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

2009-09-20 Thread Mathias Schindler
2009/9/18 Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com: I think it is extremely important to keep these files for later analysis by historians and others. Mathias Schindler also keep an archive or at least did till April (Berlin conference). He even bought a dedicated external drive for it. Right

[Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
I am looking at bug 1310, which involves parser behavior such that when given nested tag extensions, i.e.: tag AAA tagBBB/tag CCC /tag The parser selects the tag block as running from the first open tag to the FIRST close tag, i.e. in the example it gives: AAA tagBBB as the inner text of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/20 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: However, since this is parser behavior going back to the dawn of time (first reported in MW 1.4), I wanted to ask if there are known use cases where the current behavior is actually the expected behavior? In other words, are there any use cases in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Petr Kadlec
2009/9/20 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: What's the actual use case for nested refs? (Do you have an example page or two where they're useful and there's no way to do it right without nesting the refs?) “There’s no way”? Well, obviously, there is always a way do it differently… But nested

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/20 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: However, since this is parser behavior going back to the dawn of time (first reported in MW 1.4), I wanted to ask if there are known use cases where the current behavior is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/20 Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com: “There’s no way”? Well, obviously, there is always a way do it differently… But nested refs can be useful especially with grouped references [1], when a footnote can refer to a source (or, more generally, refs from one group can refer to another

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2009-09-20 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for September 14, 2009 - September 21, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 136 Bugs ASSIGNED : 11 Bugs REOPENED : 17 Bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Starling
Robert Rohde wrote: I am looking at bug 1310, which involves parser behavior such that when given nested tag extensions, i.e.: tag AAA tagBBB/tag CCC /tag The parser selects the tag block as running from the first open tag to the FIRST close tag, i.e. in the example it gives: AAA

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Robert Rohde wrote: I am looking at bug 1310, which involves parser behavior such that when given nested tag extensions, i.e.: tag AAA tagBBB/tag CCC /tag The parser selects the tag block as running from the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any accepted use cases that block bug 1310?

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Starling
Robert Rohde wrote: Actually, if one is following the HTML4 spec then pre would be expected to nest. (Not particularly useful as far as I can see, but it is what it is.) pre in wikitext is explicitly not the same as pre in HTML. Unlike in HTML, HTML-like tags which appear inside pre are