On 8/31/09 1:12 PM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Platonides wrote:
>> You get a request for page Foo:Bar. It could be a page name, or Foo
>> could mean Special in Bantu. How do you check (efficiently) over 300
>> languages?
>
> With array_key_exists(), surely? It's (AFAIK) a (nearly) constant-time
> ha
Platonides wrote:
> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> Tangentially, is there any actual reason we couldn't allow any
>> language's alias (e.g., for special page names or namespaces) to work
>> in any other language? We'd have to make sure we have a moderately
>> sane way of resolving conflicts, but those sho
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Platonides wrote:
> They still are a lot of languages?
Why is that a problem, exactly?
> There might be ugly cases of or other tag extensions inside [[
> getting a different behavior.
is handled before links are, so it will behave the same as now.
Actually, d
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Platonides wrote:
>> Special page names are better in the sense that you know what it is
>> offhand, but i'm not sure if such search is still acceptable.
>
> Why not? I can't think of any problems.
They still are a lot of languages?
>> I d
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Platonides wrote:
> Special page names are better in the sense that you know what it is
> offhand, but i'm not sure if such search is still acceptable.
Why not? I can't think of any problems.
> I don't think it'd get too much support.
Maybe, but substantive obje
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Platonides wrote:
>> You get a request for page Foo:Bar. It could be a page name, or Foo
>> could mean Special in Bantu. How do you check (efficiently) over 300
>> languages?
>
> Ouch. Okay, that's out for namespaces. It should work fine for
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Platonides wrote:
> You get a request for page Foo:Bar. It could be a page name, or Foo
> could mean Special in Bantu. How do you check (efficiently) over 300
> languages?
Ouch. Okay, that's out for namespaces. It should work fine for
special page names, though,
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> Tangentially, is there any actual reason we couldn't allow any
> language's alias (e.g., for special page names or namespaces) to work
> in any other language? We'd have to make sure we have a moderately
> sane way of resolving conflicts, but those should be extremely
> uncom
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Marcus Buck wrote:
> But that would be inconsistent with us localising special page names
> which too appear in URLs only.
Special page names also appear in the title of the page when you view
it, which is a very visible location. And on Special:AllPages, and
prob
On 8/30/09 8:08 PM, Happy-melon wrote:
> "Marcus Buck" wrote in message
> news:4a9aee20.7000...@marcusbuck.org...
>> But that would be inconsistent with us localising special page names
>> which too appear in URLs only. So in my opinion they should be localized.
>
> Not true: special page names ar
"Marcus Buck" wrote in message
news:4a9aee20.7000...@marcusbuck.org...
> But that would be inconsistent with us localising special page names
> which too appear in URLs only. So in my opinion they should be localized.
Not true: special page names are localised in the JS variables (wgPageName,
f
Aryeh Gregor hett schreven:
> The parameter in the URL currently must be an exact match for the name
> of the group. Group names are normally short, lowercase, ASCII,
> alphabetic English names that are consistent across wikis. You can
> think of them like numbers, as if the URL were
> /w/index.p
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Helder Geovane Gomes de
Lima wrote:
> Does anybody knows why the link
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/autoreviewer
> makes the target page to have the box on the right filled with
> "Autoreviewers" and shows only the users in that group, while using
Hello!
Does anybody knows why the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/autoreviewer
makes the target page to have the box on the right filled with
"Autoreviewers" and shows only the users in that group, while using a
translated name at pt.wikipedia, like
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki
2009/8/30 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima :
> Hello!
>
> Does anybody knows why the link
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/autoreviewer
> makes the target page to have the box on the right filled with
> "Autoreviewers" and shows only the users in that group, while using a
> translated n
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