User talk:Yaron Koren/Archive July to December 2009

Wiki Question
Hi Yaron,

I just wanted to know if there was a way to get a template to display new pages automatically as they are created. What I want to do is create a page with a certain template and I want that template to display certain pages in like a category or something. Is there a way to do that on Referata Wikis?

Thanks,

--JewntansOath My talk page / My contributions / Send me an email 00:54, July 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, I just created a new wiki here and I can't edit any pages. It just says:

''A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT log_type,log_action,log_user,log_namespace,log_title,log_params,log_comment,log_id,log_deleted,log_timestamp,user_name,user_editcount,ts_tags FROM `logging` FORCE INDEX (page_time,user_time) INNER JOIN `user` ON ((user_id=log_user)) LEFT JOIN `tag_summary` ON ((ts_log_id=log_id)) WHERE (log_type != 'suppress') AND log_type = 'delete' AND log_namespace = '2' AND log_title = 'Jewntansoath' AND (log_deleted & 1 = 0) AND (user_id = log_user) ORDER BY log_timestamp DESC LIMIT 51 from within function "IndexPager::reallyDoQuery (LogPager)". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'yaron57_reviews.tag_summary' doesn't exist (localhost)".''

The wiki is reviews.referata.com.

--JewntansOath My talk page / My contributions / Send me an email 01:06, July 3, 2009 (UTC)


 * For your first question - I don't fully understand the question, but there might be ways to do that with Semantic MediaWiki, using the "last modified" property - you can check the documentation. For the second issue - sorry about that; it was a side effect of upgrading Referata to MediaWiki 1.15. It should be fixed for that wiki now, and for all others. Yaron Koren 04:28, July 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * What I need is to have a template automatically display all pages from a certain category in a list. If you want an example of what I'm talking about, go here, type "Review Test" into the input box and click on "Add new review". You will be redirected to a new page where you can start typing to create a new page, so just type anything you want and click "Save page". Now go back to this page and you should see that there is now a link to the "Review Test" page you just created. The template on the page automatically added a link to that new page because it was put inside of a certain category. That is what I want to do on Referata Wikis, but on that wiki I used a forum extention that you don't have installed here. --JewntansOath My talk page / My contributions / Send me an email 14:24, July 3, 2009 (UTC)


 * Can't you just do that with a regular SMW query? Yaron Koren 14:34, July 3, 2009 (UTC)
 * There might be something for that, but I'm not very familiar with different SMW things. What do you suggest that I try? --JewntansOath My talk page / My contributions / Send me an email 15:51, July 3, 2009 (UTC)


 * Try reading the documentation, and if that doesn't help you can write the mailing list. Yaron Koren 16:03, July 3, 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki Version
Hi Yaron,

I'm wondering what version of MediaWiki that our Referata sites are, because I would like to add the MultiUpload Extension to my wiki, and it asks for the version. Thanks SilverYoshi95


 * It's 1.15 - you can always check by going to the page "Special:Version". Yaron Koren 04:34, July 5, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and thatnks for the tip! SilverYoshi95

Sidebar images
Hi, is it possible to get images (like affilaite buttons etc) on the sidebar? Thanks. SilverYoshi95 10:57, July 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I don't know. It might be that the only way is by customizing the skin, which you can only do in some of the paid service levels. Yaron Koren 13:11, July 14, 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay thanks! SilverYoshi95 23:33, July 14, 2009 (UTC)

Hi Yaron, do you know if there is a way to stop automatic signing out? I often do heaps of editing on a page, then walk waya for 10 minutes (to get lunch or something) then come back and press "save page" or "show preview" with out really thinking, then it thinks I've signed out. Its so annoying. So basically, it automatically signs me out if I leave it for a while and I was wondering if it was possible to stop it from happening. Thanks SY 05:43, July 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you click the "remember my login" box when you log in? Yaron Koren 12:52, July 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes. I'll probably just have to remember these things. Thanks Silver Yoshi 01:40, July 22, 2009 (UTC)

Is my wiki vulnerable?
I don't know much about this stuff but I've been pissing off some hacker types and I'm wondering if Lumeniki is ready for them? Lume 19:55, September 6, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have no interest in "hacking" your silly little wiki. 89.134.223.11 19:02, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

Do I have any vulnerable extensions? I think I have got your defaults, then you installed two things for me, to allow footnotes. Lume 19:55, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

Service has been outstanding, by the way, I edit all the time and I can barely remember maybe two times (in the past few years) when it was unavailable for a short while. To have all this for free is a dream come true for me. Thank you! Lume 19:55, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

Lumenos (my real nic)


 * Thanks, that's great to hear. Actually, every Referata wiki runs on the same software, including the same extensions; so if one wiki is vulnerable, all of them are. Anyway, there are no vulnerabilities that I know of. Yaron Koren 01:16, September 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool thanks again! Lume 19:11, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

Speak of the devil; the site was down for a while yesterday. Do you know what happened? Lume 13:27, September 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I got concerned when I saw that too, after this conversation. :) It was some MySQL hiccup, that went away after about 15-20 minutes. Yaron Koren 14:04, September 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * I've been engaging people from RationalWiki. This wiki just came back online after a crash. "The stated reason is that a problem has occurred with the server, most likely due to a MySQL connection error." Lume 17:48, September 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Nx from RationalWiki says this information is not correct. Lume 05:30, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * What information? That your wiki went down yesterday and it was because of MySQL? Where did I say that? That MySQL will never ever break? Where did I say that? 89.134.223.11 06:07, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Referata when down, not just "my" wiki. Lume 07:46, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose you are claiming to be Nx. Lume 07:46, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * "Nx" said, "a mysql crash wouldn't take the entire server down", that would mean that, "most likely due to a MySQL connection error" would have to be incorrect, I thought. Lume 07:48, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, yes it's probably incorrect, and I think it came from a misunderstanding of this blog post. You see, when MySQL crashes, I can still access the server remotely to fix it. Same is true for apache/php, as I did here. 89.134.223.11 07:58, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd like to note that that information was added by an IP editor later, after I stopped editing the article because I got bored of feeding you. 89.134.223.11 08:17, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Errum do you claim to be Nx from WikiIndex or someone else? Lume 08:34, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Are all edits coming from 89.134.223.11 from the same person (you)? Lume 08:35, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. 89.134.223.11 08:36, September 10, 2009 (UTC)

I'm told we don't have the latest version of MediaWiki. Lumenos1 11:33, July 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Same editor also posted this Lumenos1 11:39, July 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's true, and a good point; I just upgraded Referata to MediaWiki 15.4. Yaron Koren 11:08, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! It seems I have been having a few connection issues lately. These were very rare in the past. It appears I may have offended some from this RationalWiki group again, so I've been keeping track of the connection problems: July 1st at 11:22-23, 2nd 2:25-36, then I couldn't connect a minute ago. Got this error message:
 * "Warning: mysql_connect [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/yaron57/public_html/w/extensions/WikiGarden/WikiGarden.php on line 98
 * Referata is experiencing temporary technical difficulties. Sorry for the inconvenience."
 * 4:38 couldn't connect, tried again at 4:50, still down. Lumenos1 01:11, July 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * The database gets overloaded from time to time, which leads to that type of error message; sorry about that. I'm pretty sure it's not caused by malicious attacks, if that's what you're implying. Yaron Koren 14:18, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure. My helpful security expert posted the first error message, then demanded to be made an administrator. :-) Maybe we are just getting more traffic lately. Thanks again. Lumenos1 01:11, July 6, 2010 (UTC)

Login
Hello. Log in doesn't go well though the Wiki was made. It doesn't enter the state of the log in. Why? --Yanata 06:25, September 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * Do you mean that you need to log in after the wiki is first created? Sorry, I couldn't figure out a way to log people in automatically. Yaron Koren 04:22, September 22, 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revisions
I'd like to try out this MediaWiki extension over on my Referata site. Is there any way I can get it in? --Routhwick 21:32, December 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * The Approved Revs extension, which is a simpler variation on FlaggedRevs, has now been added to Referata. Yaron Koren 02:30, July 1, 2010 (UTC)