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WikiApiary status update
The latest work on WikiApiary, including a bit of history and how *you* can get involved if you aren’t already at the end.
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More WikiApiary progress
While WikiApiary was offline, its stewards–the MediaWiki Stakeholders user group–got a number of complaints. For a brief time, I tried to allay the worry by putting up a reassuring bee, but then I was spending time that I didn’t think I had, so I figured it would be better to use that time to actually […]
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First pass at WikiApiary DB tuning
Today, after asking for help with DB tuning on WikiApiary, Bernhard Krabina gave me some settings that had been used on a wiki with what looked like a ton of memory. I didn’t realize this at first, of course. No, I just put the settings into mysqld.cnf. That worked for a few minutes, but then […]
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How to get URLs in JavaScript for uploaded files in MediaWiki
Today, I was trying to remove hard-coded paths from some JS code. In my particular case, I started with a stem that looked like this: /img_auth.php/c/c9/Logo.png But MediaWiki provides different ways to configure it to serve images. The hard-coded url wouldn’t work in a wiki that had $wgHashedUploadDirectory set to false. And it wouldn’t work […]
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