[Wikitech-l] Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimedia sites

2009-03-25 Thread Brion Vibber
After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce too many new ones. :) * Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811) As usual in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/25 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org: David Gerard wrote: The usermerge procedure is presently irreversible. Are there plans for a way to make it reversible in case of error? I'm assuming error (and a great deal of tedious mucking about to go back) is inevitable, since the action is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: An extra column in any table with a user id column for original user id (which would be identical to user id for the vast majority of rows) would be sufficient for most unmerges. There would still be a problem if an account was involved in more

Re: [Wikitech-l] On extension SVN revisions in Special:Version

2009-03-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We are building a test environment to test MediaWiki and its extensions. We aim to provide information on what extensions can be expected to work in what environment. When extensions are found not to work, it should be possible to fix the problem. We found for instance that the Babel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: An extra column in any table with a user id column for original user id (which would be identical to user id for the vast majority of rows) would be sufficient for most unmerges. There would still be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enwiki dump crawling since 10/15/2008

2009-03-25 Thread Brian
Perhaps the toolserver can make you a current dump of current en? On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Christian Storm st...@iparadigms.comwrote: Thanks to everyone who got the enwiki dumps going again! Should we expect more regular dumps now? What was the final solution of fixing this?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enwiki dump crawling since 10/15/2008

2009-03-25 Thread John Doe
toolserver users dont have access to text On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Perhaps the toolserver can make you a current dump of current en? On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Christian Storm st...@iparadigms.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who got the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with...different...Wiki request solutions

2009-03-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
David Di Biase schreef: Hi there, I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though obvious in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the best solution for integration is. Here they are briefly: - They have a list of authors and animators and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/25 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: That's a *lot* of extra columns for such a marginal feature.  More likely we'd do something like log a blob that has a serialized list of everything changed.  (This

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with...different...Wiki request solutions

2009-03-25 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, David Di Biase dave.dibi...@gmail.com wrote: I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as Einstein, Albert on the category name? This is not currently supported.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Changing the rev_user_text but not rev_user would work for most uses (but merging of anonymous users). Those columns are supposed to be *consistent*. Deliberately making them inconsistent would be a really bad idea.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/26 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Changing the rev_user_text but not rev_user would work for most uses (but merging of anonymous users). Those columns are supposed to be *consistent*.  Deliberately