Re: [Wikitech-l] implementing the Interlanguage extension

2009-03-17 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
If we're going to create a special tool, there's no point in stopping so short that we still have to rely on somebody to run client-side bots to make it work properly. I think that it is a request to start looking into ways to handle interwiki links from the inside, rather than still relying

[Wikitech-l] Did we just borkenate the secure server?

2009-03-17 Thread George Herbert
I stopped getting page load replies for about 4-5 min, and they're coming through now but taking several minutes... Main unencrypted site is unusually slow right now, but working. DB issue? Network? Secure server cough up a hairball? I'm hallucinating it all?? (doubt that) -- -george

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This is what is called a pent up demand. Given the relevance given to the meeting, I hope that there will be hacker das in Argentiana. I know for a fact that when Wikimania hits Amsterdam in 2010, there will be hacker days. Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/17 Daniel Kinzler

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Mark (Markie)
afaik there will be hacker days at Wikimania of some kind. what/when/who/where etc isnt yet sorted regards mark On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, This is what is called a pent up demand. Given the relevance given to the meeting, I hope

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen: This is what is called a pent up demand. Given the relevance given to the meeting, I hope that there will be hacker das in Argentiana. I know for a fact that when Wikimania hits Amsterdam in 2010, there will be hacker days. please

[Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
We have been completly overrun by registrations for the developer meet-up in Berlin. That’s exhilarating, but forces on me the sad duty to tell you: we are out of room, we are closing registration early. So: if you have not yet send a registration mail, you will not be able to attend! Sorry. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Have you been at the hacker days in Taipei? Have you been to the hacker days in Frankfurt? The hacker days in Cambridge were indeed a sort of pre-conference. Not much hacking went on, several of the presentations were however really relevant. What the Dutch hacker days will be will not be

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Finne Boonen
Any idea when the registrations will get a confirmation? thx Finne/henna On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:26, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: We have been completly overrun by registrations for the developer meet-up in Berlin. That’s exhilarating, but forces on me the sad duty to tell

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, REL1_14_0 is how I know the 1.14 release of MediaWiki. I would like to know what revision of Cite works for you. As you may know, we are working on a testing envirionment particularly for the support of extensions in stable releases of MediaWiki.. One of the things that is on our agenda is

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Going to offer something like a webcam cast of it for those that can't attend? No, sorry. We would need a video team for that, and we have nither the time nor the people to do it. Also note that this is is an OpenSpace with 5 tracs with about 10 people each. There will be few if any real talks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Gerard Meijssen schrieb: Hoi, REL1_14_0 is how I know the 1.14 release of MediaWiki. I would like to know what revision of Cite works for you. As you may know, we are working on a testing envirionment particularly for the support of extensions in stable releases of MediaWiki.. One of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
Daniel Kinzler wrote: Really Soon Now. That is, as soon as we have figured out who *not* to confirm. We are overbooked :( This is a problem that you can solve if you want to. Just ask for rooms at the technical university if c-base is too small. We can always find accommodation. I sent in

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/17 Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se: I sent in my registeration on March 9 and have still not received confirmation. After that I have recruited two more Swedish attendees, who also sent their registration. Our flights are already booked, so there is no way we can stay home. Of course we

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Lars Aronsson schrieb: Daniel Kinzler wrote: Really Soon Now. That is, as soon as we have figured out who *not* to confirm. We are overbooked :( This is a problem that you can solve if you want to. Just ask for rooms at the technical university if c-base is too small. We can always

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am glad to learn that when Wikimania hits Oxford or Amsterdam there will be hacker days. Given our friendly competition, I am sure that the other cities who hope to host Wikimania 2010 will have a similar response. The lack of hackerdays was what I missed most in Alexandria. Thanks,

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
Daniel Kinzler schreef: Finne Boonen schrieb: Any idea when the registrations will get a confirmation? Really Soon Now. That is, as soon as we have figured out who *not* to confirm. We are overbooked :( Does this mean the capacity overrun is at the accommodation rather than at the venue?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, O. O. olson...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this the correct place to be asking for help on the Cite Extension – or is there some other mailing list or newsgroup for this. This is the correct place. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] statistics of relevant functions/lines

2009-03-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
Maggi Federico schreef: Hello, thanks for your quick contribution. By the way, I was browsing around the repository and, beside its hugeness, I couldn't really find the classic /branches /trunk /tags structure. Am I pointing my client to the wrong repo? The /branches, /trunk and

Re: [Wikitech-l] statistics of relevant functions/lines

2009-03-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
Ilmari Karonen schreef: Also, note that all this is true for the main UI code. The API code (found in api.php and under includes/api) and the AJAX code (includes/Ajax*.php) may do things somewhat differently. The API just uses $wgRequest through a wrapper (ApiMain::getRequestParams()).

Re: [Wikitech-l] developer meet-up is out of room

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Roan Kattouw schrieb: Daniel Kinzler schreef: Finne Boonen schrieb: Any idea when the registrations will get a confirmation? Really Soon Now. That is, as soon as we have figured out who *not* to confirm. We are overbooked :( Does this mean the capacity overrun is at the accommodation

Re: [Wikitech-l] How often is the message cache rebuilt?

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Robert Rohde wrote: I had an occasion to move (with redirect suppressed) a Mediawiki: page into Template:  The intent was that the Mediawiki system message should then fall back to its default behavior, while the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread O. O.
Daniel Kinzler wrote: Gerard Meijssen schrieb: Hoi, REL1_14_0 is how I know the 1.14 release of MediaWiki. I would like to know what revision of Cite works for you. As you may know, we are working on a testing envirionment particularly for the support of extensions in stable releases of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread O. O.
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, O. O. olson...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this the correct place to be asking for help on the Cite Extension – or is there some other mailing list or newsgroup for this. This is the correct place. Thanks for this confirmation Aryeh. O. O.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 17680] colon sometimes URL encoded %3A right there in the browser URL entry area

2009-03-17 Thread jidanni
Why does : get rendered %3A here? It looks so ugly. Can't anything be done? Testing http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages It their URL bars, Firefox, and emacs-w3m show http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:所有页面 OK, but then hitting the [提交] (Go) button gives: Firefox:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 17680] colon sometimes URL encoded %3A right there in the browser URL entry area

2009-03-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
Aryeh Gregor schreef: This has nothing to do with MediaWiki. Go complain to the Firefox and/or Emacs developers. We can only output the colons in our HTML, we can't control what browsers do after that. For the record: I've verified that MediaWiki does indeed output literal colons rather

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:47:18PM -0700, O. O. wrote: I have installed Mediawiki 1.14.0 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download and am trying to get the Cite Extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite version 1.14.0 to work. When accessing the Main_Page I get the error:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread O. O.
Brad Jorsch wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:47:18PM -0700, O. O. wrote: I have installed Mediawiki 1.14.0 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download and am trying to get the Cite Extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite version 1.14.0 to work. When accessing the Main_Page I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension

2009-03-17 Thread Aran
I've had this trouble too, I just commented out the offending line - that could be a problem under some specific condition, but it works fine for me as an interim solution. O. O. wrote: Brad Jorsch wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:47:18PM -0700, O. O. wrote: I have installed

[Wikitech-l] Getting the list of Page Titles and Redirects of Wikipedia

2009-03-17 Thread O. O.
Hi, I am wondering if someone could help me create a list of Page Titles, and list of Redirect Pages from the wikidb database in MySQL. I have downloaded the XML/SQL dumps along with the SQL dumps of the remaining Tables and imported them into the wikidb database in MySQL. (This is the

[Wikitech-l] LocalSettings.php can set messages too?

2009-03-17 Thread jidanni
Reading http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:System_messages, one wonders if one can set messages in LocalSettings.php instead of editing MediaWiki:Copyrightpage. However I just get 'Call to a member function addMessages() on a non-object'. ___