[Wikitech-l] How wikimedia handle starting and stopping lsearchd daemon?
How does wikimedia handle starting and stopping lsearchd daemon? Is it handled by things like /etc/init.d/lsearchd? Could you distribute /etc/init.d/lsearchd along with lucene-search package? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] A suitable error message for iPhones
David Gerard wrote: Are you *sure* we can't put a narky message when iPhone users click a video? Adobe do! http://twitpic.com/kf361 (assuming it's real - can anyone with an iPhone please check?) Adobe is the most feared company on the web right now. Even though Microsoft has the most popular browser, a number of excellent alternatives exist: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konquerer, and Chrome. They don't support 100% of what IE supports, but you can browse the web all day with them and rarely find a site that they don't work with. There are no entirely satisfactory replacements for Flash and Acrobat, and certainly not cross-platform and widely installed. On top of all that, Apple and Microsoft both have personal vendettas against Adobe. Five years ago web video was buried beneath a three-way battle between the MicrosoftOnlyMediaPlayer, TheRealBadMediaPlayer, and TheQuicktimeMediaPlayerThatWorksOccasionally. Publishing video online would typically mean creating files for all three players, and probably at 2-4 different quality levels, so you might have 6-12 files. Then there would be a complex hunk of javascript that would try to guess which player you had, which would work right... if you were lucky. Then there was the whole codec nightmare; even if you had the right player, you probably didn't have the right codec. Although there were supposedly mechanisms for installing new codecs, you'd usually risk wrecking your ability to play video at all if you tried to install a codec. Macromedia (later aquired by Adobe) quietly introduced video capability in Flash... It was a few versions later when Flash video players were widespread, and then all of a sudden people realized that web video could be as simple as pushing Play and having the video really play. Apple and Microsoft, both of whom have ambitions to control digital video, will never forgive Adobe. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Importing English Wikipeida XML Dumps into MediaWiki
Hi, I have been importing the English Wikipeida XML Dumps every few months (last time I did this was in June). I then used xml2sql and it always worked for me. Now I attempted the import on the latest dump enwiki-20090920-pages-articles.xml (and on the dump from enwiki-20090810-pages-articles.xml), both of these have the error: $ xml2sql enwiki-20090920-pages-articles.xml unexpected element redirect xml2sql: parsing aborted at line 33 pos 16. So then I try mwdumper and after 1.4 M Pages, it craps out: …… 1,423,000 pages (957.283/sec), 1,423,000 revs (957.283/sec) 1,424,000 pages (957.465/sec), 1,424,000 revs (957.465/sec) Exception in thread main java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid contributor at org.mediawiki.importer.XmlDumpReader.closeContributor(Unknown Source) at org.mediawiki.importer.XmlDumpReader.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:198) at org.mediawiki.importer.XmlDumpReader.readDump(Unknown Source) at org.mediawiki.dumper.Dumper.main(Unknown Source) I tried the importDump.php and I get errors of the kind (MediaWiki 1.14.0) … Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler in_() in /var/www/includes/Import.php on line 437 Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler in_() in /var/www/includes/Import.php on line 437 Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler out_() in /var/www/includes/Import.php on line 437 …. (Sorry I don’t know where this error starts, but it processes a few thousand pages, up till I get sick of looking at it before failing.) Any ideas if the format of the XML files have changed because I can swear that as of June or may be May, I had xml2sql working. I know that I might need to upgrade MediaWiki to 1.15, however importDump.php usually does not work for the English Wikipedia anyways. I would be grateful if someone has any ideas? Thanks guys, O. O. P.S. http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/ does not have the source of MWDumper. I thought this was open source? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing English Wikipeida XML Dumps into MediaWiki
O. O. writes: (Sorry I don’t know where this error starts, but it processes a few thousand pages, up till I get sick of looking at it before failing.) Any ideas if the format of the XML files have changed because I can swear that as of June or may be May, I had xml2sql working. I know that I might need to upgrade MediaWiki to 1.15, however importDump.php usually does not work for the English Wikipedia anyways. I would be grateful if someone has any ideas? Thanks guys, O. O. Seems it fails on the new redirect tag. P.S. http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/ does not have the source of MWDumper. I thought this was open source? MWDumper source is available at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/ It should be noted at the readme. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Has anyone heard of a file download issue with Mediawiki / Wikipedia?
I have a Wikipedia OTRS ticket related to someone who keeps getting Download this file dialogs when they go to Wikipedia pages... System description is: I have Vista and IE 8.0.6001.18813. Page they keep seeing this on is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming Has anyone seen behavior like this before? That's a very standard browser and OS. Any ideas appreciated. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Has anyone heard of a file download issue with Mediawiki / Wikipedia?
2009/10/8 George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com: I have a Wikipedia OTRS ticket related to someone who keeps getting Download this file dialogs when they go to Wikipedia pages... [snip] Has anyone seen behavior like this before? [snip] I have seen it happen a couple of times, on various pages. I'm using Ubuntu and Firefox, various versions of both (ubuntu versions available during past 2-3 years, and the versions of firefox in the main ubuntu package repositories) I've only seen it happen about 10-15 times in the past 2-3 years, so it doesn't happen regularly enough for me to figure out what exactly is going on. I can never reproduce when I want to. I sometimes wonder if it's something to do with my connection being interrupted, and the page partially downloaded (perhaps only part of the headers?) I really don't know much about this area though, so this is a stab in the dark, and shouldn't be relied upon. -- Regards, Simon Walker User:Stwalkerster on all public Wikimedia Foundation wikis Administrator on the English Wikipedia Developer of Helpmebot, the ACC tool, and Nubio 2 FAQ repository ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Has anyone heard of a file download issue with Mediawiki / Wikipedia?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:50 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: I have a Wikipedia OTRS ticket related to someone who keeps getting Download this file dialogs when they go to Wikipedia pages... System description is: I have Vista and IE 8.0.6001.18813. Page they keep seeing this on is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming Has anyone seen behavior like this before? That's a very standard browser and OS. Any ideas appreciated. That will happen when the Use external editor by default option is checked in editing preferences. In order to get external editors to work, the browser needs to be configured. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors If that's not the problem, then I'm not sure what the problem is. -Aude -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ 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
