Talk:Main Page
How to migrate mediawiki with all of the articles to another server
Can anyone help me? I need deatiled instructions. What do I have to do exactly?
- Here is the full tutorial on how to backup and restore mediawiki. It can be apply to move all ariticles from one server to another. --Wind
WebWorm Threat
Don't know where to target this question, but a MediaWiki site I was hosting got hit yesterday by a WebWorm. You can see the damage at http://www.chelsea2005.com/wiki2. I don't, at present, understand if this has exploited my hosts version of PHP or infact the MediaWiki engine can be exploited. More information on the Worm can be found here:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/2135235&tid=220&tid=217&tid=169
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Version
The wrong version number is showing up on the Main Page. Not sure what to do to fix it. Meta should be currently running 1.4beta3. --Sarcasticninja 01:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- sorta fixed..AaronPeterson 03:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
sorry to distract - just testing mediawiki
Wikitex
Wikisophia writes interesting scripts for wikimedia. Among them the script for math function (that we use) scripts for music, chess, chemistry, SVG and many other diagrams.
Some of those scripts could be a real improvement for wikipedia, but only after some big discussion oevr the matter. I personally think for example that we should not mix wikipedia source code with any other script. Some dummy users could get afraid to click a edit this page link and see things he could not understand.
I would like to see some talking about the subject on wikimedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W ikitex
http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex
[[--Avsa 16:47, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)]]
Refactoring of main page
I made some experiment on fr, and integrated the goings-on in the community page. You can have a first look here : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3APortail_communaut%C3%A9
The idea is that the community page hosts the ongoing information (at least the most recent one). A link allow to easily go to history.
The edition follow a timeline. Most recent on top. The beginning of the line, in bold, indicate roughly the type of topic (Foundation, Tech, New project, Publishing etc...).
What do you think ?
- Will this duplicate or replace goings-on? Angela 23:46, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi i want to make a document on Australian Rules Football and Rugby Union owner of wikipaedia please reply
Wikibooks in italian
Please, add iy.wikibooks.org in the appropriate section. Thanks.
- --Snowdog 20:29, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
whitespace
bah, I'm a goob, I just made a change to the main page, and it occured to me that somebody might have wanted that whitespace. I won't be offended if it's reverted, but please don't be ticked at me yet. Main page refactor can be a place to tinker with the main page, and that's where I'm going to play AaronPeterson 16:49, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
A dude who wasted time
It'd be REAL helpful if you mentioned requirements somewhere in documentation - now I've spent hours uploading and getting info out of one of my n00b friends who wanted to run a mediawiki-site - then it turns out it can't run with safe_mode on!! It had saved us all a LOT of time if you just mentioned in the README that this was a REQUIREMENT. Bad Karma, dudes!!
- safe_mode is crap. It breaks many web applications and doesn't actually make things "safer". Get a new hoster.--Eloquence
- That may very well be - but that doesn't change that most hosts run this way. I really like the concept of the MediaWiki, but I don't think it's too much to ask that this tiny but dead important requirement was mentioned in the documentation. So far I've spent time installing it on 3 different danish webhosts, Herr Möller - wouldn't you get a bit annoyed when a simple sentence in the README or INSTALL file would have removed any doubt immediately and saved hours of reading and trying? Well, anyway, I hereby request that you add this to the docs. Thanks.
- I agree it should be in the documentation, Mr. Anonymous. However, where do you get the information that "most hosts" run this way? I have written a large review of German web hosters, and only 2 out of 7 which offered PHP had safe_mode enabled. At least here, safe_mode is on the way out, and one of the first things I would do before choosing a hoster is figure out if they're using it. --Eloquence
- Hmm I gotta read your review, then; it's no big deal redirecting to a german host, but it seems impossible to find a fairly cheap danish webhost with safe_mode off - I've been going it over _real_ good now, and found 1 very expensive solution who has fairly updated systems. I've very recently been following a long discussion about this on the danish webhost newsgroup, and as I read it, the gist was that safe_mode off was quite unsafe on unix systems running ISAPI. Most hosts (like surftown.dk) actually specify that it cannot and will not be turned off under any circumstances due to security issues - unless one wants a dedicated server. We're talking a small private homepage here, not a big business who can afford that. :) I'll be happy to provide a list, if you're interested. I did ofcourse mean "most danish hosts", my bad. You mention that it's on its way out - are there any time horizon on this statement/link to more info? Thanks. And sorry if I'm posting the wrong place!! -- Finn Sørensen (AlleyKat at phpbb2.dk)
- It seems to be mentioned now in the INSTALL file - "safe_mode is also not tested and unlikely to work." -pigpogm
- MediaWiki can work with safe_mode on, but it depends on the actual settings used, etc. 1.4 is more reliable than 1.3 in this regard. And yes, the documentation and the installer itself are FULL of warnings that you are likely to have problems with safe_mode... --brion 22:10, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Localized wiki names
In some languages, it's incorrect to spell language names with capital first letters, as in "Suomi" for Finnish ("Suomi", with the capital first letter, is the correct spelling for Finland, the country). The correct spelling for Finnish is "suomi". At least Finnish and Swedish are like this. Probably quite a few others, too.
This means that the links to the Finnish wiki projects should be named "suomi (Finnish)", not "Suomi (Finnish)". The same, of course, applies to other languages with similar rules. --anon
- Does it matter when the words stand alone? I speak swedish but don't know exactly, but I think there is no difference between "svenska" and "Svenska" when it's not in full sentences. ✏ Sverdrup 00:51, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- It's a headline-like thing so I don't think it matters all that much, but it just strikes me as wrong. But I'm pedant. :) French has a rule like this too, I wonder what they think about this? ... Also, doesn't toki pona have its links lowercased already? OK, toki pona's a constructed language and they seem to write in all-lowercase except for people's names, but still... Multilingual web pages seem to have their links to Finnish/Swedish-language parts (when referred to by "suomi" or "svenska", not "Finnish" or "Swedish", obviously) in lowercase. Either way, since it's not really even a headline, shouldn't it be in lowercase? I don't think it would be _wrong_. Not being in lowercase can be seen as wrong. Kind of like with unix command names.
- But "suomi" never makes a full sentence, a headline, or a book title (etc.) lose its initial capital if it's the first word.
- Either way, if this only bothers me, maybe nothing needs to be changed. :) I wonder if this should be discussed also in the respective Meta-Wikis of the languages this concerns? Finnish doesn't seem to have one, and I don't think I know Swedish or French good enough to debate about this in those languages.
- Being surprisingly clear and coherent again... :)
Protected due to spamming
This page has a particular target for spammers lately. I've protected. Does anyone object to leaving it that way? Raul654 01:03, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, it's not been a particularly bad problem given that it's the main page. Please unprotect it. —Kate | Talk 01:06, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
- Spam lasts a very short time and is easy to revert. The main page needs editing, and not only by the very few active admins here. Angela 01:22, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
patrolling edits
I had been led to believe that a feature in which anon edits could be marked as patrolled had been installed here on meta along with 1.4. Is that true? I can't find any reference to it here. TUF-KAT 05:26, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Christmas endorsement on front of this wiki
Please see the conversation on the village pump concerning the Christmas endorsement currently on the front page of this wiki. I think it needs to be taken down, and a precedent set for the Wikimedia Foundation to not endorse the Christian tradition of remembering Jesus Christ, or whatever it is specifically. --Alterego 04:02, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- You are mistaken. It is not an "endorsement" for christmas. If it is anything, it is a plug for a project that has its centre of gravity on the Italian wikitonary. It is a project that promotes the use of Commons, .ogg soundfiles, wiktionary. It is a fun project that also wishes everyone a merry Christmas. Why should we promote these silly American attitudes for "correctness" when it has absolutely nothing to do with what you think is does ?? 15:04, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Sister project logos
The logos for each project listed on the Main Page are linked to the image description pages, since they use the [[filename.ext|px|Alternative text]] format. IMHO that's pretty confusing to visitors who aren't too familiar with wikis. They would expect these logos to link to the projects themselves. I propose making 100px wide versions of each of these logos, then embedding them using the following technique:
[[Image:Wikibooks.png|100px|Wikibooks]]
...for example, would be:
[http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://meta.wikimedia.org/upload/f/f9/Wikibooks-small.png]
Unfortunately, this would mean no alternative text, but it would be less confusing for newcomers. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 15:03, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've figured out a way to do it without creating separate, smaller versions of the logos. I created a page containing the exact code previously used at Main Page. From there, I took the URLs of the raw images used on the generated page, and used those URLs on Main Page. I plan to use this same technique on en: etc. I'm open to suggestions. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 21:28, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Good idea but i suggest to point it to The provisional portal of Wikipedia and not to en.wikipedia.org Walter 21:40, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Done. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 21:48, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia en: seems to have turned off support for embedding external images, so my technique doesn't work there. But it does work at Wiktionary en:. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 21:48, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- It also works on Wikibooks and Wikiquote. I've used my technique on Wikibooks so far. If you have an account on Wikiquote, feel free to do it there. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 18:18, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Note: This thread was removed by a vandal some months ago, and I only found this again because I was looking for what I had documented. This technique has been altered somewhat with the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.4b4. The new syntax is:
[http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://meta.wikimedia.org/upload/f/f9/Wikibooks-small.png]
If you use the image URL inside a normal wikilink, it won't work at all. This technique is incredibly useful for logos for example, because the unknowing user will click on the big shiny logo, not the dull, sans-serif text. (See Fitts' law.) I'll fix the Main Page logos when I can find the time. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 05:39, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
LanguageXX.php updates?!
How to get this done? Could someone with an idea of how to proceed please update the information on this wiki? Especially Requests for languageXX.php update and the links to it. Guaka 19:48, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How do I setup texvc?
I'm trying to configure my mediawiki to accept the <math>...</math> tags. I got the texvc precompiled binary from sourceforge and added in the math directory. And I changed the value of $wgUseTex in LocalSettings.php to true. But that is not helping. After reading the very inadequate help file I found that I had to install teTex, dvips, and convert in the PATH: Could anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks a lot. --Praveen Gollakota 06:38, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Wikithrough
Here's what I want... a Wiki for video game walkthroughs. Think about it. How many times have you been frustrated with GameFAQs because every single walkthrough has inconsistancies, missed items, and just plain wrongnesses, in different ways in each walkthrough? If there was a Wiki for game walkthroughs, each walkthrough would be accurate and thorough. And if something was badly explained, missing, or wrong, you could just change it as you came across it. There would be a large collection of collaborated on, perfect game walkthroughs. GameFAQs would bite the dust.
- Wikibooks can hold that sort of info. In fact, I believe we've started on a few. -- user:zanimum
- I've had a few problems with the FAQs on GameFAQs and usually have to use at least two walkthroughs for one game. I think this is a good idea to further. 24.1.88.161 16:46, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
How do I edit http://wikiquote.org/?
The link from http://wikiquote.org/ to the Swedish language main page is broken due to an error: currently it reads "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/sv:", but the correct address is "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/sv:Huvudsida". I don't know how to fix this. Could someone please help me?
- Sorry for your inconvinience, it was my fault. The link to SV WQ was fixed (the source of Wikiquote portal is Www.wikiquote.org portal). Thank you for your report again! --User:Aphaia/sig 19:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Off-site search
I wasn't sure where to put this... this seemed like the best spot. Is there a chance of getting a banner, button, etc. that could be put in a personal website that allows one to do a Wikipedia search from that site, much like what can be done with Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac/search/help/offsite-forms.htm)?
<form name="search" class="inline" method="post" action="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search"> </form>| <img height="50" width="50" border="0" alt="Wikipedia Search" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/2/2a/Nohat-logo-nowords-bgwhite-200px.jpg"> | <input type="text" name="search" value="" style="width:240px;" /> | <input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" /> <input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" /> |
- Quick version.
- Modify as appropriate for your purpose.
- A smaller logo would be preferable; currently some 15/16 of the data is retrieved but not actually used.
Aliter 16:47, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Hosting multiple wikis
I'm wondering if and how it's possible to set up multiple wikis using a single installation. For example, Wikipedia uses subdomains suchs as **en.wikipedia.org** and **nl.wikipedia.org** to host a wiki for each language. This would be exactly what I want. However, the number of "languages" (topics in this case) may grow up to (i guess) 100 or more. It would be very unusefull to have a seperate database for each of them. I'm wondering if there is a smarter solution (like WikiCities has)
Hide Edit Button
Is there an option to hide the edit button for anyone except the autor of the page ? thanks lucas email: lucasvo@gmx.ch
For those who have no idea.
talk to Mr.A.K.a if you don't understand.
Does this really change the result??
Improvements to the spanish version
Some improvements to the spanish version that cannot be added to the main page because it's protected:
- New template:
{{Active Commons}} – Active wikicommons - Links for editing templates of active projects (and not only to show them). For example:
{{active Wikipedias}} <small>({{edit|Template:Active Wikipedias|this list}})</small>
Can someone add them (or remove the protection)? Thanks --surueña 22:18, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)
Where to make server request(s)?
Hello,
I didn't see any helpful links to where one would request specific server maintenance tasks. Specifically, a couple months ago, there was a nightmarish crash; since then on en.Wiktionary.org, some periodic maintenance tasks don't seem to be happening. I suspect some cron jobs got commented out during the recovery? At any rate, Wiktionary's wikt:Special:shortpages for example, has not been updated in quite some time. (Also, where would I request that it be updated more frequently, say once a week, or twice a month?) Thanks in advance. --Connel MacKenzie 07:05, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Notice for readers of dutch newspaper
In a very important Dutch-Flemish newspaper there is a very nice article about the Dutch Wikipedia in the edition of this weekend. In the article the have printed the url "meta.wikimedia.org" . The link on the on the mainpage of Meta is to help the new vistors to not get lost and find there way to the dutch Wikipedia. This because Meta is very confusing to a new visitor who thinks this is a encycopedia. Please keep it there for the weekend. --Walter 23:01, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- It is removed now --Walter 09:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Need help with the error message
I'm getting the following error message. I'd a successful installation and working wiki. All I did was to change the log file name. Please help.
[Tue May 03 12:34:20 2005] [error] [client 10.89.33.218] Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01 [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: dir(/skins) [<a href='function.dir'>function.dir</a>]: failed to open dir: Invalid argument in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\wiki\\includes\\Skin.php on line 22 [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function read() on a non-object in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\wiki\\includes\\Skin.php on line 27 [Tue May 03 12:34:21 2005] [error] [client 10.89.33.218] Invalid method in request \x16\x03
Main Page categories
Can anyone add the categories [[Category:EN]] and [[Category:Main page]] to this main page?
Estonian at 10000
Just curious - how long will it take before it gets moved up a notch on the main page?
Is there where we ask questions about mediawiki ?
Or is there a forum type thing out there ?
I just started using mediawiki, and it is pretty cool. Often time I want to create many pages with
the same outline, so I'd like to use templates.
To do this I went to http://example.com/wiki/Template:Project, and created a page.
Now everytime I want to start a new page I want to create a new project page I want it to
inherit everything from Template:Project.
I tried calling {{Project}} from within the newly created page, but this sort of creates a link
to the Template:Project. If I modify something in this page it modifies Template:Project.
I don't get it.
Any help ?
TIA,
rouble
- the best place to ask is the mediawiki-l mailing list...
Why "MediaWiki" link is an external link?
In Section "Code & technical issues" the MediaWiki link is considered as external link (but it link to the same site). Is it a typo?
Please add a link to bug reports on the Main page
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/
How do I edit the footer?
What I want to do is add a small image on the footer of every page. How do I?
- You cannot, sorry. No anon editor can edit our footer and even you are registered, you need to build consensus of the community. --Aphaia | Translate Election | ++ 07:21, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Query
Which hosting services run WikiMedia engine?
- Any hosting provider that has MySQL and PHP support should work. Don't know any specific examples, though, sorry; host my own sites.
- James F. (talk) 00:31, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Linking your personal wiki I am going to set up a wiki and wanted to know if there is any where in which it would automatically be listed for people to see? Like a community area to search topics that interest you?
Damo--Thedamo 07:32, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
How can you use this software to create a virtual classroom?
Search not working
I'm not sure if this is the right place to mention. I've noticed the past few days that the search on this site is not working. Even if I search for words like "history" and "delete" there are no results. I've tried go and search to no avail. Please delete this if there is not a problem, or if it gets fixed - thank you!
for cad drafting and gis solutions visit www.dimensionicad.com
Read carefully... --Obarskyr 20:48, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Partial Wiki?
I am new to Wiki. I am looking for a solution where we need a system with part of the pages being editable and the edits trackable. Most of the page is a form that cannot be edited (in a wiki way). Can I enable wiki type of editing for parts of a page? ( I am sure you could... looking at how this site is working. Any advice is appreciated. thank you.
Ido on the Www.wiktionary.org template
Hi - I've been asking about this for quite some time now but perhaps this is a better place to make the request. The Ido Wiktionary has the 5th most number of words and it would be nice to see it added to the front as well. Most articles are just the word and its translation into Ido, that's true, but that is what we most need at this time, a large searchable database with every language available. 211.202.17.124 02:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
I am dis-invited by Jimbo, so this is a warning to others
Hi there to this discussion. I came here from an online link . I am concerned to have to post here my wikipedia username. I would refer all those concerned with honesty and history to be aware of my situation. I have to report that the wikipedia is being subverted daily by revisionism, and that I have been personally dis-invited from further participation by the founder himself(see his talk page) because of my activities in combatting such editing. I report to you all that the cancer is very much alive , and contradicts any good principles and intentions any of us might share for the future. I go so far as to say that this is making of the wikipedia a polluting ifluence, rather than a beneficial one. If such as myself are ram-rolled out of existence, then the articles rapidly slide backwards to obfuscation, apologia and un-truth . I can be pushed out -I am advised to go with my head held high, so I go- but the WP has a serious problem that stays . I warn all you good people to be very awake to the problem, and to fight against intellectual piracy of this important means of dissemination . The founder has stated that he is not interested, and currently I await the answer by him as to whether really a majority of users over-rule a majority of sources. The cabal majoritariansim in WP is at odds with the supposed respect for source, and the contradiction is alive in respect of my username history from the start. I have tried reason , and the founder suggests that there is simply no merit in communicating with those who do not wish to listen . However I am appalled at the infection of google-able cyberspace by such cabals .yrs "Famekeeper"
Please remove MediaWiki version info
Could some admin please remove the MediaWiki version info, its just going to get outdated all the time and isn't very useful anyway. --Dittaeva 09:09, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
- i removed both of them. kate
Where can I find Wikimedia Terms Of Service?
Where can I find Wikimedia Terms Of Service?
I intend to host a fairly large community supported site on wikimedia and I want to confirm that this is permitted. I don't want to get banned or get my site deleted. --gorgan_almighty 15:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Embedding WikiMedia content in a standard website
Is it possible to embed WikiMedia content in a perl/php enabled website without installing wiki software? I know I could use an IFRAME but that would include the WikiMedia side menu as well. --gorgan_almighty 16:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- yes, but we will block your site from accessing our content, because it's not allowed. download the database from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and host it yourself, instead of wasting our (very limited) resources. kate