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Mike Wheeler | 1 Aug 2006 01:38

Watermarking images and more

We have recently started an all architecture wiki at Archiplanet.org.  
As part of other sites we also offer commercial image licensing of  
user submitted images. We would like to be able to do this with our  
wiki as well.

Ideally  people would upload a large, several megapixel,  image. An  
untouched version of this file would be stored outside the public  
wiki. A version scaled down to about 1,000 pixels across with a small  
watermark in the corner would be added to the wiki. For making  
smaller versions for pages that are bigger than 250 pixels across the  
raw original would be used and a watermark added. For thumbnails 250  
pixels or less, no watermark would be added.

I'm new to Mediawiki, but I think I can do at least some of this  
using hooks that exist. Are there any extensions or other features  
that would aid in this process at all?

The most important bit is storing an unmarked full size version out  
of public view and a marked smaller version as part of the wiki.

Thanks,

Mike
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elisa.cooper | 1 Aug 2006 02:57

Re: Spam and problem with history editing

Hi, Tels -

These are all great suggestions. I'm going to embark on the great
anti-spam project tonight!

~ Elisa

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>
> Moin Elisa,
>
> On Monday 31 July 2006 01:17, elisa.cooper@... wrote:
>> Hi, Tel -
>>
>> I don't understand what's going on with all those usernames. I checked
>> their contributions, and there's nothing there. How do these enable the
>> spam? I don't want to accidentally block a real user, either.
>
> Thats a though question, but usually spammers reserve usernames in
> advance,
> because on some wikis you can only do certain edits/things after your
> username is of a certain age.
>
> Why I think these were spammers is because they used the form
> [randomword][randomnumber] <at> [yourowndomain] and I do think legitimate users
> wouldnt do this. I mean, these email adresses actually exist? Probably
> not :)
>
>
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Jean-Lou Dupont | 1 Aug 2006 04:09
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Mediawiki 1.7.1 & Apache 2.2.2 - error 20024

I tried upgrading to MediaWikia 1.7.1 and Apache still crashes, mainly when
accessing "Special Pages".

HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/"MediaWiki: 1.7.1 
HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/"PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler) 
HYPERLINK "http://www.mysql.com/"MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt 
Apache 2.2.2
[from XAMPP 1.5.3a]

[Mon Jul 31 22:03:26 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path
misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
/wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: 
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:39 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status
3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.2
OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.1.4 configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Server built: May  9 2006 14:08:48
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3052
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Child process is running
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on
port 443.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on
port 80.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path
misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
/wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
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elisa.cooper | 1 Aug 2006 02:41

Re: pam and problem with history editing

Hi, Jan -

I found it! Thank you!

~ Elisa

>> From: elisa.cooper@...
>>
>> I just took a look, and I can't find a button that says "rollback" on
>> either the History screen or the Edit screen, though. :-(
>
> It's on neither of those.
>
> Do the "history" tab, THEN you MUST press "Compare selected versions"
> before you will see a textual link: "[rollback]" on the right.
>
>
> :::: Think outside the box! The problem is now "How do you get
> different fruit from the same Bush?"
> :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AN10>
>
>
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Jean-Lou Dupont | 1 Aug 2006 04:14
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Mediawiki 1.7.1 & Apache 2.2.2 - error 20024

I tried upgrading to MediaWikia 1.7.1 and Apache still crashes, mainly when
accessing "Special Pages".

HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/"MediaWiki: 1.7.1 
HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/"PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler) 
HYPERLINK "http://www.mysql.com/"MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt 
Apache 2.2.2
[from XAMPP 1.5.3a]

[Mon Jul 31 22:03:26 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path
misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
/wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: 
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:39 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status
3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.2
OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.1.4 configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Server built: May  9 2006 14:08:48
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3052
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Child process is running
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on
port 443.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on
port 80.
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path
misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET
/wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
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LDB | 1 Aug 2006 06:44

upgrade from 1.5.6 to 1.5.8

The upgrade should have been a simple patch level upgrade but
my editing capabilities have been taken away. Actaully,
the box does not even appear anymore on any of the pages.

What could be wrong?

Thanks,

LDB
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Arjun Jacob Thomas | 1 Aug 2006 06:51
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: Wiki slowing down...

Hi,
	I'm sure as the size of the database ( number of articles )
increases the wiki will slow down. Are there any ways I can help speed
it up? I remember looking at an application that allowed you to delete
all versions in the history except the most current one . Will this
help? Right now I'm running the app on a shared system.

Thanks for any info....
AJ.
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LDB | 1 Aug 2006 06:59

Re: : Wiki slowing down...

Arjun Jacob Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm sure as the size of the database ( number of articles )
> increases the wiki will slow down. Are there any ways I can help speed
> it up? I remember looking at an application that allowed you to delete
> all versions in the history except the most current one . Will this
> help? Right now I'm running the app on a shared system.
> 
> Thanks for any info....
> AJ.
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@...
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
> 

Are you caching?

LDB
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RanmaSaotome | 1 Aug 2006 09:01
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Configure MediaWiki to show relevance in search results

Hello,
I've had installed the 1.6 version of Mediawiki and imported an XML-Dump of the german Wikipedia to do some
queries (and not to annoy the Wikipedia Servers to much ;-). I was hoping to get a sorted list of relevant
articles as result of a "search" (by relevance in percent). This is the case in all Wikipedias. Instead I
get a list grouped by "found in title", "found in article" etc with no relevance information.

Therefor I upgraded to the most recent version (1.7.1) and ran the update.php script. This didn't change
the behaviour. I tried to find an option for that but had no luck.

How can I achieve search results sorted by relevance (in percent)? Thanks in advance for any help!

Regards,

Peter
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wikimedia | 1 Aug 2006 09:35

How To Set Up SVG ...

Ok, I've googled, I've search the mediawiki and wikimedia websites, and all I 
can find on the above topic are blunt statements like "SVG is supported in 
wikimedia" ... but it apparently doesn't work out of the box, at least not in 
1.7.1.

So how do I turn it on?  I have managed to deduce that I need to add "svg" to 
the list of accepted upload file types, and I've checked the configuration 
setting for which program to use to convert, and I've verified I have that 
program (ImageMagick's convert) installed.

But any SVG images I upload still show up not at all.  What's the trick?
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