Hi everyone,
Are there any updates regarding Wikipedia's backup systems? I've
created a bug to track this at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18255.
Cheers,
Eugene
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I hope you wrote it for your own benefit and not mine! Traffic congestion
issues being obvious enough, your reductio is irrelevant to the case of a
single user who has issues saturating their relatively slow dsl link.
Torrent is not an option, aget is, end of story.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:52
I don't edit as much as I did in years past, and my memory is obviously
feeble, as I find that I'm often making mistakes with subst'ing.
Worse, the explosion of parser functions has made the templates incredibly
complex. Subst'ing is increasingly less user friendly.
It's hard to document (subst
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
It's hard to document (subst doesn't seem to translate well or mean
anything to many folks), harder to remember, and hardest to type:
{{subst:TEMPLATE|P1|P2|subst=subst:}}
I'm often forgetting
2009/4/19 William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com:
{{subst:TEMPLATE|P1|P2|subst=subst:}}
I've never seen that syntax before, what does the last bit do?
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/4/19 William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com:
{{subst:TEMPLATE|P1|P2|subst=subst:}}
I've never seen that syntax before, what does the last bit do?
They add a named parameter {{{subst|}}} (defaults null) at strategic
places. You can add it after any
2009/4/19 William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com:
Leading {{:: -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) -- same as
Leading {{## -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) -- obviously
Or not! Have a peek at [[Keyboard layout]] :)
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Maybe something like {{Special:ExpandTemplates}}.
X!
On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:29 PM [Apr 19, 2009 ], Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
It's hard to document (subst
Soxred93 wrote:
Maybe something like {{Special:ExpandTemplates}}.
That doesn't seem to apply. It doesn't allow parameters. And doesn't seem
particularly editor friendly. What would be the single line edit syntax?
For
{{subst:uw-v1|Article|subst=subst:}}
I'm thing about something
Hello,
2009/4/19 William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com:
Soxred93 wrote:
Maybe something like {{Special:ExpandTemplates}}.
That doesn't seem to apply. It doesn't allow parameters. And doesn't seem
particularly editor friendly. What would be the single line edit syntax?
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't allow parameters.
It does, just don't subst it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?input={{uw-v1|Article|subst=subst:}}+
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Sergey Chernyshev
sergey.chernys...@gmail.com wrote:
And, I can't choose the case spelling of my nick (it's harddisk on
OID),
normally it shoulda be HardDisk, but I think this is an OpenID-related
problem - anyway, it'd be cool if you could make an
Casey Brown wrote:
It does, just don't subst it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?input={{uw-v1|Article|subst=subst:}}+
sarcasm
Wow, I'm thinking, the edit box has gotten a lot more sophisticated than
ever, parsing long URLs and all that So, I copied that link,
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