Re: Broken page?!

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:22:41 +0200, NSK <nsk2@...> wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 16:48, Harald Lux wrote:
> > it seems that one of the pages in my wiki (unfortunately the main
> > page) is broken. All other pages are getting delivered but when I try
> 
> Use phpmyadmin to browse the database and see whether there is any problem
> there.

You might also want to construct the page editting URL such as
http://yoursite/path/to/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit to
see if there's anything obviously wrong with the page's source that
you can correct to allow it to render correctly.

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Re: display images from wiki commons

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:50:10 +0100, Gerold Meisinger wrote:
> is it possible to display images from wiki commons via interlinking? (normal interlinking works and is
set to local) thx!

I think you may need to clarify your question, because I'm not sure
what it is you are asking:
* to what site are you referring? your own installation of MediaWiki?
* by "wiki commons" do you mean http://commons.wikimedia.org/?

If the above guesses are correct, I fear the answer is "no" - I
believe the images are available for direct inclusion only on other
Wikimedia projects. Apart from rather confusing licensing issues, this
would make sense because Wikimedia's servers are already heavily
over-worked, and allowing (indeed encouraging) people to download
images from them when viewing an unrelated site would be all strain
and no gain.

I'm also not sure what exactly you mean by "normal interlinking" being
"set to local" - do you mean [[links like this]]? Or perhaps
[[fr:interlanguage]] or [[meta:interwiki]] links? I don't quite see
how either of these can be "set to local", but that may be irrelevant
if I'm right above about the main substance of your question.

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Re: case insensitive links

The solution to this is to only use lowercase letters except in proper names.
ie, the names of the two articles would be "Farbulator overflow valve"
and "Framis bulkhead". Now if there was a band called Framis Bulkhead,
you could have two seperate articles: one for the band and one for the
mounting location.

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:39:11 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale@...> wrote:
> Actually what I'd love to see is a way to automatically lower case a reference.
> 
> I don't know how may times I've typed something like.
> 
> The [[Farbulator Overflow Valve|farbulator overflow valve]] was
> mounted on the [[Framis Bulkhead|framis bulkhead]]
> 
> or
> 
> The [[Globulator:Farbulator Overflow Valve|farbulator overflow valve]]
> was mounted on the [[Globulator:Framis Bulkhead|framis bulkhead]]
> 
> Just like [[Globulator:Farbulator Overflow Valve|]] seems to get saved
> as [[[[Globulator:Farbulator Overflow Valve|Farbulator Overflow
> Valve]] it would be very nice to have a shortcut for lowercasing the
> expansion after the |
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:35:36 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion@...> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > solo turn wrote:

Changing database to PostgreSQL

Hello,
I saw in wikipedia that in future development wikimedia would change the database to pgsql. Is it true?
When is it going to be implemented?
What's the reason in changing?

Thank you...

Re: Changing database to PostgreSQL

Roiki wrote:
| Hello,
| I saw in wikipedia that in future development wikimedia would change
the database to pgsql. Is it true?

There is experimental support for using PostgreSQL with MediaWiki in
1.4. It's incomplete, lacking installer support, is not well tested, and
doesn't include search capability.

MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at
this time.

-- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)

Re: Changing database to PostgreSQL

Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb:
> 
> MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at
> this time.
> 

I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL
will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated
backend? I'm only guessing but there will be a rather large number of
users that will refuse a DB switch... also most hosting sites offer LAMP
but considerably fewer offer LAPP...

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Re: Re: Changing database to PostgreSQL

Ira Abramov wrote:
| Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb:
| >>MySQL 4.0 remains the recommended database platform for MediaWiki at
|>this time.
|
| I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL
| will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated
| backend?

Hypothetically one day that could happen, but so could a lot of random
unforseen things. Why do you feel the need to read things into our
support for several different database backends, at differing levels of
development and stability? If as you say you hate having to do it, why
do it?

-- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)

"grab image" extension

has anyone written a plugin that will allow me to grab images?

eg if i want to write something up now, about an image I see on the
web somewhere that may dissappear tmrw, i currently have to save the
image, then upload it, remember the [[image..] link text, go back edit
page etc.

instead:

<grab>http://domain/some.jpg</grab>

would on first time encountering the image copy it locally. next time
display it from the cache...

leaving aside the copyright question, i have seen this feature in other wikis.

Also is there a repository of mediaWiki extensions? A little googling
didnt seem to turn up a clear winner...just a few random things ppl
have done.

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Re: Re: Changing database to PostgreSQL

Quoting Brion Vibber, from the post of Tue, 01 Feb:
> | I hate having to read into things. does this mean that support for mySQL
> | will one day be the secondary or "less recommended" or even depricated
> | backend?
> 
> Hypothetically one day that could happen, but so could a lot of random
> unforseen things. Why do you feel the need to read things into our
> support for several different database backends, at differing levels of
> development and stability? If as you say you hate having to do it, why
> do it?

I'm sorry... I guess I read "at this time" and it was not as reassuring
as "not in the planned future". For me "at this time" is what
governments use to calm the citizens 2 weeks before doing the opposite


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Adding banners to mediawiki

Hi everyone
I would like to add small banners (maybe 88x31) to my wiki installation 
(Down the side, below "navigation") for openoffice, firefox etc. How can 
this be done?
Thanks,
H

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