[00:01:21] <p858snake>	 i bet bawolff even knows Katie's cryptonight
[00:01:40] <bawolff>	 cryptonight
[00:02:10] <bawolff>	 Kryptonite?
[00:58:05] <Katie>	 Kryptonite.
[00:58:11] <Katie>	 Unsolicited.
[00:58:20] <Katie>	 (o;
[02:23:44] <MJ94>	 Hi, I installed the ConfirmAccount extension on my wiki today, but I am getting the same error mentioned here, but I'm a little confused on how to implement the fix (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:ConfirmAccount/Could_not_create_directory_%22mwstore://accountcreds-backend/accountcreds-public/w/wi/wik%22. - If anyone would be willing to help, that'd be great!
[02:24:12] <MJ94>	 Note that the end dot is required for that link.
[02:27:30] <GEOFBOT>	 MJ94: what is your Mediawiki version?
[02:27:44] <MJ94>	 the latest
[02:27:52] <GEOFBOT>	 from git?
[02:28:05] <GEOFBOT>	 or 1.25.1?
[02:28:14] <MJ94>	 1.251
[02:28:26] <MJ94>	 MediaWiki	1.25.1
[02:28:52] <GEOFBOT>	 you downloaded confirmaccount through git snapshot?
[02:29:01] <MJ94>	 yes
[02:29:14] <GEOFBOT>	 i think the git snapshot may not be compatible with 1.25.1
[02:29:17] <GEOFBOT>	 try this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/ConfirmAccount
[02:30:36] <MJ94>	 So, I need to reinstall it all?
[02:30:51] <MJ94>	 GEOFBOT: as in, delete the current ConfirmAccount folder?
[02:30:57] <GEOFBOT>	 yes, replace it
[02:31:24] <MJ94>	 GEOFBOT: will the current (one) account requests be deleted?
[02:31:48] <GEOFBOT>	 i doubt it
[02:31:52] <GEOFBOT>	 you can make a copy of the current folder
[02:32:09] <GEOFBOT>	 just in case, but I think that extension databases are stored in the mediawiki database
[02:33:37] <MJ94>	 GEOFBOT: okay, cool, thanks.
[02:33:48] <MJ94>	 GEOFBOT: Hopefully the links will be updated soon
[02:34:17] <GEOFBOT>	 the links are usually kept at git snapshot, rather than compatible with 1.25
[02:34:36] <GEOFBOT>	 extensiondistributor is a more reliable way, but sometimes the extension version labels are wrong too
[02:34:44] <GEOFBOT>	 in which case you can try using an older version e.g. 1.24?
[02:40:44] <MJ94>	 GEOFBOT: still erroring :( Could not create directory "mwstore://accountcreds-backend/accountcreds-public/m/mj/mj9".
[02:40:44] <MJ94>	 I even installed the update
[02:40:56] <GEOFBOT>	 ?
[02:41:00] <GEOFBOT>	 *did you run update.php ?
[02:41:05] <MJ94>	 Yep.
[02:41:14] <GEOFBOT>	 then try the 1.24 version :P
[02:41:34] <GEOFBOT>	 the tags that set which extensions are compatible with which mediawiki versions are not very reliable
[02:41:35] <bawolff>	 MJ94: Sounds like a permissions error
[02:41:37] <Reedy>	 Isn't that more likely a config/file perm error?
[02:41:50] <GEOFBOT>	 ^ they're smarter, listen to them
[02:42:32] <MJ94>	 Reedy: bawolff - I don't think it is, and my Googling pointed to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:ConfirmAccount/Could_not_create_directory_%22mwstore://accountcreds-backend/accountcreds-public/w/wi/wik%22. so maybe
[02:42:55] <bawolff>	 MJ94: Check the file permissions/ownership of the images directory and possibly the images/accountcred-public directory (I think that's how directory name is formed, silly useless error messages)
[02:42:58] <Reedy>	 mwstore is just mediawiki abstraction for file access
[02:43:52] <Reedy>	 bawolff: That looks vaguely right
[02:44:26] <p858snake>	 we still havn't changed the default uploads directory from /images?
[02:45:45] <bawolff>	 p858snake: Are support for videos is crap anyways, so might as well call it images
[02:45:48] <bawolff>	 *our
[02:46:10] <Reedy>	 /uploadedshit
[02:46:49] <p858snake>	 /uploads /media /virusheaven
[02:49:02] <bawolff>	 Hmm, yeah it defaults to $wgUploadDirectory . "/accountcreds"
[02:49:54] <bawolff>	 MJ94: So make sure that mywikidirectory/images is owned by the php user (usually www-data), and it has sufficient permissions on the directory (e.g. rwx) and that there is no selinux thing interfering or anything like that
[02:52:23] <MJ94>	 what permissions should they have?
[02:52:23] <MJ94>	 rwx?
[02:52:24] * MJ94 isn't too familiar with unix
[02:54:48] <bawolff>	 MJ94: Is your server on linux?
[02:54:59] <bawolff>	 The command is something like
[02:55:19] <bawolff>	 chmod 700 /path/to/images/directory
[02:57:27] <MJ94>	 bawolff: chown -R www-data?
[02:58:16] <bawolff>	 you'd want to put the path to the image directory at the end of that
[02:58:26] <bawolff>	 chown -R www-data /path/to/images
[02:58:36] <bawolff>	 replacing /path/to/images with the real thing
[02:59:22] <MJ94>	 I did that.
[02:59:22] <MJ94>	 :)
[03:04:17] <MJ94>	 To the images/ folder at least
[03:04:18] <MJ94>	 I didn't see the accountcred- directory
[03:04:19] <MJ94>	 bawolff: Oh well, I'll research it tomorrow. Thanks Reedy bawolff and GEOFBOT 
[03:05:01] <GEOFBOT>	 no problem
[03:05:14] <GEOFBOT>	 although I was leading you down the wrong path :P
[03:12:15] <p858snake|_>	 MJ94: try creating the directory and making sure the right permissions are set on it
[03:20:15] <MJ94>	 no luck p858snake|_ 
[17:25:02] <DonkeyKongFanati>	 I was wondering how transcluding things that are not templates could work. (I want to transclude some Special Pages of the Maintenance type on a subpage of mine.)
[17:33:06] <Reedy>	 Some special pages are includeable
[17:33:07] <Reedy>	 Some are not
[17:34:03] <DonkeyKongFanati>	 Why are only some special pages able to be transcluded?
[17:45:46] <GEOFBOT>	 security maybe?
[17:46:05] <GEOFBOT>	 probably also because some special pages are written in PHP and JS, rather than wikimarkup
[17:46:36] <Reedy>	 There's not any need for a lot of them to be transcluded
[23:21:58] <nicky22>	 hello, is there anyone here very familiar with extension:translate? I have this problem where I cannot mark (update) existing marked pages from translation if the previous revision which is used to compare changes has been deleted from database
[23:23:25] <nicky22>	 there's a site where I work on and it purges all the revisions from its database from time to time which makes it unable to mark translations, if that makes sense
[23:41:34] <nicky22>	 is it possible to mark pages for translation even if the revision from its previous marking is not available??
[23:45:48] <nicky22>	 is it possible to mark pages for translation even if the revision from its previous marking is not available??
[23:46:07] <nicky22>	 wtf help me please
[23:46:46] <ubuntourist>	 Our mediawiki instance is hosted on a site that just upgraded PCRE? and is now full of "preg compilation failed" messages. I cannot alter the PHP or MySQL versions. The current versions are PHP 5.2.17 and MediaWiki 1.20.2.
[23:47:23] <ubuntourist>	 (MySQL is at Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.43-37.2, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1.)
[23:48:47] <ubuntourist>	 mediawiki.org has instructions for 1.25 but requires a newer version of PHP. Does a version between 1.20.2 and 1.25 handle the problem without requiring a PHP upgrade?
[23:52:32] <nicky22>	 is it possible to mark pages for translation even if the revision from its previous marking is not available??
[23:53:39] <ubuntourist>	 Also, how are mediawiki sites federated? I attempted to register, and it says there's a user on "another site" with the same name. I suspect that user is me, but I want to know how to find the "other site".
[23:54:12] <nicky22>	 only me and you here
[23:54:58] <Krenair>	 ubuntourist, what extensions are you running?
[23:55:50] <ubuntourist>	 Krenair, hold a sec and I'll check. I'm not usually the one doing maintenance of the site.
[23:56:18] <Krenair>	 there are multiple ways you can group mediawiki logins together
[23:58:31] <ubuntourist>	 Krenair, assuming looking in /extensions is sufficient, ConfirmEdit/ Nuke/  Vector/ Gadgets/ ParserFunctions/ Renameuser/ WikiEditor/
[23:58:44] <Krenair>	 look at Special:Version on your wiki
[23:59:07] <Krenair>	 although I doubt you'd get other extensions like CA installed outside of the extensions directory
[23:59:10] <Krenair>	 hm
[23:59:36] <Krenair>	 is your wiki public?
[23:59:56] <ubuntourist>	 I get a blank page saying "Version"