After deploying the web agent, MediaWiki started parsing things incorrectly. Wiki-syntax like:

== Test ==
== Test2 ==
=== Test 3 ===

Was being corrupted, and turning into something like:

== Test ==== Test2 ===== Test3 ===

I traced it down to a conflict between the OpenSSO web agent and php-xml (dom.so specifically). I’m not sure exactly what the issue is, but removing the php-xml package from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) solved the parsing problem. Unfortunately, some MediaWiki extensions, like ImageMap, require php-xml.

I was able to fix the issue in MediaWiki’s configuration by telling the parser to use plain PHP arrays for temporary storage instead of PHP’s DOM. I did this by putting the following into LocalSettings.php:

$wgParserConf = array(
        'class' => 'Parser',
        'preprocessorClass' => 'Preprocessor_Hash',
);

If anyone has an idea on a better way to fix this, I’m all ears. I’d like to not have a nasty workaround like this.

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http://www.ltc-la.org/en/art/422/

I’ll pull a few great quotes out of it for you…

You are invited to participate in a survey designed to learn about business blog. A business blog is a novel way of publishing information by or with the support of an organization where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

This is the Louisiana Technology Council right? Did this come out of a dictionary? Is this really the best way to describe a blog?

“…learn about business blog.” I seriously don’t think I even need to say anything about this.

A typical business blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

How is this different from any other type of blog? How is this different from a web page? A CMS? A wiki?

There are two goals of this project:

1. To gain insight and understanding of the critical factors that lead businesses to create their own blog sites?
2. To understand organizations awareness of their potential liabilities resulting from action of managers or employees in violation of the different laws (e.g., defamation of fellow employees, defamation of competitors, conspiracy law, security laws, privacy laws, etc.) when blogging?

Why are these questions? Also, why is it important to know factors that lead businesses to create their own blogs? Isn’t it more important to know how a blog can help your business, and how you should be using a blog to positively impact your business?

Maybe the LTC needs to attend some Net2NO meetings to get a better feel for what a blog is and how to use social media effectively.

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