Working with MediaWiki

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Errata

Fortunately, all of the known errors in Working with MediaWiki were fixed in its first seven or so months of printing. For those who bought the book in that time, the following errors may be in effect. Page numbers are valid for the printed book only.

The following errors existed until July 31, 2013; books bought or downloaded after that date will not have these errors.

• Chapter 7, "Images and files", section "Uploading", page 65:
  "$wgEnableHashedUploads = false;" should instead be "$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;".


• Chapter 18, "Additional Semantic MediaWiki functionality", section "Semantic Drilldown", page 245:
  The "Has value" declarations should contain one " - ", not " -- ".

The following errors existed until March 8, 2013; books bought or downloaded after that date will not have these errors.

• Chapter 3, "Editing in MediaWiki", section "Page name", page 15:
  "$wgCapitalLinks = true;" should instead be "$wgCapitalLinks = false;".


• Chapter 8, "User registration and management", section "Create user accounts", page 79:
  "$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = false;" should instead be "$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createaccount'] = true;".


• Chapter 17, "Displaying data", section "Semantic Compound Queries", page 237:
  Deadlines are intended to be displayed in orange, not red.


• Chapter 18, "Additional Semantic MediaWiki functionality", section "Semantic Drilldown", page 246:
  The call "[[Has filter::Filter:Country]]" should instead be "[[Has filter::Filter:Diameter]]".