Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Thomas Bleher
* MZMcBride [2012-09-10 02:45]: > K. Peachey wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > >> page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This > >> subject > >> came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as > >> though the only re

Re: [Wikitech-l] A few questions about adding user preferences via the API

2012-09-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
Someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but currently user preferences uses an HTMLForm object to handle everything, and new preferences can be added arbitrarily using the GetPreferences hook. I'd imagine this will definitely be supported in the future as it is the primary way for extensi

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-09-09 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for September 03, 2012 - September 10, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 303 Bugs ASSIGNED : 47 Bugs REOPENED : 46 Bugs RESOLVED

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread MZMcBride
K. Peachey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This subject >> came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as >> though the only reason the HTML dumps have been updated is that nob

[Wikitech-l] A few questions about adding user preferences via the API

2012-09-09 Thread MZMcBride
Forwarding from : --- A lot more functionality around user preferences was added with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5126/ Thank you for that. Recently I found that one can add new options (''keys''). This is very useful for Community

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This subject > came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as > though the only reason the HTML dumps have been updated is that nobody has > run the rele

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread MZMcBride
Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Roberto Flores > wrote: >> Could you please provide HTML dumps (I mean, with the templates >> pre-processed into HTML, everything else the same as now) every 3 or 4 >> months? >> > How a template is rendered into HTML depends very much on t

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Roberto Flores wrote: > Could you please provide HTML dumps (I mean, with the templates > pre-processed into HTML, everything else the same as now) every 3 or 4 > months? > How a template is rendered into HTML depends very much on the context (i.e. page title, last

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Shouldn't you be using ZIM, and aren't dumpHTML and siblings The Right Way to do it? See also http://openzim.org/Build_your_ZIM_file Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Andrew Dunbar
On 9 September 2012 22:30, Roberto Flores wrote: > I think there is a slight misunderstanding on what my app is and does: > > It is an offline Wikipedia (et al) viewer that contains all content > articles in the dump. > Everything must be contained within the app's code and the processed dump > fi

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Roberto Flores wrote: >> How would this template API function? What does import mean? > > By this I mean, a set of functions written in some computer language to > which I could send them the template within the wiki markup and receive > HTML to display. > > Wikiped

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Roberto Flores
I think there is a slight misunderstanding on what my app is and does: It is an offline Wikipedia (et al) viewer that contains all content articles in the dump. Everything must be contained within the app's code and the processed dump files downloadable from my own site (gearapps.com) > Take a lo

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread John
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse it is exactly what you are looking for. Also a 7GB app is something you want to CLEARLY state as eating up that much device space/ download bandwidth is probably a problem for most users On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Roberto Flores w

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Roberto Flores
Allow me to reply to each point: (By the way, my offline app is called WikiGear Offline:) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikigear-offline/id453614487?mt=8 > Templates are dumped just like all other pages are... Yes, but that's only a text description of what the template does. Code must be writt

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
נשלח מטלפון, שאולי עשה שטויות עם תיקון אוטומטי Sent from a phone, which may have done silly autocorrections בתאריך 9 בספט 2012 20:35, מאת "Roberto Flores" : > > Greetings, > > I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. app for > the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job a

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Roberto Flores wrote: > I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. app for > the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job at interpreting the wiki > markup into HTML. > However, there are too many templates for me to program (not to mention,

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread John
what purpose would the dump serve? you dont want to keep the full dump on the device. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Roberto Flores wrote: > Greetings, > > I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. app for > the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job at interpreting th

[Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread Roberto Flores
Greetings, I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. app for the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job at interpreting the wiki markup into HTML. However, there are too many templates for me to program (not to mention, it's a moving target). Without converting these tem