On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It is *NOT* *OUR* *ROLE* to decide what is and is not appropriate
for children to view on our website. That role is to be discharged
solely by parents and supervisors of those children.
The *ONLY* rating and
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
I know this was discussed a little while ago but do we have anything set up
in the way of global notices etc? Obviously a large portion of our userbase
(especially readers) don't see the mailing lists and we probably
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Kim, the board (and I) have been talking about this for the past
couple of days, and we'll continue to talk about it over the next
couple of weeks. I think it's fairly likely there will be some kind
of statement or
The more time you spend trying to shutdown the pages/groups/whatever
else, the more it encourages users to do it, So just pay no attention
to them.
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On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Ja Ga jaga_...@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the best way to get the current text of an article from the
Toolserver these days - the API, WikiProxy, or something else? I need to
examine thousands of pages on a daily basis and want to streamline the
process as
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
I'm glad to see that the resolved bugs include this one:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23223
Hope you all manage to escape Germany sooner rather than later.
Mike
Clearly not FIXED they are still in
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, help Americans find Iceland. Donating to Wikimedia can do that.
Not a joke.
*I can't find the source, but that is a true survey.
--
~Keegan
The miss {world/america} thing when the contestant made the
And what protection would you be referring to?
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Commons, just like all the other WMF mediawiki installations has
supported protecting files for ages.
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What are the issue(/s) that arose whilst you were trying to install
them? A blank white page by any chance?
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On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm all for this: if a feature is disabled locally and supposed to be
used elsewhere, just hiding the feature isn't very user-friendly.
Providing a clear explanation of how this stuff works and why clearly
wins. This is
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Cary Bass wrote:
It's amazing that Swedish Wikipedia is fighting tooth and nail to get
rid of the Wikipedia logo, while the English Wikipedia is having the
same battle over keeping the Goatse.cx image (which is receiving 800
Try running /maintance/namespaceDupes.php.
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
There should be a lot of free time to hang around. For example, IRC is
really inefficient - you ask a question and often you have to wait for a
long time (sometimes never). (That was a question how to add tooltips to
The reason I suggested a separate IRC channel, since i wrote about it
at night and my crazied ramblings probably didn't resemble much, (or
communication venue in general, for example people have pointed out a
mailing list) is because as someone pointed out (someone, Dmitriy i
think it was without
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From: Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se
Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Catching the death of living people
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Does anybody have a bot or script that aligns the
categories
They are most likely over riding the defaults using css in either
[[Mediawiki:Common.css]] or [[Mediawiki:SKIN-NAME.css]] (example:
[[Mediawiki:Monobook.css]]) for the capitalization rules.
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I have forwarded this onto Wikien-l, since they might have better
ideas and is more orientated towards the users of the wikis where as
Wikitech is more the backendy technical stuff.
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The main page is generally generated with templates, so there are
little to none direct edits to the page.
-Peachey
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm curious as to whether there's anything official behind this poll[1] on
en.wikipedia to simply turn on flagged revs in the form that the Germans
use it until the proposed enwiki changes are ready.
-Chad
[1]
Perhaps in future we could send these to the incubator (unless their
BLP or the like) instead of deleting then see if the people want to
work on them?
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This extension may help
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RecordAdmin but I have never
usedit so I can't confirm.
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia uses confluence too
(https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main).
I found that funny when that was posted in another thread :).
Point of note: The Toolserver belongs to Wikimedia
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote:
I would like to use the opportunity to suggest that such a SpecialPage
as in [1] becomes part of MediaWiki and all Wikipedias implementations.
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki
The Interwiki feature
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 March 2010 01:36, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The Interwiki feature isn't really enabled used in default MW
installations.
Are you sure about that? I thought that's how doing [[wikipedia:foo
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
K. Peachey wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other
submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other
submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL.
Yes, but not everyone knows that and any tom, dick or harry that
randomly finds
What made you guys think it was a good idea to block these or the
apple rss reader without prior notice on the mailing lists (perhaps
24hrs worth)? I'm aware of server bots that have broken because of
this...
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
List of extensions used by Wikimedia without a Bugzilla maintainer:
* Makebot Special:Makebot extension
* Makesysop The Makesysop special page extension.
These are deprecated by UserRights.
List of extensions
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote:
I'm afraid you will have to ask every author individually. At least in theory.
Shouldn't the blog be under the WMF's blanket policy, which if I
remember correctly is a CC-Attribute Share-alike by default?
-Peachey
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Jack Phoenix j...@countervandalism.net wrote:
Hi all,
...
Jack Phoenix
jack, I would suggest if you don't already have SVN access then to
request it on wiki(1), Then if/when you get it create a (or ask
someone to do it for you) branch and start working on and then
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:57 PM, DaB. w...@daniel.baur4.info wrote:
Hello,
...
Sincerly,
DaB.
Does that really need a special clause since the privacy policy[1]
clearly spells out that you can't release any non-public information,
and with [[Special:UnwatchedPages]] (or whatever it's called) by
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Schwen li...@schwen.de wrote:
Maybe I didn't understand you properly, but wouldn't it be better to make a
list of acceptable licenses, instead of a single license?
Those are minor details. And I would dare guessing that for most of
the users it would
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Mike.lifeguard
mike.lifegu...@gmail.com wrote:
The whole site went down ~25 minutes ago, and seems to be back up as of
~5 minutes ago.
Just a reminder that when the site's down, it's
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
I wonder what's the schema change approval process we have presently. Is
it still ask Brion or Tim or something else is used now?
--vvv
Generally file a bug report explaining why and what needs to be
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
Last I heard, all the dumps were coming in at fairly regular intervals,
barring
the enwiki full-history-all-namespaces dump. Image dumps are needed, yes.
The OP said he just needs the text anyway :)
-Chad
Image dumps
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
iirc, there is already a mediawiki capability for images to be
completely removed from the servers.
I can't see this capability in the sysop tools, so maybe I only imagined it.
Is that capability still available?
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Siebrand Mazeland
s.mazel...@xs4all.nl wrote:
It feels like I'm nagging now, because I think it is the 3rd time I ask about
it.
In the past three months, it appears to me we have not gotten any closer
really to getting MediaWiki 1.16 out of the door. There
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I have an enwiki snapshot running on a separate instance. Will post as
soon as it finishes.
--tomasz
Just a note, Due to high database server lag, changes newer than
7,994 seconds may not appear in this list., and it's
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Works for me now.
Hampton C. resolved the issue when he work up, The relevant bugzilla
entry for this is #22090 (404 on mobile sites)[1].
[1]. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22090
-Peachey
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Bugzilla is obnoxious and hard to use, but people are familiar with
it. From what I've seen of Trac, I'm not a big fan of that either
(although I haven't used it much). My favorite issue tracker packages
as a
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 14:42, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The Craig Newmark banner is currently running at 20% on the English
Wikipedia.
How much known is Craigslist outside of US, in other English
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
I believe that the chapter wiki uses a third-party extension so that we can
access Commons. In my experience, this extension is a bit flaky and
sometimes causes problems. I don’t have access to the code, but I’d say
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rob Giberson ajax...@gmail.com wrote:
Guess this problem might be asked several (many) times before...but
I tried to download the pages-articles.xml.bz2 file which is approximately
5.xGB. However, all versions I tried failed at about 1.5GB. I noticed
someone
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote:
There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do
believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk
of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote:
There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do
believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk
of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do
I just hope that the banner that recently was captured and displayed
on reddit[1] was a edit/joke because if it wasn't it shows how
pathetic and needy the community is to include that message.
[1]. http://localhostr.com/files/a9e4bc/bXIhj.jpg
- Peachey
According to B#20928, the one your quoted earlier, It has be marked as
fixed and submitted into SVN as r59949 by Aaron S.
-Peachey
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I bet I could fix it in under 5 minutes if I had shell access.
-- Tim Starling
Bug andrew and tell him what to do then :p
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not bagging flagged revs...it just needs a lot more usability
work. The name flagged revs for a start...
Steve
As per the discussions on en.wiki, I believe we [en.wikipedia] will be
calling Flagged Protection since
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote:
Are you using any sort of cahceing, because that would just plain break it?
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
Also, what is required to make the extension Official? I guess that
the Official one has to be useful and reviewed by core developer?
Perhaps, there's something more to confirm?
One that is used on a WMF wiki?
-Peachey
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
...
How about a seperate SVN system that houses non Offical extenstions
and then anything used on the WMF servers stay on the main one?
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Richards
matthew.richa...@contentkeeper.com wrote:
Hi All,
My Ubuntu server running mediawiki 1.10 died and I am moving to mediawiki
1.15 on CentOS. Both installations use mysql.
I have temporarily resurrected my 1.10 install so that I can recover the
mwbot For information about combating and handling spam in
MediaWiki, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features.
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Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for
files and not just articles?
After a testing pahse, it will be up to community discussion for
consensus most likely.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Wieger Wesselink wie...@operamail.com wrote:
Is it possible to import generated mediawiki markup using a script, instead
of manually having to cut and paste it?
Perhaps there is a maintenance script that does this, but I couldn't figure
out which one. It
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Robert Chin robert.c...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know who I might be able to contact about this change? It seems
like they ought to be able to use a class=mw-headline name=
rather than span class=mw-headline id=. Although I guess someone
probably already thought
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 PM, David Price
david.pr...@austinsmithlord.com wrote:
Dear All,
We are using the Header Tab extension which is causing major frustration to
our users. When edits are made to a particular tab, previewed and saved.
The page then returns back to the first header
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Mathias
Schindlermathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hay (Husky)hus...@gmail.com wrote:
Around 11:46 UTC we reached 5 million files on Commons! Not quite sure
which file is the 5th million, but this is one of the candidates:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Seems my concern was moot in any case... Every time I loaded it I've
only seen trashed pages like this:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Melee
But I guess this is just a result of the import
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Platonidesplatoni...@gmail.com wrote:
You know, when you point to a broken page, people^W wikipedians tend to
do absurd things like fixing them :)
I was going to fix some up, but import is restricted and i was too
lazy to do copy/paste imports.
-Peachey
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Robert Stojnicrainma...@gmail.com wrote:
We could publish lsearch-global.conf since it doesn't contain any
private info, and there is only one. However, lsearch.conf is different
for various searchers and contains passwords to access the OAI feed.
r.
Could
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Can you please not alter the way quotes are done by including letters
at the start of the line because most clients pick up the at the
start of the line and indicate that it's a quote. The best way to
indicate who said it is leave the
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Andrew
Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
I feel like I've missed half the conversation here:
Motion To Disqualify a Candidate if it supplied misinformation to WP:ANI to
butress an argument with a block.
candidate for what?
Well with the lack of
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do
something like this to report general
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chadinnocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
This doesn't seem to be a terribly useful metric to
put in core.
-Chad
Maybe a extension for the wikifactor stuff that hooks into stats page
without editing the code?
-Peachey
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Victor Vasilievvasi...@gmail.com wrote:
Plyd wrote:
Hello,
I'm sure this question has already been asked, but I can't find the answer.
I checked and my password is transmitted in clear text when I connect to my
Wikipedia account.
As an admin on a project, I
Hopefully the bookshelf project will come up with some shiny fliers
etc. that can be used for events, but in the meantime we *really* need
a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any
graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too
(there must be one
Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad
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The NY Times has an article investigating why, unlike the articles on
Wikipedia which in theory are improved, fact checked, footnoted, and
generally enhanced over time, the photos that go with
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand there was some issue with image generation, but I'm still
seeing a corrupt image in the main box here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echuca,_Victoria
The actual image itself is ok:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Michalopulos
Niklasniklas.michalopu...@unicreditgroup.at wrote:
Hi,
the Wikipedia information team [info...@wikimedia.org] pointed me to
this mailing list to report a problem I found with the new mobile
wikipedia:
After having enjoyed
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Tris Thomas t...@waterhay.co.uk wrote:
Could be useful?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html
The creative commons search engine[1] allows searching on multiple
different sites at once, so that might be a better
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Lyndie Chioulyn...@researchpipeline.com wrote:
After much finagling I ran the update script (I don't have command-line
access so I had to set up a cron job). My wiki works again! Thanks for the
tip - I guess I have to run the update script from now on instead of
Heres a little side project idea for anyone interested:
I often see people wanting dumps of one or two articles from a
Wikipedia wiki (most commonly en) and most commonly have to resort to
screen scraping via third party tools which isn't very nice and some
times even blocked (at the squid level)
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, private musingsthepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just created this page;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools
with the intention of encouraging all those interested in liaising with
educators / schools directly to jump in and whip up a few project pages
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack D. Pondjack.p...@psitex.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUM
I was unaware this topic had been addressed. Whether or not I agree with
the discussion, I certainly do not want to reopen old wounds. Obviously the
correct approach would be
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:08 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/15 Huib Laurens abi...@forgotten-beauty.com:
Here is the page on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_deleted_image_review
That one links to the vote that passed with 80% support.
And for the bug:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Mashiah
Davidsonmashiah.david...@gmail.com wrote:
Where could I read more on the huge schema-update?
Mashiah
On the WikiTech-l mailing list [1] and there is a breif overview of
the sql files names on the wikitech wiki[2].
[1].
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/12 nick TIMMS nickda...@hotmail.co.uk:
i have been to i have been vandleize some pages but i have not been doing
this so they keep blocking me
That still makes no sense. Please write in proper sentences. If
Brion is on a honeymoon, yet still the top bug resolver. I don't know
wether to be happy or sad, anyways this deserves :claps:.
-Peachey
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If spam is the main reason to have accounts, would using a CAPTCHA for
non-confirmed accounts help? (is that a simple option in Mediawiki?)
Otherwise I'd recommend nothing more restrictive than confirm email address
to edit
Peter Halasz
[[User:Pengo]]
I believe, although maybe wrong but its
As per the subject, does mediawiki do browser version checking and
does it support double digit version numbers?. Opera is about to hit
v10 in their user agent strings which currently breaks a few scripts
on other websites currently although they have put in a tempoary stop
gap (naming as v9.80)
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Hanno Böck ha...@hboeck.de wrote:
Sounds good, see attachment.
You can't send attachments to the mailing list. If i have opened a
bugzilla report (#18981) [1], please attach the patch to that bug
report following the standard [2].
[1].
Instead of downloading the commons dump, have you considered using
$wgForeignFileRepos compared to the sumps, althought this would need a
web connection for it to work properly. They have a example for how to
set it up to work with files from commons:
All pages within the Mediawiki: namespace are automatically full
protected [hard so they can't be unprotected], so only users with
sysop/admin rights on the wiki would be able to edit it.
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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Mike Maughan m...@maughan.co.uk wrote:
Morning all,
I'd like to set up security on a MW site so that:
- the world can see the main page
- only logged-on users can go further
- users have to be approved before gaining initial access
Failing this, all
Wikipedia editors: Coverage of Israel 'problematic'
***
Wikipedia's coverage of Israel-related issues is problematic, leading
Israeli internet researchers claimed Sunday at the Wikipedia Academy 2009
Conference dealing
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Hey, the Bugzilla Weekly Report is about half just trailing blanks!
$ cat q
for p in '' 's/\s+$//;'
do perl -nwle 'next if 1../^$/;'$p' print' Bugzilla_Weekly_Report|wc
done
$ sh q
48 143 2154
48 143 1186
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez
ky...@uh.cu wrote:
Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with
the
maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: This has
Here are some of my crazy ideas of how File storage could be handled thought
out our farm of wikis, although I know they will probably never get used I
though some other people might like to look at them. From here on in, NFC
is used to describe Non Free Content.
1. No local images on wiki's at
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tim Ware t...@hyperarts.com wrote:
Where can I view a good resource on setting permissions in MW v.1.17?
I'd like to somehow set them by category, if that seems the best way.
Thanks.
Tim
You might want to check that version number again at
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
I'm curious what does
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT old_text), COUNT(*) FROM text;
show on Wikipedia's database? On mine I get
COUNT(DISTINCT old_text): 2913
COUNT(*): 3560
I.e., 1/7 of the rows are redundant.
Currently
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Katalin Orosz katalin.or...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
We tried to filter the list of Wikipedia page editors (obtained from the
page histories) to be able to get the list of nonrobot contributors.
As we realized, the first one of the following links with the
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/20/09 11:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
This is confusing. So there are two parts to Cite to make it work
completely.
There are actually two *entirely separate extensions* in the Cite directory:
Cite/Cite.php :
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Katalin Orosz katalin.or...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
We would need the date of promotion for some featured articles promoted in
2006. As we noticed, in featured logs from 2006 the exact date of promotion
is not shown like for example in the logs from 2007
Are there any graphs/information around showing vandalisim levels
compared to the required number of edits required for autoconfirmed
status?
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Charlotte Webb
charlottethew...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Michael Rosenthal
rosenthal3...@googlemail.com wrote:
Isn't there a workaround to change the userrights
Please report urgent system administration issues to IRC, specifically
#wikimedia-tech on irc.freenode.net.
-- Tim Starling
Not everyone knows how to use IRC, i would recommend that you
recommend people report to bugzilla with urgent tags instead.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiousity, when a technical problem shuts down all editing on
a major wiki (as this did) are there any automated alerts? Is it
likely to be noticed and addressed even if no one rushes to IRC?
I guess I am curious
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