User talk:Yaron Koren/Archive 2010

Google Maps API
Hello Yaron, I am wondering where I can enter a Google Maps API code. I thought there used to be a field under Site Settings, but I don't see it there any longer. Thanks, --Adelaide 20:01, March 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks for letting me know about that - the problem was due to a small change in the Maps extension. It's fixed now, so the field's there again, in the "Web services" tab. Yaron Koren 21:50, March 21, 2010 (UTC)

What's up with this code?
UNIQ2aa1b2454c9bdf52-nowiki-00000000-QINU

Something of this sort recently appeared on my Referata site, on a handful of pages. This sample is taken from a page entitled St. Paul.

Wonder what caused this to happen?

BTW, this ruined my co-ords, causing a warning sign with a note ("The following coordinate was not recognized") to appear in their place. --Routhwick 15:37, April 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know about that - it was because Referata switched to a still-buggy version of the "Maps" extension. I've reverted the code, and now it looks like it works fine again. Yaron Koren 15:45, April 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * And ahats with this one?
 * http://menofwarwiki.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * --Dennis07 (01:36 PM); 01.06.10


 * That's very odd - I have no idea. That page does seem to contain a number of odd elements - like a "blink" style and templates for newlines - any one of which might be causing the problem, in theory. Yaron Koren 17:11, June 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmmm
 * You mean Templates with Newlines and blink-efects might cause something like this...
 * This could be but it is only on the main page and it has gone away some times... I'll try to delete the blink-efect and wait...
 * --Dennis07 20:13, June 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Seems to work...
 * Thanks, Mr. Koren...!
 * And thanks for the Extension question...^^
 * --Dennis07 16:55, June 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's great to hear! Yaron Koren 17:04, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

Using BOTs on Referata-sites
Referata offers many clues that there might be the possibillity to involve a bot, but in fact, there isn't a chance, right?

--Dennis07 14:01, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can create an external script that modifies things, using MediaWiki's URL-based API (i.e., api.php) - I think that still counts as a bot... but that's what's meant here; yes, you can't have internal bots. Yaron Koren 14:35, June 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ahh... ok.. I will try it thanks ;)
 * --Dennis07 18:01, June 14, 2010 (UTC)

Hey
Hi Yaron, I havn't bugged you in ages XD. So I was just wondering if I could get a username change. From SilverYoshi95 to Takharii, please? Thanks! SilverYoshi95 05:49, June 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Alright, done. Yaron Koren 19:45, June 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much. Also, is it possible to delete multiple images at the same time? Thanks Takharii 06:41, June 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not really - DeleteBatch doesn't work well with images. Yaron Koren 12:20, June 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Didn't think so. Oh, one more thing: I made some color templates on my wiki to use on other templates - sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. I stole them off this site, which is having a lot of technical difficulties atm (they owner doesn't mind). They work there fine. They seem to show up in IE more often than Firefox. (eg. open this page in both browers (if you have them) and you'll see what I mean. Thanks again. Takharii 08:24, June 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, they work fine here. Takharii 09:05, June 19, 2010 (UTC)

Enable automatic Search-Sggestions
Hello Mr. Koren!

Sorry for all these suggestions, but i think this here should not be so much work:

Would it be possible to enable the $wgEnableMWSuggest on Referata, or even better: Could you create an entry on the Site-Settings page to enable it (linke you did it with the subpages- and external images-feature...??

I think it chould not be as difficult, maybe a good advancement for Referata?

--Dennis07 20:55, June 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ooh, good suggestion! I admit that I didn't even know this option existed. I just added it to all Referata sites, since I think it's always an improvement over having nothing; and it seems to be working well. Thanks for the idea. Yaron Koren 00:20, June 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much, Mr. Koren...
 * Have a nice day^^
 * --Dennis07 11:50, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

A bug in the plain ISO date output?
Hi, how is it here on Referta with the recent bug with the plain (i.e. ISO) date output? It seems it doesn't work properly :-( --Kychot 23:17, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: Date property type
 * http://wikidata.referata.com/wiki/example/books#Plain_date_bug

I don't understand it: After editing, Preview shows ISO date format, OK:

birthDate	deathDate Karel Čapek 	1890-01-09 	1938-12-25

But after saving, this same page has the USA-formatted output: birthDate		deathDate Karel Čapek	9 January 1890 	25 December 1938

I tried to use both forms: ?birthDate#ISO ?birthDate # but the result is the same one. --Kychot 15:54, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, this isn't a good place to discuss bugs in the software (other than bugs in Wiki Garden, the extension that powers Referata). Assuming this is a bug in SMW, I would send an email about it to the semediawiki-user mailing list. Yaron Koren 02:27, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Refresh/server-caching issue
We made a change to one template that needs to be propagated to a hundred other pages before the correct values are displayed on a timeline. Is there a way to propagate the change without visiting each page (in the right order) and selecting Refresh? GreenJobs 02:34, July 2, 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps Admin functions for Semantic MediaWiki#Data repair and upgrade? GreenJobs 03:02, July 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * That would work, although changes to the template should be propagated automatically to all the pages that use it anyway. Those changes are done via "jobs", though, so it might take some time. Yaron Koren 11:10, July 2, 2010 (UTC)

My Site
Hey why my site Disappeared the PassWord please help me I don't know what do. the URL is this http://wikisrb2upper.referata.com/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal PLEASE HELP ME ! KnuxD 20:21, August 10, 2010 (EDT)


 * Hi - your user name there is KnuxD; you should be able to get your password sent to you, via the login page. Yaron Koren 10:05, August 11, 2010 (EDT)

Get
Hey sorry but How Get version 1.15.1 of Mediawiki what do ? please help me again. KnuxD 10:31, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * Sorry, I don't understand the question. Yaron Koren 13:04, August 19, 2010 (EDT)

- Is How get MediaWiki version 1.15.1  KnuxD 20:44, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * You want to get MW 1.15.1 on Referata? If so, there's no way to do that. Yaron Koren 22:57, August 19, 2010 (EDT)

- Then how create a Wiki equal it http://www.wiki.srb2.org, the bar MAIN PAGE in up not in below, please help me. KnuxD 09:31, August 21, 2010 (EDT)


 * I think you just need to switch to the "Modern" skin for that. Yaron Koren 23:43, August 21, 2010 (EDT)

Resetting all users' default skin
Hello Mr. Koren, I recognized a checkbox where the site-owner could reset all user's skins via site-settings page. Where has it gone?

I think there was one and i cannot wait so long so where is it now / is it still there at the moment?

--Dennis07 20:33, August 17, 2010 (EDT)


 * Hi, yes - it was there for a day or two, but I then took it out because changing a wiki's skin seemed to change the default skin for all its users anyway! I can't explain it - maybe it's a new feature in MW 1.16 - but I think that button is unnecessary. Please let me know if you think that's not the case. Yaron Koren 13:04, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * Well, on my site, vector is set as default but all users still have a version a "Monobook" (which i specified as the old default) as their set skin.
 * Well, i will retry to do it (the hole things sound a bit strange but I will try it at least...)
 * --Dennis07 20:32, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * Okay, clearly I should have done more testing... I just added the button back in - it's in the "Skin" tab in "Site settings". Feel free to try it out - it should work. Yaron Koren 23:02, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * Thank you very much, Mr. Kroren.
 * That button now works excellent, i tested it.--Dennis07 23:45, August 19, 2010 (EDT)


 * That's great to hear! I'll keep it in. Yaron Koren 08:57, August 20, 2010 (EDT)

Ohai, mister Koren. Wikia is soon going to do some weird update that'll ruin the skins of all wikias (and of course i don't want to go on a wiki with a bad skin). I'll probably be going Referata a lot more... So, thanks for adding Vector (and Vectorata, which is really cool) and keeping Referata ad-free! :D Spark

hey Mr. Koren, i have 2 problems

1. when i change the default wiki skin to monobook, after editing certain pages or uploading images it temporarily switches back to vectorata.

2. i have no idea how to change the colors in vector/vectorata... is there a guide somewhere that might help?

thanks - Sprak


 * There are two ways to change the color - either go to "Site settings > Skin", or, if you know CSS, edit MediaWiki:Common.css. I don't know about the 1st problem - it sounds like a bug in Referata. Hopefully I can reproduce it; that'll make it much easier to fix it. Yaron Koren 18:02, September 21, 2010 (EDT)

ok. is there a guide for customizing Vector CSS anywhere?

thanks - spark

oh and another thing: you can reproduce the bug by going on a referata wiki (any one, apparantly, i've made several wikis and it happens on all of them) and editing a mediawiki page. after you press submit, the skin changes to vectorata

-sprak

Any luck fixing it yet, Mr. Koren? -sprak


 * I have the same problem for a long time, but that was not always. The bug always comes since ca. 2-4 weeks only.
 * I dont know a solution, but it changes the skin after submitting the edit.
 * --Dennis07 07:45, September 24, 2010 (EDT)

Admin
You is Administrator by here ? @KnuxD 14:11, October 3, 2010 (EDT)


 * Yes. Yaron Koren 23:06, October 3, 2010 (EDT)

Editing user groups
Is it possible to edit user groups on individual wikis, so that only crats can accesses the site settings or other modifications? --67.140.219.8 15:14, October 3, 2010 (EDT)

Oh, and by the way, your service is excellent. --67.140.219.8 15:20, October 3, 2010 (EDT)


 * Thanks! You can't set which user groups get which permissions, though you have control over which users are in which groups. But if there's a specific permission you want to be able to set, let me know. All "sysops/administrators" can modify the site settings - is there an issue with that? Yaron Koren 23:09, October 3, 2010 (EDT)


 * Any luck with the skin problem? Mr. K? -spark

Suggestion: Capcha-Implementation on Special:UserLogin&type=signup
Hello Mr. Koren, Would it be possible to make a Special:SiteSettings -entry where the owner can set whether a captcha is displayed on the user sign up page or not? The CAPTCHA extension is already installed as I can see. Because of the fact that some sites will not need this feature, I suggested a checkbox in the sitesettings page. My site had several spamming-attacks and that would also be a great new feature for referata.com maybe... You must decide... --Dennis07 05:26, October 10, 2010 (EDT)


 * Hi - there's already a math test in order to register; do you mean using character-recognition instead? Yaron Koren 18:32, October 10, 2010 (EDT)


 * Well, I dont know what you mean but on my site there is no. I made my site Closed, not Open with Captcha. But how can I get the math task or a captcha code to the  page without having the wiki set as "open for everyone" (because that makes much more problems than I currently have without captcha. My problem is: I only want to have a captcha or math or something like that without setting the site as Open. Is there a possibillity? Maybe with JS (if you'd know a way there^^) --Dennis07 07:03, October 12, 2010 (EDT)


 * Ah! I see the problem now - it was a bug in the handling of the closed-editing option. It should be fixed now. Yaron Koren 16:43, October 12, 2010 (EDT)

Importing XML
Hello! I'm an admin on the micronations wiki (Aldrich lucas) and I contacted you via email about importing a database. You said you'd enabled it but it still won't work for me. The database in question can be found here (down the bottom) and if you could try importing it, it would be greatly appreciated. It might just be the size (536MB when extracted) but the connection keeps on getting reset whenever I try. 153.107.33.151 21:27, November 3, 2010 (EDT)

Database Error on a single Referata-Site
Hi Mr. Koren. I hope you got my messages, an answer would have been nice. I have understanding for the fact that you changed your provider, but there is still a problem: My biggest referata-site, www.menofwarwiki.com still has problems with SQL .... On all my other sites (eg. wikidb.referata.com) and on the main raferata.com-site, there is no error.

What is the reason for that? Is my site too large so that it will take more time, or does it take more time to refresh all sites on referata?

I hope this error will not take much more time....

--Dennis07 08:14, November 22, 2010 (EST)


 * Hi - sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know - it's fixed now. Yaron Koren 10:24, November 22, 2010 (EST)


 * Thanks, Mr. Koren --Dennis07 09:51, December 6, 2010 (EST)

Interwiki links
Hi, I've been trying to use interwiki links on your site and they don't seem to be working: if wp points to the english wikipedia, wp:example will point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1$, which is not the page I want. --75.88.116.229 22:47, November 30, 2010 (EST)


 * It looks like you just have an error in your URL value - you should have "$1" there, instead of "1$". Yaron Koren 21:06, December 1, 2010 (EST)

SQL Error on Special:Search
Hello again, Mr. Koren. There is a new problem on my site, dont know wether it is only there (on referata, there is no, as i saw...), but allways if I want to access my Special:Search, my site putputs this code:

I hope you can fix that error ;) --Dennis07 10:07, December 6, 2010 (EST)


 * Hi - sorry about that; it was just a problem on your wiki. It's fixed now. Yaron Koren 17:30, December 6, 2010 (EST)


 * Thanks, works great now! ;) --Dennis07 13:20, December 8, 2010 (EST)

Database error
When trying to view or edit the wiki at http://northantscamra.referata.com the following error is displayed:

Perhaps this is something left over from the earlier downtime? I'm hoping you are able to fix it easily. BenCoulson 17:57, December 7, 2010 (EST)


 * Hi - indeed, it's a byproduct of the MySQL crashes of last month. I thought I had fixed all the databases, but obviously not. Sorry about that; it's fixed now. Yaron Koren 19:06, December 7, 2010 (EST)

Moving a site from Wikia
Hi, Mr Koren

It's been almost a week since I emailed you, so I'm going to try asking here too.

I represent a community currently hosted at Wikia. We're looking for options to migrate our wiki. I've found your FAQ very useful and complete, but I still have a few questions:


 * 1) Do you offer some help with wiki migrations, or it's up the community to use Special:Import for it? Is there any limits to the use of Special:Import? (size, for example, we have over 4000 pages and the tarball weights several MBs). We will have a full database dump of the pages shortly.
 * 2) Could you install the MediaWikiAuth extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MediaWikiAuth) to allow us to keep our contribution history from our Wikia users? If you can't (because of the common code base) is there a way to link a user's previous contributions to her new user name?
 * 3) Could you set up custom namespaces for a wiki? We'd need at least two, since more than half of our wiki navigation structure is built around templates categorizing pages based on namespace. Maybe that functionality could be replicated with your semantic extensions, but for the moment we want just a move, not a full transformation.
 * 4) About your paid service levels, we would maybe be interested on the ad-supported one, but currently we are not sure if our traffic makes it worth. Could we sign up for the basic one and upgrade later? (Once we've collected enough information about our traffic with the Google Analytics site traffic monitoring tools you offer) Or would it be easier to sign up for ad-supported and then downgrade to basic/premium service if our traffic is too low? We almost certainly won't need extra storage, Basic would do in that respect.
 * 5) In the spirit of the FAQ, I must make a "may be rude" question. Are you the only guy administering things around here? I know the FAQ points to WikiWorks, but it doesn't explicitly state that any of them work on Referata. Even if it's not only you, is support, etc, run by just the 4 linked people?
 * 6) While not strictly needed, it would be useful to have a few extensions installed. I see that Requested features has very little activity: is this because you prefer not to add extensions whenever possible, or simply you haven't had many requests yet?

Thank you for your time. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I'm a native Spanish speaker, should you wish to practice with somebody :)

Scarbrow 23:37, December 8, 2010 (EST)


 * Hi, disculpas for not answering your email before. Although now I remember why I put off answering it - it had a lot of questions! Anyway, here are my answers:


 * 1) Yeah, no help offered with migrations. Special:Import should work fine, but I don't know what the limits are.
 * 2) I'll look into that extension. To answer your sub-question - I don't know.
 * 3) Yeah, I could probably do that, one way or another.
 * 4) Yes, you can definitely change your service level at any time.
 * 5) I'm the main administrator - other WikiWorks people sometimes help.
 * 6) I don't know - I'm not the one making the requests. :)

Yaron Koren 10:11, December 9, 2010 (EST)

Some features
Hello, Yaron! I find your hosting good enough but have some questions. Can I rename namespaces on my wiki and create new user groups or is it disabled? Стюарт Радзинский 08:56, December 14, 2010 (EST) UPD: oh, I found info that I can't. A pity. Стюарт Радзинский 09:00, December 14, 2010 (EST)

Another question: have you heard about the MediaWikiDumper? Can I use it on Referata to move some sites from Wikia? Стюарт Радзинский 09:19, December 15, 2010 (EST)


 * No, I've never heard of it. Yaron Koren 09:51, December 15, 2010 (EST)

Wiki default language
Hello Yaron.

Some days ago I was seeing a change in wikis, and now, all the pages, despite the fact the admins configured the site's default language (by example: My wiki Latinopedia, the language is Spanish) we must redirect it to English language in order to see the pages.

I mean, "Discusión" is a Spanish word, in wiki means the talk, then, instead of have articles in Spanish like: "Usuario:AndreyMAG" "Usuario discusión:AndreyMAG" (my user page and talk, in Latinopedia), or "Categoría:Example", we have to wite it: "User:AndreyMAG" "User talk:AndreyMAG" and "Category:Example".

-Andrey 22:11, December 31, 2010 (EST)


 * Hi - is this still a problem for you? This URL works fine for me. Yaron Koren 14:32, January 2, 2011 (EST)

Yes, the problem still. I saw in my Preferences the new option "Internationalisation" with English as the Default language, I changed it to Spanish, and then clicked on Save, and despite the banner that says "Your changes have been applied", the language bar still says English. Here is a screenshot:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3393/latinopediapantallazo.png

It's this problem associated with the original problem? -Andrey 11:45, January 3, 2011 (EST)


 * Well, what about the original problem - is that one still an issue, or has it gone away? Yaron Koren 12:09, January 3, 2011 (EST)


 * The problem still. -Andrey 10:55, January 5, 2011 (EST)


 * I logged out of my account, and I entered The URL, and it works... so the problem is for logged users, I think this problem is associated with the problem that I show in the screenshot. -Andrey 11:03, January 5, 2011 (EST)
 * Oh, I have the same problem on my Russian site. Strange, very strange... Стюарт Радзинский 14:26, January 5, 2011 (EST)


 * Indeed, you were right! The language handling changed in MW 1.16, which caused problems in Referata's setting of languages. I think I managed to fix this just now - please let me know if you encounter any problems. Yaron Koren 15:32, January 7, 2011 (EST)


 * The problem is over, thank you Yaron :) -Andrey 14:48, January 8, 2011 (EST)