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

2009-03-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: page_title does not contains the full title, only its namespace-relative part. You need to use select page_namespace, page_title from wikidb.page Only this whole tuple (page_namespace, page_title) is a unique identifier

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

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
jida...@jidanni.org schrieb: 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'. That's because the

[Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew Garrett
I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! The Abuse Filter is an extension to the MediaWiki [2] software that powers Wikipedia allowing automatic filters or rules to be run against every edit, and to take actions if any of those rules are

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

2009-03-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Aryeh Gregor schreef: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: page_title does not contains the full title, only its namespace-relative part. You need to use select page_namespace, page_title from wikidb.page Only this whole tuple (page_namespace, page_title)

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

2009-03-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Daniel Kinzler schreef: jida...@jidanni.org schrieb: 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'.

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

2009-03-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, What revision number does the working version for REL1_14_0 of Cite have ? /branches/REL1_14_0/extensions/Cite was touched last in r45574, and the function call the error complains about was added in r46271 according to Brad's post, so at least this particular

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

2009-03-18 Thread O. O.
Roan Kattouw wrote: Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, What revision number does the working version for REL1_14_0 of Cite have ? /branches/REL1_14_0/extensions/Cite was touched last in r45574, and the function call the error complains about was added in r46271 according to Brad's post, so at

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

2009-03-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: What revision number does the working version for REL1_14_0 of Cite have ? How is he supposed to answer that? ExtensionDistributor doesn't give you a .svn folder. (Although that's a kind of cool idea. :) )

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

2009-03-18 Thread Petr Kadlec
2009/3/18 O. O. olson...@yahoo.com: This is fine, but where can I find information on custom namespaces i.e. those that lie above 100. In $wgExtraNamespaces (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces) -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]

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

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Daly
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: What revision number does the working version for REL1_14_0 of Cite have ? How is he supposed to answer that? ExtensionDistributor doesn't give you a .svn folder. (Although that's a kind of cool

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

2009-03-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Manuel Schneider schreef: ACK Lars. There are also people who - before they can register - first had to arrange their vacation at the office and after that tried to get tickets, and just at the day when the vacation was fixed and the tickets bought they are told that this was all worth

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/18/09 5:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! I've temporarily disabled it as we're seeing some performance problems saving edits at peak time today. Need to make sure there's functional per-filter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 3/18/09 5:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! I've temporarily disabled it as we're seeing some performance problems saving edits

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Tim Starling
Brion Vibber wrote: On 3/18/09 5:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! I've temporarily disabled it as we're seeing some performance problems saving edits at peak time today. Need to make sure there's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: On 3/18/09 5:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! I've temporarily disabled it as we're seeing some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/18/09 12:59 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: On 3/18/09 5:34 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I am pleased to announce that the Abuse Filter [1] has been activated on English Wikipedia! I've temporarily disabled it as we're seeing some performance problems saving edits at peak time

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

2009-03-18 Thread Micke Nordin
Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at home.nl writes: To get back on topic: if the problem is financial, get more money. Asking participants to pay a small fee is quite normal and would raise quite a bit of money with so many attendees [...] It'd be nice if we could find a solution to fit at least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Tim Starling
Robert Rohde wrote: For Andrew or anyone else that knows, can we assume that the filter is smart enough that if the first part of an AND clause fails then the other parts don't run (or similarly if the first part of an OR succeeds)? If so, we can probably optimize rules by doing easy checks

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

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello all I understand that your are disappointed. And I'm sad about having to reject people myself. Which is one reason I hesitated - and made things worse. Do I suck at organizing a conference? Quite possibly. I's my first time, and I never asked for the job. Anyway, I'll try to answer you as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread jidanni
AG frown on page-blanking For now I just stop them on my wikis with $wgSpamRegex=array('/^\B$/'); I haven't tried fancier solutions yet. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2009-03-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/18/09 1:42 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: I understand that your are disappointed. And I'm sad about having to reject people myself. Which is one reason I hesitated - and made things worse. Do I suck at organizing a conference? Quite possibly. I's my first time, and I never asked for the

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

2009-03-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/17/09 12:56 AM, George Herbert wrote: 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? Seems fine

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

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Brion Vibber schrieb: On 3/18/09 1:42 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: I understand that your are disappointed. And I'm sad about having to reject people myself. Which is one reason I hesitated - and made things worse. Do I suck at organizing a conference? Quite possibly. I's my first time, and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Brian
This extension is very important for training machine learning vandalism detection bots. Recently published systems use only hundreds of examples of vandalism in training - not nearly enough to distinguish between the variety found in Wikipedia or generalize to new, unseen forms of vandalism. A

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/10/09 5:17 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: I’ve just put in Wikimedia’s org application for Google Summer of Code 2009… Hopefully we’ll get in. :) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2009 We're officially in! Woo! Student applications will open *starting* March 23, *ending* April 3.

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

2009-03-18 Thread Manuel Schneider
well, as I already bought the ticket - though I didn't make sense to register after this news - I will be in Berlin anyway. I'm taking care for participants of the chapters meeting the week before (showing around in Germany) and will be in Berlin at Thursday afternoon. I know the locations and

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

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi Manuel Manuel Schneider schrieb: well, as I already bought the ticket - though I didn't make sense to register after this news - I will be in Berlin anyway. I'm taking care for participants of the chapters meeting the week before (showing around in Germany) and will be in Berlin at

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

2009-03-18 Thread Ilmari Karonen
Roan Kattouw wrote: Yeah, why would you want that? You can protect MediaWiki: pages too (although editing them is already restricted to sysops by default), so you could protect this particular page so that only you can edit it (add a right to $wgRestrictionLevels and make sure only you

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

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Ilmari Karonen schrieb: Roan Kattouw wrote: Yeah, why would you want that? You can protect MediaWiki: pages too (although editing them is already restricted to sysops by default), so you could protect this particular page so that only you can edit it (add a right to $wgRestrictionLevels

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

2009-03-18 Thread O. O.
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, O. O. olson...@yahoo.com 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Soxred93
However, that simply disallows them all. On enwiki, the blanking filter warns the user, and lets them go through with it after confirmation. X! On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:51 PM [Mar 18, 2009 ], jida...@jidanni.org wrote: AG frown on page-blanking For now I just stop them on my wikis with

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

2009-03-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=querymeta=siteinfosiprop=namespaces Note that namespaces with an ID of 100 or higher are specific to enwiki and may have different names or not be used at all on other wikis. To

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

2009-03-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: That db will be hit anyway, it needs to see if the message was overridden by editing the wiki page. Not if you disable $wgUseDatabaseMessages. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2009-03-18 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:51 PM, O. O. olson...@yahoo.com wrote:        I think I made some big mistakes in my posts for this entire Thread. My mistake lied in the fact that I assumed on the Extension Distributor http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Cite  in the Drop Down

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

2009-03-18 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=querymeta=siteinfosiprop=namespaces Note that namespaces with an ID of 100 or higher are specific to enwiki and may have different names or not be used at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: Robert Rohde wrote: For Andrew or anyone else that knows, can we assume that the filter is smart enough that if the first part of an AND clause fails then the other parts don't run (or similarly if the first part of an OR succeeds)? If so, we can probably optimize rules

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew Garrett
Tim Starling wrote: Robert Rohde wrote: For Andrew or anyone else that knows, can we assume that the filter is smart enough that if the first part of an AND clause fails then the other parts don't run (or similarly if the first part of an OR succeeds)?  If so, we can probably optimize rules

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abuse Filter extension activated on English Wikipedia

2009-03-18 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Andrew Garrett and...@epstone.net wrote: snip I've disabled a filter or two which were taking well in excess of 150ms to run, and seemed to be targetted at specific vandals, without any hits. The culprit seemed to be running about 20 regexes to determine if an

[Wikitech-l] Serving as xhtml+xml

2009-03-18 Thread lee worden
I'm at work on a MW extension that, among other things, uses LaTeXML [1] to make XHTML from full LaTeX documents. One feature is the option to render the equations in MathML, which requires the skins to be patched so that they output the page as Content-type: application/xhtml+xml instead of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serving as xhtml+xml

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew Garrett
2009/3/19 lee worden won...@riseup.net: I'm at work on a MW extension that, among other things, uses LaTeXML [1] to make XHTML from full LaTeX documents.  One feature is the option to render the equations in MathML, which requires the skins to be patched so that they output the page as