Re: [Wikitech-l] __TOC__ handling

2009-09-05 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:03:03 -0700]: I'm not at all familiar with the magic words handling stuff; I have a desire to be able to hide lower level headings absolutely (toclimit-3 for example) so I can use level 5 or 6 headings for a particular UI purpose

Re: [Wikitech-l] __TOC__ handling

2009-09-05 Thread George Herbert
Thanks. I took a quick look, that seems to be a good place to start understanding it. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Dmitriy Sintsovques...@rambler.ru wrote: * George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:03:03 -0700]: I'm not at all familiar with the magic words handling

[Wikitech-l] SQL

2009-09-05 Thread Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima
Hello! I was looking at this code http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/intersection/DynamicPageList.php?view=markup and trying to figure out how to change this piece of code if ('lastedit' == $sOrderMethod) $sSqlWhere .= ' ORDER BY page_touched '; else

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL

2009-09-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/9/5 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima heldergeov...@gmail.com: But I don't know what to use in the SQL instead of the WHAT?. Does anybody knows what should it be? You should probably use ORDER BY page_namespace, page_title there, which will sort by namespace, then by title. Roan Kattouw

[Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
See this talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25 The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting toxic links on Wikipedia to see who will follow them. Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any reason to allow .exe links on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread John Doe
it would be as simple as adding \.exe\s to the meta spam blacklist On 9/5/09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: See this talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25 The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting toxic links on Wikipedia to see who

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/9/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: See this talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25 The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting toxic links on Wikipedia to see who will follow them. Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any reason to allow .exe links on WMF sites? Is there a clean method to disable them? Is this a bad idea for any reason? What should default settings be in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/5 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: The relevant edits have been oversighted so I can't tell what kind of URLs they were. If they were like www.foo.com/bar.exe then we can easily stop them by not parsing URLs that end .exe. It was on Rapidshare. It was of the form:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/5 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: Although his actions were IMO dickish, he has some point: is there any reason to allow .exe links on WMF sites? Is there a clean method to disable them? Is this a bad idea for any

[Wikitech-l] Version control on Windows (was Wikipedia iPhone app official page?)

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/5 Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru: * Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org [Sat, 5 Sep 2009 If Windows had a decent command line / shell (has its suckyness improved for Win7?), I bet that TortoiseSVN had far less downloads... it simply is the only way to make SVN usable on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread Platonides
David Gerard wrote: As I noted, in this case the link actually went to a download page, not directly to the .exe. He still got five people to download it. Having people download it is not harmful per se. How many of them were for reviewing it? I read the talk page and have the impulse of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not allowing certain external link types?

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/5 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: David Gerard, how did you get the link to threatexpert.com? The behavior of 01cd53443e3e7a7453a85a58191558c7 is one from malware, but the submission being on 21 July 2009 makes me doubt that it really is that the file. I Googled for a description of

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

2009-09-05 Thread Platonides
Mike.lifeguard wrote: Simple matter of coding, then? :-) This sort of thing would hekp with some of or external antispam tools. Currently we rely on parsing edits manually to see when links are added - some realtime and machine-readable format for notifications of such edits would be great.

[Wikitech-l] Yeah, let's botspam Wikipedia. I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

2009-09-05 Thread David Gerard
What could possibly go wrong? http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know! Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum for you to get a topup from. - d.