Visual Editor problems: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)

are there any way to move a script from Mediawiki:Common.js somewhere else

As in question header, i am looking for a way to clean Mediawiki:Common.js and move it's content somewhere (which i don't know where),, can this content be included inside of of the skins javascripts? 2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:5DFB:C9E1:9D14:1A1D (talk) 12:28, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

A specific, self-contained script could be a gadget, for example (if the gadget extension is installed). But it's unclear which actual underlying problem you're trying to solve. Also see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem#answer-66378 Malyacko (talk) 13:58, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

i want to make mediawiki:common.js empty, and protect it so no body can edit it, plus i don't want to keep the content of mediawiki:common.js visible for public, can i move all it's content to resource loader, or skin js file, or somewhere else. do you recommend any procedure ? 2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:5DFB:C9E1:9D14:1A1D (talk) 15:35, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

javascript will always be visible as it has to be transmitted to the browser in order to be run.

You can of course make an extension containing just the script as a resource loader module. That will make it a bit more hidden but still public.

See ResourceLoader/Developing with ResourceLoader Bawolff (talk) 19:28, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

thank you for answering. 2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:389A:93A1:8328:F3C1 (talk) 09:33, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Our custom skin no longer works after upgrade to 1.34.2

Media Wiki 1.34.2

PHP 7.3.20

We have used a custom skin for our site for years. We are trying upgrade to version 1.34.2 but the following code in our localsettings.php breaks the site.

require_once("$IP/skins/cau/cau.php");

$wgDefaultSkin = "cau";

This same code worked fine in our existing Media Wiki version 1.31.1. I am sure I am missing something simple - any suggestions? 205.131.177.6 (talk) 13:07, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

See the Release Notes and/or please explain what "breaks the site" means (actual behavior; errors in server logs; etc). Thanks. Malyacko (talk) 13:59, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

see How to debug (if you are getting a blank page, enable php error reporting) Bawolff (talk) 19:26, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Restrict editing for specific pages

How to restrict editing for all users except admins (sysop) for Privacy_policy and General_disclaimer? S0ring (talk) 14:12, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

help:protected pages Bawolff (talk) 16:02, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. But it is strange, on a german wiki (Impressum and Datenschutz are the corresponding german pages) a non-sysop user is allowed to edit these protected pages. Is this a bug?

Forgot to mention that Extension:Lockdown is activated. Would it have any influence on the protected pages? S0ring (talk) 07:07, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

is the page actually protected?

Non sysops should not be able to edit protected pages unless they have been given editprotected rights. The name of the page doesn't matter. Bawolff (talk) 08:04, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

To which namespace do belong the protected pages? S0ring (talk) 09:30, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

The attempt to force sysop only to editprotected rights didn't change anything, a non-sysop user is still allowed to edit the protected pages:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['editprotected'] = false;

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['editprotected'] = true; S0ring (talk) 11:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

check your Special:ListGroupRights Bawolff (talk) 20:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

You should check your Extension:Lockdown settings and maybe consider disabling it to see whether you misconfigured it. By default, Mediawiki protected pages cannot be edited by non-sysops. – Ammarpad (talk) 18:23, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Error: invalid magic word 'expectunusedcategory'

Hi

While trying to upgrade from PHP7.0.21 Mediawiki 1.32.0 to PHP7.4.9 Mediawiki 1.33.1 I run in to following error on all pages:

[d3247b148fd32c3f94c87313] /wiki/index.php/Hauptseite MWException from line 187 of F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MagicWord.php: Error: invalid magic word 'expectunusedcategory'

Backtrace:

#0 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MagicWordFactory.php(222): MagicWord->load(string)

#1 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MagicWordArray.php(108): MagicWordFactory->get(string)

#2 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MagicWordArray.php(139): MagicWordArray->getBaseRegex()

#3 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MagicWordArray.php(284): MagicWordArray->getRegex()

#4 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\parser\Parser.php(4104): MagicWordArray->matchAndRemove(string)

#5 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\parser\Parser.php(1381): Parser->doDoubleUnderscore(string)

#6 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\parser\Parser.php(491): Parser->internalParse(string)

#7 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\content\WikitextContent.php(369): Parser->parse(string, Title, ParserOptions, boolean, boolean, integer)

#8 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\content\AbstractContent.php(555): WikitextContent->fillParserOutput(Title, integer, ParserOptions, boolean, ParserOutput)

#9 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\Revision\RenderedRevision.php(262): AbstractContent->getParserOutput(Title, integer, ParserOptions, boolean)

#10 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\Revision\RenderedRevision.php(234): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getSlotParserOutputUncached(WikitextContent, boolean)

#11 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\Revision\RevisionRenderer.php(193): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getSlotParserOutput(string)

#12 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\Revision\RevisionRenderer.php(142): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRenderer->combineSlotOutput(MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)

#13 [internal function]: MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionRenderer->MediaWiki\Revision\{closure}(MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)

#14 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\Revision\RenderedRevision.php(197): call_user_func(Closure, MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision, array)

#15 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\poolcounter\PoolWorkArticleView.php(194): MediaWiki\Revision\RenderedRevision->getRevisionParserOutput()

#16 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\poolcounter\PoolCounterWork.php(123): PoolWorkArticleView->doWork()

#17 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\page\Article.php(773): PoolCounterWork->execute()

#18 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\actions\ViewAction.php(68): Article->view()

#19 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(499): ViewAction->show()

#20 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(294): MediaWiki->performAction(Article, Title)

#21 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(865): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#22 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\includes\MediaWiki.php(515): MediaWiki->main()

#23 F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#24 {main}

I used update.php, rebuildlocalisationcache.php, cleanupemptycategories.php and cleanupuserswithoutnoid.php (cause I’ve seen messages via update.php for the last one).

The Wiki runs local inside Xampp, so not online.

Can someone please help?

Many Thanks 83.135.207.184 (talk) 14:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

does making a dummy edit (e.g. adding a comment) to LocalSettings.php help (sometimes that can force a cache clear).

Make sure that all your mediawiki files are from the same version (e.g. dont just extract the new tarball over the existing MW install as that can cause some files to be new version, some old version, which can cause errors like this) Bawolff (talk) 05:26, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

I had thrown away the whole Wiki Folder (beside of LocalSettings.php and Images Folder) and paced the fresh tarball inside, wat’s lead me to the above result.

As you advised, I’ve taken away the LocalSettings.php and made a new via the install process – leading to the same error.

I’ve placed $wgMessageCacheType = CACHE_NONE; in – sadly same error.

The database is very old (min16 years) and quite big (350MB sql dump).

It would be quite sad not being able to update beyond 1.32.6 and stay with this… 109.250.153.126 (talk) 07:55, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

I tried it with php7.2.33 updating in single steps from Mediawiki 1.32.0 to 1.32.6 is everything fine.

Updating from 1.32.6 to 1.33.0 everything gets broken with above error.

Please help 109.250.153.126 (talk) 15:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

$wgLocalisationCacheConf is probably much more relavent than $wgMessageCacheType (I do not recommend disabling it, except in testing to narrow down possible causes. MW will be very slow without it. However, if you want to rule things out, temporary disabling is something you can try.)

Can you verify that the file F:\xampp\htdocs\wiki\languages\messages\MessagesEn.php matches the official version here (This is link for 1.33.1). In particular, is line 362 the same? Bawolff (talk) 05:41, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, MessagesEN.php was 100% identic.

I made a new update try, now with PHP 7.3.21 by skipping 1.33 and jump from 1.32 direct to 1.34 … error is gone and everything works fine now.

I tried this before with PHP 7.4.9 and get every single page broken/empty (pages where there but Wiki delivered no article entry). Probably this was a PHP inconsistent?!?

The database I’am using is a 2004 dump of an English site, that we continued and updated with German articles. Sometimes English and German inside the same Article. So something that will normally not happen.

For me it seems there was a rare ?bug? with Mediawiki’s language support in the update script of the 1.33 numbers that has been fixed in 1.34.

Thank you for your time Bawolff. 89.245.91.241 (talk) 16:20, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

I have the same error, with another extension and I submitted an issue. I can't link but it's bharley/mw-markdown/issues/17 on github. 82.254.246.242 (talk) 10:27, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Do you have manualRecache turned ON in $wgLocalisationCacheConf? If so, run the maintenance/rebuildLocalisationCache.php --force --lang=en should fix this. Neomw (talk) 23:27, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

problem to load

Some vital questions about how page rebuilding works on big wikis

Hello. We in Russian Wikipedia often have disputes on how the mechanism of rebuilding pages works, and as many of us have contradicting empirical data and existing manuals don't help much, I would be very grateful if some competent person(s) clarified once and for all some things about the mechanism of rebuilding pages, updating backlinks and categories and so on.

Let's say we're on a big wiki, like English or Russian Wikipedia. The most transcluded pages have more than a million transclusions. Let's say one of such templates/modules has been updated. What happens next?

1. How long will it take to update the HTML rendering of all the pages transcluding the given template/module?
2. How long will it take to update the backlinks and categories of all the pages transcluding the given template/module?
3. Will the servers' operation to complete these tasks be gradual or abrupt? Or maybe gradual for the most time and reducing in the end?
4. How newly introduced changes to the template/module in question will affect the task completion? Will the jobs be immediately deduplicated after insertion? Should the editors who make edits to such templates/modules attempt not to make many changes instead of one, or does it not matter much?
5. Is the queue to rebuild pages common for all Wikimedia wikis, or is it individual for each wiki? Particularly, do heavy changes in one wiki affect rebuilding pages (and possibly other tasks) in other wikis?
6. Is there a graph or data in any other representation where the state of the job queue for a wiki / all wikis can be monitored? It's not clear how to derive this knowledge from the Grafana's "JobQueue" service data, and the siteinfo API seems to always have "jobs": 0.
7. Is there any mechanism of rebuilding pages other than the job queue in Wikimedia wikis? Could a page be rebuilt just at the moment of request under some conditions?

This is pretty much essential for carrying out tech tasks in the project. Thank you very much. Jack who built the house (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

im going to answer these in order asked since there are a lot of them:

(1), (2), not sure. Can depend on a lot of factors. Note these two processes are separate. Generally html rendering is a bit faster. Html rendering might not happen all at once, but instead what might happen is that the page might get marked as "dirty" (page_touched is updated), and the rendering is updated on next view.

(3) its gradual, but depending on things, the timeframe may be short enough it may seem kind of abrupt, especially if the backlinks are on the smaller side.

(4) There is both deduplication and there is also code which checks if the page has been refreshed already since the triggering edit. (These are considered separate types of deduplication). For very very heavily used templates (say >100 million) i would suggest avoiding multiple changes if possible, but if someone does do multiple changes, its really nothing to worry too much about. I definitely dont think its worth worrying about a template with only a million uses (other devs may have differing views where to draw the line. I am not an expert in this area).

(5) I think its global. Not 100% sure.

(6) https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000300/change-propagation?orgId=1&refresh=30s i think is relavent. The api call only works on wikis using the mysql backend (not wikimedia but most third partt wikis)

(7) yes. Pages can have their html rebuilt (but generally not their links updated) if someone purges the page, if there is no current saved version of the page (the saved html of a page is only kept around so long. It used to be 30 days, not sure if that's currently the timeframe. Certain magic words may reduce that time significantly), if page_touched in db is > the timestamp on the saved html (normally that happens due to job queue). Pages can also have their backlinks updated outside the job queue via null edits or api purge calls with special argument. Pages that have certain magic words on them may have their links updated on page views on regular intervals.

Keep in mind also that the category list at bottom of page is considered part of the html not the backlinks.

Also as an important moral: wikis are meant to be used. If a template needs to be updated, then it should be updated regardless of how many pages it is used on, since that is what templates are there for. Bawolff (talk) 05:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Many things became more clear, but not all. Still hard to evaluate the effect of any individual change. I suppose the "Eqiad message processing backlog" graph is somehow related to the number of pages that need to be updated, but it's unclear how.

Two follow-up questions:

1. If you say that a template with a million translusions is not worth worrying about, and ru:Special:MostTranscludedPages has 2 million transclusions max, and en:Special:MostTranscludedPages has 25 million transclusions max, then the ruwiki template changes have a negligable input to the job queue? Well, according to reports from different users, the backlinks and categories take from 2 days to 2 weeks to update for a heavily used ruwiki template. Could it depend on the health of the global queue perhaps? (For example, I know that 3 years ago there was an issue with the job queue increasing non-stop, and page updating was very slow during those complications.) Also, will it take 12.5 times longer to update 25 million transcluding pages than 2 million?
2. Is it true that if, say, there are 2 templates transcluded in the same million pages and nowhere else, then making two changes to one of these templates is essentially the same as making a change to each of them (since in every case, the HTML cache and backlinks/categories of the same million pages are invalidated)? And a related question: Do changes in one heavily used template slow down the updating of pages after changes to another heavily used template anything significantly? Jack who built the house (talk) 11:49, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

The graphs are roughly related to how many things there are to do, however you can't draw too many conclusions, since I believe some jobs take the form of "Add a bunch of new jobs to do all the tasks between X to Y", so the length of the queue doesn't affect the total number of outstanding jobs, since some jobs will only be inserted after other jobs are inserted. Unfortunately, the current graphs seem less useful than the older graphs. I'm a bit out of date, so I'm not sure if there are better graphs somewhere.

It may still take a few days if you edit a big page (2 weeks though seems very long), i just don't think its something worth worrying about.

Speed of jobqueue can depend on what else is in the job queue, and if people have edited other big templates at the same time. However, the job queue is much more robust now then it used to be years ago.

I would indeed suspect that time taken would be roughly linear (or more precisely, log-linear) in the number of transclusions.

for 2: yes. If a page has been refreshed recently do to edit X, and then edit Y happens in between edit X and edit Y but before the page has been refreshed, MW will detect that the page refresh was recent enough it doesn't have to refresh it for edit Y (But there is still some processing to check if edit Y is relevant). If there's a backlog of jobs to process, it means new jobs added might take longer, since there's more things to do. Bawolff (talk) 05:33, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Login problem after upgrade from 1.23.5 to 1.34.2

Error: invalid magic word 'regex'.

I am getting the following message after my installation of 'RegexParserFunctions'. My mw version is 1.34.2. Maybe you can help me?

[aeaf7a7975a8ea3129c8f827] /%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A:%E7%89%88%E6%9C%AC MWException from line 183 of /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/MagicWord.php: Error: invalid magic word 'regex'

Backtrace:

#0 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/MagicWordFactory.php(222): MagicWord->load(string)

#1 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/parser/Parser.php(5288): MagicWordFactory->get(string)

#2 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/extensions/RegexParserFunctions/RegexParserFunctions.php(118): Parser->setFunctionHook(string, string)

#3 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/Hooks.php(174): RegexParserFunctions::initParser(Parser)

#4 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/Hooks.php(202): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL)

#5 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/parser/Parser.php(476): Hooks::run(string, array)

#6 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1189): Parser->firstCallInit()

#7 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1165): MessageCache->getParser()

#8 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/language/Message.php(1280): MessageCache->transform(string, boolean, LanguageZh_hans, Title)

#9 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/language/Message.php(884): Message->transformText(string)

#10 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/language/Message.php(944): Message->toString(string)

#11 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/OutputPage.php(888): Message->text()

#12 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/OutputPage.php(937): OutputPage->setHTMLTitle(Message)

#13 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(541): OutputPage->setPageTitle(string)

#14 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php(63): SpecialPage->setHeaders()

#15 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(575): SpecialVersion->execute(NULL)

#16 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(611): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#17 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/MediaWiki.php(296): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#18 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/MediaWiki.php(900): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#19 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/includes/MediaWiki.php(527): MediaWiki->main()

#20 /www/wwwroot/wiki.kimisui56.work/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#21 {main} Morikawa56 01:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Extension:RegexParserFunctions is using the old-style of magic words, and hasn't been updated in 5 years. I think old-style magic words are maybe no longer supported by MediaWiki. Bawolff (talk) 05:18, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

If you want to update the code you can see how @Legoktm did it for MagicNumberedHeadings in this changeset: Don't use the deprecated MagicWord::get() ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

there is even an unmerged pull request that fixes the issue https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/RegexParserFunctions/pull/1/commits

(Ping User:VitaliyFilippov) Bawolff (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

XSS detected in normal wikitext table?

[Thu Sep 03 00:56:09.540779 2020] [:error] [pid 13641] [client MY_IP] [client ME] ModSecurity: Warning. detected XSS using libinjection. [file "/host/apache2/template/etc/mod_sec3_CRS/REQUEST-941-APPLICATION-ATTACK-XSS.conf"] [line "60"] [id "941100"] [msg "XSS Attack Detected via libinjection"] [data "Matched Data: XSS data found within ARGS:text: {| class=\\x22oneColTb nomobile\\x22 style=\\x22width:100%; padding:0rem 1rem 1rem 1rem; font-size:1.1rem;\\x22\\x0a|-\\x0a| colspan=2 style=\\x22font-size:1.4rem; font-weight:bold; text-align:center;\\x22 | <h1 style=\\x22margin-top:.4em !important\\x22>Welcome to Test Wiki</h1>\\x0a|-\\x0a| valign=middle style=\\x22padding-right:1em;\\x22 |\\x0a\\x0aThis Test Wiki exists for the easy sharing of information, policies, and documents among staff and board m..."] [severity "CRITICAL"] [ver "OWASP_CRS/3.2.0"] [tag "application-multi"] [tag "language-multi"] [tag "platform-multi"] [tag "attack-xss"] [tag "paranoia-level/1"] [tag "OWASP_CRS"] [tag "OWASP_CRS/WEB_ATTACK/XSS"] [tag "WASCTC/WASC-8"] [tag "WASCTC/WASC-22"] [tag "OWASP_TOP_10/A3"] [tag "OWASP_AppSens [hostname "mysite.com"] [uri "/w/api.php"] [unique_id "alongstringofcharacters"], referer: https://mysite.com/w/index.php?title=Main_page&action=submit

[Thu Sep 03 00:56:42.103058 2020] [:error] [pid 12245] [client MY_IP] [client ME] ModSecurity: Warning. Pattern match "(?i:(?:<\\\\w[\\\\s\\\\S]*[\\\\s\\\\/]|['\\"](?:[\\\\s\\\\S]*[\\\\s\\\\/])?)(?:on(?:d(?:e(?:vice(?:(?:orienta|mo)tion|proximity|found|light)|livery(?:success|error)|activate)|r(?:ag(?:e(?:n(?:ter|d)|xit)|(?:gestur|leav)e|start|drop|over)|op)|i(?:s(?:c(?:hargingtimechange ..." at ARGS:text. [file "/host/apache2/template/etc/mod_sec3_CRS/REQUEST-941-APPLICATION-ATTACK-XSS.conf"] [line "229"] [id "941160"] [msg "NoScript XSS InjectionChecker: HTML Injection"] [data "Matched Data: \\x22oneColTb nomobile\\x22 style=\\x22width:100%; padding:0rem 1rem 1rem 1rem; font-size:1.1rem;\\x22\\x0a|-\\x0a| colspan=2 style=\\x22font-size:1.4rem; font-weight:bold; text-align:center;\\x22 | <h1 style=\\x22margin-top:.4em !important\\x22>Welcome to Test Wiki</h1>\\x0a|-\\x0a| valign=middle style=\\x22padding-right:1em;\\x22 |\\x0a\\x0aThis Test Wiki exists for the easy sharing of information, policies, and documents among staff and board members.\\x0a\\x0aExplore pages for [[:Categories..."] [severity "CRITICAL"] [ver "OWASP_CRS [hostname "mysite.com"] [uri "/w/api.php"] [unique_id "alongstringofcharacters"], referer: https://mysite.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit

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מושך בשבט (talk) 10:46, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Make UploadWizard not require category?

While uploading images to my private wiki UploadWizard gives an error message if i don't add a category to the image, and even though the "Category" is supposed to be optional, i cannot publish the image.

Is there any way to remove this? 194.71.217.77 (talk) 11:52, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

The "error message" is actually just the wikiText element saying "It's recommended you add some categories to your image" 194.71.217.77 (talk) 11:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki internal error.

Preload Summary Input Value for Individual User

I'm going to be making a lot of similar edits on my wiki and I'd like to preload the summary field with some text.

I've enabled $wgAllowUserJs = true; and created the following code on the User:Myname/common.js page:

if(document.body.classList.contains("ns-0") && document.body.classList.contains("action-edit")){ document.getElementById("wpSummary").value = "Preload this text"}<nowiki>

It works, but takes some time for the script to run. Is there a faster way I cna have the field preload with some text? 76.173.103.102 (talk) 00:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

that should be pretty quick (in fact i would worry it could execute even before page finished loading and not work). It would be odd if you are seeing a significant delay and might mean some other js is slowing things down.

Only thing faster would be a php extension. The interfaces might not be the best for this (but in theory at least is doable)

You can also try extension:CharInsert

So basic tldr is no. Bawolff (talk) 00:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Playing around with Commons tabular data.

Hi!

I'm trying to plot some data stored in the "Data:" namespace of Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Sandbox/Ajuanca/test.tab) by using the Chaph:Chart Template. I want to return the final graph from my Module (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/Ajuanca/GraphIt) but I'm getting in some troubles just trying to access the Tabular data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ajuanca/sandbox/graphIt#The_graph).

Thanks,

Ajuanca (talk) 09:39, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

you would have to expand templates before giving that argument to the function, i think. Bawolff (talk) 15:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

hi! thanks for the response. What exactly means "expand the template"? I found en:Template:Expand but that says it has been deprecated. Ajuanca (talk) 20:06, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

i wss thinking that you might have to do

frame:preprocess on it, but after reading the docs it sounds like that is not the case.

I would suggest logging the values at various points in your script to ensure variables have the values you think they do. Bawolff (talk) 07:00, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Update from 1.15.3 to 1.32

LOGIN PROBLEMS

Installation Page not Loading Correctly

Hi!

I just installed MediaWiki and am on the configuration form. When I open the page in my web browser, only the dropdown lists and the sidebar load. I can't continue to the next page. I'm running MediaWiki on Raspbian with Apache 2. When I try to configure using the terminal, I get a Segmentation Fault.

Does anyone know what is happening?

Thanks! Tonnieboy300 (talk) 17:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

try upgrading your version of php maybe. Bawolff (talk) 02:42, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

I just updated php but I still have the same problems.

Thank you for your feedback! Tonnieboy300 (talk) 17:11, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Error Code:2

Hi,

loading Pictures with "Upload File" I get the message, that "Fehler beim Erstellen des Vorschaubildes: Error code: 2" At the moment I have following version installed:

As I have different sites with the same installation and on all other pages the upload works, only on one site I get the error. I have ckecked the localsettings.php , and they are all the same. I can not find any different. Has somebody an idea what I can do, or where there could be a mistake? The mediawiki, where I get the error message has the mots pictures in the image path. Could it be, that there is not enough space?

Thanks for any help.

Uwe UweKre (talk) 21:04, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

what type of file? Are you ising imagemagick for thumbnailing?

Generally this is the exit code of whatever program mediawiki calls to create the thumbnail. Im not sure what 2 means. Checking things like disk space, memory, etc is generally a good idea. If you can run the command manually (mediawiki debug log will tell you what the command is) it might have more info Bawolff (talk) 02:41, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

thanks for the informations. I am talking about jpg-Files and I am using imagemagick for thumbnailing. UweKre (talk) 19:07, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Make Search Bar Ignore Accents

When I type in the search bar it lists current article titles that match the start of the string I'm typing. However, it needs to be an exact match, including accents. Is there a way to allow it to match, for example, the article "Römer" if I just typed in "Rom". Meat curtain (talk) 07:47, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Are you using ElasticSearch/CirrusSearch?

It looks like enwiki searches the way you want. If I search for Römör, the results include "romôr" and "Romor". ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:55, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

for reference this feature is ususlly called "diacritic folding" Bawolff (talk) 17:56, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Getting fwrite() errors on import

I tried to import a bunch of modules and templates from Wikipedia to my local installation of MediaWiki, but when I did I received a bunch of errors looking something like:

Notice: fwrite(): write of XXXX bytes failed with errno=22 Invalid argument in C:\xampp\htdocs\includes\shell\Command.php on line 474

Any help on that?

The versions FYI:

Leranjun (talk) 11:57, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

You do not mention which extensions you have installed, but this looks like an error from SyntaxHighlight on Windows. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:49, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Seems like it is. Any ideas how to actually solve that without modifying the source code of the extension?

Also, after disabling it, I got rid of all the fwrite() errors, but now it shows a timeout if I import a lot of pages:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\extensions\Scribunto\includes\engines\LuaStandalone\LuaStandaloneEngine.php on line 533

I can indeed solve this by uploading multiple times, but it's going to be really inconvenient.

Is this supposed to be expected behaviour?

Many thanks. Leranjun (talk) 03:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

can you import from commandline importDump.php? Its much more reliable for large imports.

Failing that try increasing the max execution time limit in your php.ini config file. Bawolff (talk) 11:27, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks. Didn't know such thing exists XD Leranjun (talk) 00:04, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I've read Project:Support desk/Flow/2016/08#h-Fatal_error:_Maximum_execution_time_of_120_seconds_exceeded..._(importing_pages)-2016-08-08T13:35:00.000Z, Project:Support desk/Flow/2016/04#h-Error-2016-04-27T04:38:00.000Z and Extension talk:Scribunto/2016#h-Anyone_could_help_me_out_with_Scribunto?_(Windows_10)-2016-08-04T20:19:00.000Z, but none seemed to solve my problem. Leranjun (talk) 03:25, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Those threads all have to do with Scribunto. Try this one. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:25, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Mediawiki docker container not working after restart

Reuploading missing files

So a bad thing happened and we had a server crash with bad backups. We have a relatively recent database backup but very very few image uploads. We'd like to be able to let users reupload the missing files. However, when I reupload a file that is missing with the , Mediawiki gives an error "The file you're uploading is the same", which of course is untrue, because it's missing. I'm guessing it's a metadata issue and the metadata or hash is the same, but it's quite confusing (and it doesn't seem to be actually checking hash). It seems the previous version in this case is filled with the uploaded file, but this isn't treated as a new version so doesn't have thumbnails, etc.

The docs don't seem to handle this situation in anyway and I'm wondering how I can remove the errors and/or figure out a user friendly flow to allow users to upload.

(MediaWiki 1.31.8, PHP 7.3.21) Joelhaasnoot (talk) 19:52, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

if you still have entries the image table, you can put the file directly in the right spot on the filesystem and it should work. Otherwise try deleting the image page first, or maybe putting a dummy image in the filesystem in the right spot, im not sure. Bawolff (talk) 22:43, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'd like this to be self-service - i.e. the original uploader needs to reupload the image. I'm not going to manually upload thousands of pictures 😬 Joelhaasnoot (talk) 09:28, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

The image table has a img_sha1 field that you is being checked against and, if the image is the same then the message "The upload is an exact duplicate of the current version of $1." or "The upload is an exact duplicate of older versions of $1." is shown. (The second message should be bypass-able.)

To allow users to upload replacements for the missing images, you would need to iterate over the images table and empty the img_sha1 field that you want someone to upload. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 22:48, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Great, so I guess I can run the script that shows missing images and for those images, clear the `img_sha1` field. Joelhaasnoot (talk) 09:29, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Update a modified translatable page

@TiltedCerebellum, @Ciencia Al Poder:

A few days ago, I encountered the problem of updating images on a translatable page (Help:VisualEditor/User_guide/ca).

I've already sorted out the problem: When a page is modified with localized images, Firefox doesn't display the change even if the page is refreshed (Ctrl-F5). Cache and cookies (both!) need to be cleared (History|Clear Recent History...). Jmarchn (talk) 21:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

@Jmarchn Some browsers cache more aggressively. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache. Could you elaborate why you started this thread? Do you have some question, or do you think this is some bug in MediaWiki? Thanks! Malyacko (talk) 03:12, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

@Malyacko So I think there's an error in MediaWiki, or in Extension:Translate, or (improbably) in Firefox. I don't know. I have found a way to avoid the error, but that is not the solution.

Let's recap:

This error affects localized images of articles that support translation, in other words, articles working with Translate extension.

Specifically:

I have localized images that appear in the article Help:VisualEditor/User_guide. So for the Catalan (code ca) translation I created 50 new screenshots for the article Help:VisualEditor/User_guide/ca. For example I created File:VisualEditor - Editing references 1-ca.png as an alternative to File:VisualEditor - Editing references 1.png.

What happened? When Firefox refreshed the page (clearing the cache, with Ctrl-F5), the page continued to calling (and, obviously, displaying) "VisualEditor - Editing references 1.png".

After testing, I have noticed that it is also necessary to clear the cookies (with the Firefox command "History|Clear Recent History..."), which is not obvious. After that, the page call "VisualEditor - Editing references 1-ca.png".

For a user visiting this page (Help:VisualEditor/User_guide/ca) for the first time he/she will see the correct images. Jmarchn (talk) 10:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

there really should be no reason clearing cookies should help the situation. Maybe there was a delay and its just a coincidence. Do you have to consistently clear cookies or was it just that one time? Bawolff (talk) 11:23, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

@Bawolff It is not a problem of delay. I've already opened and closed Firefox, and I've already opened and shut down the computer (I use Window$). But it continued all the same.

Then I tested the view of these page with Google Chrome and Windows Edge: and it was right (in both)!. Meanwhile, with Firefox, images were still being shown in English.

And a day later it occurred to me to try to clear the cookies: finally OK. Jmarchn (talk) 13:47, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

This only confirms the problem comes from Firefox cache, since caching is individual per browser. I'm also using Firefox and I do not experience the issues you're having, though. Maybe you have installed a Firefox extension causing this aggressive caching? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:30, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder I don't know. My Firefox has installed a standard extensions:

• More used
  • Tree Style Tab (strongly recommended)
  • Undo Close Tab
  • Zotero Connector
  • Find Your Tab
  • Search all Tabs
• Rarely used:
  • Don't track me Google
  • EPUBReader
  • Reverse Image Search
  • Safe my Web
  • Youtube Download Jmarchn (talk) 17:01, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Feel free to test in safe mode (all extensions and add-ons disabled) with a clean new user profile in Firefox. Malyacko (talk) 17:33, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

I make a test in safe mode for Firefox (as you have pointed out). But this has not solved the error. Clear the cookies has been required... Jmarchn (talk) 21:55, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

to fully debug this a HAR file would probably be needed of loading the offending pages in firefox when they should be updating but arent. (but fully debugging is a bit more effort than i have time to right now. Sorry. Also be warned har files may contain sensitive data like session tokens and csrf tokens) Bawolff (talk) 19:53, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

HELP:Magic Words

RE: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words

GOOD MORNING!

If I wanted to use, {{PAGENAME}}

And add https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words&action=edit to a page without the {{PAGENAME}} :

Ihttps://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title={{PAGENAME}}&action=edit

And replace it with the title https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Magic_words&action=edit alone what is the coding for this?

I know that I need to add something before {{PAGENAME}} to replace {{PAGENAME}} permanently with Magic_words when I press save.

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE! Moscowdreams (talk) 07:05, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

You need to use {{subst:PAGENAME}}. You can find more detailed guide about the modifier and substitution in general at Help:Substitution. – Ammarpad (talk) 08:33, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

if using inside a url, use {{subst:PAGENAMEE}} (two e's). This uses underscore instead of spaces, which works corrrectly in links. Bawolff (talk) 11:21, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

you guys are the best! thank you soooo much! Moscowdreams (talk) 17:32, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Database Error: A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

Uploads to the Ukrainian Wikisource

Hey. I am the administrator of the Ukrainian Wikisource. I would like to include possible file uploads to the Ukrainian Wikisource. Please tell me how to do this or who gives the rights? Thank you. Arxivist (talk) 13:44, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

currently admistrators should be able to make local uploads by going to s:uk:Special:Upload.

If you want to change which users can upload, file a request at https://phabricator.wikimddia.org linking to a show of user-agreement. In the tags/projects field on phabricator, but Wikimedia-Site-requests Bawolff (talk) 20:02, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Upgrade PrivatePageProtection.php for Mediawiki 1.34.2

Customise the "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties." message

Is it possible to customise this message? The full message is along the lines of: "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Cannot access the database.)"

Also is it possible to add some sort of notification feature, e.g. an email to the site owner, when this happens?

In my case it happens very occasionally, I think when too many people are viewing the website at the same time.

Thanks. Jonathan3 (talk) 16:37, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

You can customize them. These are three distinct messages; MediaWiki:Dberr-problems and MediaWiki:Dberr-again and MediaWiki:dberr-info-hidden. But be aware that, when this error occurs, fetching the localized message itself might not be possible and in that case, it will always fallback to the default English message you're seeing. I am not sure about the second issue. – Ammarpad (talk) 06:46, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes, I expect that it wouldn't work (in my case) because the error would itself prevent the customisation from working!

Do you know if it's possible to change the messages using LocalSettings.php? Jonathan3 (talk) 22:23, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I think I found the relevant code (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/e6a4048b38e135afccb80f05d56a3cc0600add83/includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php#304) but haven't got any further than that yet. Jonathan3 (talk) 22:38, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Any ideas about this?

I've created a new, hopefully better worded, topic here: Project:Support desk/Flow/2023/06#h-Customise_the_"Sorry!_This_site_is_experiencing_technical_difficulties."_message-20230629104200. Jonathan3 (talk) 10:38, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Preferenced

Forgotten password

Getting Device not Found on TTN V3 with Dragino LG01

My site breaks after logging in after installing echo

Problems when copying Wikipedia's main page to another wiki

My site breaks after installing Echo notifications extention

For some reason I cannot login after installing the echo notifications extention on my wiki. 2601:601:9A80:26B0:3D38:5D83:FEE6:9019 (talk) 00:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Please give more details and read Manual:How to debug. – Ammarpad (talk) 08:25, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Did you run the update script after installing it as instructed on its extension page? Extension:Echo#Installing

Also, please provide the information stated at the top right of the support page when creating support questions. TiltedCerebellum (talk) 22:09, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Unable to create new user

Hi Support Team,

We are unable to log in as an administrator in MediaWiki.  We have tried to create user groups in Mediawiki as well.  While going to special pages under user and rights option we are  unable to see the consecutive user rights management option. Kindly help us on this issue. We need to add or edit new users PatMD (talk) 06:23, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

@PatMD If you are unable to log in then please elaborate why you are unable to log in, what happens when you try to log in, which error message is shown when you try to log in, etc., and which MediaWiki version this is about. Thanks.

Also see Manual:User rights Malyacko (talk) 09:09, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

createAndPromote.php can be helpful if you lost access to the admin account. Bawolff (talk) 10:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Support Team,

Mediawiki version- 1.30.0

I am capable of logging in now. Post logging in we are trying to create new users. While going to special pages under user and rights option we are  unable to see the consecutive user rights management option.

In that case please let us know how to create new users under an existing group like Backend. PatMD (talk) 09:40, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

you should be able to cteate new accounts by going to the page named special:createaccount on your wiki.

Normally anyone can do it, but depending on how you configured things in LocalSettings.php it may be limited to users in certain groups (you need createaccount rights) Bawolff (talk) 02:46, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Don't convert svg into png, but use svg directly

I have some svg icons that I want to add to certain sites. How can I tell MediaWiki that the svgs should not be converted to pngs?

I tried $wgSVGConverter = false; but that shows no picture at all, but only a download link for the svg.

Of course I can use something like <img src="My.svg" /> but I'd like to go with [[File:My.svg]]. Stefahn (talk) 09:02, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

When do SVGs get converted to PNG? Please provide context and steps to reproduce. Malyacko (talk) 09:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Look at the image (pencil) on https://secret-wiki.de/wiki/Datei:Editieren.svg for example. It's name is 17px-Editieren.svg.png instead of Editieren.svg. Stefahn (talk) 14:39, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

You may be looking for Extension:NativeSvgHandler Osnard (talk) 09:56, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. If there's no other way I will try that. What is the reason why MediaWiki transforms svg to png by default? Is it because svg was not well supported by browsers in the beginning? Meanwhile 98.5 % of online users can display svg correctly (according to https://caniuse.com/svg). Stefahn (talk) 14:41, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

As of Nov 2, 2021, it's now up tp 99.61% support according to https://caniuse.com/svg. It's time to at least make this a configuration option. TazzyTazzy (talk) 15:45, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

never underestimate the power of status quo.

There is some concern that for certain images, transforming is a better choice if the svg is really big. There is also some concern that people are used to the current rendering engine and existing images might break if we used browsers. Both those seem mild to me though. Bawolff (talk) 23:43, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Unable to connect to mysql database for remote user in mediawiki

I have an infra where my web server and DB server are on different servers. Both the servers have required softwares installed . When on my DB server I am trying to connect to the DB user for remote web server I get connection error:-- connection refused both from browser as well as the myslq server command line. I tried all the solutions given on net but nothing is working..

Can someone please help me. Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 09:35, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Is your database server listening on all interfaces instead of localhost only? Also please provide the exact error message. Taavi (talk!) 09:39, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

tcp6       0      0 :::3306                 :::*                    LISTEN      14719/mysqld

It is listening at port 3306 . Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 12:16, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

what does it mean to connect to your db server via your web browser? Web browsers normally cannot connect to db servers Bawolff (talk) 10:16, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

it could be a firewall issue, in mysql there is something called enable remote db user, 2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:EDA3:6727:C97F:FB0A (talk) 10:48, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

You may look at this

stackoverflow.com/questions/14779104/how-to-allow-remote-connection-to-mysql

and this

www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-allow-remote-access-to-mysql 2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:EDA3:6727:C97F:FB0A (talk) 10:55, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

By Browser I mean mediawiki page where I am trying to connect to DB Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 11:16, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

The exact error which I see are :-

Cannot access the database: :real_connect(): (HY000/2002): Connection refused.

Check the host, username and password and try again.

or

Enter password:

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.0.96' (110) Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 11:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

In one of your posts i think you implied it was only listening on ipv6, but 192.168.0.96 is an ipv4 address. Try using the server's ipv6 address instead. Bawolff (talk) 23:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

No Iam only using IPv4 address.. Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 06:06, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

well is your mysqld listening on ipv4? The netstat you posted above only listed ipv6. If you dont have ipv6 connectivity on the local network but mysqld is only listening for ipv6 connections, its not going to work. Bawolff (talk) 06:29, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

2001:8F8:1E23:A0C:EDA3:6727:C97F:FB0A

There is no firewall enabled t=on the server . I checked it :-

root@ip-192-168-2-170:/etc/mysql# ufw status

Status: inactive Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 11:19, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Have you changed MySQL config to listen on all interfaces? By default int only listens to localhost Taavi (talk!) 04:51, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

yes I have commented the bind address in mysql configuration file Vaibhavarora08 (talk) 06:05, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

I think you explicitly need to set it to 0.0.0.0 instead of commenting it out. Only do that if you know its security implications. Taavi (talk!) 06:31, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Is mediawiki:commons.js considered on Minerva skin

“vertical-align:top” CSS code does not work for entire tables yet.

Feature suggestion: Byte sizes in revision difference viewer

I suggest the article version difference viewer to show the total byte size and byte size difference of the two compared revisions of a page.

I could not find this already having been suggested, therefore I am posting the suggestion here. I hope it will be considered. 46.114.104.108 (talk) 12:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Is this phab:T172698? In general, see How to report a bug - thanks! Malyacko (talk) 14:48, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Donation ideas in Japan

Metrics and referencing of RNA extraction based on hot phenol.

Typing apostrophe or quotation mark on an iPad with bluetooth keyboard

Importing XML - 'Expected Tag' Error

Absolutely fresh MW install, latest build, no extensions or any modifications aside from changing the upload and post size to import a huge XML.

My import tool says "Import failed: Expected tag, got #comment." Yes, the .XML is UTF-8 and I didn't modify it. Dog1994 (talk) 23:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

is the xml file valid (as in, do tools like xmllint say its valid)? Bawolff (talk) 23:30, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm on Windows so I can't run xmllint. Why would it not be valid? it's a direct export of a different MW install and the old one was 1.34.0 so it's not that old. Dog1994 (talk) 04:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

if you open the xml file in a web browser it should tell you if its valid or not. (Or at least it will give an error if its not) Bawolff (talk) 06:36, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

it didn't seem to give me an error and opened just fine.

I normally open it with Notepad++ with no issues Dog1994 (talk) 12:16, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

you could try using importDump.php from commandline see if that make a difference. Bawolff (talk) 06:36, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Trying to temporarily authorize access to Create Account

I'm writing an extension to selectively enable access to the Special:CreateAccount page when a user submits a valid invite code on a wiki where self-registration is normally closed.

After a couple of false starts, I settled on what seems like a simple (possibly even functional and elegant?) solution of intercepting the userCan hook for the "read" action and setting $result to TRUE (and returning FALSE to prevent anything else from overriding it) when there's a valid invite.

I've confirmed that the hook is indeed being called (twice) and accurately detecting the invite code, but... the page still displays:

You do not have permission to do that, for the following reason:
You are not allowed to execute the action you have requested.

Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there some other hook I need to intercept, or something I need to set somewhere?

Thanks. Woozle (talk) 01:17, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

maybe you also need createaccount rights or something. Adding &uselang=qqx to the url might help you track down which message and thus which part oc code. Enabling debug logging might also have info about which check failed.

Note: the proper solution is probably a custom AuthManager class although that is way more complicated. Bawolff (talk) 06:34, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

1. createaccount rights: I think I already tried bestowing that right, and it made no apparent difference.
2. The message involved ("You are not allowed...") is badaccess-group0, which is unfortunately used in many places. (I can probably track down the exact spot(s) by inserting debug code. Debug logging might also work but might also produce an overwhelming quantity of output to sift through.) The qqq.jsonfile says this message is "Shown when you are not allowed to do something.", which is at least consistent but gives no further clue as to why.
3. AuthManager: as far as I can tell, that's only for handling logins and creating accounts; I don't need to modify any of that behavior, just grant access to existing functionality. Woozle (talk) 12:29, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

you can use auth manager to have additional checks before creating an account without overriding everything. For example captcha extensions like ConfirmEdit do this. Bawolff (talk) 06:34, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Red link removal tool

Hi, I've imported some Wikipedia articles to another wiki, and I was wondering if there is a bot or script which removes red links from pages, since this would be much more efficient than having to do it by hand, thanks. IBBishops (talk) 02:13, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

You could poke around pywikibot to see if someone has written one. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:32, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. IBBishops (talk) 19:55, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Action failed

The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.language isn't loaded by default, right?

I checked on enwiki and frwiki and it seems to be, but maybe it's just luck? If I'm writing a user script for WMF wikis, should I load it myself using mw.loader? Enterprisey (talk) 06:32, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

You should probably always make sure, with mw.loader.using(). There's no real harm if it's already loaded. FFS ^Talk 08:47, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

How i change my username

APCU and OPcache not doing anything

Filters for recent changes not loading

so when install medawiki and run it

Adding page to category from another page or template

Is there a way to add a page to a category from another page or a template used on that other page? I have looked through the MediaWiki site and did not see anything to help. Andrew Branscom (talk) 15:59, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

help:templates - if a template has a category, then all pages that use it will be in the category. Bawolff (talk) 03:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

How do I embed HTML5 videos?

dumpBackup.php fails on new installation

error 500

Hello,

I can't access this page:

mediawiki/mw-config/index.php

this for error log:

2020-09-09 07:19:03 10.201.192.27 GET /mediawiki/mw-config/index.php - 80 - 10.201.192.27 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+10.0;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+.NET4.0C;+.NET4.0E;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.30729;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729) http://10.201.192.27/mediawiki/ 500 0 0 124 Syahrulamri25 (talk) 07:24, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Please explain what happened before and provide context. Malyacko (talk) 07:33, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

How to debug please enable and include php errors Bawolff (talk) 06:30, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Named parameters - more than one line

Hi Most of my Wiki is static and don't need much maintains. But there are some data (sentence and number) that I updated regularly. Some of this data is repeated on several pages.

To make maintains easy and secure, I have made a template with the data.

I have tried making named parameters within the template.

In the template Audit I have the following: 123-456-789 {{{Number}}}

When I use {{Audit|Number=} it shows 123-456-789 – all is good J

But when I have make more than one line in the template is do not work. Example:

123-456-789 {{{Number}}}
Peter {{{Name}}}

When I use Template:Audit |Number=}} it shows:

123-456-789
Peter {{{Name}}}

And when I use: Template:Audit |Name=}} it shows:

123-456-789 {{{Number}}}
Peter

How do I make it so it only shows the line I call? Thanks Kenneth WS (talk) 09:45, 9 September 2020 (UTC) You need to install extension:ParserFunctions

Then do:

{{#if:{{{Number|}}}|123-456-789 {{{Number}}}}}
{{#if:{{{Name|}}}|Peter {{{Name}}}}}

That's for if you want to get rid of the whole line. If you just want to have a different default text if the parameter is unspecified, you can do {{{Number|DEFAULT TEXT HERE}}} Bawolff (talk) 04:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Bawolff - Thanks for your reply :-)

The if function do not change anything, but many I am doing it wrong.

I have a page (Template:Audit) and within that I have 2 parameters.

123-456-789 {{{Number}}}

Peter {{{Name}}}

On another page (page:Test} I want to use only one of the parameter

So I use the following command: {{Audit|Number=}}

I get the following result:

123-456-789

Peter {{{Name}}}

Why do I get the sekund parameter includning the curly brackets? Kenneth WS (talk) 10:18, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

well as written, that is what is supposed to happen. See help:Templates for how templates work.

What was the output of the #if version? Bawolff (talk) 02:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

SS# 585-39-4526.... frankie.... 174.28.78.76 (talk) 01:28, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Bawolff

The if function gives:

123-456-789

Peter {{{Name}}}

Any way. I want to have one page or data file with all the data (word and numbers) that I update frequently. Can you point me in the right direction, help page etc.?

Thanks

Kenneth Kenneth WS (talk) 09:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Reading Help:Templates and Help:Extension:ParserFunctions to understand how they work, and how to use them should help. TiltedCerebellum (talk) 21:42, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Please tell me how to enable "safesubst:"

How to to delete pictures

How to delete pictures which I dont want to have any more linked to me? My own photos I `ve taken myself? 522jgmk2016 (talk) 12:01, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Does this have anything to do with MediaWiki? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:23, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Change Point of View iCub Simulator

Is it possible to export more than 5000 pages?

Hi, I was trying to export all of the Wikipedia articles in a category using [[Special:Export]], but when I add pages from a category, it stops at 5000 pages even if the category in question has more pages than that.

Can someone provide a workaround for this? Thanks. IBBishops (talk) 20:07, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

See Help:Export for alternatives. The 5000 limit is controlled by Manual:$wgExportPagelistLimit and unlikely to be changed. – Ammarpad (talk) 20:46, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, also one other thing:

When I try to export a category of pages using the "add , they aren't showing in alphabetical order. Just a short time ago, they were showing in alphabetical order, but now they're not. IBBishops (talk) 21:57, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

You could do it in batches, or download a dump of the entire wikipedia https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ Bawolff (talk) 03:02, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Can I make a user-right that makes users be able to read/edit pages in a specific namespace?

{} in subtitle

APCU delivers cached version of page even after editing

I set up APCu but now when someone edits a page it takes around 4 minutes for the cache to invalidate the page and re-render it.

This is not due to the browsers cache as Ctrl+F5 fetches the same old version.

After around 4 minutes reloading, the edited page gets delivered.

Why is that? How can I speed up the process?

Thank you! 130.83.76.1 (talk) 12:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

What version of MediaWiki? What happens if you purge the page? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:23, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

1.31.8 and purging with ?action=purge works immediately. 130.83.76.1 (talk) 13:48, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Check the setting of opcache.revalidate_freq in your /etc/php.ini file

; How often (in seconds) to check file timestamps for changes to the shared 
; memory storage allocation. ("1" means validate once per second, but only 
; once per request. "0" means always validate) 
opcache.revalidate_freq=0

If you change the setting, reload Apache (e.g. sudo systemctl reload apache2) Greg Rundlett (talk) 16:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

i think opcache.revalidate is the wrong type of cache for this issue (i think that controls changes to php files not mw pages) Bawolff (talk) 20:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

ok, first we need to verify that it really is apc causing the problems and if so, which part. Mediawiki has many types of different caches that can interact in complex ways.

If you set $wgParserCache = CACHE_NONE; (while keeping other settings the same) does the problem go away or does it keep happening? Bawolff (talk) 20:18, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

I used no cache earlier, naturally it will go away if I rever the change to use APCu 130.83.76.1 (talk) 08:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

i need to know if the issue persists when setting $wgParserCache = CACHE_NONE while at the same time still having apcu enabled, in order to narrow down which part of mediawiki the issue is in. Bawolff (talk) 02:39, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

> Bawolff said:

> i think that controls changes to php files not mw pages

You're right. I didn't think of that. Greg Rundlett (talk) 14:40, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Restrict editing of user pages

Is it possible to have a wiki in which registered users can edit as normal, but only the relevant user (or an administrator) can edit a page in the User namespace? Thanks. Jonathan3 (talk) 17:47, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

It looks like Extension:UserPageEditProtection would do this. Are there any other options? Thank you. Jonathan3 (talk) 18:11, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

If you want technical but more flexible solution you can consider using either GetUserPermissionsErrors or userCan hook directly. – Ammarpad (talk) 16:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

How do I add my logo when I share a medialink on my site?

Here is my site, when I share the link, the medialink shows up, I would like my link to show up. Please help.https://educationisourbuffalo.com/wiki/index.php?title=Indigenous_Wiki 47.54.146.250 (talk) 00:46, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Extension:PageImages adjusts it to an image on the page (but not your logo).

There is also Extension:OpenGraphMeta but that is not exactly what you want either Bawolff (talk) 02:37, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Purge confirmation

Hello. I understand the need for purge requests to be confirmed on Wikimedia projects, but is there a way for private wikis to skip this? And if no, why not? Thanks! Rehman 04:43, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

the linked page is only partially right, part of it was also to be able to route read only requests to a read only data center to better distribute load.

Umm. I dont think anyone has made any extension to adjust this behaviour. No fundamental reason it cant be dine, i just dont think anyone has. Bawolff (talk) 06:28, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh okay. Would you know where I could make such a feature suggestion? A way to avoid the confirmation at least on private wikis is useful. Rehman 13:04, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

How to report a bug Malyacko (talk) 15:16, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Submitted to Phab:T262686 Rehman 16:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

You can use this extension. Henryfunk (talk) 02:48, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

But that only adds the button, but still prompts the confirmation? Rehman 02:19, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Rehman, no. That was fixed a couple of years ago.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Purge and

https://github.com/Hutchy68/Purge/pull/8 . Henryfunk (talk) 16:28, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

How do configure the Short URL thing on XAMPP?

Sidebar

getting error while import template

[841f5fc0a2e825c5ab798c2e] /index.php?title=Special:Import&action=submit Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError from line 1420 of /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot execute query from LCStoreDB::get while transaction status is ERROR

Backtrace:

#0 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1145): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->assertQueryIsCurrentlyAllowed(string, string)

#1 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1807): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#2 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1644): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(string, string, array, string, array, array)

#3 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(68): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->selectField(string, string, array, string)

#4 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(302): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->__call(string, array)

#5 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/localisation/LCStoreDB.php(63): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->selectField(string, string, array, string)

#6 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(422): LCStoreDB->get(string, string)

#7 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(325): LocalisationCache->loadSubitem(string, string, string)

#8 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/languages/Language.php(2545): LocalisationCache->getSubitem(string, string, string)

#9 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(970): Language->getMessage(string)

#10 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(928): MessageCache->getMessageForLang(LanguageEn, string, boolean, array)

#11 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(870): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(LanguageEn, string, boolean)

#12 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/language/Message.php(1297): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, LanguageEn)

#13 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/language/Message.php(852): Message->fetchMessage()

#14 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/language/Message.php(956): Message->toString(string)

#15 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/OutputPage.php(4004): Message->plain()

#16 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialImport.php(237): OutputPage->wrapWikiMsg(string, array)

#17 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialImport.php(109): SpecialImport->doImport()

#18 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(575): SpecialImport->execute(NULL)

#19 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(611): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#20 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(296): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#21 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(900): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#22 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(527): MediaWiki->main()

#23 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#24 {main} Sachinpatel393 (talk) 10:35, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

can anyone please help me i get this above error when i try to import templates,

but its only gives error for some templates only not for all, one of the template nemed is Template:Citation needed,

also it gives this same error while get error at frontnend side.

please let me know how can i fix this.

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 10:36, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Which version of MediaWiki?

It looks like there is a problem with the i18n storage. Check this table and let us know what you have for the values of $wgCacheDirectory and $wgLocalisationCacheConf. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 12:10, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

used version 1.34.2 of mediawiki

mensioned values:

$wgLocalisationCacheConf = [
'class' => LocalisationCache::class,
'store' => 'detect',
'storeClass' => false,
'storeDirectory' => false,
'storeServer' => [],
'forceRecache' => false,
'manualRecache' => false,
];

#$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";

Sachinpatel393 (talk) 14:27, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

1. Uncomment $wgCacheDirectory by removing the # from the beginning of the line.
2. Make sure the subdirectory named cache exists in your wiki directory and that it is world-writable. (chmod 1777 cache if you have shell access.)
3. Let us know if it works. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:00, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

after uncomment $wgCacheDirectory,

seems little change ine error, let me know if you have solution for this:

[a248183193fc9864107b94f3] /index.php?title=Special:Import&action=submit Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError from line 1420 of /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot execute query from LinkCache::fetchPageRow while transaction status is ERROR

Backtrace:

#0 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1145): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->assertQueryIsCurrentlyAllowed(string, string)

#1 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1807): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#2 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1899): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(string, array, array, string, array, array)

#3 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(68): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->selectRow(string, array, array, string)

#4 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/DBConnRef.php(333): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->__call(string, array)

#5 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/LinkCache.php(331): Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnRef->selectRow(string, array, array, string)

#6 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/LinkCache.php(272): LinkCache->fetchPageRow(Wikimedia\Rdbms\MaintainableDBConnRef, Title)

#7 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/wancache/WANObjectCache.php(1423): LinkCache->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL)

#8 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/wancache/WANObjectCache.php(1278): WANObjectCache->fetchOrRegenerate(string, integer, Closure, array)

#9 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/LinkCache.php(277): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure)

#10 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/Title.php(3142): LinkCache->addLinkObj(Title)

#11 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/Revision/RevisionStore.php(3197): Title->getArticleID()

#12 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/Revision.php(1138): MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore->getKnownCurrentRevision(Title, integer)

#13 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1116): Revision::newKnownCurrent(Wikimedia\Rdbms\MaintainableDBConnRef, Title)

#14 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/wancache/WANObjectCache.php(1423): MessageCache->{closure}(boolean, integer, array, NULL)

#15 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/wancache/WANObjectCache.php(1278): WANObjectCache->fetchOrRegenerate(string, integer, Closure, array)

#16 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1142): WANObjectCache->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure)

#17 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/BagOStuff.php(133): MessageCache->{closure}(integer)

#18 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1144): BagOStuff->getWithSetCallback(string, integer, Closure)

#19 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(1060): MessageCache->loadCachedMessagePageEntry(string, string, string)

#20 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(957): MessageCache->getMsgFromNamespace(string, string)

#21 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(928): MessageCache->getMessageForLang(LanguageEn, string, boolean, array)

#22 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(870): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(LanguageEn, string, boolean)

#23 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/language/Message.php(1297): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, LanguageEn)

#24 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/language/Message.php(1016): Message->fetchMessage()

#25 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(837): Message->isDisabled()

#26 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialImport.php(332): SpecialPage->addHelpLink(string, boolean)

#27 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialImport.php(111): SpecialImport->showForm()

#28 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(575): SpecialImport->execute(NULL)

#29 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(611): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#30 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(296): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#31 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(900): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#32 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(527): MediaWiki->main()

#33 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#34 {main} Sachinpatel393 (talk) 15:01, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

after change permission of cache folder to your given again it seems changes in error:

[9401596e61d2a7323c1ccddc] /index.php?title=Special:Import&action=submit Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError from line 1420 of /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot execute query from Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::ping while transaction status is ERROR

Backtrace:

#0 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1145): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->assertQueryIsCurrentlyAllowed(string, string)

#1 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(4297): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string, integer)

#2 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(687): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->ping(NULL)

#3 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(677): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->pingAndCalculateLastTrxApplyTime()

#4 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1605): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->pendingWriteQueryDuration(string)

#5 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(2109): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli)

#6 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1621): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->forEachOpenMasterConnection(Closure)

#7 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(208): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->approveMasterChanges(array, string, integer)

#8 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactorySimple.php(134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer, string, array)

#9 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(210): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactorySimple->forEachLB(Closure, array)

#10 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(269): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->forEachLBCallMethod(string, array)

#11 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(611): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->commitMasterChanges(string, array)

#12 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(582): MediaWiki::preOutputCommit(RequestContext, Closure)

#13 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(916): MediaWiki->doPreOutputCommit(Closure)

#14 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(527): MediaWiki->main()

#15 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#16 {main}

let me know if you gettin this error.

thanks for your support. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 15:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Well, it looks the the cause of the problem has changed, so that is a success, sort of.

I don't see a cause here, though. If you have access to the shell, can you try importDump.php? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:17, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

i dont think this is the primary error, but a secondary error caused by whatever the primary error was. Can you enable mw denug logging and post your debug log for one of the requests that errored (particularly interested in anything related to transactions, ROLLBACK or abort.) Bawolff (talk) 00:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

[DBQuery] ImportableOldRevisionImporter::import [0s] localhost: SELECT rev_id FROM `revision` WHERE rev_page = '6611' AND (rev_timestamp <= '20090406143117') ORDER BY rev_timestamp DESC,rev_id DESC LIMIT 1

[DBQuery] startAtomic: entering level 0 (MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore::insertRevisionOn)

[DBQuery] CommentStore::createComment [0s] localhost: SELECT comment_id FROM `comment` WHERE comment_hash = '0' AND comment_text = '' AND comment_data IS NULL LIMIT 1

[DBQuery] User::load [0s] localhost: SELECT actor_id,actor_user,actor_name FROM `actor` WHERE actor_name = 'Ჯუღაშვილი' LIMIT 1

[DBQuery] cancelAtomic: canceling level 0 (MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore::insertRevisionOn)

[Scribunto] Scribunto_LuaStandaloneInterpreter::terminate: terminating

[DBQuery] MWExceptionHandler::rollbackMasterChangesAndLog [0.33s] localhost: ROLLBACK

[DBQuery] Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::ping [0s] localhost: SELECT 1 AS ping

[DBPerformance] Expectation (writeQueryTime <= 1) by MediaWiki::main not met (actual: 2.5168278408051):

[transaction f155d5 writes to localhost (blackwikinew)]

#0 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/TransactionProfiler.php(309): Wikimedia\Rdbms\TransactionProfiler->reportExpectationViolated('writeQueryTime', '[transaction f1...', 2.5168278408051)

#1 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(4145): Wikimedia\Rdbms\TransactionProfiler->transactionWritingOut('localhost', 'blackwikinew', 'f155d5', 2.5168278408051, 3311)

#2 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1811): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->rollback('MWExceptionHand...', 'flush')

#3 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(2109): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli))

#4 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1812): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->forEachOpenMasterConnection(Object(Closure))

#5 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(208): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->rollbackMasterChanges('MWExceptionHand...', 2061083247)

#6 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactorySimple.php(134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer), 'rollbackMasterC...', Array)

#7 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(210): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactorySimple->forEachLB(Object(Closure), Array)

#8 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(291): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->forEachLBCallMethod('rollbackMasterC...', Array)

#9 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(146): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->rollbackMasterChanges('MWExceptionHand...')

#10 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(194): MWExceptionHandler::rollbackMasterChangesAndLog(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError))

#11 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(558): MWExceptionHandler::handleException(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError))

#12 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#13 {main}

[DBPerformance] Expectation (maxAffected <= 1000) by MediaWiki::main not met (actual: 3311):

[transaction f155d5 writes to localhost (blackwikinew)]

#0 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/TransactionProfiler.php(318): Wikimedia\Rdbms\TransactionProfiler->reportExpectationViolated('maxAffected', '[transaction f1...', 3311)

#1 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(4145): Wikimedia\Rdbms\TransactionProfiler->transactionWritingOut('localhost', 'blackwikinew', 'f155d5', 2.5168278408051, 3311)

#2 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1811): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->rollback('MWExceptionHand...', 'flush')

#3 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(2109): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli))

#4 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1812): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->forEachOpenMasterConnection(Object(Closure))

#5 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(208): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->rollbackMasterChanges('MWExceptionHand...', 2061083247)

#6 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactorySimple.php(134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->Wikimedia\Rdbms\{closure}(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer), 'rollbackMasterC...', Array)

#7 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(210): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactorySimple->forEachLB(Object(Closure), Array)

#8 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/lbfactory/LBFactory.php(291): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->forEachLBCallMethod('rollbackMasterC...', Array)

#9 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(146): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory->rollbackMasterChanges('MWExceptionHand...')

#10 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(194): MWExceptionHandler::rollbackMasterChangesAndLog(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError))

#11 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(558): MWExceptionHandler::handleException(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionStateError))

#12 /usr/share/nginx/html/mediawiki/index.php(44): MediaWiki->run()

#13 {main}

[DBPerformance] Sub-optimal transaction on DB(s) [localhost (blackwikinew) (TRX#f155d5)]:

0 0.000155 query-m: INSERT IGNORE INTO `page` (page_namespace,page_title,page_restrictions,page_is_redirect,page_is_new,page_random,page_touched,page_latest,page_len) VALUES ('X') [TRX#f155d5]

1 0.000092 query-m: INSERT INTO `comment` (comment_hash,comment_text,comment_data) VALUES ('X',NULL) [TRX#f155d5]

2 0.000084 query-m: INSERT IGNORE INTO `actor` (actor_user,actor_name) VALUES (NULL,'X') [TRX#f155d5]

above are the backend error log of mediawiki,

trying to import Template:Collapse bottom, Template:Collapse top

both and get above errors.

getting this error for some templates or some module installation

any one know how can i fix this ? Sachinpatel393 (talk) 13:27, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

It looks like "Sub-optimal transaction on DB(s)" complaining about writes during a transaction causes the problem (but I'm really guessing here).

I'm not sure what to do. Perhaps @Bawolff will have an idea? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:43, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

well i try to fix this last critical error while i import templates or modules,

hope @Bawolff read this and answer on this issue.

maybe its related cache or something, maybe cache not configured properly or maybe else,

or also maybe timeout issue somewhere!!!

well i am waiting for the solutions, please update me if any one having knowledge regarding this.

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 15:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

i think the suboptimal transaction stuff is just a warning and can probably be ignored.

The concerning bit is:

[DBQuery] cancelAtomic: canceling level 0 (MediaWiki\Revision\RevisionStore::insertRevisionOn)

But its unclear why the atomic section was cancelled.

One possibility mentioned in code is:

// If the SlotRecord already has a revision ID set, this means it already exists
// in the database, and should already belong to the current revision.
// However, a slot may already have a revision, but no content ID, if the slot
// is emulated based on the archive table, because we are in SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_OLD
// mode, and the respective archive row was not yet migrated to the new schema.
// In that case, a new slot row (and content row) must be inserted even during
// undeletion.

But that sounds unlikely in your situation.

I don't understand why the cause of the atomic section cancel isnt being recorded. so i dont know, maybe User:Duesentrieb has a suggestion.

Regarding cache: i dont think its cache related. Bawolff (talk) 08:49, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

ok thanks for the reply let me try to contact him if i get help.

thanks. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 11:28, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@Bawolff @MarkAHershberger not getting any replay from him in email,

if anyone get help for above issue then please tell me thanks. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 16:22, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Try filing a bug at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org (Please include step by step actions needed to reproduce the issue, along with any config changes different from genric mediawiki.) Bawolff (talk) 06:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bawolff

well maybe i think i can little bit closer with error teamplate which i try to import is

Template:1906 National League standings - working and imported and exported fine to mine website.

But below

Template:1906 Nobel Prize winners

which is not working and gives error, while try to export to mine website.

i also tried both option tick when we import i.e Include only the current revision, not the full history

and include templates.

if you finalize why this happens or atleast suppose we try to import 10 templates and it gives error but can we identify directly from which template it gives errors instead of this log.

or atlest just show this both templates and let me know if you get something.

thank you so much.

its by me @Sachinpatel393 103.250.161.235 (talk) 12:08, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

(I don't seem to be able to log into my de wiki account so this is just gotta be anonymous)

Was there ever a solution to this problem found? I am having this exact problem today and haven't been able to figure out how to get around it 202.138.72.82 (talk) 09:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

'http://myIP' shows 'Apache2 Debian Default Page'

I was about to install codeigniter4 in my virtual machine in which bitnami-mediawiki is already installed.

After following these command at https://docs.bitnami.com/bch/infrastructure/lamp/get-started/use-codeigniter/,

(

1)sudo mkdir -p /opt/bitnami/projects/APPNAME

2)composer create-project codeigniter4/appstarter /opt/bitnami/projects/APPNAME

3)sudo chown daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/projects/APPNAME/writable

3) (virtual host configuring)

4)sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

after this

my domain only shows this page('http://www2.ceab.csic.es/ )

how can I solve this problem? 49.175.77.89 (talk) 12:21, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

and also 'apachectl restart' command is not working, the log says that 'no listening sockets available, shutting down. 49.175.77.89 (talk) 12:32, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

This sounds like an Apache/bitnami problem that you would probably get better help for if you use the Bitnami community support. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:16, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.3 PHP requirement

Amazon Smile

wgDBadminuser and wgDBuser

Blocking Arzoper from creating/editing Malayalam language related translations

ERROR: Could not delete lock file for "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/archive".

REST API pageviews won't fetch for me

Hello!

Trying to map music genre popularity to pageviews and I can't get any requests to work on the built in tool at https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/

I think I'm doing everything right. Here's what I'm putting in:

en.wikipedia.org all-access all-agents dubstep daily 20200101 20200901

And here's what I get back when I click execute:

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia.org/all-access/all-agents/dubstep/daily/20200101/20200901

Onedaytheywokemeup (talk) 14:14, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it is fixed now? When I click I get

{"items":[{"project":"en.wikipedia","article":"dubstep","granularity":"daily","timestamp":"2020021300","access":"all-access","agent":"all-agents","views":3},{"project":"en.wikipedia","article":"dubstep","granularity":"daily","timestamp":"2020031400","access":"all-access","agent":"all-agents","views":1}]}

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:49, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it Mark! However that appears to be erroneous data. You've requested all of the views on the Dubstep page from January to September and it gave you one date in Feb and one in March, totaling 4 views over the last 9 months. This is not accurate Onedaytheywokemeup (talk) 15:54, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

In any case it, it looks like this is a server-side error. Right now, I think you should consider creating a task in Phabricator. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:58, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Can I make some messages appear on Special:CreateAccount page?

I want to make some messages (those are some attention about creating account) appear on Special:CreateAccount page when open the page. Can I do something like that? And how can I? Please tell me. Thank you. Atmark-chan <^T/_C> 15:50, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

If you edit the page MediaWiki:Signupstart on your wiki, you'll be able to add wikitext that should appear just before the form to create an account. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:57, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

If you add uselang=qqx to a page’s url you get to see the name of the relevant MediaWiki: message pages. Jonathan3 (talk) 17:19, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Mark and Johnathan3's suggestions are the easiest.

If that doesnt give you enough flexibility, you can add an AuthManager class to add an extra field. This is much more complicated though. Bawolff (talk) 19:00, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I see! In all pages, I can use uselang=qqx when I need to know the "MediaWiki:" message names. That's very convenient! Atmark-chan <^T/_C> 15:17, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Leave redirects when moving to hashed directories

I’d like to move my wiki to use the hashed directory structure. It has hundreds of uploads already. I vaguely remember looking into this years ago. Is there any way to change the relevant wiki variable, have all files use the new hashed structure, but leave redirects so that any external links (ie from bookmarks or other websites) to a file are redirected to its new location? Jonathan3 (talk) 17:18, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I think you can leave the files as-is and just change the variable. All new file handling would be done with hashed directories. Of course, I could be completely wrong and you might have to use importImages.php. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:25, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I have a feeling that changing Manual:$wgHashedUploadDirectory does not change the location of the existing files. This would mean that the existing files all get "lost" to MediaWiki (e.g. it would unsuccessfully look for [[Media:file.pdf]] at /a/ab/filename.ext).

How does importImages.php work? I already have MediaWiki File: pages for everything and don't want to lose the information there - e.g. if a file has had several revisions/uploads, or if there is other text on the page.

This is straying into non-MediaWiki territory but is there a recognised way to move all files in the media/ directory to their media/a/ab/filename.ext equivalents? I imagine then that the File: pages and MediaWiki generally would simply find the files at their new locations. Jonathan3 (talk) 21:15, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

If you can write your own mod_rewrite rules then you can add a bit to your .htaccess that says "If you're looking for /media/a/ab/File.pdf and it isn't there, then we'll give you whatever is in /media/File.pdf (or 404 if nothing is there)". ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:53, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes that would solve the potential problem of breaking other people’s links (bookmarks etc) and the problem of MediaWiki losing the files. Thank you.

I’d prefer to move the files and have the redirect the other way round, but I’ve made my bed and now have to lie in it! Though if I work it out I’ll post it here. Jonathan3 (talk) 08:06, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Thinking again. What you suggest could be used as part of a way for MediaWiki to store the files in hashed directories but hide that fact from users (keeping URLs nice). I’m sure there are reasons for not doing it though! Jonathan3 (talk) 08:19, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

I’m sure there are reasons for not doing it though!

None that I can think of. Cool URIs don't change. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 12:54, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I’ll look into this and report back when I eventually do it!

I have never found a clear answer for how many files (even roughly) is too many for unhashed. I guess it depends on the server more than MediaWiki. I think someone once said as high as 300,000 but I suspect it would have benefits even for less than 10,000. I doubt my website will ever have more than that. Any ideas here? Jonathan3 (talk) 17:29, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

It depends on the filesystem being used by the server. DOS (8+3) filesystems wouldn't allow more than a couple hundred files in a directory (if that) but Linux's ext4 allows many more (infinite? but only 64000 subdirectories).

In reality, though, the limit is PHP itself rather than the file system. The core OS itself (e.g. linux kernel) can handle almost anything you throw at it. The "problem" is with the software written on top of that.

To illustrate, I wrote a short one-liner to create 3,000,000 files in a single directory:

$ time seq 0 3000000 | xargs touch
real	1m11.665s
user	0m4.716s
sys	0m53.503s

Compare this with the time to have the system run echo (but not actually display) for the some number of time:

$ time seq 0 3000000 | xargs echo > /dev/null
real	0m0.990s
user	0m0.556s
sys	0m0.610s

As you can see, the time to create those each of those files takes two orders of magnitude longer than just running echo the same number of times. (Displaying the numbers that echo produces adds overhead that we don't want to measure, hence the /dev/null.)

Now, let's actually access the record for each of those files. Not the contents, mind you, just the record of their existance:

$ time ls > /dev/null
real	0m16.290s
user	0m12.186s
sys	0m1.365s

Ok, not bad. But let's take away that /dev/null:

$ time ls
... not shown, but most of the time it was just sitting there with no display ...
real    3m36.492s
user    0m21.938s
sys    1m7.024s

A lot more time!

So the moral is that there aren't many limits to what you can physically put on the disk. The limits are in dealing with that data. Unless you have a really good reason to put all the files in one directory, I would avoid it. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

"Unless you have a really good reason to put all the files in one directory, I would avoid it."

My original reason was just that I had sorted out short URLs (www.domain.com/Main_Page) and thought the unhashed directory structure looked nicer for files. Now I don't think that is a really good reason!

Edit: I have just under 1500 files, which seems to be manageable but I think I still want to make the change. Jonathan3 (talk) 20:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

you could have a 404 handler that turns the filename into hashed form (the algorithm is just md5 of filename) and gives a redirect. Bawolff (talk) 18:58, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I've made a start on that now:

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$dirname = dirname($uri); #should be /media
$filename = basename($uri);
$md5 = md5($filename);
$hash = $md5[0] . '/' . $md5[0]. $md5[1];
$new_uri = $dirname . '/' . $hash . '/' . $filename;

Jonathan3 (talk) 21:05, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion: Ability to filter out reverted edits in the page history

Cache won't clear to use updated LocalSettings.php info

Question about LocalSettings.php

Assist

Why IP address is blocked for editing page?

To support desk

Afternoon, when I try login to Media wiki it says there is something wrong with my login details. May you please help me Kind regards. 41.113.234.121 (talk) 11:38, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Which "Media wiki"? Which URL? Malyacko (talk) 16:36, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

What do you mean when you say "which Media Wiki"???😞😞 41.113.149.174 (talk) 08:47, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

we make software that is used by many websites. Knowing which one you are talking about might help us better respond to your query. Bawolff (talk) 07:37, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

presumably means your username or password is wrong. Bawolff (talk) 19:40, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

After trying to login it says " There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been cancelled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. " 41.113.173.95 (talk) 05:58, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

usually means something is wrong with cookies. Try clearing your browser cookies or logging in with an incognito window.

If that doesn't work its probably a server misconfiguration and you would need to contact the host of the wiki. Bawolff (talk) 07:51, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

How is my password wrong if I have never set one ??? 😦😦😞😞 41.113.149.174 (talk) 08:48, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

why do you expect to be able to login if you don't have a password? Bawolff (talk) 07:34, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

....permanently.?? 41.113.235.157 (talk) 13:51, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Bawolff?? 41.113.149.174 (talk) 08:51, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Please don't ping people after a few minutes but be way more patient.

Which website (full URL) is this about?

How can you try to "log in" if you have never set a password at all? Please provide a clear list of steps to reproduce. Malyacko (talk) 10:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

What do you mean when you say "ping" ??

If you don't have something nice to say,please keep it to yourself.

1. JUST SAYING 🙄🙄 41.113.235.157 (talk) 13:53, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

to ping someone means to say their name expecting a response. I think the term comes from older software like IRC, which would cause the person's computer whose name you type to beep when you write their name.

While i personally don't care that much, its widely considered rude to demand responses before giving people a reasonable time (minimum 48 hours) to respond (or for that matter demand specific people to respond, since nobody is under an obligation to help you. People who helped you in the past may have other things to do, be busy, etc). Being polite while asking questions makes it more likely people will respond Bawolff (talk) 07:47, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Disabling SELinux

Why MediaWiki source code is so different from Wikipedia WikiCode and Where can I learn about MediaWiki codes?

Today I translated a few Mediawiki pages and I found a lot of codes containing Dollar sign $ were coming. After I was publishing translations, these dollar signs were converted into some hyperlinks. Also the pages contain a lot of codes containing angular brackets, exclamation marks, underscores etc.

My questions are:

1. What codes are they? They does not seem to be conventional Wikicodes. Is there a name for them?
2. Is there a documentation about these codes? I have searched the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting page, but it didn't mention these codes.
3. Where can I learn about these special codes? RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 21:04, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

It comes from the translate extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example has some information, although doesnt cover that specific part.

Basically people can put things like <tvar|foo>some text</> if they want to embed something non translatable, and then translators see it as $foo, which later gets replaced by some text Bawolff (talk) 21:48, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Answers much. But What is the role of Dollar sign? The dollar sign disappears ande it creates a hyperlink. What commands are written besides dollar sign? is there a documentation for that? RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 21:52, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#Markup_examples

consider an example:

The page https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk/Header&action=edit has on it some <tvar|1> which turn into $1 when translating Bawolff (talk) 23:50, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes when I activate the translation such as https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Project%3ASupport+desk%2FHeader&language=bn&action=page&filter= it shows some dollar signs. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 11:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

@Bawolff Some of the dollar sign seems to be coming from $WG (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Wg) although I am confused about how and when to use this command. Does this code work in Wikipedia Wikicode too? RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 07:24, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

template:wg is just a normal mediawiki template, unrelated to the extension:Translate stuff. $ has special meaning in php, so some docs literally discuss things starting with a literal $ that has no special meaning in wikitext. Bawolff (talk) 07:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Ok thank you. for me too it seemed Wilktext at MediaWiki contains some code common to PHP and Unix. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 13:09, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

there's no connection between the wikisyntax and php (other than both really like using $, which i think originally comes from BASIC). This wiki is about documenting mediawiki so sometimes it will include examples of mediawiki's php code to demonstrate a point, but that is totally separate from the wiki syntax Bawolff (talk) 08:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

How to enable cross-origin requests between interwikis on the same server?

Sorry, the file cannot be displayed

There seems to be a technical issue. You can [[retry]] if it persists. Error: could not load image from https://en.mywiki.mydomain.com/w/images/0/01/currentimage.png

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(anonymous)	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…r&version=1v2ji:676
fire	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…or&version=1v2ji:88
fireWith	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…or&version=1v2ji:90
deferred.<computed>	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…or&version=1v2ji:93
(anonymous)	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…r&version=1v2ji:612
doPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
requestIdleCallback (async)		
requestPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
setAndPropagate	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
markModuleReady	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:13
runScript	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:13
(anonymous)	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:14
flushCssBuffer	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:6
requestAnimationFrame (async)		
addEmbeddedCSS	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:6
execute	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:14
doPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:7
requestIdleCallback (async)		
requestPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
setAndPropagate	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
markModuleReady	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:13
runScript	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:13
(anonymous)	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:14
flushCssBuffer	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:6
requestAnimationFrame (async)		
addEmbeddedCSS	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:6
execute	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:14
doPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:7
requestIdleCallback (async)		
requestPropagation	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
setAndPropagate	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…raw=1&skin=vector:8
implement	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…aw=1&skin=vector:20
(anonymous)	@	load.php?lang=en&mod…tor&version=1m2mh:1

 $wgScriptPath = "/w";
 $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
 
 ## The URL path to static resources (images, scripts, etc.)
 $wgResourceBasePath = $wgScriptPath;
 
 #$wgCacheDirectory = "/tmp/mediawiki_".$wikiId."_cache";
 $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images";
 $wgUploadPath = "$wgResourceBasePath/images";
 $wgSharedUploadPath = "<nowiki>https://en.mywiki.mydomain.com/w/images</nowiki>";
 $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "$IP/images";
 $wgSharedUploadDBname = "mywiki_en";
 $wgUseSharedUploads = true;
 $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains = [
     '*.wikipedia.org',
     '*.mywiki.mydomain.com'
 ];

How to solve problem database error ?

getting this issue script error

this error when i open some templates after import,

also Module:Documentation module installed.

Lua error in Module:Documentation at line 138: message: type error in message cfg.main-div-classes (string expected, got nil).

Backtrace:

1. (tail call): ?
2. [C]: in function "error"
3. Module:Documentation:35: in function "message"
4. Module:Documentation:138: ?
5. (tail call): ?
6. mw.lua:511: ?
7. (tail call): ?
8. [C]: in function "xpcall"
9. MWServer.lua:99: in function "handleCall"
10. MWServer.lua:313: in function "dispatch"
11. MWServer.lua:52: in function "execute"
12. mw_main.lua:7: in main chunk
13. [C]: ?

let me know how can i go ahead.

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 12:00, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Where are you seeing the error? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:13, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

it means something is wrong with

Module:Documentation/config (missing main-div-classes, although it does have main-div-class) Bawolff (talk) 14:37, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1tcehqgrgyozd4j/Screenshot%202020-09-14%20at%2010.45.51%20PM.png?dl=0

here i get this error,

in Cite book template,

but i also get same error for many other more templates. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 17:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I think they are asking for a URL, so they can see the problem themselves and look at the software version, php version, mysql version as stated people should post at the top-right of this support page to include. Very tough to help anyone without this information. TiltedCerebellum (talk) 21:38, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@Sachinpatel393 already gave the URL. Bawolff saw it, but I missed it. You can see the error on this template. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 21:53, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@Sachinpatel393 on this page you need to insert

cfg['main-div-classes'] = 'template-documentation iezoomfix'

or change

cfg['main-div-class'] = 'ts-doc-doc'

to

cfg['main-div-classes'] = 'ts-doc-doc'

☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 22:06, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@TiltedCerebellum

version used:

Mediawiki : 1.34.2

mysql: Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.3.17-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

php: PHP 7.3.22 (cli) (built: Sep 1 2020 09:44:58) ( NTS )

OS: centos 8 hosting with nginx.

hello @MarkAHershberger

tried your above solution with one time change that one time to your given,

and one time rechange back to old then add/insert your given line.

but seems nothing changed yet.

still seems getting errors for most of templates:

here are two examples:

https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Template:Cite_book

https://blackwiki.org/index.php?title=Template:Cite_web

let me know if any way to fix this.

Thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

The message is different now. It is complaining about a different missing setting: view-link-display

On Wikipedia's version of Module:Documentation/config, you can see this:

-- cfg['view-link-display']
-- The text to display for "view" links.
cfg['view-link-display'] = 'view'

You should put something similar in your own config page. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:18, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

can i remove and add again document all module or templates it will fix the error?

also let me know from where i can check the version of modules and tempaltes.

it will easy for me to debug.

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 15:37, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't know. I was only able to point out how to fix the problems I saw. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 02:33, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

ok so for now you have not any solution for above issue true >? Sachinpatel393 (talk) 11:12, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

can i remove and add again document all module or templates it will fix the error?

I doubt just removing them and re-adding them would fix anything. What was your original source?

also let me know from where i can check the version of modules and tempaltes.

I don't know what you want me to let your know.

ok so for now you have not any solution for above issue true >?

I don't know anything else that would help you here. I asked one question, though, and maybe the answer would help me help you. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 21:15, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

First thanks for your support, i think i am not not much away to fix this all errors.

well that old error is not fixed with reinstall that module again,

right now getting this two new errors:

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:HtmlBuilder' not found. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:HtmlBuilder' not found.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i0spjy39xef6g3u/Screenshot%202020-09-20%20at%207.29.29%20PM.png?dl=0

and

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Hatnote' not found.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0gg33zfuvhsiwg/Screenshot%202020-09-20%20at%207.30.28%20PM.png?dl=0

let me know if you know how to fix this.

thanks. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 14:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Whenever you see "module 'Module:NAME' not found", that is a module page that is missing from your import.

Here is the Module:Hatnote page, for example. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:01, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

true, but that module is already installed.

infect in that module also getting same error of that own module,

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5sj3j88ycqfixs/Screenshot%202020-09-22%20at%207.32.58%20PM.png?dl=0

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Somehow the Module:Hatnote page on your wiki has the wrong content model. You can see this when you view the metadata about the page and compare it with the metadata for the Module:Documentation page.

The Module:Documentation page has

and the Module:Hatnote page has

You can change the content model of the page by using Special:ChangeContentModel on your wiki (documentation for the page). ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:22, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

ok great, seems that issue fixed thanks you so much.

now after export from wiki and import to my site why some module automatically changed their content model type.

becuase checked with other modules some are fine some having same issue.

any idea.

thanks Sachinpatel393 (talk) 14:46, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Where did you get the xml dump that you imported from? Do you still have it?

There are reports about problems like this (example), but they have all been resolved. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:53, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

ok thanks for the reply and help. Sachinpatel393 (talk) 11:28, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Link this article on this page

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:What_is_MediaWiki%3F This page explains very simple way about what is Mediawiki software. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 12:49, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Which problem would that solve? We already have many links on this page that people don't always read. :) Malyacko (talk) 16:58, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I said because that page carries a very good summary of what is MediaWiki. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 19:03, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, you wrote that already, but you have not explained yet which problem this would solve on this very page. Malyacko (talk) 21:15, 14 September 2020 (UTC)