Re: [Wikitech-l] For title normalization, what characters are converted to uppercase ?

to uppercase, but on frwiki there is one page for the lowercase letter, and one page for the uppercase letter, so this letter is not converted to uppercase by current MediaWiki version. Is it missing in Php72ToUpper to prevent it to be converted with PHP 7.2 ? Nico On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:45 AM Nic

Re: [Wikitech-l] For title normalization, what characters are converted to uppercase ?

Thanks Giuseppe ! I've subscribed to T219279 to know when the pages are properly converted, and when I can remove the hack in my code. Nico On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:03 AM Giuseppe Lavagetto wrote: > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:34 AM Nicolas Vervelle > wrote: > > > Thanks

Re: [Wikitech-l] For title normalization, what characters are converted to uppercase ?

ince unicode 5 > (2006). Guess it was using a really old unicode data or something. > > See also bug T219279 [2] > > -- > Brian > > [1] https://3v4l.org/GHt3b > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 7:57 AM Nicolas Vervelle > wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] For title normalization, what characters are converted to uppercase ?

to actually use MW API to normalize > titles? It's a very quick API call, you can do multiple titles at once, but > it will save you a lot of grief over incompatibilities. > --Yuri > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:57 AM Nicolas Vervelle > wrote: > > > Hello, > >

[Wikitech-l] For title normalization, what characters are converted to uppercase ?

Hello, On most wikis, MediaWiki is configuration to convert the first letter of a title to uppercase, but apparently it's not converting every Unicode characters : for example, on frwiki ɽ is a different article than Ɽ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap for CX?

I'd like to tell too my concern too about CX : it has been pushed into production for several years, with a lot of unnecessary advertisements (I still get a popup inciting me to use it each time I try to look at a deleted page, while I have clearly disabled CX in the configuration) and with many pr

[Wikitech-l] Documentation for API query/revisions needs an update

Hi, today, I noticed that I was getting API warnings in WPCleaner for each call to API query/revisions : revisions - Because "rvslots" was not specified, a legacy format has been used for the output. This format is deprecated, and in the future the new format will always be used. This rvslots is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Important news about the November dumps run!

Hi, Are there problems with some dumps like frwiki with the new system ? On your.org mirror, important files like page-articles are still missing from the 20171103 dump directory, when usually it only takes a day... Nico On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > Rsync of xml/sql

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Subramanya Sastry > wrote: > >> On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: >> >> - In the page dedicated to a category, there's a column telling i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > - In the page dedicated to a category, there's a column telling if the >> > problem is due to one template (and which one) or by several >> temp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/12/2017 01:12 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > Hi Subbu, >> >> Using the localized names, I've found that not all Linter categories are >> listed in the API result. Is it normal ? >> For examp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Subramanya Sastry > wrote: > >> On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: >> >> But I have a few questions / suggestions regarding Linter for the moment: >>&g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 07/11/2017 05:13 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > But I have a few questions / suggestions regarding Linter for the moment: >> >> - Is is possible to retrieve also the localized names of the Linter >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

Hi Subbu ! I have barely started using WPCleaner to fix some errors reported by Linter, and I know I still have work to do on WPCleaner to make it easier for users. But I have a few questions / suggestions regarding Linter for the moment: - Is is possible to retrieve also the localized names o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > > - On the Full Analysis window, the second button with a globe and a >>> broom (Subbu, would you have a recommended icon for Linter related >>> stuff ?) >>> >> >> I will have to get back to you on this. I'll have to get some hel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy will be replaced by RemexHTML on Wikimedia wikis latest by June 2018

Hi, On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > 3. How feasible would it be to build bots to make 90% of high priority >> fixes and 90% of all fixes? >> > > Since the start of the Linter project (when we started off with the GSoC > prototype in summer of 2014, and once again when

Re: [Wikitech-l] CX damaging wikis : any plan to fix ?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Runa Bhattacharjee < rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > The tool is in active development and despite the issues reported, we still > think that the overall balance of the content contributed is still > positive. From our observation, users translating content

[Wikitech-l] New (?) problem with named refs

Hi, It seems there's a new problem with named refs : several articles are now displaying errors of having the same name for several references with different content. See my description on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117037 It happens with {{#tag:ref| |...}}, when there's a whitespace inst

Re: [Wikitech-l] CX damaging wikis : any plan to fix ?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Strainu wrote: > 2015-10-29 10:47 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Vervelle : > >- David Borwein > >< > https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Borwein&action=edit&oldid=119968179 > > > >: almost no problems, b

Re: [Wikitech-l] CX damaging wikis : any plan to fix ?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Strainu wrote: > Can't comment on the rest of the issues, but I can add one more: I've > had several reports for ro.wp of "lost" translations. Unfortunately I > don't have enough data to log a bug. They just said: "my translations > were lost". Perhaps some perfo

[Wikitech-l] CX damaging wikis : any plan to fix ?

Hi, Going into rant mode... It's been at least 6 months that CX (Content Translation) has been deployed on production wikis, and after all this time, most of the articles created with this tool contain many syntax problems. Phabricator tasks have been created months ago, and almost nothing seems

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

Hi, Is this related to the fact that some pages are now categorized in "Pages with syntax highlighting errors " ? How can we find what is wrong in the page ? I tried several things to fix Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner, but di

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Nicolas Vervelle > wrote: > > >- Second, I'm not a big fan of VE changing wikitext in parts not > >modified by the user: experience shows that it messes the diffs, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Lastly, the way the extension handles unfamiliar languages will change. > Previously, if the specified language was not supported by the extension, > instead of a code block, the extension would print an error message. From > now on, it will si

Re: [Wikitech-l] global cleanup of

That would be nice to have a global cleanup at some point, but it won't be able to handle every situation. I don't think relying on VE to clean up is good: - First, it will take a long time before all articles are edited with VE (maybe never) - Second, I'm not a big fan of VE changing wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Le 10 août 2014 17:06, "James HK" a écrit : > > Hi, > > > It could mean that, but of course it is actually introduced to prevent > > the German community from deactivating the Media Viewer. > > User JEissfeldt, removed `mw.config.set("wgMediaViewerOnClick", > false);` from Common.js [0] and is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Le 10 août 2014 15:35, "svetlana" a écrit : > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 23:19, K. Peachey wrote: > > Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik. > > > > Add a new protection level called "superprotect" > > Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes > > of protecting pages

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > On 19 May 2014 19:36, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > > As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is > > necessary > > > > Sure, but as I'm not a bot operator, can you explain why and what you use > this for, to help me unders

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual Editor is trashing every article on French Wiki

or so he's aware of > it. > > Obviously this is an urgent problem that needs fixing. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > On 4 November 2013 20:29, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > > > > Currently, Visual Editor is trashing badly every

Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual Editor is trashing every article on French Wiki

pass on > this to one of the engineers involved in VisualEditor so he's aware of it. > Obviously this is an urgent problem that needs fixing. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > On 4 November 2013 20:29, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > > Currently, Visual Editor is trashing

[Wikitech-l] Visual Editor is trashing every article on French Wiki

Currently, Visual Editor is trashing badly every article that is edited on French Wiki: every accented character is replaced by strange characters all over the article. Could you please stop immediately VE ? How can such a mess make its way into production ? Is there no real tests before ? Nico

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Chris Steipp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Nicolas Vervelle >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm completely new to OAuth, so bear with me if my questions are basic > or I > > missed a point ;-) > > It see

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth

Hi, I'm completely new to OAuth, so bear with me if my questions are basic or I missed a point ;-) It seems interesting, but seems very oriented for web applications, not so much for desktop applications. I'm interested in developing this for WPCleaner [1], which is a desktop application. Is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Add tags when saving an edit ?

Thanks, I will add a comment there :-) Nico On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > No, but there's a bug about this[1] and there was a now-abandoned patch[2]. > > [1] > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=18670

[Wikitech-l] Add tags when saving an edit ?

Hi, Abuse Filter extension, Visual Editor, ... are able to create tags when edits are saved. Is it possible to do the same kind of things when using the API to edit a page ? I'd like to be able to add tags when I save a page using WPCleaner [1] for several purposes: * marking the edit as being do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Tim Starling > wrote: > > > "Newcomers with the VisualEditor were ~43% less likely to save a > > single edit than editors with the wikitext editor (x^2=279.4, > > p<0.001), meaning that Visual Editor presente

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

Thanks Risker, I think you've summarized the position of many experienced users. 100% agreed. Nico On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Risker wrote: > The numbers are important. And perhaps what isn't being reflected well > here is the genuine disappointment felt by so many in the enwiki commun

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

I was glad to see some WMF members speak their mind against the current stance from Erik and James. But when I see Erik answer, I'm clearly understanding that WMF management is simply being blind. Erik, if I read correctly your reply : - You still don't have analysed the A/B test period : first

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

Thanks a lot, I've updated WPCleaner [1] to use the new "disambiguation" property, instead of looking for templates or categories. I've been able to reduce the number of calls to the API when analzying a page for links to disambiguation pages with this property. Nico [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestion for solving the disambiguation problem

Interesting idea... On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages > link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the > appropriate thing. > > I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weekly deployment highlights - week of July 15th, 2013

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > * Pending the go/no-go decision later this afternoon (Pacific time), > VisualEditor will be enabled for all English Wikipedia users (both > logged in and not). > So, what was the decision ? I do hope that extending VE roll out has bee

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

Yes, thanks, I will use pageswithprop to retrieve all disambiguation pages. I didn't find it at first because it wasn't listed in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Lists Nico On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On 7/10/13 2:15 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > >> On Wed, Ju

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

o get only pages with this property set. Is there an other way ? Nico [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allpages On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > Thanks Eran and MZMcBride, > > I'm going to update WPCleaner to take advantage of this new possibility. &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

> > (without this extension it was possible only with external tools such as > dablinks: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Dablinks) > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > > Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > > >Has the API been modified so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguator extension deployed to all WMF wikis (action required)

Great !!! Has the API been modified so that we can ask it if a page is a disambiguation page ? Nico On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > The Disambiguator extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/** > wiki/Extension:Disambiguator

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Nicolas Vervelle >wrote: > > > I tried VE a few times, and clearly think it's not yet in a situation > where > > it could be rolled out to unexperienced users : > > * V

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

Hi, The interest of the VE team is not the only one to take into account I think... The impact on the new wikipedia editors should be a more important parameter in my opinion. I tried VE a few times, and clearly think it's not yet in a situation where it could be rolled out to unexperienced users

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:09 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Greg Grossmeier wrote: > >* On Tuesday VisualEditor team will enable an A/B test, where half of > > new accounts created on English Wikipedia will get VisualEditor > > enabled by default. This is to test performance and features before > > th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

Hi, I'd like to come to the Amsterdam Hackathon to discuss the Jmol extension, and have advice on a few things to develop it (security, ...). But I'm not yet sure I will be in Europe that weekend :( Nico On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > Sounds like NicoV started work aga

Re: [Wikitech-l] Support for 3D content

You also have a Jmol extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Jmol It's working on wiki.jmol.org On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Chris McMahon wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Mathieu Stumpf < > psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Reading the "2012-13 Plan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disambiguation features: Do they belong in core or in an extension?

Hello, My own preference would be to have this in the core for several reasons. It seems that it makes some existing core code simpler. There's already some code dealing with disambiguation in the core (Special:Disambiguation, ...). Several external tools, including my own WPCleaner [1], are dea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Canvasmol?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Mark A. Hershberger < mhershber...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Tim Starling writes: > > > On 06/09/11 18:09, Magnus Manske wrote: > >> Support for 3D-rendered molecules on Wikipedia has been on the > >> wishlist since ... forever. This was never done due to security >

[Wikitech-l] API available for wikiversity project ?

Hi, Is the API available for the wikiversity project? If so what is the API URL ? Someone asked me to include the fr wikiversity in the list of wikipedias that WPCleanercan work on. Nico ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using ReCaptcha in ConfirmEdit extension ?

Hi again, You can forget my question. It's now working, I misread the documentation (which is not the same depending on which page you look at) at first. Including ConfirmEdit.php before including ReCaptcha.php did the trick Nico On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote:

[Wikitech-l] Using ReCaptcha in ConfirmEdit extension ?

Hi, I am trying to install a Captcha extension on my own wiki ( http://wiki.jmol.org/). ReCaptcha seems nice, but when I try to use the version in trunk I get an error : Class 'SimpleCaptcha' not found in ReCaptcha.php on line 54. Indeed, there is no SimpleCatcha there. What should I do to make it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering February report

Hi, Thanks for the info. In favor of posting only the link. Nico On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hi, > > The February report of what was accomplished by the Wikimedia > engineering team is now available: > > > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/wikimedia-engineeri

[Wikitech-l] Problem with MIME type detection

Hi, I want to authorize uploading of CML fileson my wiki . These files have an XML format with a limited set of possible root elements. I would like them to be recognized by MediaWiki with a specific M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a Media handler extension for molecular files ?

Hi Brion and others, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle > >wrote: >> >> > Molecular files exist in several formats : pdb, cif

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a Media handler extension for molecular files ?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle >wrote: > > > Molecular files exist in several formats : pdb, cif, mol, xyz, cml, ... > > Usually they are detected as simple MIME types (either text/plain or &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a Media handler extension for molecular files ?

Hi John, Thanks for the links to the bugs, interesting informations. I did most of the development of the Jmol extension mentioned in n°16491 but I wasn't aware of this bug report ;) I upgraded it this weekend to be compatible with MW 1.16 and get rid of its dependency on StubManager. I am trying

[Wikitech-l] Creating a Media handler extension for molecular files ?

Hello, I am interested in developing an extension for handling molecular files (files containing informations about chemical molecules : atoms, bonds, ...). If I understand correctly it will enable me to display specific informations in the File:... page, like what MediaWiki does for simple images

[Wikitech-l] Configuring upload : authorizing some file extensions ?

Hello, I am the administrator of Jmol wiki, http://wiki.jmol.org, and I am trying to authorize the upload of files with extensions .pdb, .mol, ... (chemistry files). It was working some time ago, but apparently it's not working any more. I don't know when it stopped working (maybe when upgrading M

Re: [Wikitech-l] Acceptable use of API

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > On 24.09.2010, 14:32 Robin wrote: > > > I would like to collect data on interlanguage links for academic research > > purposes. I really do not want to use the dumps, since I would need to > > download dumps of all language Wikipedias, which w

Re: [Wikitech-l] No dump for frwiki for about 70 days

Thanks for the information, I have added this list to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps#Where_to_go_for_help Nico On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > 2010/6/15 Nicolas Vervelle : > > I checked the database dump progress page yesterday, and the dump was &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] No dump for frwiki for about 70 days

" So, the dump is probably working. I will keep a look at it, and will send an other mail if it doesn't work. Thanks Nico 2010/6/15 Nicolas Vervelle > Hi again, > > I checked the database dump progress page yesterday, and the dump was > running. > But now, the same p

Re: [Wikitech-l] No dump for frwiki for about 70 days

Hi again, I checked the database dump progress page yesterday, and the dump was running. But now, the same problem happens again, the dump seems to be stuck at the same point : 2010-06-11 14:48:45 frwiki (new): missing status record Nico 2010/6/14 Nicolas Vervelle > Thanks ! > > Nico

Re: [Wikitech-l] No dump for frwiki for about 70 days

ώρα 11:31 -0700, ο/η Ariel T. Glenn > έγραψε: > > I will be looking into this later today. > > > > Ariel > > > > Στις 14-06-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 19:57 +0200, ο/η Nicolas Vervelle > > έγραψε: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I hope this

[Wikitech-l] No dump for frwiki for about 70 days

Hi, I hope this is the correct list to post for problems with XML dumps of wikipedia. There seems to be a problem with the dump for the French wiki. The database dump progress pagereports at the end : 2010-06-14 17:49:00 frwiki (new): missing status r