On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Soxred93 wrote:
> After trying it out on testwikipedia, I am very impressed. This is a
> feature I have long been waiting for, and it's finally a reality. :)
> Is there an estimate as to when this may go live on WMF servers?
>
per brion in previous issues: "when
After trying it out on testwikipedia, I am very impressed. This is a
feature I have long been waiting for, and it's finally a reality. :)
Is there an estimate as to when this may go live on WMF servers?
Soxred93/X!
On Jan 16, 2009, at 7:38 PM [Jan 16, 2009 ], Brion Vibber wrote:
> Ok, things
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Although the problem could be avoided for drafts by using browser
> local storage for the data, or requiring some cookie as a key.
Which kind of kills the "save progress at home and continue at work"
use-case, for no very good reason. I d
> Let's I save a page [[A]] with {{subst:foobar}} the template for which
> doesn't exist yet. Then I create the template, possibly to contain
> something offensive. Then you accidentally vandalize page [[A]] when
> attempting to do a null (or completely unrelated) edit.
Back in the day, we used to
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Magnus Manske
wrote:
> Great! Share a Wikipedia account with friends/conspirators/fellow
> terrorists, and leave them secret messages on Wikipedia that only they
> can read. And it will self-destruct after a month! I can see Jack
> Bauer coming through the door in
can't save summary?
2009/1/18 Magnus Manske
> Great! Share a Wikipedia account with friends/conspirators/fellow
> terrorists, and leave them secret messages on Wikipedia that only they
> can read. And it will self-destruct after a month! I can see Jack
> Bauer coming through the door in 3, 2, 1.
On 1/17/09, Marcus Buck wrote:
> I'd expect, that a null edit does not change the page.
Even in "normal" circumstances this is never a safe assumption.
Let's I save a page [[A]] with {{subst:foobar}} the template for which
doesn't exist yet. Then I create the template, possibly to contain
someth
I just realized that if a page has leading newlines, on every page edit
exactly one line is removed. This is no expected behaviour, is it? I'd
expect, that a null edit does not change the page.
Marcus Buck
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:13 AM, howard chen wrote:
> Are there any official documents related to the concurrent edit /
> locking model used in Wikipedia (DB)?
It's pretty simple. We use optimistic conflict resolution. No
locking is used. If, when you go to save a page, someone else has
modifi
I've uploaded my demonstration code to:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/editsyntax/
The three files are
EditSyntax.py - the main file providing the functions for
re-expressing the revision history into my "edit syntax".
ConvertToEditSyntax.py - a utility to perform compres
Great! Share a Wikipedia account with friends/conspirators/fellow
terrorists, and leave them secret messages on Wikipedia that only they
can read. And it will self-destruct after a month! I can see Jack
Bauer coming through the door in 3, 2, 1... ;-)
Magnus
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Br
howard chen wrote:
>
> Are there any official documents related to the concurrent edit /
> locking model used in Wikipedia (DB)?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict ?
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Hello,
Are there any official documents related to the concurrent edit /
locking model used in Wikipedia (DB)?
Thanks.
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