Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:24 AM, dan nessett wrote: > Mediawiki powers an awful lot of wikis, some used by businesses that cannot > afford instability in its operation. It is in their interest to ensure it > remains maintainable. So, they might be willing to provide some funding. In > addition I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread dan nessett
the vast majority of them). Anyway, its only an idea. I think the biggest impediment is it requires someone with both a commitment to it and significant juice to spearhead it. That is probably why it wouldn't work. --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > From: Aryeh Gregor > Subject

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM, dan nessett wrote: > Hm. Sounds like an opportunity. How about Mediawiki issuing a grand > challenge. Create a well-documented/structured (open source) parser that > produces the same results as the current parser on 98% of Wikipedia pages. > The prize is braggin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread dan nessett
Hm. Sounds like an opportunity. How about Mediawiki issuing a grand challenge. Create a well-documented/structured (open source) parser that produces the same results as the current parser on 98% of Wikipedia pages. The prize is bragging rights and a letter of commendation from someone or other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM, dan nessett wrote: > Thanks. From your response I'm not sure if these tests are "supposed" to fail > (there are test suites that have tests like that) or they are supposed to > succeed but there are bugs in the parser or other code that cause them to > fail. Can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread dan nessett
h Gregor wrote: > From: Aryeh Gregor > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about > parserTests > To: "Wikimedia developers" > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 3:40 PM > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, dan > nessett > wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, dan nessett wrote: > Can anyone tell me which of the parser tests are supposed to fail? Also, is > there a trunk version for which only these tests fail? These are the perpetual failures: 13 still FAILING test(s) :( * Table security: embedded pipes (http:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-14 Thread dan nessett
Can anyone tell me which of the parser tests are supposed to fail? Also, is there a trunk version for which only these tests fail? --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > From: Aryeh Gregor > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about > parserT

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, dan nessett wrote: > I don't want to irritate people by asking inappropriate questions on this > list. So please direct me to the right list if this is the wrong one for this > question. > > I ran parserTests and 45 tests failed. The result was: > > Passed 559 of

[Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about parserTests

2009-07-10 Thread dan nessett
I don't want to irritate people by asking inappropriate questions on this list. So please direct me to the right list if this is the wrong one for this question. I ran parserTests and 45 tests failed. The result was: Passed 559 of 604 tests (92.55%)... 45 tests failed! I expect this indicates