Here's a crazy question.
Non-profit organizations are famous for having terrible web
sites. Generally they get a fixed budget and after they spend it, they
have a party and announced that they succeeded. Nobody ever tells the
users, or rather, the people who might have been
On 7/19/2011 2:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the
Unicode Consortium:
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html#liais
Rick McGowan is the Unicode representative to Wikimedia, and I'll be
serving as Wikimedia's respresentative
On 7/1/2011 11:19 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
*Academic publications authentication proxy* --- Chad Horohoe
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:%5Edemon started a project whose
goal is to allow selected Wikimedians to access third-party academic
publishing sites to help with content
On 6/3/2011 4:02 PM, David Gerard wrote:
http://schema.org/
An initiative by Google, Yahoo and Bing to make a tag language to make
things more findable in search engines.
Is there anything in this for us? schema.org tags in templates?
Presumably this would require software work too, and
On 5/17/2011 8:00 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
Is there a good reason for us to always include the '/wiki/' in the URL?
Removing the prefix would save five characters, and I'm guessing that
it would also save a measurable amount of traffic serving 5KB 404
pages.
Is there something else on
On 5/13/2011 3:31 AM, M. Williamson wrote:
I still don't think page titles should be case sensitive. Last time I asked
how useful this really was, back in 2005 or so, I got a tersely-worded
response that we need it to disambiguate certain pages. OK, but how many
cases does that actually
On 5/10/2011 2:15 AM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
On 09/05/11 18:47, Brion Vibber wrote:
On 09/05/11 15:08, Tod wrote:
Is there an IDE that the MW developer community has settled on and can
recommend?
My take is that there are three cultures.
(1) People who use IDEs that are actually useful
On 5/10/2011 5:48 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
One thing that I would like to do in Wikipedia is:
A category that spans a scale, e.g. people by date
of birth. Today we use [[Category:1823 births]] to
group people born in that year, where the category
page has links to the previous and next
On 5/2/2011 7:35 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
I totally3 that you wrote it in python.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson
rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote:
Maybe there's a better tool to tell you what function is defined in what
class in PHP, but I couldn't find one in the
On 4/5/2011 4:00 PM, Platonides wrote
I think he is better parsing the articles, though.
For a linguistic research you don't need things such as the contents of
templates, so a simple wikitext stripping would do. And it will be much,
much, much, much faster than parsing the whole wiki.
On 3/10/2011 3:46 AM, David Gerard wrote:
feel the program takes 71 days to finish all the 3.1 million article titles.
Is there anyway, our university IP address will be given permission or
sending a official email from our department head to Wikipedia Server
administrator to consider that
On 3/3/2011 7:12 PM, Dávid Tóth wrote:
Would it be useful to make a program that would create topic relations for
each wikipedia article based on the links and the distribution of semantic
structures?
This would be very useful for me.
I'm thinking about attack this problem by
Hi, I've been thinking about the early history of Wikipedia and
about what which sort of topics got written early on. I'm wondering if
there is an easy way to find the first N wikipedia topics (where N is
say 100,000) in the order they were created.
On 12/29/2010 2:31 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
Let's imagine you wanted to start a rival to Wikipedia. Assume that you
are motivated by money, and that venture capitalists promise you can be
paid gazillions of dollars if you can do one, or many, of the following:
Ok, first of all you
On 12/7/2010 2:23 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
One thing our skin system does have is an extensive linker and system
for building tooltips and accesskeys for things using our i18n system.
And calls to the message system from skins are all over the place:
tagline, jumpto, and basically every
On 10/24/2010 8:42 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
My first thought was to write a GPU program to crack MediaWiki
password hashes as quickly as possible, then use what we've studied in
class about GPU architecture to design a hash function that would be
as slow as possible to crack on a GPU relative
I know there's some discussion about what's appropriate for the
Wikipedia API, and I'd just like to share my recent experience.
I was trying to download the Wikipedia entries for people, of
which I found about 800,000. I had a scanner already written that
could do the download,
I notice lines in the dbpedia dumps that look like
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Boston%2C_MA
http://dbpedia.org/property/redirect
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Boston .
Note the URL encoded %2C=,.
Anyhow, if I go to
http://dbpedia.org/page/Boston%2C_MA
I see two redirects
On 10/7/2010 11:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Given that Wikimedia already employs a number of contractors who don't work
full-time, I think the fact that this position would be full-time is really
odd.
Damn, I thought the too many Indians and not enough Chiefs
problem was just something we
On 9/28/2010 3:53 AM, Andreas Jonsson wrote:
For my own IX work I've written a wikimedia markup parser in C#
based on the Irony framework. It fails to parse about 0.5% of pages in
wikipedia
What do you mean with fail. It assigns slightly incorrect semantic to a
construction? It
I've recently put up a site that uses coordinate information from
Freebase and Dbpedia, and I'm starting to think about how to clean up
certain data quality problems I'm encountering, for instance, see:
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/209440/Oakville_Assembly
In this particular case,
On 9/27/2010 2:58 PM, Chad wrote:
This. Tim sums up the consensus very well with that commit summary.
He also made some comments on the history of wikitext and alternative
parsers on foundation-l back in Jan '09[0]. Worth a read (starting mainly
at Parser is a convenient and short name for
On 9/24/2010 8:49 AM, Robin Ryder wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick answers, and for the useful link.
My previous e-mail was not detailed enough; sorry about that. Let me
clarify:
- I don't need to crawl the entire Wikipedia, only (for example) articles in
a category. ~1,000 articles would
Right now I'm seeing that image downloads on wikimedia commons have
slowed down by a factor of ten or so since the last weekend. I used to
download about 700 images an hour, so it's possible that my bandwidth
is being throttled, but it might be something affecting other people too.
In the last few days I've noticed sporadically that API calls
time out on Wikimedia Commons and also that sometimes file downloads
from Wikimedia Commons are really slow. Are there any performance
problems going on?
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Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
When one looks for educational / academic content, rich and colorful
interface only distracts the reader.
The following site is not mediawiki / monobook based, yet the visual
design is simple:
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
There is nothing wrong with it.
Chris Lewis wrote:
I hope I am emailing this to the right group. My concern was about mediawiki
and it's limitations, as well as it's outdated methods. As someone wo runs a
wiki, I've gone through a lot of frustrations.
For one thing, I'd say that mediawiki aims for a particular
Marco Schuster wrote:
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 March 2010 15:06, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote:
For a large-scale site, there's going to be a lot of administration
work to be done, so it doesn't matter if the system
David Gerard wrote:
Are you *sure* we can't put a narky message when iPhone users click a
video? Adobe do!
http://twitpic.com/kf361
(assuming it's real - can anyone with an iPhone please check?)
Adobe is the most feared company on the web right now.
Even though Microsoft has
I've been looking at the id structure of dbpedia and wikipedia and
finally found an example where case sensitivity issues really bite.
Cases like this with a redirect are a little obnoxious,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_city
largely because
Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
In this particular one, it's two articles about the
same
topic, but there could be some cases where the two articles are about
something different.
Yes, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROG
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog
I agree that this can be
Erik Moeller wrote:
For multimedia, the licensing committee and the Wikimedia Commons
community are still discussing the best update strategy, but it will
probably involve a bot updating the existing templates. We're also
hoping to run a CentralNotice to explain the process to the
communities
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