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Category Archives: mediawiki
mediawiki leaves beta behind: v1.16.0 update
Some ten days ago, Mediawiki released finally the 1.16 version withouth the “beta” surname. We are proud to announce the first stable release of the 1.16 series. Selected changes that may be of interest since MediaWiki 1.15 are: Watchlists now … Continue reading
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mediawiki news, aka recent changes
The list of changes in mediawiki is presented in a SpecialPage called Recentchanges, quite extensive and usefulbut which looks awful, with all wiki codes. Modifying the special page is a temp solution (it would be overwritten with an upgrade). Hereby you can find the first of a series of two posts on how to do it. First, the SQL part. Continue reading
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Tagged create article, edit article, recent changes, upload file, user joins, wiki news
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the user table in mediawiki
Some useful ideas and queries around the user table in mediawiki. Continue reading
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new version of mediawiki (v1.15.4 security upgrade) installed
Mediawiki released this week a new version, v1.15.4: Two security vulnerabilities were discovered. Kuriaki Takashi discovered an XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki. It affects Internet Explorer clients only. The issue is presumed to affect all recent versions of IE, it has … Continue reading
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mediawiki antispam measures: $wgSpamRegex
There are several approaches to block spammers and vandals from posting in mediawiki. The main one is how easily a sysop can undo or roll back an edition: just pressing a button. However, this is a strategy a posteriori, when … Continue reading
mailing list of mediawiki users
The behavior of Users table in mediawiki When registering in a mediawiki installation, users are not obliged to give their names or emails, they just need to write a user and password. But if they decide to give name and … Continue reading
new version of mediawiki (v1.15.3 security upgrade) installed
Mediawiki has released this morning a new mediawiki version, the v1.15.3 (and the beta 1.16 as well). The release says… MediaWiki was found to be vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker who controls a user account on the target wiki … Continue reading
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solution to the uniq-qinu error in mediawiki
An error known as UNIQxxxx - xxxxQINU could arise when some code or text is passed twice through the parser. Badly written extensions, inapropriate wiki text or tags, a number or reasons could show this marker. Continue reading
new articles in mediawiki
In mediawiki, we can have stats about the total of articles and revisions throught the special page Special:Statistics. You can even have a look at the revision table, but there is no field about when an article was created (though you can always have a look at the history of each page), and thus no direct way to know how many of them were created each week or month. With this sql code you can get the list of new articles in mediawiki for up to 2010. Continue reading
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Tagged diagram, monthly, new articles, page history, revision
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