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

2009-03-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 3/20/09 11:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> This is confusing. So there are two parts to Cite to make it work >> completely. > > There are actually two *entirely separate extensions* in the Cite directory: > > > Cite/Cite.php : the , tags

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-23 Thread O. O.
Hi, I hate to be resurrecting an old thread, but I think for the purpose of completion I would like to post my experience with the Import of XML Dumps of Wikipedia into Mediawiki, so that it would help someone else looking for this information. I started this thread after all. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome to Fred Vassard!

2009-03-23 Thread Platonides
And I thought this was wikitech-l... :) Welcome, Fred. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Welcome to Fred Vassard!

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
Everybody please join me in welcoming Frédéric Vassard as the latest addition to the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team. Fred's been doing Linux and Unix system administration around the SF bay area for the last few years, and has enough notches on his belt to dare to step up and tame the beasts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Chad schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> On 3/22/09 6:08 PM, Chad wrote: >>> Unfortunately, this comes back to the limitation of the >>> Http class to return helpful error messages. There's an >>> open bug about similarly vague messages in Interwiki >>> imports. Sadl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 3/22/09 6:08 PM, Chad wrote: >> Unfortunately, this comes back to the limitation of the >> Http class to return helpful error messages. There's an >> open bug about similarly vague messages in Interwiki >> imports. Sadly, the methods in Htt

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

2009-03-23 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: > On 3/20/09 11:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> This is confusing. So there are two parts to Cite to make it work >> completely. > > There are actually two *entirely separate extensions* in the Cite directory: > > > Cite/Cite.php : the , tags. > > This adds a system for ad

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/23/09 12:57 PM, MinuteElectron wrote: > The first main solution to the problems outlined here would be to have > an option in preferences to completely enable or disable the edit > tools dialog. There's really no need for that; an initial load with a sensible architecture would be trivial in

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/23/09 9:17 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Aryeh Gregor schreef: >> with JavaScript parsing it to make the characters clickable? >> > Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty > first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert > stuff to a separate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/22/09 6:08 PM, Chad wrote: > Unfortunately, this comes back to the limitation of the > Http class to return helpful error messages. There's an > open bug about similarly vague messages in Interwiki > imports. Sadly, the methods in Http only return content > or failure, not a helpful message wh

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread MinuteElectron
Hello, We have been looking in to making a few modifications to edit tools to make it more useful, and spent some time discussing various solutions. At the moment we have a specification for some basic additional features [1] (waiting for auditing) but as it stands this does not solve all of the p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Chad schreef: >> For the ForeignApiRepo to support it, we need native upload >> support in the API to begin with. >> > Right, didn't think about that :) > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > ___ > Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Chad schreef: > For the ForeignApiRepo to support it, we need native upload > support in the API to begin with. > Right, didn't think about that :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Chad
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Michael Dale schreef: >> Great that we are moving forward with Upload-by-URL uploads :) >> >> I have been simultaneously testing / developing things with the >> new-upload branch. So the injection script check if upload over >> javascript api

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Michael Dale schreef: > Great that we are moving forward with Upload-by-URL uploads :) > > I have been simultaneously testing / developing things with the > new-upload branch. So the injection script check if upload over > javascript api is supported then uses that (over parsing the form html >

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Aryeh Gregor schreef: > with JavaScript parsing it to make the characters clickable? > Since all of this requires JavaScript to work anyway, a quick and dirty first step to un-bloating stuff would be to move all of the charinsert stuff to a separate .js file whose sole purpose is to add the cha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Dale
Great that we are moving forward with Upload-by-URL uploads :) I have been simultaneously testing / developing things with the new-upload branch. So the injection script check if upload over javascript api is supported then uses that (over parsing the form html output). We also have to think a

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Trevor Parscal
Seems reasonable for logged in users to opt in for languages they are going to actually use, but what about anonnomous users? Perhaps it could be a hidden field with an Ajax(/some fallback) control that only loads the other languages when the user asks for them, which would probably be seld

Re: [Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there > on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all > there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki. > > (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700

[Wikitech-l] all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page

2009-03-23 Thread jidanni
Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki. (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700% $ wget -O x.html http://www.mediawiki.org/w/inde