I thought this would be of interest here as well. --Dirk
>Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:37:37 +0100
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>,
>Board Wikimedia Foundation <board(a)wikimedia.org>
>From: Dirk Riehle <dirk(a)riehle.org>
>Subject: Technical wiki standards (was: Re: [Foundation-l] Request
>for approval for a wiki for standards
>
>Hi everyone interested in wiki standards:
>
>If you are talking about technical standards (wiki markup,
>interlinking, interchange, etc.):
>
>At WikiSym 2005 (www.wikisym.org) many of the Wiki engine
>implementors met (including Brion Vibber) to tackle the issue of
>standardizing wiki protocols once more. (Attempts have been there
>for ages, but with limited progress.)
>
>Previous attempts were made on a couple of independent sites,
>including Ward's Wiki, Meatball, CommunityWiki. None of these sites
>was really representative of the whole community, so we decided to
>have a new attempt supported by WikiSym and its community, i.e. a
>mailing list
>(http://www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wiki-standards) and
>a wiki (http://wiki.wikisym.org). The mailing list is working, the
>wiki (a MediaWiki installation) has been dormant so far as we are
>gearing up only now. Also, we don't really require that the
>standards writing process takes place on one particular
>wiki---rather we felt it was ok if people do stuff on their own site
>(or consolidate what's already there) and the submit it for
>community review and approval.
>
>To the extent that you are talking about general technical standards
>rather than Wikimedia Foundation site standards, and you would like
>to ensure that wiki engine implementors are included, I would like
>to make the case that a new organization like WikiSym may be a
>better place than a WMF site. (More on that if you are in fact
>talking about technical standards.)
>
>In any case, I invite everyone to look at the WikiSym site. WikiSym
>2006 will take place in Denmark in August and will be co-located
>with ACM Hypertext 2006 and sponsored by ACM SIGWEB. CfP will be out
>real soon now :-)
>
>Dirk
>
>
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>
>At 07.01.2006, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>Hoi,
>>
>>On Meta the request for a Wikistandards wiki has been revived. The
>>request was voiced at a conference of language standards in Berlin (Dec
>>12-13, 2005). A significant number of people from the language standards
>>community have indicated on Meta that they are interested to actively
>>support this effort. See:
>>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikistandards
Hello,
I have fixed [[Special:Disambiguations]] and recached it on all wikis
running from the florida cluster.
You just have to make sure that the template being used to flag
disambiguation pages is correctly set in:
[[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]]
It must be part of the template: namespace ( aka template:<something> ).
cheers,
--
Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hasharhttp://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/
IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080
Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but has anyone done any
analysis of the frequency of posted urls to look into developing a spam
filter? What I'm getting at is this: it is fairly common for a spammer to
post an url (or a bunch of urls) to multiple pages, sometime using proxies,
but in rapid succession. It would be interesting to collect data about how
often legitimate urls are added (via edits) to test the viability of a
filter that only blocks urls after they've been posted several times in the
lasts day (or whatever time period).
Like this: It is pretty unlikely that you would get 5 edits in a day adding
the same url to different pages, but that is a pretty good indication of
spammy behavior.
So, anyone looked at anything like that?
Best Regards,
Aerik
Hi,
I'm trying to determine whether a user named "Robert I" an anon posting from a dynamic IP account whose IP always starts with 81.131 and an anon whose dynamic IP always starts with 213.122 are the same person. I know that Robert I has has used 81.131 IPs. I'm wondering if a developer can check if Robert I has ever logged in from an IP beginnign with 213.122
Thanks,
Homeontherange
Wikipedia-en administrator
I try to directly access the wiki-database to create new pages. I can
create new pages, but the content is missing.
I use mediawiki 1.5.4.
The reason I directly want to use the database is to automate the
following process:
I wrote an extension for a special page in which a form can be filled in
by a user. The form is posted to a php-page in which I want to create a
new page with a nicely formatted table with all the info the user gave
me. Also the script must add a link to that newly created page in the
main page (otherwise it will be an orphan).
The following php-script describes the sql-statements. I performed them
manually in mysql to see what is happening. This is just to give an idea
of what I did manually.
$newtitle = "dive-entry-12";
$text = "this is the text on the new page, but is NOT displayed!";
$sql1 = "insert into text (old_text, old_flags) values ($text, \"utf-8\")";
$sql2 = "select max(old_id) from text"; // returns $page_latest (it is
old_id to be used as page_latest entry in page table)
$page_len = count($text);
$randomnr = rand(1000000)/1000000;
$currenttime= "20060103232541";
$sql3 = "insert into page (page_title, page_latest, page_len,
page_random, page_touched) values ($newtitle, $page_latest, $page_len,
$randomnr, $currenttime) ";
PROBLEM
=======
I can create the new entries in the page and the text tables. Now the
entry in column page_latetest is the same as the entry old_id in text.
So the page should get the correct contents. But I do not. The page is
accessible via mediawiki but it is empty !!
Later I edited the page (using the wiki) and then the wiki adds the
entry old_id=1408 with the new text. The page_latest is NOT altered
(still 1407), but the new text with old_id=1408 is shown.
So the entry in table text I made (with old_id=1407) is not used at all.
It is simply skipped and the content at old_id=1408 is shown although
page_latest=1407!
Editing the page again changes page_latest to 1408 and old_id 1409 !!
QUESTION
========
What mechanism determines which text to show for a given requested page?
or (actually the main question)
How can I make good queries in the dbase to manually make (and alter)
new pages?
Hello,
I'm trying to invalidate an article due to changes applied to a revision
from outside Mediawiki. As per the tables.sql comments, I try to change
the page.page_touched timestamp with something like date("%Y%m%d%H%i%s")
but the page is still rendered as-is. Am I missing something ?
Thanks in advance,
--
Boris Herbinière-Sève
Michael,
Thanks much. It says it right there in the SpecialPage.php code.
For anyone else with this problem, I added the following line at the
top of the execute function of my SpecialPage subclass:
$this->setHeaders(); // you're supposed to call this method of the
super class to set the window title
Thanks again,
John
i am gowri from india.i want help to do digital calculator regarding the basics. please guide me
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Hi,
I know some php, but the class system is not my speciality.
Can someone tell me how I could add some information in the cookie (the
one used in the remember me), and get this information back.
This would especially be usefull for css change, without being logged
(yes, you all know how visitors can be lazy :-))
A tip on this could become a nice tutorial for dummies like me who are
still a bit afraid when playing with the "this->setcookie()" or whatever.
Thanks for your help
François
http://www.fxparlant.net/Main_Page
Howdy,
I am writing Special pages. The example Special page I found, and
consequently my derived Special pages, displays the default page
title at the top of the browser window, e. g. "Mozilla Firefox." The
Special pages that ship with the MediaWiki have meaningful window
titles, e.g. "Long pages - McNeilLab"
What is the proper way to set the Special page window title in
MediaWiki?
For my RTMF, I re-read http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Writing_a_new_special_page
the source to SpecialPage.php, and tried to chase the mechanism in
OutputPage.php. I'm still clueless.
Thanks,
John