Re: [Wikitech-l] Recompression results
Platonides wrote: You mention on bug 22624 the possibility of normalising the entire archive table to MW 1.5+ format. What are the chances of moving them back to revision and use revdelete for all deletions (removing archive table)? See bugs 18104, 21279, 18780. Can you copy that question to the bug report please? I don't want to deal with it right now. -- Tim Starling ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Cite extension- extra functionality
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 20:48, Nimish Gautam ngau...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey all, I wanted to change the cite extension to have some extra functionality. As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled tools such as email clients or IM clients to share information. Unfortunately, those citation links just link to anchors on the page and don't provide anything useful when copied/pasted. Appending the full page's URL to those links would take like 20 seconds, make them functional, but would add extra markup to every page. Anyone have any other good reasons why we shouldn't do this? As Conrad pointed out using non-absolute URLs like this is by design and not doing so would break other functionality. What browser are you using and how are you copy-pasting the HTML from the browser to your E-Mail/IM programs? If it's some feature where you highlight a text on the page and the browser automatically fetches the underlying HTML then not resolving anchor links on the page sounds like a bug in that browser. Are are you just viewing the source of the page and copy/pasting snippets from there? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Google Summer of Code Accepted!
Hi folks, We've been accepted again for another Google Summer of Code! What this means: * Mentors: please go to this page to formally apply to be a mentor: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia Note: you can't officially be a mentor until you do this, and we can't do it for you (part of it involves agreeing to the mentor agreement). Question for the group: how many student slots do you think we should request? On the advice for mentors page, it says: A good rule of thumb when finding and assigning mentors is to have two mentors per student. It is also a good idea to have a spare mentor or two who can pay attention to many students and keep track of the big picture. Given our current list of mentors (we have 9 listed, plus 1 maybe), that would give us 4 as the number of slots. Does that seem like a number that's both low enough that we can be reasonably confident we'll do a good job mentoring, but high enough that we're not selling ourselves short? * Students: it's still not yet formally time to apply, but now is a really good time to start brainstorming ideas, and getting clarifications on what's already been suggested: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 While you may be tempted (from a competitive perspective) not to reveal what your ideas are early, it is almost certainly going to be to your benefit to engage now. By engage, I mean demonstrate that you're really thinking about how to improve MediaWiki and other Wikimedia project technologies, and have the wherewithal to do it, not merely impress us with what skills you have. The more specific and thoughtful your ideas, questions, and suggestions are, the more comfortable we'll all feel in selecting you. You might want to take a peek at the GSoC student agreement now, since you'll be required to agree to it as a precondition for being part of this year's program: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/studentagmt Rob ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Google Summer of Code Accepted!
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: Hi folks, We've been accepted again for another Google Summer of Code! What this means: * Mentors: please go to this page to formally apply to be a mentor: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia Note: you can't officially be a mentor until you do this, and we can't do it for you (part of it involves agreeing to the mentor agreement). Question for the group: how many student slots do you think we should request? On the advice for mentors page, it says: A good rule of thumb when finding and assigning mentors is to have two mentors per student. It is also a good idea to have a spare mentor or two who can pay attention to many students and keep track of the big picture. Given our current list of mentors (we have 9 listed, plus 1 maybe), that would give us 4 as the number of slots. Does that seem like a number that's both low enough that we can be reasonably confident we'll do a good job mentoring, but high enough that we're not selling ourselves short? * Students: it's still not yet formally time to apply, but now is a really good time to start brainstorming ideas, and getting clarifications on what's already been suggested: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 While you may be tempted (from a competitive perspective) not to reveal what your ideas are early, it is almost certainly going to be to your benefit to engage now. By engage, I mean demonstrate that you're really thinking about how to improve MediaWiki and other Wikimedia project technologies, and have the wherewithal to do it, not merely impress us with what skills you have. The more specific and thoughtful your ideas, questions, and suggestions are, the more comfortable we'll all feel in selecting you. You might want to take a peek at the GSoC student agreement now, since you'll be required to agree to it as a precondition for being part of this year's program: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/studentagmt Rob ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l +1. I can be a secondary mentor/general resource for students to come to, I just hadn't put my name on the list. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
Hi, Firstly, congratulations for this! as i Know it has taken for a long time! and May I ask a small question: what difference between current dump and history dump. I know current one only includes current edits, and history one has all edits as introduction said. More specifically, how different shows on one article? Can anyone explain it in detail, please? Additionally, why all the statistics of Wikipedia only use history dump for analysis? Thanks very much! Zeyi ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
Zeyi wrote: Hi, Firstly, congratulations for this! as i Know it has taken for a long time! and May I ask a small question: what difference between current dump and history dump. I know current one only includes current edits, and history one has all edits as introduction said. You have explained the difference perfectly :) More specifically, how different shows on one article? Can anyone explain it in detail, please? It doesn't show the article. It's just a really really large bunch of wikitext separated by xml tags. It is shown by a tool. If you just wwant to read the articles, you don't need histories. Additionally, why all the statistics of Wikipedia only use history dump for analysis? Because they study things like changes made to articles, number of edits per time... Thanks very much! You're welcome. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
