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[External_Data] Selection of language, country, cities, etc (Ed Hoo) 4. Email problem following 1.16 to 1.25 conversion (Cal Frye) 5. Re: Email problem following 1.16 to 1.25 conversion (Thomas Mulhall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:25:15 +0000 From: Ray Paseur &lt;ray.paseur(a)armedia.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ray.paseur@armedia.com');>> To: &quot;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');>" &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrading from v1.16.5 to 1.25.3 resulting in corruption of multi-byte article titles & articles Message-ID: < DM2PR0101MB10882712EF8FB3408991C9BC86110(a)DM2PR0101MB1088.prod.exchangelabs.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','DM2PR0101MB10882712EF8FB3408991C9BC86110@DM2PR0101MB1088.prod.exchangelabs.com');> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" KKM: Sorry that I do not have a direct solution to the issue, but I have seen and researched similar issues in other sites. This article should help explain what may be happening and offer some pointers. The version level of PHP may be in play. http://iconoun.com/articles/collisions/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:21:19 +0100 From: Bartosz Dziewoński &lt;matma.rex(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','matma.rex@gmail.com');>> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');>> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Upgrading from v1.16.5 to 1.25.3 resulting in corruption of multi-byte article titles & articles Message-ID: &lt;5645FFEF.6070500(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','5645FFEF.6070500@gmail.com');>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I think something went wrong when you exported and imported the database. (I assume that's how you got the two sites up at the same time?) MediaWiki always stores all text in the UTF-8 encoding, and in the database, the encoding of the fields is marker as either "binary" or "utf8" (the former is recommended due to problems with older MySQL versions). My guess is that in the `page` table, the `page_title` field was marked as being in some different encoding. This does not normally cause problems (MediaWiki doesn't use any of MySQL encoding conversion functions), but when you exported it, MySQL tried to interpret the UTF-8 bytes as whatever-encoding bytes and converted that to UTF-8. When you imported, the data was already damaged. If that's indeed the case (I'm just guessing), change the encoding of the field in the original table (do not convert or re-encode the data, it's correct, just marked wrong) and try to re-export and re-import that table. -- Bartosz Dziewoński ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:11:21 -0500 From: Ed Hoo &lt;edward.hoo(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','edward.hoo@gmail.com');>> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] [External_Data] Selection of language, country, cities, etc Message-ID: &lt;A9821DC2-8F0D-412C-B1B2-569B7027A452(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','A9821DC2-8F0D-412C-B1B2-569B7027A452@gmail.com');> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi everyone, When using cargo and semantic forms, what is the best way to keep large lists of valid values. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data seems like a reasonable option. Am I overlooking a simpler option for relatively large lists? As a separate question is there a way that allows for pick-lists to be organized in a hierarchical manner? In the past, instead of using a dropdown listbox or combo box I used a popup menu with a submenu and that made selecting a value from a list with 100-200 choices very easy and very fast for the user. Short of using 2 fields (one conditional on the other) what are the options in the wiki universe?!! PS. Thanks for the tip on the data import extension!! Thanks again! -Ed ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:14:12 -0500 From: Cal Frye &lt;cal.frye(a)oberlin.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cal.frye@oberlin.edu');>> To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Email problem following 1.16 to 1.25 conversion Message-ID: &lt;564660B4.9050000(a)oberlin.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','564660B4.9050000@oberlin.edu');>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, We did a migration and conversion from v.1.16 to 1.25.3 on a new server, using XAMPP as our base. Generally, it worked well, thanks for that! We have a lingering problem, however, in sending email, including confirmation messages, password resets, etc. No mail is sent, and the error, "Unknown error in PHP's mail() function." is returned. Google suggests two small changes in the UserMailer.php file, both having to do with the $headers variable. Neither fix works, however, in our case. I've scanned the archives of this list back to January, and didn't see anything there that seemed like this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Many thanks! Cal Frye ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:23:16 +0000 From: Thomas Mulhall &lt;thomasmulhall410(a)yahoo.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com');>> To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Email problem following 1.16 to 1.25 conversion Message-ID: &lt;1447456996.86974.YahooMailMobile(a)web172705.mail.ir2.yahoo.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','1447456996.86974.YahooMailMobile@web172705.mail.ir2.yahoo.com');> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi quick questions did you also update xampp since updating that may fix problem. Also what php version are you using. MediaWiki 1.25 supports php 5.3 or higher. And also in your local settings.php file you may need to either regenerate it so that it is much easier to update meaning you re generate the local settings file then copying it over to the localsettings.php file. Also removed when regenerating it by going to the sub folder w-config that localsettings.php should be temporary renamed so localsettings.php can be regenerated. Then rename file back and copy over from the new file to the old. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org');> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ------------------------------ End of MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 14 ********************************************