[DAS] [Root-l] Had to disable Cite PHP extension on the biodas wiki

Andreas Prlic ap3 at sanger.ac.uk
Wed Jul 9 20:12:09 UTC 2008


Hi Steve,

the biojava site is using this to track referencews in pubmed, see
   http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:BioJavaInside

would it be possible to re-enable this again? I believe it is also 
used on biodas...
thanks!
Andreas
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Andreas Prlic      Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
                    Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK



On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Steve Chervitz wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I originally set up the biodas wiki site and don't recall installing Cite or
> SpecialCite, of if/whether it is still needed. Andreas also worked on the
> wiki and may have more clues (added to the cc list).
>
> Looks like the error is just for SpecialCite, so it may be possible to just
> disable that and keep using Cite. Looking at the docs for SpecialCite, it
> doesn't seem useful for the biodas wiki:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Special:Cite.php
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Chris Dagdigian <chris at bioteam.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Lincoln reported that www.biodas.org was down today and oddly enough all
>> of our other mediawiki sites were functional. The error keeping the DAS site
>> down was this:
>>
>>  [Tue Jun 24 08:48:17 2008] [error] [client 72.85.166.28] PHP Fatal error:
>>>  Call to undefined function wfLoadExtensionMessages() in
>>> /home/websites/cross-site-stuff/extensions/Cite/SpecialCite.php on line 37
>>>
>>>
>> In order to bring the BioDAS wiki back online I had to make the following
>> hackish changes:
>>
>> - Deleted the symbolic link to Cite in the biodas wiki extensions webroot
>> - Commented out the Cite and SpecialCite includes in biodas
>> LocalSettings.php
>>
>> That brought the site back at the expense of blowing away any functionality
>> DAS was using that relied on the MediaWiki Citation extensions.
>>
>> Can someone who is familiar with the DAS wiki site and how it is configured
>> touch base with me and or root-l at open-bio.org so we can bring your
>> extensions back if needed?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris
>> OBF
>>
>>
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