MediaWiki-l May 2014

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39 participants
34 discussions

by Legault, Phillip [ITSUS]

I have looked at Imagemap for mapping links to co-ordinance on an image. It is very good for those that have the tools and knows how to figure out the co-ordinance. Is there something available where when someone wants to create page and use a window select on the image to and enter the url they want for that section? If not it would be a nice to have Phil Legault

9 years, 11 months

Permissions & ownership: & maintenance schedules:

by John Foster

I want to know if there is a "suggested " set of ownership & permissions for a mediawiki install> I currently have the site running on linux server: basic LAMP; installed & running ( not correctly) in /vat/www/mywiki. I have been having a great number of errors in uploading images as well as having instantCommons images thumbnails created. Just want to make sure that I have it set up correctly. Also are the maintenance scheduled scripts supposed to run automatically. I have been doing a lot of upgrading & the script runJobs.php seems to require manually running it. Is that correct. Mediawiki 1.22.5. Thanks john

9 years, 11 months

Lua error

by Bill Traynor

I'm trying to get Scribunto working and keep receiving this error when trying to use Modules: Script error: Lua error: Cannot create process: proc_open(/dev/null): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted. Does this mean that proc_open is restricted on my server? Thanks Bill

9 years, 11 months

Where to publish

by chris tharp

Hi Everyone, Not sure to where to publish some helpful gallery CSS add-ons. I've crafted some CSS (patched together from things I've found on the net) for creating the following inside a Mediawiki: 1. A "Pinterest" "Masonry" Like Gallery. This is where a gallery of photos dynamically fit together inside rows. This is pure CSS -- it doesn't use Masonry. Tested in almost all of the major browsers; however, most likely will not work correctly in lower versions of ie. Semantic Results will display formatted inside the gallery if the ask query is inside the starting div and ending div.(tested with a video ask statement that pulled all the videos I had on the site -- where the ask statement prints out to a template). The JavaScript Slideshow extension will show up as item inside the gallery but the image sizes will not automatically re-size to the row size like the other images do. 2. Expand Image Size upon Hover. This is where an image expands to double the size it when the mouse or hand (on touch) goes over it. Will work with normal Mediawiki galleries & the JavaScript Slideshow Extension. Additionally will work with outside photos that are hot-linked and with some types of embedded photos. Normally the image will expand and float over other near-by images. In ie, when combined with the "Pinterest" gallery above, the middle row images will enlarge inside the row but not will float other images in the other rows. Both CSS galleries can work together. Of course I plan on having these on my site, but they seem like some things more people would like. I plan on having an explanation on my site on how do to these things, but it seems like there should be a better place to publish them. However since they're not actually extensions not sure if they should be published on Mediawiki.org. So where should they be published? (if they should be) Thanks Chris Tharp

9 years, 11 months

convert not being found

by Bill Traynor

I'm receiving this error: Error creating thumbnail: var/www/vhosts/mytiwiki.com/subdomains/wiki/httpdocs/includes/limit.sh: line 57: convert: command not found But in LocalSettings.php I have convert set as: $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/local/bin/convert"; And $ls -l /usr/local/bin/convert shows: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25225 Apr 21 2011 /usr/local/bin/convert What am I missing? Thanks Bill

9 years, 12 months

XWIKI to MediaWIKI

by walid yaich

Hi everybody, First of all thanks to everyone here making this piece of art. Well, actually i need to convince my boss to move from XWIKI to MediaWIKI, but the most difficult problem is the migration Would you please give me any clue about the easiest way to migrate the whole content from XWIKI to MediaWIKI Thanks in advance :)

9 years, 12 months

job posting: PHP backend developer to support the Wikidata dev team

by Lydia Pintscher

Hey everyone, I am looking for a great PHP developer to join the software development department at Wikimedia Germany. We have a lot of backend tasks to do around Wikidata especially for the support of Wikimedia Commons. More details about the position are available at https://wikimedia.de/wiki/PHP_Backend_Developer_(f/m) If this is you please do apply. If you know someone who fits please send them them the link. This is a great chance to make a difference around Wikidata's software. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

9 years, 12 months

Help: Confirm email Send Error

by Grammy Jiang

Dear all, Sorry for this help-asking email, I am just new here, and if this email is not appropriate her please tell me where I should go. I am just setting up a mediawiki on a linux server (both mediawiki and linux are new to me), and have met a few problems. Now I want to enable the email notification, let new users can confirm through email. I just following this page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSMTP to add the following lines into mediawiki/includes/DefaultSettings.php: *$wgSMTP = array(* * 'host' => "smtp.ym.163.com <http://smtp.ym.163.com>", // could also be an IP address. Where the SMTP server is located* * 'IDHost' => "ym.163.com <http://ym.163.com>", // Generally this will be the domain name of your website (aka mywiki.org <http://mywiki.org>)* * 'port' => 25, // Port to use when connecting to the SMTP server* * 'auth' => true, // Should we use SMTP authentication (true or false)* * 'username' => "admin(a)createfuture.cn <admin(a)createfuture.cn>", // Username to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)* * 'password' => "XXXXXXXX" // Password to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)* *);* which ym.163.com is providing enterprise email service for free, support other domain name like what i put there. After this, i visit my mediawiki through Chrome, go to Preference page, at the bottom of page there is a Email confirmation box in red, click "Confirm your email address", then and then, the webpage shows the following message: *CreateFuture's Wiki could not send your confirmation mail. Please check your email address for invalid characters.* *Mailer returned: Failed to set sender: apache(a)192.168.6.110 <apache(a)192.168.6.110> [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 501, response: 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax)]* I have googled it for a very long time, but didn't get anything useful. Is there anybody can help me to solve this problem? Or direct my which manual or mediawiki help page I should read? Many thanks! Best regards, Grammy Jiang

9 years, 12 months

Phabricator RFC Closed & Next Steps

by Andre Klapper

Hi, == Closing the Phabricator RFC == As previously announced [1], we've been facilitating an RFC proposing to replace Wikimedia's current product management tools and development toolchain by a tool called Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator We'd like to thank everybody for discussing and testing Phabricator and providing very helpful feedback for the last three weeks! In order to move forward and avoid letting the RFC be forgotten in a dusty corner of the wiki, it's now time to close and summarize it. The goal of the RFC was to gauge interest in simplifying our development toolchain and consolidating our tools (gitblit, Gerrit, Jenkins, Bugzilla, RT, Trello, and Mingle) into Phabricator. At first glance, it seems that there is support for this proposal. The consensus is also that there are blockers that must be addressed before any migration is considered, and that any migration must be carefully planned and as carefully executed. To be clear: It's not yet been decided to move to Phabricator. The RFC has shown that there is interest and enthusiasm about Phabricator, and this means resources could now be devoted to work more specifically on the blockers and the migration plan. We expect that there will be another (shorter) discussion down the road to serve as a reality check. Its format will be lighter than that of the RFC, since its goal will mostly to check that blockers have been resolved and the migration plan makes sense. == Plan for blockers and migration == A first phase of the migration would focus on migrating all the Bugzilla data to Phabricator, and merging the project management work being done in Trello and Mingle. A second phase —that could be worked in parallel— would focus on substituting Gerrit for code review, and RT. There is also a possibility to deprecate Jenkins as a continuous integration tool, but this option is out of scope for now. A few blockers have been identified in these areas, and we will collaborate with the Phabricator community to fix them. The schedule for this migration depends on resolving those issues which are blockers for Wikimedia moving to Phabricator. The Engineering Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation would lead this project allocating the resources necessary to define a detailed plan, proceed with the migration, and maintain the new infrastructure. A longer version, requirements to still sort out first, and concerns raised have been summarized by Quim at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator/Plan == Join the next discussions == There will be a session about Phabricator at the Wikimedia hackathon in Zürich this week-end (see [2]), as well as another IRC discussion next week (in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday, May 14, at 18:00 UTC: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phabricator+migrat… ) Cheers, Guillaume and Andre (and Quim) [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/075993.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics#Future_of_… -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

10 years

collapsibleNav removed

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

FYI https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39035 Nemo

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