Some anonymous user today made a very interesting proposal on the German
Wp:
You should offer an RSS-Feed!
I had no idea what this was, but it sounded interesting. So I surfed a
bit around and found this German description:
http://derschockwellenreiter.editthispage.com/rss.html
with some links, most of them in English:
http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/directory/techZeuch/rss/index.html
Here's a nice English article which introduces to the concept:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_tech
nology/4203205.htm
I think this is a great idea! We could offer a RecentChanges-Feed, a
NewArticle-Feed, a ArticleNowBiggerThen1500Chars-Feed or whatever. It's
just two hours ago that I read about this thing for the first time, so
I'm still thinking about it ... :-)
What do you think? Is this doable?
Kurt
Since testing of the Dutch localization of the new software has been
going pretty smoothly and a final upgrade was requested, I've gone ahead
and upgraded the Dutch Wikipedia to the phase III Wikipedia software.
There may be some remaining rough spots, please let me know!
The wiki's new home is http://nl.wikipedia.org ; the old UseMod wiki
will remain at http://nl.wikipedia.com for a few days so that anything
that may have accidentally vanished in conversion can be copied over.
Then, the .com address will become an alias to the new .org address. (If
there's a way to make the .com one read-only for the interval, that
might be a good idea.)
A list of pages on the English wiki that include interlanguage links to
the Dutch wiki is at:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dutch_Wikipedia_language_links
volunteers to help go through the list and make sure links to the
English and other wikis are put into the Dutch articles are welcome.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I'm forwarding this to wikitech-l so more knowledgeable people might
comment and help Steven.
----- Forwarded message from "steven l. rubenstein" <rubenste(a)ohiou.edu> -----
From: "steven l. rubenstein" <rubenste(a)ohiou.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:59:38 -0400
To: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Subject: Re: help?
Hi,
For the past three days or so, whenever I try to access my "watchlist," I
get this:
Warning: open(/tmp/sess_f0af9a7ae314037cd076e6d2ae285f73, O_RDWR) failed:
Too many open files in system (23) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/wiki.phtml
on line 7
Warning: Failed opening 'Setup.php' for inclusion
(include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/wiki.phtml on line 12
Fatal error: Undefined class name 'outputpage' in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/wiki.phtml on line 14
Warning: open(/tmp/sess_f0af9a7ae314037cd076e6d2ae285f73, O_RDWR) failed:
Too many open files in system (23) in Unknown on line 0
Warning: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the
current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
Is this a bug in the system, or am I doing something wrong (and remediable)?
Thanks,
Steve
----- End forwarded message -----
I recently noticed that several wiki engines have implemented a simple but
convenient feature, a little JavaScript in the "body" tag of the generated
pages that may look like this:
ondblclick="document.location='http://www.wakkawiki.com/WakkaIntro/edit';"
What this means is that you can edit the page by simply double clicking its
contents. Go to http://www.wakkawiki.com/WakkaIntro to see it in action. I
have tested it in Mozilla and IE, but it probably works in all reasonably
modern JavaScript-implementing browsers. It should be silently ignored if the
browser is JavaScript incapable.
I don't know if this behavior should be made the default, but it would
certainly be nice to have it as an option. What do you think?
Regards,
Erik
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ASCII has perfectly good quotes and apostrophes, and HTML even has entities
for open and close quotes, but some contributors still insert those weird
non-standard , , characters in articles.
Is there someway to automagically convert them into ASCII/HTML equivalents?