Re: [Wikitech-l] Named entity references and XML well-formedness

2010-04-26 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Aryeh Gregor [Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:46:14 -0400]: > In XML, named entity references like   and • (with the > special exceptions of < > & " ') can be treated as > well-formedness errors across the board by conformant XML processors. > (Yes, this means that *any* XML document that uses *any* named

Re: [Wikitech-l] Named entity references and XML well-formedness

2010-04-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > Wouldn't it be enough just to define an entity? > http://www.criticism.com/dita/dtd2.html#section-ENTITIES > I used such definition for nbsp once in XSL sheet. Don't know how well > it works alone in XML. I guess that would be possible, ye

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inquiry speed problem

2010-04-26 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Did you use the same search engine that Wikipedia uses? It's not the default MediaWiki search. I'm not sure if the squid servers help speed up search any, but there are huge amounts of hardware and dedicated to making Wikipedia run quickly. -Courtney On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:56 PM, 李琴 wro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inquiry speed problem

2010-04-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Christensen, Courtney wrote: > I'm not sure if the squid servers help speed up search any No, search is handled by Lucene. If you're using MyISAM fulltext search, it will be extremely slow on Wikipedia's data set, as well as having fewer features -- using Lucene

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2010 accepted students announced

2010-04-26 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone! Google earlier today announced the selected students for Google Summer of Code 2010. We're happy to report we've received six students, listed here: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia We had a lot of really great proposals this year, and a really enga

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2010 accepted students announced

2010-04-26 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Thanks Rob :) Congrats to all my fellow students! -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! -- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Named entity references and XML well-formedness

2010-04-26 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: >> Wouldn't it be enough just to define an entity? >> http://www.criticism.com/dita/dtd2.html#section-ENTITIES >> I used such definition for nbsp once in XSL sheet. Don't know how well >> it works alone in XML. > > I gu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Named entity references and XML well-formedness

2010-04-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Platonides wrote: > I suppose that you could link to a local copy of the DTD, that would > keep happy but would probably break more parsing, since html doctypes > are more or less magic words for many programs dealing with it > (beginning with browsers, but some va