[Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Friesen
I've been making some improvements to the skin system for awhile now, so... If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are floating around the Internet, and they are various degrees of out of date. Bring

Re: [Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread Jay Ashworth
I would LOVE skin designs right now. If you've got a nice idea for a skin feel free to mock it up and post the mockup images for it. If it looks interesting I'll consider turning it into a real skin, ESPECIALLY if it break our de-facto traditions on what makes up a wiki skin. Our rigid skin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Platonides
Ilmari Karonen wrote: I'm not particularly familiar with the parser, but I suspect that this would require doing at least some parts of link parsing _during_ brace expansion, rather than in a separate pass after it. Which is probably not trivial, but probably not quite impossible either.

Re: [Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread Platonides
Daniel Friesen wrote: I've been making some improvements to the skin system for awhile now, so... If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are floating around the Internet, and they are various

Re: [Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: We need to fix Extension:Distributor for skins folder, too. I've asked Tim about that before, It's not hard to do apparently, so just file a bug :p.

Re: [Wikitech-l] A call for skins

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 11-02-07 01:06 PM, Platonides wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: I've been making some improvements to the skin system for awhile now, so... If you have a MediaWiki skin you've built, feel free to bring out it's source code. Currently most of the few custom skins that exist are floating around

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread jidanni
j Fetch from 'news.tcx.org.uk' Using netcat on port 119 shows that he changed the group name to tcx.lists.wikimedia.gendergap . ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread jidanni
j == jidanni jida...@jidanni.org writes: j Fetch from 'news.tcx.org.uk' j Using netcat on port 119 shows that he changed the group name to j tcx.lists.wikimedia.gendergap . Which doesn't work for me either. If anybody gets this to work, tell me. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread River Tarnell
In article 87wrlbfbtt@jidanni.org, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: j == jidanni jida...@jidanni.org writes: j Fetch from 'news.tcx.org.uk' j Using netcat on port 119 shows that he changed the group name to j tcx.lists.wikimedia.gendergap . Which doesn't work for me either. If anybody gets

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread jidanni
OK I figured it out. Thanks. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread jidanni
Some articles can't be read: Message-ID: AANLkTi=rb-lxi_u97wkzl_petqsf7rixq7-s+ddaa...@mail.gmail.com X-NOFFLE-Status: INTERESTING NOT_DOWNLOADED RETRIEVING_FAILED X-NOFFLE-LastAccess: 2011-02-08 11:50:14 Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Hello and a (small!) manifesto From: Nepenthe

Re: [Wikitech-l] NNTP access for Wikimedia mailing lists

2011-02-07 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article 87r5bj89oy@jidanni.org, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Some articles can't be read: Hm, this is due to a problem with how the list archive was imported. Some messages have the wrong Newsgroups or Xref header, e.g. the article you

[Wikitech-l] categorisation issues in dumps

2011-02-07 Thread Anthony Ventresque (Dr)
Hi, I am trying to build an offline version of the wikipedia categorisation tree. As usual with projects on wikipedia, I've downloaded dumps (actually the interesting one here is pages-articles.xml). And I found that none of the dumps has the relation between Category:1960_works and

Re: [Wikitech-l] upcoming 1.17 deployment and the xml dumps

2011-02-07 Thread Janesh Kodikara
- Original Message - From: Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical To: xmldatadump...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 12:26 PM Subject: upcoming 1.17 deployment and the xml dumps A

Re: [Wikitech-l] upcoming 1.17 deployment and the xml dumps

2011-02-07 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Thanks for the offer! What I plan to do is wait til things settle down a bit and then run against a couple wikis with no activity and see if I get known good results. After that I'll start one process up and ask folks to check the next few files produced. If those pan out Ill crank everything