Re: [Wikitech-l] modernizing mediawiki
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: When one looks for educational / academic content, rich and colorful interface only distracts the reader. The following site is not mediawiki / monobook based, yet the visual design is simple: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html There is nothing wrong with it. Actually, there is real beauty in simpicity. Dmitriy The visual design is fine here, but information architecture is seriously lacking here. Of course, it's hard to design a navigation interface for a heterogeneous collection of concepts as you see here, but the alphabetical index doesn't play as well online as it does in print. The eye and hand can scan alphabetically much faster in a book than you can do online. There are the really obvious problems that show up in alphabetical listings: for instance, many people forget to fold The when they do queries against online library catalog systems; more modern systems ought to do the folding for you automatically, but there's really no incentive for libraries to improve the services they offer their patrons. Similarly, today it's pretty reasonable for a system to accomodate people who are looking for Adorno, Theodore or Theodore Adorno. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] New committer
Sean Colombo (sean_colombo): extensions related to Wikia and LyricWiki, possibly some core tweaks. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] ? user status history
Dear All, Many thanks for all your work with Wikipedia, we use it daily for various tasks and in our research on Wikipedia. (we = a subset of a research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) I just managed to wget the history dump enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 a week ago, and I would like to combine this with status information about users. Do you happen to know if the status (admin, steward, bot, etc.) of all users has been logged for enwiki? In what way would this be available for download and for non-profit basic research? Thanks, Illes -- http://hal.elte.hu/fij ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security update: 1.15.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a security and bugfix release of MediaWiki 1.15.2. Two security issues were discovered: A CSS validation issue was discovered which allows editors to display external images in wiki pages. This is a privacy concern on public wikis, since a malicious user may link to an image on a server they control, which would allow that attacker to gather IP addresses and other information from users of the public wiki. All sites running publicly-editable MediaWiki installations are advised to upgrade. All versions of MediaWiki (prior to this one) are affected. A data leakage vulnerability was discovered in thumb.php which affects wikis which restrict access to private files using img_auth.php, or some similar scheme. All versions of MediaWiki since 1.5 are affected. Deleting thumb.php is a suitable workaround for private wikis which do not use $wgThumbnailScriptPath or $wgLocalRepo['thumbScriptUrl']. Alternatively, you can upgrade to MediaWiki 1.15.2 or backport the patch below to whatever version of MediaWiki you are using. MediaWiki is not compatible with PHP 5.3.1 due to a bug in that release, which is fixed in PHP 5.3.2. This release of MediaWiki will refuse to upgrade if an affected version of PHP is present. Note that local or distribution-specific backports of the PHP bug fix are supported. See http://bugs.php.net/50394 for details. Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_15_2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES ** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.2.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.15.1), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.2.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.2.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-1.15.2.patch.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.15/mediawiki-i18n-1.15.2.patch.gz.sig Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuVjQcACgkQgkA+Wfn4zXkYqACfRXMeQdbHT2ep+xEbkgPpz+BA 5pgAoMhuJQ6UJrW8Wdh/Ji9VA/h8MRH0 =CDe6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)
Do you have a reason for sending a blank email and then an email with a random address in it to wikitech-l? On 8 March 2010 22:12, William Nelson eyelikepi...@yahoo.com wrote: 3161 w.cheryl dr phoenix az ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] ? user status history
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100116/enwiki-20100116-user_groups.sql.gz But the latest dump seems broken and I don't know why. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Farkas, Illes f...@elte.hu wrote: Dear All, Many thanks for all your work with Wikipedia, we use it daily for various tasks and in our research on Wikipedia. (we = a subset of a research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) I just managed to wget the history dump enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 a week ago, and I would like to combine this with status information about users. Do you happen to know if the status (admin, steward, bot, etc.) of all users has been logged for enwiki? In what way would this be available for download and for non-profit basic research? Thanks, Illes -- http://hal.elte.hu/fij ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
