[04:55:51] Hello! I really need some help. Setting up a new server and my wiki (is displaying byt$ sudo service apache2 restart [04:55:52] * Restarting web s [04:56:54] Hello! I really need some help. Setting up a new server and my wiki (http://64.146.253.228:8110/Main_Page) is displaying very weirdly with stuff like l&jj;i?b?w??&jj [04:58:17] would you please look at this display? i betcha you could tell me very quickly, and it would be an enormous help since i can't think of even where to look [04:59:03] it's happening on all six wikis i am setting up, not just one, on this farm [04:59:59] it looks like some kind of character encoding problem to be displaying the content so weirdly [05:01:06] the sidebar doesnt have this problem, and it is happening across at least two mediawiki versions I have installed [05:02:53] for this wiki -- http://64.146.253.228:8110/Main_Page -- mw 1.20.8 is installed [05:06:14] Hello! I really need some help. Setting up a new server and my wiki (http://64.146.253.228:8110/Main_Page) is displaying very weirdly with stuff like l&jj;i?b?w??&jj [05:13:52] I'm thinking since the content, not the sidebars banner or footer, is displaying weirdly, that it has to do with the settings for the database character set or the like, since I transferred these over [05:29:22] I really need your advice -- would you take a look at this? thanks [05:40:34] hypergrove: It's a sunday, most people aren't around. [05:44:22] Niharika, thank you so much for replying. I am trying to debug what i think is a character set mismatch. my database is set to utf-8 i believe (from phpmyadmin) and the html output is utf8 [05:46:09] would you suggest a table i should look at via phpmyadmin that can indicate a root cause? [05:51:24] hypergrove: I'm sorry but I have no idea about it. I'd suggest you ask around here on Monday. [05:51:51] i see, oh darn! [05:52:15] what timezone are most people in - pacific? [05:53:16] (i am in south africa just now) [06:24:51] hypergrove: Pacific mostly, I think. [11:42:06] Is it possible to search for non-wikilinked occurences of a word in MediaWiki? [11:49:27] I suppose you'd have to do a regex search in the wikitext to accomplish this. [14:32:08] How do wikibooks work in terms of writing stuff? For example, there is a Sed book there, I edited the main (and only) page and added a link to another page wich I wrote (and will write more) content. How should I interact with the other users that started the page in order to avoid that I write stuff and someone think it is a bad idea and deletes or completely changes what I do? [14:32:46] H'm. I think I should talk about this in #wikipedia. [14:36:02] FernandoBasso: or better in #wikibooks [14:37:50] this is the channel for the mediawiki software, we don't support social aspects of particular sites [14:48:03] All right. [15:27:07] in bug T54702, when tried to edit translation it is working fine,it didn't complain about any insufficient privileges.Is it fixed? [15:27:45] !task 54702 [15:27:45] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54702 [15:28:10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54702 [15:30:30] pratikbsp: the task is closed Resolved [15:32:44] thanx, i see that now [15:33:48] I have to admit that I realized it was closed *after* testing it... It's not the first time I don't notice the current status of the bug [15:34:46] I feel the current position/style of the task status is far from ideal [15:37:30] yaa, it can be above description, for better noticing [16:42:06] my mediawiki install sends me mail when authenticating my mail account, but it doesnt seem to send me mail on changes to pages [16:42:47] any idea where to start troubleshooting, all the settings on my user account are set as they should [16:46:14] internetman: check the number and/or type of jobs in the job queue. I think email notifications are sent from the job queue. If jobs aren't being run, you won't get notifications [16:46:30] Vulpix: cron? [16:46:38] !jobqueue [16:46:38] The Job Queue is a way for mediawiki to run large update jobs in the background. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue [16:46:45] Vulpix: cheers! [16:49:47] Vulpix: hm, running maintenance/runJobs.php didnt get me any mails [16:51:28] the next step would be to enable the debug log, make an edit that would trigger an email watchlist notification, run jobs and check the log for any error condition with the emails [16:51:31] !debug [16:51:31] For information on debugging (including viewing errors), see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug . A list of related configuration variables is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Debug.2Flogging [16:51:56] fantastic! [16:55:07] hm [17:04:26] Vulpix: my debug file doesnt say anything about email. now i also tried retrieving my password from login which didnt work either. luckily it doesnt freeze the account hehe [17:06:53] showJobs.php tells me making changes doesnt create a job to begin with [17:07:03] so i guess mail isnt where the problem is [22:14:44] Hey guys, how can I make MW process its job queue? (I don't have shell access) [22:42:37] anyone? [22:59:50] dgrezc, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgJobRunRate