[Wikitech-l] Re: Drop dedicated support for IE 11, Edge Legacy and Opera

It's a big shame. It should be a priority. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch?target=en.m.wikipedia.org -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To uns

[Wikitech-l] Re: Word embeddings / vector search

is full of spam. Another list exists, called "discovery", but not listed on Meta. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/discov...@lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se, user:LA2) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mai

[Wikitech-l] Re: Word embeddings / vector search

tor search" are not mentioned there, but a vector search could have found the "ML-enabled natural language search" that is mentioned. If and when this is tried, we will need to evaluate how well it works for various languages. -- Lars Aronsso

[Wikitech-l] Word embeddings / vector search

ere any ongoing work at WMF or around the Mediawiki software to apply this new technique to search in Wikipedia? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se, user:LA2) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscrib

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Commons-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

place, free for all, how will anybody know that it saves them dozens of hours? This is the big question that we should focus on answering. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikime

[Wikitech-l] Systems for proofreading scanned books

e in 2005? (And that Wikisource would have picked up, if it were started today, instead of developing its own extension.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

mage depict? 2. How well does this image depict XYZ? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Image search

ike these, not in the same category, just similar photos. Surely, such a search function could be implemented in 2020, in addition to our current text search? Hasn't anybody done this already? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping __

[Wikitech-l] PDF preview missing (429 Error generating thumbnail)

orary technical problem on Commons. (But since I can view the local files, I assume the files are okay.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

[Wikitech-l] Historic stats

ding the stdout from bunzip. So has anybody already written a program that reads through the XML dump of articles and their history, and generates statistics of this kind? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Linköping, Sweden ___ Wikitech-l mai

[Wikitech-l] Ifexists across wikis

#x27;t make much sense to me. It's as if red/blue links were expensive, and most of our list pages should be banned. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23ifexist -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___

[Wikitech-l] Search and accents

://ru.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=боритесь Note that Unicode doesn't contain accented versions of Cyrillic letters. Instead, the accent is made by suffixing a separate accent sign. $ echo "и" | od -c 000 320 270 \n $ echo "и́" | od -c 000 320 270 314 201 \

[Wikitech-l] XML dumps

ested, first on some smaller wikis, and gradually on the larger ones. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback

...@gmail.com, can that user login as f...@gmail.com? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email for London Hackathon Participants

.? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Finding images

el of detail in documentation? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Still_Life_with_Fruit-Laden_Bike_-_Medina_%28Old_City%29_-_Rabat_-_Morocco.jpg Here's a bicycle with red flowers, now categorized, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xe_%C4%91%E1%BA%A1p_ch%E1%BB%9F_h%C3%A0ng.jpg -- Lars

[Wikitech-l] Finding images

years ago. But what algorithms are there for finding images? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have any data in wikidata / wiktionary that could be used for mechanic translations?

means: hello!) into English in such a system, it will say "health", since the same word also means health, and EU texts only talk about healthcare, never "hello". -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _

[Wikitech-l] SVG guidelines

came back yesterday to ask where we are now. Do we have any guidelines for how to hand-write the source code of SVG diagrams? Should we? Maybe this is related to Wikidata? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://a

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki, Cookies and EU Privacy Policy 95/46/EG

these rules actually has resulted in any penalty? Has it ever been taken to court? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual Editor and Parsoid New Pages in Wikitext?

and refused to listen to sound advice, but now we know the outcome.) What do you predict we will be using five years from now, in 2019? Plain old wikitext, VisualEditor, or some other path? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - htt

[Wikitech-l] Analyst's Notebook

ve seen of DBpedia is much more primitive than this. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] SUL broken? I'm logged in here, not there

s possible? http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=LA2 "There are no unattached account with this username." -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mai

[Wikitech-l] Javascript to find other articles having the same external link

( function() { return jQuery( "⎆)" ) .attr( "href", "//sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/" + this.href ) .before( " " ); }); -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weighted random article

es on sv.wikipedia -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Weighted random article

me up, only not so often. And some manually written article stubs are also less wanted. Perhaps the random function should be weighted by article length or by the number of page views? But is it practical to implement such a weighted random function? Are the necessary data in the database? --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaborative machine translation for Wikipedia -- proposed strategy

develop our own. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Listing missing words of wiktionnaries

gle has released its ngram dataset. I'm not sure if it covers Swedish, but even if it does, it must differ from the corpus frequencies published by the Swedish Academy. It is relatively easy to extract a list of existing entries from Wiktionary. But to prepare a given text corpus for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why isn't hotcat an extension?

nk of the dynamic effects that were unleashed in 2001 when wiki replaced the formalism of Nupedia, and how all this code review formalism holds creativity back. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] automatic extraction of wikipedia entries

acion" -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Rethinking MobileFormatter / Skins

heading is short, it is useful to put the __TOC__ in a right-floating table, so the user doesn't have to scroll very long to find the first text: {| align=right |- | __TOC__ |} Here is one example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_in_comics -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making inter-language links shorter

uld be on that user. Wikipedia should provide knowledge, not hide it. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

tics is not strictly "tech", but all of it, including outreach, is "meta". -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

shift in OpenStreetMap, I think we should use cc0 as far as we can. It remains my suggestion that any tool should demand cc0, but of course that will be the choice of the tool developer. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronss

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

uld try to collaborate with them. However, when I try it, it says "Oops! The recorder is having a fix. Please, try again later. Thanks..", both yesterday and today. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se __

[Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

orts uploading of a file, but I don't know how to solve the recording of sound directly to a web service. Perhaps this could be a Skype application? I have no idea. Please just be creative. It should be solvable, because this is 2013 and not 2003. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Ar

[Wikitech-l] Category sorting in random order

la}} where "STANDARDSORTERING" is Swedish for DEFAULTSORT, and there is no "Þ" (Icelandic Thorn) in sight. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikite

[Wikitech-l] Poor man's Liquid Threads

(ironically in Liquid Threads) is found here, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thread:User_talk:Yair_rand/Comment_gadget -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Fwd: Page view stats we can believe in

ider "has been viewed 12 times in the last 30 days", but only by bots? http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acantheis_variatus http://stats.grok.se/nl/latest/Acantheis_variatus Bots creating articles and bots reading them, what a joke! And they are creating articles about spiders! -- Lars A

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Fwd: Page view stats we can believe in

day. So the least active hour is probably the background noise from bots. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

y.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Top_1_(Dansk). So are there some stupid bots that follow red links? There could be a large number of such accesses on Wiktionary (in any language) because there are so many red links. But bots should never be counted among the page views. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se)

[Wikitech-l] Page view stats we can believe in

ny project. If you look at the log files for just one day, you should see my IP address (85.228.something) and 3-4 other users who have been editing lately, and not many more people, but perhaps a bunch of interwiki bots. We need an explanation to these vastly inflated page view statistics.

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

r edits in the Recent Changes. I think you can go forward if you accept that there are some bots that run like a machinery, according to the rules, and other bot accounts that are used like a more advanced browser for a creative and spontaneous user. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se)

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

that I apply for bot status when using it (except on Commons, where it has 5,000 edits without bot status), and so I think up some good idea and apply for bot status, which is almost always granted. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik

Re: [Wikitech-l] monitoring / control system for bots

hat might be correct for some bots, but not for all. Many users have a bot account that they use for various purposes at various times. Trying to build them into a control panel is just as unlikely to succeed as trying to schedule regular users. Which articles do you plan to edit next Tuesday,

[Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

necting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..." This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org. Several other gadgets work just fine. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wiki

[Wikitech-l] A bot to create articles about species

unnen#Botskapande_av_artiklar_f.C3.B6r_alla_v.C3.A4rldens_arter.3F -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notification bubble system

way to make it stick? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Bots create page views

out bot visits? In other news, this page has a weekly pattern of real, human visitors, since it is a radio quiz where lots of listeners are known to use google searches, http://stats.grok.se/sv/latest90/Melodikrysset -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

tware project where a fully decentralized git solution was impractical, e.g. because pulling in the daily updates took more than an hour on your available bandwidth? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronss

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

when they are frustrated waiting for an analysis taking 15 minutes for Norwegian, that they will find smarter algorithms that will enable them to take on the larger languages. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _

Re: [Wikitech-l] External links statistics

replaced by Git, but perhaps that's just for MediaWiki core? Most likely, I'll just use my user page on meta. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ __

[Wikitech-l] External links statistics

these aren't marked as content namespaces by the API. Shouldn't they be? Is anybody else doing similar things? Do you have opinions on what should count as content? Should I submit my script (300 lines of Perl) somewhere? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

it is fully decentralized and asynchronous, and how bad it was to work with SVN. The other story is gerrit, and how everything must now go through this bottleneck of new centralization. There's a conflict here, that needs to be sorted out. Does Linus Torvalds really use gerrit? -- Lars Aro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

"preview for mobile". Not everybody would have to use that, but those interested in helping out could do so. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Wikisource link stats

pages link to a particular Wikisource page? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] External link tracking

e to add links to Wikipedia, not just the 30 seconds to edit the page, but perhaps 30 minutes to find the relevant article and the relevant webpage to link to. Can you speed up that process, without getting questions about link spamming? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Pro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Page views

ot traffic. (Are we competitors? Really not. We're both liberating content. Swedish Wikipedia has more external links to runeberg.org than to any other website.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se Project Runeberg - free Nordic literat

[Wikitech-l] Page views

on-contributors, and present page views from each category? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Url Shortner Service

= 40). By using base36, the first million URLs can be represented by strings of 4 characters, rather than 6 digit decimal numbers. The result is a shorter URL, not a human computable, intuitive transform of the original URL. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2014, and then discontinue H.264 playback in 2015, we could be in for a real backlash. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

media.org/wiki/File:Karlav%C3%A4gen-2011-04-16.ogv http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sibyllegatan-2011-04-16.ogv http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strandv%C3%A4gen-2011-04.ogv -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

need to be experts on shooting the video, and not on running all the Linux commands to convert between formats. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing "UNCONFIRMED" state to bugzilla

gs, because it only shows "NEW", ASSIGNED, and REOPENED, but not UNCONFIRMED. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Colour-coded character sets in edit box

on, http://ru.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%3AGeo_stat_rus_imp_4.djvu%2F863&diff=702229&oldid=701373 The large print is the text of an encyclopedic article. The small print is the list of literature references. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aro

[Wikitech-l] Toolserver quota

sn't live up to my expectations. It feels more like some hobby project in 2002. I'm a great fan of hobby projects, but with the current budget of WMDE and WMF, I thought we would have reached a higher ambition level by now. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help us test the VisualEditor prototype

gle main developer. Even today, as we lament the decline in contributors, how can it not be important to fix LiquidThreads? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for new table image_metadata

tes in the image. (And timed text is tied to a time position in a video stream.) So why are they separate systems? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lis

[Wikitech-l] Tracking external link statistics over time

i 36,dewiki 141,enwiki 27,eswiki 20,frwiki 13,huwiki 14,itwiki 10,jawiki 13,nowiki 10,ptwiki 19,ruwiki 13,shwiki 14,svwiki 12,trwiki To find and update these links, use the [[Special:Linksearch]] page. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datate

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quick Mumbai hackathon followup

cle were used. For example, when editing an article on Moscow, if Cyrillic names of suburbs are mentioned in the article, the Cyrillic characters would appear in the editing interface (but not Greek, Arabic or Japanese). -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Data

Re: [Wikitech-l] new external store databases deployed - followup questions

your information about planned maintenance could be shown as a warning: "Please edit, but be careful". -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org htt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search completion

gzilla report that this should rather be based on the "what links here" table? Wiktionary entries for inflected forms link back to the main entry using templates, of course. One example is {{plural of|goose}}. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - ht

[Wikitech-l] Search completion

one of these pages get much traffic. Are the completion suggestions based on traffic stats? In this case, link count might be a better predictor for best suggestion, since all derived forms link back to the basic form. Not much traffic: 5 page views in 30 days, http://stats.grok.se/en.d/late

Re: [Wikitech-l] Giving up on LiquidThreads

On 10/12/2011 01:18 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: >> The Swedish Wikisource community has decided not to file any >> bug report for the fact that LiquidThreads has again crashed >> after the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.18. > >

[Wikitech-l] Giving up on LiquidThreads

t see how LiquidThreads could ever become a reliable system, so we will just pretend it never existed. I'm personally very sorry and wish to apologize if my early enthusiasm for LT gave anybody else the false impression that this could be a working solution. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@a

Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

's bad enough that the banner or site notice arrives 10 seconds after the first load, and jerks the page around. It should be possible to allow a fixed size space for the banner, and allow it to be delayed without jerking. This includes the rearrangement of the menu to the left, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories 2.0

ample is shown at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LA2 Possibly, the template should also receive, as another parameter, the distance to the next sort key, which could be useful for placing items on a scale. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories 2.0

On 05/11/2011 12:09 AM, Chad wrote: > Semantic MediaWiki Do you have a URL where I can see this scrolling? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitec

[Wikitech-l] Categories 2.0

es because we have no better way. A possible extension is 2-dimensional ranges, for geographic coordinates. Does any extension like this already exist? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Liquid Threads

your larger problem is that the passengers are now much more happy with the old train. I can't see any enthusiasm left in sv.wiktionary or sv.wikipedia for switching to Liquid Threads. So, no hurry at all. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - h

[Wikitech-l] Liquid Threads

ready been answered by the fact that no comment has been given to the bug report of February 16, not even a time estimate. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there an easy way to extract the first N wikipedia topics in the order they were created?

000) in the order they were created. Start reading from the beginning of the XML dump, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html The order articles appear there is mostly the creation date, except for the first year (2001), where it is a little more random. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@ar

[Wikitech-l] Javascript

mes shrink to +1 and +2.5 seconds. But there are still inexplicably long gaps between elements. If all images are loaded after 1.4 seconds, why does collapsibleNav start loading at +2.5? This Javascript is going to rearrange the left margin menu, so I'm likely to hit the wrong link when I want

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

? Now, if a woman uses a male pseudonym, she would obviously self-declare as a man, so we can't know if this correlates to real gender. We could only measure the setting. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

contributors. These might be 100 out of 1,000 registered users or 100 out of 10,000 who thought about registering, or 100 out of 5,000 who went half-way through registration. The constant is 100 and the other number is quite arbitrary. Any statistic based on that arbitrary number is bound to be bad

Re: [Wikitech-l] File licensing information support

claim that they too could have built Wikipedia, if it only were more structured. They are wrong, of course. Lack of structure is precisely what built Wikipedia. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ W

Re: [Wikitech-l] From page history to sentence history

d to new elections, new buildings, new institutions. Most edits have nothing to do with the flat geography. So could the history view of maybe 5000 edits be quickly reduced down to 50 edits or even 5? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aro

Re: [Wikitech-l] From page history to sentence history

or on demand, using the edit index as a cache of such parameters. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] From page history to sentence history

CS, which is functionally equivalent to the version control in MediaWiki. In RCS,tracing when, how and by whom a particular piece of code was altered (i.e., who introduced that bug) is as hard as it now is in MediaWiki.Do any of the newer systems (SVN, Git, ...) or commercial integrated development env

[Wikitech-l] From page history to sentence history

and get a reduced history view with only those edits that changed that part of the page. What sorts of indexes would be needed to facilitate such a search? Has anybody already implemented this as a separate tool? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://a

[Wikitech-l] Cleanup of too small categories

categories, but most of the rest seem to build on quite similar ideas. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism [2] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:F%C3%B6retag_bildade_1974 -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

ve is to make bureaucracy so slow and rigid (and our discussions derailed, like now) that more people will leave WMF projects. But this is not enough to create a working alternative. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Wikitech-l] dataset1, xml dumps

wikisource-20100307-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2' 100%[==>] 95,974 156K/s in 0.6s -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik

[Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads

took four months because the software wasn't ready for launch, but that excuse is not valid anymore. Pt.wikipedia is also waiting, since Augusti 28, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24971 What's up? Anybody home? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datatek

[Wikitech-l] Skip local file description pages

ite in the site request in Bugzilla? Yes, we have discussed this and there is a broad consensus on the Swedish Wikipedia village pump, http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bybrunnen#Avskaffa_svenska_bildbeskrivningssidorna -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - htt

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of things to do for image dumps

this should be a task for the paid staff, but so far it has not been. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] list of things to do for image dumps

on on the access log format here, http://www.archive.org/details/wikipedia_visitor_stats_200712 -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.w

[Wikitech-l] Page display slowness

ck to monobook, so don't tell me. I just wanted to report this. Perhaps there's some part of vector that can be improved. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikisource-l] Parallel text alignment

On August 9, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: >> Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and >> extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools, >> TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikisource books and web 1.0 pages

eb 2.0, map-style scrolling through that sequence can be a way to overcome the delay between fast mechanical scanning and slow manual proofreading. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ Wikitech-l mailin

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