[Wikitech-l] New extension: CategoryMultisort

2010-05-12 Thread Liangent
Hi, I created a new extension (a part of a set of extensions), which is intended for improving categorization in complex languages such as Chinese by supporting sorting pages in a category in more than way, and is expected to be installed on Chinese Wikipedia. This extension is a common part of

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Brollo
On 11 May 2010 17:23, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i seem to have a problem with my wiki. Everytime i bold or italise a text and save it, it keeps adding more ' ' '. Has anyone ever come across this problem? This question gives me the opportunity for a question

[Wikitech-l] ExtAuth, wgSecretKey questions...

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Friesen
I've been experimenting with a MW related project after all this time away. No-one is in IRC so I had two minor questions I needed clarified. What's the difference between the new ExtAuth and the old AuthPlugin system? Just a quick jist... I'm unsure of one thing related to $wgSecretKey and

Re: [Wikitech-l] moinmoin 2 mediawiki

2010-05-12 Thread yahiaoui khaled
Thank you for your response, I am trying to use the Rotan Hanrahan script but it doesn't work. You have mentioned that you have used the Dan Littlejohn script, but at the link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoinMoin the link to acces the Dan Littlejohn script and who to use it isn't still

[Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Starling
Upgraded from extensions to core: * Markus Glaser (mglaser): Selenium testing framework Extensions only: * Andrew Davis (papyromancer): JS2/mwEmbed * June Hyeon Bae (devunt): WebIRC * Amir Sarabadani (amir): pywikipediabot -- Tim Starling ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] moinmoin 2 mediawiki

2010-05-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 May 2010 08:30, yahiaoui khaled khi...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to use the Rotan Hanrahan script but it doesn't work. You have mentioned that you have used the Dan Littlejohn script, but at the link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoinMoin the link to acces the Dan Littlejohn script

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExtAuth, wgSecretKey questions...

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: I've been experimenting with a MW related project after all this time away. No-one is in IRC so I had two minor questions I needed clarified. Perhaps not at the time you sent the email. You should try at an appropiate US time (around evening in Europe). What's the

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Alex Brollo wrote: On 11 May 2010 17:23, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i seem to have a problem with my wiki. Everytime i bold or italise a text and save it, it keeps adding more ' ' '. Has anyone ever come across this problem? Do you have magic quotes or another

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Alex Brollo wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The former have a

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:33, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Alex Brollo wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? The

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Tomasz Finc wrote: I think that would be a nice status update. If someone can write the code .. I'll happily dig up where this report lives. --tomasz The report is generated from isidore:/home/reporter/bugzilla_report.php The script living at svn-private/wmf/reports It probably isn't using

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. Using b and i where what you really want is to make it bold and italic isn't deprecated. Incorrect, they are deprecated

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. It's foul HTML... The whole point is that you say what you mean, not what it

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. Using b and i where what you really want is to make it bold and italic isn't deprecated. Incorrect,

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Svip
On 12 May 2010 14:24, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/12/2010 01:11 PM, Svip wrote: On 12 May 2010 13:57, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: You could use span style=font-weight: bold, but what's the point of that? Because it would be correct HTML. It's foul HTML...

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-05-12 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Tim, Op 12-5-2010 11:09, Tim Starling schreef: knip * Amir Sarabadani (amir): pywikipediabot Aka Ladsgroup? How come? I'm wondering because my experience in the past with him wasn't that good. He tried to run bots on Commons and failed. Very hard to communicate with him. I can only

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExtAuth, wgSecretKey questions...

2010-05-12 Thread Lane, Ryan
I've been experimenting with a MW related project after all this time away. No-one is in IRC so I had two minor questions I needed clarified. What's the difference between the new ExtAuth and the old AuthPlugin system? Just a quick jist... See:

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: This question gives me the opportunity for a question to experts about server load. Is really so harder for the server to manage html tags like b, /b, i,/i instead of usual wiki markup ''', ''? No, it's much easier. b

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Alex Brollo
Well, as some of you told before, wiki software converts bold and italic markup into b and i tags; my suggestion is to use them as largely as possible if they don't overload the server, and if particular use of apostrophes into a particular language (as Italian) raises any trouble. If they are

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExtAuth, wgSecretKey questions...

2010-05-12 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Lane, Ryan ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote: See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ExternalAuth As the documentation mentions, it isn't really ready for use. Although I use it on my site. :P It's also possibly better than the alternatives in some cases . .

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
Media Wiki Version 1.15.1 Extensions installed - Wikilog, External Data, Parser Functions and Custom Title. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Ryan Bies r...@yaauie.com wrote: Could you please also provide what version of MediaWiki you are running? Please also include any extensions you've

Re: [Wikitech-l] bold and italic

2010-05-12 Thread Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
Thanks everyone i used the html tags b and i and it seems to have solved the problem for now. Great discussion though on the use of quotes and tags. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu makele...@gmail.com wrote: Media Wiki Version 1.15.1 Extensions installed - Wikilog,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-05-12 Thread Platonides
Roan Kattouw wrote: 2010/5/12 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: $n = Sql_query( SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM code_rev WHERE cr_repo_id=1 AND cr_timestamp = '$epoch' $extra AND cr_path LIKE /trunk/phase3%) + (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM code_rev WHERE cr_repo_id=1 AND cr_timestamp = '$epoch'

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Starling
On 13/05/10 00:06, Maarten Dammers wrote: Hi Tim, Op 12-5-2010 11:09, Tim Starling schreef: knip * Amir Sarabadani (amir): pywikipediabot Aka Ladsgroup? How come? I'm wondering because my experience in the past with him wasn't that good. He tried to run bots on Commons and failed.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2010-05-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/5/13 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: That doesn't match the expected behavior from the SQL file. Are you sure it works like that? Since there's a primary key on (cr_repo_id, cr_id), you can't have multiple entries [on the same repo] with the same cr_id. cr_path contains the shortest