[03:54:47] hi [03:55:22] I just deleted a bunch of spam from a wiki, and now the statistics are wrong [03:55:32] http://eko.space/index.php/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas "content pages: 1" [03:55:37] but http://eko.space/index.php/Especial:Todas shows 6 [03:55:56] I don't know if it's the spam deletion that broke the stats, or they were broken all along (I didn't count the spam pages) [05:01:27] how can I get a RSS/Atom feed of recent changes except my own? [05:01:41] ?hidemyself=1 doesn't work because the RSS reader won't be authenticated, so it won't know who "myself" is [08:03:24] hello [08:03:33] does anybody here have shell access to commons? [08:04:19] ??? [08:17:18] Husun: Hi! Very likely someone has, but that is a better question for #wikimedia-tech combined with your *actual* followup question :) [08:17:26] (as this channel is for MediaWiki support) [08:19:09] andre__ ahh, thanks, and I was wondering if there is a separate channel only for commons? [08:40:39] Husun: likely there is but the shell access aspect is probably more important than the actual site [08:40:56] Husun: and thanks by the way for working on those videos! very appreciated! [08:41:48] andre__ :) no problem [08:42:58] andre__ and by the way, how do we deal with JanZerebecki's problem? Do we skip the videos they are in? [08:57:25] Husun: we might either edit them, or not. Not entirely clear to me yet either... [08:57:42] Husun: yes i have access to do server side uploads. I'm waiting for qgil to answer. [08:58:35] jzerebecki: currently we are waiting for you to answer... [08:58:44] (see my last comment in there) [08:58:55] (and my last comment too) [08:59:34] andre__: qgil didn't answer me [08:59:51] jzerebecki: let me answer you in that task then :) [09:52:05] hello, i've moved a wiki installation from one server to another and also changed the db server. It's all working, except some media files are note displayed but if i access them directly via $path/images/a//foo.jpg it is there. I tried rebuildImages.php, but this didn't change anythong [10:20:32] debug log: [thumbnail] Thumbnail failed on : could not get local copy of "" [10:20:52] permissions are looking good [10:26:02] is this a locally uploaded image, or a image from commons using InstantCommons? [10:31:18] The image was uploaded [11:07:19] Hi all. I am working on implementing a global variable to allow users and admins to get the notifications, as in my project. I have completed the design of the variable. So how can I start off with the implementation ? [15:55:24] so, i tried to upload a file and this also didn't work: Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/b/b1". the permissions for the image director is 755, also chown -R www-data:www-data [15:55:33] i don't get it why it fails [15:55:34] Hi [15:56:50] php process is also running as www-data and other applications can upload files [15:57:32] I've got an issue with some new user accounts in my mediawiki install, after their first login they get a message akin to "You are not allowed to edit your personal informations: You dont have permission for this action" (the installation is not in english). I've extensively searched only, but nothing turned up. Any Ideas? [15:58:03] As far as I can tell the user permissions have been set exactly as with other (working) accounts [16:04:51] hns: hmm, what are the permissions for images/b? it says it's failing to create images/b/b1 [16:10:52] MatmaRex: drwxrwxr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 28 11:06 images/b b1 doesn't exist [16:13:24] so permissions are 775, i can set them to 777 to, but it doesn't matter [16:26:42] tried $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; same error but without /b/b1. Is there an option for mwstore://local-backend/local-public/? maybe it points to a wrong directory? [16:37:28] Is this page moved some where? I'm getting 502 error https://togetherjs-hub.wmflabs.org/ [16:38:49] sagarhani: 502 means something is wrong with the server (backend not reachable) try again later [16:39:40] hns: Yeah, I know about that. I'm not able to access that since more than 3 weeks. Looks like that page is moved somewhere I guess. [16:42:07] good question, maybe https://togetherjs.com/ ? [16:42:39] No. That's different. [16:42:58] I'm mean, I'm not looking for that. [16:43:46] https://wmflabs.org itself shows 502 error. [16:44:49] didn't know this site, so it is gone? https://tools.wmflabs.org/ is working [16:45:42] sagarhani: Hm. Appears to be part of the Visual Editor project: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Visualeditor gwicke, marktraceur, cscott_away ? [16:47:01] Matthew_: Hey, what's up? [16:47:47] marktraceur: Read up slightly. https://togetherjs-hub.wmflabs.org is down and sagarhani was asking about it. Appears to be part of the Visual Editor project. [16:48:03] Yeah. [16:48:06] Oh, that's probably cscott_away 's baby [16:48:24] I was trying to run togetherJS extension locally. But failed. [16:49:08] installed a fresh MW 1.26.3 and upload didn't work... y u can't create files: permissions - check, file_upload = On and open_base_dir is not set in php.ini - check - any ideas? [16:49:13] sagarhani: I don't think it's well maintained. What error are you getting? [16:50:51] No error. I doesn't work itself. [16:51:01] hns: Did you enable uploads? $wgEnableUploads = true; [16:51:01] But I see working here : https://doc.tiki.org/PluginTogether [16:51:51] sagarhani: I think Tiki is a different wiki software. [16:51:59] marktraceur: yes [16:52:00] sagarhani: What have you tried so far? [16:52:48] marktraceur: I have cloned the repo added in mediawiki/extensions directory. Also linked in localsettings.php file [16:52:50] hns: And where are you trying to upload? Special:Upload? [16:53:04] sagarhani: Did you install a TogetherJs server? [16:53:07] marktraceur: yes [16:53:28] hns: What error are you getting there? [16:53:35] marktraceur: Nope. Do I need to run TogetherJS server along with this ? [16:53:45] marktraceur: Could not create directory "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/b/b1". [16:53:57] sagarhani: I believe so. Otherwise you won't have much success using TogetherJs. [16:54:22] hns: What are the rwx permissions in your mw directory? [16:54:25] marktraceur: Okay. Thanks. I'll try it right now. [16:54:59] marktraceur: 755 (www-data:www-data) [16:55:42] hns: What about mediawiki/images? [16:56:07] marktraceur: BTW, building a collaborative editor extension is my GSoC project. I'll be working with it for a long time. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6727661862780928 [16:56:17] marktraceur: same, 755 (www-data:www-data) [16:56:39] hns: And www-data is definitely running your HTTP server? [16:57:26] sagarhani: Cool. Past work includes my extension EtherEditor which is now defunct [16:57:57] It was my third project as a WMF contractor :) [16:58:12] marktraceur: yes, nginx and php-fpm running as www-data [16:58:57] hns: Huh. That's weird. [16:59:04] marktraceur: Wow. Cool. It would have been great is EtherEditor extension was working. :) [16:59:22] marktraceur: yes, thas y it drives me crazy [17:01:02] !uploadpermissions [17:01:02] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Check_directory_security [17:01:16] hns: Try that, I forget all the steps in there [17:01:21] Maybe I missed one [17:04:07] sagarhani: I agree! A past opw intern, sucheta, also worked on it for a while. [17:04:18] marktraceur: did it multiple times and also googled around, every time set permissions ... [17:04:54] hns: Are you 100% certain that the mediawiki directory you're checking permissions on is the one your webserver is pointing at? [17:05:09] #mistakesmarkhasmade [17:06:09] marktraceur: yes, downloaded it extracted it and made all installation steps in directory mediawiki-1.26.3 [17:06:56] so i access it over foo.bar.tld/sub/mediawiki-1.26.3 [17:07:34] i don't understand why uploads are not working [17:07:50] That makes two of us :) [17:08:23] i installed another wiki (dokuwiki) and there the upload works (same file) [17:09:17] i try something ... [17:14:52] nahh, didn't work ether. setting permissions of /var/www... to very liberal values didn't change anything [17:15:15] so what means "mwstore://local-backend/local-public/" why no path? [17:16:04] Hi, I've installed an extension Gadgets in an internal wiki (version 1.26.3) but no tab Gadgets is shown in Special:Preferences. Does anybody know why? I'm using commit a62ab6b980ee26b7e4646489e357c930abf21890. [17:19:23] hns: MediaWiki does this derpy fake URL thing for files. I blame bawolff and brion mostly [17:20:04] hns: not quite sure what to tell you, maybe since brion was pinged anyway he can jump in [17:20:17] Urbanecm: do you have any gadgets installed yet? [17:20:28] thanks anyway :) [17:20:44] I'm looking now into the gid [17:20:48] I don't remember exactly when they snuck in [17:20:51] Yes, one gadget is in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [17:21:08] Urbanecm: And the gadget also has a script? [17:21:09] But it was with one of those abstraction layer things iirc [17:21:26] Yes. [17:21:55] Urbanecm: Is that all the steps on the extension page's instructions? I'm blanking [17:22:02] !e Gadgets [17:22:02] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets [17:22:02] brion: is there a way to check mwstore://local-backend/local-public/ is pointing to the right directory? [17:22:44] hns: probably but I don't know what it would be, unfortunately [17:23:00] Sure, Special:Version shows that the extension is installed. [17:23:43] hns: You could go into each instance of the error and change the error to give you the local directory maybe. Not sure if that would be trivial, but it's one way to do it [17:24:09] Urbanecm: I mean, are there any other installation or configuration steps on the extension page? [17:24:37] I don't see them. [17:25:02] Urbanecm: You have wfLoadExtension( 'Gadgets' ); in your LS? [17:25:12] Oh, duh [17:25:15] Yes you do [17:25:33] Sure. [17:25:38] marktraceur: Can you paste your gadgets definition here? [17:25:40] Er [17:25:46] That was for Urbanecm [17:25:51] Bloody phone [17:26:10] I imported MediaWiki:Gadget-SafeRollback and MediaWiki:Gadget-SafeRollback.js from cswiki to the internal wiki and I've added line SafeRollback[default]|SafeRollback.js to my MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [17:26:46] Urbanecm: if that's the exact text of that page, you need to add a * to the start of the line [17:27:10] Thanks! That was it. [17:27:15] Woo hoo [17:45:34] Hello, I was wondering how I can delete a wiki page... I no longer have access to the log in and password. I used it in college and it contains my person information [17:47:52] arielle3: contact the admin [17:48:54] I do not have her contact information any longer [17:49:30] there have to be contact informations on the webpage [17:54:32] how do I find the admin from my wiki page? [18:04:08] where is it hosted? domain? [18:04:40] or is it self hosted? [18:17:38] you can try: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords#Use_Special:PasswordReset [18:18:02] * hns is now afk [19:45:21] The page is under http://wiki.dickinson.edu/ [19:52:34] well, we could have helped [19:54:05] if s/he comes back, http://wiki.dickinson.edu/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop shows that there is an admin user with the username Bryantt, and http://www.dickinson.edu/info/20392/academic_technology/2487/academic_technology_staff profiles a Language Technology Specialist by the name of Todd Bryant with the e-mail address bryantt@dickinson.edu [20:01:38] * hashar awards the forensic barnstar to ori [20:02:12] :) [20:03:05] mines are less skilled: strace -f -e recvfrom,sendto -s 1024 [20:03:37] all the magic being really "recvfrom,sendto" thanks to Brandon [20:08:47] speaking of strace, the blog of Julia Evans (http://jvns.ca/) is awesome. http://jvns.ca/strace-zine-portrait.pdf is a comic-book-style zine on strace [20:10:14] I think as engineers there is a really strong tendency to feel really insecure about what you don't know and what you think you should know, and all of that anxiety can really get in the way of clear understanding. Julia's writings are really amazingly ego-free and intellectually curious and I usually learn a lot from them [20:11:03] she has a whole bunch of really great posts on strace [20:31:44] hello [20:31:55] i had a question about infoboxes and translation features [20:32:06] i have a friend from Korea who is helping me translate a site [20:32:40] however, for some reason, the infobox's boxes become too small to contain the lines without appearing almost vertical [20:32:48] http://vaporwave.wiki/wiki/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F/ko example [20:33:09] is there a way for me to manually modify the sizes of the text fields on the left? [20:48:06] Hi, I'm looking to have a permalink to a revision and in the History view, to see similar to a git tag ... [20:49:13] the idea is to have some documentation/approval workflow (multiple approvals/releases) [20:55:02] azbarcea, well we have FlaggedRevs but that's basically a way to mark as "stable master" [20:55:55] !rewrite [20:55:56] 1) Try as a fail-safe method; 2) Do not put the files into the document root; 3) Do not map the pages into the document root (see !nullpath); 4) Use different, non-overlapping paths for real files and virtual pages; 5) Do not set a RewriteBase; 6) Put all rules into the .htaccess file in the document root. See also !shorturls [20:56:07] !shorturls [20:56:07] To create simple URLs (such as the /wiki/PAGENAME style URLs on Wikimedia sites), follow the instructions at or try the new beta tool at . There are instructions for most different webserver setups. If you have problems getting the rewrite rules to work, see !rewriteproblem [21:00:07] Thanks for your suggestions. My mediawiki instance has already shortURLs ... [21:00:40] that means all pages are short URLs ... indeed, I was thinking to use #REDIRECT to point to exact version [21:02:38] but I would also like to see that page in the "View history" ... The only way I was seeing is either as a extension (similar to Tags), or in the description as the URL to the tagged page, like " (