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Issue with usernames in internet explorer

2008-10-07T02:28:51Z

Hi all,

Apologies if this is the wrong list for this query but I don't believe
so...

Installed software listed at the bottom.

When creating an account /logging into Mediawiki using firefox,
everything works perfectly. when attempting to create a user or login in
IE, I get an error about an invalid username.

Example Usernames: John.Smith (I've also tried john.smith, johnsmith,
Johnsmith, etc...)

I've pulled apart the SpecialUserLogin.php page and found that the
function authenticateUserData is rejecting the username at the first
test as the username appears to be blank.

function authenticateUserData() {
global $wgUser, $wgAuth;
if ( '' == $this->mName ) {
return self::NO_NAME;
}
/*...*/

I've used Fiddler2 to monitor the data POSTed to the wiki and the
username and password are both being sent correctly.

I've decreased the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize to be 16MB
(Instead of 50) as suggested in a thread on the boards but no joy (and
yes, I restarted apache)

Any suggestions anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated

I've got he following installed:
OS Win2k3
MediaWiki 1.13.1
PHP 5.2.6 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.67-community-nt

With
Hooks:
ParserFunctions (Version 1.1.1)
SyntaxHighlight (Version unknown)

Special:
Renameuser (Version r40857)

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Re: "parse" form output

2008-10-06T23:31:39Z

You could run the output from the form though a php function called
str_replace (http://au.php.net/str_replace). Most other languages should
also have something similar as well.
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"parse" form output

2008-10-06T22:58:46Z

Not sure which list this should go to, but....

I want to take the output from a Semantic form field and turn the
string which is rendered as

a,b,c,d,e,f

into something very similar to

a
b
c
d
e
f

ie. turning "," into "<br />".
Is this possible and how - haven't figured out what to google on, so
any hints appreciated.

Regards,

Martin S

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Re: MediaWiki 1.12.1 Issue

2008-10-06T21:50:53Z

Russ Lavoy wrote:
> After upgrading my 1.12.0 version to 1.12.1 version everything broke
> with amazing server overloads...
>
> I see that the 1.12.1 patch file includes changes to how mediawiki uses
> memcached and this changed destroyed the site I am over... Any time I
> tried to bring up the site all the apache processes start flowing in
> and the frontend webservers hit about 30 load (Linux terms) in less
> than 2 minutes...

What are your cache settings, $wg*CacheType etc.?

-- Tim Starling

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Re: Bad signature for 1.13.2

2008-10-06T21:42:46Z

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Tim Starling wrote:
>> Brion Vibber wrote:
>>> Looks like Tim forgot to update the GPG signature files when he
>>> re-issued the release; we'll make sure they get re-done. The file
>>> checksums match, so we're good for now. :)
>>>
>> It takes about 10 minutes to upload all the files for a release. I didn't
>> want to wait that long, so I generated them on zwinger instead, where I
>> don't have a GPG key.
>
>> Maybe we could just serve the uploads via HTTPS and quit this mucking
>> around with hashes and GPG. Hardly anyone checks them anyway.
>
> Hashes and keys are nice for confirming that:
> a) the file wasn't corrupted in download or on a mirror
> b) the file didn't get corrupted on the master download server
> c) the file didn't get surreptitiously replaced by an attacker
>
> HTTPS helps with none of these.

HTTPS has cryptographic block hashes, so the file would be protected
against corruption during download.

Additionally, we could host hashes on the HTTPS server instead of sending
them out by email. That way we could update the tarball without sending
out a new release announcement, and reduce the amount of technical clutter
in the email.

Since uploading the files to storage2 requires root access, I think the
scenario of foul play on the server side falls into the "screwed anyway"
category. An attacker could just wait for someone to log in with key
forwarding enabled, and then edit the source files in SVN. As for
inadvertent corruption during upload, it's done by ssh so there's a
cryptographic block hash during transport, and there's the gzip checksum
as well.

All of this misses the most common source of file corruption, which is the
FTP upload from a user's computer to their shared hosting account,
post-unpack. We often get reports on IRC of files missing or truncated. We
had one just today (RingtailedFox). I'd like to have a file integrity
check in the installer.

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Re: Duplicator

2008-10-06T20:30:24Z

I can't understand it.Thank you.
I like wiki.

------------------ Original ------------------
From: "Frames Project"<frames@...>;
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 04:04 PM
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"<mediawiki-l@...>;

Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Duplicator

Le lundi 06 octobre 2008 à 00:28 +0200, Platonides a écrit :

> Frames Project wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I run Mediawiki 1.11.0
> > I tried to install
> > Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
> > and then
> > Duplicator-trunk-r41554.tar.gz
> > I have no Special:Duplicator page
> > and nothing new in Special:Version
> >
> > Could you help ?
> > Thanks
> > Fran?ois Colonna
>
> What did you do to installit?
> Did you include the proper file in LocalSettings?
>

Good question.
Checking my LocalSettings.php I discovered that the two lines I added

$wgDuplicatorRevisionLimit = 500;
require_once( "{$IP}/extensions/Duplicator/Duplicator.php" );

had disappeared !

By the way, the documentation says :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator

For MediaWiki 1.11.0 and above, use the trunk version
it is not true I got an error with it.

For 1.11.0 it is necessary to use Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
and it works fine.

Thanks,
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Re: Bad signature for 1.13.2

2008-10-06T18:18:41Z

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Hash: SHA1

Tim Starling wrote:

> Brion Vibber wrote:
>> Looks like Tim forgot to update the GPG signature files when he
>> re-issued the release; we'll make sure they get re-done. The file
>> checksums match, so we're good for now. :)
>>
>
> It takes about 10 minutes to upload all the files for a release. I didn't
> want to wait that long, so I generated them on zwinger instead, where I
> don't have a GPG key.
>
> Maybe we could just serve the uploads via HTTPS and quit this mucking
> around with hashes and GPG. Hardly anyone checks them anyway.

Hashes and keys are nice for confirming that:
a) the file wasn't corrupted in download or on a mirror
b) the file didn't get corrupted on the master download server
c) the file didn't get surreptitiously replaced by an attacker

HTTPS helps with none of these.

(A signature file *on the same server* could have been replaced with
another signature file with a valid signature... but unless the signer's
key was compromised it would be with a different key, likely not a
trusted one.)

Note also that checksums of source packages are often checked
automatically as part of package build systems, to confirm that the
right file was downloaded.

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Re: Bad signature for 1.13.2

2008-10-06T16:50:02Z

Brion Vibber wrote:
> Looks like Tim forgot to update the GPG signature files when he
> re-issued the release; we'll make sure they get re-done. The file
> checksums match, so we're good for now. :)
>

It takes about 10 minutes to upload all the files for a release. I didn't
want to wait that long, so I generated them on zwinger instead, where I
don't have a GPG key.

Maybe we could just serve the uploads via HTTPS and quit this mucking
around with hashes and GPG. Hardly anyone checks them anyway.

-- Tim Starling

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Re: exporting page with images

2008-10-06T14:17:25Z

Russell, Elizabeth wrote:

> Please excuse my lack of experience. A bit more help please? I'm not
> sure where I'm supposed to enter this. I've tried from the wiki while
> logged on as sysop/bureaurcrat and it tells me
>
> unknown_prop: Unrecognised value for parameter 'prop'.
>
> The URL I used was:
>
>
> http://wikid/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles={{SAMP_Safety_
> Manual_Chapter_2}}
>
> I've tried from phphyadmin screen also, and it seems to have no clue
> what I'm talking about.
>
> Thanks....

You should just provide the title, no {{ }}. If it's a template prefix
with Template:
However, if it doesn't recognise prop=images you may be running a
mediawiki version with an old api which doesn't have that parameter.

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Re: file does not exist: cologneblue?

2008-10-06T14:17:21Z

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Daniel Barrett wrote:
> My Apache error log is filling with this message (MediaWiki 1.13.2):
>
> File does not exist: <path to mediawiki>/skins/cologneblue
>
> I see skins/CologneBlue.php exists but there is no skins/cologneblue
> subdirectory. Any idea why this is so?

Cologne Blue is an old-style skin, and keeps its stylesheet in the
common directory:

skins/common/cologneblue.css

Your errors might be from the crappy old code in wikibits.js to load up
skin-specific Opera 6, Opera 7, and KHTML fix files.

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Re: Duplicator

2008-10-06T13:58:19Z

Frames Project wrote:
> By the way, the documentation says :
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator
>
> For MediaWiki 1.11.0 and above, use the trunk version
> it is not true I got an error with it.
>
> For 1.11.0 it is necessary to use Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
> and it works fine.

Well, for older versions, you should use the extension at the appropiate
branch.

In your case,
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_11/extensions/Duplicator/

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file does not exist: cologneblue?

2008-10-06T11:27:20Z

My Apache error log is filling with this message (MediaWiki 1.13.2):

File does not exist: <path to mediawiki>/skins/cologneblue

I see skins/CologneBlue.php exists but there is no skins/cologneblue subdirectory. Any idea why this is so?

DanB

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MediaWiki 1.12.1 Issue

2008-10-06T11:13:02Z

After upgrading my 1.12.0 version to 1.12.1 version everything broke with amazing server overloads...

I see that the 1.12.1 patch file includes changes to how mediawiki uses memcached and this changed destroyed the site I am over... Any time I tried to bring up the site all the apache processes start flowing in and the frontend webservers hit about 30 load (Linux terms) in less than 2 minutes...

I use APC and memcached and have not had an issue with previous upgrades (from 1.9 to now 1.12 currently). But the 1.12.1 upgrade was fine in my staging enviornment and everything worked. But once I put into production and it got a good load... It blew up and would no longer respond. No other upgrades happened during this time. PHP is the same, mysql is the same and so is apache... The only thing I changed was the mediawiki version...

I got around this issue by reverting back to 1.12.0 which I did not want to do with the current security patch that is out there...

Can anyone help me out with this?

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Re: importTextFile.php: new version

2008-10-06T10:29:00Z

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Alessandra wrote:
> I revised maintenance/importTextFile.php
> New version works as old version but it has got a new option:
> --morepages <filename> contents more wiki pages divide by
> <title>Title for the new page<title>
> so, if you want insert more pages in one step, then you create one
> file with all pages divide by <title>Title for the new page<title>
> and usage command: php importTextFile.php --morepages <options> <filename>
>
> How can I insert new version in mediawiki package?

Hi Alessandra --

The best place to put patches is to open a bug/feature request in our
bug tracker:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

You can attach the patch or updated file there so we can take a look
over it and commit it to source control if things look good.

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Re: Bad signature for 1.13.2

2008-10-06T10:25:45Z

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Andre Bonhote wrote:
> Hi
>
> I might be paranoid AND stupid, but to me, it appears that the files on
> download.wikimedia.org are wrong.

There was an error in the original release (version numbers not
updated), so it was re-issued:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000079.html

> - result: e10f791ba9ecd02dd751a5676cc84405 mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz

Matches the updated release announce.

> [ apache@... ] [ bash ]: gpg --verify
> mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz.sig
> gpg: Signature made Thu 02 Oct 2008 05:48:30 PM METDST using DSA key ID
> E8A3FEC4
> gpg: BAD signature from "Tim Starling <tstarling@...>"

Looks like Tim forgot to update the GPG signature files when he
re-issued the release; we'll make sure they get re-done. The file
checksums match, so we're good for now. :)

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importTextFile.php: new version

2008-10-06T09:22:53Z

Hi all,
I revised maintenance/importTextFile.php
New version works as old version but it has got a new option:
--morepages <filename> contents more wiki pages divide by
<title>Title for the new page<title>
so, if you want insert more pages in one step, then you create one
file with all pages divide by <title>Title for the new page<title>
and usage command: php importTextFile.php --morepages <options> <filename>

How can I insert new version in mediawiki package?
Thanks,

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Re: exporting page with images

2008-10-06T05:29:51Z

Please excuse my lack of experience. A bit more help please? I'm not
sure where I'm supposed to enter this. I've tried from the wiki while
logged on as sysop/bureaurcrat and it tells me

unknown_prop: Unrecognised value for parameter 'prop'.

The URL I used was:

http://wikid/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles={{SAMP_Safety_
Manual_Chapter_2}}

I've tried from phphyadmin screen also, and it seems to have no clue
what I'm talking about.

Thanks....

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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] exporting page with images

Russell, Elizabeth wrote:
> I could tar up the images if she gives me the complete list, but was
> wondering if there's a better way to do this.

A slightly better approach,
api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles={{PAGENAMEE}} will tell you
which images are used on that page.

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Bad signature for 1.13.2

2008-10-06T02:38:38Z

Hi

I might be paranoid AND stupid, but to me, it appears that the files on
download.wikimedia.org are wrong. What I did:

- downloaded
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz
- checked md5sum and compared it to
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-October/000078.html
- result: e10f791ba9ecd02dd751a5676cc84405 mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz
- downloaded the .sig file from
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz.sig
- downloaded the keys (https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.txt) and imported
them
- ran gpg --verify on the sig file
- result:

[ apache@... ] [ bash ]: gpg --verify
mediawiki-1.13.2.tar.gz.sig
gpg: Signature made Thu 02 Oct 2008 05:48:30 PM METDST using DSA key ID
E8A3FEC4
gpg: BAD signature from "Tim Starling <tstarling@...>"

What's wrong here?

Cheers

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Re: Duplicator

2008-10-06T01:04:46Z

Le lundi 06 octobre 2008 à 00:28 +0200, Platonides a écrit :

> Frames Project wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I run Mediawiki 1.11.0
> > I tried to install
> > Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
> > and then
> > Duplicator-trunk-r41554.tar.gz
> > I have no Special:Duplicator page
> > and nothing new in Special:Version
> >
> > Could you help ?
> > Thanks
> > François Colonna
>
> What did you do to installit?
> Did you include the proper file in LocalSettings?
>

Good question.
Checking my LocalSettings.php I discovered that the two lines I added

$wgDuplicatorRevisionLimit = 500;
require_once( "{$IP}/extensions/Duplicator/Duplicator.php" );

had disappeared !

By the way, the documentation says :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator

For MediaWiki 1.11.0 and above, use the trunk version
it is not true I got an error with it.

For 1.11.0 it is necessary to use Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
and it works fine.

Thanks,
François Colonna

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Re: Duplicator

2008-10-05T15:28:22Z

Frames Project wrote:

> Hello
>
> I run Mediawiki 1.11.0
> I tried to install
> Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
> and then
> Duplicator-trunk-r41554.tar.gz
> I have no Special:Duplicator page
> and nothing new in Special:Version
>
> Could you help ?
> Thanks
> François Colonna

What did you do to installit?
Did you include the proper file in LocalSettings?

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Duplicator

2008-10-05T11:29:44Z

Hello

I run Mediawiki 1.11.0
I tried to install
Duplicator-MW1.11-r25543.tar.gz
and then
Duplicator-trunk-r41554.tar.gz
I have no Special:Duplicator page
and nothing new in Special:Version

Could you help ?
Thanks
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2008-10-04T05:32:19Z

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Monday bug days starting next week!

2008-10-03T16:35:22Z

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Hey all --

I hereby invite you all to the first official regular weekly MediaWiki
Bug Monday, to occur on October 6*.

Come hang out in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net and help us verify and
clean up bug reports, raise submitted patches for review and
application, and generally *try to break stuff*. :D

It'll be awesome!

* (Pick a timezone, any timezone, just show up when you can -- even you
Australians!)

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Re: Share Access Details Between Wikis

2008-10-03T16:17:11Z

Samuel Richardson wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Is there a good article on how to setup MediaWiki installs to share
> username/password access between them? (Similar to Wikia)
>
> Thanks,

Yes, that's exactly what Wikia does: share the user table. See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSharedDB

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Create a page without first going to edit page?

2008-10-03T15:58:28Z

Hello all,

I want to use Inputbox, Createbox, or CreateArticle extensions to create a
page from a template, but I want the new page to be created directly without
first dropping the user in the edit window. I am hoping to use things like
templates and the ProtectSection extension to prevent them from changing
some things in the page. If I drop them in the edit box for an
as-yet-unsaved page, they can change anything they want.

Thanks,

Dave C
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Re: exporting page with images

2008-10-03T10:02:24Z

> From: "Russell, Elizabeth" <earussell@...>
>
> Is it possible to export a page that has multiple images and somehow
> get
> all the images to drag along with it?

What is your purpose?

You can use wget to scrape up a page and all its links to a specified
depth, but the result will be HTML.

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Re: mediawiki1.7 to mediawiki 1.13.1

2008-10-03T07:59:47Z

Alessandra wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm starting to transfer a mediawiki 1.7 database in new version
> mediawiki 1.13.1
> I look that there are new tables and any fields are lightly changed.
> I think that I can not use old database (about mediawiki 1.7 version).. so
> Is there script/other to convert old database (about mediawiki 1.7
> version) to new database (about mediawiki 1.13.1 version) ?
> Can you help me about it?
> Thanks,

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading
It usually involves copying the new files over the previous and run the
update.php script at the maintenance folder.

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Re: Lost EDITING new page

2008-10-03T07:53:09Z

As follow-up, it turns out that someone created a category which had
itself as a category. This along with the use of selectCategory
extension cause the problem to happen.

Thanks

DSig
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Thomas,

No, sorry it is not public or I would have include a link.

Thanks

DSig
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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 16:55
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Lost EDITING new page

> In the last week we have somehow lost the ability to 'edit' a new
page.
> You can go to a page and edit the whole page or a section of the page.
>
>
>
> But If you enter "FOOBAR PAGE" in the search then click on edit new
page
> you will get a blank page with no header/footer .. nothing (guess that
> is what 'blank' means)
>
>
>
> Has anyone seen this before? Ideas on what could change in a system
> (outside of mediawiki) to do this?

Is it a publicly accessible wiki? If so, a link would be helpful so we
can see for ourselves.

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Share Access Details Between Wikis

2008-10-03T06:36:49Z

Hello List,

Is there a good article on how to setup MediaWiki installs to share
username/password access between them? (Similar to Wikia)

Thanks,

Samuel Richardson
Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

Have you added your business to the Melpedia yet? http://www.melpedia.com.au
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Install MediaWiki with a SSL-Proxy

2008-10-03T03:50:15Z

Hello,

I want to install a MediaWiki 1.13 an a machine with a SSL-Proxy, but I can
not figure out how.

The wiki works fine under without SSL under: http://mydomain.de/wiki/.

The URL of the SSL-Proxy is https://ssl.webpack.de/mydomain.de/.
The SSL-URL to the wiki is
https://ssl.webpack.de/mydomain.de/wiki/index.php.
The scriptpath is set to /wiki.

On loading the wiki with SSL it redirects to http://mydomain.de/ every time.
(The $wgServerName is set to mydomain.de.)

It does not work to set the scriptPath like this: /mydomain.de/wiki. (If so
it redirects to http://mydomain.de/mydomain.de/wiki.

It does not work to set this three variables in Localsettings.php:

$wgProto = 'https';
$wgServerName = 'ssl.webpack.de/';
$wgServer = $wgProto.'://' . $wgServerName;*/

-> Result is an infinite loop)

Does anybody knows a solution to this problem?

Thanks a lot, Raul

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mediawiki1.7 to mediawiki 1.13.1

2008-10-03T03:39:13Z

Hi all,
I'm starting to transfer a mediawiki 1.7 database in new version
mediawiki 1.13.1
I look that there are new tables and any fields are lightly changed.
I think that I can not use old database (about mediawiki 1.7 version).. so
Is there script/other to convert old database (about mediawiki 1.7
version) to new database (about mediawiki 1.13.1 version) ?
Can you help me about it?
Thanks,

--
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----
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Re: exporting page with images

2008-10-02T15:22:13Z

Russell, Elizabeth wrote:
> I could tar up the images if she gives me the complete list, but was
> wondering if there's a better way to do this.

A slightly better approach,
api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles={{PAGENAMEE}} will tell you
which images are used on that page.

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Re: Exception.php

2008-10-02T14:59:30Z

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Guesnier, Thomas wrote:
> Hi, i've got a probleme & i can't find the solution anywhere on the web.
>
> Here is the message:
> "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting
> T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in
> /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php on line 140" and my
> mediawiki1.7 is installed on a debian etch, last version.

1) Install PHP 5; it sounds like you may have an old PHP 4 which will
not work with MediaWiki since 1.6 (which is well over two years old)

2) Install a modern version of MediaWiki, not the very very ancient one
in your distro.

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Re: exporting page with images

2008-10-02T13:56:46Z

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Russell, Elizabeth wrote:

> Is it possible to export a page that has multiple images and somehow get
> all the images to drag along with it?
>
>
>
> I've got user that has built a page with 20+ images, and is a bit
> nervous about getting all the images correctly moved over to the new
> wiki.
>
>
>
> I could tar up the images if she gives me the complete list, but was
> wondering if there's a better way to do this.

I'm afraid that's probably the easiest way for now. Currently
Special:Export/Special:Import doesn't include image uploads along with
the other data.

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exporting page with images

2008-10-02T10:39:45Z

Is it possible to export a page that has multiple images and somehow get
all the images to drag along with it?

I've got user that has built a page with 20+ images, and is a bit
nervous about getting all the images correctly moved over to the new
wiki.

I could tar up the images if she gives me the complete list, but was
wondering if there's a better way to do this.

Thanks,
Beth

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