Re: [Wikitech-l] subst'ing #if parser functions loses line breaks, and other oddities

2009-06-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
As this thread has come back, I'd like to take the time to say thank you. Tisza Gergő wrote: > Just put the templates on separate lines and wrap the whole thing in another > #if > to discard additional newlines at the end: > > {{#if:1| > {subst|}}}#if:{{{par1|1}}}|[[Category:{{{par1}}}{s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minify

2009-06-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Platonides wrote: > Andrew Dunbar wrote: >> This sounds great but I have a problem with making action=raw return >> something that is not raw. For MediaWiki I think it would be better to >> add a new action=minify >> >> What would the pluses and minuses of that be?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minify

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
Andrew Dunbar wrote: > This sounds great but I have a problem with making action=raw return > something that is not raw. For MediaWiki I think it would be better to > add a new action=minify > > What would the pluses and minuses of that be? > > Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) +1 There are uses depe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes to parser - link endings.

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Mark Clements > (HappyDog) wrote: >> I noticed the problem here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%27s_Heavy_Concept_Album > > Now that you mention it, that does look marginally odd. Both options > seem pretty reasonable, so unless anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling some string functions

2009-06-27 Thread Brian
You seem confused. You seem to think that I care about the proper way to program using templates and parser functions. That's not true, they are an ugly hack and I recognize that. If have absolutely no desire to learn how to use something so hideously inefficient in an efficient manner. On Sat, Ju

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling some string functions

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
Brian wrote: > They want the functionality and they are willing to satisfy usability and > quality of implementation in order to get it, plain and simple. > ParserFunctions combined with StringFunctions is flat out unreadable. We > should not facilitate the writing of unreadable code. > > As an ex

Re: [Wikitech-l] Downloading using mwdumper

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
Abhishek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to download the "wiki-latest-stub-meta-history.xml" for smaller > languages and perform some analytics on it. I dont really care about the > english > wikipedia because its too large to handle. I want a csv file made out of this > xml so that i can do stats m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extending wikilinks syntax

2009-06-27 Thread Platonides
Victor Vasiliev wrote: > I suggest to use for external links extended syntax and parametrized > [[]] for internal links so we can easily distinguish them. > --vvv Kalan explained it "s may be used by spammers, by the way." A talk page gets added the text 'This page explains it pretty well http:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and html5

2009-06-27 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > I've heard that wikipedia will be among the first content providers to > support the video and audio tags in html5. I'm trying to put up a > presentation about the subject for a FF3.5 release party and I would > like to find out more. Could

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and html5

2009-06-27 Thread Stephen Bain
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Strainu wrote: > > 1) When will this support appear? > 2) Has the code already been modified accordingly? The Wikimedia sites all have the OggHandler extension installed, which supports a number of different methods for playing audio and video, including the and

[Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and html5

2009-06-27 Thread Strainu
Hi, I've heard that wikipedia will be among the first content providers to support the video and audio tags in html5. I'm trying to put up a presentation about the subject for a FF3.5 release party and I would like to find out more. Could you point me to some documents or answer some of the questi