[12:54:38] Quick setup/PHP config q., if I may? Might be specific to my host. [12:56:42] Installed Mediawiki 1.28 with Softaculous on my (shared) host (http://gogetspace.com), and get error: [12:56:43] You are missing a required extension to PHP that MediaWiki requires to run. Please install: [12:56:43] iconv (more information) [12:57:00] PHPinfo is here: http://wiki.tullyhansen.com/phpinfo.php [12:57:06] Any help appreciated! [17:26:07] <_TWS> trying to install the Echo extension. Download from mediawiki, I get an error that there is no extension.json. Cloning from github, I get an error about an unsupported manifest version [17:26:10] <_TWS> any suggestions? [17:30:21] !e Echo [17:30:21] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo [17:31:10] _TWS: which version of MediaWiki? [17:31:18] <_TWS> 1.28 [17:31:30] <_TWS> the extension.json was just added a few weeks ago [17:31:51] <_TWS> so had to use require_once instead, and it's working [17:32:05] <_TWS> about to update Extension:Echo to reflect this [17:32:32] tullyhansen, as the error message already said, your host is missing the iconv PHP extension. Contact your hoster and ask about that or google how to install it manually if you have SSH access :) [17:33:10] <_TWS> er... maybe not. the incorrect installation instructions are from a template? [17:34:22] _TWS: I've updated it now [17:35:12] <_TWS> OIC! [17:35:32] <_TWS> now to see if Flow is working :) [17:36:04] <_TWS> nope, still needs more work [17:59:48] <_TWS> ugh... hitting these moving targets may be difficult :/ [18:24:32] You should use the branch of the extension that matches the branch of MW you're using [18:24:44] using master of an extension with older branch generally isn't supported [18:38:43] I finally solved my samba file permissions problem, it was only one line to add to my vagrant share :D [18:40:07] Reedy: That assumes extensions are developed in line with master, and people backport to extension branches... [18:40:22] Lcawte: Not really [18:40:39] Generally, an extension branched at the same time as master... Should be compatible in most cases [18:47:36] hi, I'm having this error: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Job/ElasticaWrite.php on line 44 -- what's wrong? [18:48:09] config? [20:20:58] why does wikipedia has all URLs under the /wiki/ or /w/ route rather than directly at / ? What other routes exist that could conflic with an article, if articles were put under /{page_title} ? [20:24:20] Guest54368: README, LICENSE, includes, extensions, skins... [20:26:25] Vulpix: any example in wikipedia? [20:26:58] Guest54368: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/skins [20:28:37] Vulpix: that's exactly what I'm saying, why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/skins and not https://en.wikipedia.org/skins ?? probably I didn't ask the right question earlier [20:29:11] Guest54368: because skins is a standard MediaWiki directory [20:30:08] ah you mean it would actually match a real directory in the filesystem [20:30:38] not on the actual wikipedia directory structure, though [20:30:58] only if MediaWiki would be installed in the root directory, not inside /w [20:39:48] Hallo people, [20:40:06] In Special:Search there is a form where can I select the namespaces. [20:40:15] This form is visible. [20:40:28] How can I make it compacted by default? [20:40:48] So to search only in main pages? [20:41:06] Thanks! [20:41:28] PMZ_: I see it compacted by default. What MediaWiki version are you using= [20:41:30] *? [20:41:38] Let me check... [20:42:02] MW 1.26.0. [20:42:37] Well, you may be right. But in our wiki the settings make it fully visible, and I'd like to make it compact... [20:43:26] so... revert those settings? [20:43:55] PMZ_: you are using ancient unsupported insecure software full of security issues, but I guess you know [20:44:13] You mean, 1.26 is ancient & insecure? [20:44:16] full of security issues? that's gross :) [20:44:23] there are quite a few. [20:44:31] PMZ_, yes that's what I mean. [20:45:14] Well, our one is without anonymous editors & without registration. Hope it will stay a bit more. [20:45:26] But how can I manage the search page view? [20:45:48] What settings do manage its compact view? [20:46:01] This is how it looks normally https://snag.gy/Mwpu0y.jpg [20:46:24] I don't know what have you done to see it "expanded", or how are you actually seeing it... [20:47:55] Vulpix, this is exactly what I hope to gain. I see the 4th variant, i. e. Advanced variant. [20:49:38] try to pastebin your LocalSettings.php, removing personal info or passwords, so we can take a look [20:50:22] this is stock MediaWiki with a few bundled extensions enabled, nothing more... [20:51:29] There is nothing about search in LocalSettings.php at ours. [20:52:11] are you using a special search engine? any relevant extension? [20:54:45] No, default engine. The trouble is only about the view of options in Special:Search. [20:55:15] I want options to be hiddent. To search in content pages only. Now the options are visible, and Advanced view mode. [20:55:31] I'm unable to reproduce your issue without your LocalSettings [20:55:58] OK, I will check the extensions turning them off one by one@ [20:56:16] the options aren't hidden by CSS or JavaScript, they're just not there, and you must have something on LocalSettings.php making them appear by default [20:56:40] the advanced options appear under a special URL parameter only [20:59:28] Yet in my installation they appear by default :-( [21:02:05] FOUND! [21:02:16] $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault -- there was a namespace without pages in it. [21:03:05] Looks like this is the source of trouble. Having set this array to namespaces with actual existing pages, I see the basic view of the Special:Search page. [21:03:12] and that makes the advanced search open by default? weird [21:03:12] Thank you for the advice! [21:03:45] Maybe if I add some page into that empty namespace, the search will become basic again :-).... [21:04:10] Truly weird. [21:04:36] Anyway, thanks and goodbye for now. [21:05:26] * Vulpix shrugs