On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:56:50 -0700, Krinkle wrote:
Although for a different use case, I find myself facing a related
problem with my bot on Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Auto-protected_files/wikipedia/zh
Those pages get updated periodically whenever a commons image sta
Although for a different use case, I find myself facing a related problem with
my bot on Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Auto-protected_files/wikipedia/zh
Those pages get updated periodically whenever a commons image starts or ends
being used on a Main Page.
Aside from the f
Petr Bena wrote:
> There is a number of services running on our wikis, such as english
> wikipedia which are for example generating some information and
> frequently update certain page with these data, (statistics etc). That
> makes tons of revisions that will be never needed in future and which
>
>>> It's probably one of the most straight-forward to make extensions I've
>>> heard of as well.
>>
>> If you go for a special page based design, then yes, this is simple. If you
>> want to have it properly integrated with MediaWiki, it's rather less
>> trivial.
>
>It's not really that simple, the
It's not really that simple, the page should be accessible via API
just as any other page, should be useable as any other page, etc.
(include able using {{NoHistory:PageName}}). If we used the conception
of Special page, it wouldn't work like this
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Jeroen De Dauw w
Hey,
> It's probably one of the most straight-forward to make extensions I've
heard of as well.
If you go for a special page based design, then yes, this is simple. If you
want to have it properly integrated with MediaWiki, it's rather less
trivial.
> these pages could live in a special namespac
I don't mean to break the current design, rather to implement a new
feature, these pages could live in a special namespace like
[[NoHistory:PageName]] and it would be forbidden to move pages from /
to this space so that existing articles with history could not be
damaged in any way.
Since it would
I> might be wrong, but I believe there's a legal implication to doing
>something like this (at least on WMF wikis) since it's removing attribution
>to various people who "contributed" to the article, even if it's not in the
>traditional sense. Also it kind of violates the basic design of MediaWiki
I might be wrong, but I believe there's a legal implication to doing
something like this (at least on WMF wikis) since it's removing attribution
to various people who "contributed" to the article, even if it's not in the
traditional sense. Also it kind of violates the basic design of MediaWiki
itse
Hi,
There is a number of services running on our wikis, such as english
wikipedia which are for example generating some information and
frequently update certain page with these data, (statistics etc). That
makes tons of revisions that will be never needed in future and which
will be in database w
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