Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Anthony: We would like to get copies of any of these dumps as well. This includes any of the other files: stubs, tables, the lot. If you have them for other languages or other time periods, that would be great to know too. I think we could ship you a disk, or two if needed. Contact me off list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Huib Laurens
Ariel, I have a few old nlwiki files, should I upload them also for you? I can upload them next week when I am back, currently traveling in germany. Best, Huib 2010/12/31, Ariel T. Glenn : > Anthony: > > We would like to get copies of any of these dumps as well. This > includes any of the othe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2010-12-31 Thread MZMcBride
Marc Riddell wrote: > I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason > I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is > true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's > name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appe

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Alex Brollo
2010/12/31 Conrad Irwin > > > Evolution is the best model we have for how to build something, the > way to keep progress going is to continually try new things; if they > fail, "meh", if they succeed — "yay"! > Just to add a little bit of "pure theory" into the talk, wiki project is simply one o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Yes, we should arrange it; please let me know the dates on them and I can doublecheck if we have them or not. Thanks! Ariel Στις 31-12-2010, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 10:34 +0100, ο/η Huib Laurens έγραψε: > Ariel, > > I have a few old nlwiki files, should I upload them also for you? I > can upload th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Huib Laurens
I will check when I get home. Be carefull with fireworks and speak to you all in 2011 Best, Huib 2010/12/31, Ariel T. Glenn : > Yes, we should arrange it; please let me know the dates on them and I > can doublecheck if we have them or not. > > Thanks! > > Ariel > > Στις 31-12-2010, ημέρα Παρ

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Happy-melon
"Michael Dale" wrote in message news:4d1d31d7.9010...@wikimedia.org... > One area that I did not see much mention of in this thread is automated > systems for reputation. Reputation systems would be useful both for user > interactions and for gauging expertise within particular knowledge > doma

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Platonides
masti wrote: > On 12/31/2010 01:02 AM, Platonides wrote: >> There's an extension to 'delete' pages by blanking. I find that approach >> much more wiki. > > if you like to be blocked for blanking ... > > masti If it was the right way of deleting, it would actually be the way specified by the poli

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2010-12-31 Thread Platonides
Marc Riddell wrote: > Hello, > > I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason > I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is > true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's > name. When there is a Table of Conte

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: > Okay, I emailed to Anthony how he can upload it. Transfer is in progress. ETA about 10 hours. md5sum is 30c9b48de3ede527289bcdb810126723 Hopefully there aren't any problems as I'm not quite sure how to resume upload with ftp.

[Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Radim Kolar
Hi, i will work on improving DB2 mediawiki port in 1.17. Currently there is a problem with missing template class so i cant even run installer. Can you give me some schedule when will be 1.17 in good enough state to let me work on database backend? PHP Fatal error: Class 'BaseTemplate' not f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Huib Laurens
If it fails i can give you access on others ways, its a dedicated server that doesn't have a job right now... 2010/12/31, Anthony : > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: >> Okay, I emailed to Anthony how he can upload it. > > Transfer is in progress. ETA about 10 hours. md5sum

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > Anthony: > > We would like to get copies of any of these dumps as well.  This > includes any of the other files: stubs, tables, the lot. > > If you have them for other languages or other time periods, that would > be great to know too.  I th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Huib Laurens
I hope Ariel will take a copy offline for wikimedia, i'm going to place it on a tape also... Hope it wont get lost anymore. P.S ariel i can send a copy of the tape to you if you dont want to download it 2010/12/31, Anthony : > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: >> Anthony: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2010-12-31 Thread Maciej Jaros
masti (2010-12-31 01:33): > On 12/31/2010 01:19 AM, Platonides wrote: >> masti wrote: That is true - "We can't do away with Wikitext" always been the intermediate conclusion (in between "My god, we need to do something about this problem" and "This is hopeless, we give up again"). >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/12/31 Radim Kolar : > Hi, >  i will work on improving DB2 mediawiki port in 1.17. Currently there > is a problem with missing template class so i cant even run installer. > Can you give me some schedule when will be 1.17 in good enough state to > let me work on database backend? > > PHP Fatal

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 10-12-31 05:59 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2010/12/31 Radim Kolar: >> Hi, >> i will work on improving DB2 mediawiki port in 1.17. Currently there >> is a problem with missing template class so i cant even run installer. >> Can you give me some schedule when will be 1.17 in good enough state to >

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Friesen
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] On 10-12-31 06:49 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On 10-12-31 05:59 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: >> 2010/12/31 Radim Kolar: >>> Hi, >>>i will work on improving DB2 mediawiki port in 1.17. Currently there >>> is a problem with mis

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/12/31 Daniel Friesen : > Ok, on closer looked, it was reverted correctly inside of the 1.17 > branch by the reverter. > But then > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=79129 > went and re-introduced half the code, leaving things in a wierd state of > limbo where par

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Platonides
Anthony wrote: > I'll work on a list. Are these going to be hosted somewhere? It > would be nice for me to have an offsite backup. Then I'd feel more > comfortable tossing the bz2 files once I've recompressed them to xz. > > I should mention that these were collected from all over the Internet,

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/12/31 Roan Kattouw : > I'll take a look at cleaning this up right now. I'll do this by > reverting r79129 and merging the revisions it merged more carefully > and in smaller batches. > This is fixed now. I didn't go to such extremes as to completely revert and re-do r79129; instead I did that

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Max Semenik
On 31.12.2010, 16:59 Roan wrote: > As for 1.17 vs. trunk: your DB2 development work should be done in > /trunk/phase3 , that's where all development happens. At this point > 1.17 is sort of being frozen, so only bugfixes and the like are merged > from trunk to the 1.17 branch. This means your DB2

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Platonides wrote: > Would be nice having an additional md5sum file for the uncompressed dumps. Yes. Here's what I found on my SATA and USB drives. I haven't had a chance to go through my IDE drives - that would take a while as I don't yet have a decent removabl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
I'd like all the dumps from all the projects to be on line. Being realistic I think we would wind up keeping offline copies of all of it, and copies from every 6 months online, with the last several months of consecutive runs = around 20 or 30 of them also online. Since these are en wiki we would

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/12/31 Max Semenik : > I see no problem with backporting DB2 installer and DB class to 1.17 > as long as it is clearly marked as experimental. Of course, we must > be much more cautious with other changes in core needed for proper DB2 > support. > Sounds reasonable. If DB2 support is sort-of-re

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.17 branch

2010-12-31 Thread Chad
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > I see no problem with backporting DB2 installer and DB class to 1.17 > as long as it is clearly marked as experimental. Of course, we must > be much more cautious with other changes in core needed for proper DB2 > support. > I doubt that the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2010-12-31 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:36:26AM -0500, MZMcBride wrote: > Marc Riddell wrote: > > I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason > > I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is > > true of all Headings including the one that carries the A

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing Section Headings

2010-12-31 Thread Krinkle
Marc Riddell wrote: > I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some > reason > I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. > This is > true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article > subject's > name. When there is a Table of Conte

Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anybody have the 20080726 dump version?

2010-12-31 Thread Anthony
File transfer is done. Thanks for helping with the transfer. Anthony On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: > If it fails i can give you access on others ways, its a dedicated > server that doesn't have a job right now... > > 2010/12/31, Anthony : >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:47 A

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "George Herbert" > MW was designed to build an encyclopedia with Web 1.5 technology. It > was a major step forwards compared to its contemporaries, but sites > like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter are massive user experience advances > over where we are and can credi

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Neil Kandalgaonkar" > Meanwhile, MediaWiki is perhaps too powerful and too complex to > administer for the small organization. I work with a small group of > artists that run a MediaWiki instance and whenever online collaboration > has to happen, nobody in th

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-31 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On this note, MTV Networks (my previous job) switched from using Mediawiki to Confluence a couple years ago. They mainly cited ease of use and Microsoft Office integration as the reasons. Personally I hated it, except for the dashboard interface, which was pretty slick. Some Wikipedia power-use

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-12-31 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 29/12/10 20:18, Chad wrote: > Just added 3 new committers. Let's give them a warm welcome. > > Core& extensions: > Zak Greant (zak) - WMF contractor, working on documentation > > Extensions only: > Jason Giglio (gigs) - Working on GoogleNewsSiteMap > Robert Scheiber (rscheiber) - General extens