Re: [Wikitech-l] import data through MWDumper

2010-05-26 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:01 PM, zh...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hi, all, I try to use MWDumper to import data, however, the importer only has two choise for Mysql and PostGreSQL. What I am supposed to do if I want import Wikipedia data into Oracle database? Use maintenance/importDump.php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Brollo
@peter: here a recent thread into MediaWiki-API ml about API and sections: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2010-May/subject.html No mention of labelled sections used by #lst exstesion ... :-( but remember the name of ThomasV as a reference. Alex

[Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Chad
Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). The following suggestions

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-26 Thread Platonides
Peter17 wrote: I didn't set $wgUploadPath. Just $wgUseInstantCommons = true; The images URLs are actually transformed to remote URLs: I work on my own local wiki, which address is http://localhost/mediawiki/ and transcluding {{mediawikiwiki::User:Peter17}} which contains

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). Hi Chad, thanks for that initiative. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Schneelocke
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 21:00, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Lane, Ryan
This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). The following suggestions have been put

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote: This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Platonides
Conrad Irwin wrote: Wouldn't removing 1.6 from the main page solve the problem for most newcomers? Only those who go down to the PHP 4 section of the downloads need ever know it exists and thus get the impression that it is an older version. Once they're no-longer newcomers, we can hope that

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 05/26/2010 12:12 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted I'm fine with doing 1.x releases forever. It's worked for a lot of

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Chad
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Conrad Irwin conrad.ir...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil wrote: This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest I think we should remove it from everything. I know it requires practically zero work to maintain, but the longer it sits around the more people will be encouraged to stick with PHP4 and not move on. PHP in

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Happy-melon
Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktimeplhm2o6_2-dkr5epkpt-pg2hr5qtcmsrf...@mail.gmail.com... Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Alex
On 5/26/2010 3:00 PM, Chad wrote: Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework- Firefox browsers compatible

2010-05-26 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Dan, There is a list of browsers compatible with Selenium (See http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers ). The page states that Selenium works with Firefox 2+ when a Linux OS is used (I think Ubuntu would fall under this category ). I am using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 9.10 . I have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework: troubleshooting tips

2010-05-26 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Dan and Markus I have added some troubleshooting tips, based on notes I took during the Friday May 14 meeting, to the Selenium Framework page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SeleniumFramework#Working_example I think it has the tip about port . My intent was to add information for problem

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Tisane
In the extensions I've written, I've usually used the x.x.x naming convention, similar to the MediaWiki core's. But in light of the comments made in this conversation, I considered using integers. E.g. advance from version 9 to version 10 rather than from 1.1.9 to 1.1.10, and thus avoid confusion

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Tim Starling
On 27/05/10 05:00, Chad wrote: Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes