Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-12 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: You *DON'T* want to renumber your whole home network every time your ISP changes your IPv6 prefix. If only they had some service which converted easy to remember names into IPv6 addresses. Just because some people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-12 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 June 2012 21:51, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: Here at BestISP, we assign you a unique number that you can never change!  We attach this unique number to all your Internet communications, so that every time you go

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 09/06/12 09:46, Rob Lanphier wrote: I've long mused out loud about this possibility, but I've become less certain over time that this is a good outcome based on what happened with Mozilla Messaging (spun out to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 June 2012 21:45, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: We're still planning to actually publish the tarballs and issue security releases.  We might even get in there and fix some installer bugs as the crop up. Sure, there's all types of work that would make MediaWiki for third

[Wikitech-l] How to mount a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers?

2012-06-12 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, I've been tasked with setting up a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers - sort of like another Toolserver. I'm not having much luck, and wondered if anyone has done this recently, and what approach they used? We only really need the current article text - history and meta

[Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Chad
Hi, Little bit of a different thread today--but something's been kind of biting at me over the last couple of weeks and I thought it'd be best to get it out there :) What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and being consistent with it? I'm not suggesting a drastic change,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 June 2012 22:47, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and being consistent with it? Very little, I'd hope. I think the SVG rendering is horrible compared to the photo version. 1) It scales much nicer. The current version

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread John Du Hart
I support that fully. On Jun 12, 2012 5:48 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Little bit of a different thread today--but something's been kind of biting at me over the last couple of weeks and I thought it'd be best to get it out there :) What support would there be for changing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Lewis Cawte
I support this, for all the reasons listed below. I don't think I can find any problem in doing so either... -- Lewis Cawte On 12/06/2012 22:47, Chad wrote: Hi, Little bit of a different thread today--but something's been kind of biting at me over the last couple of weeks and I thought it'd

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to mount a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers?

2012-06-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 2012-06-12 23:19, Steve Bennett wrote: I've been tasked with setting up a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers - sort of like another Toolserver. I'm not having much luck, Have your researchers learn Icelandic. Importing the small Icelandic Wikipedia is fast. They can test

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Tim Starling
On 13/06/12 07:47, Chad wrote: 1) It scales much nicer. The current version looks absolutely awful at higher resolutions, and at lower ends becomes rather featureless. A version natively designed as an SVG (but keeping the original design ideas) takes care of that. In the proposed logo, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Motivated volunteers - e.g. people like me who use the tarballs - are probably the right people for the job 'cos we'd be scratching our itches. (I suppose this means I have to actually do things now.) Bwahahaha...he falls

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Tim Starling
On 13/06/12 10:03, Tim Starling wrote: I don't know what file you're using as a source when you scale up the logo: I couldn't find Brion's full-resolution original on Commons. It's in /trunk/artwork in Subversion, admittedly only at 612px width, still too small for print, but definitely better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 13/06/12 07:47, Chad wrote: 1) It scales much nicer. The current version looks absolutely awful at higher resolutions, and at lower ends becomes rather featureless. A version natively designed as an SVG (but

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to mount a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers?

2012-06-12 Thread Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
mwdumper seems to work for recent dumps: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2012-May/039347.html On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,  I've been tasked with setting up a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers - sort of

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to mount a local copy of the English Wikipedia for researchers?

2012-06-12 Thread Adam Wight
I ran into this problem recently. A python script is available at https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Offline/mwimport.py, that will convert .xml.bz2 dumps into flat fast-import files which can be loaded into most databases. Sorry this tool is still alpha quality.