[Wikitech-l] programmatically extracting lists from list pages on Wikipedia

2011-11-22 Thread Fred Zimmerman
hi, I want to programmatically extract lists from list pages on Wikipedia. That is to say, if there is a page that mostly consists of a list (list of episodes, list of presidents, etc.) I want to be able to extract the list from the page, with article names/links. Has anyone already done this? ca

Re: [Wikitech-l] those Jimbo pics are scaring me

2011-11-18 Thread Fred Zimmerman
good info here http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture-shown-across-the-top-of-every-page-helping-or-hindering-Wikipedia-raise-money On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Jeremy Baron > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 15:58,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005

2011-11-16 Thread Fred Zimmerman
At first I thought this was Wikipedia rendered into Ye Olde English ... On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:18 AM, emijrp wrote: > Forwarding... > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: emijrp > Date: 2011/11/11 > Subject: Old English Wikipedia image dump from 2005 > To: wikiteam-disc...@googl

Re: [Wikitech-l] page view stats redux

2011-11-16 Thread Fred Zimmerman
;-) > > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ > > Perhaps you have specific questions that aren't answered here? If so, > spill 'em and we'll try to add that information or links to it. > > Ariel > > Στις 16-11-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:58 -0500,

Re: [Wikitech-l] page view stats redux

2011-11-16 Thread Fred Zimmerman
cific questions that aren't answered here? If so, > spill 'em and we'll try to add that information or links to it. > > Ariel > > Στις 16-11-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:58 -0500, ο/η Fred Zimmerman > έγραψε: > > very cool! is there a readme or project pag

Re: [Wikitech-l] page view stats redux

2011-11-16 Thread Fred Zimmerman
very cool! is there a readme or project page somewhere that explains what all these files are? On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > > > Thanks! > > But it seems that the update of pagecounts files is stopped for the > > past few hours. Is this a temporary problem? > > > > Tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-24 Thread Fred Zimmerman
while we're on the subject, a question about MySQL: is it possible to make MW independent of MySQL innodb tables? Innodb tables have a number of attributes that can make set up a pain (e.g. file and log sizes). On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Hey all -- > > I've got a stac

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikipedia lacks a "share' button

2011-10-21 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Comments from a bystander: 1) the discussion in https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Whitepaper#Red_link:_Post_to_social_media_feeds is obtuse and overanalytic. Share buttons should be a no-brainer. 2) Android alone is a very narrow start. FredZ On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Tomasz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help setting up mysql.cnf for local WIki mirror

2011-10-06 Thread Fred Zimmerman
I don't have all the log files with me at the moment. I am gathering myself for a fresh start. How about a .cnf file that demonstrably works? > > What fails, exactly? Do you get error messages of some kind? Without > knowing > what's going wrong, there's little advice that can be given. > > > >

[Wikitech-l] Help setting up mysql.cnf for local WIki mirror

2011-10-06 Thread Fred Zimmerman
Hi, I am hoping that someone here can help me - I realize there is an xmlwikidumps mailing list but it is pretty low volume and expertise relative to this one. THere is a lot of conflicting advice on the mirroring wikipedia page. C I am setting up a local mirror of english Wikipedia pages-article