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Hi,

We know that Vector skin has been modified starting from1.39. I do like the skin except some things. So I would like to keep TOC at the beginning of the page, not moving it to side bar. Is it possible to set it this way?

Hello everybody,

I have checked the help page but didn't find a solution for my problem.

Transclusion - MediaWiki

When I have an optional parameter in dem middle of a sentence it would l write something like this.

The {{{Parameter|rabbits}}} are in the garden.

This construction works when its an optional parameter and when no parameter is given only one space is between the parameter and the rest of the sentence. Like this.

The are in the garden.

however when I try to substitute something at the end of the sentence (in the garden) I would get something like.

"The rabbits are in the garden ." When I'm using the parameter with an space at the beginning, it does not take the space. I tried to do it like

The rabbits are{{{ in the garden}}}. Which results in

The rabbits arein the garden.

Does anybody knows a good solution for this. I would have to create all templates with fullstop at the end when used at the end of a sentence?

Thank you very much.

Did you try using   instead of a space?

If that doesn't work, try  

Thank you very much Bawolff for your reply,

I tried using the template and before the parameter string I used either &#32 and

&nbsp. But it seems not to work. Is it correct like this

{{Template|Location=&#32in the garden}}.

Thank you very much for your reply.

The semicolon is important.

What is the precise thing you are doing?

Because when i tried:

the rabbits are {{{param|in the garden}}}.

I got

The rabbits are in the garden.

With no weird spacing issues.

Hello Bawolff, thank you very much for your kind reply.

Yes I forgot the semicolon. Perfect.

When you use a parameter everything is okay.

the rabbits are {{{param|in the garden}}}.

results in:

The rabbits are in the garden.

But when you don't use a parameter (optional) in this case leaving "in the garden" empty

the rabbits are {{{param|}}}.

results in:

The rabbits are .

So between the last letter and the fullstop is a space.

Thats why I thought about creating template like this:

the rabbits are{{{param| in the garden}}}.

which result in

The rabbits are in the garden.

An when I don't use a parameter

the rabbits are{{{param|}}}.

I get

The rabbits are.

Where the fullstop is following the last character. I hope it's understandable what Im trying to achieve.

Greetings.

fhihu

When I'm trying to create a subpage to the MainPage like this:

http://localhost/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page/Subpage

the following error pops up:

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)

This did not help. I use IIS on Windows 10.

Here are some lines from the log:

[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::destroy: closing connection to database 'localhost'.

[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::destroy: closing connection to database 'localhost'.

[http] HTTP complete: POST http://localhost/abwiki/rest.php/localhost/v3/transform/html/to/wikitext/Main_Page%2Fsubpage code=404 size=102 total=0.476158 connect=0.002153

[VisualEditor] ApiParsoidTrait::requestRestbase: Received HTTP 404 from RESTBase

In which wiki were you going to create a subpage?

@Tanbirzx In their MediaWiki installation, obviously.

@Tanbirzx MediaWiki 1.36.1

I added some lines from the log in case it might help. For now it looks like I'm not going to solve those VisualEditor/Parsoid problems.

@MrJConstantine Maybe mediawiki 1.36.1 is not compatible for Windows 10. At first disable your IIS software then try it again. Because IIS may problematic for mediawiki. Secondly you can try the SourceEditor.

@Tanbirzx According to the documentation IIS 7+ is supported if MW is on Microsoft Windows. How can I try it with IIS disabled if my MediaWiki is hosted on IIS? I don't know how can I create a subpage using SourceEditor.

After upgrading from 1.38 to 1.39

php maintenance/update.php gives error,

Modifying tl_namespace field of table templatelinks...Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError from line 1618 of /var/www/html/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Error 1091: Can't DROP INDEX `PRIMARY`; check that it exists

Function: Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database::sourceFile( /var/www/html/maintenance/archives/patch-templatelinks-tl_title-nullable.sql )

Query: ALTER TABLE  `templatelinks`

DROP  PRIMARY KEY

mysql> describe templatelinks;

+-------------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| Field             | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

+-------------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| tl_from           | int(10) unsigned    | NO   |     | 0       |       |

| tl_namespace      | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | 0       |       |

| tl_title          | varbinary(255)      | NO   |     |         |       |

| tl_from_namespace | int(11)             | NO   | MUL | 0       |       |

| tl_target_id      | bigint(20) unsigned | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |

+-------------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

SHOW INDEXES FROM templatelinks;

+---------------+------------+----------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+

| Table         | Non_unique | Key_name                         | Seq_in_index | Column_name       | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | Ignored |

+---------------+------------+----------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_namespace                     |            1 | tl_namespace      | A         |        3300 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_namespace                     |            2 | tl_title          | A         |     2479612 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_namespace                     |            3 | tl_from           | A         |    47112645 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace           |            1 | tl_from_namespace | A         |        3686 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace           |            2 | tl_namespace      | A         |       14745 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace           |            3 | tl_title          | A         |     1346075 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace           |            4 | tl_from           | A         |    47112645 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_target_id                     |            1 | tl_target_id      | A         |     1624573 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_target_id                     |            2 | tl_from           | A         |    47112645 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace_target_id |            1 | tl_from_namespace | A         |        5130 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace_target_id |            2 | tl_target_id      | A         |      298181 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

| templatelinks |          1 | tl_backlinks_namespace_target_id |            3 | tl_from           | A         |    47112645 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |               | NO      |

+---------------+------------+----------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+---------+

Do you have any solution for this?

This is in part a continuation of Topic:X0esws1la9svpzmu

Hello,

I'm one of the admins at the independent Bakugan Wiki, and we've been dealing with a few issues for years regarding spam bots, a bug impeding MediaWiki upgrading, and spam filters.

For a while we've been dealing with spam bots, which register to the wiki by the hundreds. We have installed many of the spam extensions we saw on utilized on other similar wikis (ex: RS Wiki), but the bots are still able to get through, with the only thing stopping them an Abuse Filter quick-fix that prevents non-sysop editors from creating pages.

One of our theories on how to fix the issue was to upgrade our MediaWiki version from 1.32 to 1.38, but we then ran into a bug preventing this detailed in the above topic. I lack a deep understanding of database systems, but I will do my best to assist and answer any questions. At the very least, resolving this and upgrading the site would be a good start to fixing the domino line of issues.

Email is probably something we have to resolve on our end, but I just wanted to ensure that there wouldn't be anything to resolve in regards to MediaWiki.

I'd like to get this resolved so that the site can open up to new editors again, and any help is appreciated. Please let me know if I can help in any way or if I've missed something in this question.

Thank you,

Abce2

MediaWiki: 1.32.0

PHP: 7.4.3 (apache2handler)

https://bakugan.wiki/wiki/Special:Version

So spam prevention hasn't changed much between versions (unfortunately). Its unlikely an upgrade will help that.

A lot of people report success using extension:ConfirmEdit using QuestyCaptcha. Most spammers try and be generic as possible so get stumped by unique questions as long as you aren't a huge website.

By default email uses the server's email system. Often using manual:$wgSMTP to set an external email sender is more reliable.

Regarding the upgrade: based on what you previously wrote, images were uploaded by real users with valid user_id (img_user), but for some reason img_actor was 0. Which is a bit different than the usual problem people have with the actor migration. Did running migrateActors.php help? Did the script output any errors (or anything else)?

Hello, and thank you for the response.

I will definitely look into adding QuestyCaptcha to ConfirmEdit and see how that goes.

Looking through the conversation I had with the user who ran migrateActors.php, it does not appear to have worked or done much, but I will get the details and report back.

Thank you,

Abce2

Hello

Please suggest me a calendar extension for mediawiki.

It should have color for events, events should last more than one day. should be able to include links. I have tried , Mscalendar and Js calendar.

Js calendar is not showing up any options to add events.

It depends on what you want it for, but you could use Extension:Cargo. It has a calendar output format.

thanks you and what all should be added in the wiki text to get the calendar displayed with basic features?

I updated our MediaWiki from 1.32 to 1.39. After the login, the following error message appears on all (previously existing) pages: This page does not contain any text at the moment. You can create it, search its title on other pages or view the related logs. Interestingly, Special:AllPages lists all articles. Is this behavior due to a faulty migration of the database? Unfortunately, I don't get any error messages showing me a possible cause of the problem (even after using the debugging toolbar). I would be very happy to receive any suggestions that would help me to solve the problem. Thanks in advance!

Most commonly this would be caused by something going wrong with the actor migration. See manual:migrateActors.php and manual:cleanupUsersWithNoId.php

Did you guys fix this? Any solution would be much appreciated!!

Not yet, unfortunately.

We fixed this by updating the records from table `mw_revision` where `rev_actor` was 0. We've set the `rev_actor` to an existing `actor_id` from the `mw_actor` table

That's great! But how did you know which actor_id to put in the respective rev_actor?

How do I make a template that can accept any number of arguments? I want to make a template that will call another template for every argument provided, but I'm not sure if this is possible to do without dropping down to Lua.

Its very annoying to do without lua. Its probably possible, but save yourself the headache and just use lua.

Seems likely. Is there a guide to learning MediaWiki Lua anywhere?

Most of lua is generic, so any tutorial should cover the basics.

There is Lua/Tutorial although i dont think its that great of a tutorial

I was more interested in learning the MediaWiki-specific extensions to lua.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Scribunto_libraries is probably the best reference for that.

Mediawiki not loading any of the extensions, i am trying to add pluggablesso, pluggableauth and samlphp, i couldnt see any of the extensions in Special:Version

Windows 2019

MWIKi 1.35.8

Php 7.3.25

What did you put in LocalSettings.php ?

Tried this first

wfLoadExtension( 'PluggableSSO' );

and then

require_once "$IP/extensions/PluggableSSO\src\PluggableSSO.php";

and upgrade using "mw-config"

You should definitely use the wfLoadExtension version, not the require_once.

So what happened when you added the wfLoadExtension? Was there an error, did it show up in special:version?

Thank you for your reply, i tried both option, No error, it is not showing up in special version.

Now i got only this wfLoadExtension( 'PluggableSSO' );

Are you sure you are editing the correct LocalSettings.php?

You can test by putting die("test"); in LocalSettings.php temporarily, which will replace your entire wiki with the word "test" until you remove it from LocalSettings.php

that is interesting, after adding this line in die("test"); to localsettings.php, still the site is showing up all the contents, not test page.

1. Be logged out on all MediaWiki wikis

2. I login userId/pw to Mediawiki using icon '...' from page => https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation/fr ; ok, FR page displayed, connected

3. from mediawiki i access the Incubator page  : Ajouter un wiki dans une nouvelle langue / Manuel d'aide de Wikimedia Incubator => https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Manual

4. I access https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Manual

5. Not logged automatically (no 'reload' popup, ..strange) ; i hit manually ... Login on the Incubator page ; result: ok incubator awakes, connects and reloads the EN page automatically

6. Question 1: why incubator doent present the popup 'Reload the page' to be connected ?

7. Remark 1: I have lost continuity because I request the /fr page and I get the EN one when connected

8. I select the FR page in incubator => https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Wikidata/fr

9. At page bottom (Liens externes / Introduction à Wikidata) i access the wikidata page : => https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Introduction

10. nok, wikidata is not awaked; hit '...' and Logon have no effect ; Must redo a manual logon in wikidata (global userID + pw) to be connected in wikidata

11. Question 2: why my declared Central connexion on Meta does not operate/propagate onto wikidata  ?

--Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 12:30, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Web browsers locked down third party cookies which may reduce the effectiveness of the central login.