Re: [Wikitech-l] Beta edit toolbar disabled temporarily

2009-09-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/9/17 Brion Vibber : > Due to compatibility problems on Internet Explorer after yesterday’s > code update, I’ve temporarily disabled the Usability Initiative’s beta > advanced toolbar. If you’ve had it enabled, you’ll just get the regular > old edit toolbar until we re-enable it. > > Hopefully

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

2009-09-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Steve Bennett wrote: > [...] > Anyway, I look forward to a new era of editing without massive cite > templates in my face! > (And yes, a bot should go through and move them all...or at least ones > where the definition > X characters) Does this mean that we can switch off section editing soon a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

2009-09-18 Thread Andrew Garrett
On 18/09/2009, at 2:40 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > >> [...] >> Anyway, I look forward to a new era of editing without massive cite >> templates in my face! > >> (And yes, a bot should go through and move them all...or at least >> ones >> where the definition > X charact

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Friday 18 September 2009 06:20:53 Steve Bennett написа: > Hmm, what conclusion to draw from all this? Most of those articles > were redirects or crappy articles - Antonella_Mularoni was the only > real exception. I find Antiprotonic helium to be a very interesting and sufficiently informativ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

2009-09-18 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: >> [...] >> Anyway, I look forward to a new era of editing without massive cite >> templates in my face! > >> (And yes, a bot should go through and move them all...or at least ones >> where the definition > X characters) > > Does this mean that we ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] Beta edit toolbar disabled temporarily

2009-09-18 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/18/09 4:18 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2009/9/17 Brion Vibber: >> If you want to follow the fix: >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20668 >> > RockMFR identified the source of the bug, I fixed it, Andrew pushed > the fix live and iDangerMouse confirmed the issue as fixed. Thanks >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Platonides
Erik Zachte wrote: > Sure, info gets lost. And the Long Tail is meaningful for some research no > doubt. > But my resources are finite. > > Actually I do store some all inclusive counts in the compacted 24 hr file: > > # Lines starting with ampersand (@) show totals per 'namespace' (including >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Platonides wrote: > Erik Zachte wrote: >> Sure, info gets lost. And the Long Tail is meaningful for some research no >> doubt. >> But my resources are finite. >> >> Actually I do store some all inclusive counts in the compacted 24 hr file: >> >> # Lines starting w

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Lars Aronsson
Steve Bennett wrote: > Is there a link to that analysis? It would be interesting to see > which are the least requested articles, for example. I don't have that, but you can visit http://stats.grok.se/en/200909/Mineral_County,_Montana to find out that this article was viewed 368 times during A

[Wikitech-l] Customizable forms using HTMLForm

2009-09-18 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
[cc commons-l, please keep the discussion on wikitech-l] As you may know we use ugly uselang hacks on Commons to create our own distinct upload forms. I want this functionality in MediaWiki. HTMLForm provides a great way to abstractify form construction by providing a descriptor that can be tran

Re: [Wikitech-l] Customizable forms using HTMLForm

2009-09-18 Thread Andrew Garrett
On 18/09/2009, at 10:00 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > As you may know we use ugly uselang hacks on Commons to create our own > distinct upload forms. I want this functionality in MediaWiki. We all do, I think it'll be thrown in as part of the Ford Foundation work. > HTMLForm provides a great wa

[Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-18 Thread Erik Zachte
> Making the script aware of namespace names would be quite easy. Yes it is more a matter of priority than feasibility. I already use localized namespace names in wikistats, obviously. Without those the dumps can't be interpreted. Each xml (full) archive dump starts with list of localized namespa