[04:21:01] <yar>	 i'm trying to update a very old extension to work with modern mediawiki. it had a form which posts to a custom php entry point which manually loaded includes/user/User.php - this approach doesn't seem to work anymore for many reasons. what's the best strategy for replacing this?
[05:33:05] <samwilson>	 yar: maybe you don't need to use the custom entry oint? change it to an API endpoint?
[05:33:23] <samwilson>	 then you'll be inside mediawiki proper, and can use everything normally
[09:27:24] <gr8>	 How can I insert code snippets into a wiki article? I couldn't find it via google
[09:29:53] <gr8>	 All I find is things like this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Snippets or this https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Code
[09:30:06] <gr8>	 I just want to have a source code listing in the article
[09:31:46] <gr8>	 i.e. that does not wrap long lines but makes a scroll box
[09:31:53] <gr8>	 you know what I mean?
[09:33:28] <SirLouen>	 hello, is anyone here using Polyglot extension in their site?
[09:45:19] <Heathenpizzafair>	 Im so lost. I ended up here while trying to commit on apache can anyone advise?
[10:36:38] <gr8>	 I don't think there is anyone here who can help
[11:06:12] <SirLouen>	 what does this mean with "magic redirect": iw_local: whether the wiki is local, and the "magic redirect" mechanism should apply. Defaults to false.
[13:23:46] <SirLouen>	 what does this mean with "magic redirect": iw_local: whether the wiki is local, and the "magic redirect" mechanism should apply. Defaults to false.
[14:18:00] <Reception123>	 Hi. I need some help about DjVu thumbnails not being generated, instead the DjVu "logo" appears. I've checked the logs and I don't see anything indicating an error, so I'm not sure how to proceed
[15:27:09] <stormi>	 Hi! Is there a way to give bureaucrat rights to a user without using another bureaucrat user? Through Localsettings.php or another setting file?
[15:28:20] <Skizzerz>	 SirLouen: if you have a redirect page to an interwiki link where iw_local is set, then you will actually be redirected (via HTTP 302) to the other site
[15:28:39] <Skizzerz>	 if iw_local is not set, then it will just display the redirect page (as if redirect=no was specified in the URL)
[15:29:05] <Skizzerz>	 stormi: the createAndPromote.php maintenance script is what you'd be after
[15:29:26] <stormi>	 Skizzerz: thanks
[15:29:27] <Skizzerz>	 see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CreateAndPromote.php for more details
[15:29:42] <Skizzerz>	 (despite the name, it can be used to give sysop/bcrat to an existing account)
[15:29:57] <SirLouen>	 Skizzerz: you mean a REDIRECT tag in the page?
[15:30:03] <Skizzerz>	 SirLouen: yes
[15:30:29] <SirLouen>	 but why it says "magic redirect"
[15:30:49] <Skizzerz>	 because normal wiki redirects don't send you off to completely different sites
[15:31:10] <SirLouen>	 ok, i see now
[15:32:12] <SirLouen>	 so with if iw_local it just permits the redirect to outside interwiki pages
[15:32:31] <Skizzerz>	 it also works with external links TO the wiki
[15:32:44] <Skizzerz>	 e.g. if you visit a page name yourwiki.example/wiki/iw:Page
[15:32:49] <Skizzerz>	 where iw is an interwiki prefix
[15:32:51] <Skizzerz>	 it will redirect you
[15:33:47] <SirLouen>	 if iw is interwiki.com and you go to yourwiki.example/iw:Page then it will redirect to interwiki.com/Page
[15:34:03] <Skizzerz>	 sure
[15:34:16] <SirLouen>	 in case iw_local is not set then it will send you where? 
[15:34:37] <Skizzerz>	 it'll try to resolve iw: as a namespace
[15:34:40] <SirLouen>	 to a page called iw:Page ?
[15:34:45] <Skizzerz>	 or failing that a page named iw:Page in the main namespace
[15:36:03] <SirLouen>	 so in this case interwiki > namespace > page
[15:36:49] <SirLouen>	 Skizzerz: have you used Polyglot ?
[15:36:53] <Skizzerz>	 nope
[15:36:56] <Skizzerz>	 sorry
[15:37:25] <SirLouen>	 ok, it looks confusing 
[15:37:54] <SirLouen>	 i'm thinking if it's a better idea to use a wiki farm instead of that extension
[15:38:08] <Skizzerz>	 farms are complicated too :)
[15:38:26] <SirLouen>	 for multiple language wiki (not translations)
[15:38:47] <Skizzerz>	 but if you want to try, go for it
[15:42:21] <SirLouen>	 it's difficult to decide, because as far as i've read as you say, it's difficult also to maintain
[16:58:19] <iank>	 how can I delete a page which doesn't exist? It's listed in AllPages with an underscore at the end of the url, which does a 301 redirect to a the url without an underscore which loads a not yet created page.
[16:59:44] <Reedy>	 get the page id from the database?
[16:59:57] <Vulpix>	 or from the api
[16:59:58] <iank>	 Reedy: ok, and what do I do with it?
[17:00:21] <Reedy>	 The API can delete by page id
[17:00:52] <iank>	 Reedy: ok. thanks. will do that.
[17:01:09] <iank>	 backstory: some spammer created it.
[17:03:03] <Vulpix>	 I'm not sure if it would work, but you may try loading index.php?curid=99999&action=delete (where 99999 is the page id)
[17:04:34] <Vulpix>	 sadly nukePage.php seems to accept only a title and not a page id
[17:05:04] <Reedy>	 heh, that might work
[17:05:09] <Reedy>	 But the api sandbox makes it relatively easy
[17:38:22] <xxdaveyxx>	 Hey, I was in here yesterday and bawolff codezee and Vuplix helped me by suggesting wfShellExec and wfEscapeShellArg to trigger script execution from the wiki on IIS.
[17:39:16] <xxdaveyxx>	 I wanted to let you know I was able to test it out and it works great on IIS 8 with Mediawiki 1.26.3
[17:42:05] <xxdaveyxx>	 The only issue I did run into was the delay while the script was executing and Windows doesn't like to cooperate with detaching processes, at least in python. So I was able to create and event and trigger another script from task manager on that event. 
[17:42:09] <xxdaveyxx>	 It works great.
[17:42:10] <xxdaveyxx>	 Thanks!
[17:43:15] <Vulpix>	 cool
[17:54:03] <iank>	 Vulpix: the index url works, thx
[17:56:43] <iank>	 Vulpix: actaually, didn't work. 
[18:26:13] <making>	 hi
[18:26:41] <making>	 There are Russian speakers?
[22:24:40] <UserProd>	 mooeypoo: Hi