Tag: MediaWiki

MediaWiki Semantic Google Maps and Semantic Layers merged into one

While upgrading my MediaWiki installation, I noticed that my trusted, old Semantic Google Maps has been replaced by what seems to be the successor of what I considered the promising Semantic Layers extension. The new extension is simply called Semantic Maps.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments

MediaWiki thumb.php and rewrite rules

May, last year, I created an empty draft for this post, because, around that time, I had gone through quite some effort before I got thumbnails for foreign file repos working just right. Now, I'm taking a dive into my MediaWiki working dirs in preparation of the creation of a separate development environment, so it's a good moment to rehash the past experience (almost as good as when I'd have done it right away). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on March 07, 2010, at 20:03 | No comments

Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch

Vendor branches are the proper™ way of merging upstream changes in your web application installations. In Subversion, managing vendor branches isn't so easy as it is in Git. Still, vendor branches make it much easier to track upstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on July 20, 2009, at 14:07 | 2 comments

Editing Wikipedia/MediaWiki articles with VIM

Wikipedia has a number of tips for people who like to edit Wikipedia articles with VIM. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on July 10, 2009, at 10:07 | No comments

Writing a MediaWiki Gravatars template

This is a tutorial for MediaWiki users who want to learn how to create and use templates. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on April 15, 2009, at 21:04 | No comments

Mounting a MediaWiki installation with WikipediaFS for FUSE

Another one of those I-wish-I-had-blogged-about-this moments: I wanted to bulk-edit some pages in my Dutch Hardwood Wiki and I knew I had previously done some scripting using a FUSE filesystem for MediaWiki. However, I didn't remember the name of the filesystem I had used before. Searching for "mediawiki fuse" didn't help in any way. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on March 27, 2009, at 14:03 | No comments

MediaWiki problems with MySQL VARBINARY padding

I have been wanting to protect a certain page on my Dutch 15Monkeys wiki for weeks. I could install the ReCaptcha extension already (the best Captcha there is), but it's just that one page that's being spammed. So far, I've been unsuccessful in regaining my Sysop right for that wiki. I need these rights if I'm going to protect these pages. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on March 09, 2009, at 14:03 | 2 comments

Lost my Sysop rights in the 15Monkeys wikis

I am constantly bugged by spammers in my 15 Monkeys wiki farm[1, 2], but I wasn't allowed to protect the victim pages anymore. So, I wondered where my Sysop rights had gone. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 04, 2009, at 20:02 | 1 comment

Images not showing after upgrade to MediaWiki 1.13

When I upgraded two of my MediaWiki installations[1, 2] a while ago, images were no longer being displayed. I found out that this was due to some problem with a change to the image.image_name column. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on December 27, 2008, at 19:12 | 1 comment