[00:03:00] keithzg: I don't see anything that does that by default, but you could probably copy/paste the compressOld.php maintenance script and modify it to do the inverse (i.e. decompress compressed revisions) [00:07:11] Skizzerz: Yeah, I've been eying that approach up. I'm mildly worried I'll screw everything up that way, but on the other hand hey, that's what backups are for ;) [02:56:23] hi [02:56:52] how can we download particular category tree with url? [02:57:28] how can we download particular category tree with url? [03:59:30] ithesisart, curl? [10:50:12] Hi! Is it possible to create a link to "mailto: John Doe "? [10:50:40] I can create links to "mailto:j.doe@example.com" but not with full name. [11:01:26] IZh: try mailto:{{urlenocde:John Doe }} [11:01:48] URLs must be url encoded ( characters like space have to be replaced with %20, etc) [11:03:38] i have syntax slightly wrong [11:03:56] IZh: Try mailto:{{urlencode:John Doe |PATH}} [11:05:26] Hello. I am considering spinning up my own wiki. I can administer and program and spinning it up with docker was a breeze. I have two questions: 1. wikipedia's articles are pretty unstructured. Can I somehow add more structure for my articles so they could be used as a database somehow as well? 2. Can you make custom views? Say, I've articles about animals and I want to generate a table of the animals' [11:05:28] names and their heights, with info taken from the articles. [11:05:59] bawolff: Thanks for idea! But how then to set _link name_? [11:06:33] Got it! [11:06:40] IZh: oh, you can do [mailto:{{urlencode:EMAIL HERE|PATH}} text you want displayed here] [11:07:01] bawolff: Yeah. Thanks much. :-) [11:07:12] Keep in mind mailto also can support url parameters too, which might be useful on occasion - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2368 [11:07:47] ij: You may want to look into SemanticMediaWiki, SemanticForms and Cargo type extensions [11:08:04] ij: Another choice is the DynamicPageList extension [11:09:36] In the Wikimedia world, we use things like wikidata. Facts are stored at places like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42 and then people use LUA scripts (Extension:Scribunto) to generate infoboxes on articles. See http://wikiba.se [13:38:47] Is it difficult to make custom views from the data gathered with the SMW queries? [14:19:31] hi [14:25:14] I got a problem. I've installed a basic mediawiki-farm using MediaWikiFarm extension. For the beginning I try to set it up with a commons-server hosting media-files in a "ForeignAPIRepo", other wikis in that Cluster should be able to use this ForeignAPIRepo to use it as InstantCommons [14:27:29] The api.php of my commons installation answers with a functional json object, but anyway, my other wikis configured using $wgForeignFileRepos, which was tested successfully against commons.wikimedia.org, doesn't work with my own repository [14:31:33] so far, access_log of my webserver shows up with access on my api.php file. The resulting json object should work. But it doesn't. All File:$1 articles are loaded from the wiki-installation so far they exist. Non-existing files doesn't show up. Upload is provided only for the mediawiki instance itself, not for my commons host. [14:32:39] the access_log doesn't show any tries to fetch the media files from my won commonswiki host repository [14:33:13] ^ s/won/own/ [14:36:57] oh, now I got an 500 Internal server error on my commons host api... I try to resolve the issue [14:39:41] Hi there [14:39:54] Can anyone point me to something that explains how to turn a "public" wiki [14:40:06] into one that requires all users to be registered to edit [14:40:12] i know that that can be defined in the install [14:40:19] but... after installing, how one can do that? [14:43:30] remove from '*' the 'read' right? [14:43:52] $wgGroupPermissions ['*']['read'] = false; [14:44:05] and add it to 'users' [14:44:27] oh and '*' rm createaccount too [14:47:54] there is a $IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php [14:47:54] the configuration options for local settings are quite well explained there, but I couldn't find a complete howto with step by step instructions, so probably somebody might forget about some more or less important security settings :( [14:49:45] Not a MediaWiki expert though so I'd wait for someone with experience to answer [14:51:24] I'm new to mediawiki as well, and it's quite hard to configure for me, so many options, the main configuration file of the wikimedia-Cluster has more than 19K configuration lines [14:53:05] worked 3 1/2 hours just to work through this file and setting options that i could run my mediawiki server with a setting similar to wikipedia / commons wiki [14:57:19] the next step was to build all the extensions and resolve their dependencies [14:57:39] next 4 hours [14:58:16] life can be so short [14:58:27] its weird that the configuration is a .php file [14:58:40] and no visual stuff to edit, only at install time [14:59:57] there are so many configuration options, it would be weird as well, even if you had a graphical frontend [15:03:09] it would be like about:config in mozillas webclients [15:03:16] :) [15:03:27] going to try to find out the default permissions [15:04:09] looksing at defaultsettings.php [15:04:15] but that doesnt help anything [15:04:15] wait [15:04:28] it has like 20 lines of wgGroupPermissions [15:04:54] im going probably reinstall mediawiki, to figure out [15:06:28] what he sets on LocalSettings [15:06:41] when you require users to be registered to edit/create stuff [15:10:27] well , going to delete the database and localsettings [15:15:37] :-/ hope you don't lose too much of your work [15:15:58] nah [15:16:06] just one page [15:16:16] i saved the "source" to create again [15:16:17] :) [18:23:43] Isarra: is that intentional your new skin has same background for block of code / pre as the page? It makes reading kinda hard [18:29:21] petan: Naw, I just never defined any styles for it. >.> [18:29:23] File a bug? [18:29:41] lazy [18:29:46] Well so am I. [18:29:52] I will just keep on bugging you [18:29:55] * petan bugs Isarra [18:29:56] Okay. [18:30:09] It may be a few months before I have the time/resources to deal with any of this, though. [18:30:12] * petan slaps Isarra with a huge bug [18:30:26] Seriously, if I don't come up with some money, any money, soon... [18:30:29] then it may be a few months of being slapped with all sorts of bugs I find [18:30:39] I wonder if I can sell those. [18:30:52] * petan slaps Isarra with a bug made of gold [18:30:55] * Isarra puts the huge bug on a stick. [18:31:01] Bug for sale. Huge bug, on a stick. [18:31:09] made of gold [18:31:11] Bugs on sticks for sale! [18:31:23] Gold bugs, huge bugs, scary bugs! [18:31:27] All on sticks! [18:32:56] I would give you my doge coins but I lost my wallet D: [18:33:22] now I hope they will never get so expensive as bit coins xD [18:39:05] Maybe you'll find it again when they do. [18:39:09] Like magic luck stuff.