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Cant see friends most of the time

One comment • 22:48, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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2601:989:457E:1530:846A:F336:6236:52BB (talkcontribs)

Been having trouble seeing my friends lobby on pavlov. and dont understand why. we didnt have this trouble when we first started playing.

Reply 22:48, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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I can't view pages on Talented Deviants

One comment • 22:47, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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184.15.182.237 (talkcontribs)

I created an account and confirmed it, but it STILL won't let me.

Reply 22:47, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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Login Problem

One comment • 22:17, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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82.19.18.89 (talkcontribs)

Tried to log into NSWiki, using the login with nationstates link. A key was generated, but when I put it into the required box, i got an unknown user id message. Any ideas?

Reply 22:17, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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Skin not loading (IONOS Hosting)

2 comments • 22:14, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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7heo T (talkcontribs)

Hi !

I'm not used to "coding" so I installed MediaWiki on my Ionos hosted server thanks to their build-in tool.

MediaWiki a been instaled correctly and i can browse through the pages but with no skin.

I get this error :

"Refused to apply style from '[URL]' because its MIME type ('text/html') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled."

After some reaserches I found that it can be due to short URL and that a need to create a symbolic link from /var/www pointing to /var/lib/mediawiki/[my $wgScriptPath value]. But I don't have a var folder in my wiki directory on the server. So what am I supposed to do ? It seems that my problem is linked to the fact I'm hosted by Ionos ? Have anyone already used MediaWiki with Ionos ?

Thanks for your help

Reply 18:34, 3 April 2020 8 hours ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

This ("Refused to apply style...") sounds like a server configuration problem.

I've set up an Ionos site just to test this since it looks like I can do that without incurring any cost. I'll come back and update this when I've tried it.

Reply 22:14, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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How to use IsFileCacheable hook

2 comments • 22:07, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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T0lk (talkcontribs)

Extension:AccessControl (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-AccessControl/tree/REL1_34) should probably not let rebuildFileCache.php cache pages that are supposed to be access restricted. I see Manual:Hooks/IsFileCacheable can be used.

Unfortunatey there are no examples of this hook Category:IsFileCacheable extensions, is this correct in AccessControl.hooks.php:

<?php
use MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices;
class AccessControlHooks {
        public static function isFileCacheable (&$article) {
        $matches = [];

        $text = $article->getParserOutput(
            // 0 gets the current ID
            0, // $article->mOldId,
            // Don't have a user (and hopefully shouldn't need one as just grabbing tags)
            null
        )->getRawText();

        $parser = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getParser();
        $parser->extractTagsAndParams(['accesscontrol'], $text, $matches);

        return !count($matches);
        }
        ...
}

Reply 21:24, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

You can see how SMW was using the hook by seeing the code that MWJames removed when it was causing problems for someone trying to cache SMW pages.

Reply 22:07, 3 April 2020 4 hours ago

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template show or hide

7 comments • 21:39, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

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Sokote zaman (talkcontribs)

How can I put this button pattern inside another pattern, so that if I wanted to show the pattern and if I didn't want to show it?

https://wikicod.ir/tryit/?file=//&type=client

Reply 17:06, 2 April 2020 1 day ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

I don't understand what you're asking. Could you clarify what you want?

Reply 23:33, 2 April 2020 1 day ago

Sokote zaman (talkcontribs)

Yes, thank you

More explanation:

I want to have buttons on some pages and not buttons on some pages.

How do I show or not show a button in a template consisting of several patterns?

Thanks

Reply 23:51, 2 April 2020 1 day ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

When do you want the button to show up? If it is something on the page, I think you could do this with some JS in your Common.js.

Reply 00:02, 3 April 2020 1 day ago

Sokote zaman (talkcontribs)

result

Thank you for your response

I want some pages to be just syntax and some pages to be syntax with buttons.

Reply 02:14, 3 April 2020 1 day ago

Sokote zaman (talkcontribs)

How can I fix this problem?

Reply 17:43, 3 April 2020 9 hours ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

"Some pages to be just syntax" -- could you point to an example on your wiki where you want this to happen? I still don't understand your question. It looks like you know how to make buttons (you made a couple here), why can't you do that on your wiki?

Reply Edited 21:39, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

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syntaxhighlight custom colors

2 comments • 21:36, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

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Sokote zaman (talkcontribs)

How do I black out the font and background color?

1 C:\Users\Your Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts>pip uninstall camelcase
2 Uninstalling camelcase-02.1:
3   Would remove:
4     c:\users\Your Name\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages\camecase-0.2-py3.6.egg-info
5     c:\users\Your Name\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages\camecase\*
6 Proceed (y/n)?

Reply 20:06, 3 April 2020 6 hours ago

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

Could you point to an example of what you want to do? It sounds like you would need to use a span and some CSS.

Reply 21:36, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

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Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBReadOnlyError after VM crash

5 comments • 21:34, 3 April 2020 5 hours ago

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80.128.145.126 (talkcontribs)

I run a wiki on an Apache webserver with Mysql in a Linux-VM . This VM crashed yesterday without reason and now this is happening:

*Apache is running

*MySQL opens 200+ threads with Mysqld --daemonize myslq.pid

**It tells me, that there are 14 open files

**mysqladmin says, that 140+ localhost/wiki process are sleeping (this number is constantly growing, which causes a "to many connection" error after a while)

*My VM is reaching its RAM and CPU limitation due to MySQL and freezes

*If I try to connect to my wiki via internet it either gives me a connection time out or "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBReadOnlyError" (but the wiki wasn't in read only mode when the vm crashed)

Since I installed MediaWiki two years ago I kept it up-to-date, made two successful upgrades to the recent versions and never changed the apache/mysql default settings (with exclusion of user/password) and it all worked fine. Until yesterday.

Further testing/logging within the wiki isn't possible due to the nature of the problem. I can't provide any log files.

Reply 11:33, 3 April 2020 15 hours ago

80.128.145.126 (talkcontribs)

I have to correct myself: After many reloads I finally got an error log.

And again: I have no idea why it says "Read-only". I checked the LocalSettings and it's not read only.

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [3b46c182321d3ea4b8b9902a] /wiki/Mainpage Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBReadOnlyError from line 1121 of /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Database is read-only

Backtrace:

#0 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(2010): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#1 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/objectcache/SqlBagOStuff.php(414): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->update(string, array, array, string)

#2 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/BagOStuff.php(316): SqlBagOStuff->cas(array, string, array, integer)

#3 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/objectcache/SqlBagOStuff.php(488): BagOStuff->mergeViaCas(string, Closure, integer, integer)

#4 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/libs/objectcache/WANObjectCache.php(549): SqlBagOStuff->merge(string, Closure, integer, integer)

#5 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(732): WANObjectCache->set(string, array, integer)

#6 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(671): MessageCache->setValidationHash(string, array)

#7 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(420): MessageCache->saveToCaches(array, string, string)

#8 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(342): MessageCache->loadFromDBWithLock(string, array, NULL)

#9 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(971): MessageCache->load(string)

#10 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(928): MessageCache->getMsgFromNamespace(string, string)

#11 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(868): MessageCache->getMessageForLang(Language, string, boolean, array)

#12 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(808): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(Language, string, boolean)

#13 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/Message.php(1290): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, Language)

#14 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/Message.php(1006): Message->fetchMessage()

#15 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(840): Message->isDisabled()

#16 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php(164): SpecialPage->addHelpLink(string, boolean)

#17 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(565): SpecialRecentChanges->execute(NULL)

#18 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(568): SpecialPage->run(NULL)

#19 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(288): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)

#20 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#21 /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()

#22 /var/lib/mediawiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()

#23 {main}

Exception caught inside exception handler: [3b46c182321d3ea4b8b9902a] /wiki/Mainpage Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBReadOnlyError from line 1121 of /var/lib/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Database is read-only