? I've tested the mysql response time via command line while the wiki is slow, and the mysql is still fast. It's some interaction between apache and mysql which causes this replica to slow down. If I try to access a 'non wiki' document (ie: some file on the webserver) it does not have any latency.
Any ideas/help would be great.
Thanks!
We'd like to thank all those who spent time helping beta-testing. Several
bugs were identified and resolved, and we'd like to bring in some more
beta-testers for a second round.
The link has changed slightly (which might be why people stopped
beta-testing):
http://education.wmflabs.org/wiki/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_te…!
Thanks!
Rob
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Rob Schnautz <rschnautz(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain
> elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is
> interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and
> paste) the link below to get started:
>
>
> http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_be…
> !
>
> Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia
> Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however
> you
> wish; the more testing you do, the better!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Schnautz
> Online Communications Contractor
> Global Development
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Updating searchindex between 20120308183323 and 20120309183323
--- Waiting for lock ---
A database error has occurred
Query: SELECT lc_value FROM `vw_l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND
lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1
Function: LCStore_DB::get
Error: 1100 Table 'vw_l10n_cache' was not locked with LOCK TABLES
(mysql.zbase.temporalvagabonds.net)
I'm getting this error when running updateSearchIndex.php. I'm a bit of
a novice when it comes to this stuff so I was wondering what should I be
looking at to fix whatever this is?