How To add parameter template in wiki page

Hello team,

I'm new to wiki and trying to create a parameter template that I will insert into a page.

I am not understanding how to create a template with parameters and how to insert it in a wiki page.

Here is some tutorial that I do not understand.

I am not getting this tutorial: Help:Templates#Parameters

A little thank you... for all your effort. hugs, Me

A little thank you... for {{{1}}}. hugs, {{{2}}}.

A little thank you... for all your effort. Hugs, Me

.

Where should I placed this "A little thank you... for all your effort. hugs, Me" and

this " A little thank you... for {{{1}}}. hugs, {{{2}}}."

Would anyone be able to help me understand how to create and insert in the wiki page.

Thanks in advanced

Akki Ashu9333 (talk) 02:27, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you created the template page yet? Which name does the page have? Malyacko (talk) 06:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes!! I have created template with name Template:Testme Ashu9333 (talk) 07:14, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

I fixed above one,

could you please help to add one condition in my template. Ashu9333 (talk) 05:36, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

How to add legends on left column and do sorting for class

Donations

I have a donation that is charged to an old credit card. My name is Melody Doyle and I need to cancel the donation. Memaw41211 (talk) 05:52, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

@Memaw41211 Welcome to the support desk for the MediaWiki software. If you donated to something then please contact that place. :) In case this is about Wikimedia, see https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ - thanks. Malyacko (talk) 06:12, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Php error after upgrading from 1.35 to 1.37

Deprecated: Use of InternalParseBeforeSanitize hook (used in VariablesHooks::onInternalParseBeforeSanitize) was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.35. [Called from MediaWiki\HookContainer\HookContainer::run in /var/www/u1406315/data/www/wikireshebnik.org/includes/HookContainer/HookContainer.php at line 137] in /var/www/u1406315/data/www/wikireshebnik.org/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 375

New installation

1. MediaWiki version: 1.37.1

2. PHP Version: 7.3.33

3. MySQL Version:  5.7.33-cll-lve

https:// x domain.com/mw-config/index.php?page=DBConnect

During installation, I have only PostgreSQL and SQLite options

How can I choose MYSQL as the data type? 2401:7400:C804:87EB:71BF:D885:5972:20EC (talk) 15:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

You need the mysqli php extension installed/enabled in php.ini Bawolff (talk) 15:49, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

robots.txt --- how to disallow anything which isn't an article or category?

In robots.txt, I want to prevent indexing of anything which isn't an article or category.

How to disallow anything which isn't an article or category? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 19:09, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Manual:Robots.txt Malyacko (talk) 20:08, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't think the manual contains an answer to my question.

It has examples about how to disallow anything which is, but not anything which is not. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 09:55, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

The manual contains "Allow:" and "Disallow:" examples. What makes you think it does not cover it? Malyacko (talk) 11:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

I didn't say it doesn't contain these keywords.

I just didn't find an example to the command set I seek in the manual, pseudocode:

Disallow: * EXCEPT /index.php/article/* AND /index.php/category/*;

Perhaps I should do something like:

Allow: /index.php/article/
Allow: /index.php/category/
Disallow: *

79.176.94.174 (talk) 12:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

command set = command* 79.176.94.174 (talk) 13:20, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Is

Allow: /index.php/article/
Allow: /index.php/category/
Disallow: *

A good way to disallow anything which isn't an article or a category? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 16:37, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

No, that is not correct. That is not the url pattern that articles (main namespace?) And categories take. They use colon as seperators. Since main namespace has no prefix, you would have to explicitly disallow all other prefixes.

alternatively see $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies Bawolff (talk) 06:11, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Bawolff

By "they use colon separators" I guess you meant only categories because I didn't find any colon in the URLs of articles.

But let's say that I change MediaWiki to do include such patterns:

• article/ARTICLE
• category/category:CATEGORY

Then, would

Allow: /index.php/article/
Allow: /index.php/category/
Disallow: *

Be good? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 14:49, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Disallow: always takes precedence over Allow:, no matter how you arrange them.

See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:58, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Darn.

Well, I quite lost words.

Is the only way just disallowing anything which isn't articles and categories?

Is there any MediaWiki website in which it was done already? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Its confusing what you mean by the word "article".

But yes its possible. You have to disallow the things you don't want. Bawolff (talk) 01:18, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

By "Article" I mean an "article page" as in Wikipedia.

The typical webpage served to a user in gnerally any MediaWiki website. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 02:32, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Webpages randomly redirect to old IP address

Installed mediawiki on a server with a DHCP address. Changed it to a different static address to fit with my "IP Scheme". While navigating pages or just sitting idle on a page will cause the web address to go back to the old IP address. EX: I sit on a preference page, then a few seconds later the webpage will show a error. I look at the web address bar, and the IP address has changed by itself. 74.62.127.242 (talk) 20:23, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Make sure $wgServer gets updated correctly in LocalSettings.php when the servers name changes. Bawolff (talk) 06:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Page Content Language not changing for subpages

Nuclear war resilience

How to know if my hosting provider uses PHP as CGI or PHP as an Apache module?

Manual:Robots.txt#Without short URLs

This manual chapter contains two sub chapters:

• For those running PHP as CGI
• For those running PHP as an Apache module

I use shared hosting; I don't know by which of the two ways, if any, my shared hosting company serves my website (and to be honest I prefer not to ask the support).

How could I determine which of the ways, if any, is applicable in my case, without asking the hosting support? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 09:59, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Add a phpinfo.php with the phpinfo() command to the root of your host. It should tell you if you are running php as an apache module, or as php-fpm (fastcgi) icw nginx or something, or as CGI.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16414054/find-out-how-php-is-running-on-server-cgi-or-fastcgi-or-mod-php

apache handler (Apache_mod) and FPM/FastCGI (php-fpm) are the most common methods these days, the CGIWrap as discussed in the chapter is not that common in my experience.

Once you are done, make sure to delete the phpinfo file, as it is a security risk to have it publicly available, due to the amount of information of the setup it discloses. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:08, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

How to add a class to article URLs?

MediaWiki 1.36.1 on shared hosting with the following URL pattern for articles:

https://example.com/index.php/ARTICLE_NAME

I need to add an articles class in URLs of articles, so their URL pattern would become:

https://example.com/index.php/articles/ARTICLE_NAME

How to do that? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 12:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Does manual:Short URLs help? Bawolff (talk) 06:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Sadly not for me because I don't want short URLs. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 14:53, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Automatische Kategorie Zuordnung in Datei Liezens

Wie kann man in einer Datei Liezens zb. {{PD-Image}} , eine kategorie hinzufügen Kategorie:PD? Damit diese automatisch einer Kategorie zugeordnet werden.

Gruss und danke Shadowslight 14:56, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to Mediawiki. ↠Tanbirzx (✉) 16:19, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

For questions about commons ask at commons:commons:help desk Bawolff (talk) 01:15, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

delete account

how do I delete my wikipedia account 216.184.81.54 (talk) 16:49, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you already created a wiki account? ↠Tanbirzx (✉) 18:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Malware Protection for my wiki

Hi everyone. Hope all are well.

Today there was a huge issue with spam and malware on my wiki. Fake user accounts were created and used to add entries to my wiki that were unapproved.

Need help with the following if possible:

1. Is there a free software or plugin i can use for my wiki to protect it from future malware, worms, and spam?
2. Is there a way to block making new pages or adding new users without approval from an admin? I would like notifications that when someone is creating a new page on my wiki that it does not get added on officially without my approval.

I hope someone can help me out with this ASAP.

TIA Thepainking (talk) 17:54, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Manual:Combating_spam Malyacko (talk) 19:53, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

> malware, worms

What you're describing is spam not malware nor worms. Bawolff (talk) 06:03, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Elastica breaks wiki

I've just had a mediawiki server with 3 wikis running on it dumped in my lap to support. The search box was using CirrusSearch and ElasticSearch / Elastica to generate results, but that was recently broken when the security team did some sort of log4j remediation.

So, I've removed most traces of CirrusSearch / ElasticSearch and now have just the bare-bones MediaWiki search working. As you are all likely aware, the built-in search is trash, so I'm trying to get the search extensions working again by following the install guide.

I'm up to the step where it has me edit LocalSettings.php to add " wfLoadExtension( 'Elastica' ); ", but when I do this, the wiki using that settings file no longer loads. All I get is a blank page served. Not even broken html if I view the page source. Nothing.

Behind the scenes:

• CentOS 7.3.1611

Of course, I'd love to bring everything up to more current versions, but I'd like to get back to functional before I tackle that massive ball of version dependencies.

Any help is very much appreciated! Paul.lenhart (talk) 19:48, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Please enable php error reporting (see How to debug) Bawolff (talk) 06:02, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

OK, to the LocalSettings.php, I added:

error_reporting( -1 );

ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 );

Save and reload the wiki and now above the header shows:

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /data/www/html/REDACTED/includes/json/FormatJson.php on line 297

Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"? in /data/www/html/REDACTED/languages/LanguageConverter.php on line 771

Warning: session_id(): Cannot change session id when session is active in /data/www/html/REDACTED/includes/Setup.php on line 790

Deprecated: Non-static method ExtLoopFunctions::foreachHook() should not be called statically in /data/www/html/REDACTED/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 4805

Deprecated: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in /data/www/html/REDACTED/includes/MagicWordArray.php on line 206 Paul.lenhart (talk) 18:56, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Error when adding JavaScript to MediaWiki:Common.js

Page using a template bug MW 1.37.1

Hello,

Upgraded to MW 1.37.1 and noticed that there aren't links provided to the pages that uses a template. I mean previously I could see all the pages that use certain template. Fokebox (talk) 07:13, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Check to make sure job queue is working.

You can try refreshLinks.php (its slow) Bawolff (talk) 01:14, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

It didn't help. See how the problem look like:

Fokebox (talk) 07:04, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

So I think the links are there, but the titles of the page are not actually being shown ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 09:39, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

The titles are not shown and when I click "edit" I have redirect to edit main page of the wiki site. Here is example of such page: Page with missing links for template usage Fokebox (talk) 11:08, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Weird. Do you have any extensions that might be interfering with link display?

Looks like info is properly being recorded: https://wikiblog.ru/api.php?action=query&prop=info%7Ctemplates%7Ctranscludedin%7Cpageprops&titles=%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3_%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F&formatversion=2 Bawolff (talk) 17:35, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes it is weird and I have such kind of bug just right after installation MW 1.37.1. There are only standard extensions that goes with Mediawiki Fokebox (talk) 13:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Edit buttons disappeared on page

The edit button on https://curobotics.soc.srcf.net/wiki/Main_Page disappeared. How do I solve it? 131.111.193.104 (talk) 16:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Is it your wiki or not, also are you logged-in or not? – Ammarpad (talk) 21:24, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

lost account

I sign in and my ranking and points are gone? 2601:406:8180:3020:E9FB:6B9B:2A07:76C5 (talk) 17:53, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

tag for copyright check?

How do I ask someone to take a look at a file I've uploaded to make sure I'm not violating copyright? Valereee (talk) 18:11, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Ask at commons:commons:help desk Bawolff (talk) 01:13, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Export of multiple pages at once

I was wondering what exactly is behind the "export" button on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export

I underestood that I can get a XML version of any wikipedia page by accessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/name_of_the_page e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Barry_Tompkins

But can I export multiple pages at once with a single call, just like I can with using the "export" button on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export?addcat&catname=1940_births

I did not find any notes on this in the API documentation, so it probably perform multiple single exports and then merge those files together. But I wish I was wrong. Kotrblu2 (talk) 23:30, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Its not precisely merging together, but fundamentally it fetchs a bunch of pages and makes the xml file from them. Bawolff (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Tabs on all pages

I wanted to create tabs and wanted them to be on the top of EACH Wiki page. It is like Mediawiki's default tabs, Read, Discussion, Edit and etc..

I know that some extensions, i.e. Tabs, TabberNeue, can easily create tabs in a page, but those tabs are just parts the pages.

I am new to MediaWiki, and I just set up my first Mediawiki to play with. I truly appreciate any suggestions for do this tab. Xiaodongzhou (talk) 00:07, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

You should use SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal hook in your LocalSettings.php. There are examples in the manual if you read through. – Ammarpad (talk) 07:38, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Ammarpad. I will invest some time on it.

- Albert Xiaodongzhou (talk) 22:27, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Backendly remove generally all links to non custom webpages

In MediaWiki 1.37.1 I wish to backendly remove generally all links to non custom webpages, such as:

• View source
• Edit
• History
• Move
• Delete
• Download as PDF
• Print
• What links here
• Related changes
• Special pages
• Page information

What I don't want to do

I don't want to restrict access to any of these webpages, they should all be 100% accessible for users knowing the keyboard shortcuts and/or using accessibility programs, etc.

Which links I do want to remain

I do want that links of the following categories would remain:

• Footer links
• Article custom links
• Category custom links
• Sidebar / burger custom links

Notes

• By backendly I mean, from an extension or from the PHP, so not just a CSS display: none or a JavaScript remove()
• robots.txt is nice, but won't necessarily be enough because I wish to prevent crawlers from any search engine to even discover (not even crawl, not even index) these webpages

My question

How to do that? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 00:22, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Write a custom skin would probably be best. Bawolff (talk) 01:12, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I don't think I could do that in any plausible time period.

Someone may want to recommend a skin which does that. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 02:35, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

There's none. – Ammarpad (talk) 07:33, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Is there a skin PHP hierarchy in MediaWiki?

In generally every backend load, are there PHP files loaded before others?

Is there any such hierarchy shared for all skins whatsoever by a coding standard? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 13:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Please describe what it is that you want to achieve, so that people can give you the best advice. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 15:07, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

If it's possible, I want to experiment in the last file in such hierarchy with "post processing" to prevent outputting HTML elements which would have been outputted otherwise. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 17:11, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Of the rendered wikitext content, or or like literally anywhere on every single html page generated ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 19:49, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Anywhere on every single html page generated. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 20:18, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

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I fear that installing an extension would make upgrading frustrating

To upgrade MediaWiki I do the following actions from a graphical user interface:

• Backup the entire database and root directory
• Backup customized files (.htaccess, LocalSettings.php, robots.txt, Google file, logo file)
• Replacing the entire root directory with a fresh MediaWiki installation directory
• Restoring special files backup

After that, I run a database update from a command line user interface.

I don't recall having a problem working this way.

---

I need to install Extension:Lockdown and I fear it might make that upgrading process frustrating (longer, significantly more risky).

A solution to the problem might be "go to a psychologist specializing in anxiety" but it is important for me to ask how would you prefer to do such a periodical upgrade (core + 1 extension)? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 18:02, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

There are many MediaWiki installations with custom extensions out there. See also Manual:Upgrading#Upgrade extensions. I don't see significantly more risk. Malyacko (talk) 18:38, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Fatal exception "Error" on page edit?

After moving databases to a new server and upgrading to 1.37, my database is fine in read-only mode, pages and images are up and happy, but on editing any page, I get the error above. A backtrace gives me this -

[0814ff066068b5e7754011da] /index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit Error: Call to a member function getNsText() on null

Backtrace:

from [redacted]/extensions/MsCatSelect/MsCatSelect.body.php(55) 2600:6C55:7800:795:141:33FE:3EA0:8057 (talk) 19:35, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Database is MySQL 8, PHP version 7.4.2 2600:6C55:7800:795:141:33FE:3EA0:8057 (talk) 19:40, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

That file (MsCatSelect.body.php) does not exist in the latest MsCatSelect extension code in the branch for version 1.37: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EMSC/browse/REL1_37/

It last existed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rEMSC43b1f2331341e5cc62e618aa947fce6669c94bfd Malyacko (talk) 19:49, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Which generally means the extension needs to be updated as well so the version matches your version of mediawiki. Bawolff (talk) 17:26, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

CUETools Issue

Hi, I'm not sure if this is where I am able to communicate a concern and ask a question but here goes. My name is John and I've been accessing the Lossless Music Archives page for several months now without any problems. I learned about using CUETools to "How to split & convert single-file FLAC Album into tracks" and it has worked beautifully until today. Today, it seems to do it's job except to unpack the album into it's separate songs. I tried reinstalling the CUEtools program and got it to add the folder "New" but it still doesn't unpack the individual songs. I'm not sure what to do next and was hoping that someone could give me some guidance. By the way, yesterday something occurred with the CUETools program that was odd, it shrank to a minimal open size on the desktop and it wouldn't let me expand it horizontally but would vertically. Then I decided that maybe if I updated to the latest version of CUETools that that would solve the issue...nope! So, it you can help me that would be nice, it not maybe you could direct me to someone?

I appreciate your help --- John 65.50.155.161 (talk) 20:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

You are in the wrong place —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

If you get a weird "Unknown error in PHP's mail() function" and are using SiteGround, Amazon SES, and perhaps some other host when trying to send email or use ContactPage...

A week ago, I was baffled by this message:

My ContactPage had worked just fine a few weeks before; I hadn't changed anything involving it, and my host SiteGround said that they hadn't either. Kindly folks tried to help but they were casting around because...

Ultimately I found that the reason it broke is because in fact my host had changed email handling on me without telling me.

Specifically, a default install of MediaWiki and of the ContactPage extension results in the Contact Page spoofing email. If you test it by sending a Contact to yourself that uses some made-up email address, you see when you get it (when it's forwarded to your personal email, or whatever) it's says it is From that made-up address... but of course it isn't; it was actually sent from your wiki's admin account (or whatever you set it to). It's spoofing, by definition: It sends from one email address but says it's from some other, completely unrelated address. MW and ContactPage have always done this by default / if you don't change anything. What changed is my host decided it wouldn't allow spoofing any more.

You can see how host providers can have an issue with this... but if they were a little more intelligent about it, they'd realize you're only sending from a site you own, to a personal email registered to the owner... and, of course, it's probably labeled "Contact Info", too. So in one sense, there's no harm, no foul. But at least some host providers don't want to hassle with subtleties such as no harm actually being caused, laugh.

I personally would never have figured this out, but someone much better than I worked with me to determine that the root problem is some of the settings in Extensions/ContactPage/includes/SpecialContact.php. In particular, where the email is originating from. You'll also have to fix a second place if you allow the ability for Contactees to email themselves a copy of their form (so that this, too, doesn't spoof). He wrote the fix up in a nicely detailed page.

I hope this helps others. RedKnight7 (talk) 20:37, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

The OpenGarages.org page is inaccessible

I am not sure what is wrong with this domain but it appears to be having DNS issues or something? The site has not been updated in a while and there is no way to notify the webmaster that there is a problem. I am not familiar with MediaWiki so perhaps there is a reason why their site is now inaccessible? When I try to ping the domain the connection is timing out and I cannot reach the name server. Does MediaWiki offer a way to notify the owners of the site that there is a problem? 209.129.33.80 (talk) 22:47, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

This doesn't look like a MediaWiki problem, but rather that opengarages.org is not configured properly (i.e. the server is down). That wiki does have an entry at WikiApiary which also points to a dump of the site, so it might be possible to restore that dump and look for contact information in there. Sam Wilson 23:22, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

How to lock everything lockable with Lockdown?

I am having a bit of hard time to read Extension:Lockdown.

I seek to experiment with the extension by locking anything it allows to lock, as long as "Article", "Category" and "Footer" pages are available to all users.

How can this be done? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 23:38, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps something like this?

$wgActionLockdown['*'] = [ 'user' ];
$wgSpecialPageLockdown['*'] = [ 'user' ];
$wgNamespacePermissionLockdown['*']['*'] = [ 'user' ];

79.176.94.174 (talk) 23:46, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

If your goal is to make it so logged out users cannot read anything except for a few select pages,you might want to consider using core's $wgWhitelistRead instead of Lockdown. Bawolff (talk) 14:48, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I wouldn't say except for a few select pages, because I want to lock anything which isn't articles, category pages or footer pages. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 16:15, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

In other words, I want my website to behave towards non registered users as any typical Drupal/Joomla/Wordpress website would behave.

No history/management webpage would be available to non registered users. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 17:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Update

What I seek is a single command which locks everything. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 02:53, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

That does not exist, I'm afraid. Malyacko (talk) 11:12, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Alright,

What do you use to lock everything that is lockable with this extension? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 00:00, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Read the manual page Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder I've tried, but this manual is extremely hard for me to read.

I don't understand if the manual covers all possible examples or that there are other lock commands which I should "guess" which only a MediaWiki developer could really guess.

If someone knows a more user friendly guide, suitable for non MediaWiki developers as well, please share it. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 13:23, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

If nobody is going to document this to you for free, you can try hiring someone Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

As I want to only restrict crawlers from accessing special pages, I think that only $wgActionLockdown and $wgSpecialPageLockdown are relevant for me.

Am I wrong? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 13:32, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

You could try and find out yourself, or read the manual. Malyacko (talk) 13:18, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

User:Clump has surprisingly deleted this topic as "duplicate" without any clarification question / notice / warning so I will try to repost it here from what I remember.

==How to lock all special pages with lockdown?==

After pasting wfLoadExtension( 'Lockdown' ); in the end of LocalSettings.php I've tried both of these codes, each one alone, and both failed (no special page was locked down):

$wgSpecialPageLockdown['Special']['*'] = array('sysop');

$wgSpecialPageLockdown['Special:']['*'] = array('sysop');

79.183.173.166 (talk) 14:39, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I believe I have found a way.

First, before locking all special webpages, one should lock all actions because it's much easier than locking all special webpages (there are about 6 actions but about 150 special webpages):

$wgActionLockdown['edit'] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgActionLockdown['delete'] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgActionLockdown['move'] = array('sysop');
$wgActionLockdown['protect'] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgActionLockdown['history'] = array( 'sysop' );
$wgActionLockdown['createtalk'] = array('sysop');

After that, locking all special pages is ha bit hard but currently possible somewhat automatically like this:

1) A list of all special pages is available at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page

2) From the shell (CLUI) Download the webpage to stdin, match the names with grep, filter the name with sort (which also removes duplicates) and redirect the output to a txt file:

curl wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page -s | grep -oP 'Special:\K[a-zA-Z0-9]*' | sort -u > special_page_names.txt

3) Use AWK to put each name in the blocking template of Extension:Lockdown:

awk '{ print "$wgSpecialPageLockdown[\47"$0"\47] = array(\47sysop\47);" }' special_page_names.txt > special_page_names_processed.txt

4) Paste the output in your LocalSettings.php

---

If someone knows an easier way to lock all special webpages, please share it.

Add an https protocol to the curl command because I can't add it due to the abuse filter here. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 00:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

A more detailed explanation is available here

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/694268/how-to-lock-everything-for-registered-users-in-mediawiki 79.183.173.166 (talk) 00:09, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

I now use the MediaWiki API instead the page in Wikipedia, and a bit different command, with tr and also a few line breaks for code clarity.

pandoc -t plain 'mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=specialpagealiases' |
  grep -oP '"realname": \K"[A-Za-z0-9]*",' |
  sort -u |
  tr -d '[,"]' |
  tr -s ' ' \
  > special_page_names.txt
awk '{ print "$wgSpecialPageLockdown[\47"$0"\47] = array(\47sysop\47);" }' special_page_names.txt > special_page_names_processed.txt

79.183.173.166 (talk) 22:00, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Add an https protocol to the pandoc command because I can't add it due to the abuse filter here. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 22:02, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

You might want to look into the jq command. Bawolff (talk) 05:41, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

add PopupWidget after successful login through extension

I've been trying to find either an existing extension that already does this, or tips on how to code this in my own extension.

What I want is (I think) pretty simple: after a successful login I want a little one-time OOUI/PopupWidget to show up to just confirm the successful login. Nothing more.

I was thinking of using the onUserLoggedIn Hook in my own extension, and within it do the following:

1. get the Parser object and call its method enableOOUI()
2. create the new OOUI\PopupWidget object and stringify it
3. add it to the page using the Parser object's addHTML() method

But I'm sure I'm misunderstanding or missing something here, because the onUserLoggedIn hook 'only' offers the $user object. It makes sense to me - at that point there is no page content yet.

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm using mediawiki version 1.37.1. Llanddewi (talk) 12:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I would assume that onUserLoggedIn hook would run prior to page redirection code.

Probably you need to do something like somehow make the succesful login redirect code add a url parameter, and look for that url parameter later to add the pop up. Bawolff (talk) 14:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I've thought about your approach and tried a few things. Turns out the PopupWidget is only available on the JavaScript level of OOUI, so my new attempts will be based on a ResourceModule. I think I'll attempt to set a global extension boolean in the UserLoggedIn hook that I can then pick up in BeforePageDisplay hook (or just pick up the User object and attempt to ascertain the login success from there), so that I can load the ResourceModule containing the JavaScript evoking the PopupWidget. Hope that makes sense. Llanddewi (talk) 16:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I got it working just now. I ended up using the PostLoginRedirect hook to indeed add a parameter that I could then pick up within a BeforePageDisplay hook, in which case a ResourceModule with some very simple javascript and css would be loaded. Thanks again! Llanddewi (talk) 14:30, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

how to create extension for parse data api to one page?

i have one address of api mediawiki for user contributes and want get data and pars and show in one page

how i do this? 2A01:5EC0:2804:1C0A:EC70:9E82:63B7:7F63 (talk) 14:54, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

i read develop extension but i dont understand

please help 2A01:5EC0:2804:1C0A:EC70:9E82:63B7:7F63 (talk) 14:56, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

What have you tried so far exactly? What do you specifically want to do? What are "pars"? Please elaborate what is the underlying problem to solve. Malyacko (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Changing the installation path

I would like to change the installation path on the server and move mediawiki to a subfolder. I am not really familiar working with command line tools. Hence my question: is it possible to move mediawiki to a new folder and just run the maintenance/update.php file? 95.112.93.156 (talk) 21:51, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

You might need to change some things in LocalSettings.php. in most installs that would be $wgScriptPath and maybe $wgArticlePath. Bawolff (talk) 23:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

How to remove history revisions altogether?

Let's say I don't want any history / diff pages in my website at all (but I still want to use MediaWiki without this feature).

How to remove history revisions altogether?

I don't mean to just clear existing history revisions so to make them empty or just clear any diff entry, rather, I mean to totally removing the history feature from a MediaWiki site so no one could review any page's edit history. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 23:25, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

$wgActions['history'] = false; i suppose, but that wouldn't stop the api or bruteforcing revision ids. Bawolff (talk) 01:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

just clear any diff entry --- just delete any diff entry

Nice, I find this command to be what I needed after testing it in LocalSettings.php.

What is the meaning that it won't stop the API?

Bruteforcing revision? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 01:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Guessing the value of ?oldid url parameter or using manual:API Bawolff (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

I think I understand the API part,

History would still be documented in revisions. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 01:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

How to remove "Tools" sidebar chunk programmatically?

Version 1.37.1

If I don't want "Tools" sidebar chunk with

• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Special pages
• Page information

How could I remove it from the PHP? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 23:57, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I have tried to remove the following code chunk but it results in Error: Call to undefined method TimelessTemplate::getPortlet().

	protected function getPortlet( $name, $content, $msg = null, $setOptions = [] ) {
		// random stuff to override with any provided options
		$options = array_merge( [
			'role' => 'navigation',
			// extra classes/ids
			'id' => 'p-' . $name,
			'class' => [ 'mw-portlet', 'emptyPortlet' => !$content ],
			'extra-classes' => '',
			'body-id' => null,
			'body-class' => 'mw-portlet-body',
			'body-extra-classes' => '',
			// wrapper for individual list items
			'text-wrapper' => [ 'tag' => 'span' ],
			// option to stick arbitrary stuff at the beginning of the ul
			'list-prepend' => ''
		], $setOptions );
		// Handle the different $msg possibilities
		if ( $msg === null ) {
			$msg = $name;
			$msgParams = [];
		} elseif ( is_array( $msg ) ) {
			$msgString = array_shift( $msg );
			$msgParams = $msg;
			$msg = $msgString;
		} else {
			$msgParams = [];
		}
		$msgObj = $this->getMsg( $msg, $msgParams );
		if ( $msgObj->exists() ) {
			$msgString = $msgObj->parse();
		} else {
			$msgString = htmlspecialchars( $msg );
		}
		$labelId = Sanitizer::escapeIdForAttribute( "p-$name-label" );
		if ( is_array( $content ) ) {
			$contentText = Html::openElement( 'ul',
				[ 'lang' => $this->get( 'userlang' ), 'dir' => $this->get( 'dir' ) ]
			);
			$contentText .= $options['list-prepend'];
			foreach ( $content as $key => $item ) {
				if ( is_array( $options['text-wrapper'] ) ) {
					$contentText .= $this->makeListItem(
						$key,
						$item,
						[ 'text-wrapper' => $options['text-wrapper'] ]
					);
				} else {
					$contentText .= $this->makeListItem(
						$key,
						$item
					);
				}
			}
			$contentText .= Html::closeElement( 'ul' );
		} else {
			$contentText = $content;
		}
		$divOptions = [
			'role' => $options['role'],
			'class' => $this->mergeClasses( $options['class'], $options['extra-classes'] ),
			'id' => Sanitizer::escapeIdForAttribute( $options['id'] ),
			'title' => Linker::titleAttrib( $options['id'] ),
			'aria-labelledby' => $labelId
		];
		$labelOptions = [
			'id' => $labelId,
			'lang' => $this->get( 'userlang' ),
			'dir' => $this->get( 'dir' )
		];
		$bodyDivOptions = [
			'class' => $this->mergeClasses( $options['body-class'], $options['body-extra-classes'] )
		];
		if ( is_string( $options['body-id'] ) ) {
			$bodyDivOptions['id'] = $options['body-id'];
		}
		$afterPortlet = $this->getAfterPortlet( $name );
		if ( $name === 'lang' ) {
			$this->afterLangPortlet = $afterPortlet;
		}
		$html = Html::rawElement( 'div', $divOptions,
			Html::rawElement( 'h3', $labelOptions, $msgString ) .
			Html::rawElement( 'div', $bodyDivOptions,
				$contentText .
				$afterPortlet
			)
		);
		return $html;
	}

==What will you suggest to do with this situation?== 79.183.173.166 (talk) 17:46, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

I have managed to remove it this way:

In:

/includes/skins/Skin.php

I have located:

public function makeToolbox

There, in line 2,189 I have commented:

return $toolbox;

This way:

// return $toolbox;

79.183.173.166 (talk) 21:53, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!! This works for me on v1.39.3 Jmr1985 (talk) 20:02, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

How to remove print/export section from PHP?

Version 1.37.1

It was written here:

"Yes it is possible with CSS or via a hook"

How to remove print/export section from PHP? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 00:50, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

I would suggest looking at what hooks the collection extension uses and seeing if the same hook could be used to unset() things. Bawolff (talk) 17:23, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

How do I add an infobox?

You know those infoboxes many politicians and famous people have?

Here are some examples:

John Tory, Doug Ford, Justin Trudeau

Obviously with my own name, my own details and at my own mediawiki based site. 65.95.58.133 (talk) 02:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Does Manual:Importing Wikipedia infoboxes tutorial help? Bawolff (talk) 17:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Is it true to say that LocalSettings.php runs last?

Is it true to say that LocalSettings.php runs last?

That it is the last PHP file running, after all PHP files (of the skin, of extensions) ran already?

---

I would bet that the answer is "No", that it is actually the first, because of database credentials, etc. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

No, it's not true. It's not the first neither, since there's some setup before it that checks some PHP requirements, sets some variables like $IP, and reads DefaultSettings.php. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:43, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

How to study the source code of a skin with a PHP file of ~ 1,200 lines?

I consider to make some minor changes in a skin which its main PHP file is about 1,200 lines long.

Such a PHP file is extremely hard for me to read, not only because of it's longevity but because of my fundamental (not basic, not advanced) PHP knowledge.

I don't even believe that the skin creator actually sat down and wrote 1,200 lines of code, rather, there that this is a compilation of much smaller fractions of code.

How to study the source code of a skin with a PHP file of ~ 1,200 lines? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 17:09, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

1200 lines of code is not a large amount of code, as far as these things go. Bawolff (talk) 17:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

I agree,

But when all is dense in one large file, it's hard for me personally, to read, at least with my current PHP understanding.

Do skin developers really write skins this way?

Isn't there any compilation of smaller files?.. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 17:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

First question: Yes. Second question: No. Malyacko (talk) 11:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Some documentation here. wargo (talk) 12:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Mediawiki loading part by part, affecting CLS

How to find all skins which match a certain MediaWiki version?

I need to find all skins which match MediaWiki 1.37.1.

Of course, in the future the version might be different.

How to find all skins which match a certain MediaWiki version? 79.176.94.174 (talk) 23:02, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Which underlying problem would that solve? Malyacko (talk) 07:29, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Any problem which might arise from a mismatch between versions.

I don't want to install outdated skins on 1.37.1 ... 79.176.94.174 (talk) 08:16, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

It's not the matter of solving an actual problem, but of preventing a potential problem which I am not the authority to strictly rule out, due to mismatch between versions.

I don't want to install outdated skins on 1.37.1 ... 79.176.94.174 (talk) 08:30, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Skins have branches (e.g. "REL1_37"); simply pick the branch corresponding to the MediaWiki version.

I'd assume most people install one skin because they like how the skin looks (after checking the compatibility information on the skin homepage) and would not install dozens of skins only after finding that they are not "outdated"... Malyacko (talk) 19:26, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

How do I make MediaWiki look like Wiktionary?

I want to make my own dictionary with mediawiki, but i just want it to look like wiktionary. i tried to google search it but nothing shows up. please show me a way! Funmoring46 (talk) 05:09, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiktionary doesn't do much in terms of customization. Can you be more specific which aspect you want to copy? Bawolff (talk) 06:19, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

the design Funmoring46 (talk) 01:05, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Funmoring46 (talk) 01:15, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Does Manual:Using content from Wikipedia (just replace wikipedia with wiktionary. The steps are mostly the same) Bawolff (talk) 01:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

how do i also make the main page "wiktionary.org" Funmoring46 (talk) 05:10, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals#Other_Wikimedia_portals Malyacko (talk) 11:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

How to use UMEduWiki extension

How to use UMEduWiki extension in latest Media-wiki version -1.37 148.64.5.229 (talk) 05:48, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Please read "Post a new question" in the sidebar and explain what is unclear and why, and how someone can help. Malyacko (talk) 07:29, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

WYSIWYG in latest MediaWiki

how to use WYSIWYG in latest media wiki or alternatives for this

can you please suggest. 148.64.5.229 (talk) 05:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Please read "Post a new question" in the sidebar and explain what you want after which exact and clear steps where. Malyacko (talk) 07:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

PdfExport extension in Latest media-wiki

Can you help how to use PdfExport in latest media-wiki 148.64.5.229 (talk) 05:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Please read "Post a new question" in the sidebar and explain clearly how to help. Malyacko (talk) 07:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2022

Where I can register myself for the event?

Could you help me find the right path to register myself for the event as the dates are near. 59.99.155.146 (talk) 05:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Please see EMWCon Spring 2022 instead. Malyacko (talk) 07:27, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I think its still TBA. User:Bryandamon should know. Bawolff (talk) 06:17, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, there is no link for registration yet.

If that opens can you send me an email?

My email id is liquidexp1@gmail.com 59.99.155.146 (talk) 09:02, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

The people who are managing the conference are different from the people answering questions here. You really need to direct questions to the conference organizers. Bawolff (talk) 17:24, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, the official registration is coming soon and only required for people who intend on attending in-person, for now you can add your name to the sign-up here. If you want to attend online you can still add your name to the sign-up and the virtual conference platform details (Hopin) will be added to the conference page shortly. If you want to give a presentation, we're still accepting talks, please add your presentation name to the talks talks section. Bryandamon (talk) 04:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

==Thank you for your acknowledgement @Bryandamon==

I also want to know that Is there any criteria for registering for talk?

Is travel and accomodation for foreigners are free and provided at the place it is happening as I belongs to India?

Please, Let me know my email id is - liquidexp1@gmail.com Tarunsanjeev (talk) 11:56, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

There is no criteria to propose a talk, please add your name to the talks section. Yaron is the program chair, he will be scheduling the talks and may ask follow-up questions.

Unfortunately we do not have any grants or funding to pay for travel and accommodations this year, attendees will need to arrange this for themselves. This conference is not organized though the WMF, however you may try to secure a rapid grant through the WMF although I don't believe it will be approved.

We are accepting remote presentations though, so if you are interested in giving a talk, but can't attend in person, we can accommodate that. Bryandamon (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@BryandamonCan you provide me the link for WMF, I can try once for sponsorship?

It would be great if I give talk in person, I also want to know the topics for talk.

@Yaron Can you please provide me the schedule for the talk and help me out for the accommodation and travel allowances. 59.99.155.146 (talk) 04:24, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid is the WMF grants page Bawolff (talk) 06:03, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

dump does not import all articles and template and module how to import all

wikipedia portugues contains 1,086,333, but when I import the dump, it only imports 705,000 and it doesn't matter the template, I've already verified that it imported the whole file Lucianoo6 (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Where did you downloaded the dump from? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ptwiki/20220120/ I downloaded the file ptwiki-20220120-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 Lucianoo6 (talk) 19:51, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Pages-article dumps do not have all pages. Use pages-meta-history if you want absolutely everything. You might have to get from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ptwiki/20220101/ Bawolff (talk) 01:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Cannot bind over ldaps

Hello,

I'm having issues with connecting my wiki instance to our AD over ldaps. My asumption is that it's an issue with the public key of our AD on port 636 being a 1024 bit one. Due to the PKI infrastracture we cannot change that, so I would like to add an environment variable of "LDAPTLS_REQCERT never" to the LDAP configuration.

I've tried adding it in many different places, but I am unsure if I am doing it right, as there are many extensions here working intermittenly.

Below is my ldap configuration:

LocalSetting.php

wfLoadExtension( 'PluggableAuth' );

wfLoadExtension( 'LDAPProvider' );

wfLoadExtension( 'LDAPAuthentication2' );

wfLoadExtension( 'LDAPAuthorization' );

wfLoadExtension( 'LDAPUserInfo' );

wfLoadExtension( 'LDAPGroups' );

$LDAPProviderDomainConfigs = "/data/www/wiki/ldap.json";

ldap.json

{

   "ldap.example.com": {

      "connection": {

         "server": "dc03.ldap.example.com dc04.ldap.example.com",

         "port": "389",

         "user": "CN=someuser,OU=service accounts,OU=some ou,DC=ldap,DC=example,DC=com",

         "pass": "somepass",

         "enctype": "clear",

         "options": {

            "LDAP_OPT_DEREF": 1

         },

         "basedn": "something",

         "userbasedn": "something",

         "groupbasedn": "something",

         "searchattribute": "samaccountname",

         "usernameattribute": "samaccountname",

         "realnameattribute": "cn",

         "emailattribute": "mail",

         "grouprequest": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\LDAPProvider\\UserGroupsRequest\\UserMemberOf::factory"

      },

      "userinfo": [],

      "authorization": [],

      "groupsync": {

      }

   }

}

Please note that any sensitive information has been removed for this specific post.

I'd really appreciate some help and pointers as to what I need to change in the configuration, or where it would be best to put the env. I've tried adding it to LocalSetting.php, ldap.json under "options", in the global php.ini, and in the php.ini of the apache user which the site is loaded through. 188.252.255.186 (talk) 14:50, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Just so be more clear, this is the working configuration over ldap, but when trying to switch the port to 636 it then ends up failing. Here is the trace of the error:

[Yidtf0xeLGXDKtnd9PTOjQAAAMI] /index.php?title=Posebno:PluggableAuthLogin MWException: Could not bind to LDAP: (-1) Can't contact LDAP server

Backtrace:

from /data/www/wiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php(170)

#0 /data/www/wiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php(93): MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client->establishBinding()

#1 /data/www/wiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php(330): MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client->init()

#2 /data/www/wiki/extensions/LDAPAuthentication2/src/PluggableAuth.php(184): MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client->canBindAs(string, string)

#3 /data/www/wiki/extensions/LDAPAuthentication2/src/PluggableAuth.php(55): MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPAuthentication2\PluggableAuth->checkLDAPLogin(string, string, string, NULL, NULL, NULL)

#4 /data/www/wiki/extensions/PluggableAuth/includes/PluggableAuthLogin.php(36): MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPAuthentication2\PluggableAuth->authenticate(NULL, string, NULL, NULL, NULL)

#5 /data/www/wiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(647): PluggableAuthLogin->execute(NULL)

#6 /data/www/wiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(1366): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#7 /data/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(314): MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(string, RequestContext)

#8 /data/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(925): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#9 /data/www/wiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(559): MediaWiki->main()

#10 /data/www/wiki/index.php(53): MediaWiki->run()

#11 /data/www/wiki/index.php(46): wfIndexMain()

#12 {main}

Here's some info I found in the debug logs. I'll assume it's an issue either with the service being ldap:// not ldaps://, or the fact that there's a port variable set to 389

[LDAP] ldap_connect( $hostname = 'ldap://dc03.ldap.example.com:636 ldap://dc04.ldap.example.com:636', $port = 389 );

[LDAP] # __METHOD__ returns Resource id #1038

[MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client] Setting LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION to 3

[LDAP] ldap_set_option( $linkID, $option = 17, $newval = 3 );

[LDAP] # returns 1

[MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client] Setting LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS to 0

[LDAP] ldap_set_option( $linkID, $option = 8, $newval = 0 );

[LDAP] # returns 1

[MediaWiki\Extension\LDAPProvider\Client] Setting LDAP_OPT_DEREF to 1

[LDAP] ldap_set_option( $linkID, $option = 2, $newval = 1 );

[LDAP] # returns 1

[LDAP] ldap_bind( $linkID, $bindRDN = 'CN=graylog,OU=CS Servisni accounti,OU=CS Computer Systems,DC=intranet,DC=cs,DC=hr', $bindPassword = 'XXXX' );

[LDAP] # returns

[LDAP] ldap_error( $linkID );

[LDAP] # returns Can't contact LDAP server

[LDAP] ldap_errno( $linkID );

[LDAP] # returns -1 188.252.255.186 (talk) 14:54, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

The issue is definitely the fact that the extension always tries to go over ldap, regardless of the port:

ldapsearch -H ldap://dc03.ldap.example.com:636 -D "someuser" -b 'somebind' - 'somepass'

ldap_result: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) 188.252.255.186 (talk) 15:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you tried setting "enctype": "ssl"? It should make the extension use ldaps://

EDIT: You should be able to omit the port. It should be autodetected based on the "enctype". Osnard (talk) 16:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I was initially wondering if it may be due to the encryption type, which it was. Switching it to "ssl" made ldap_connect use ldaps. For testing purposes I tried omitting the port as well, but it defaulted to 389, so in my case I had to specify the port explicitly.

Thanks for the save there @Osnard! 188.252.255.186 (talk) 07:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Some special pages not working anymore after upgrade

Restoring deleted pages in batches

Hello. Hope all are doing well.

I previously installed and deleted pages in batches for my wiki. Was wondering if there is an extension or plugin that will allow me to restore my pages in batches?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

TIA. Thepainking (talk) 19:17, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Search yields Extension:UndeleteBatch. It's not been updated for a long time though, so it's more likely to not work. You should check.

There's also a Manual:DeleteBatch.php script which (with some minimal changes) can be used to achieve the reverse of what it does. – Ammarpad (talk) 10:16, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Captcha extensions for spam protection for media wiki ver. 1.31

Good Day to all.

I am trying to install the "Math" extension to protect my wiki against spam. However i cannot seem to find a version that works for my media wiki (ver. 1.31). Can someone please provide assistance or an alternative to this for my version? My wiki is full of spam now.

TIA Thepainking (talk) 20:12, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

If you look in github, look for the branch named REL1_31.

Also we encourage you to update your wiki to more recent version. Bawolff (talk) 01:19, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

also, i checked and looks like the math extension for REL1_31 no longer exists. Is there an alternative for my current version of 1.31?? Thepainking (talk) 15:43, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

will updating the version disrupt or erase my content? If not, how do I update? Thepainking (talk) 15:25, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

please help! ^^ Thepainking (talk) 16:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

See Manual:Upgrading Malyacko (talk) 16:37, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Where is the repository of Timeless skin?

Is it in GitHub?

In Phabricator?

In BitBucket?

Somewhere else?

The source code appearing in the file tree downloadable from here isn't what I seek because a long PHP file there of about 1,250 lines might be a compilation and not represent the communal codebase. 79.176.94.174 (talk) 00:09, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Timeless Bawolff (talk) 01:18, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks,

Darn,

It seems that the aforementioned file is about 1.250 lines there as well:

github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Timeless/blob/master/includes/TimelessTemplate.php

79.176.94.174 (talk) 01:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

The GitHub repo is a mirror of the actual one, which is hosted in Gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/repos/mediawiki/skins/Timeless Sam Wilson 05:44, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Regardless, that's the real file. It is not a compilation of smaller files. Bawolff (talk) 06:49, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

service cancellation

How do I cancel a Wikimedia account , the person has DIED 68.117.198.83 (talk) 15:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia doesn't sell services to individuals, so its unclear what you wish to cancel. Bawolff (talk) 18:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

What the hell happened to this website?

Why is the search bar on the top? Why is there an arrow on the top of the screen? What happened to the sunflower? It's unbearable, please fix this immediately! 72.142.100.254 (talk) 16:13, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

For the search bar position, if you create account, you can choose a skin that does not place the search bar there. For the sunflower, see Project:Proposal for changing logo of MediaWiki, 2020 – Ammarpad (talk) 09:41, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Help with Magic Word

I have an older Extension, which, I believe adds a MagicWord? Since upgrading to MW 1.35, I get an error message: Error: invalid magic word 'rawurlencode'. I tried re-writing this to the new standards (very limited knowledge), but not having any luck... Can anyone help with this?

Here is the code used:

/*

{{#rawurlencode:value}}

URL-encodes the given value.

See: http://php.net/manual/function.urlencode.php

{{#rawurldecode:value}}

URL-decodes the given value.

See: http://php.net/manual/function.urldecode.php

*/

$dir = dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/';

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfRawUrlEncode';

$wgHooks['LanguageGetMagic'][] = 'wfRawUrlEncodeLanguageGetMagic';

function wfRawUrlEncode ( ) {

               global $wgParser;

               $wgRawUrlEncode = new ExtRawUrlEncode ( );

               $wgParser->setFunctionHook('rawurlencode',array(&$wgRawUrlEncode,'runRawUrlEncode'));

               $wgParser->setFunctionHook('rawurldecode',array(&$wgRawUrlEncode,'runRawUrlDecode'));

}

function wfRawUrlEncodeLanguageGetMagic( &$magicWords) {

               $magicWords['rawurlencode']    = array ( 0, 'rawurlencode' );

               $magicWords['rawurldecode']    = array ( 0, 'rawurldecode' );

               return true;

}

class ExtRawUrlEncode {

               /**

               * {{#urlencode:value}}

               */

               function runRawUrlEncode ( &$parser, $inStr = '' ) {

                               # encode

                               return rawurlencode ( $inStr );

               }

               /**

               * {{#urldecode:value}}

               */

               function runRawUrlDecode ( &$parser, $inStr = '' ) {

                               # decode

                               return rawurldecode ( $inStr );

               }

} 73.190.17.159 (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

LanguageGetMagic hook was removed. You have to use i18n files instead. See Manual:Magic words Bawolff (talk) 08:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Yea, I think I am missing something since I still cannot get it to work... 73.190.17.159 (talk) 13:59, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Violation of Personal Information Protection

Hello. The following website is mentioning myself without asking any permission from my side.

http://groovwiki.com/wiki/index.php/

The users are writing false information about myself and this is total defamation of the individuals. This is a serious violation of law in my country.

Anyone can search my name and information regarding myself and I really feel bad about it. I tried to contact a website manager to cancel my information, but It was unable to contact the site manager.

Even some of other people who are mentioned in this website are suffering from the violation of personal information protection.

Moreover, the users are giving biased information, which is leading to conflicts among the individuals.

I want to sincerely request that you could take some measures or if possible, shut down this website as soon as possible.

Once again, the website address is : http://groovwiki.com/wiki/index.php/ 124.56.77.115 (talk) 22:06, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

We are not affiliated with groovwiki, so you are going to have to find some other way to contact them. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 22:31, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply!

I witnessed the statement "Powered by mediawiki" on the right bottom side in this website so I thought this website is linked to mediawiki.

It's unable to contact the manger of that website. Could you give me some advice how I can do? I'm really suffering from this matter and there's no one to ask some help and support. 124.56.77.115 (talk) 22:42, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

anyone in the world can use our software, we are free and open and have 0 control about what people do with our software. It seems affiliated with some sort of school ? maybe try them. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 22:46, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

The TV IV is currently down

Retrieve talk pages after using hook Ar-Tabs.php

Hi,

I tested the AR-tabs.php hook found on this page : Manual:FAQ in chapter "How do I add/remove tabs throughout my wiki?".

Now I would like to retrieve Talk page. I commented the hook in Local Settings, but talk pages are not showing up. Could you help me please ? Delph mhk (talk) 08:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

They should re-appear pretty instantly after you comment out the hook. Are you sure its properly commented out? Bawolff (talk) 08:51, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank's a lot for your answer.

Yes it was properly commented out.

I feel ashamed but thanks to you I have just checked Common.css page and realised that I had this line I tried and left not commented out !

#ca-talk { display:none!important; } Delph mhk (talk) 12:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Update maintenance script throws db error

Hello Team,

I have recently installed Mediawiki 1.37.1 and Backend DB - MySQL on k8s cluster.

I have moved the content to the mediawiki and restored db from my old version mediawiki 1.33.1 to new installed MySQL and was able to view the content with out any issues.

But when i try to run the maintenance scripts (update.php) , i get below error, any comments on this please?

Error:

```

...page_restrictions in table page already modified by patch patch-page_restrictions-null.sql.

Renaming index ipb_address into ipb_address_unique to table ipblocks ...Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1809 of /var/www/html/includes/libs

/rdbms/database/Database.php: Error 1062: Duplicate entry '0-0' for key 'mw_ipblocks.ipb_address_unique' (mysql)

Function: Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::sourceFile( /var/www/html/maintenance/archives/patch-ipblocks-rename-ipb_address.sql )

Query: ALTER TABLE `mw_ipblocks`

DROP INDEX ipb_address,

ADD UNIQUE INDEX ipb_address_unique (ipb_address(255), ipb_user, ipb_auto)

#0 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1793): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->getQueryException('Duplicate entry...', 1062, 'ALTER T

ABLE `mw...', 'Wikimedia\\Rdbms...')

#1 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1768): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->getQueryExceptionAndLog('Duplicate entry...', 1062, 'A

LTER TABLE `mw...', 'Wikimedia\\Rdbms...')

#2 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1327): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError('Duplicate entry...', 1062, 'ALTER TA

BLE `mw...', 'Wikimedia\\Rdbms...', false)

#3 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(5407): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query('ALTER TABLE `mw...', 'Wikimedia\\Rdbms...')

#4 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(5340): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->sourceStream(Resource id #1393, NULL, NULL, 'Wikimedia

\\Rdbms...', NULL)

#5 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(68): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->sourceFile('/var/www/html/m...')

#6 /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/MaintainableDBConnRef.php(35): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->__call('sourceFile', Array)

#7 /var/www/html/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(704): Wikimedia\Rdbms\MaintainableDBConnRef->sourceFile('/var/www/html/m...')

#8 /var/www/html/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(951): DatabaseUpdater->applyPatch('/var/www/html/m...', false, 'Renaming index ...')

#9 /var/www/html/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(533): DatabaseUpdater->renameIndex('ipblocks', 'ipb_address', 'ipb_address_uni...', false,

'patch-ipblocks-...')

#10 /var/www/html/includes/installer/DatabaseUpdater.php(497): DatabaseUpdater->runUpdates(Array, false)

#11 /var/www/html/maintenance/update.php(193): DatabaseUpdater->doUpdates(Array)

#12 /var/www/html/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(108): UpdateMediaWiki->execute()

#13 /var/www/html/maintenance/update.php(264): require_once('/var/www/html/m...')

#14 {main}

``` 192.171.187.136 (talk) 10:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

i have delete the duplicate value and was able to resolve the issue and update script executed ahead and stuck with below error :

Creating echo_push_provider table ...done.

Creating echo_push_topic table ...done.

Creating echo_push_subscription table ...done.

...echo_unread_wikis table does not exist, skipping modify field patch.

...Comments table already exists.

...Comments_Vote table already exists.

...Comments_block table already exists.

Adding Comment_actor field to table Comments ...

An error occurred:

Error 1067: Invalid default value for 'Comment_Date' (mysql)

Function: Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::sourceFile( /var/www/html/extensions/Comments/includes/../sql/patches/actor/add-Comment_actor.sql )

Query: ALTER TABLE `mw_Comments` ADD COLUMN Comment_actor bigint unsigned NOT NULL AFTER Comment_Page_ID

Note : running the script from web... 192.171.187.136 (talk) 12:21, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Huh, this error is very strange:

Error 1067: Invalid default value for 'Comment_Date' (mysql)

Query: ALTER TABLE `mw_Comments` ADD COLUMN Comment_actor bigint unsigned NOT NULL AFTER Comment_Page_ID

I mean, Comment_Date hasn't been touched on this alter statement.

This may be possible if the table was created with an older mysql version, but the current version is more strict, and it complains when issuing an alter to the table even if that column hasn't been touched.

The default value for the Comment_Date is '1970-01-01 00:00:01' according to

comments.sql. Can you try changing it from phpmyadmin or sql? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello , Thanks for the response, I have passed that error with out any fix( just restarted my mysql pod) , now below is the error:

...echo_unread_wikis table does not exist, skipping modify field patch.

...Comments table already exists.

...Comments_Vote table already exists.

...Comments_block table already exists.

...flaggedimages doesn't exist.

...flaggedrevs table already exists.

...index fr_user already set on flaggedrevs table.

...uw_campaigns table already exists.

...index uw_campaigns_name already set on uw_campaigns table.

...index uw_campaigns_enabled already set on uw_campaigns table.

...abuse_filter table already exists.

...abuse_filter_log table does not contain afl_log_id field.

...have afl_filter_id field in abuse_filter_log table.

Renaming index wiki_timestamp into afl_wiki_timestamp to table abuse_filter_log ...

An error occurred:

Error 1091: Can't DROP 'af_group'; check that column/key exists (mysql)

Function: Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::sourceFile( /var/www/html/extensions/AbuseFilter/includes/Hooks/Handlers/../../../db_patches/mysql/patch-rename-indexes.sql )

Query: ALTER TABLE `mw_abuse_filter`

DROP INDEX af_group,

ADD INDEX af_group_enabled(af_group,af_enabled,af_id)

appreciate your help on this !! 192.171.187.136 (talk) 14:14, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Below is the table describe output:

mysql> desc mw_abuse_filter;

+--------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

| Field              | Type            | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |

+--------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

| af_id              | bigint unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |

| af_pattern         | blob            | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

| af_user            | bigint unsigned | NO   | MUL | NULL    |                |

| af_user_text       | varchar(255)    | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

| af_timestamp       | binary(14)      | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

| af_enabled         | tinyint(1)      | NO   |     | 1       |                |

| af_comments        | blob            | YES  |     | NULL    |                |

| af_public_comments | tinyblob        | YES  |     | NULL    |                |

| af_hidden          | tinyint(1)      | NO   |     | 0       |                |

| af_hit_count       | bigint          | NO   |     | 0       |                |

| af_throttled       | tinyint(1)      | NO   |     | 0       |                |

| af_deleted         | tinyint(1)      | NO   |     | 0       |                |

| af_actions         | varchar(255)    | NO   |     |         |                |

| af_global          | tinyint(1)      | NO   |     | 0       |                |

| af_group           | varchar(64)     | NO   | MUL | default |                |

+--------------------+-----------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 192.171.187.136 (talk) 14:24, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

try to add the new index manually without removing af_group first.

Basically the line:

ADD INDEX af_group_enabled(af_group,af_enabled,af_id)

It's strange that the Comments table fixed itself. I'd check if the Comment_actor column was added. Otherwise this means the error skipped that update and you may get errors when the wiki requests that column. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:22, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

ADD INDEX af_enabled_group(af_group,af_groupid,af_id)

ALTAR TABLE an error occurred

DEFINE USER "anonymous 1:1"

DISABLE parent_array

DEBUG children_string

WATCH undefined 2600:1700:EF40:6320:850A:2522:63EF:6166 (talk) 03:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder ,

I just ran this command and it says duplicate key ..

mysql> ALTER TABLE `mw_abuse_filter` ADD INDEX af_group_enabled(af_group,af_enabled,af_id);

ERROR 1061 (42000): Duplicate key name 'af_group_enabled' 192.171.187.136 (talk) 08:26, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder,

I think i have cracked the issue and fixed the issue.

Root cause, the names of index in which the query is dropping and adding are different, hence the problem is upgrading.

I fixed both the tables abuse filter and its related table, abuse filter log and boom the upgrade was done. 192.171.187.136 (talk) 08:51, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

How delete user's info page fo me not delete support

Hello, how do I delete a wiki page and information about me that contains incorrect and defamatory information about myself and my family? What should we do to make things happen so that there is no more to turn to? Rimasstonyss (talk) 13:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Where is the page located?

Generally you have to contact the people responsible for the website in question (which unless its on mediawiki.org, is usually not us) Bawolff (talk) 04:35, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Error: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.

Installed software Product Version MediaWiki 1.35.5 PHP 7.4.28 (fpm-fcgi) SQLite 3.37.2 ICU 70.1 Lua 5.2.4

What I have in LocalSettings.php

$wgScribuntoDefaultEngine = 'luastandalone'; $wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['luaPath'] = '/usr/local/bin/lua52'; $wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['errorFile'] = '/var/log/mediawiki/luaError.log'; $wgScribuntoEngineConf['luastandalone']['allowEnvFuncs'] = true;

What I try to do:

On a MediaWiki wiki with Scribunto enabled, create a page with a title starting with "Module:", for example "Module:Bananas". Into this new page, copy the following text:

local p = {} --p stands for package

function p.hello( frame )

   return "Hello, world!"

end

return p

Save that, .... and get this: Error: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.

and in my LuaError.log this: /usr/local/bin/lua52: ...ns/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/MWServer.lua:588: attempt to call global 'setfenv' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...ns/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/MWServer.lua:588: in function 'unserialize' ...ns/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/MWServer.lua:439: in function 'receiveMessage' ...ns/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/MWServer.lua:307: in function 'dispatch' ...ns/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/MWServer.lua:52: in function 'execute' ...ons/Scribunto/includes/engines/LuaStandalone/mw_main.lua:7: in main chunk [C]: in ?

Having searched the error and having read docs around this, I'm stuck and need help. 79.246.201.191 (talk) 14:27, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Using this:

Scribunto – (04b897f) 07:00, 28 February 2022 79.246.201.191 (talk) 14:36, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

You have to use 5.1.x. lua 5.2 is not supported. Bawolff (talk) 17:59, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes. Lua51 works. Thanks. 79.246.201.191 (talk) 22:04, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

How to load values from a PHP array into MediaWiki commands?

MediaWiki 1.36.1 with Extension:Lockdown.

This works:

wfLoadExtension( 'Lockdown' );
$wgSpecialPageLockdown['Recentchanges'] = array('sysop');
// Recentchanges page is locked from any user without sysop role;

But if I want to load names of special pages from an array:

$all_special_pages = array(
    'Recentchanges',
    'BrokenRedirects',
    'Disambiguations',
    'Userlogin',
    'Userlogout'
);

How to load the values of the array into a single $wgSpecialPageLockdown[] = array('sysop'); command? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 15:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php Bawolff (talk) 17:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Some Mac users have searching problem

I run a private mediawiki instance and recently upgraded to from 1.35.1 to 1.37.1. Now some of my mac users when trying to do a search for the word recombinase get an error message trying to display the special search page(you can't see the page "http://mediawiki/mediawiki/index.php?search=recombinase title=Special%3Search go=Go" because it is not on the approved list in Screen Time.) . Now if they search for recombinas it works just fine. I can't figure this out. 67.241.140.174 (talk) 16:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

ArgumentCountError and Exception caught inside exception handler

My website is working okay except that when I click the logo, I get the following two exceptions and their backtraces.

ArgumentCountError

ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function TimelessTemplate::getSidebarChunk(), 0 passed and at least 3 expected

from /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php(305)
#0 /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php(539): TimelessTemplate->getSidebarChunk()
#1 /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php(90): TimelessTemplate->getPageToolSidebar()
#2 /includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(131): TimelessTemplate->execute()
#3 /includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(146): SkinTemplate->generateHTML()
#4 /includes/OutputPage.php(2634): SkinTemplate->outputPage()
#5 /includes/MediaWiki.php(927): OutputPage->output(boolean)
#6 /includes/MediaWiki.php(940): MediaWiki::{closure}()
#7 /includes/MediaWiki.php(546): MediaWiki->main()
#8 /index.php(53): MediaWiki->run()
#9 /index.php(46): wfIndexMain()
#10 {main}

Exception caught inside exception handler

Exception caught inside exception handler: [5da7ba178ae1bd2869def5a8] ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function TimelessTemplate::getSidebarChunk(), 0 passed in /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php on line 539 and at least 3 expected

#0 /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php(539): TimelessTemplate->getSidebarChunk()
#1 /skins/Timeless/includes/TimelessTemplate.php(90): TimelessTemplate->getPageToolSidebar()
#2 /includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(131): TimelessTemplate->execute()
#3 /includes/skins/SkinTemplate.php(146): SkinTemplate->generateHTML()
#4 /includes/OutputPage.php(2634): SkinTemplate->outputPage()
#5 /includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(147): OutputPage->output()
#6 /includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(66): MWExceptionRenderer::reportHTML(ArgumentCountError)
#7 /includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(106): MWExceptionRenderer::output(ArgumentCountError, integer)
#8 /includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(185): MWExceptionHandler::report(ArgumentCountError)
#9 /includes/MediaWiki.php(568): MWExceptionHandler::handleException(ArgumentCountError, string)
#10 /index.php(53): MediaWiki->run()
#11 /index.php(46): wfIndexMain()
#12 {main}

79.183.173.166 (talk) 17:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

This no longer happens, I might have had a mistake somewhere. If something comes up I should update here. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 17:13, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Where does the p-TOOLBOX element comes from?

In TimelessTemplate.php the main PHP file for Skin:Timeless I have removed almost anything I found redundant for my website but I have the problem that an element with the CSS ID p-TOOLBOX still exist and I didn't find where it comes from there, to remove it.

• I didn't find it in MediaWiki repository in GitHub:

github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/search?q=p-TOOLBOX

• I also didn't find that source code when searching the file tree of MediaWiki in Windows 10 Home

How would you suggest me to find the source code which is responsible for this element? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 19:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

I cannot find any "p-toolbox" element when going to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk?useskin=timeless&debug=true. Might have been locally introduced by you?

See Help:Locating broken scripts for how to find from where things come from. Malyacko (talk) 13:25, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Presumably they mean p-tb which is part of core. Internally its referred to as "toolbox" in a lot of places, but the actual id is p-tb Bawolff (talk) 13:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

I didn't manage to locate this CSS ID anywhere but I did manage to remove this toolbox from PHP, as I have described here:

Project:Support desk/Flow/2022/03#h-How_to_remove_"Tools"_sidebar_chunk_programmatically?-2022-03-06T23:57:00.000Z 79.183.173.166 (talk) 21:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Display #mw-page-header-links only for logged-users

I wish to display #mw-page-header-links only for logged-in users (but not for anonymous users) in Skin:Timeless.

What should I add to the following code to achieve that?

protected function getContentBlock() {
    $html = Html::rawElement(
        'div',
        [ 'id' => 'content', 'class' => 'mw-body',  'role' => 'main' ],
        $this->getSiteNotices() .
        $this->getIndicators() .
        Html::rawElement(
            'h1',
            [
                'id' => 'firstHeading',
                'class' => 'firstHeading',
                'lang' => $this->get( 'pageLanguage' )
            ],
            $this->get( 'title' )
        ) .
        Html::rawElement( 'div', [ 'id' => 'bodyContentOuter' ],
            Html::rawElement( 'div', [ 'id' => 'siteSub' ], $this->getMsg( 'tagline' )->parse() ) .
            Html::rawElement( 'div', [ 'id' => 'mw-page-header-links' ],
                // @phan-suppress-next-line SecurityCheck-DoubleEscaped
                $this->getPortlet(
                    'namespaces',
                    $this->pileOfTools['namespaces'],
                    'timeless-namespaces',
                    [ 'extra-classes' => 'tools-inline' ]
                ) .
                // @phan-suppress-next-line SecurityCheck-DoubleEscaped
                $this->getPortlet(
                    'more',
                    $this->pileOfTools['more'],
                    'timeless-more',
                    [ 'extra-classes' => 'tools-inline' ]
                ) .
                $this->getVariants() .
                // @phan-suppress-next-line SecurityCheck-DoubleEscaped
                $this->getPortlet(
                    'views',
                    $this->pileOfTools['page-primary'],
                    'timeless-pagetools',
                    [ 'extra-classes' => 'tools-inline' ]
                )
            ) .
            $this->getClear() .
            Html::rawElement( 'div', [ 'id' => 'bodyContent' ],
                $this->getContentSub() .
                $this->get( 'bodytext' ) .
                $this->getClear()
            )
        )
    );

79.183.173.166 (talk) 19:50, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Should it be possible to do with this?

RequestContext::getMain()->getUser()->isLoggedIn()

79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:56, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Have you tried? If so, what was the outcome? Malyacko (talk) 11:24, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

@Malyacko

If I wrap the above large code with

RequestContext::getMain()->getUser()->isLoggedIn(
    ABOVE_LARGE_CODE
);

I get:

syntax error, unexpected 'RequestContext' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) 79.180.118.152 (talk) 14:35, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Discussion in the above code snippet continues here:

Project:Support desk/Flow/2022/04#h-How_to_make_a_certain_skin_feature_to_be_available_only_for_logged-in_users?-2022-04-11T15:52:00.000Z 79.180.118.152 (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Please stop starting new topics for no good reason Malyacko (talk) 05:17, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

PHP echo only for any logged-in user

I want that any logged-in user will see an echo "MESSAGE";.

How to do that? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 20:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

What does that have to do with MediaWiki ? —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@TheDJ

Because I want to ensure that this is a user who logged-in to a MediaWiki account.

Though I'm not a PHP programmer, I would assume that there is some sepcial MediaWiki syntax applied in this case, hence I ask it here. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 21:56, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

No, there isn't. Malyacko (talk) 13:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Some features in MediaWiki are usable only for logged-in users...

So how is the test if a user is logged-in or not done?

What code uses for that? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 13:24, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

What have you tried yet to find out before posting here? Malyacko (talk) 13:26, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Asking as https://lmgtfy.app/?q=mediawiki+check+if+user+is+logged+in etc come to my mind, listing some results? Malyacko (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Yesterday I ran in Google:

• if user is logged in do php mediawiki
• if user is logged in php
• concatenate if user is logged in

The last one was most probably a mistake.

Anyway the query you presented is indeed better. I should use it or a very similar query.

mediawiki check if user is logged in

My aim is to "do stuff" only for a logged-in user. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 13:46, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

I seek a global way to test this, not dependent on a particular skin.

Perhaps

if(!$this->data['loggedin']) {
}

Or

if( StubObject::isRealObject( $wgUser ) &&  $wgUser->isLoggedIn())
{
// code or HTML
}
?>

? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 13:57, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

RequestContext::getMain()->getUser()->isLoggedIn() would be the most generic way to do that, although sometimes not best practise depending on context.

Note, that in many places in mediawiki, you are not allowed to use Echo, and must use some other way of outputting, typically via OutputPage (RequestContext::getMain()->getOutput()) Bawolff (talk) 06:09, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

It's maybe not quite what you want but if you use both MediaWiki:Anonnotice and MediaWiki:Sitenotice then only a logged-in user will see the latter (see Manual:Interface/Sitenotice). Jonathan3 (talk) 23:14, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

PNG files blurring on upload?

We're working on a wiki with friends that is hosted with MediaWiki, yet when we upload a PNG file to it, it seems to blur itself? We have included a copy of the original image and how it uploaded itself to the site below.

• The original image
• The uploaded image

Infuriatingly, we cannot find any decent answer to this phenomenon--the only result we found in our (admittedly cursory) search is from 11 years ago, where it was insisted to be a problem with the user accidentally zooming in to their browser. Another, sourced 5 years ago, seems to blame ImageMagick rather than MediaWiki.

However, we have plenty of evidence to the contrary being possible, namely how the fuzzy version can be copied and re-uploaded as the fuzzy version on external websites with simply copying the image, and how the only program used for the uploaded image itself (at least on the part of myself) was paint dot net--unless ImageMagick is integrated into MediaWiki, we see no reason that would be relevant, and indeed it seems the image itself is being blurred--not the web browser's perception of it. Camwoodstock (talk) 05:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

The files you linked are bit for bit identical and have the same SHA256 hash. If you think you can see any difference between them, its probably in your head, and would probably go away if you did a double blind test.

However if you are viewing thumbnails (aka smaller versions) of the file instead of the full sized file, the smaller versions may look different as the act of shrinking an image can make them look a bit fuzzier. There's a number of trade-offs involved when shrinking an image, with speed vs quality, but also different shrinking algorithms work better for different types of images. This is often noticeable in photographic images (at least for the algorithm we use), where its common to sharpen an image after shrinking to counteract the effects. For images that are more like line drawings, this tends to not look good. As a heuristic MediaWiki will tend to add an extra sharpening for JPG images but not PNG, on the basis that commonly JPGs are used for the type of photos where it would look good to add sharpening, and PNGs are often used for things where it doesn't. However, for this type of art, that heuristic might be wrong.

See also w:Image_scaling#Algorithms, https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/efficient-image-resizing-with-imagemagick/ and https://pseudo.ddo.jp/share/pseudo/doc/ImageMagick/Usage/resize/index.html#artifacts for more info on this topic. Bawolff (talk) 08:48, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

dryad & cerberus 11

When can I use these in the game I am a little confused as I can make them but not use them thank you Rainbow91572 (talk) 06:50, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

You are in the wrong place. Bawolff (talk) 08:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Social Profile $wgUserStatsPointValues

Hey commuinty,

i am fairly new to MediaWiki, so i am very glad if you can help me.

We want to use the Social Profiles to give Points for different Tasks a User has done.

I allready checked the following pages

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile/Technical_documentation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile

but i didn´t find all events i was looking for.

The Idea is to give Points for the following actions

-User signs in to the plattform for the first time

-User adds a profile picture for the first time

-User creates a page (everytime)

-User Adds content to a page (everytime)

-User approves a page (everytime)

-user participates in a discussion (everytime)

-is there also a posiblity to give Points for custom events? Like visiting a Page?

thx much in adv. Creamriper (talk) 08:15, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Pump.

Any help or input how i can add userstatspoints for different actions?

$wgUserStatsPointValues['edit'] = 50

like

$wgUserStatsPointValues['approvecontent'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['visitaspecialpage'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['participateindiscussion'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['customevent'] = 10

thx much in adv. Creamriper (talk) 10:45, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

htaccess redirect prevents login

Hello,

I'm struggling with setting up my MW under www.krimpedia.de the way I want. I modified the htaccess to get short URLs. The content of the file looks like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,END]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=(.*)

RewriteRule "^(.*)$" /%1 [R=301,QSD,L]

Unfortunately that redirect leads to a loop on the sign-in that prevents me from logging in.

Do you have an idea how I could fix this?

Thanks 77.3.140.67 (talk) 09:36, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

? 77.3.140.67 (talk) 11:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Its not clear to me what the last two lines are doing. Maybe they are the problem. Bawolff (talk) 13:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

I followed your advise and deleted the last two lines. With that change I was able to log in again but my shortened URLs also disappeared.

Is there another way to achieve pretty links? Krimpedia (talk) 15:21, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

try some of the instructions at manual:Short URL Bawolff (talk) 06:05, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

I am aware of these instructions.

Despite the suggestion I went for this structure: example.org/Page_title

Is it reasonable to believe that the issue with the log-in is caused by this? What would change if I would change it to example.org/wiki/Page_title ?

And the more important question: how would I do this? Sorry, I'm a newbie. Krimpedia (talk) 08:14, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

I wonder whether it's the ?title=$1 part. Anyway, I use the same URL structure so you could just get rid of what you have and try this:

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

Those lines are either from or based on the page Bawolff shared. Jonathan3 (talk) 10:52, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Jonathan3. With your code I am able to log in again but the Urls show the "/index.php?title=" again. Krimpedia (talk) 12:04, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Does anyone has another suggestion for me?

As stated above:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=(.*)

RewriteRule "^(.*)$" /%1 [R=301,QSD,L]

seems to do the trick with the URLs but then I am no longer able to log in. Krimpedia (talk) 13:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, you still need the RewriteEngine on line at the start. So:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

Jonathan3 (talk) 23:02, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Just to clarify, what is your $wgArticlePath set to? Bawolff (talk) 07:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

in my LocalSettings I have written the following

$wgScriptPath = "";

$wgArticlePath = "/$1";

the htaccess-file cotains the folowing:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,END]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=(.*)

RewriteRule "^(.*)$" /%1 [R=301,QSD,L]

Jonathans suggestion enables me to log in again, but doesn't shorten the URL.

MW is installed in a folder named krimpedia.de. Krimpedia (talk) 08:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

I have the same settings for $wgScriptPath and $wgArticlePath as you. (I have a comment #previously had set to $wgServer and "/" for $wgScriptPath so, although likely they're wrong, it might be worth trying those two alternatives!)

Did you try again with the RewriteEngine on line included? Jonathan3 (talk) 11:28, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Ok. I'm going crazy here... I didn't change anything and all of a sudden I can log in again. BUT: now the charset is messed up. If I try to use the search the colon is'nt recognized and I get the following message:

Der angeforderte Seitentitel enthält ungültige Zeichen: „%3A“.

On the other hand I can open the special pages page which does contain a colon in the URL. Krimpedia (talk) 21:30, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.

I have migrated a server running a MediaWiki from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20. The server is administrated using Plesk Obsidian and the MediaWiki is 1.31 as included as a Plesk application.

The transfer of the MediaWiki was smooth but rendering formulas now results in Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":)

Attempts to re-install the Math extension from https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Math resulted in a broken Wiki after calling update.php through /mw-config

LocalSettings.php contains

wfLoadExtension( 'Math' );

$wgDefaultUserOptions['math'] = 'mathml';

$wgMathValidModes=['mathml']; Ingodahn (talk) 11:34, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Mediawiki error 403

All link that contain colon return error 403, how to resolve this problem? 114.124.195.123 (talk) 15:33, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

i tried to install mediawiki using softaculous and by uploading wikimedia file manually via cpanel, but it still returns error 403. 114.124.195.123 (talk) 15:42, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

usually this is a short url problem. Bawolff (talk) 06:05, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

wikipedi arapça görünen rakamlar

vikipedi TR de uyelik alip cevrimici oldugumda rakamların tamamı arap rakamları olarak gorunuyor, dosya boyutlari ۷۱۸ bytes (۵۴ words) seklinde .. ben arabistan arapca vs boyle bir sey secmedigim halde bu ayarı kim yaptıysa iyiniyetli bulmuyorum ve cok kizdigimi, hayir duasi okudugumu belirtmek isterim .. Esenosman (talk) 16:42, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

@Esenosman Feel free to bring this up on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech instead, if some setting on a specific Wikipedia website isn't working as expected. Thanks. Malyacko (talk) 13:36, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Does Mediawiki have to way to check if its using OPCache and APCU?

Embedding SVG diagrams with links

Hi all,

In order to improve the clarity of our Wiki, we try to embed some SVG diagrams in our main page. We would like that the integrated links (to the Wiki pages) in our diagrams are clickable. Unfortunately, MediaWiki converts automatically the diagrams into PNG images, where the integrated links don't work at all.

Is there any way to integrate the SVG diagrams, including the links?

Kind regards

Erik Breer genannt Nottebohm 2A02:8440:3340:4D83:2D79:F1AA:6DA:D977 (talk) 12:21, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

There is Extension:NativeSvgHandler, but that still won't allow you to click links in the the SVGs, unless you open the original files directly in the browser. In order to have links inline in pages, you would have to do inline SVG (perhaps you can adapt the NativeSvgHandler extension for that), but this also comes with potential security and XSS problems that you will have to deal with.

There are also some dedicated graph and diagram extensions, but as they are not deployed on wikipedia, the quality of those varies widely. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 10:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Add Html code (Google Adsense Code) in Timeless Right sidebar

I want to add html code in Right sidebar of Timeless Skin.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2Ca5.png

you can suggest with hooks as well. I have tried with "SidebarBeforeOutput Hook but can't add html code. 2401:4900:54EF:FE3F:89C2:7309:155C:C69E (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

You can use SkinAfterPortletHook, and add the html based on the portlet internal name. ('more' in your case). – Ammarpad (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Issue Upgrading from 1.33.4 to 1.34.0

How to embed a multipage pdf file?

Old Install of MW, need to upgrade

Hello, I have an older wiki that was bitten by what I feel is the PCRE issue, due to a host update. Nothing shows, but everything is there when editing.

$wgVersion = '1.20.0';

I understand that I need to "1.23 or earlier, you'll first have to upgrade your 1.23 wiki to 1.27 (or 1.35), and, from 1.27 (or 1.35), you'll be able to upgrade to 1.36."

Since my install is much older, what is my upgrade path, and where can I obtain the older versions?

Thank you in advance! JeztahMW (talk) 19:52, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/ Bawolff (talk) 20:41, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for that. Do you know what versions I can skip to from 1.20? JeztahMW (talk) 20:47, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Do 1.27 Bawolff (talk) 21:28, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Manual:Upgrading#Check requirements Malyacko (talk) 21:13, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Where can I find a list of all special page names?

How to lock history diffs with extension:Lockdown?

How to lock all history diffs whatsoever with Extension:Lockdown? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 00:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

1. What are "history diffs"?
2. Which underlying problem would be solved if they were "locked"? Malyacko (talk) 11:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Any diff whatsoever

(a comparison of two revisions).

The problem that crawlers crawl them.

Crawlers don't index them due to noindex yes, but they still crawl them, which is something I want to prevent so possible irrelevant deleted data won't be associated with the rest of my content. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

If they are crawled but not indexed, that won't make their contents display in search engines.

Even if you "lock them down", they will still crawl them.

Search engines like Google and Bing provide a control panel to disable crawling URLs with specific parameters, like "diff" or "oldid". That would prevent them overloading your server in the first place. And also, robots.txt may be used for this purpose if the crawler supports some advanced robots.txt syntax, like wildcards in the middle of the URL pattern. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 15:10, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder alright, it's not only pages with parameters such as "diff" or "oldid" but every special page whatsoever.

The very act of crawling long pages like these, is for me a problem.

I don't count on robots.txt alone.

Perhaps I should ask Google and Bing not to crawl anything with parameters.

Would that be plausible (if at all possible)? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 15:33, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

It is possible if you can prove you own your domain to Google and Bing. google:search+console Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder

I misunderstand what you meant to say in the least passage.

Of course I own the domain and I have Search Console intact (Google). 79.183.173.166 (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

help buttons

hello,

I have installed wikimedia as an internal company wiki site.

Many pages (special pages) have a help button, links' url of this button are wikimedia help pages (like Special:MyLanguage/Help:Managing files in upload file page).

Is it possible to change the url to internal help pages (of my creation)?

I would like also to change in edit page the url of user guide (...... index.php/Mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide) how can I do it?

Thanks ForeachUser (talk) 09:03, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, if you append uselang=qqx parameter to the page, you can find the message to override the link. For example, you would change MediaWiki:Upload-helppage for the help page on Special:Upload, or MediaWiki:Visualeditor-help-link for the help page in the Visual Editor. Dylsss (talk) 03:02, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Dylsss for the reply.

Sorry for the question, but I am new in the wikimedia world.

I have add "uselang=qqx" in the url and I have understood that the element's name is "(helppage-top-gethelp)" and this is a link to "(upload-helppage)".

What I have to do now?

Thanks ForeachUser (talk) 09:44, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Just create MediaWiki:Upload-helppage on your wiki with the name of the page you want it to link to. Dylsss (talk) 19:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Dylss,

I have done.

When I tried the first time, I was using an incorrect user profile.

To enter in the MediaWiki:Upload-helppage the correct user profile is "sysop".

Thank you for the help. ForeachUser (talk) 16:06, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Checkbox

Bonjour,

je souhaite insérer une ligne de code sur mediawiki qui me permettrait d'avoir une cache que l'on pourrait cocher et décocher à souhait, quelle serait la ligne de code pour faire cela ?

Merci par avance pour vos retours.

Belle journée. 109.190.135.180 (talk) 09:25, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

What kind of cache exactly? Please also describe the underlying problem, not only a possible solution. :) Malyacko (talk) 10:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Petit erreur ce n'est pas une cache mais une "checkbox" que je souhaite insérer en ligne de code, afin de pouvoir sélectionner ou non certaines infos.

Merci pour votre retour. 109.190.135.180 (talk) 14:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

I am not sure i understood, but is Manual:Collapsible elements what you are looking for? Bawolff (talk) 15:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Bootstrap tooltip with HTML tags not rendering correctly

Hey,

I am using version 5.1 of Bootstrap on my wiki with the following installations:

I am trying to get the tooltips to work which works as expected unless there are HTML tags in the actual tooltip content. For some reason MediaWiki renders the HTML tags outside of the tooltip content as seen this this screenshot: https://i.gyazo.com/7d8d549582f8e2d54243a9fa1cadffd5.png

Is there any way to solve this? Mukilol2 (talk) 16:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

try escaping the < and > inside the attribute. E.g. do &lt;b&gt;

Also i don't really know how bootstrap works, but if your wiki is publicly editable you should make sure this feature is not an XSS vector Bawolff (talk) 19:25, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Disallow crawling of anything with a query string

MediaWiki 1.36.1 with just one user account.

• No core customizations
• No non core skins
• No non core extensions
• No images
• No videos
• No audios

I want that crawlers won't index or even crawl anything with a URL parameter.

Is there a problem to disallow crawling of anything with a query string?

Disallow: /index.php?

Thank you for your help. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 21:38, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

This won't prevent indexing if other sites link to a page (see google docs).

It will prevent some crawlers (but not all, since not everyone respects robots.txt)

Assuming that your $wgArticlePath is somewhere different, i don't think it will break anything. Bawolff (talk) 04:26, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

@Bawolff

About what you said "This won't prevent indexing if other sites link to a page (see google docs)."

Are you sure that's correct?

I have just read here

developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/robots_txt
>>>> How Google interprets the robots.txt specification

Under the chapter "Disallow" I didn't find a similar saying. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 15:12, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Bawolff I think I get the point now but this might be wrong because:

If Google crawled a page in my website and indexed it before accessing my robots.txt but then Google accessed my robots.txt,

The index will be canceled and won't happen again (as long as the directive is in my robots.txt).

Would you assume otherwise?

Thanks, 79.183.173.166 (talk) 15:38, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Google will record links that are disallowed by robots.txt and show them but won't try to access them. See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/block-indexing Bawolff (talk) 04:38, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Prevent crawling of any webpage which isn't an article or category

MediaWiki 1.37.1 core only.

Have I understood Manual:Robots.txt and the following should be enough?

Disallow: /index.php?
Disallow: /index.php?diff=	
Disallow: /index.php?oldid=	
Disallow: /index.php?title=Help	
Disallow: /index.php?title=Image	
Disallow: /index.php?title=MediaWiki	
Disallow: /index.php?title=Special:	
Disallow: /index.php?title=Template
Disallow: /ANY_DIRECTORY_IN_ROOT/

79.183.173.166 (talk) 02:17, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

If it's not enough, where could I read a full list of any =, section and namespace one can put there? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 02:19, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Please delete my above message and this one. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 02:45, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Umm, its not clear what you are trying to do. However the above is probably wrong since only the first and last line even do anything, the rest would be ignored because the first line includes more than them. Bawolff (talk) 04:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

@Bawolff

I just want Google to scan only article pages and category pages (the only pages users should access in my website),

Not any kind of "special", or "parameterized" or "raw data" page... 79.183.173.166 (talk) 14:48, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

What is $wgArticlePath and $wgScriptPath on your wiki?

When you say "article" do you mean pages without a namespace? Bawolff (talk) 04:35, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

• In LocalSettings.php, I don't have $wgArticlePath
• In LocalSettings.php, $wgScriptPath = "";

I think that yes, when I say "article" I do indeed mean any webpage without a namespace (and also without a parameter). 79.183.173.166 (talk) 04:57, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Do normal pages on your wiki use the form index.php/Foo or index.php?title=foo (if you dont set $wgUsePathInfo or $wgArticlePath, mediawiki will decide for itself which to use)? Bawolff (talk) 03:13, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Webpages in my wiki have index.php?title=foo. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:30, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, no, sorry,

Normal webpages in my wiki have index.php/foo. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:31, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

index.php/foo

index.php/Category:bar 79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:33, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

In that case, perhaps something like:

Disallow: /index.php?
Disallow: /index.php/*:
Allow: /index.php/Category:

The disallow all namespaces explocitly approach you mentioned elsewhere is also reasonable Bawolff (talk) 19:35, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

WOW thanks so much Bawolff. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 20:32, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

If I recall correctly robots.txt is case sensitive and it should be

disallow and allow instead Disallow and Allow

Quote:

Directives in the robots.txt file are case-sensitive.

From here

developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/robots-faq#h1b 79.183.173.166 (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

yes you are correct. Bawolff (talk) 05:56, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

How to delete a page on wikitia?

Hello. I'd like to delete a page I was drafting for a music artist that was never approved for a wikipedia page but then ended up on wikitia somehow. How do I go about doing so? The page is for 'Ron_Velvet' on wikitia. Thank you. Link: https://wikitia.com/wiki/Ron_Velvet Pinoypress1 (talk) 02:37, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

You would probably have to ask wikitia, we don't know much about them.

That said, they probably do have the legal right to use unapproved wikipedia drafts as long as they give credit. Bawolff (talk) 04:10, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

SQL dump ru wiki

Why can't you do a full dump in mysql? Or at least something related to articles, text templates, etc. At the moment, there are no ready-made solutions for fast imports, except for the slow importDump.php. I run in multiple threads https://prnt.sc/6M8_ituTNG5f but it doesn't affect the result much. At the moment it is not possible to make a full copy of the pages as on wikipedia.org. The assembly of the wiki was similar in modules, I import it via importDump.php. Could one of the competent guys help me with the setup and import on a paid basis? Roman Imbecile (talk) 13:30, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

What are "fast imports"? What are non-fast imports? Why "make a full copy" instead of using https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps ? Which underlying problem would you like to solve? Malyacko (talk) 13:50, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

I think its fears over private data. Its unfortunate mwimporter is no longer maintained. Bawolff (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

php createAndPromote.php does nothing

I built our Wiki on Windows 2016, IIS, PHP. I then connected it to AD for users with the LDAP Stack. I now want to add some additional local users accounts who will be sysop.

When I run "php createAndPromote --sysop [user] [password]", it does nothing. There is no user created in the datebase.

If I try to create a user from the Special:CreateAccount Page, it says "The supplied credentials could not be used for account creation."

The first local user account I created is working, and anyone in the approved AD groups I added the the ldap.json can sign in, working fine.

Private wiki, cannot publish page externally. Gregzme17 (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Fetching file summary through API

Is there a way how to fetch information from the summary box of any file using any API.

For example on this page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ayn_Rand_(1943_Talbot_portrait).jpg

I would be interested in getting the description and date information.

I had some luck with wikidata SPARQL endpoint, but the information on the official commons page is a lot richer. Kotrblu2 (talk) 23:02, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Try action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=metadata|extmetadata

E.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=metadata%7Cextmetadata&titles=File:Ayn_Rand_(1943_Talbot_portrait).jpg&formatversion=2 Bawolff (talk) 04:32, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Template:Collapse top Really sorry for this question

Really sorry for this NOOB question. I'm trying to find the code for the collapse top templates.

Template:Collapse top#Parameters

On other templates, I was able to edit (for example on Template:Box-round) and simply copy paste the code into my site.

Again, I'm sorry I just cannot get the code for the collapse top template MarkRawsthorne (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

No need to apologize, we were all new once.

Its probably being complicated by the extension:translate syntax. It might also be using site css or js, although i dont think the current version uses custom site js.

anyways the code with translate tags removed is

<div style="display:{{{display|block}}};margin-{{dir|{{pagelang}}|right|left}}:{{{indent|0}}};{{{extrastyle|}}}"><!-- NOTE: width renders incorrectly if added to main STYLE section
--><table class="mw-collapsible {{#if:{{{expand|}}}|| mw-collapsed}}" style="margin-top:.2em; border:{{{border|1px}}} solid {{{b-color|silver}}};text-align:{{dir|{{pagelang}}|right|left}}; width: {{{width|100%}}};"><tr><th style="font-size:{{{title-font-size|112%}}};background:{{{bg|#F8FCFF}}};color:{{{fc|black}}};text-align:{{#if:{{{left|}}}
  | {{dir|{{pagelang}}|right|left}}
  | center
  }}">{{{1|{{{title|{{{reason|{{{header|{{{heading|Extended content}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}</th></tr><!--
  -->{{#if:{{{warning|{{{2|}}}}}}
  | <tr><td style="text-align:center;font-style:italic">{{{2| The following is a closed debate. {{Strong
    | style = color:red
    | 1 =  Please do not modify it.
    }}}}}</td></tr>
  }}<!--
  --><tr><td style="font-size:{{{font-size|112%}}};background:{{{bg2|white}}};border:solid {{{border2|1px silver}}};padding:{{{padding|8px}}}"></nowiki>

Bawolff (talk) 04:47, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

That is fantastic

Thank you so much. MarkRawsthorne (talk) 14:44, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

What are the URL patterns of webpages which aren't "article" or "category"?

MediaWiki 1.36.1 with long URLs.

So far I have recognized these URL patterns of webpages which aren't "article" or "category":

• Directories
• Namespaces (such as Special: or Talk:)
• Parameterized URLs

A URL can be two of these, for example:

index.php?title=Talk:English_Language&action=info

What are the URL patterns of webpages which aren't "article" or "category"? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 01:51, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

What is a "URL pattern"? How does it matter anyway? Malyacko (talk) 07:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

It's a pattern in a URL which one could match with regex match as with, for example:

• [A-Za-z0-9]*/ to match a directories
• [A-Za-z9-9]*: for webpages named in a namespace

Why does it matter? Well for me personally knowing the patterns might help to work with robots.txt.

I might do disallow: Special: or disallow /index.php? as I don't want any page with such URL patterns to be crawled. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:42, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Directories/pages can have characters other than [A-Za-z0-9] Bawolff (talk) 03:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I guess something like [A-Za-z0-9_\/:]* due to Special:x_y/z .

Would anyone add something to the above? 79.183.173.166 (talk) 07:41, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

[A-Za-z0-9_\/]*: 79.183.173.166 (talk) 07:42, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

You also have apostrophes and non-english characters (which can be their actual character or percent encoded).

You can have other letters but its unusual. Bawolff (talk) 19:28, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Bawolff, please share an example from core,

As I have never came across any such example or don't recall. 79.183.173.166 (talk) 06:07, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

for non english wikis, something like https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specjalna:Wyszukiwarka_link%C3%B3w Bawolff (talk) 19:31, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Category page URLs have the namespace

Category: 109.253.160.125 (talk) 16:08, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Is it plausible to disallow crawling of all website subdirectories?

disallow: /cache/
disallow: /docs/
disallow: /extensions/
disallow: /images/
disallow: /includes/
disallow: /languages/
disallow: /maintenance/
disallow: /mw-config/
disallow: /resources/
disallow: /skins/
disallow: /tests/
disallow: /vendor/

Autoconfirm doesn't seem to be working

$wgAutoConfirmCount = 3;
$wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400*3; // three days

#Permission to send mail--must be autoconfirmed
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['sendemail']             = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['sendemail']          = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['sendemail'] = true;

#Permission to move pages--must be autoconfirmed
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['move']             = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['move']          = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move'] = true;

#Autoconfirmed users skip Captcha for creating a new page (ConfirmEdit Extension)
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true;
$wgCaptchaTriggers['create']        = true;

How to disallow all namespaces besides category in robots.txt?

How to disallow all namespaces besides main and category in robots.txt?

Is this the only way?

disallow: Media:
disallow: Special:
disallow: Talk:
disallow: User:
disallow: User_talk:
disallow: Project:
disallow: Project_talk:
disallow: MediaWiki:
disallow: MediaWiki_talk:
disallow: Template:
disallow: Template_talk:
disallow: Help:
disallow: Help_talk:

• I don't have images in this website so I don't mind blocking the Media namespace 79.183.173.166 (talk) 07:25, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Media: namespace is virtual anyways, and never used in urls. Bawolff (talk) 19:15, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I had to add forward slashes in each one.

disallow: /Media:
disallow: /Special:
disallow: /Talk:
disallow: /User:
disallow: /User_talk:
disallow: /Project:
disallow: /Project_talk:
disallow: /MediaWiki:
disallow: /MediaWiki_talk:
disallow: /Template:
disallow: /Template_talk:
disallow: /Help:
disallow: /Help_talk:

79.183.173.166 (talk) 08:52, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikitext and other issues

This template takes two parameters, and creates underlined text with a hover box for many modern browsers supporting CSS:

{{H:title|This is the hover text|Hover your mouse over this text}}

Go to this page to see the H:title template itself: {{tl|H:title}}

| y | yes | t | true  | 1 = yes
| n | no  | f | false | 0 | = 
| =  
| #default = yes

|yes| yes | t | true  | n | no  | f | false | 0 |=| #default = yes

Table contents (Specifically long URL's) are not wrapping in tables.

File:Problem with table cutting long URL.jpg The issue I am having, is that long URLs are cut on RHS of a mobile screen. (See attached image). They essentially extend past the screen edge, and it looks poor.

I am using the Pivot skin, which is mobile friendly.

Is there anyway to wrap the URLs within a cell or only display a specific number of characters in the cell. For example 20.

I could just replace the actual URL with shorter text and then assign a hyperlink, but that isn't really what I want to do. I want people to get to see the full URL in question.

Any help would be warmly appreciated. MarkRawsthorne (talk) 15:00, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Use the following CSS: word-break: break-word; and put it in your MediaWiki:Common.css —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 16:07, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh actually, it seems like here you are putting urls in a table. The problem might be the table. Tables will become as big as the content wants them to be, that is their nature. So avoid using tables. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 16:09, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Try this:

{| style="table-layout: fixed; width: 200px"
|-
! style="width: 50px" | URL
| style="word-wrap: break-word" | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1258416/word-wrap-in-an-html-table
|}

Jonathan3 (talk) 16:44, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Truly appreciate you taking the time to respond

Thank you. MarkRawsthorne (talk) 21:53, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Don't (ab)use tables when you actually have a list, basically. Tables are for tabular data. Malyacko (talk) 18:38, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Totally understand. However, I really want/need the background coloring options that a table offers.

Not sure if I can get similar effects just using lists. Do you know of a way to get similar results? (see image above) MarkRawsthorne (talk) 22:01, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

To me it does look like 2-column tabular data, so i don't see anything wrong with tables, although <dl> also might make sense. Bawolff (talk) 18:18, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Images corrupted with HTTP response headers

ShortURL issues

I have created a new MediaWiki project and I am trying to change my URL's from /index.php/PAGENAME to /wiki/PAGENAME, I have tried to follow the MediaWiki guidance but I am having difficulties and, although I have followed the instructions, when I save the files my MediaWiki site gives a 404 and will not load.

In the .htaccess file I have:

RewriteEngine On

# main rewrite rule
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ /w/index.php [L]

# Redirect / to Main Page
RewriteRule ^/*$ /w/index.php [L]

and in LocalSettings.php I have:

$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

Any help on how to solve this would be appreciated! 146.198.38.110 (talk) 20:38, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Moving pages does not work; browser just spins

Hello,

I have a mediawiki installed on an internal server that I'm not able to share a link to.

We are seeing issues where we cannot "Move" pages. The page just sits there spinning.

I'm using Google Chrome.

I know in the past moving pages worked fine.

Admittedly, I inherited this server and am not too knowledgeable on how to troubleshoot this.

I have root access to the CLI of the Ubuntu server, and medium Linux-admin skills.

Is this a known bug? Is there an easy way to update the server? Or log files to check what is breaking?

Thanks in advance,

Chris 75.172.98.144 (talk) 21:49, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

I would first check the chrome dev tools to see if the request is being made, and if any responses are happening at all (or is it just hanging), etc.

I would then check the web server and php error logs to see if they have anything to say. Bawolff (talk) 03:05, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Bawolff- Thank you for the response! I've tried Chrome and Firefox, and both of them are seeing the POST happen when the move button is clicked, but neither proceeds further.

I found this error in the nginx error logs. Something to do with LDAP?

2022/03/18 15:26:08 [error] 1649#1649: *2844 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Notice:  Array to string conversion in /data/wiki/webroot/mediawiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php on line 122

PHP message: PHP Warning:  constant(): Couldn't find constant 0 in /data/wiki/webroot/mediawiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/Client.php on line 123

PHP message: PHP Notice:  Array to string conversion in /data/wiki/webroot/mediawiki/extensions/LDAPProvider/src/PlatformFunctionWrapper.php on line 52" while reading response header from upstream, client: 1.2.3.4, server: wiki.domain.net, request: "GET /Test_Page HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "mydomain", referrer: "mydomain/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Test+Page" 75.172.98.144 (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

those are warnings, which might indicate something is wrong, but probably wouldn't cause stuff to outright break like this.

Do the pages actually get moved (e.g. the problem is just displaying the success message) or do they not get moved at all? Bawolff (talk) 22:30, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no the pages do not get moved at all. 75.172.98.144 (talk) 22:30, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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