(Originally asked at [[Wikipedia talk:Searching]] and [[WP:VPT]].)
Is there any existing way to search Wikipedia or MediaWiki in general
using full-fledged regular expressions? Such as those found in Perl,
PCRE, Python, JavaScript?
I started writing a Perl program that uses Parse::MediaWikiDump,
On 06/07/2009, at 12:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search
the database directly using regexes?
Yes.
We wouldn't allow direct searching from the web interface with regexes
for two related reasons:
1/ A single search with the
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 14:43, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 06/07/2009, at 12:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search
the database directly using regexes?
Yes.
We wouldn't allow direct searching from the web
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:01 -0400, Chad wrote:
All,
I had this idea cross my mind earlier today, but I got so tied up
in meetings that I couldn't sit down and write out a proper e-mail
until this evening. I was curious as to whether we think FlaggedRevs
might be of use to Mediawiki.org,
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Andrew Garrettagarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes.
We wouldn't allow direct searching from the web interface with regexes
for two related reasons:
1/ A single search with the most basic of regexes would take several
minutes, if not hours. It isn't
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Aryeh
Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Andrew Garrettagarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes.
We wouldn't allow direct searching from the web interface with regexes
for two related reasons:
1/ A single search with the most
but that would still match any interwiki URL containing
.wikipedia.org/w, so theoretically false positives are possible.
And it doesn't work in IE6. Still, that's about the best you can do,
I think.
We make it strict to #bodyContent then :)
#bodyContent a.extiw[href*=.wikipedia.org/w] { ...
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Really? Personally, security is of no concern to my use of Wikipedia,
but I guess I can imagine contexts where it might be.
Theoretically, a man-in-the-middle attack could allow a malicious
person to hijack your session
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoniamir.ahar...@gmail.com wrote:
2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search
the database directly using regexes?
What's your use case? Obviously all the points below are valid and
rule out directly regex searching on the
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Remember the
dotrememberthe...@gmail.com wrote:
Theoretically, a man-in-the-middle attack could allow a malicious
person to hijack your session cookies and take over your account.
HTTPS makes this practically impossible.
Yeah, and so what? OMG THEY MADE EDITS
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Remember the
dotrememberthe...@gmail.com wrote:
Theoretically, a man-in-the-middle attack could allow a malicious
person to hijack your session cookies and take over your account.
. . . but even if it mattered a little (like if you had an admin
account), nobody
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com
wrote:
But really -- have there been *any* confirmed incidents of MITMing an
Internet connection in, say, the past decade? Real malicious attacks
in the wild, not proof-of-concepts or
HTML 5 is the up-and-coming version of the HTML standard, which
supports all sorts of new and exciting features. For those who don't
know about it, here's some background:
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5
Summary of major differences from HTML 4:
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