Kevin Heneveld wrote on March 17:
First, on the Main_Page we have the "Selected
Anniversaries" and "Did
You Know" blocks. At the bottom of each is the "More..." link.
However, the link is getting incorrectly displayed and is instead
diplaying as:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_anniversaries/March"
class='external' title="">More
selected anniversaries...
That sounds odd... Have a look at [[MediaWiki:March 17 selected
anniversaries]] or equivalent; does the link work in there, or is it
just on the main page?
Also, exactly which version of MediaWiki are you using?
Also, we are having problems when clicking links to
pages that include
apostrophies (ie "Boyle's Law"). We get "Bad Title" errors.
Check your PHP configuration; weird things can happen with apostrophes
if "magic_quotes_gpc" is on. (This is a misguided "feature" of PHP to
"help" developers by semi-randomly putting slashes in front of
characters _just in case_ you want to blindly insert data into SQL and
_never ever_ do anything else with input.) We try to work around it but
may miss some spots.
If you can disable this option in php.ini and restart the web server,
hopefully that'll clear it up.
Docs:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc
I've modified the source code for texvc to create
transparent
backgrounds on the TeX math equations. This works, but the
antialiasing occasionally leaves undesireable (grey) artifacts along
the edges. Does anyone have a better hack for texvc that will allow
better transparency or alpha-transparent .PNGs?
If anyone does, we'd love to have it too...
Finally, I know there is no image dump on the
downloads page yet, but
is there a place I can perhaps "curl" or "rsync" the images from? If
not, when might there be an image dump?
Sorry, an official image dump has been held up by the rampant practice
of uploading copyrighted images without permission or a clear
demarcation of what is really considerable as "fair use" vs what's just
plunked in without thought.
You should be able to spider the /upload directory with curl or wget if
you really need to.
-- brion @
pobox.com)