[04:31:43] hi fhocutt [04:32:18] hi sumanah! [04:32:56] I'm sorry I haven't been available the last few days [04:33:01] fhocutt: (on IRC I mean) [04:33:15] fhocutt: does now work for vidchat? or do we need to wait till 10? [04:33:27] now works for me! [04:33:32] let me headphone up [06:29:05] Hello everyone. [06:29:16] I'm looking for help regarding the installation of VisualEditor on my own Wiki: can't get it working. [06:30:03] When I click on the modify link, nothing happens. [06:53:39] hi [06:54:00] I wonder why special:activeusers doesnt show all active users. how does it come? [06:54:25] Juandev: Which users are missing [06:54:56] It might skip bots and people who are active due to "wikidata" edits, but otherwise it should show all the users [06:55:03] possibly with a small delay due to caching [06:56:04] bawolf can you see here: https://cs.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AAktivn%C3%AD_u%C5%BEivatel%C3%A9&limit=50&username=&hidebots=1 [06:56:20] this user: https://cs.wikiversity.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD:P%C5%99%C3%ADsp%C4%9Bvky/Kenjiro995 [06:56:21] ? [06:56:56] because, I dont see him, there [06:58:17] Has someone already installed VisualEditor and got it working? [07:03:35] bawolff: :-)? [07:07:03] * bawolff not sure [07:08:24] he he, thats why ask here on the channel, whether it is bug, leak or normal behaviour because "something" [07:09:01] well, we may wait a week, maybe it will work after some time [07:11:10] * bawolff leaning towards bug [07:11:30] But i might just be missing something obvious as I'm getting a little sleepy [07:12:30] hmm, the cache date on the page says 8 minutes, so it really shouldn't be a cache thing [07:15:07] sure [07:15:39] I would understand the feature doesnt show recent contributors, but this... [07:17:46] yeah, I think there's a bug somewhere [08:30:35] I don't like the editnotice "Please do not post support questions here." https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:Extension:Translate/Installation&action=edit§ion=new [09:06:49] hey! we are using mediawiki in my company, a lot of different departments are adding pages and the page names are starting to collide. What is the appropriate solution here? Spawn multiple instances of mediawiki, or use namespaces? [09:12:09] "A custom namespace can be used to hold content that should not be shown on the search results page, for example pages that are used only for transclusion." [09:12:39] Don't think namespace is the appropriate solution. [09:13:55] What about the categories? [09:17:23] mago_: namespaces sounds like a useful way to distinguish pages [09:17:30] well, categories doesn't prevent collisions in the namespace [09:19:18] for example, a lot of pages we have are for different projects. so people start creating pages named things like "Project Information" or "Getting started guide", referring to that particular project. Perhaps each project should have their own name space? Or should you apply a naming convention? So you prefix all page names with ProjectName-Getting Started? The downside with namespacing using the title is that .. well, the title looks ugly [09:31:22] mago_: you can have subpages, so ProjectName/Getting Started [09:31:31] see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subpages [09:36:59] mago_: what about breaket distinguishing and hiding from th tittle? [09:37:38] N3oXid: categories sounds technically good, but are they user friendly? [09:38:23] Juandev, breaket what? [09:38:40] the problem of mediawiki is, you cannot have two pages with same name, so what about to manipulate page titles and h1? but that would need some programming [09:39:18] Juandev, i thought the whole point of namespaces is just that .. to have to pages with the same title [09:39:25] how do you manipulate page titles and h1? [09:39:27] mago_: page 1: Marketing (DPT), page 2: Marketing (hfg) [09:40:09] mago_: there is an extension for h1 manipulation [09:41:39] perhaps it is just easier to run a new instance? i mean, thats what wikipedia is doing, they have a separate instance for each language [09:41:54] it is kind of like doing 1 instance per department within a company [09:42:04] mago_: that might be also the way [09:42:37] mago_: I think what is important for you is the purpose, for what purpose is the wiki used and not to do it userunfrendly and difficult to your users [09:44:36] there are multiple ways how to solve the problem: new wiki instalation, brackets, namespace, subpage naming, prefix naming, uniq naming [09:46:49] mago_: there is an extension, which may help users to found same pages, but you can preset path, so they are founded e.g. like subpages of a general topic [09:47:48] e.g. user A will Create the page Marketing, User B to, but it may be someting like "Marketing/User A", "Marketing/User B" [09:48:34] which is this one: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox [09:51:02] h1 manipulation can go with {{DISPLAYTITLE:Lorem ipsum}} [09:52:01] aha legoktm already said that:-) [10:21:31] Hello! I was applying JOINS on tables in mediawiki. Here is the code https://gist.github.com/albertcoder/e5073b732a2ecfa2b12c [10:21:57] and I am getting this error "Error: 1052 Column 'id' in on clause is ambiguous (localhost)" [10:22:50] IIRC you need to list wiki_material in the tables array [10:23:15] as otherwise it's not currently included in the query when it's tried to be built [10:23:22] 'wiki_material.id=mat_id' [10:23:56] sorry Reedy Let me explain the problem I am facing. [10:24:58] The link I have shared above outputs correct results but if I use this as 10th line " 'wiki_material.id=mat_id' ) ) )" [10:25:08] It gives the above error that I had mentioned. [10:25:19] yes [10:25:25] because you're introducing a new table [10:25:38] randomly in the middle of a join [10:26:15] As an aside, using "id" as a column name isn't really good practise. You should prefix it with something (hell, you might want to prefix all the columns in a table) [10:26:30] Reedy, wait! I think I have messed up my own doubt. [10:29:45] The link I shared refers to correct code but the official tutorial "http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access" I followed for joins in MW had like this 'id=mat_id' ) ) ) which is equivalent to 10th line in my code. [10:29:56] Hope I made it clear now. :) [10:30:48] I had to use 'wiki_material.id=mat_id' ) ) ) to avoid that error. [10:33:10] Reedy, this error arises because I have "id" in both table "material" and table "boiling point". [10:33:35] so qualify the usages [10:33:42] You can see my database design here http://202.164.53.122/~albertcoder/images/fdb.JPG [10:34:05] I have used "id" as the primary key of each table. [10:34:31] So I cannot edit "id" in all the tables. [10:35:15] Having multiple tables with columns named exactly the same is just going to cause you pain [10:35:55] With that design, you're also going to end up with N tables to cope with N properties [10:35:59] So you suggest to give unique column names for the primary key of each table, right? [10:36:08] Not just for the primary key [10:36:12] Prefix all the columsn [10:36:27] den_id, den_value, den_mat_id, den_timestamp [10:36:46] Yea that would be fine. [11:03:09] hello Amgine ! I think Reedy is away, did you understand the problem I am facing? [11:03:42] if I do a hierachy of categories, like MainCategory -> SubCategory, and a page ABC becomes a member of SubCategory, is there anyway I can make the category links displayed on ABC shows the hierachy? Basically, instead of [[Category:SubCategory]] showing up as just a link to SubCategory, it would show a links to both MainCategory and Subcategory? [11:05:18] compare the 2nd and 10th line here https://gist.github.com/albertcoder/e5073b732a2ecfa2b12c , my doubt will be clear. This code works fine. [11:06:26] It is the different names of tables that I have to use that make me uneasy. [11:07:45] wiki_material still isn't an included table [11:08:35] Reedy, I didn't get. Please make it clear. [11:09:29] wiki_material.id [11:09:40] that's saying the id column of the wiki_material table [11:10:35] Are you using table prefixes? [11:10:58] Yes during installation I was asked [11:11:10] So I used wiki_ as my prefix. [11:11:12] You shouldn't hard code it like that [11:12:20] win 42 [11:12:22] lose 42 [11:12:38] net 0 [11:12:53] Reedy, Yes it's just a demo. I will do consider. [11:13:45] But do I really need to give prefix like the one I have given during installation? [11:13:53] Yes [11:13:57] Well, in that case you do [11:14:16] When you pass just the table name like you did as the first parameter, mediawiki will adjust the table names to account for the prefix [11:14:34] when it's given 'wiki_material.id=mat_id', it's essentially impossible for it to know it needs to do that [11:15:24] "{$dbr->tableName( 'material' )}.id=mat_id" [11:16:15] Let me try this. [11:16:27] Well I have gotten your point. [11:18:14] wow! Thanks reedy that worked. :) [12:16:50] Hiya. The person that setup the wiki put a custom namespace on id 501. So the wiki thinks it is a talk page. There are already a handful of pages on it. How can I fix this? Can I just change the id? [12:19:31] (Huh, looks like he had a 500 and then removed it later? But it was a completely unrelated namespace...) [12:20:18] Are there any pages in 500? [12:21:30] It doesn't look like it. [12:51:11] I fixed it up. Thanks. [13:58:15] I need help [13:58:26] Is there is mass-deletion script? [13:59:30] !e Nuke [13:59:30] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke [13:59:34] !spam [13:59:34] For information about combating and handling spam in MediaWiki, see and . [15:10:50] Looking for some design input on an extension. (http://goo.gl/xudI7q) Looking for a way to pass both tabular data and config details to a tag. The config info gets used to build a JSON structure with multiple levels so simple key=value isn't enough. The idea is for the tag to output a
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