[00:31:30] Does anyone know whether citoid service is open for external wikis or not? Looking at this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#Public_API it seems like it is, but not sure it's working [06:20:08] Special:UserRights allows me to toggle the groups for a user, Special:ListUsers shows me that a user is correctly in the group, Special:ListGroupRights shows me the rights that go with that group, $user->getGroups() show me the group, but $user->getRights() doesn't show the new right. What could possibly explain this? [06:25:04] aha! $wgGrantPermissions['basic'] [08:15:14] Hello! Does anyone here have experience with setting up Visual Editor on MediaWiki 1.28.2? (VE Version: 0.1.0 (93528b7)) - I could swear I've done everything right, but all it does when you click the web edit button is Popup with: Error loading data from server: Could not connect to the server. Would you like to retry? [08:56:54] mcmonkey: #mediawiki-visualeditor [08:57:35] thanks! [13:43:57] Hello and thanks for the great software [13:45:42] I need to share the user database between multiple wikis [13:45:50] running on multiple machines preferably [14:02:23] !shareduser | jubo2 [14:02:23] jubo2: MediaWiki can be configured to share user login data between between multiple wikis. See . [15:37:46] In "AuthenticationProvider"s and "AuthenticationRequest"s I see where the form fields are defined, but I don't see any validation code. I would like to create a text input with a validation pattern (html attribute 'pattern' with value being regular expression). Is there any way to create such a form element for use during account creation? [17:29:52] I'm looking to add a 2nd wiki in addition to http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/Main_Page and I want them to use CentralAuth and the WikiFamily structure [17:30:21] which should I set up first? [17:30:54] I think I want to WikiFamily the single existing wiki first [17:31:07] then make the second wiki in WikiFamily [17:31:29] and then copy the user-table to that wiki and use the new wiki as the central auth central wiki [18:06:25] y0 got a question [18:06:44] what does the 'spoofuser' refer to in the following line? [18:06:46] $ mysqldump -u $wgDBuser -p $wgDbName spoofuser > /tmp/spoofuser.temp [18:07:03] is there actually a table called spoofuser [18:07:21] It used to be called user [18:07:35] another question [18:08:03] spoofuser looks like the table that Extension:AntiSpoof uses: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof/spoofuser_table [18:08:07] The wiki I install the CentralAuth extension on will automatically become the "master" wiki regarding the databases [18:08:07] There's an anti spoofing extendion [18:08:27] ok.. should I install the anti-spoofing extension? [18:08:40] the user and spoofuser tables are separate [18:08:51] bawolff: ok thanks for info [18:08:58] depends if you want its features or not :p [18:09:20] it helps prevent impersonating other users [18:09:41] if you let just anyone register, its probably a good idea [18:09:45] I want that [18:10:11] Oooh I notice it is written by Brion Vibber [18:10:16] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof/spoofuser_table [18:10:17] nice chap [18:11:09] Yep. A significant portion of mediawiki from that era was written by brion [18:11:36] so let me get this clear.. installing anti-spoof first on the target wiki and only then the Central Auth? [18:14:17] CentralAuth has to be installed on all participating wikis [18:15:08] aha. thanks bawolff [18:15:45] Umm. Im not sure if any ordering is required for when to install, but it probably doesnt matter [18:15:52] bawolff: is there no "authoritative" wiki on who gets what username ... or they really global? [18:16:45] Central auth has a central db, but it has to be installed everywhere so that client wikis know to look in central db [18:20:18] Jubo2: are you sure you want centralauth? In most configurations shared user tables is a lot simpler and easier to setup [18:20:30] bawolff: I want centralauth belive me [18:44:02] bawolff: and hosting the centralauth database on a high security server is of improtance? [18:44:33] Coz the Björneborg hosting guys upped their VPS offering to VPS-from-cloud built on top of OpenStack [18:45:11] There are various advantages to choosing the new .. mainly snapshots [18:45:23] Its not that important relative to hosting the rest of mw on a secure server [18:45:40] once someone has hacked your server, you are screwed [18:45:51] and if any serious traffic then the configurable subnets, routers and router safety policies [18:45:58] I really want to get one of those new servers [18:46:06] But but but Debian9 [18:46:09] SHINY! [18:46:14] lol [18:46:19] is coming out on June 19th iirc [18:48:20] Yeah, i think wikimedia is already testing using it [18:50:53] If you want to be paranoid about password security, you can tweak the number of pbkdf rounds to help reduce risk of bruteforcing in the event of a db breach [19:21:32] y0 what?!? [19:21:41] pbkdf? [19:47:50] Hello all! I was wondering if anyone knew if https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters still worked [19:49:12] I'm running into problem when installing wikidata-query-rdf [19:49:15] $ ./munge.sh -f data/wikidata-20150427-all-BETA.ttl.gz -d data/split -l en -s [19:49:32] oh yeah.. I totally forgot to replace url [19:49:37] eiku filename [19:50:36] nope. I remembered.. that was just copy-paste from the github instructions on it [19:50:46] that line reads .gz [19:51:32] and I downloaded the .bz2 [19:54:03] is ./munge.sh expecting a .gz file and if so how do I change it to want to process a .bz2 [21:01:17] Hey all, I have paorlbem linking to a file in MediaWiki. I have a pdf let's name it myfile.pdf. I uploaded this file via the Upload Specialpage (Special:Upload). The file got uploaded to the server and placed in $mediawikirootfolder/images/8/8c/myfile.pdf. [21:02:01] What happens when you try to link to it? [21:02:30] Now I would like to link to the file in a way that this file get's opened in a new tab, when the link is clicked. I thought this would work like this [[File:myfile.pdf]] [21:03:11] Ensure you have PDFHandler installed [21:03:15] The link appears with the name File:myfile.pdf. When I click this link I'm getting to the page images/8/8c/myfile.pdf which doesn't have text. [21:03:44] (Extension) [21:04:59] Ok, I will install this extension and try again. [21:08:59] "I'm getting to the page images/8/8c/myfile.pdf which doesn't have text" --> that looks like a misconfiguration [21:09:31] no extension would fix this [21:10:05] probably bad rewrite rules [21:48:58] Does anybody know where form input (eg user preferences, account creation, etc) is validated? [22:18:41] Can anyone explain why this code breaks access to Special:Preferences for signed in users? https://dpaste.de/7PeY [22:18:56] I am using 1.27.3 [22:20:12] without line 4 it works as it should [22:29:57] agh I see already [22:30:25] user is null and then the permissions of the null user get cached before the proper user has been initialized