[12:50:53] Hello. I have installed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo does someone know how I can write a a notice to all my users? Or do I need to install another extension for that? And I know about the site notice, but that's not what I'm looking for. [13:34:22] qqpentra, IIRC, Echo is more of a notification system for types of actions within MediaWiki [13:34:43] not as a general purpose broadcast system [13:34:50] why is SiteNotice not what you're looking for? [15:41:26] Hi, about PageForms: Anyone knows if i can get the list of items (for dropdown list) from cargo table AND add some extra fields manually? [17:50:55] Sorry I played with my kid, forgot the time and got disconnected. My original question was: Hello. I have installed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo does someone know how I can write a a notice to all my users? Or do I need to install another extension for that? And I know about the site notice, but that's not what I'm looking for. [17:51:19] And Krenair answered: Krenair 14:34:22qqpentra, IIRC, Echo is more of a notification system for types of actions within MediaWikinot as a general purpose broadcast systemwhy is SiteNotice not what you're looking for? [17:51:53] So there is no easy way to write a notice to my users with Echo? [17:52:35] qqpentra, our way to write a notice to all users is SiteNotice. [17:52:40] I want to write messages to inform my users about new things / features and the SiteNotice is really to dominant [17:53:13] Hi Krenair and thanks for the answer [17:53:35] Well the SiteNotice is to big of a present on the site [17:53:48] are you aware of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DismissableSiteNotice ? [17:54:03] that's why I like the idea of a notice, I thought that would be possible [17:54:22] Yes Krenair [17:54:54] But the problem ist that such a message I want to send is to long for SiteMessage [17:55:24] It can take almost up the whole screen [17:55:29] I don't think Echo does arbitrary text, just templates based on repeatable on-wiki action types? [17:55:52] Sounds like another reason to not try to shoehorn it into Echo [17:56:05] hmmm [17:56:21] it sounds like what you want is a small dismissable site notice that links to a page [17:56:23] so there is not an extension like in-mail? [17:56:33] what is in-mail? [17:56:50] like a e-mail only inside media wiki :) [17:57:08] you could post a message on every user's talk page [17:57:35] that'd show up in Echo notifications [17:58:00] oh there's also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage [17:58:11] hmm [17:59:11] I think MassMessage needs an account the default is something like "The MassMessage Deliverer" [17:59:31] but it's not possible to create new accounts [17:59:34] "MediaWiki message delivery" yeah [17:59:40] what do you mean it's not possible to create new accounts? [17:59:57] because of security reasons [18:00:01] wat [18:00:15] we pull the accounts from a corporate database [18:00:33] well it'd be a system user [18:00:40] not one pulled from the normal user store [18:01:07] But maybe the idea with the talk page is not that bad [18:01:07] set $wgMassMessageAccountUsername [18:01:19] and it should make a virtual user on the wiki with that name [18:01:46] how can I write to every user on his talk page? [18:02:39] you'd probably script it with the API [18:03:28] yeah right, that should be not that hard [18:04:11] I also will try mass message agin, thank you Krenair [18:04:47] qqpentra, just be aware it's possible every user on your wiki will get emailed when you post on their talk page [18:05:18] so I suspect (dismissable) sitenotice may be a better option if you don't want it to be too loud [18:13:51] Yes I know, but you can change the default settings [18:14:02] of Echo I mean [20:43:50] HI, there is anyway to add a template to all pages that start with a prefix? [20:45:39] Or add something to the bottom of a page which included a template. for exmaple this page: "{{template:a}} {{template:b}}" and i want that some of the content of template:a will be at the bottom of the page, below "template:b" [21:06:34] hello, i have a question abt the connection btw VisualEdititor and Parsoid. getting curl error: 7 nmap tells, all 1000 ports are closed. how do i open a (which?) Port for Parsoid / do i have to start Parsoid manually? [21:14:16] nambis4446: You should check if parsoid is running. Depending on how did you install it, it may be installed as a service, in which case you can start it and set it to start automatically, or otherwise start it manually [21:15:01] you can look for any "node" or "nodejs" process running, with the ps command, and see if one of them is the parsoid one [21:32:06] Hi, im trying to make template which gets files names and show them in a gallery, but im gettnig empty gallery, what wrong here please? https://pastebin.com/6ga4XMjB [21:34:58] Nik: templates don't work inside XML-style tags... You'll have to transform this gallery tag into a {{#tag:gallery}} [21:35:00] See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Miscellaneous [21:37:22] :O ty! [21:59:14] just upgraded my wiki to 1.34 and php 7.4 and users with spaces in their username are now unable to log in. I've been able to reproduce this error on different browsers and all extensions are turned off [22:04:32] what error message do they get? [22:05:52] no error message, just logs them out, I think it's a php bug [22:06:03] i'd suggest to check some logs [22:10:14] yeah it's a php bug, i rolled my server back to 7.3 and it all works [22:10:26] What version of PHP? [22:10:26] T243667 [22:10:26] T243667: Cannot log in when username contains spaces in PHP 7.4: "wrong username or password" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243667 [22:11:15] red52: Resolved upstream. If you're using PHP 7.4, upgrade to 7.4.3 or later. [22:13:53] thanks for all the help, my host only has 7.4.2 right now, I'll just stay on 7.3 until they update i was just able to log in with a test account with a space so it should work for everyone again. guess this is why you shouldn't upgrade everything in one evening [23:11:26] Hi, i want to use an item like this " :Category:my_cat" in an array, but it seems that the array is ignoring the first colon when i print this item, Why that? [23:16:26] The array extension you mean, i take it? I'm not really familar with it, but as a general rule I would reccomend using extension:Scribunto instead, as its a lot clearer for really complicated macros [23:17:11] Yea the extension, atm i dont have shell access to the server so it will be harder to install it [23:18:25] Its not so complicated, i suspect array is casting the first ":" to something else, i just want to link to each paramter in the array, and in this case i want to link to a category [23:21:13] Can you pastebin your code somewhere? [23:23:26] Ofc: https://pastebin.com/5cPP7vRN [23:26:09] Nik: So when i tested that out at https://mwstake.org/mwstake/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates it seemed to work fine, colon was present and there [23:27:27] :O so it might be some configuration on my wiki [23:33:19] ty