.
Feel free to contact with problems.
-Adam Wight
j...@sahnwaldt.de:
mwdumper seems to work for recent dumps:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2012-May/039347.html
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've been tasked
Hi all,
I've been tasked with setting up a local copy of the English
Wikipedia for researchers - sort of like another Toolserver. I'm not
having much luck, and wondered if anyone has done this recently, and
what approach they used? We only really need the current article text
- history and meta
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites
Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or
in this thread.
* Would be nice if the tool maintains a relationship between the file
on disk, the metadata
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@gmail.com wrote:
1) The Git / Gerrit combination means that you will have to understand
git rebase, git commit --amend, git bisect and git cherry-pick. This
is advanced Git usage and that will make the learning curve steeper. I
think
Hi,
I'm not involved in media wiki development but I've been through the got
thing a couple of times. There's an alternative command line interface
called easygit which you can download and install. It makes the learning
curve shallower with more intuitive commands, more helpful output and much
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Friesen
li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's
source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are
floating around the Internet, and they are various degrees of out of
date.
Btw, I haven't been following this discussion, but does everyone here
know about the browser extension stylish, and userstyles.org? It's a
very easy way for anyone to use whatever CSS they like.
My favourite: http://userstyles.org/styles/22809
Apologies if this wasn't helpful.
Steve
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://danielrw.tumblr.com/post/266672251/hilarious-ie6-splash-screens
Yeah, but something more subtle might actually be appropriate.
Presumably IE6 lingers so long because it doesn't cause *users* any
problems. All the
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Priyanka Dhanda pdha...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Guillaume and Naoko have expressed a need for a Project Management Tool
and I though it would be good to try use a tracker with some project
management functionality or integrates easily with some project
management
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
We now have enough data to draw a [[population pyramid]] for
biographies in the Swedish Wikipedia. One such diagram is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-gender-age.png
Cool stuff. By year on year I only meant a
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
Great! We did too. To make sure that they're covered, have you posted
them anywhere? E.g., here:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page
Or here:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:18 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
Because the
next version should address a lot of the labs feedback, I'd like to do
at least one more labs release.
Yes, please! I had some pretty big concerns about the last version...
Steve
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
As per the discussions on en.wiki, I believe we [en.wikipedia] will be
calling Flagged Protection since that is how it is meant to be
implemented for us based on community consensus and that is what it
has been formally
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:35 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
Most software is either internal business software, where users are
obliged to put up with almost anything, or consumer-oriented, where
users are mostly uninvolved and fickle. The product management methods
in either of
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Jake Wartenberg
j...@jakewartenberg.com wrote:
As a side note, what exactly is holding up implementation of this on enwiki?
I believe Brion mentioned that his leaving was likely to delay its
implementation.
My personal feeling, from playing around on that site,
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
* the timestamp isn't a unique identifier, multiple revisions *might* have
the
same timestamp. We need a tiebreak (rev_id would be the obvious choice).
I'd say it is, if sufficiently precise :) If not, either use the
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog)
gm...@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
Do you mean
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm?
Cool. What is the mediawiki browser?
Steve
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Eugene Eric Kim ee...@blueoxen.com wrote:
Sorry about the confusion. I believe Australia uses the EDT
convention, but I may be mistaken. U.S. is actually on Eastern
Standard Time (EST) right now.
Yeah, it's confusing. The term AEST or AEDT is less ambiguous:
On 10/2/09, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update
their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I
mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a
wikipedia dump or they use a crawler
On 10/3/09, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once
a month.
That'll teach me to speculate.
Steve
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On 10/1/09, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Meanwhile, I wrote a simple JS that tells you when the cursor (in edit
mode) is within a red link, or if it's a disambiguation page, it
offers replace-links to click on. That should answer the problem of
the OP. Could do redirects
On 10/1/09, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
What it would do: From where the cursor stands in the edit box,
search backwards for a [[ and then forwards to the following |
or ]] which ever comes first (this covers the case that the
cursor is inside the link brackets). Look up that
On 10/1/09, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm pretty sure the usability kids have something to this effect up
their sleeves, hiding somewhere.
Heh, I was wondering if this would start to become the new meme. We
don't need to fix that gui, the usability team will take care of it!
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Daniel Friesen
li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
I had a user who copied an article from the html of Wikipedia (no edit
button) into Wikia's RTE.
Theoretically that use case could be supported, right? If there were
enough id's in the HTML source, then we could
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it's not. We're talking about a specific article on the English
Wikipedia about a single obscure character, and related cases where
isolated characters don't display properly.
Well, actually I was just
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
We (the usability team) do intend to get 'content folding' (folding
template calls and tables into stubs that can be expanded at will)
done in the Citron (third) release.
*falls to the ground and starts kissing your
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote:
The 10% drove people off cliffs because it is, pretty much by definition,
the horrible unexpected behaviour that is a *consequence* of not having a
formal definition. Writing a formal definition is not impossible if you
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
What's complex in '''bold''' and ==headings== ? Here when we've
It *looks* complex. That's pretty much most of the problem. Here's our
desired use case:
1) User views a page that is deficient in some way.
2) User decides
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Having said that, I don't see why would XML be necessary. Table and
template markup are well structured and could be used by any editor just
as XML would. Additionally, it is easier to observe diffs with wiki markup.
Is
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
So it would be menu and icon-driven editing, where the hands should move
from keyboard to mouse and vice versa, like MS Word. Not very handy for
programmers and people who prefer to do most of tasks in command line.
I
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote:
Adding a gui layer to wikitext is always okay, as long as it's
possible to get rid of, since majority of edits not coming from new
users, and losing flexibility for power users to get more newbies
doesn't sound like a good
I'm using Chrome 3.0.195.21, and have long found that some characters
in Wikipedia render as boxes. One example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_with_stroke renders as box
(minuscule: box)...
Now, I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters
and the advice is not very useful or
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Getting a formal definition of ~90% of the wikitext syntax is easy. The
other 10% drived nuts everyone trying to do it hard enough, so far.
I wouldn't put it quite like that. Yes, the problem gets harder as you
get nearer
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikis are supposed to be easy to edit. Maybe I am misunderstanding
your intent, but XML-ize everything sounds like an approach that would
make it much harder for novice editors to figure out what they are
doing. XML tends
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Tim Landscheidt
t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
Does this mean that we can switch off section editing soon
as it becomes useless?
What you're saying is there's no point editing just a section, if it
relies on references defined elsewhere. But that's not true.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
And if it were changed, templates *should* be able to continue being a
source of metadata.
So I think that requirement blocks changing the way categories are stored.
You're right, I completely overlooked that.
So, milder
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
I could be wrong here, but wasn't Cite recently changed to allow for
putting refs inside references? If so, I think we could start
encouraging people to put all of their refs down in the references
block and just using ref
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A fix for this went live today. You can now put your ref name=
tags into the references tag, and then reference them by name.
Oh, so it did. And it works!
2009/9/18 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com:
Careful, a recent analysis I did suggested that 15% of all page
requests for articles on Wikipedia are for topics requested less than
once per hour. There are a very large number of pages that rarely see
hits, but collectively the traffic to such
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
That particular result is unpublished. I could make you a list of
infrequently viewed articles, but it would be quite long.
Could you make a list of the 100 least viewed? Or are there are large
number which are essentially
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
In practice it is very rare to have a ref be placed inside the content
of another ref, so the problem of nested refs will almost never come
up, but it is something to be aware of if one is considering any mass
effort to
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
There is a strong correlation between start/stub quality articles and the
number of times they are viewed.
Ah, ok. What about a list of exceptions to that: articles over 1000
characters, that have been around more than a
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Any plans of separating these on edit, then re-attach them to the text
on saving? It's low-hanging fruit IMHO.
Good question. IMHO, all position independent stuff (ie, metadata)
would be better off saved
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Tisza Gergőgti...@gmail.com wrote:
Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com writes:
I don't know how to figure out how much it would 'cost' to have human
contributors spot embedded penises snuck into transcodes and then
figure out which of several contributing
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tronadoroldid=305058032
In Chrome, the four images in the gallery all appear at different heights.
Is this known? Can it be fixed?
Steve
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Gerard
Meijssengerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
You forget that there are loads of MediaWiki installations
outside the WMF as well. REALLY, the inability of people to do this geek
thing is detrimental to the adoption of MediaWiki.
You think? What's another wiki
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:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Echuca_docks_Stevage.jpg
Is there a hack to get the image
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM, K. Peacheyp858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The image thumbnailing systems are currently offline during a server
move, that is why the image isn't being displayed.
So thumbnails that were already generated survive, but no new ones are
generated? Cool.
Steve
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Careful - think what happens when a single revision is deleted,
oversighted or suppressed.
Isn't this an argument in favour of storing the text once and linking
to it? If the text contains some personal information deemed
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marco
Schusterma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
We should not recommend Chrome - as good as it is, but it has serious
privacy problems.
Out of curiosity, why do we need to recommend a browser at all, and
why do we think anyone will listen to our recommendation?
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:35 PM, William Allen
Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
Some may not think that this site is critical, or valuable, or whatever.
That's a horrible strawman argument. Some simply think that the
amount of damage that can be caused by hijacking a non-admin
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoniamir.ahar...@gmail.com wrote:
2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search
the database directly using regexes?
What's your use case? Obviously all the points below are valid and
rule out directly regex searching on the
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Remember the
dotrememberthe...@gmail.com wrote:
Theoretically, a man-in-the-middle attack could allow a malicious
person to hijack your session cookies and take over your account.
HTTPS makes this practically impossible.
Yeah, and so what? OMG THEY MADE EDITS
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William Allen
Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
I really think this is a superb idea, but
Really? Personally, security is of no concern to my use of Wikipedia,
but I guess I can imagine contexts where it might be.
Steve
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:39 AM, William Allen
Simpsonwilliam.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
William Allen Simpson wrote:
So, I've reverted to the old practice from the dog days of 2005-06, and
mostly edit in very off hours. Yet it slowed down drastically again!
Here's my test log, edits
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Marco
Schusterma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
You can make some kind of counter, which gets incremented each
foreach/while/for loop. If it reaches 200 (or whatever), execution is
stopped.
Yes, but that implies:
1) We're writing an interpreter, or getting
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Erik Moellere...@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f9/WMF_Ford_Multimedia_Participation_Project.pdf
The objective of this project is to increase participation in and
contributions to Wikimedia
Commons by implementing a
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
3) A limited number of admin-controlled special templates can use an
even wider range of features, including raw HTML.
Admins are not
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
From the editor's point of view. Not from the view of the HTML
source, which is what the original proposal was looking at.
I guess.
I'm starting to get the initial pangs of an idea that we should have
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Mark Clements
(HappyDog)gm...@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
I noticed the problem here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%27s_Heavy_Concept_Album
Now that you mention it, that does look marginally odd. Both options
seem pretty reasonable, so unless anyone feels strongly
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Common this definitely is: it's relevant to the overwhelming majority
of pages on Wikipedia, at least if weighted by views. It affects all
pages with references and most with infoboxes, for instance. It's not
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Kalankalan@gmail.com wrote:
We don’t allow attributes for wikilinks.
...
That is, [[Special:Userlogout|log
out|id=logoutlink|style=color:red|title=This will log you out]] will
be a wikilink with style, title and id attributes. The current syntax
is a
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Neil Harrisuse...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Regarding dashes and hyphens, I've now found my original data set, and
a quick inspection gives this set of various similar-looking Latin
hyphens, dashes and minus signs:
U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
U+2010 HYPHEN
U+2011
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
That wouldn't be very useful for Wikisource purposes. We need something
editable.
I was assuming the user would include the LilyPond source along with
the image. As I did here, for example:
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:25 AM, River Tarnell
ri...@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk wrote:
http://abc.sourceforge.net/
You know what would be useful? A website that lets you input ABC (or
LilyPond, for that matter) text, and produces an image as output.
Hence avoiding the need to download and
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
You know what would be useful? A website that lets you input ABC (or
LilyPond, for that matter) text, and produces an image as output.
Hence avoiding the need to download and install it. Does such a thing
exist?
http
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:58 AM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote:
We should definitely highlight real downtime as a reason for funding,
especially in a way that discusses practical steps that would be taken to
reduce the problem and how much those steps would cost.
Interesting point.
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
The thing that prompted me to start this thread was Google, a
commercial organisation (although not one people pay for at the point
of use), issuing just such a press release.
Err, yes. But people had already
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