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Chuck Bishop | 1 Oct 2004 13:02

RE: How to change the 'Main Page' title?

Thanks Jamie.  

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I believe that is [[Special:Makesysop]]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:58:36 -0400, Chuck Bishop
<chuck.bishop@...> wrote:
> Sorry for my newbie ignorance.  How do you grant sysop permission to
> change this text in the wiki?
> 
> Thanks again for your patience.
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:03 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to change the 'Main Page' title?
> 
> On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Chuck Bishop wrote:
> > How can you change the 'Main Page' title name to something else?
> 
> The 'Main Page' title can be changed, like most other UI text, via the
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Thomas 'Hobbes' Keller | 1 Oct 2004 15:01
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Installation Script fails

Hi folks

I just downloaded mediawiki and was trying to install it.
However, the configure script fails with the following error message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class namespace in
/hobbes/public_html/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 57

What's wrong? The configure-directory is fully read- and writable (even to
everyone at the moment)...

Thanks for any answers

thomas
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David Coppit | 1 Oct 2004 20:09

How to fix broken media paths?

After upgrading my version of MediaWiki, my images directory was somehow
corrupted. I tried replacing the files from backup, but that didn't work
for some reason. (Sorry, this was a while ago.)

I re-uploaded all my files, but now the links in my wiki pages don't point
to the same paths in my upload directory. How can I fix this? Do I have to
run md5sum on all my files, and update the md5 in the database?

Thanks,
David

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Steffen Siebert | 2 Oct 2004 00:47
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Is it possible to enable database locking?

Hi,

a little test with mediawiki showed that if two users are editing the 
same page in parallel, the changes of the user who saves last overwrites 
(removes) all changes the other user saved.

Is it possible to enable database locking (either optimistic or 
pessimistic) to prevent this?

Ciao,
   Steffen
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Rowan Collins | 2 Oct 2004 03:49
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Re: Is it possible to enable database locking?

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:47:32 +0200, Steffen Siebert
<steffen.siebert@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a little test with mediawiki showed that if two users are editing the
> same page in parallel, the changes of the user who saves last overwrites
> (removes) all changes the other user saved.

This shouldn't be the case: the second user should either: have their
edits automatically merged with those of the first user; or, receive
an "Edit conflict" screen, showing them the difference between the
conflicting versions, and asking them to manually resolve the issue.

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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
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Steve Elgersma | 2 Oct 2004 14:55
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Re: Is it possible to enable database locking?

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:47:32 +0200, Steffen Siebert
<steffen.siebert@...> wrote:
> 
> a little test with mediawiki showed that if two users are editing the
> same page in parallel, the changes of the user who saves last overwrites
> (removes) all changes the other user saved.

Are you, by any chance, running the web server/PHP on a Solaris
platform?  I'm noticing the same behaviour, but only on Solaris:
Linux-based installs do the right thing.  I just submitted a bug
report yesterday (#619).  Seems odd that it would be OS-based, but
unless I've missed something blindingly obvious...

Later,
Steve
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Rowan Collins | 2 Oct 2004 15:13
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Re: Is it possible to enable database locking?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:55:01 -0400, Steve Elgersma
<elgersma@...> wrote:
> Are you, by any chance, running the web server/PHP on a Solaris
> platform?  I'm noticing the same behaviour, but only on Solaris:
> Linux-based installs do the right thing.  I just submitted a bug
> report yesterday (#619).  Seems odd that it would be OS-based, but
> unless I've missed something blindingly obvious...

Well, since the code merging uses an external facility (diff3) this
could easily vary between OSes. My suspicion is that the command-line
arguments aren't the same. I've added a comment to
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/619

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Rowan Collins BSc
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Steve Elgersma | 2 Oct 2004 16:44
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Re: Is it possible to enable database locking?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:55:01 -0400, Steve Elgersma
<elgersma@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:47:32 +0200, Steffen Siebert
> <steffen.siebert@...> wrote:
> >
> > a little test with mediawiki showed that if two users are editing the
> > same page in parallel, the changes of the user who saves last overwrites
> > (removes) all changes the other user saved.
> 
> Are you, by any chance, running the web server/PHP on a Solaris
> platform?  I'm noticing the same behaviour, but only on Solaris:

Rowan called it (thanks, Rowan).  Turns out it's using an external
program (diff3) as part of the conflict resolution, and it's expecting
the GNU version of diff3.  In my case, it was picking up the Solaris
diff3, which has different command-line options.  The solution is to
edit your LocalSettings.php, and add the line: $wgDiff3='';

Note that I had the GNU version of diff3 as well, and setting the
variable to the path to it seemed to produce the same result as the
null setting. YMMV.

The above solution can also be found on the bug page, which I've left
open in hopes that the install can be modified to test for the GNU
version of diff3.

Later,
Steve
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Steffen Siebert | 2 Oct 2004 10:51
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Is it possible to enable database locking?

Hi Rowan,

this is what I would have expected.

I did the test again and it worked as you've described it, unless the 
conflicting editings are done under the same username. I don't know if 
this is a bug or feature, but shouldn't be a real problem.

Thanks for you help,
   Steffen
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Steffen Siebert | 2 Oct 2004 12:07
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Mediawiki 1.3.2 doesn't find three letter words!?!

Hi,

I have pages which contains "Ant" and "CVS" in header and normal text. 
But if I search for "ant", "Ant", "ANT", "cvs" or "CVS" I get no matches.

I added "Ants" to the page text and a search for "ants" is successfull.

Is there a minimum length for search terms and if so why I don't get a 
message informing me about that fact?

A search for "cvs" in Wikipedia is successfull by the way...

Ciao,
   Steffen
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