Re: [Wikitech-l] Inquiry speed problem

2010-04-26 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Did you use the same search engine that Wikipedia uses? It's not the default MediaWiki search. I'm not sure if the squid servers help speed up search any, but there are huge amounts of hardware and dedicated to making Wikipedia run quickly. -Courtney On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:56 PM, 李琴

Re: [Wikitech-l] Added iwlinks table to track interwiki links on trunk

2010-04-16 Thread Christensen, Courtney
You have no idea how happy this makes me! Thank you thank you thank you! -Courtney -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:54 PM To:

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki main page

2010-02-25 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Hi, You may want to try the MediaWiki-l list for this query (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l). As far as I can remember reading, the front page of Wikipedia is created with a bunch of templates. Good luck, -Courtney -Original Message- From:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-12 Thread Christensen, Courtney
emman...@engelhart.org said: Le ven 12/02/10 01:52, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org a écrit: emman...@engelhart.org wrote: mwdumper is an almost mandatory tool to spread our content and for this reason i wanted to speak about that on the ML. You might have to be more specific than

Re: [Wikitech-l] checking understanding of file uploading

2010-01-29 Thread Christensen, Courtney
From: Roan Kattouw Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:15 PM 2010/1/29 Christensen, Courtney christens...@battelle.org: Does anyone have any clues for me on either: -how to start figuring out the wiki image upload code? OR -another way to get around Windows permissions and create this file

[Wikitech-l] checking understanding of file uploading

2010-01-28 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Hi Wiki Devs, First things first: MW 1.13.2 (We're upgrading in the next couple months, managers are slow.) PHP 5.2.8 MySQL 5.1.4 Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 (client requirements) I need to be able to create a temporary excel file from a report about what types of files are uploaded to my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data Processing

2009-10-12 Thread Christensen, Courtney
2009/10/11 Roan: On Wikipedia, we use one set of DB servers for the wiki database, and a second set for text; this second set is called the external storage. You don't need to worry about this too much, as small wikis typically don't use external storage, but use the text table instead. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiki migrated to new search backend

2009-06-03 Thread Christensen, Courtney
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Robert Stojnic rainma...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick update, a couple of days ago all of this stuff got enabled on all WMF projects. The delay has mainly been due to us having to order more hardware (particularly RAM) since my initial estimate of how much we

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today

2009-03-31 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Hey Brion and Domas, Would you mind giving us a few details about the whys, hows, and solutions? I've had a couple out of memory problems recently (especially while trying to run DumpHTML) and our first try for a fix was to check efficiency of our extensions. That is certainly taking a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Providing simpler dump format (raw, SQL or CSV)?

2009-03-31 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message- Given that the current dump process is having problem, why not provide a simple fix such as providing raw table format , SQL files or even CSV files? Howard ___ Howard, Can't you get the SQL files from running mysqldump

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with...different...Wiki request solutions

2009-03-26 Thread Christensen, Courtney
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, David Di Biase dave.dibi...@gmail.com wrote: I might not have been too articulate in my question. I got it to work with the organisation, I'm just wondering how do I get it to display as Einstein, Albert on the category name? Hi Dave, How do you feel about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bar charts

2009-03-03 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message- But is the template implementation optimal, or would you use some other technique -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Hi Lars, I doubt it's more efficient, but we use

[Wikitech-l] list of recurring maintenance scripts/tasks?

2009-02-16 Thread Christensen, Courtney
Hey MediaWikians, I've been working with some MediaWiki installations for almost 2 years now and I keep learning more from looking up question, reading this list, and finding what I need to use in the code. So now I have a new question and I have looked in mailing list archives and

Re: [Wikitech-l] User Interface Documents for MediaWiki / Wikipedia?

2008-12-09 Thread Christensen, Courtney
-Original Message- From: howard chen Are there any User Interface documents related to MediaWiki / Wikipedia? --- This may have been a good candidate for a post to the Mediawiki-l list instead of the developer list, but I'm not always spot on on those