Use database prefix with SQLite

How can I use database prefix with SQLite? Installer doesn't show database prefix option when selecting SQLite database. 122.46.178.230 (talk) 19:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

I think the reason you can't use a prefix with sqlite is that doing so would suggest that multiple applications could be accessing the database at the same time, and sqlite doesn't work with that (there's no way to lock the file at any more granular level than the whole thing).

I might be wrong of course. :) Sam Wilson 00:15, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Extension:InputBox preloadparams

There seems to be an issue with the preloadparams[] = parameter of Extension:InputBox, where instead of including %5B%5D the text %5B0%5D is included, where the extra "0" prevevnts it from functioning.

see example: wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints

Any ideas for fixing this?

(also posted here) T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 02:54, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Have also made Phabricator task here T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 10:27, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Request to 'correct translate markup' and put 'for translation'

تعديل

مرحبا

ارجوا المساعدة

لقد اجريت تعديل في صفحة حدث في مثل هذا اليوم في 4 يناير الوفيات

انا عندما اكون مسجل ارى التعديل بينما اسجل خروج لا استطيع ان ارى اخر التعديل.

لكم كل الشكر إسحق (talk) 11:11, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Please explain which exact page, and where exactly, and how someone else can see the problem. Malyacko (talk) 15:28, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

I think you are referring to the arabic wikipedia page, and to the fact that that patrolled revisions are used, and thus when you log out, you see the last partolled revision. the deployment of this mechanism is a choice made earlier by the community (expectedly, and sadly), and you should be able to request someone to mark your revision or until you have the "privilege" of being an "editor" with sufficient edits in your history.

أظنك تشير إلى صفحة في ويكيبيديا العربية. وإلى ان الويكي العربية تستخدم نظام المراجعات والمراجعات المعلمة، وبالتالي، عند تسجيلك خروج، فإنك كأي زائر آخر مُجهّل، لن ترى إلا آخر نسخة معلمة كمراجعة. استخدام هذه الآلية كان خيار إتخذه مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربية في وقت مضى (للأسف، كان أمرا متوقعا)، ويمكنك طلب أن يقوم احد المحررين بتعليم تعديلاتك كمراجعة في واحدة من الصفحات المناسبة (انظر في الميدان مثلا)، او سيتم اعتبارك محررا وستكون تعديلاتك مراجعة تلقائيا بعد عدد معين من التحريرات . Uwe a (talk) 16:06, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

file-path to display graphic

Hello,

I have a folder which is a sub-folder of "images". There are some graphics in this folder which I want to display on one of my Wiki-pages. How do I get the image into the page?

Tried: file = File:wiki/images/subfolder/graphic.png

But it doesn't work. What is the correct code?

Big Thanks in advance! 80.146.228.123 (talk) 12:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

HELLO, anyone?? 80.146.228.123 (talk) 13:01, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Does the required file show up in your Wiki's version of Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=6? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:49, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

No, but other files I uploaded directly through the Wiki are not there either. It seems like when I upload the files directly into the folder the Wiki doesn't know where to find them. When I upload them through the Wiki-upload-page I don't even need the path, the file name is enough for the Wiki to find the file (code: File:graphic.png). How can I teach Wiki to find the file in my folder? Thanks!! 80.146.228.123 (talk) 14:07, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:ImportImages.php and Manual:Importing external content. Malyacko (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

What is best way to hide some content by viewer's permission

For example, "Edit This Page" link should not be seen by one whom no permission to edit.

Maybe a styles type gadget specified by permission will be one solution. But is this the best way?

Thanks. Lens0021 (talk) 12:44, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

For users without the required edit permissions, instead of "Edit" the "View source" text is displayed. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:47, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

I am sorry for my bed example. Maybe "See Editors!" link? Lens0021 (talk) 13:51, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

To hide the entire tab, I think per user group CSS (such as MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css) would be an easy way to accomplish this. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Per user group CSS is something I have looked for, Thank you for your kindness! Lens0021 (talk) 13:54, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Parsoid VisualEditor not working

Hello all,

When I try to make any edit to a page using VisualEditor or save a new page through VisualEditor the load bar gets to about 75% and then says:

Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http-error: (curl error: 7) Couldn't connect to server. Would you like to retry?

I'm not sure what details would be helpful, but I am running this on a Debian server on Google Cloud. At first I thought it may have been blocking the port 8142 but I believe I fixed that issue. (Is there some way to check?)

For reference, here is my parsoid config file: (sorry for the awful formatting, not sure what happened)

# This is a sample configuration file
#
# Also see:
# - `npm start -- -h` for more information about passing config files via
#   the commandline.
# - lib/config/ParsoidConfig.js for all the properties that you can configure
#   here. Not all properties are documented here.
worker_heartbeat_timeout: 300000

 logging:
     level: info
  metrics:
     type: log
     services:
     - module: ../src/lib/index.js
     entrypoint: apiServiceWorker
     conf:
# For backwards compatibility, and to continue to support non-static
# configs for the time being, optionally provide a path to a
# localsettings.js file.  See localsettings.example.js
#localsettings: ./localsettings.js
# Set your own user-agent string
# Otherwise, defaults to:
#   'Parsoid/<current-version-defined-in-package.json>'
#userAgent: 'My-User-Agent-String'
# Configure Parsoid to point to your MediaWiki instances.
mwApis:        -
# This is the only required parameter,
# the URL of you MediaWiki API endpoint.
uri: 'http://localhost/w/api.php'
# The "domain" is used for communication with Visual Editor
# and RESTBase.  It defaults to the hostname portion of
# the `uri` property below, but you can manually set it
# to an arbitrary string.
domain: 'localhost'  # optional
# To specify a proxy (or proxy headers) specific to this prefix
# (which overrides defaultAPIProxyURI). Alternatively, set `proxy`
# to `null` to override and force no proxying when a default proxy
# has been set.
#proxy:
#    uri: 'http://my.proxy:1234/'
#    headers: # optional
#        'X-Forwarded-Proto': 'https'
# We pre-define wikipedias as 'enwiki', 'dewiki' etc. Similarly
# for other projects: 'enwiktionary', 'enwikiquote', 'enwikibooks',
# 'enwikivoyage' etc.
# The default for this is false. Uncomment the line below if you want
# to load WMF's config for wikipedias, etc.

Here is the end of my LocalSettings:

wfLoadExtension('VisualEditor');
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-enable'] = 1;
$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = array(
 'url' => 'http://localhost:8142'
);

Zsiegel2 (talk) 20:38, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Update: I tried doing curl localhost:8124 and it says connection refused. Any idea why? 108.14.57.42 (talk) 21:06, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Are you sure parsoid is running? Can you see it when you run <code>ps aux | grep node</code>?

(I've tried formatting your code--VE needs some work for pasting code fragments. Please modify it if you can to make sure it matches what you have.) ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:46, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the formatting - it looks right. I believe so, here's what I get:

parsoid  25089  0.0  0.1   4288   768 ?        S    Jan03   0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/lib/parsoid/src/bin/server.js -c /etc/mediawiki/parsoid/config.yaml >> /var/log/parsoid/parsoid.log 2>&1

parsoid  25091  0.0  6.5 989336 39708 ?        Sl   Jan03   0:02 /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/lib/parsoid/src/bin/server.js -c /etc/mediawiki/parsoid/config.yaml

zachary+ 30152  0.0  0.1  12784  1024 pts/0    S+   02:50   0:00 grep node

Zsiegel2 (talk) 02:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Update: I've gone to my parsoid error log and here's what I get:

Killed

{"name":"parsoid","hostname":"circuitdebater","pid":30815,"level":30,"levelPath":"info/service-runner","msg"

:"master(30815) initializing 1 workers","time":"2019-01-04T03:27:52.929Z","v":0}

{"name":"parsoid","hostname":"circuitdebater","pid":30825,"level":60,"moduleName":"../src/lib/index.js","lev

elPath":"fatal/service-runner/worker","msg":"Unexpected token {","time":"2019-01-04T03:27:54.139Z","v":0}

{"name":"parsoid","hostname":"circuitdebater","pid":30815,"level":40,"message":"first worker died during sta

rtup, continue startup","worker_pid":30825,"exit_code":1,"startup_attempt":1,"levelPath":"warn/service-runne

r/master","msg":"first worker died during startup, continue startup","time":"2019-01-04T03:27:55.147Z","v":0

}

It's worth noting that circuitdebater is not my hostname. I'm just using an ip address, so I'm not sure how that got there. Zsiegel2 (talk) 03:37, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

There's a "Unexpected token {" message there. Probably a syntax error somewhere, probably on the config.yaml Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:22, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I looked through the config file and I cannot find anything. Does anything look abnormal to you in the parsoid config file I posted? Zsiegel2 (talk) 18:04, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Do you have a localsettings.js that might have an error in it? Can you re-deploy with npm? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 22:55, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I do not have a localsettings.js file to my knowledge. (unless it's in a different directory as the config.yaml file). How would I re-deploy it with npm? Zsiegel2 (talk) 23:55, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

By "re-deploy with npm" I just mean "reinstall from scratch".

How did you install parsoid? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:33, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. I followed the instructions on Parsoid/Setup by running

sudo apt install dirmngr

sudo apt-key advanced --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 90E9F83F22250DD7

echo "deb https://releases.wikimedia.org/debian jessie-mediawiki main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parsoid.list

sudo apt install apt-transport-https

sudo apt update && sudo apt install parsoid

I'm new to linux - I attempted to reinstall it by apt-removing dirmngr, apt-transport-https, and parsoid. Didn't seem to help. Is there another way to do that?

Also, is there a way to check what version of Parsoid I am running? Maybe it's not compatible with the version of mediawiki that I am running? I am running the latest version of media wiki.

Zsiegel2 (talk) 17:12, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Update:

I installed the latest version of nodeJS and I now get a different error:

Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http: HTTP 404. Would you like to retry? Zsiegel2 (talk) 17:24, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I checked my parsoid log file and am getting an invalid domain error.

{"name":"../src/lib/index.js","hostname":"circuitdebater","pid":5215,"level":60,"levelPath":"fatal/request","msg":\ "Invalid domain: 35.196.221.232","time":"2019-01-05T17:57:33.778Z","v":0} Zsiegel2 (talk) 17:58, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

At least it looks like MW is communicating now, right?

Could you try the following:

$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = [
 'url' => 'http://localhost:8142',
 'domain' => 'localhost'
];

From Linking with Parsoid ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

It worked!! Thank you so much! I wonder why it assumed a different domain, who knows. Zsiegel2 (talk) 19:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

sorry to bring this up again. I used to have the exact same problem and could actually solve it with help of this thread. I now receive no errors, however, VisualEditor just does not load when clicking on any edit button. URL changes to [..]&veaction=edit but the page does not change compared to the default read-page. clicking on the "edit source" does load up that default source-editor.

No logfile I had a look at does show any errors or warnings.

Any quick ideas what to do in order to make the editor load up?

Tank you!

Bixbixbix (talk) 10:52, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Did you update the submodules by running the git submodule update --init command? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 11:22, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I did that. Folder lib/ve/ is populated as well. Bixbixbix (talk) 11:56, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

What does your javascript console say? (Here are instructions on how to open it if you don't know how already.)

@Bixbixbix: if you can point us to your wiki (if it is public) we may be able to see what is wrong. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:06, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

It is privat and locally hosted, so no pointout - sorry.

As soon as I load the extension (and only then), an error clutters the console. I tried disable all other extensions, the only problematic one is VisualEditor. Here is what I get:

[b259507e98d2547a6dec70c5] /wiki/load.php?debug=false&lang=de&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector ConfigException from line 53 of /var/www/html/wiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'EnableBlockNoticeStats'

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/VisualEditorHooks.php(935): GlobalVarConfig->get(string)

#1 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Hooks.php(174): VisualEditorHooks::onResourceLoaderGetConfigVars(array)

#2 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Hooks.php(202): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL)

#3 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(129): Hooks::run(string, array)

#4 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(432): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getConfigSettings(ResourceLoaderContext)

#5 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(708): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getScript(ResourceLoaderContext)

#6 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(675): ResourceLoaderModule->buildContent(ResourceLoaderContext)

#7 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(812): ResourceLoaderModule->getModuleContent(ResourceLoaderContext)

#8 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(660): ResourceLoaderModule->getVersionHash(ResourceLoaderContext)

#9 [internal function]: ResourceLoader->{closure}(string)

#10 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(672): array_map(Closure, array)

#11 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(753): ResourceLoader->getCombinedVersion(ResourceLoaderContext, array)

#12 /var/www/html/wiki/load.php(51): ResourceLoader->respond(ResourceLoaderContext)

#13 {main}

[b259507e98d2547a6dec70c5] /wiki/load.php?debug=false&lang=de&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector ConfigException from line 53 of /var/www/html/wiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'EnableBlockNoticeStats'

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/html/wiki/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/VisualEditorHooks.php(935): GlobalVarConfig->get(string)

#1 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Hooks.php(174): VisualEditorHooks::onResourceLoaderGetConfigVars(array)

#2 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Hooks.php(202): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL)

#3 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(129): Hooks::run(string, array)

#4 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(432): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getConfigSettings(ResourceLoaderContext)

#5 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(708): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getScript(ResourceLoaderContext)

#6 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(675): ResourceLoaderModule->buildContent(ResourceLoaderContext)

#7 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(1072): ResourceLoaderModule->getModuleContent(ResourceLoaderContext)

#8 /var/www/html/wiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(776): ResourceLoader->makeModuleResponse(ResourceLoaderContext, array, array)

#9 /var/www/html/wiki/load.php(51): ResourceLoader->respond(ResourceLoaderContext)

#10 {main}

Problematic modules: {"startup":"error"}

No changes made to GlobalVarConfig.php from my side. Bixbixbix (talk) 06:18, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

EnableBlockNoticeStats seems to come from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rEMFR0d09aeb6d6a841b267698b26051d7f8ec9139e96

Are you using the version of MobileFrontend and VisualEditor that matches your MediaWiki version? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:14, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

I just got it to work.

I could swear, I double-checked the versions, seem's like this was the case. After completely removing MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, downloading the files again and re-uploading them, VisualEditor loaded up and is working. Either I totally misclicked on the wrong version when downloading or something went wrong in uploading. I don't even know exactly which extension caused the problem, however, it's fine for now.

Thank you very much! Bixbixbix (talk) 11:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

May I ask what version of node needs to be used for parsoid to work? I've tried different versions using nvm (10.0, 12.16.2, 12.4.0) and then "npm rebuild" and "npm install" but I'm getting errors in the parsoid.log such as:

const { PROTOCOL } = require('./constants');

      ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)

    at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/hot-shots/index.js:1:80)

    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/service-runner/lib/statsd.js:3:16)

    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

I've read that these errors can occur if there is an incompatible version of node. Which version does parsoid need? I read on the parsoid installation page that node 10.0 should work, but this is the error I'm getting after "nvm use 10.0" and "npm rebuild" and "npm install". Lwangaman (talk) 14:57, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

According to Parsoid/Releases, Parsoid 0.10.0 (released Dec 5, 2018) requires nodejs version 6 or later, but will probably not work with version 12.

There's no information about Parsoid 0.11.0 (released Jan 14, 2020) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm running a system with Ubuntu 16.04 and Plesk Obsydian (which installs it's own version of nodejs). I added the ubuntu/debian repository as indicated in the parsoid documentation (even though it's not a xenial repository) and apt installed parsoid. Seeing that after configuration and with my wiki uri it wasn't working as expected, I checked the logs and saw these errors, so I figured I would use nvm to make sure there was a compatible version of node running. Seeing the package.json indicated a target of nodejs v6.9.2, I just now did an nvm install 6.9.2 and then npm rebuild and npm install, and restarted the parsoid service. I got this error in the parsoid.log:

/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/hot-shots/lib/statsd.js:8

let unixDgram;

^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode

at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)

at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/hot-shots/index.js:1:80)

at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/service-runner/lib/statsd.js:3:16)

at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

So I tried nvm install 8.0 and then npm rebuild and npm install, and again restarted the parsoid service. Now I see this error message:

/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/service-runner/lib/logger.js:17

constructor(downstream, options = {}) {

^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token =

at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)

at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/service-runner/lib/base_service.js:10:16)

at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

at Module.load (module.js:344:32)

at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/parsoid/node_modules/service-runner/lib/master.js:7:21)

at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)

Is it possible that parsoid version 0.11.0 simply isn't stable yet? Anyone else succeed in installing parsoid v0.11.0?

BTW I'm seeing a few difficulties even on here when trying to go back and forth with the visual editor, the visual editor usually crashes and I lose content :o Lwangaman (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Need a page deleted

possible to enable section numbers in body for all users who view a single page, without affecting other pages?

Is it possible to turn on section numbers for a single page, for all users who view that page, without affecting other pages? If so, how does one do this? Phillipmfeldman (talk) 01:07, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

It is possible using css counters or Javascript or a mediawiki extension to target a single page. 197.218.81.115 (talk) 08:06, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

mimetype detection not working as expected

I'm trying to add "cbz" file extention to my wiki as a recognized file type on upload, and I want it to be identified as "application/vnd.comicbook+zip" as it should and as the output of command "mimetype -bi" is.

so I added

$wgFileExtensions[] = 'cbz';

But I still received error(s):

File extension ".cbz" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (application/zip).

So I've added:

$wgMimeDetectorCommand = "/usr/bin/mimetype -bi";

the error persists and does not change the detected mime type to the value output of the "mimetype -bi" command.

Turing off mime type verification with the following:

$wgVerifyMimeType = false;

allows me to upload the file indeed, but still reports mimetype: "MIME type: application/zip" ; still different from what mimetype command outputs.

My guess is that this is probably the fault of includes/libs/mime/MimeAnalyzer.php ; setting a value and returning before invoking mimetype command?

Should I try something different or is this a bug? Uwe a (talk) 01:27, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the output in a terminal window if you manually run "/usr/bin/mimetype -bi whatever.cbz" on a cbz file that shows this problem? Malyacko (talk) 10:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

$ mimetype -bi somefile.cbz

application/vnd.comicbook+zip

$file -bi somefile.cbz

application/zip; charset=binary Uwe a (talk) 12:34, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Edit Footer

Hey Guys,

I tried to add some Link into Footer with

$wgHooks['SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec'][] = function( $sk, &$tpl ) {
    $tpl->set( 'termsofuse', $sk->footerLink( 'termsofuse', 'termsofusepage' ) );
    // or to add non-link text:
    //$tpl->set( 'footertext', 'Text to show in footer' );
    $tpl->data['footerlinks']['places'][] = 'termsofuse';
    return true;
};

but it don't work.

What could I have done wrong?

Best regards,

Stefan 213.164.82.122 (talk) 07:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

It looks like you're using the code from Manual:Footer. Brikipedia commented out the same code and replaced it: :

$wgHooks['SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec'][] = function( $sk, &$tpl ) {
    $tpl->set( 'parents', $sk->footerLink( 'parents', 'parentspage' ) );
	$tpl->data['footerlinks']['places'][] = 'parents';
	return true;
}

Maybe you need to do something similar? (Fount via codesearch.) ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Make files accessable for Mediawiki

How/where do I store files in the Mediawiki so that the Wiki can access/find them, for example an xml-Document which will be displayed as a Wiki page later? 80.146.228.123 (talk) 08:08, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

You will have to upload them through Special:Upload. For details, see Manual:Configuring file uploads. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 09:54, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! But but my files should be updated automatically from an existing database that throws them into a folder on my Wiki. I can't do the manual upload everytime, it's many files. Is there no way the the Wiki can access those files?? 80.146.228.123 (talk) 09:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Co-incidentally someone else asked a similar question here, less than a day earlier.

"See Manual:ImportImages.php and Manual:Importing external content." AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 10:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Insert them as external images (not as internal File: links), see Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages. But you won't be able to control the size of those images. A less safe alternative but allows to control the size of the image is to Manual:$wgAllowImageTag Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:20, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Starting with 1.31. I get "This script must be run from the command line" when I run a php-scripts via ssh

Moving and upgrading a Wiki, extensions?

I'm moving a Wiki http://mariowiki.net to a new server, and in that process, I'll upgrade it from 1.23 to the current version. So I made a clean MW installation on my new server and started to download the images folder, then I'll download the localsettings.php file and the database, upload the files onto the new server, add them to the clean, new MW installation, update the localsettings.php with the new database access data and run the update script. But what about the extensions such as ImageMap and CheckUser?

Is it better to re-install them after a successful MediaWiki upgrade and just ignore them until then? Semako96 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

It makes sense to install the updated extensions when you are deploying the wiki. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Creating my own user page

Change outgoing email notifications

MediaWiki's #p

DB Error: 1054 Unknown column 'ug_expiry' in 'field list'

Hey wikifriends,

it seems my upgrade did not add a table due to permission problems perhaps (?) and now I cannot do anything with users, either logging in or even see the user pages... any ideas on how to fix this?

Cheers, g

When I try to open a User:Project page it looks like this:

Error: 1054 Unknown column 'ug_expiry' in 'field list' (project.mysql.project.com)

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [XDB2SoOCRgYAAH1RSSEAAAAJ] /project/index.php?title=Benutzer:Gego Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1457 of /u/www/project/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading?

Query: SELECT ug_user,ug_group,ug_expiry FROM `project07_user_groups` WHERE ug_user = '1'

Function: UserGroupMembership::getMembershipsForUser

Error: 1054 Unknown column 'ug_expiry' in 'field list' (project.mysql.project.com)

Backtrace:

#0 /u/www/project/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1427): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)

#1 /u/www/project/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1200): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)

#2 /u/www/project/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1653): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#3 /u/www/project/includes/user/UserGroupMembership.php(318): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(string, array, array, string)

#4 /u/www/project/includes/user/User.php(1571): UserGroupMembership::getMembershipsForUser(integer, Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli)

#5 /u/www/project/includes/user/User.php(538): User->loadGroups()

#6 /u/www/project/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1092): User->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL)

#7 /u/www/project/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1240): WANObjectCache->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL)

#8 /u/www/project/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(1097): WANObjectCache->doGetWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure, array, NULL)

#9 /u/www/project/includes/user/User.php(561): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure, array)

#10 /u/www/project/includes/user/User.php(482): User->loadFromCache()

#11 /u/www/project/includes/user/User.php(407): User->loadFromId(integer)

#12 /u/www/project/includes/skins/Skin.php(360): User->load(integer)

#13 /u/www/project/includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(1348): Skin->getRelevantUser()

#14 /u/www/project/includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(482): SkinTemplate->buildNavUrls()

#15 /u/www/project/includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(249): SkinTemplate->prepareQuickTemplate()

#16 /u/www/project/includes/OutputPage.php(2388): SkinTemplate->outputPage()

#17 /u/www/project/includes/MediaWiki.php(868): OutputPage->output(boolean)

#18 /u/www/project/includes/MediaWiki.php(880): MediaWiki->{closure}()

#19 /u/www/project/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()

#20 /u/www/project/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#21 {main} 213.47.13.4 (talk) 10:06, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

P.S. My DB does not have the column ug_expiry under project07_user_groups 213.47.13.4 (talk) 10:12, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I looked into another install and there the ug_expiry for UGs column is there with NULL value for the groups... 213.47.13.4 (talk) 10:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

ug_expiry was introduced in 1.29 according to Manual:User groups table#ug expiry. Which steps did you follow on which website in order to upgrade the database scheme? Malyacko (talk) 12:16, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I used the manual Manual:Upgrading#Web browser and upgraded from a 1.25 I did not have all the required prerequisites for the latest until recently... 213.47.13.4 (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Warnings on Home page after installing Mediawiki

Getting Following Warning messages after configuring Mediawiki

Sat Jan 05 16:30:47.619510 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 11652:tid 1092] [client ::1:52839] PHP Warning:  "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\mediawiki-1.31.1\\languages\\LanguageConverter.php on line 773, referer: http://localhost:8888/mediawiki-1.31.1/index.php/Main_Page

[Sat Jan 05 16:31:00.176175 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 11652:tid 1092] [client ::1:52848] PHP Warning:  "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\mediawiki-1.31.1\\includes\\json\\FormatJson.php on line 297, referer: Rk0064410 (talk) 11:17, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Which exact PHP version is used? Malyacko (talk) 12:14, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

This is an issue with PHP 7.3. Issues with MW 1.31 and PHP 7.3 are being tracked here: T206988 ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:53, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki loads with no style/css

Hi, I tried everything I could find on the web but to no avail... The website loads without any styling.

Images DO work, however...

Help please! 79.183.227.112 (talk) 12:10, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Read please: Manual:Errors and symptoms#The wiki appears without styles applied and images are missing :)

If that does not help, check your web browser's developer tools and your webserver log for errors. Malyacko (talk) 12:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

How to force UI to be in English or remove non-English UI languages?

I've spent maybe half an hour searching for this and exploring the Preferences to no avail. I can read languages other than English but pretty much cannot use user interfaces in a language other than English, especially when editing non-English pages; it is super confusing and time-consuming for me.

Is there any way to force the Wikipedia interface to be in English while editing non-English pages? Or a way to remove, for example, Display languages other than English?

Thank you. Wisdawn (talk) 13:46, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Have a look again at the preferences: Under "Internationalisation" it says "Language" - that is where you can chose the interface language, which MediaWiki should use. 87.123.197.137 (talk) 14:31, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know if MediaWiki and Wikipedia use the same preferences, but this is on Wikipedia.org; if you mean Preferences -> User profile -> Internationalisation -> More language settings -> Display -> English + Apply settings, then that's what I do, but the interface language keeps changing from English. And if you mean the language in the drop-down menu under Internationalisation, then it's also "en - English". The Wikipedia interface still changes from English to other languages if I view articles in that language, and those languages are listed as options under Display, and I don't have a way to removing them from the Display options.

Wisdawn (talk) 14:18, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.wikipedia.org/ has no login and no preferences. Malyacko (talk) 17:11, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

how do you report a bug?

How do I cache a short element of code?

I have a custom tag in my wiki page. The tag processes a GitHub URL, retrieves information from the GitHub API and then gives it back for display in the wiki page. The information I get is in JSON format.

When the page cache is purged, the GitHub API is queried again and again, which basically is useless, if the information on GitHub.com have not changed. Basically, I want to be able to reuse the information I got from GitHub.

What is the best way to store the information I received from GitHub?

I read Manual:Caching, but it does not help me. 87.123.197.137 (talk) 20:08, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

You can use getWithSetCallback once you have a cache object. I used it in this code in LdapProvider. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 01:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint!

I am now able to get information from the API and to store them in cache. :-) What I am still missing is a way to determine, if there actually was a change before querying the API... I have written this piece of code:

	<?php
		$apiUrl = 'https://api.github.com/repos/wikimedia/mediawiki/issues/94';
		$cacheType = CACHE_DB;
		$cache = ObjectCache::getInstance( $cacheType );
		/* 1 day */
		$cacheTime = 60*60*24;
		$res = $cache->getWithSetCallback(
			$cache->makeKey(
				"bugtracker", "github", $apiUrl
			),
			$cacheTime,
			function () use ( $apiUrl ) {
				$ch = curl_init();
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'identify');
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0');
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
				$res = curl_exec($ch);
				curl_close($ch);
				return $res;
			}
		);
		return $res;

2001:16B8:1057:5500:201A:8CB3:E5B9:3EBB (talk) 23:03, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

> What I am still missing is a way to determine, if there actually was a change before querying the API...

How would you determine if it were changed without querying? If you could do that, you wouldn't need to cache this at all.

Right now, though, you have the timeout set to one day. I would say change it to one hour so you don't have to wait so long. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:54, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

> How would you determine if it were changed without querying? If you could do that, you wouldn't need to cache this at all.

I wanted to only request the header first, check the value of Last-Modified or of the ETag and then, only if the content has really changed, request the content again. The thought behind that also was to not hit the GitHub rate limit so quickly. However, it seems like requesting only the headers is counting in the rate limit as well. So I end up doing two requests for one thing: Always request the header (which counts into the rate limit) and then doing a second request, if the ETag has changed. Not how I thought this would work... That way it would be cheaper to just always get the content again.

Or am I missing something? 2001:16B8:1078:7C00:A86F:7E18:23A9:C131 (talk) 19:55, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

If the etag has changed you should be getting the updated response in the first request. That is, if you get 200 Ok, you're also getting the updated page. If you're getting 304 Not Modified, then just use what you have.

• rfc
• Google on HTTP Caching ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Error by using Yampp on local testserver

Hi everybody,

I've installed my wiki "Atlantisforschung.de" on the server of my hoster; bur it do not work on my local test server xampp 7.1.25. There's an error calles

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getCode() on null in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\user\User.php:1737 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\user\User.php(5412): User::getDefaultOptions() #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\user\User.php(3096): User->loadOptions() #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\context\RequestContext.php(336): User->getOption('language') #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\Message.php(380): RequestContext->getLanguage() #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\Message.php(1290): Message->getLanguage() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\Message.php(842): Message->fetchMessage() #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\Message.php(934): Message->toString('text') #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php(199): Message->text() #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php(299): MWExceptionRenderer::msg('dberr-problems', 'Sorry! in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\user\User.php on line 1737,

despite it works online with the same files as set online, except the local settings: There's a few lines, which are different frome the online version, which are:

## UPO means: this is also a user preference option

$wgEnableEmail      = true;

$wgEnableUserEmail  = true; # UPO

$wgEmergencyContact = "roland.horn@atlantisforschung.de";

$wgPasswordSender =   "roland.horn@atlantisforschung.de";

$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO

$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO

$wgEmailAuthentication = true;

## Database settings

$wgDBtype           = "mysql";

$wgDBserver         = "localhost";

$wgDBname           = "accounts";

$wgDBuser           = "root";

$wgDBpassword       = "";

Is thisfalse, respectivle can somebody help me in thist matter?

Thanks a lot in advance

Roland RolandHorn (talk) 07:34, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Had the same thing yesterday (with many other issues). This seems to have gone after enabling the Parameter: $wgCacheDirectory.

# $wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache"; 2A02:8071:B5AC:1D00:F94F:16FD:FD19:C643 (talk) 09:42, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Then appears the following error reports:

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 299

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 303

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 315

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 342

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 346

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 348

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 349

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 350

Warning: htmlspecialchars(): charset `ISO 8859-1' not supported, assuming utf-8 in C:\xampp\htdocs\atlantisforschung\includes\exception\MWExceptionRenderer.php on line 351

But when I change the php.ini back to utf-8, the German special characters wouldn't be showed. RolandHorn (talk) 12:00, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

PHP warnings should be hidden on production. try google:php+hide+warnings+reporting Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:00, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

What MediaWiki version? This looks like an exception during handling another exception (quite unfortunate at least) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:07, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

1.31.1 RolandHorn (talk) 11:44, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Mediawiki Installations fails: Die Hauptseite konnte nicht erstellt werden: Failed to update page row to use new revision.

Login not working for my user

Dear,

i am not able to login to page user "esacsal" 94.56.24.34 (talk) 11:56, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

On which website (full URL)? What's the error message? Malyacko (talk) 17:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Download as PDF

Class 'ResourceLoaderUserCSSPrefsModule' not found after upgrade

Database table "text"

What is the database table named "text" for? In the wiki I'm moving - it has around 6000 articles - it is around 1,3 GB big, which is extreme for a database table and prevents me from dumping the database via phpMyAdmin (no shell access on that webspace). I expected the database to be at around 50 MB or so...

Is the table needed or can it be emptied? If not, is there a way to compress it, to make it smaller, and why does it need to be that big?

Wiki runs on MediaWiki 1.23 with php 5.4 (!) / Apache 2.2.22 and is going to be updated to the most recent release of MW and php 7.2 / nginx in the process of moving, Semako96 (talk) 18:13, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

The text table contains the text of every single revision, which has ever been created in the wiki. This table is fundamental for MediaWiki to work.

Manual:Reduce size of the database shows a few ways in which the size of the database can be reduced. Note however that these have certain drawbacks: You can compress the table - but then certain extensions will no longer be able to work with it. You also can delete certain entries from the table - but then the history of these deleted entries will be lost.

However, if you actually have much spam inside the database, then it might be an idea to use nukePage.php in order to completely remove those pages, which never had any valid content at all.

Also purgeOldText.php can be used to clean up unused entries inside the text table. 2001:16B8:10E5:B900:A0A9:5B82:19AC:7F59 (talk) 18:26, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

But the problem is that all those scripts seemingly are supposed to start via shell commands, which the old server doesn't support. Is there any other method? Semako96 (talk) 18:56, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Managed to dump the DB via phpMyAdmin, it has a total size of more than 2GB... Now I have to import that monster to my new server.. Semako96 (talk) 19:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I have an idea to execute shell commands via Web, but need your server allow using exec() function.

<?php
exec('mysqldump -u <your database user name, may is root> -p <user password> <the wiki database name> > wiki.db.dump', $output, $code);
if ($code === 0) {
    echo 'Database dump to wiki.db.dump';
} else {
    echo "Error: $output";
}

Upload this code to a new file on the server and access it via web. If success, your wiki database dump to wiki.db.dump file under your web directory. Please download (via HTTP or FTP) or move to a location other than the web directory as soon as possible to prevent the third party from downloading, also deleting the above code.

WARNING: Adopting this solution will put your data at risk. 星耀晨曦 (talk) 05:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Note that the text table not only contains revision text, but also other blobs of information. For example, AbuseFilter log details are stored there. Removing entries on that table can cause potential data loss Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:10, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Article List

Hi,

How can I get list of all articles along with their creation date and author. The report should comprise of document name, author and created by - unique document names only

Thanks in advance 148.64.28.91 (talk) 18:20, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

okay thank you@Malyacko Iluinotti (talk) 16:24, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

See API:Main page how you can construct MediaWiki API queries in order to get only some information (like author of the first revision of a MediaWiki page). Malyacko (talk) 18:53, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

There isn't any extension which can be used for the mentioned requirement? 185.2.196.59 (talk) 17:22, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Hopefully not. However, nobody stops you from writing an extension that covers any potential and extremely generic "I want to get data X, Y, Z based on A, B, C" usecase that anyone might ever come up with for whatever reasons. :) Malyacko (talk) 12:03, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. One more question. Under Special Pages, there is a report for New pages. Does this capture list of all pages or its limited to certain time period . If you could provide more clarity on this.

Thanks! 148.64.9.59 (talk) 15:43, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Only period set for Recentchanges. See Manual:$wgRCMaxAge. wargo (talk) 17:03, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Customizing the Search Bar's Font Color

I'm wanting to customize my wiki's search bar so that the font color can be whatever color I designate. I'm successful in customizing the bar's font color when the user types in what they want to search for, but I'm having trouble with the font color of what's written in the search box by default. In other words, I'm trying to make the "Search (my wiki name)" be written in light green (hex code: #ccff00), but can't. The same is applied for the font color of the suggestions, which I also want to be light green. What's the proper CSS code for this? The-Psychid (talk) 18:32, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I did not know the answer to your question up to like a minute ago.

Then I used the developer tools of my browser to examine the sarchbox nd to have a look at its CSS styles. Clicking the box e.g. showed me these styles:

#simpleSearch #searchInput::placeholder {
    color: #72777d;
}

So if you use this and change the color to something greenish, it should work. :-) 2001:16B8:10E5:B900:A0A9:5B82:19AC:7F59 (talk) 18:47, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

The good news is that the code you gave me solved the issue of the color of the default text to be displayed (but for your convenience, I think you're supposed to put in a comma between the "#simpleSearch" and "#searchInput"; otherwise, it wouldn't work). However, I'm still wanting to see if there'd be code that would change the font color of the search suggestions. The following screenshot should prove my point: The-Psychid (talk) 19:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

(No comma is required between "#simpleSearch" and "#searchInput" -- the rule is aimed at one object nested in the other so a descendant relation is appropriate.)

You are perhaps looking to style objects with class suggestions-result.

.suggestions-result {

color: green;

} Clump (talk) 20:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm able to modify the "SearchInput" portion of my wiki as I want it, except for one thing: The "Containing..." part of it. I want to change it, mostly so that it'll be easy for the user to read. I know there's the "Ctrl+Shift+C" method to try and find out the code for it; but when I do try it, I'm unable to get it, as the "search results" bar disappears when I do. (This part isn't a glitch, though.) If it helps, when I hover over it, the "Containing..." portion is highlighted white.

If anyone knows what the code for this would be, could you please tell me? I'd appreciate it.

Also, for your convenience, here's a screenshot for my current dilemma: The-Psychid (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

It is hard to capture, but if you look at the generated html this is what the popup looks like:

<div class="suggestions-special" style="display: block;"><div class="special-label">containing...</div><div class="special-query">asdf</div></div>

So, if you want modify the "containing..." text you are looking to style the div with class "special-label". Note that there is an existing rule, .suggestions-special .special-label { ... } so if your style needs to override that then you may need a rule with higher specificity (such as div.suggestions-special div.special-label { ... }) and/or to use !important.

If you want to style the actual suggestions you will also need another similar rule for that div too. Clump (talk) 21:18, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

manual access to db fails

Following instructions at Manual:Database access

php sql.php --conf /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata3/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php

[1b3b9f51603f14a36d948228] [no req]   Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError from line 1004 of /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot access the database: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (mariadb)

Backtrace:

#0 /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportConnectionError(string)

#1 /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(749): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()

#2 /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/maintenance/sql.php(85): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(integer, array, boolean)

#3 /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(94): MwSql->execute()

#4 /Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/maintenance/sql.php(205): require_once(string)

#5 {main}

not able to connect to db. Paperlessnow (talk) 20:28, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Docker is a sandbox. What exactly have you tried already to allow it use getaddrinfo? See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53078135/php-network-getaddresses-getaddrinfo-failed-error-in-dockers-adminer and many other postings out there. Malyacko (talk) 03:39, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

This is my docker-compose.yml file, the default configuration file. Now what I need to do to connect to MariaDB instance. Can you point me to relevant documentation?

version: '2'

services:

  mariadb:

    image: 'bitnami/mariadb:latest'

    environment:

      - ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes

      - MARIADB_USER=bn_mediawiki

      - MARIADB_DATABASE=bitnami_mediawiki

    volumes:

      - '/Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5/bitnami'

  mediawiki:

    image: 'bitnami/mediawiki:latest'

    depends_on:

      - mariadb

    ports:

      - '80:80'

      - '443:443'

    environment:

      - MEDIAWIKI_DATABASE_USER=bn_mediawiki

      - MEDIAWIKI_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_mediawiki

      - ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes

    volumes:

      - '/Users/paperless/Technology/docker/wikidata5:/bitnami' Paperlessnow (talk) 05:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

My issue is am not able to connect to DB. command line or using tool like sequel pro.

So I feel I will not be able to migrate in future. Paperlessnow (talk) 15:39, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

finding the db being used

Though the special page and version shows following

but am not able to find any MariaDB named (fully or partially) file.

and not able to successfully connect to it.

I can see within maintenance dir following directories mssql, oracle, Postgres, sqlite but no file/ folder named MariaDB. where to locate it? Paperlessnow (talk) 20:40, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

on console following log is printed:

mariadb_1    | 2019-01-07 20:47:54 140379178088320 [Note] /opt/bitnami/mariadb/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.

mariadb_1    | Version: '10.1.37-MariaDB'  socket: '/opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock'  port: 3306  Source distribution

but when I try

netstat -vanp tcp |grep 3306

doesn't show any process Paperlessnow (talk) 20:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

> I can see within maintenance dir following directories mssql, oracle, Postgres, sqlite but no file/ folder named MariaDB. where to locate it?

The files for MariaDB are the mysql files. MySQL is the default DB, so it doesn't have separately-named files. So, look for tables.sql and the like.

To connect to the DB, have you tried

mysql --socket /opt/bitnami/mariadb/tmp/mysql.sock

Is mysql running on the same system or is it running in a container? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:31, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Separate CSS Pages

I'm able to customize the CSS pages for both "Common.css" and the skin I'm using for my wiki (which, in this case, is "Refreshed.css"). But whenever I try to create a different .css page for my wiki, the CSS isn't applied. Is there any way to fix this? The-Psychid (talk) 04:36, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

You can't use arbitrary pages of CSS. You need to stick to the Common.css, etc. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:23, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

If you want to add other pages, try using @import. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:24, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Add count Yandex.Metrics in Vector

Clickable button

Hello everyone,

I didn't found the respond yet in talks, but maybe I looked up badly.

I am creating a private wiki, and I want to insert a clickable button. This template doesn't work properly, because it shows a link, but no button. I saw that there was a problem with TemplaBox, so I loaded it.

Now, when i put the same code, the clickable button AND the Templatebox, the button appears, but also the text of the Templatebox.

Do I normally need to add {{templatebox}} in the code, or it should work properly without?

Thank you for your answer!

PS : version of wiki : 1.31.0

PS : I can't share my wiki with you :( Frchdel4 (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

What do you mean by "loaded" the Templatebox?

And also from which link did you get Templatebox? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 17:05, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I mean Import, sorry. I did an "export" and put manually "template:templatebox", and then import it in my wiki Frchdel4 (talk) 17:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

When exporting did you remember to check "Include templates"?

And again from which link exactly did you export Templatebox? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 17:13, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes i checked "Include templates".

For the Templatebox link, i took it from WikiCommons. In the searchbar of Commons, I tipped "Special:export", and then, arriving in the page, put "Template:TemplateBox" in the manual field, checked "Include templates", and save.

At first I imported "Template:Clickable button" from Commons, but it was not working, and as I saw it, TemplateBox was missing (error message), so I imported TemplateBox.

Frchdel4 (talk) 07:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Can't upload pdf

[XDTdODlnxsZnxGkFiPUYwAAAAAY] 2019-01-08 17:26:17: Fataler Ausnahmefehler des Typs „MediaWiki\ShellDisabledError“

localsettings.php:

$wgVerifyMimeType = true;

$wgCheckFileExtensions = true;

$wgStrictFileExtensions = true;

$wgCheckFileExtensions = true;

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'pdg', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ppt', 'tif', 'pdf', 'doc', 'docx', 'psd', 'mp3','xls','xlsx', 'zip','swf', 'doc', 'odt', 'odc', 'odp', 'odg', 'mpp', 'lov');

$wgFileBlacklist = array('html', 'htm','php', 'phtml', 'php3', 'php4', 'phps', 'shtml', 'jhtml', 'pl', 'py', 'exe', 'scr', 'dll', 'msi', 'vbs', 'bat', 'com', 'pif', 'cmd', 'vxd', 'cpl' );

Could anybody help me?

Handbuch.kiloundgramm.ch

Yvonne 2A02:120B:2C2E:5F70:F593:E6BA:92D3:9E41 (talk) 17:36, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

It looks like you can't run executables from PHP. You will need to update your php.ini or talk to your hosting provider. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:10, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

My hosting provider thought this morning, that it must be the problem from mediawiki.

So I wait what he means this evening :)

Sternenbaer (talk) 20:00, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

According to the source code

https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/ShellDisabledError_8php_source.html#l00028

the issue is that the hosting provider has disabled proc_open(). Him disabling a PHP function is not really a problem of MediaWiki, I would say. ;-) 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 18:37, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Need short hint on extension development

Upgrade 1.20->1.31.1 Create a Book says "Book Creator is undergoing changes" - Confused

I am upgrading my MediaWiki to

MediaWiki  1.31.1

PHP        7.2.10 (apache2handler)

MariaDB    10.3.11-MariaDB

When I try and start the book creator I get a page that says:

"Book Creator is undergoing changes"

However, that page links to:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality

for details.  This page seems to indicate that the book generator is supposed to be operational, but I cannot tell so I don't know what should work and what does not.

What is the current status?  Is this issue that the "Download as PDF" is not working?  Rather creating a PDF via PediaPress should work?   Neither is working for me, but I have familiar with the process as I have extensively used book creation via "Download as PDF" in the past.

Thank you.  Brent 96.3.194.104 (talk) 23:07, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I have migrated this question to Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality with some feedback for anyone else that may be trying to understand the status of Book Creation in MediaWiki 1.31.1. Brentl999 (talk) 15:30, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Nested collapsible table shows wrong toggle state

I am using MediaWiki version 1.31.1 with PHP 7.3 and MariaDB 5.5.60. I have a table definition such as:

Main Menu correctly shows [Expand] next to it. The problem is now if I expand "Main Menu", General is initially in a collapsed state, but the label next to General incorrectly shows [Collapse] when it should say [Expand]. Once General is expanded, the label correctly shows [Collapse]. Now if I click on General to collapse it, the label next to General now is in the correct toggle state and does show [Expand]. Toggling General back and forth works, until I collapse Main Menu and expand it again, and General incorrectly shows [Collapse] when it should show [Expand].

Anyone ever encounter this bug and know how to fix it?

Thank you. 162.255.236.20 (talk) 04:08, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Can't reproduce this bug here. I expanded "Main Menu" and General still reads "Expand". Might have been fixed in MW 1.32/1.33 though, can't say. Leaderboard (talk) 04:52, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes, happening in v1.31.1. Not occurring in Wikimedia Wikis, so possibly fixed in v1.32 or v1.33. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 05:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your replies. I will try the upgrade to v1.32 and v1.33.

Forgot to also mention that I am running on RHEL 7.6 and this issue does not appear on v1.20.2 with PHP 5.3.3 and MySQL 5.1.73. The problem may also be due to other syntax errors on the main page, where there are also many other 2-level nested collapsible table definition menus. However, v1.20.2 works fine, just not v1.31. 162.255.236.20 (talk) 12:18, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Check any custom scripts on your wiki, like MediaWiki:Common.js, MediaWiki:Monobook.js, etc in case you have any script that is trying to implement collapsible templates, causing it to trigger the actions twice Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:25, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Fail to upload pdf

Yes, just pdf! Anyway, I get this error when trying to upload

[35107bde4eb37ec0d2143a4c] /mediawiki/index.php/Special:Upload MWException from line 496 of /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php: Could not find data for image 'file.pdf'.

Backtrace:

#0 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php(654): LocalFile->loadExtraFromDB()

#1 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php(919): LocalFile->load(integer)

#2 /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/PdfHandler/includes/CreatePdfThumbnailsJob.php(112): LocalFile->getMetadata()

#3 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(177): CreatePdfThumbnailsJob::insertJobs(UploadFromFile, string, boolean)

#4 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(205): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL)

#5 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(481): Hooks::run(string, array)

#6 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/upload/UploadBase.php(347): UploadBase->verifyFile()

#7 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/upload/UploadFromFile.php(95): UploadBase->verifyUpload()

#8 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(503): UploadFromFile->verifyUpload()

#9 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(207): SpecialUpload->processUpload()

#10 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(522): SpecialUpload->execute(NULL)

#11 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#12 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(288): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#13 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#14 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()

#15 /var/lib/mediawiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#16 {main}

With other file extensions there is no problem. I check other similar issues but mine seems to be different (images directory permissions are 777; I don't run SELinux; pdf is an allowed file extension).

My version is

Thanks for any help!

Lorenzo Loman87 (talk) 09:29, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the MIME type of 'file.pdf'? Command would be: file --mime-type -b file.pdf Malyacko (talk) 12:24, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

thanks for your answer. The MIME type is application/pdf. I have tried with different pdf but it doesn't work. Loman87 (talk) 13:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I guess my issue is related with this and this, maybe related with the pdfhandler extension. But I can't figure it out...please help! Loman87 (talk) 11:18, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Any help? Ever since upgrading to MW 1.33 I have been experiencing the exact same error! I can't upload any new PDF files! At least time I got thumbnails working (couldn't get working for anything on 1.32...) but I have many PDF files I need to upload. Do you think importImages.php might do the trick? Bttfvgo (talk) 03:44, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Well I tried it and surprisingly enough, I was actually able to upload new PDFs. Or at least 3 out of the 4 I tried. The last three went through fine but the first one failed (even though the image was placed in the proper directory, it says it doesn't exist.) I can't reupload a copy because I get the same "Could not find data..." error. But this was also the file that failed the last time. So I'm not sure whether importImages worked, or whether those were files that the system might have accepted via upload without shooting out errors anyway. I guess I'll have to find more files I want to upload and see if they go through or fail. But I know the image is valid... it comes straight from Commons! Bttfvgo (talk) 04:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Just noticed that the file, and its metadata DO show up in Special:MIMESearch/application/pdf, but not on the page itself! Bttfvgo (talk) 04:06, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

And yes I tried the "disable PDF handler, upload the file, and then re-enable it". It refuses to generate thumbnails and contains no metadata. There has to be something going on that I just can't figure out. (I've been getting more errors since I upgraded to 1.33 than I ever did before - no errors in 1.30. I'll figure them out, but SO much has changed between 1.32 and 1.33...) Bttfvgo (talk) 04:04, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

The method "disable PDF handler, upload the file, and then re-enable it" worked for me with 1.31; maybe yours is something different, don't you have any backtrace? Loman87 (talk) 08:04, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

It provided one almost identical to yours. Strangely enough, the file actually showed up, in all its glory, metadata and all, when I checked the next day. I haven't tried uploading any more PDFs since then, but if I have any problems, I'll certainly let you know! Bttfvgo (talk) 01:31, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Database too big to import, "official" support?

After managing to successfully dump a huge 2.3GB database, I now need to import it into the new server's database system, but it is too big to be imported via phpMyAdmin, which only supports files of up to 200 MB, and another script especially for big dumps I tried errors out because the tables themselves are too big (extended assets error).

I also contacted the new hosting provider's support, but maybe you can help me too?

I want to upload the table and hopefully get the wiki running and then make a full backup before starting to edit the DB to reduce the size and increasing the performance...

Is there any kind of "official" support I can trust and provide access data for my server for better help? Only asking there, eventually provding screenshots or code snippes is much more complicated than having a trustworthy supporter checking the problems directly on my server. Semako96 (talk) 14:56, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Is there an option/page like Administrator's Noticeboard or Vandalism Report where I can report the spammer? Semako96 (talk) 16:24, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

With a dump totaling 2.3 GB in size I have doubts you might be on a shared host, hence your issue. Clarifying this would help.

It would be needed to know if your hosting provider supports databases that big (they might not), and if they do, then you have 2 issues: timeouts and dump size. However I do not understand why would you think backing the DB after it gets uploaded to whatever backend your hosting provider sets you up with will make the dump decrease in size - unless you expect to delete contents, which you can also do on a local installation and ease the burden on the upload/import procedures.

The only way thing I can think off is that you manually cut lines (full lines!) off the dump so that you split the import into a bunch acceptable-sized files, which will run smoothly as INSERT statements should end within the line (CREATEs are different tho...).

PS: Spammer seems to have been blocked already as per meta:Special:CentralAuth/Bhanav11, and got another shiny warning at his talk page on the only other wiki he has ever used, w:User_talk:Bhanav11 . 85.51.175.227 (talk) 17:16, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I mean that I want to do the database import first and get the wiki running, then do a full backup and then do stuff to reduce the database size like deleting tables of no longer needed extensions (flagged revisions comes to mind) and running the scripts mentioned here in the manual, since only the new webspace has shell access.

I use the largest packet on a shared hoster, and the wiki isn't that active, it has roughly 6000 pages and around 10k images or so, but isn't quite active (which I hope will change...). So aside from the large database size, it should run pretty fine on that shared hoster.

And, as I already asked is there some kind of "official" support or so, which I can trust and provide access data to the servers so that they can look up the old and new server to help me with the database prroblem? I hope you understand that I don't want to give access data to some random users nobody knows... ;) Semako96 (talk) 20:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

There's Professional development and consulting in case you need something formal. About your issue, if your shared host doesn't allow you command line access to import the dump of the database, there's probably nothing to do about this, unless you manually split the dump in chunks and import each one separately Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:22, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

What you can do @Semako96 is instead of waiting for your hosting to import your dump (*provided they do support such sizes per schema*) is, instead of waiting on your hosting provider to import the dump and then tweak the DB on production (live), is to install a Apache+PHP+SQL enviroment along with a mediawiki deployed with all the extensions you intend to use, in another computer you have such as your laptop or destop computer (local/staging install), and use it as your personal server in which to tweak the database and reduce its size.

If you want to go down that way, but dont know where to start setting up a local enviroment, you can check out projects as xampp, that will deal with it for you and ley you jump directly to start deployment of mediawiki and its plugins.

Just be careful of connecting that computer to open networks (as free wi-fi) with those services running and unconfigured firewalls, as they could be a security risk. 85.51.175.227 (talk) 09:31, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Internal linked text in brackets?

When one tries to have a word which is linked and adds an extra bracket at the beginning and the end, the link is lost and three brackets are displayed instead. Is there any way not to have this behaviour, I.e. to be able to have linked text in brackets? Spiros71 (talk) 15:40, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Forbidden_characters linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_name#Technical_restrictions_and_limitations (hmm, I wonder if there is a page on mediawiki.org instead of English Wikipedia) Malyacko (talk) 16:56, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

New and very confused - blocked

Allow path

Numbers in headings

Hey,

I made an index for my wiki page. The headings were numbered automatically. How can I make the numbers also visible in the headlines, not just in the index?

Thanks!!

80.146.228.66 (talk) 11:37, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Nobody??

80.146.228.66 (talk) 12:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Patience??? Malyacko (talk) 12:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

yeah I know, but sometimes it's a bit urgent 80.146.228.66 (talk) 14:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:Table of contents#Auto-numbering and Extension:MagicNumberedHeadings. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 03:53, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

THANK YOU :)

80.146.228.66 (talk) 13:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

New empty wiki despite existing data base

Hi,

I want to bring my wiki "Atlantisforschung.de" (1.31.1) on my local Xampp-Server (php 7.1.25), but after executing the update.php, I got only a new empty wiki, despite there is an existing database and a LocalSettings.php. What can I do?

Greetings

Roland RolandHorn (talk) 13:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

I had a similar experience when I forget to set $wgDBprefix = ""; Look at your wiki's database tables. If they all have a prefix, like say "hmm_", then you might try $wgDBprefix = "hmm_"; in your LocalSettings.php. Just a hunch. Rogerhc (talk) 20:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Webpage is not posting items

We are using MediaWiki 1.16.0 and our website was fine in November. I was able to upload materials onto our website. At the end of December as I went in to upload new information I noticed that our web page no longer showing what we had posted before. When I logged into the web page and went to the edit area all the coding is still there and everything that we uploaded was still there but it is not displaying on the website. What can we do to fix this? 74.14.80.139 (talk) 15:39, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

You can contact your hosting provider and ask them what they changed. Also note that MediaWiki version 1.16 has dozens of security problems nowadays as you are using an ancient unsupported insecure version. You should upgrade: Manual:Upgrading Malyacko (talk) 12:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.16.0 requires PHP5. Has your webhost upgraded to PHP7? Your wiki's Special:Version page may show what version of PHP your server is running. Maybe check that?

Compatibility#PHP Rogerhc (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

I guess that this is your problem: Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#All_pages_have_no_content,_but_when_editing_a_page_the_wiki_text_is_there.

As said already - even if your problem should be a different one -, please do an upgrade of your old, insecure version. 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 17:57, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Michael Landon photo black image

robots.txt + site root level Short URS

I asked the below question on Manual_talk:Robots.txt#robots.txt_+_site_root_level_Short_URS? but maybe I should have asked here? Can you help?:

I use site root level Short URS for my wiki, eg expample.com/Page_name. I know, I'm stubborn, but I like short. What robots.txt is compatible with this? Would the following even work?:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php?
Disallow: /index.php/Help
Disallow: /index.php/MediaWiki
Disallow: /index.php/Special:
Disallow: /index.php/Template

--Rogerhc (talk) 20:33, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Nope, I think that wouldn't work for me. Time for bed though. I found what I think I could use and added it to Manual_talk:Robots.txt#robots.txt_+_site_root_level_Short_URL. Rogerhc (talk) 05:47, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

How do I tag a particular person I want to follow?

How do I tag a particular person I want to follow?

Ruthanne Bright (talk) 02:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Please elaborate what "tagging" and "following" means to you in the context of the MediaWiki software, by providing way more information. Malyacko (talk) 11:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Error uploading *.xlxs file

Notice: iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `CP437' to `UTF-8' is not allowed in /var/www/mediawiki/w/includes/utils/ZipDirectoryReader.php on line 447

All config file is here LocalSetting.php

....

$wgUseImageMagick = true;

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

$wgEnableUploads = true;

# Strict file extension

$wgStrictFileExtensions = false;

# Allowed fileTYpe upload

$wgFileExtensions = array(

'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'doc', 'xls', 'mpp',

'application/pdf', 'ppt', 'tiff', 'bmp', 'docx', 'xlsx','pptx',

'ps', 'odt', 'ods', 'odp', 'odg', 'txt', 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet',

'application/vnd.ms-excel',

'application/zip',

);

... 154.126.102.205 (talk) 08:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki tries to convert the character set in the file name to UTF8, which obviously fails. What is the name of the file? Does it have some special characters in it? 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Restrict Access to MediaWiki Page

Hi,

We have created a Wiki page for just a function in our company. I want to restrict access to all the page to this function. Ideally, I will do this restriction via Windows Authentication.

I have MediaWiki 1.31.1 installed, is there anything I can do to implement Windows Authentication?

Thanks. Ejdrijin (talk) 09:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Can't you host it in your company's intranet, so that it isn't accessible from the outside.

Otherwise, passwort protecting the directory via .htaccess might be an option? Semako96 (talk) 14:51, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:Preventing access. 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 17:51, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

What webserver are you using to serve MediaWiki?

It sounds like you want to have your wiki users match your Windows (usually Active Directory) users and authorize them (or not) based on that information.

You can do this with LDAP+Kerberos or SAML. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:39, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Mediawiki not working after installing extension

Hey, I installed the XML2Wiki-Extension on my Wiki and now I can't even reach the Wiki anymore. As soon as I remove the extension it works again. Any ideas why this happens? Thanks in advance! 80.146.228.66 (talk) 13:28, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

We need an error message to help you further.

See Manual:How to debug for how to get it! 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 17:55, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Giving myself bureaucrat/founder rights

In my wiki currently another user's account is the founder account, since I took the wiki over from him to host it on my own server.

Now the question is, how can I give my own account the founder status/bureaucrat rights, as I “only“ have regular admin and CU rights.

I know it must be a database edit, but which table and which value?

And can I change my username via the database? If yes, what needs to be changed? Semako96 (talk) 14:46, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

See Manual:CreateAndPromote.php. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 15:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, and what abiut the name change?

Are there some special rights only the founder account has? I'm asking since bureaucrats in Wikipedia can't remove rights such as sysop, bureaucrat or CU, but the wiki founder or “head admin“ obviously needs to be able to do that.

If yes, what is the command for the script to give my own account those rights? Semako96 (talk) 15:21, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

For renaming users, see Extension:Renameuser.

The specific user rights a group might have, can be customized and therefore dependent on each MediaWiki setup.

Unlike Wikipedia, if I'm not mistaken, MediaWiki installations, by default, have the bureaucrat group which can give and take all user rights. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:43, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Can I also rename an user just by changing the database entry? Semako96 (talk) 17:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

More is needed than just renaming the entry in the user table. 2001:16B8:1021:200:4184:DB1B:1142:8A48 (talk) 17:50, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Issues with Images copied over in editor from Word

Urgent Support Request:- I have successfully hosted and implemented MediaWiki . Only problem is that we have Word documents to upload as Wiki pages. The current editor allows only text to be copied over and Images are not when you copy and paste it from word. Is there a way for images to be copied over as well ?

We have over 200 documents and only way in Mediawiki is to extract images and upload one by one.

Is there an editor or plugin we can use which allows content and images to be pasted from work in editor ? Akshayboston (talk) 17:39, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

You can use pandoc to convert to wikitext. But, yeah, it looks like your upload options are limited then.

You could stitch the uploads and documents together into one big XML file that you could import. I've done that before with some stuff that was already wikitext, but it is going to take a SMOP to do all that for you. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:29, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Also relevant, Project:Support desk/Flow/2017/08#h-How_to_convert_MS_word_document_into_Mediawiki_page?-2017-08-08T09:13:00.000Z. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 19:00, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try to load Extension:Html2Wiki as suggested which uses Pandoc as Mark also mentioned. Akshayboston (talk) 19:17, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Page content missing after upgrading to 1.31

I partly have this problem: Manual:Errors and symptoms#All pages have no content, but when editing a page the wiki text is there

The solution mentioned is upgrading to a supported mediawiki version but this occurred after the upgrade to 1.31

But its a bit vague because some parts can be seen on the page but the majority can not. The language bar, categories and a Infobox template are viewable but the rest of the page content is not. It is also not on all pages, just on some.

All googling just directs me to the error I mentioned earlier. Any help would be appreciated. 217.62.3.177 (talk) 21:05, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

PHP version 7.0.32

MySQL version 5.7.24

And a example page https://65.87.3.241/85X 217.62.3.177 (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know what could be the problem. parsing the page from the api gives the entire contents.

Maybe some of your extensions is misbehaving. Have you tried disabling WikiSEO? Also, try viewing the page with another skin Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 15:23, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

If I disable WikiSEO content seems to appear agian but it makes me think the problem lies elsewhere as it now shows me a different similar problem.

If I disable WikiSEO the first section of the page seems re-appear but stops after a section from the Tabber extension. If I click on the last/most right Tabber tab it doesn't show the content in that tab but it does show the content that is supposed to be below the Tabber section. Disabling the Tabber extension shows all content immediately. But this makes me think something else is causing this because it are 2 extensions that are causing very similar problems while this all works perfectly on the production site with 1.28 217.62.3.177 (talk) 18:10, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Disabling ParserFunctions with WikiSEO and Tabber on seems to show all content but as expected not as it should be. (Because pretty much all our templates use it). Updating ParserFunctions seem to have no effect 217.62.3.177 (talk) 18:20, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Tried viewing the page with MonoBook, same result. 217.62.3.177 (talk) 18:22, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Along with MediaWiki core, have you updated those extensions too? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 10:46, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, everything was updated at the same time 217.62.3.177 (talk) 11:13, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiSEO is adding some strange markup on the page, like p HTML tags inside HTML comments, which are inside other p tags. If your wiki or server has some sort of HTML tidy enabled, it may get confused by that and remove the content. MediaWiki already comes with an internal HTML sanitizer, which could be the culprit. See $wgTidyConfig (although it's not clear for me if this can be disabled).

About Tabber, in the api results I can see that the last tab is "Weaponry". Inside that element there are 2 HTML p elements with class mw-empty-elt, and then the h2 element of the Features section, but no closing div for that tab. Looks like there may be some unbalanced HTML on the VehicleWeaponry template, or a bug in the extension (which I doubt because it's a very simple one)

There may be 2 problems here. Try to isolate them. Create a page first without the WikiSEO stuff and only tabber, and try to locate the problem with tabber. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Going to check this all but its weird because its using the same content as our site which is currently live on MW 1.27.2 (not 1.28) and on there it is working. The server is a copy of the live server. ( Available at https://starcitizen.tools ) The only thing that has changed is the MW Core and extension files 217.62.3.177 (talk) 13:11, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

I have set $wgTidyConfig = null; which seems to resolve the Tabber problem. But it doesnt fix WikiSEO, which is still causing the same problems. 217.62.3.177 (talk) 13:34, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.27 was using no tidy at all (unless configured). But MediaWiki 1.31 uses RemexHTML. This change may cause some differences in parsing output. However, I think there may be some problem in one template causing Tabber to misbehave. WikiSEO problem may be caused by some change in how MediaWiki renders code now. I see WikiSEO is doing some funky things with HTML output that may be the cause of the problem. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:54, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

I can look into the template further later. We had no problems in 1.27 with Tidy disabled so I might just leave that disabled.

As for WikiSEO what do you recommend I do? Not sure what my options are 217.62.3.177 (talk) 18:03, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Report the problem to the maintainer of the extension. MediaWiki 1.30 is a LTS, you can try upgrading to 1.30 instead of 1.31 and see if it works on that version, until a fix is available. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:00, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Actually, 1.31 is the LTS version. ;-) 2001:16B8:107B:7E00:4084:8448:355:3311 (talk) 22:04, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Oops, indeed sorry Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:06, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

PetScan "Bad Gateway" instead of results for a query.

Hello! I have been trying to use PetScan to generate a list of English Wikipedia articles from the category "male writers". The query I used is here.

I used same query for other categories and it worked well. I'm not sure what's wrong with this one. I really appreciate your help. Reem Al-Kashif (talk) 21:43, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Have you tried filing an issue?

I'm not sure what problem you are seeing. I don't get bad gateway when I search here. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 22:38, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I uploaded my FTDNA data in 2015 (seems longer) and sure I need to update.

I do not remember what kind of file I updated from my FTDNA tests when I first joined.

I have since tested more:

Y111, Big Y 500, Family Finder, and my mothers (mtdna - but still waiting for the test results).

Since my data is old what do I need to do to update. I am overrun with data on the website and frankly I am lost.

Help will be much appreciated.

Member T319690 47.183.175.102 (talk) 06:02, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, wrong support forum.😕 AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 08:42, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

gpg verification of the 1.32.0 signature fails

When running the following:

># gpg --verify mediawiki-1.32.0.tar.gz.sig

gpg: Signature made Fri 11 Jan 2019 02:26:26 GMT using RSA key ID 875BE862

gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

>#

I get the following:

gpg: Signature made Fri 11 Jan 2019 02:26:26 GMT using RSA key ID 875BE862

gpg: Can't check signature: No public key 46.18.107.153 (talk) 14:14, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting. This should be fixed now in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213521 AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 20:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

The key is given on the keys page and you can download it using gpg --recv 875BE862

$ gpg --recv-key 875BE862
gpg: key 131910E01605D9AA: "Mukunda Modell (WMF) <mmodell@wikimedia.org>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
$ gpg --list-key 875BE862
pub   rsa4096 2016-01-08 [SC] [expires: 2020-07-31]
      C83A8E4D3C8FEB7C8A3A1998131910E01605D9AA
uid           [  undef ] Mukunda Modell (WMF) <mmodell@wikimedia.org>
uid           [ unknown] Mukunda Modell <twentyafterfour@gmail.com>
uid           [  undef ] [jpeg image of size 2928]
sub   rsa4096 2018-12-25 [A] [expires: 2020-12-24]
sub   rsa4096 2018-12-25 [E] [expires: 2020-12-24]
sub   rsa4096 2018-12-26 [S] [expires: 2019-12-26]
$ gpg --verify mediawiki-1.32.0-rc.0.tar.gz.sig 
gpg: assuming signed data in 'mediawiki-1.32.0-rc.0.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made Fri 09 Nov 2018 03:52:36 PM EST
gpg:                using RSA key 131910E01605D9AA
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: marginals needed: 3  completes needed: 1  trust model: classic
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   4  signed:  25  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 4u
gpg: depth: 1  valid:  23  signed:  33  trust: 22-, 0q, 0n, 1m, 0f, 0u
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2019-01-29
gpg: Good signature from "Mukunda Modell (WMF) <mmodell@wikimedia.org>" [full]
gpg:                 aka "Mukunda Modell <twentyafterfour@gmail.com>" [unknown]
gpg:                 aka "[jpeg image of size 2928]" [full]

I trust Modell's key because it is signed by Grossmeier's and Gossmeier and I have signed each other's keys in person. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I think thats the problem the keys page does not contain that key. When I import from the keys page I get the following:

gpg: key 1605D9AA: "Mukunda Modell (WMF) <mmodell@wikimedia.org>" not changed

46.18.107.153 (talk) 23:33, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Change color of "header"

Above, on the right, there are links like Talk, Contributions, Watchlist, etc. I know it has a name (#p-something I think) but I can't remember it. I would like to know its name to change its color, shape, etc with CSS.

Thanks. 181.197.70.134 (talk) 17:14, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

You can find the CSS class you need easily by using your browser's web development console, like Firefox's Inspector. Semako96 (talk) 17:47, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Anti-spam: A global rate limiter?

I'm running MediaWiki 1.30.0 on a remote server which uses a platform called Fusion Forge. The PHP version is 5.6.33-0+deb8ul. The mysql version is 5.5.59-0+deb8ul (Debian). URL of the wiki is https://comun.ourproject.org/en/w/

The wiki suffered a spam attack, so I disabled account creation. I will now implement some anti-spam measures and then re-anable account creation. But before I re-enable account creation, I want to put a rate limiter on the whole wiki, so that even if my anti-spam filters don't work, the amount of damage (spam edits) will be limited. I am aware of the configuration setting $wgRateLimits, but it doesn't do what I want: it limits the editing rate *per user*; what I want is to limit the rate for *all users combined*. That is, I want to set things so that only 50 edits can be made, by all users combined, in a day.

This will not greatly affect normal legitimate use of the wiki, because it has at present quite low traffic: no more than two legitimate users have ever edited here in any given day, and usually only one user in a day. It will, however, be effective in limiting the kind of spam I was getting, which consisted of spam account creation at a rate of about one per minute, with each new account generally putting some material onto its user page, consisting of promotional material, spam hyperlinks, etc. Each spam account would make only one, or at most a few edits (page saves).

Do you know of a way I can limit the number of page saves on the wiki to 50 (or some similar number) per day?

Regards, Communpedia Tribal Communpedia Tribal (talk) 20:21, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Fatal exception of type MWException

When trying to merge articles in Spanish Wikipedia I get the following:

[XDqomgpAADsAACxLiIEAAACM] 2019-01-13 02:55:22: Fatal exception of type MWException Warko (talk) 02:57, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Reported bug T213661 ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Automatic fixing of html errors

There are cases in my html of unclosed <i> tags. Tidy would fix the in older versions. What is the best way to go about it now (MW 1.31)? I.e. would adding this in LocalSettings.php suffice?

$wgTidyConfig = RemexHtml Spiros71 (talk) 11:15, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

You mean the wrong HTML code is coming fro wrong nesting in content? Seems like fixing the content would be the solution to go for then... 2001:16B8:107B:7E00:4084:8448:355:3311 (talk) 22:02, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Fixing the content manually is not an option due to the amount of html and the number of pages. As I said, Tidy would do the job nicely in older versions. Spiros71 (talk) 08:25, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Note that $wgTidyConfig is an array. Look at the documentation for instructions Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:27, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I can see at RemexHtml "To use this library, set $wgTidyConfig to RemexHtml"

Does that mean that adding $wgTidyConfig=RemexHtml; in LocalSettings.php would suffice? Spiros71 (talk) 11:02, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

HELP: cannot re-upload a previously deleted image

I am evaluating MediaWiki v.1.31.1 with VisualEditor and Parsoid installed on Ubuntu 18.04.

So far, things ran smooth until I deleted an earlier uploaded image.

I noticed that I had misspelled the filename and wanted to re-upload it using the correct name.

Now, whenever I try to re-upload the image, I get error:

A file identical to this file (Mona-Lisa-by-Leo-Da-Vinci.jpg) has previously been deleted. You should check that file's deletion history before proceeding to re-upload it.

I checked the file's deletion history and do not want to restore the file.

I want to re-upload it with a different filename.

After consulting the docs, I added the following lines to LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['reupload'] = true;

$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['reupload'] = true;

which do not work for me either.

Can anyone please help me and tell me how I can re-upload the same image?

Thanks!

--jagrabbit Jagrabbit (talk) 14:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

I cannot figure this out: even if I copy the image to a file with an entire different name, then I still get this error when attempting to upload it.

How can I prevent this error from occurring?

Surely I must be able to re-upload a file, overwriting an existing one?

--jagrabbit Jagrabbit (talk) 15:36, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

There should be a checkbox to ignore warnings on upload. Did you try checking it? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:45, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

sin miniatura en videos

al subir videos en mi wiki http://surtico.com.mx/laplumaazul/wiki no muestra la miniatura, tengo instalado correctamente la extension timed media handler la version de mediawiki es 1.33.0 wmf.12 y la version de php es 7.1 ¿como puedo hacer que se muestre la miniatura de todos los videos que sube a mi wiki? 189.217.121.190 (talk) 23:05, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Manual:Errors and symptoms#Image Thumbnails not working and/or appearing Malyacko (talk) 10:06, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

En Archivo:Hampton the Hampster (Hampster dance) - On Piano (w Sheets!).ogv se puede ver un caso de error. En la parte "Estado de transcodificación" salen errores, aunque no se muestra el detalle de los mismos. Los vídeos son archivos por lo general pesados, y normalmente requieren bastante memoria para ser procesados. Probablemente el servidor no tenga suficiente memoria para procesarlo, o la configuración de PHP lo está limitando. Puedes revisar Manual:$wgMaxShellMemory.

Sería conveniente revisar los registros de errores de PHP del servidor por si aparece algo que dé más detalles del error. La ubicación del mismo depende de muchos factores por lo que no puedo decirte dónde está, aunque seguramente en /var/log/ exista una carpeta o archivo con el nombre "php". También puede ser útil configurar MediaWiki para que registre los casos "exception" y "error" en archivos de registro, como se explica en Manual:How to debug#Creating custom log groups. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:19, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

de acuerdo a Manual:Errors and symptoms#Image Thumbnails not working and/or appearing y Manual:$wgMaxShellMemory le añadi a localsentigs lo que decia que le añada, despues actualize el wiki y volvi a subir un archivo existente pero sigue igual me sigue apareciendo sin miniatura 189.217.121.190 (talk) 16:49, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

también he visto que cuando inserto videos de wikimedia commons si me muestra la miniatura y el video correctamente Uvas magicas (talk) 17:20, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

La miniatura de commons se genera en los servidores de commons, no en el tuyo (hasta donde yo sé), por lo que no es problema.

Agrega el registro de error, y usa el link de Actualizar el estado de transcodificación de la página del vídeo. Trata de ver si se produce un error. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:27, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

al actualizar el estado de transcodificación de la página del vídeo se añade y se produce un error 189.217.123.62 (talk) 00:50, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

el error es convertir los archivos a otros formatos y eso provoca que no tenga miniatura 189.217.120.62 (talk) 01:51, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Es necesario que encuentres un mensaje de error explicativo sobre el mismo para poder darte indicaciones de cómo solucionarlo. Los detalles del error estarán seguramente en el registro de error Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:21, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Usual behavior without executing update.php?

Error message when calling-up local MediaWiki

Recintly I installed Xampp (under Windows 10 32bit) and MediaWiki-1.3.1 for a local wiki.

Calling-up http://localhost/lokalwiki/mediawiki-1.3.1/ I get the following error messages:

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break ".Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in C:\xampp\lokalwilolhtdocs\lokalwiki\mediawiki- 1.31.l\includes\json\FormatJson. php on line 297

and some message for mediawiki- 1.31.\languages\LanguageConverter.php on line 773

Hints to remedy this issue I found in Internet were not useful.

What to do 91.48.153.67 (talk) 14:44, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

This issue is being followed on phabricator. If you can use a version of PHP before 7.3, you won't see these warnings. If you need to use 7.3, then you can disable the display of warnings by adding the following to your LocalSettings.php:

error_reporting( 0 );
ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 );

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:10, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Problem with login/register on MediaWiki

Several problems after moving and upgrading a wiki

## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

# Enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Short URL for wiki pages
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

# Redirect / to Main Page
RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

<tbody> tags

While integrating a separate editor https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4 . Found out that it has <tbody> tags placed when copying and pasting from word. Is there a way in Mediawiki to take out <tbody> tags to stop displaying ? Akshayboston (talk) 17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Which Word version? Which MediaWiki version? Why should MediaWiki take out tags that another editor incorrectly adds, instead of fixing that editor (if I understand correctly)? Malyacko (talk) 00:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Advertising

Hi everyone. I would like to list adds in order to generate income to keep my newly created wiki running. I want to do this on some pages that will have a lot of traffic, pages which will be written with this purpose in mind and before anyone tells me off I plan on keeping the rest of the 99% content add free. I've been trying to find a way to list adwords for hours, but I can't seem to get the hang of it. Is there any chance someone could help me out? 2A02:C7F:3067:CB00:A5B5:4135:7EED:397A (talk) 19:09, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

• AdManager
• Google AdSense
• Notes on advertising. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:16, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, MarkAHershberger for your quick reply. I don't really want to use the sidebar to display the adds as I believe it will have a negative impact on user experience. I'd like, if possible, to display the add on pages, mostly on the top right or bottom of articles, same as one would display a picture. Hope it makes sense. 2A02:C7F:3067:CB00:A5B5:4135:7EED:397A (talk) 19:26, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

That would take a SMOP, then, to modify one of those extensions (preferably). ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 21:19, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, MarkAssershberger. I have no idea how to repay you for this amazing advice. 2A02:C7F:3067:CB00:A5B5:4135:7EED:397A (talk) 22:15, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Export only latest versions of all articles of my wiki

Using patch & rc releases

Hi,

I am currently running version 1.31.1 but would like to update using patch to 1.32.0.

Do I have to apply each rc release in between 1.31.1 and 1.32.0? I don't remember doing that in the past.

Thx. Mitzzzz (talk) 00:52, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Generally no, you don't have to apply the RC versions. The announcement email should include information against what version the patch is for. Bawolff (talk) 21:38, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

SyntaxHighlight_GeHSi bug?

Warning: is_executable(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/bin/bash) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/.sites/327/site4525714/web:/home/.sites/327/site4525714/tmp:/usr/share/pear:/usr/bin/php_safemode) in /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/shell/Command.php on line 312

Which extension...?

I have been trying to upload ged but i am have promblems doing so

mysqli

Estoy tenienedo un problema con la instalacion de mediawiki 1.32, lo instale en un servidor centos 7 pero cuando voy a ir a la configuracion de la wiki despues de haber instalado los paquetes correspondientes me sale el siguiente error

No se encontró un controlador adecuado para la base de datos. Necesitas instalar un controlador de base de datos para PHP. Se admiten los siguientes gestores de bases de datos: MariaDB, MySQL o un sistema compatible, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite.

Si compilaste PHP por tu cuenta, debes reconfigurarlo activando un cliente de base de datos, por ejemplo, mediante ./configure --with-mysqli. Si instalaste PHP desde un paquete de Debian o Ubuntu, también debes instalar, por ejemplo, el paquete php-mysql.

estoy trabajando con la version de php 7.2.14 no se si tenga algo que ver con la version, si a alguien le ha pasado agredezco lo q me puedan colaborar. Emilioip (talk) 13:41, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Tienes que instalar el paquete php-mysql

https://serverfault.com/questions/826211/enabling-mysqli-extension-on-centos-server/826216

Si ya lo has hecho, quizá te falta habilitar php-mysqli.so (o similar) en el php.ini Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Not installing Extension:WikiSEO

Hi,

I installing Extension:WikiSEO by composer, and extension is not correctly installing:

Deprecated: Use of WikiSEO's extension.json or skin.json does not have manifest_version was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.29. [Called from ExtensionRegistry::loadFromQueue in /includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php at line 158] in /includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 309

How fixed problem? Fanatikvoice (talk) 14:44, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

You have not posted an explanation what makes you think that the extension is not correctly installing, so we cannot help (yet). Malyacko (talk) 11:02, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

To clarify: a deprecation notice does not mean there is a problem. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 12:55, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki marks internal urls consisting of /w/index.php as external

Проблема с аккаунтом!!!

Здраствуйте,

Я онлайн пользователь. У меня есть вопрос ! Почему меня обвинили в вандализме? Я хочу создать аккаунт, а мне пишут что я вандал!!! Вы просите но я мальчик и мне 14 лет я и живу и учусь в России. Я делаю аккаунт для того чтобы воспользоваться дополнительными услугами. Я делаю проект. Если я что-то натворил, то простите пожалуйста. Если можно снимите с меня блокировку! Если понадобится моя почта, то я на связи kurbartur@mail.ru.

С уважением ChestAVAY. 145.255.3.200 (talk) 15:56, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

From your post, it looks like that you were blocked (somewhere). If it is a Wikipedia block, please ask there; we can't help you. Same applies if it is a block not on this project (mediawiki.org). Leaderboard (talk) 17:50, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

WYSIWYG alternative to VisualEditor?

Are there "simpler" WYSIWYG alternatives to the VE? Setting it up on a shared host like mine requires using a 3rd party service, because of Parsoid, and even then according to the explanation page here, it might consume too much ressources on larger article pages. I mean, forums use WYSIWYG editors since many years (like CKEditor, Redactor and many others) and have never caused ressource problems on shared hosts and don't require a permanently running service such as Parsoid. What is different in a Wiki - except that it uses Wikitext over BBCode tags- that it needs such a much more complicated WYSIWYG editor that almost requires hosting on a dedicated server?

Semako96 (talk) 18:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikitext has been intentionally engineered over the years to provide a lot of power, but the consequence of that expressive power is that a basic WYSIWYG editor can't cope with much of the output of wikitext. Templates, parser functions, and extension tags in particular are way beyond the static scope of HTML, and can't be handled well without a lot of heavyweight specialist code. Lots of people are willing to accept the lack of editability of content for some users by using a low-end WYSIWYG like CKEditor, but that's a decision to make based on the nature of your content and the character of your editing community; the Wikimedia editing community expressed very strong desires for full-feature editing, but that may not be necessary for you.

Note that there is a project underway currently to port the Node service into PHP, which may mean that relatively soon you'd be able to use the visual editor in low-end hosting environments. However, I'm not an expert on such systems. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Have a look at Extension:TinyMCE or Extension:VisualEditor (BlueSpice) Osnard (talk) 07:38, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I installed TinyMCE and translated it locally, and it works fine now. If I find time and motivation for that, I'll translate it on Translatewiki too ;-) Semako96 (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Forcing skin for Special:Settings?

Lots of errors in the log, how to prevent them?

I just checked my server's error logs, because I wanted to see the reason for a random error 500 I got, but I didn't find any entry which could be related to an error 500, I found lots of entries regarding non-existant files (error 404):

https://abload.de/img/errorloge6ksx.png

For some reason, users (or bots) try to load those files, despite them not existing and the domain redirecting to the wiki. How can I prevent that? Semako96 (talk) 20:52, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

There's no way you can prevent users or bots from requesting invalid or inexistent URLs. They may be using an older version of the page hosted somewhere else, or cached, or who knows what. Unless you find something on your server (wrongly) pointing to those inexistent URLs, there's nothing you can do. Just ignore them or disable 404 errors from logs Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Collapsable elements help

If I have multiple collapsible elements on a page, is it possible to have any other expanded elements collapse when you expand a new one?

Say you have element A, B and C. All three start off collapsed. You click on B and it expands. Then you click A and it expands while collapsing B. Likewise if you then click C, it will expand C and simultaneously collapse A.

I have found the posts regarding "collapse or expand all" buttons, but none that function as I've described.

Thanks in advance

184.96.214.75 (talk) 21:17, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

What you describe is an "accordion" effect. This is not implemented in standard MediaWiki. If you know JavaScript coding you could write a script yourself to do that. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:33, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Reviving an expired wiki

Mark for translation, Extension:FileImporter

Activates HTTPS and now CSS didnt seem to load

Request language in template

Can I request the language chosen by an user in a template so I can act depending on that? And if so, how? Waanders (talk) 13:08, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

This would probably require javascript. In general user-specific data is kept out of wikitext. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Okay, well thanks, we'll have a look whether this is an option. Waanders (talk) 14:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Extension:Graph yields a blank canvas

Fresh install with 1.32 with latest JsonConfig, and Graph. Without parsoid, Graph yields an empty blank space where the graph should appear (tested using various sample Vega graphs), With parsoid, Graph yields a broken image icon. No errors appear in logs with logging turned on both on Mediawiki and php. I'm not sure how to debug this? Any clues? Siacali (talk) 20:31, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Not very familar with Graph extension, but my first debugging suggestion would be to look at the javasscript console in your web browser to check for JS errors. Bawolff (talk) 21:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Makes sense, but nothing very informative appears there...there are a bunch of minor javascript errors (certain attributes not available, etc), but nothing catastrophic and they change when I insert different graphs.

No graphs (that I've tried so far) produce any real output other than the blank space...as I've used sources from graphs that appear to be working on this site, my expectation is that they should work on my own. Siacali (talk) 22:59, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Minor JS errors are probably enough (depending on what they actually are) to stop javascript execution and prevent the graph from showing up. Bawolff (talk) 19:30, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

makes sense, but that gives no indication of what I should seek to fix or why the generated javascript would be wrong. All of the javascript is coming from underlying mediawiki or plugin code...not sure what I could "fix" in Javascript... Siacali (talk) 19:53, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Open a bug report to the maintainer of the extension, if you think it's a bug and not related to your personal/site JavaScript Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:32, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

not sure if it's a bug or a configuration error...completely vanilla site, so it's not our javascript.... Siacali (talk) 00:09, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Recovering user accounts

I haven't logged into my wikipedia account in a few years, but I had the username and password stored in my password manager. I have about a dozen possible email addresses and access to all of them, but I don't know which I used to create the account so I'm having a hard time recovering it. Are there any alternative recovery options to resetting my password? I can provide the expired password, I can reply to a link that is emailed, but it will take me half a month to figure out which email address I used. 72.83.98.211 (talk) 00:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

You can try creating a task on phabricator. It may be quicker to follow the normal password recovery methods. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 01:42, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Can the Recent changes feed show the number of changed bytes?

The Recent changes page shows the number of changed bytes. The feed (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Syndication_feeds#Recent_changes) doesn't. Is there a parameter so the feed shows this number too?

I would like to make social media posts only for changes, that have more than 300 added bytes. That's why I would need this number within the feed. Stefahn (talk) 10:34, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Upgrade of CharInsert is missing an important previously existing feature.

Is it possible to redirect if the user forgets the "/wiki"?

Disabling namespaces for discord extension

$wgDiscordDisabledNS = ['NS_MEDIAWIKI', 'NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK', 'NS_CATEGORY', 'NS_CATEGORY_TALK'];

Category Page - Change How Page Names Are Displayed

Hi There,

I work for a company that uses MediaWiki as their knowledgebase.

I have to have a main page per client, however, on the category page it shows the full page name instead of just the name after client name.

For example,

On the category page it shows Annodata:Main Page as that's the page name, I'd like it to show just Main page and not Annodata.\

Hope you Can help,

James x Kyocera Timms (talk) 16:34, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Could you clarify what you're trying?

Do you have an "Annodata" namespace? Or are these pages in the main namespace that just have the "Annodata:" prefix? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Mark,

I am rebuilding the wiki that my employer uses as it was structured horribly, so I'm not sure exactly what they have set up. I'm still learning Wiki myself.

I have set up numerous Categories. For Example, The "Clients" Category which then contains the "Annodata" sub-category, which will then contain all of the pages previously made for Annodata client (I am currently in the process of categorizing everything as they didn't do so and the wiki was extremely random)

I'm going to provide a screenshot of a category page for the client "Smit & Dorlas", as this shows more of what I mean.

Screenshot

As you can see the page names are "Smit & Dorlas:Main Page", "UCC: Creating a UCC DA Account" & "UCC: Full AX Guide".

I need this to be "Main Page", "Creating a UCC DA Account" & "Full AX Guide".

I cannot simply remake the page with the name "Main Page" as there are numerous duplicate page names in clients.

Hope this clarifies for you.

@MarkAHershberger Kyocera Timms (talk) 09:06, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Since you apparently want to have multiple Wiki pages with the (displayed) title "Main page" for each of your clients, as far as I know, there are two possible ways.

Either use Extension:Display Title. I have tested it and the extension appears to be working fine.

Upload the extension, append the following to your LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'DisplayTitle' );
$wgAllowDisplayTitle = true;
$wgRestrictDisplayTitle = false;

On your Wiki's Smit & Dorlas:Main Page, add the following: {{DISPLAYTITLE:Main Page}}. Perform a Null edit on the page to update the categories page and see if the category page changes as expected.

Or, define separate namespaces for each of your clients and hope one of the following old solutions to hide namespace prefixes from category pages still work:

• Phabricator:T31975
• Manual talk:$wgExtraNamespaces#How do I hide my custom namespace's prefix from Category listings?
• Extension:HidePrefix
• Snippets/Hide prefix in category AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 10:50, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

@AhmadF.Cheema Thank you for providing this response, but none of the extension solutions worked. In my case, I am trying to migrate a wiki from a much older version to a new version by installing the extensions and then doing an XML import of the data from the older wiki. The old wiki does not have the problem of displaying the category as a prefix, but the new one does after the XML import. Should I have "Extension:Display Title" installed prior to the import? Does the order of XML import and extension installation matter? Kamalabmi (talk) 18:34, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Collapsible content obscures header

I've run across an odd behavior that I'd like some advice on how to correct. As demonstrated on User:Ray Jorgensen/Header problem demo, the collapsible "toolbox" on this page sometimes obscures the 2.0 Header (depends on your screen resolution and window size - you might need to play around with window size to see the effect).

What do I need to do to correct this problem? Add something to the collapsible div parameters? This div section is normally placed in a template on our articles, and includes some dynamic query content, so the box changes size on different pages, but when it runs across the whole page and encounters a header on the left side, it covers up the header. I would like the header to flow around the collapsible object like the text (the text ALWAYS flows around, but headers only sometimes flow around.) Ray Jorgensen (talk) 17:09, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Your problem is the "float: right" css bit. Compare with and without. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:06, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

i cant see the page very well

I try creating an account but any time I try too there is always an error why 92.17.191.146 (talk) 19:36, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

What errors are you seeing? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:00, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

filtering table in mediawiki

I have a table in mediawiki and I want to have a filterable field in each column of a table; and customize the size of each column.

I tried to use:

1. Semantic wiki with Semantic Result Format. They allowed me to query and have a result table but I have a problem with the design. My table has 25 columns; so it overflow the page. How to create horizontal scrolling?  

2. Datatables extension.

I have a problem when I add the following code into Localsetting.php

       $myResourceLoaderModule => array(
       'scripts'      => 'modules/jquery.dataTables.min.js',
       'styles'       => 'modules/jquery.dataTables.min.css',
       'dependencies' => array(
           'ext.datatables',
                   // other javascript libraries...
       )
       );

My mediawiki won't load. How to add this extension into mediawiki? Can you please give me a tutorial?

3. I used the instruction on Implementing filterable table script in mediawiki?

but it won't work.

What I have to do? Hirami to (talk) 00:14, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

When you tried to use the Datatables extension, your wiki wouldn't work because you introduced a coding error. You have $myResourceLoaderModule => array( when you should have $myResourceLoaderModule = array( ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 02:54, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

When I use Semantic Result Format with format datatable. The entries in each page is 10. I don't know display all the results in the table without paging. I did set the following in my LocalSetting.php

$smwgQMaxInlineLimit = 2000;
$smwgQDefaultLimit  = 2000;
$smwgQMaxLimit = 2000;
$smwgPropertyPagingLimit = 2000;

Hirami to (talk) 00:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http-error: (curl error: 7) Couldn't connect to server

Upgrading from 1.24.1

Dynamic references

hi all

in a wikitable I'm showing some rows dynamic, e.g.

! class="showEntry" | table-vale <ref>reference text</ref>

and show at the end of table references using <references />

the reference is always shown.

how can i supress the reference when the row is not shown?

regards Murphy013 (talk) 21:58, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

If you display/hide the row with JavaScript, you'll need to modify that JavaScript to find a reference on the row being hidden/shown and do the same on the corresponding reference text. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:26, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Password reset via DB?

UPDATE `user` SET user_password = CONCAT(':pbkdf2:sha256:10000:128:', 'another-string', 'another-key') WHERE user_name = 'someuser';

Printable version

Ursprungszertifikat für Hsch31

Resize framed images

Populating multiple template arguments via a parser function

{{Navbox
|state     = uncollapsed
|name      = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
|title     = [[Troops]]
|listclass = hlist
{{#arraymap:Test One~Test Two~Test Three|~|x|{{!}}group1{{=}}x{{!}}list1{{=}}Test|}}
}}

{{Navbox
|state     = uncollapsed
|name      = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
|title     = [[Troops]]
|listclass = hlist
|group1=Title One
|list1=Test
|group1=Title Two
|list1=Test
|group1=Title Three
|list1=Test
}}

"Illegal offset type" errors after upgrading wiki/php/installing SSL redirect

Mobile.css doesn't load, possible bug?

Is there a way to search within a page

Mediawiki slow to implement page changes following update

Which webhoster do you recommend me for my MediaWiki?

1.32.0 - Create new User - [66ff6dd96b42943e94930794] 2019-01-21 11:43:33: Fataler Ausnahmefehler des Typs „BadMethodCallException“

PHP 7.3.1 (Win64)

This is a new installation from 1.32.2 to a 1.31.xx test installation with very little data.

I get this error message create a new user

Internal error: [66ff6dd96b42943e94930794] 2019-01-21 11:43:33: Fatal exception error of type "BadMethodCallException". 213.61.101.146 (talk) 11:52, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Correction:

This is a new installation from 1.32.2 refundet 1.31.xx test installation with very little data.

213.61.101.146 (talk) 12:54, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

did you carry over any data besides localsettings.php, uploads and database? Semako96 (talk) 13:10, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Nothing. I create a new localsettings.php. 213.61.101.146 (talk) 13:13, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

apache error.log show this.

-----[error.log]--------------

[Mon Jan 21 13:15:17.167070 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 1692:tid 288] [client x.x.x.x:63566] PHP Warning:  session_id(): Cannot change session id when session is active in [...]\\wiki\\includes\\Setup.php on line 879 213.61.101.146 (talk) 14:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the error when you add

$wgShowExceptionDetails=true;

to the end of your LocalSettings.php? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 00:02, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

[a23d5de78988bd610d52df0c] /wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Benutzerkonto_anlegen&returnto=Hauptseite BadMethodCallException from line 456 of C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\session\Session.php: Encryption is not available. You really should install the PHP OpenSSL extension, or failing that the mcrypt extension. But if you really can't and you're willing to accept insecure storage of sensitive session data, set $wgSessionInsecureSecrets = true in LocalSettings.php to make this exception go away.

Backtrace:

#0 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\session\Session.php(485): MediaWiki\Session\Session::getEncryptionAlgorithm()

#1 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\auth\AuthManager.php(1139): MediaWiki\Session\Session->setSecret(string, array)

#2 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(357): MediaWiki\Auth\AuthManager->beginAccountCreation(User, array, string)

#3 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(482): AuthManagerSpecialPage->performAuthenticationStep(string, array)

#4 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\htmlform\HTMLForm.php(665): AuthManagerSpecialPage->handleFormSubmit(array, VFormHTMLForm)

#5 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\AuthManagerSpecialPage.php(416): HTMLForm->trySubmit()

#6 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(317): AuthManagerSpecialPage->trySubmit()

#7 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\SpecialPage.php(569): LoginSignupSpecialPage->execute(NULL)

#8 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\specialpage\SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#9 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(288): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#10 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(860): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#11 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main()

#12 C:\Program Files\Apache24\htdocs\AERUS\wiki\index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#13 {main} 213.61.101.146 (talk) 06:23, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Error fixed with add openssl to my php.ini and restart apache

; 22.01.2019 TW für MediaWiki

extension=openssl 213.61.101.146 (talk) 06:32, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

was there any hint to openssl extension during installation? 213.61.101.146 (talk) 06:50, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I've created a task for this issue in Phabricator. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 12:51, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

External Data Extension

Hi,

Have installed external data extension, and wanting to use #get_db_data functionality. Have made all the configuration settings as mentioned in : Extension:External Data##get db data - retrieve data from a database

My query was pertaining to how is the data displayed form this extension. Just creating a new page and adding the below query will retrieve the results or I am missing something? I am trying to retrieve data from mediawiki table in . Sample query as below

{{#get_db_data: db=employee-db |from=tblPersonalInfo |order by=employeeName ASC |data=dbemail=employeeEmail,name=employeeName }}

Thanks

Sneha.1812 (talk) 11:58, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

ping @Yaron Koren ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 00:03, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Did you read the documentation for displaying data? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 00:07, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks but it is not letting me in 2600:1012:B12C:B0D1:90A5:14D1:82E4:9735 (talk) 03:44, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

problem at www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Motorcycle/wiki

problem at www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Motorcycle/wiki

I could not find any other place to report problem but this site seems pertinent. On Jan 3, 2019 I accessed this

terrific wikipedia about Motorcycles but today ( two weeks later) I get errors suggesting I am running a version of PHP that is too old. I am just a user interested in motorcycles and I assure you I am not running any version of PHP. I tried both Chrome and Edge in Windows 10 on desktop with no change. I would appreciate if someone else could access the site and see if it works for them. Therefore it would be a problem with my computer and not the site.

On Jan 3, I did some screen captures to show some of the sites content if anyone wants to see what it looked like. contact me at 2scott@bellsouth.net and I will reply with some attachments. If there is a better place to report this error function or suggestion for other pursuit, please send me an email to the address mentioned and I will pursue this elsewhere.

Scott in Atlanta.... 2scott@bellsouth.net Interested in MOTORCYCLES 2600:1700:8990:70C0:3177:B31D:A230:74D2 (talk) 14:07, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

I've had the same for several weeks, as of 2-3 days ago my bookmark to the site is bringing up error 404, seems they've taken the site down.

A pity as it was very useful. 78.144.171.142 (talk) 12:24, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

This is a problem on the server of www.cyclechaos.com. It seems like they either upgraded MediaWiki or they downgraded PHP and now the combination they are using now does no longer fit together.

As a visitor of the website there is nothing you can do about that - only the website administrator can solve this issue. 2001:16B8:1074:1100:2857:A74D:EAF3:C557 (talk) 18:55, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

maybe you have luck and can find articles from that site archived at archive.org? Semako96 (talk) 19:38, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Minerva Neue problems

ignore pictures in printable version

How to hide file history on a page

I have an image that shows file history to people NOT logged in. How can i supress that to everyone except logged in users? Rkasparek (talk) 17:25, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

It looks like the only way to do that would be to use JS to remove the element identified by #mw-imagepage-section-filehistory when a user is not logged in. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:30, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I would have done the same by hiding the history with CSS. However, this does not prevent people, who know the URL to a history page (which is not hard to guess actually), to just visit that URL, where they can just see basically the same history as well. 2001:16B8:1075:300:F543:FC3A:C10D:E3B2 (talk) 21:32, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

I have no issue with them going to the page of the image, I'd just like to hide the history on that page :)

I think I figured it out...

In MediaWiki:Common.css I added:

#filehistory { display: none; } /* Hides the "File history" header */

#mw-imagepage-section-filehistory { display: none; } /* Hides the "file history" table */ Rkasparek (talk) 16:01, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

That only works as long as the user doesn't start his developer console and reads the page's HTML code or just removes the CSS rule ;-) Semako96 (talk) 17:47, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Error after moving page

I moved the page https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Venus-Feuerfalle to https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Feuer-Piranha-Pflanze - and now that article only gives a 500 error. What went wrong and how can I fix that to prevent it from happening in the future?

Edit: By moving the page again via typing the URL to move it into the browser's adress field, I found out, that it seems to be a problem with that specific title? I moved it again to https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Feuer-Piranha-Pflanze1 - and there the artikel showed up fine. After moving it back to https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Feuer-Piranha-Pflanze, it only gives me the error https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Error/500-internal-server-error.html again. What is wrong with my wiki? :(

Edit: by manually opening the article in the editor and saving, the problem got fixed. But I leave this open, because I would like to know what can cause such a problem to prevent it from happening in the future. Semako96 (talk) 19:50, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

A 500 error is not descriptive for us, it can be a million of things. Please look at the error logs of your server to find a detailed message of the error. See also Blank page. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I can't find anything related to that error in the log. Also the error message loooks different from an usual error 500, because usually MediaWiki would't even load, but in this case the error 500 was displayed as a wiki article... Semako96 (talk) 11:03, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

If by error you mean the page: https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Error/500-internal-server-error.html, then this is not an error but a Wiki content page by the name of "Error/500-internal-server-error.html".

Maybe something on the server side happened when you moved the page, for the URL to get redirected to page "Error/500-internal-server-error.html"? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 12:23, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know. That is the error page that got displayed when I tried to open the moved article. Really strange... there's also no error report in the error log for a 500 error, there are only 404 and 403 errros reported.

Right now, a friend from Germany can't access https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Spezial:Letzte_Änderungen (the recent changes special page) and gets the same strange 500 error, that looks like a Wiki content page, and again, there's no error 500 logged in the error log. Semako96 (talk) 13:25, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Do you have any explanations for that strange behaviour? If a region or an IP range is blocked for a website, every page on that website should be inaccessible and not only a single one... And why the hell is there nothing except some "file does not exist" (404) and "access denied" (403) logged, but no 500 errors? I am really desperate right now...

PS:Hoster is contacted too, I hope that they reply tomorrow. Semako96 (talk) 15:47, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Far as I can see, some specific URLs to your Wiki get redirected to a "500-internal-server-error.html" HTML webpage inside the directory "error" i.e. path, "error/500-internal-server-error.html". Now, since MediaWiki automatically reads such URL paths as part of its Wiki content pages, the visitor ends up seeing the Wiki content page instead of the "error/500-internal-server-error.html" page.

Either you have made some redirect rules mistake, or much more likely your hosting service is making some mistake. To make sure that your setup is not to blame, try temporarily removing all redirect rules and browse to the Wiki page which leads to the "error/500-internal-server-error.html" page. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I did what you said, and https://mariowiki.net/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_Änderungen works, even with the .htaccess for short URLs applied, the short URL https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Spezial:Letzte_Änderungen doesn't work. That's, however, only for my friend from Germany, for me, here in Austria, everything works fine, including the short URL to the recent changes page. That's what really confuses me. If it was a misconfiguration I made, like an error in my .htaccess, it should affect everyone...

Anyways, here is my current .htaccess file, it is from another thread here on the Support Desk:

## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
# Enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
# Move to https
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mariowiki.net
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Short URL for wiki pages
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
# Redirect / to Main Page
RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
# Redirect "forgot wiki"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki/
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /wiki/$1 [R=301,L]

Semako96 (talk) 17:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

And here an anonymized version of my localSettings.php: https://pastebin.com/svcNKWQV (keys and database login removed) so that you can check it, but I doubt it is the source of the problem... Semako96 (talk) 18:03, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

The redirect is something performed by the webserver. Probably forced by your hoster, or something you can change from your cPanel or similar. If you can't find error logs on your server, you should ask them how they could provide access to such logs to debug the problem Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I have error logs, but they don't tell me anything about a 500 error, they only contain numerous 404s and 403 Forbidden.

I already asked my hoster. But why should the server redirect a page only for a specific region and not for another region? And why only a specific wiki page? Semako96 (talk) 22:59, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

That doesn't make sense to me...

It is a shared host, and I can only activate or deactivate mod-rewrite, but not change other redirect settings.

Can browser plugins cause something like this? That would be the only thing I can imagine that may cause such a beavior...

As a workaround would it be possible to change the htaccess and localsettings.php so that no short URLs are used and the user gets redirected to the long URL when entering a short URL into his browser? Semako96 (talk) 23:28, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Although rare, browser proxy extensions are known to have caused URL redirects. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 04:41, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

In general, shared hosts have configured error pages to automatically display or redirect a specific HTML page, specially if they don't allow their customers to configure that explicitly. In this case, they decide to redirect error pages to "/error/500-internal-server-error.html", where they expect you'd put there a meaningful html page to say the user something went wrong. Your redirect rules cause /error to be redirected to /wiki/error (because the original file doesn't exist), causing the wiki to display that page. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:21, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Okay, that makes sense.

Stilö wondering why my hoster can't configure their servers properly...

A user wanted to upload multiple files via Extension:Multiupload, got a 500 error and then the page was down for everyone for a few minutes...

I contacted the hoster again, and am waiting for a response. Semako96 (talk) 20:19, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Can template inclusion be used conditionally?

Help:Templates#Control template inclusion

For example, if I call {{Example|option1}} a section is included, but if I call {{Example|option2}} it isn't. {{#switch:{{{1|}}}|option1=<includeonly>}} doesn't work. Using #switch to include/exclude the actual content doesn't work either because the editlink for the subsections disappears. Using #switch above the top section header won't work because the archivebots will mess everything up.

Ultimate goal: have a single discussion page which can be included to show all the discussions or just the discussion headers. I've been trying to accomplish this on c:User:Alexis Jazz/Proposal incubator.

A method to override <noinclude> tags when including a page to make the noinclude contents be included anyway should also work. Alexis Jazz (talk) 06:12, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

To exclude content use {{#if: or {{#switch:, and put the contents inside the part of the if/switch where you want it displayed. Don't use includeonly tags for conditionally add or remove contents. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:22, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

As I said, that's not a sensible approach for what I'm trying to do. I started phab:T214464 as I guess it can't be done in wikicode atm. Alexis Jazz (talk) 10:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Not able to pass ip-validation

Not able to pass ip-validation check on vert.x github. Keep seeing following page:  https://dev.eclipse.org/eclipse-webhook/services/status_details.php?id=5c48098f32584 68.3.248.209 (talk) 06:39, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Is this related to MediaWiki? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 08:11, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

how to reset a password?

PLease tell the procedures to reset the password

129.126.226.121 (talk) 07:11, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Manual:Resetting passwords. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 08:10, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Users can only see main page

Minerva Neue not working

I am trying to install the mobile skin “Minerva Neue” but when I install it in localsettings.php, and try to access my site it just goes blank. I am running the mediawiki 1.32.0 version. Can someone please help. Thanks. Examknow (Lets Chat) 03:18, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

In your LocalSettings.php, set:

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;
$wgDevelopmentWarnings = true; error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL);

AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 04:37, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@AhmadF.Cheema Thank you for the response. When I do that I get the error

Warning: putenv() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/includes/Setup.php on line 132

Warning: require(/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/ServiceWiring.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/includes/services/ServiceContainer.php on line 120

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/ServiceWiring.php' (include_path='/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/console_getopt:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/mail:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/mail_mime:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/net_smtp:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/net_socket:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/pear-core-minimal/src:/home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/vendor/pear/pear_exception:.:/usr/share/pear/') in /home/vol11_2/fhio.xyz/fhiox_23259745/wiki.dexissoftware.fhio.xyz/htdocs/mw19/includes/services/ServiceContainer.php on line 120

Any ideas? Examknow (Lets Chat) 17:27, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete the present .../extensions/MobileFrontend directory and upload the extension files for v1.32 again. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 03:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

RESTBase keeps returning 504 errors

             allow:
               - pattern: https://wiki.website.com/w/api.php
                 forward_headers: true
               - pattern: https://wiki.website.com:8142/
                 forward_headers: true
               - pattern: /^https?:\/\//
       paths:
         /{domain:localhost}:
           x-modules:
             - path: projects/example.yaml
               options:
                 action:
                   # XXX Check API URL!
                   apiUriTemplate: https://wiki.website.com/w/api.php
                   # XXX Check the base RESTBase URI
                   baseUriTemplate: "{{'https://wiki.website.com:7232/{domain}/'}}"
                 parsoid:
                   # XXX Check Parsoid URL!
                   host: https://wiki.website.com:8142 TheROFL98 (talk) 05:43, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Automatic purge for Wiki-page

Is there any way to implement an automatic purge for a Wiki-page? Right now we are doing it with a button the user has to click, but it's not really what we want. 80.146.228.94 (talk) 09:51, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

By "Automatic" do you mean "on a regular basis", or "when something in the page changes"? For the latter, it should be done with MediaWiki automatically, and if it doesn't work, something may not be correctly configured. For the regular purge, you could add a cron entry to run the purgePage.php maintenance script. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:24, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

What is the actual underlying problem? Why do you need to purge wiki pages so often? Malyacko (talk) 10:25, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Hey, thanks to both of you, especially to Ciencia, this could really help! The page takes data from an external document via the extension "External Data". This document is updated every 24h. Without a purge, the data on the page is not refreshed. 80.146.228.94 (talk) 10:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder: how would that entry look like? I only want the purge for this one page.

THANK YOU 80.146.228.94 (talk) 11:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Maintenance scripts should be run by the same use account that runs php on the webserver, to prevent permission problems (for example, LocalSettings.php may not be accessible by other users because it contains passwords).

To edit the crontab of the user running php, first you should know which account is the one that runs php.

Then edit the crontab under that account (this example assumes it's run by the "php-fpm" account):

sudo -u php-fpm crontab -e

The crontab syntax is very simple, you'll find information on man pages and internet.

As an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8938120/how-to-run-cron-once-daily-at-10pm

Run once every day at 22:00:

0 22 * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/mediawiki/maintenance/purgePage.php < listofpages.txt Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:25, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Saw this just now, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! 80.146.228.94 (talk) 14:10, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Wrong country.

When I entered my location, which is in the United States, it shows events in the United Kingdom. There is a major problem in the app. Please fix 12.216.163.100 (talk) 16:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Nobody knows what "app" you talk about, where you enter a location, what is showing "events", how this is related to MediaWiki. Please elaborate way more otherwise nobody can fix anything. Malyacko (talk) 12:30, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Wrong place to ask this. Tropicalkitty (talk) 16:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Exception in Title.php since v1.30

I recently upgraded mediawiki to 1.32 and discovered that one of the link under "Special page" -> "List of pages" -> "List of redirects" is broken with error 500 Internal Server error. The debug log has:

[exception] [7c9c665784cd93d340f8a182] /index.php/Special:ListRedirects   Error from line 1610 of /var/www/mediawiki-1.32.0/includes/Title.php: Call to a member function isLocal() on null.  

Examining Title.php, the problem is within this block:

        public function getFragmentForURL() {
                if ( !$this->hasFragment() ) {
                        return '';
                } elseif ( $this->isExternal()
                        && !self::getInterwikiLookup()->fetch( $this->mInterwiki )->isLocal()      <-Line 1610
                ) {
                        return '#' . Sanitizer::escapeIdForExternalInterwiki( $this->mFragment );
                }
                return '#' . Sanitizer::escapeIdForLink( $this->mFragment );

This only existed starting from version 1.30, and is the version when the problem started. It appears that if I comment the following the error goes away.

/**

                } elseif ( $this->isExternal()
                        && !self::getInterwikiLookup()->fetch( $this->mInterwiki )->isLocal()
                ) {
*/

What is the block for and is it safe or advisable to keep this elseif statement commented out?

Thank you Hollywchung (talk) 17:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

The following would probably be better:

	public function getFragmentForURL() {
		$lookedUp = self::getInterwikiLookup()->fetch( $this->mInterwiki );
		if ( !$this->hasFragment() ) {
			return '';''
		} elseif ( $this->isExternal() && $lookedUp && $lookedUp->isLocal() ) {
			return '#' . Sanitizer::escapeIdForExternalInterwiki( $this->mFragment );
		}
		return '#' . Sanitizer::escapeIdForLink( $this->mFragment );
	}

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:23, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

In fact, that bug has already been fixed.

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T204800

See the fix here. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:37, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Yea! The fix for the bug works great! Thank you so very much! Shouldn't this fix be part of the distribution? Anyhow, I really appreciate the assistance. Hollywchung (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

It was made recently. We can request that it be backported. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 01:10, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Hide infobox rows when parameter is empty

Assuming I have an infobox...

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="float:right; width:352px; border:2px solid #e1e1e1; font-size:smaller; line-height:1.7; margin: 0 0 .5em 1em;">

<tr>

<td><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0 0 .5em 1em;">{{{parameter1}}}</p>

</tr>

</table>

...And the page formatting...

{{ infobox

| parameter1 =

}}

... How would i make the row with parameter1 disappear when it is left empty? Asibs4844 (talk) 20:47, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Wrap the row in an if-template: {{#if:{{{parameter1|}}}|<tr><td><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0 0 .5em 1em;">{{{parameter1}}}</p></td></tr>}} Clump (talk) 22:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

mysqli very slow connections

I have read and seen Project:Support desk/Flow/2014/10#h-[RESOLVED]_page_loading_slow_speed-2014-10-03T14:38:00.000Z and I still have an issue. The fix of changing hostname to IPv4 address does speed things up fine. However, my database is hosted by Amazon and they take the database down and then back up when they patch it. That causes the ip address to change. As a result, I lose my connection, until I perform an nslookup on the db host again, and retrieve the new ip address. This is very undesirable as I would like to allow the host to remain up at all times. Any suggestions? I believe im' using MW 1.32 .

Thanks,

Richard 2601:2C7:680:3252:45E8:D3DB:8A5A:C1F0 (talk) 03:08, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

The problem you linked is for database server hosted on the same server as MediaWiki (localhost). It shouldn't matter when it's on a remote server. If DNS resolving takes too long, you may need to enable the nscd daemon or similar on your linux distribution. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:35, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Multiple Root Elements Error on Migration

Hi, I have a task to migrate content from a MediaWiki ver. 1.15.1 (PHP 5.4.16/ MySQL 5.7.24) over to SharePoint.

The only tool I found that seems to be fit for purpose is Quest's Metalogix Content Matrix. When I try to connect to MediaWiki I get an XML exception:

Error: There are multiple root elements. Line 2, position 2.

I personally can't access the server side files for our MediaWiki, but IT Support are at a loss to know where to begin looking, i.e.which file(s) to edit/ correct.

Whereabouts on the installation could/ would two root elements be declared?

Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give me. Drdecker1428 (talk) 09:32, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Looking at the Quest's Metalogix Content Matrix website page, it talks about Office 365 and Microsoft Sharepoint, but nothing about MediaWiki. Are you sure this is the right tool? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:31, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes, Content Matrix has various elements to it. One Module is for Blogs and Wikis. There's a dedicated button in the ribbon for MediaWiki. See here

I've got it to connect to other MediaWikis, so the error is with this one particular installation.

My question is which file(s) could be causing the error regarding multiple root elements?

What or where does Line 2, position 2. refer to?

Drdecker1428 (talk) 10:43, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

This seems to be a question for a Quest's Metalogix Content Matrix support forum, if the "Line 2, position 2" output is provided by Quest's Metalogix Content Matrix? Malyacko (talk) 12:29, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

It may be a bug on that version of MediaWiki, or just an error popping on a specific page. Looking at server logs you may be able to see what's the last URL accessed, which gives the error, and see if it's a server problem (permission error, server too busy, out of memory...) or something wrong with MediaWiki. Upgrading MediaWiki could fix the problem Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:01, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Git checkout REL1_31 is dev-REL1_31

Old backup can't be update.php'ed

• Fresh arch-linux with mariadb
• Fresh mediawiki-1.32.0
• backup from few years old backup
• update.php executed

Last few lines covering problem:

Creating slots table ...done.
...have slot_origin field in slots table.
Creating content table ...done.
Creating slot_roles table ...done.
Creating content_models table ...done.
Migrating archive ar_text to modern storage.
Migrating ar_text to modern storage...
Completed ar_text migration, 0 rows updated, 0 missing data.
Dropping ar_text and ar_flags columns ...done.
Creating actor table ...done.
Modifying rev_text_id field of table revision ...done.
Modifying table site_stats ...done.
Populating ar_rev_id.
Populating ar_rev_id...
[24397e1713ab4a7486c90cdc] [no req]   Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError from line 1341 of .../includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot execute query from PopulateArchiveRevId::checkMysqlAutoIncrementBug while transaction status is ERROR.
Backtrace:
#0 .../includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1127): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->assertTransactionStatus(string, string)
#1 .../includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(2068): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)
#2 .../maintenance/populateArchiveRevId.php(114): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->insert(string, array, string)
#3 .../includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(3805): PopulateArchiveRevId::{closure}(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli, string)
#4 .../maintenance/populateArchiveRevId.php(128): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->doAtomicSection(string, Closure)
#5 .../maintenance/populateArchiveRevId.php(53): PopulateArchiveRevId::checkMysqlAutoIncrementBug(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli)
#6 .../maintenance/Maintenance.php(1698): PopulateArchiveRevId->doDBUpdates()
#7 .../includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(1354): LoggedUpdateMaintenance->execute()
#8 .../includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(485): DatabaseUpdater->populateArchiveRevId()
#9 .../includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(449): DatabaseUpdater->runUpdates(array, boolean)
#10 .../maintenance/update.php(203): DatabaseUpdater->doUpdates(array)
#11 .../maintenance/doMaintenance.php(94): UpdateMediaWiki->execute()
#12 .../maintenance/update.php(248): require_once(string)
#13 {main}

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError: Transaction round stage must be 'cursory' (not 'within-rollback') in .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php:703
Stack trace:
#0 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(251): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->assertTransactionRoundStage('cursory')
#1 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(179): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->commitMasterChanges('Wikimedia\\Rdbms...')
#2 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(152): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->shutdown(0)
#3 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(728): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->destroy()
#4 [internal function]: Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->__destruct()
#5 {main}
  thrown in .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php on line 703

Fatal error: Uncaught Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionError: Transaction round stage must be 'cursory' (not 'within-rollback') in .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php:703
Stack trace:
#0 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(251): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->assertTransactionRoundStage('cursory')
#1 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(179): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->commitMasterChanges('Wikimedia\\Rdbms...')
#2 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(152): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->shutdown(0)
#3 .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(728): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->destroy()
#4 [internal function]: Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->__destruct()
#5 {main}
  thrown in .../includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php on line 703

Bajcik (talk) 14:09, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Interesting.... Some questions:

• What was the prior version of MediaWiki that you were using?
• Was it with the same version of MariaDB that you are using?
• What version of PHP are you using?
• What is the approximate size of your wiki in terms of pages? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:01, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

@MarkAHershberger

• Exact version of prior MediaWiki not known.Few years old. Old server
• mariadb 10.3.12-5
• php 7.3.1-2
• There are few wikis suffering the same problem. All running on the same old server. Biggest with ~1000 pages. Smallest had < 100 (~20?) articles. I can provide its dump for reproduction. Bajcik (talk) 10:20, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Can you try with an older version of PHP? I think PHP 7.3 is just beginning to be supported. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Database error

Currently I can't open Spezial:Verwaiste Seiten (https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Spezial:Verwaiste_Seiten), because I get a database errror: [5583067846a46113244ad127] 2019-01-25 17:15:11: Fataler Ausnahmefehler des Typs „Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError“

What is the problem here? Other pages work and I can upload files and create new articles. Semako96 (talk) 17:16, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

In LocalSettings.php, set:

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;
$wgDevelopmentWarnings = true; error_reporting( -1 ); ini_set( 'display_errors', 1);
# SQL errors:
$wgShowuserSQLErrors = true; $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace = true;

Manual:How to debug AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 00:50, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Do you have any idea why this single page doesn't work? Does it use a specific MySQL table or query, so that I can test it manually?

I don't want to have all those warnings from open_basedir showing up again, so I decativated PHP warning reports in the server config. Semako96 (talk) 19:08, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

After you turn on debugging, probably especially the portion related to SQL errors, will anyone "have any idea why this single page doesn't work?" Which "specific MySQL table or query" is the issue here?

Debugging needs to be turned On temporarily. Turn it On > Reload the page > Note down the error > Turn Off debugging. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 21:13, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Activated debug mode, and got that error on Spezial:Verwaiste_Seiten

[9599436522e6674869066803] /wiki/Spezial:Verwaiste_Seiten   Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1457 of /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading? 
 Query: SELECT  page_namespace AS `namespace`,page_title AS `title`,page_title AS `value`  FROM `page` LEFT JOIN `pagelinks` ON ((pl_namespace = page_namespace) AND (pl_title = page_title)) LEFT JOIN `templatelinks` ON ((tl_namespace = page_namespace) AND (tl_title = page_title))   WHERE (pl_namespace IS NULL) AND page_namespace = '0' AND page_is_redirect = '0' AND (tl_namespace IS NULL)  ORDER BY page_title LIMIT 101  
 Function: LonelyPagesPage::reallyDoQuery
 Error: 1104 The SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE rows; check your WHERE and use SET SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1 or SET MAX_JOIN_SIZE=# if the SELECT is okay (mysqlsvr39.world4you.com)
Backtrace:
#0 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1427): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)
 #1 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1200): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)
 #2 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1653): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)
 #3 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/specialpage/QueryPage.php(425): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(array, array, array, string, array, array)
 #4 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/specialpage/QueryPage.php(599): QueryPage->reallyDoQuery(integer, integer)
 #5 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(522): QueryPage->execute(NULL)
 #6 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
 #7 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(288): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)
 #8 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()
 #9 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()
 #10 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()
 #11 {main}

I ran the update script after the update from MediaWiki 1.24, and it finished with success, so if that table didn't get updated in the process, there must be a critical bug in the update script. Semako96 (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Does not seem so.

> The SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE rows; check your WHERE and use SET SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1 or SET MAX_JOIN_SIZE=# if the SELECT is okay (mysqlsvr39.world4you.com)

The default value of max_join_size is 18446744073709551615. I think this value should not be exceeded in your case.

What is max_join_size set to? I guess it should be set to something higher! 2001:16B8:1063:9500:98C4:8EB:C659:9B56 (talk) 21:22, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Where do I find that setting in phpMyAdmin? Semako96 (talk) 22:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Anyone? Semako96 (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

This is a limitation imposed by your shared hosting

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/966815/mysql-max-join-size-errors

Ideally, there should be a way to tell MediaWiki to issue SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1 if a configuration setting is set, but currently it's not possible. Best you can do is file a request. However, I haven't seen this error before, maybe your database is missing some indices for those tables? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:18, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

How can I check wether my database is missing some indices?

If it was caused by a limitation from my hoster, why do the other similar special paged all work? Anything I can do? That page is important for the wiki... Semako96 (talk) 22:54, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Check in Manual:Database layout or Manual:tables.sql for index definition and compare that on your database. Since there are a lot of tables, start checking only the tables involved in the query that failed: page, pagelinks and templatelinks Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:30, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Compared those to my database and found out that profiling and change_tag_dev are missing. My database also contains some other tables that aren't listed there and probably leftovers from an older MediaWiki version or older extensions. Semako96 (talk) 22:20, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

anyone has an Idea about what to do? Semako96 (talk) 23:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Did you create the missing indices? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:04, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

No, I haven't created them yet. Are those related to the issue with Spezial:Verwaiste Seiten? Semako96 (talk) 17:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Indices prevent queries from scanning the entire table. This is the issue your host is limiting: The SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE rows. If the index is in place, it shouldn't need to scan so many rows, apparently Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:43, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Just noticed that the profiling table doesn't exist by default, and change_tag_dev exists only from MediaWiki 1.32 onwards, not 1.31. So there are no missing indices in my database. Is there anything I can do to make that page work? And why do pages like Spezial:Verwaiste_Dateien, Spezial:Verwaiste_Kategorien work anyways? There are much more files than article pages including redirects on our wiki. Semako96 (talk) 10:23, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

I don't know. However, your host is imposing limitations to database queries, and this is an issue that you may encounter more frequently as your wiki grows. You can try to live with that, or migrate to a better hosting. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

I just got an answer from my hoster. I need to insert SET SQL_BIG_SELECTS=1; into the code where it does the database select request. Can you tell me where that is? Semako96 (talk) 10:49, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

It's somewhere in includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: near or inside Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->selectDomain(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseDomain) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:52, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

that's really vague. Anyone who knows exactly where the database select request in question is done? Semako96 (talk) 17:44, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Anyone? Semako96 (talk) 22:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Organization Wiki - loss of edit permissions

can you assist my colleague in gaining control of the business WIKI for DSCA?

It is located at - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Security_Cooperation_Agenc 134.152.205.65 (talk) 19:34, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

That is not your business wiki. It's Wikipedias page about your organization. If you having problem editing the page it need to be solved on Wikipedia in English. It can't be handled from here. Tegel (talk) 19:44, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Copy. The issue is that the collegue makes substaive edits and they are auto reverted. The nshe was flagged as malicious and not allowed to edit further. What should she do?

Thanks in advance,

EFG 134.152.205.65 (talk) 20:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

There is no recent edits to the page, so it's probably an abuse filter that is triggered. Since there is also a conflict of interest she should bring the issue to the talk page of the article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Defense_Security_Cooperation_Agency, and describe the issue there and let other users update the article. Tegel (talk) 20:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

How to remove "From:" from the top of every page

Question regarding the Translate extension

Where can I ask a question regarding the Translate extension? Axdr (talk) 01:02, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

I would try on TranslateWiki.net or ask @Nikerabbit directly. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:43, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

You could also ask on MediaWiki Stakeholders' chat for help, too. Nikerabbit sometimes shows up there. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:47, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

People often use Help talk:Extension:Translate or Extension talk:Translate. Nikerabbit (talk) 16:14, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Preferences Error!

Database restore 1.31 -> 1.31 fails

MediaWiki 	1.31.1
PHP 	7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (apache2handler)
MySQL 	5.7.25-0ubuntu0.18.04.2-log

how to easily install a sandbox?

Border-Radius and rules=all

{| rules=all style="border-radius:20px; border:1px solid #FF0000"
| test
| test
|-
|test
|test
|}

Multiupload error

Sometimes when I try to upload multiple files with Extension:Multiupload, I get the following error:

[0d8ea9145562260a12e68c68] /wiki/Spezial:MultiUpload   Wikimedia\Assert\ParameterTypeException from line 89 of .../vendor/wikimedia/assert/src/Assert.php: Bad value for parameter $dbkey: must be a string

Backtrace:

 #0 .../includes/title/TitleValue.php(80): Wikimedia\Assert\Assert::parameterType(string, NULL, string)
 #1 .../includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(100): TitleValue->__construct(integer, NULL, string)
 #2 .../includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(84): SpecialPage::getTitleValueFor(NULL, boolean, string)
 #3 .../includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(630): SpecialPage::getTitleFor(NULL, boolean)
 #4 .../includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(255): SpecialPage->getPageTitle()
 #5 .../extensions/MultiUpload/SpecialMultiUpload.php(476): SpecialUpload->getUploadForm(string, string, boolean)
 #6 .../includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(524): UploadRow->showUploadWarning(array)
 #7 .../extensions/MultiUpload/SpecialMultiUpload.php(339): SpecialUpload->processUpload()
 #8 .../extensions/MultiUpload/SpecialMultiUpload.php(98): UploadRow->handleRequestData()
 #9 .../extensions/MultiUpload/SpecialMultiUpload.php(78): SpecialMultiUpload->handleRequestData()
 #10 .../includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(522): SpecialMultiUpload->execute(NULL)
 #11 .../includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
 #12 .../includes/MediaWiki.php(288): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)
 #13 .../includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()
 #14 .../includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()
 #15 .../index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()
 #16 {main}

Wiki runs with MediaWiki 1.31 on php 7.2 with MySQL 5.5 InnoDB.

What's the problem there, how to fix it? Semako96 (talk) 20:52, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T214808

The error (Bad value for parameter $dbkey: must be a string) and the backtrace (especially TitleValue->__construct(integer, NULL, string)), look clear enough.

The constructor for TitleValue expects string and NULL is passed.

Now, why is it passed null? Looking at the code for Special::getPageTitle, it looks like the mName property is never set. Which is odd.

It looks like the UploadRow constructor should be setting the mName property, but isn't.

Try adding $this-mName = $page; to the constructor and let us know if it helps. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

For me, the titleValue.php script is a bit different, that is the constructor method:

/**
	 * Constructs a TitleValue.
	 *
	 * @note TitleValue expects a valid DB key; typically, a TitleValue is constructed either
	 * from a database entry, or by a TitleParser. We could apply "some" normalization here,
	 * such as substituting spaces by underscores, but that would encourage the use of
	 * un-normalized text when constructing TitleValues. For constructing a TitleValue from
	 * user input or external sources, use a TitleParser.
	 *
	 * @param int $namespace The namespace ID. This is not validated.
	 * @param string $dbkey The page title in valid DBkey form. No normalization is applied.
	 * @param string $fragment The fragment title. Use '' to represent the whole page.
	 *   No validation or normalization is applied.
	 * @param string $interwiki The interwiki component
	 *
	 * @throws InvalidArgumentException
	 */
	public function __construct( $namespace, $dbkey, $fragment = '', $interwiki = '' ) {
		Assert::parameterType( 'integer', $namespace, '$namespace' );
		Assert::parameterType( 'string', $dbkey, '$dbkey' );
		Assert::parameterType( 'string', $fragment, '$fragment' );
		Assert::parameterType( 'string', $interwiki, '$interwiki' );
		// Sanity check, no full validation or normalization applied here!
		Assert::parameter( !preg_match( '/^_|[ \r\n\t]|_$/', $dbkey ), '$dbkey',
			"invalid DB key '$dbkey'" );
		Assert::parameter( $dbkey !== '', '$dbkey', 'should not be empty' );
		$this->namespace = $namespace;
		$this->dbkey = $dbkey;
		$this->fragment = $fragment;
		$this->interwiki = $interwiki;
        $this-mName = $page;
    
	}

In that code snipped I already added the &this-mName=$page; line, as you can see. And with that addition, it throws an error:

Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0

. Semako96 (talk) 23:44, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Add that line to the UploadRow constructor, not the TitleValue constructor. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:26, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

After adding that line to the constructor method like this

/**
	 * Different constructor, let it know which row it is and
	 * the upload object it belongs to
	 */
	public function __construct( $page, $number ) {
		$this->mPage = $page;
		$this->setContext( $page->getContext() );
		$this->mRowNumber = $number;
		$this->mRequest = null;
		$this->mFormMessage = '';
		$this->mSessionKey = '';
		$this->mHideIgnoreWarning = '';
		$this->mExtraButtons = array();
        $this-mName = $page;
	}
	/**

I get the following error when trying to open Special:Multiupload:

[3cd5790bf61b9da1b34a015c] /wiki/Spezial:MultiUpload   ParseError from line 280 of /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/extensions/MultiUpload/SpecialMultiUpload.php: syntax error, unexpected '='
Backtrace:
#0 [internal function]: AutoLoader::autoload(string)
 #1 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(382): spl_autoload_call(string)
 #2 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(255): SpecialPageFactory::getPage(string)
 #3 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()
 #4 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()
 #5 /home/.sites/327/site4525714/web/wiki/w/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()
 #6 {main}

Semako96 (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Just noticed that in the line you gave me, there was a ">" missing. With

/**
	 * Different constructor, let it know which row it is and
	 * the upload object it belongs to
	 */
	public function __construct( $page, $number ) {
		$this->mPage = $page;
		$this->setContext( $page->getContext() );
		$this->mRowNumber = $number;
		$this->mRequest = null;
		$this->mFormMessage = '';
		$this->mSessionKey = '';
		$this->mHideIgnoreWarning = '';
		$this->mExtraButtons = array();
        $this->mName = $page;
	}
	/**

I can open Special:Multiupload now. Semako96 (talk) 22:05, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Just uploaded 11 files with Special:Multiupload successfully after implementing the fix. As the error didn't occur everytimes I multiuploaded before I can't be sure that the problem is fixed now, but it might be :-D If I get any new error message, I'll share it here of course. Semako96 (talk) 22:14, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Parser "if" in template not working after upgrade to 1.32?

500 error during initial setup

Importing .xml file was failed

Setup a MW Database by existing LocalSettings.php

Is it possible to create an new MW Database from an existing LocalSettings.php file with /maintenance/install.php

In

Manual:Install.php

There is the parameter --conf . When I give an existing modified LocalSettings.php to it, will it create the database with the containing settings? I only need a new empty Database but want to keep my customised LocalSettings.php. Carchaias (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Last time I checked, no, there's no way to create the database with the existing configuration from LocalSettings.php. The install.php script is the only one that explicitly ignores the LocalSettings.php file Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:16, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

OK.

What might be the best way to solve this task? Use install.php with parameters on CLI? Carchaias (talk) 11:11, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes. Use install.php as seen in the example, and then update.php to populate changes from extensions Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:19, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Searching for extension Tags/ Categories on Mainpage with Checkboxes

Hi, im searching for a extension which allows me to show the categories or tags on main page and allow me to search for them via ticking of checkboxes.

for example:

I really really appreciate the help :) 37.24.115.18 (talk) 14:12, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that there is no-existing extension for MediaWiki that does what you want. You could probably get someone to help you build it, though. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:03, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

External links not working

Hi all,

So my student society recently made a new wiki after our old server crashed and we lost access to our old one (that is a whole other story for another time) since creating our new wiki, external links have not been working. They look like they should work, following the proper format, displaying as they should be but mousing over them reveals the page that the link is on, not the where the external link is meant to go. Clicking any external link simply refreshes the page. I have done some editing of our localsettings.php but other than that our wiki should just be vanilla. If you can provide any support or possible solutions to our problem, I would really appreciate it!

Thank you so much for your time!

Edit:

Even this is a good example^ for I simply copied and pasted this table from the special:version page that I have not edited, instead of linking to where it is supposed to, all links instead take you to http://wiki.mycses.ca/index.php?title=Special:Version Spidrox (talk) 17:42, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Upgrade your MediaWiki. There is probably some issue with trying to run 1.17.x on php 7.0. That, and there are plenty of known security problems with that wiki. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:36, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

So one of the reasons why I did not want to install the newest version of mediawiki is because 1.17.3 was the version our old wiki was on. It is currently our hope that we will be able to access our old wiki off of the old server's hard drives. If we upgrade, would it still be possible to restore our old wiki from an older version's back ups? Spidrox (talk) 16:26, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes.

Running update.php when you upgrade will make any schema adjustments needed for the update. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:07, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

I want to scale down a photo from 158 DPI to 300 DPI.

I want to scale down a photo from 158 DPI to 300 DPI. How?

Lamontl (talk) 18:11, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Please find more appropriate forum for that question... This is Support Desk is for MediaWiki. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:38, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Bad title: The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%27".