History pages do not (obviously) refer to searching in old versions of
article. There is certainly a way to retrieve article versions one by
one, and one could (theoretically) do that in batch mode and search in
them locally. And that would be suboptimal wrt both user bandwidth
and wikipedia server load. Is there a way to search in old versions
of article?
For instance, one knows that there was a version of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_future> that contained a
reference to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall>, "twin pines" phrase,
"destroyed" word. The date of the version is unknown. How does one
find that version starting from
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future&action=history>?
Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Matthew Trump said:
>> Following the advice of the developers, community vote was set up. It
>> was open for two weeks and had spirited debate about the use of
>> "nofollow". The result of the vote was
>> Remove "nofollow" -- 61% (85 votes)
>> Keep "nofollow" -- 39% (55 votes)
> This is not a consensus. There is no need to take any action.
Not quite. Adding "nofollow" was a unilateral decision, not a consensus
one. The vote to ratify it or not sprang up *immediately*.
The consensus would be required to *keep* this radical change - not
to put things back how they were before it.
- d.
First, let me say i hope this is the right list!
well.. I forgot my password for sysop so I created a new md5 based off
a new password and entered the md5 value into user_password in the
user table on the wiki mysql database, but attempting to login still
yeilds invalid password.. anybody have any thoughts on how to enter a
new md5 and have it work? did i miss some sort of has / calculation
done to the initial plaintext password?
Many thanks!
-Export
The normal [[image:Whatever.jpeg]] still work but not
http://www.someserver.tld/foto.jpeg
You get a url and not the picture.
It seems to be so since yesterday.
For normal use of Wikipedia that is no problem. But there is one special use of
this form that now does not work anymore.
Since 27th of october 2002 we have on the Dutch Wikipedia a Nedstat counter.
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=1940085
So now we have stats form the early days of the Dutch Wikipedia, befor
wikimedia has its one internal stats and the are also live. Also the other
Dutch projects use this system.
Because you can not use real html on the wiki pages the counter is a external
image that is loaded.
http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/n?id=AB2adQNZADwCBJkmGvXB60CHw0rg.gif
... and this does not work now anymore.
I whould like a solution. Is there some option so you can put the external
images again on or to include a html image tag?
Walter
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From: daniwo59(a)aol.com
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:13:33 EST
To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] a message i am forwarding from project gutenberg
I am forwarding this message I received from Project Gutenberg
Hello Danny,
could you please forward this and introduce me to the right people? Thanks.
What I want to do is to set up a hierarchy of cache servers for Project
Gutenberg. I know you are doing this on Wikipedia. I want to do
something very similar: set up some squid servers around the world and
take some load off the main Gutenberg site at _ibiblio.org_
(http://ibiblio.org/) .
Before reinventing the wheel I'd like to take a look at your squid
configuration files and maybe have a little chat with one of your system
admins.
I look forward to hearing from you
--
Marcello Perathoner
_webmaster(a)gutenberg.org_ (mailto:webmaster@gutenberg.org)
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"Pianosa is een Italie" - first words of 50,000th article on nl.wikipedia.org
Hi. It seems that the [[commons:Name_of_page_on_commons]] interwiki does
not work on fr.wikinews.
On the same topic, why doesn't a [[w:Article]] send directly back to
fr.wikipedia rather than English Wikipedia ? This would be very very handy.
And I have probably missed other links that don't work. I have noticed
on en.wikinews that every link of the form Wikipedia name space
[[Wikipedia:Foo]] sends back directly to Wikipedia, that does not work
on fr. Link should be of the form :[[Wikipédia:Foo]] btw.
Thanx,
Delphine
In looking through the MediaWiki schema (both current and new), I've
noticed that page titles are given a max length of 255 chars. However,
it seems that in some cases, this title includes the namespace, and in
others it does not -- namespace is stored as an Int or is implied by
context (eg, categorylinks, imagelinks).
This sounds a warning klaxon in my head. Is my concern misplaced?
Would it make sense to always use the namespace (as an int) plus title
(without namespace) to reference a page (again, unless implied by
context)?
Rich Holton
en.wikipedia:User:Rholton
Hi, I've noticed that even though I will log out of my account on a
recently-installed Wikimedia 1.3.11, it will keep me logged in in at
least the main page.
Seems to be same for both IE6 and FireFox 1, so I thought it could be a
cookie problem. Then I found what I believe is the issue in Bug 63, here:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63
The bug is marked fixed, but the last post merely says it was fixed in
the CVS ("... set cookie with logged in and log out timestamp, then
check them when checking If-Modified-Since.").
I was just wondering if someone who is using CVS could fill me in on the
code modified, or give me some pointers for how to do it myself. Thank you!
