Re: I'd like to add these features

1. Wikipedia has a user called Raul654 responsible for the main page
content. He sets up a series of subpages containing summaries of the
featured articles, decided in advance. He then uses a transclusion
containing variables such as the current date, which does most of the
work.

2. I'd recommend creating a custom special page to do that. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page for
information and advice.

Rob Church

On 30/01/06, Bryan Shepherd <bryan.groups@...> wrote:
> I'd like to add two features to my wiki.  First, I'd like to have content
> with a certain heading or on a certain page randomly displayed in a box on
> the front page.  I've tried to figure out how Wikipedia does this, but I am
> still learning the wikimedia software so I haven't gotten it.  Second I'd
> like to add an "Invite" link so that users can invite others to the site via
> email, but I'm not exactly sure where to start.  As yo umay have guessed,
> I'm not a professional programmer, just a hobbyist : )
>
> Any help with either of these issues would be helpful.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: wmv video upload works for small, not big files. Large mp3's or swf files do work.

On 1/31/06, Jonathan Andrew Wolter <jwolter@...> wrote:
> I'm having problems with a 3.5 meg wmv file. I can upload successfully a 7
> meg mp3 or a 7 meg swf flash file. If I change the extension of the wmv to
> mp3 or swf -- it still does not work.

Well _that_ is definitely wierd!  I'm scratching my head over that one..

Restricting who can register on a wiki

Does anyone know of a way of controlling the way people can register and
establish an account.

Perhaps having a password on the user registration page or being able to
move the account creation page to an obscure location. 

We are currently preventing user self registration using
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_Restrictions

Regards,
Peter Evans 

professional site: http://www.usq.edu.au/users/evansp/
family site:  http://baker-evans.webpal.info/
email: email2pje@...
MSN Messenger: id=pje_is@... (messenger.msn.com - please don't
email to this address)
Internet phone: id=evans-pj (Skype internet phone - www.skype.com)
Paltalk: id=evans-pj (Paltalk text and audio conferencing -
www.paltalk.com)
Gizmo: id= evans_pj (Gizmo text and audio conferencing -
www.gizmoproject.com)

Missing session_start in SpecialUpload?

I recently installed mediawiki 1.5.6 on apache 2.0.53 and php 4.3.11 on 
Fedora Core 3.

I've been having issues with the Special:Upload page, when attempting to 
upload a new version of a file that already exists. It seems that some 
data is passed from the file upload the first time it's hit (which saves 
the upload to a temp file) to the confirmation page via the $_SESSION 
variable.

However, $_SESSION isn't getting set on the confirmation page (or 
rather, the page that's invoked when I click the "save anyway" button on 
the "do you really want to save over the existing file" page)

It seems that there's a missing call to session_start...

If I edit includes/SpecialUpload.php, class UploadForm, function 
UploadForm (constructor) and add "session_start();" prior to first 
referencing $_SESSION, then everything works just fine.

Is this really a bug, or do I have something horribly screwed in my 
configuration? Looking back at the CVS history, the usage of $_SESSION, 
especially isset( $_SESSION['wsUploadData'][$this->mSessionKey] ) dates 
back about 14 months, which seems a long time for this to have gone 
unnoticed?

Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.

RE: Re: googlesitemap.php

Hi François,

Thanks so much for your help.

Actually I am using php designer 2005 for the creation of my googleSiteMap.php
file. So, I don't think it would generate some encoding problem, but I just
guessing here. Unfortunately, I am still getting this same odd error message if
you have any other clue, I will appreciate.

Thanks again, mauro.

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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: googlesitemap.php

Hi,

Two issues:
1) you are trying to see the result of you php file in a browser which
can not handle xml files.
Solution 1) Try with another browser.
Solution 2) Make a simple link to your
ttp://mysite.com/wiki/googleSiteMap.php on an html page, and left click
download the target of this link. then view the file using a text
editor, not a browser.

2)The major problem about xml is an encoding problem. I bet there is an

Re: Restricting who can register on a wiki

You could write an extension using the AbortNewAccount hook. This
would perform a second-level check that the user was permitted to
create the account, and then do the actual creation itself, later.

This is a matter of retaining the user class information and saving
the object at a later date.

Rob Church

On 01/02/06, Peter Evans <email2pje@...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way of controlling the way people can register and
> establish an account.
>
> Perhaps having a password on the user registration page or being able to
> move the account creation page to an obscure location.
>
> We are currently preventing user self registration using
>    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_Restrictions
>
> Regards,
> Peter Evans
>
> professional site: http://www.usq.edu.au/users/evansp/
> family site:  http://baker-evans.webpal.info/
> email: email2pje@...
> MSN Messenger: id=pje_is@... (messenger.msn.com - please don't
> email to this address)
> Internet phone: id=evans-pj (Skype internet phone - www.skype.com)
> Paltalk: id=evans-pj (Paltalk text and audio conferencing -
> www.paltalk.com)

Re: Missing session_start in SpecialUpload?

Stephen Warren wrote:
> It seems that there's a missing call to session_start...
> 
> If I edit includes/SpecialUpload.php, class UploadForm, function
> UploadForm (constructor) and add "session_start();" prior to first
> referencing $_SESSION, then everything works just fine.

session_start() is called in Setup.php if a session cookie is present. Check if
you have a bogus session name or something.

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

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Customising e-mail notification message

Hi

I have a wiki up and running which is restricted access. I register
individuals by use of the special:userlogin and using the 'by e-mail'
option.

The messages that they recieve is a bit confusing i.e. the title is

"e-mail address confirmation"

and the content

Someone, probably you from IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, has registered
an account "xxxxxxxx" with this e-mail address on Wiki

To confirm that this account really does belong to you and activate
e-mail features on Wiki, open this link in your browser:

http://www.xxxxx.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Confirmemail/xxxxxxxxxxx

If this is *not* you, don't follow the link. This confirmation code
will expire at 17:59, 10 January 2006.

Is there any way I can customise this message to make it a bit more
user friendly.

Cheers

Re: Customising e-mail notification message

Hi

You can adjust the text at 
http://www.xxxxx.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Confirmemail_body

Regards,

Hans

Paul Sanderson said the following on 1-2-2006 13:13:

>Hi
>
>I have a wiki up and running which is restricted access. I register
>individuals by use of the special:userlogin and using the 'by e-mail'
>option.
>
>The messages that they recieve is a bit confusing i.e. the title is
>
>"e-mail address confirmation"
>
>and the content
>
>
>Someone, probably you from IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, has registered
>an account "xxxxxxxx" with this e-mail address on Wiki
>
>To confirm that this account really does belong to you and activate
>e-mail features on Wiki, open this link in your browser:
>

(kein Betreff)

Hi,

I have a wiki running on a SUSE linux server, but no mails arrive, no
password mails, no confirmation mails.
If I send mail directly from a shell , that works.

Thanks in advance for your hints

Regards Maria
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