Wikitech-l September 2006

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by Dovi Jacobs

This post is to solicit wider community feedback on the Wikisource discussion of an extension for "Labeled section transclusion." The idea is this: a simple method to mark off multiple sections of a wiki page for individual transclusion. A clear description of the feature, the rationale behind it, and discussion of it may be found here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Labeled_section_transclusion (There is also an old bugzilla feature request, but the description and discussion at the wiki page is light-years beyond it.) The reason I am posting this now is because it became clear today that the exact same need was encountered simultaneously in three different Wikisource languages (English, French, and Hebrew), and each in language a different way to hack around the problem has not only been suggested, but even implemented! This seems to strongly suggest a genuine need for an overall solution. (The local solutions should also be evaluated by people with technical know-how.) The wiki-page linked to above also has lengthy discussions of the various local solutions that have been tried, as well as a link to the bug. It would be great to get wider feedback on whether the proposal is feasible, desirable, and how it might best be implemented. (I also strongly suspect that a flexible feature such as this might turn out to be useful in numerous contexts outside of Wikisource as well.) Dovi --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

17 years, 8 months

MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-09-09

by brion＠pobox.com

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test TODO: Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Template with thumb image (with link in description)... FAILED! Running test Template infinite loop... FAILED! Running test TODO: message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED! Running test TODO: message transform: <onlyinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Parsing optional HTML elements (Bug 6171)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting... FAILED! Running test TODO: Mixing markup for italics and bold... FAILED! Running test TODO: 5 quotes, code coverage +1 line... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML Hex character encoding.... FAILED! Running test TODO: dt/dd/dl test... FAILED! Passed 412 of 429 tests (96.04%) FAILED!

17 years, 8 months

Wiki for Project management

by Ron Hall

Howdy Anybody know of a wiki or suitable extensions to media-wiki that would make a good "platform" for project management issues - tracking etc. It does not have to be fully-loaded and simpler (in this case) is better. Thanks for your time. r

17 years, 8 months

Re: [Wikitech-l] draft of WikiCreole 0.1 available for comment

by Chuck Smith

> It looks like your homepage just got overwritten. You might want to apply > clue-by-4 to someone's head and restrict write access a bit more... Or I could wait until someone restores it back to normal. That vandalism apparently lasted 19 minutes. Not bad. Restricting access is very much against the wiki way. Chuck

17 years, 8 months

BC vs BCE era names

by Bill Clark

I've added the ability to specify a preference (or no preference) for era names in dates (BC vs. BCE). I've also fixed a couple bugs in the regular expressions that match for dates, that were preventing the parser from recognizing (and converting) dates that ended in BCE or which were written in ISO format and fell between -999-01-01 and 999-12-31 (i.e. had a one-, two-, or three-digit year). I'm not an actual committer so I'm submitting this as a diff -ru to the mailing list. I'm sure that's the wrong procedure and I'll be scolded for it, but hey I'll learn. I've tested this and it works on my local version (checked out of svn a few hours ago) but I imagine it should be tested more. -Bill Clark ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlie Root <root(a)dell0.ltbx.net> Date: Sep 4, 2006 9:12 PM Subject: To: wclarkxoom(a)gmail.com Only in phase3.new/: LocalSettings.php Only in phase3.new/config: LocalSettings.php diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/includes/DateFormatter.php phase3.new/includes/DateFormatter.php --- phase3/includes/DateFormatter.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:04 2006 +++ phase3.new/includes/DateFormatter.php Mon Sep 4 21:03:26 2006 @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ # Partial regular expressions $this->prxDM = '\[\[(\d{1,2})[ _](' . $this->monthNames . ')]]'; $this->prxMD = '\[\[(' . $this->monthNames . ')[ _](\d{1,2})]]'; - $this->prxY = '\[\[(\d{1,4}([ _]BC|))]]'; - $this->prxISO1 = '\[\[(-?\d{4})]]-\[\[(\d{2})-(\d{2})]]'; - $this->prxISO2 = '\[\[(-?\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})]]'; + $this->prxY = '\[\[(\d{1,4}([ _]BCE?|))]]'; + $this->prxISO1 = '\[\[(-?\d{1,4})]]-\[\[(\d{2})-(\d{2})]]'; + $this->prxISO2 = '\[\[(-?\d{1,4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})]]'; # Real regular expressions $this->regexes[self::DMY] = "/{$this->prxDM} *,? *{$this->prxY}{$this->regexTrail}"; @@ -121,12 +121,13 @@ * @param string $preference User preference * @param string $text Text to reformat */ - function reformat( $preference, $text ) { + function reformat( $preference, $eraPreference, $text ) { if ( isset( $this->preferences[$preference] ) ) { $preference = $this->preferences[$preference]; } else { $preference = self::NONE; } + $this->eraPreference = $eraPreference; for ( $i=1; $i<=self::LAST; $i++ ) { $this->mSource = $i; if ( @$this->rules[$preference][$i] ) { @@ -219,7 +220,13 @@ if ( !isset( $bits['Y'] ) ) { $text .= $this->makeNormalYear( $bits['y'] ); } else { - $text .= $bits['Y']; + if ( $this->eraPreference == 'BCE' ) { + $text .= preg_replace( '/BC$/', 'BCE', $bits['Y']); + } elseif ( $this->eraPreference == 'BC' ) { + $text .= preg_replace( '/BCE$/', 'BC', $bits['Y']); + } else { + $text .= $bits['Y']; + } } break; default: @@ -264,7 +271,11 @@ */ function makeIsoYear( $year ) { # Assumes the year is in a nice format, as enforced by the regex - if ( substr( $year, -2 ) == 'BC' ) { + if ( substr( $year, -3 ) == 'BCE' ) { + $num = intval(substr( $year, 0, -4 )) - 1; + # PHP bug note: sprintf( "%04d", -1 ) fails poorly + $text = sprintf( '-%04d', $num ); + } elseif ( substr( $year, -2 ) == 'BC' ) { $num = intval(substr( $year, 0, -3 )) - 1; # PHP bug note: sprintf( "%04d", -1 ) fails poorly $text = sprintf( '-%04d', $num ); @@ -280,7 +291,11 @@ */ function makeNormalYear( $iso ) { if ( $iso{0} == '-' ) { - $text = (intval( substr( $iso, 1 ) ) + 1) . ' BC'; + if ( $this->eraPreference == 'BCE' ) { + $text = (intval( substr( $iso, 1 ) ) + 1) . ' BCE'; + } else { + $text = (intval( substr( $iso, 1 ) ) + 1) . ' BC'; + } } else { $text = intval( $iso ); } diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/includes/Parser.php phase3.new/includes/Parser.php --- phase3/includes/Parser.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:04 2006 +++ phase3.new/includes/Parser.php Mon Sep 4 20:28:24 2006 @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ $text = $this->doHeadings( $text ); if($this->mOptions->getUseDynamicDates()) { $df =& DateFormatter::getInstance(); - $text = $df->reformat( $this->mOptions->getDateFormat(), $text ); + $text = $df->reformat( $this->mOptions->getDateFormat(), $this->mOptions->getEraFormat(), $text ); } $text = $this->doAllQuotes( $text ); $text = $this->replaceInternalLinks( $text ); @@ -4613,6 +4613,13 @@ $this->mDateFormat = $this->mUser->getDatePreference(); } return $this->mDateFormat; + } + + function getEraFormat() { + if ( !isset( $this->mEraFormat ) ) { + $this->mEraFormat = $this->mUser->getEraPreference(); + } + return $this->mEraFormat; } function setUseTeX( $x ) { return wfSetVar( $this->mUseTeX, $x ); } diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/includes/SpecialPreferences.php phase3.new/includes/SpecialPreferences.php --- phase3/includes/SpecialPreferences.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:05 2006 +++ phase3.new/includes/SpecialPreferences.php Mon Sep 4 20:14:50 2006 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ */ class PreferencesForm { var $mQuickbar, $mOldpass, $mNewpass, $mRetypePass, $mStubs; - var $mRows, $mCols, $mSkin, $mMath, $mDate, $mUserEmail, $mEmailFlag, $mNick; + var $mRows, $mCols, $mSkin, $mMath, $mDate, $mEra, $mUserEmail, $mEmailFlag, $mNick; var $mUserLanguage, $mUserVariant; var $mSearch, $mRecent, $mHourDiff, $mSearchLines, $mSearchChars, $mAction; var $mReset, $mPosted, $mToggles, $mSearchNs, $mRealName, $mImageSize; @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ $this->mSkin = $request->getVal( 'wpSkin' ); $this->mMath = $request->getVal( 'wpMath' ); $this->mDate = $request->getVal( 'wpDate' ); + $this->mEra = $request->getVal( 'wpEra' ); $this->mUserEmail = $request->getVal( 'wpUserEmail' ); $this->mRealName = $wgAllowRealName ? $request->getVal( 'wpRealName' ) : ''; $this->mEmailFlag = $request->getCheck( 'wpEmailFlag' ) ? 0 : 1; @@ -169,6 +170,21 @@ } /** + * @access private + */ + function validateEra( $val ) { + global $wgLang, $wgContLang; + if ( $val !== false && ( + in_array( $val, (array)$wgLang->getEraPreferences() ) || + in_array( $val, (array)$wgContLang->getEraPreferences() ) ) ) + { + return $val; + } else { + return $wgLang->getDefaultEraFormat(); + } + } + + /** * Used to validate the user inputed timezone before saving it as * 'timeciorrection', will return '00:00' if fed bogus data. * Note: It's not a 100% correct implementation timezone-wise, it will @@ -263,6 +279,7 @@ $wgUser->setOption( 'math', $this->mMath ); } $wgUser->setOption( 'date', $this->validateDate( $this->mDate ) ); + $wgUser->setOption( 'era', $this->validateEra( $this->mEra ) ); $wgUser->setOption( 'searchlimit', $this->validateIntOrNull( $this->mSearch ) ); $wgUser->setOption( 'contextlines', $this->validateIntOrNull( $this->mSearchLines ) ); $wgUser->setOption( 'contextchars', $this->validateIntOrNull( $this->mSearchChars ) ); @@ -362,6 +379,7 @@ $this->mSkin = Skin::normalizeKey( $wgUser->getOption( 'skin' ) ); $this->mMath = $wgUser->getOption( 'math' ); $this->mDate = $wgUser->getDatePreference(); + $this->mEra = $wgUser->getEraPreference(); $this->mRows = $wgUser->getOption( 'rows' ); $this->mCols = $wgUser->getOption( 'cols' ); $this->mStubs = $wgUser->getOption( 'stubthreshold' ); @@ -476,6 +494,7 @@ $skinNames = $wgLang->getSkinNames(); $mathopts = $wgLang->getMathNames(); $dateopts = $wgLang->getDatePreferences(); + $eraopts = $wgLang->getEraPreferences(); $togs = User::getToggles(); $titleObj = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Preferences' ); @@ -805,6 +824,19 @@ $wgOut->addHTML( "</fieldset>\n" ); } + if ($eraopts) { + $wgOut->addHTML( "<fieldset>\n<legend>" . wfMsg( 'eraformat' ) . "</legend>\n" ); + $idCnt = 0; + foreach( $eraopts as $key ) { + $formatted = wfMsgHtml( 'era'.$key ); + ($key == $this->mEra) ? $checked = ' checked="checked"' : $checked = ''; + $wgOut->addHTML( "<div><input type='radio' name=\"wpEra\" id=\"wpEra$idCnt\" ". + "value=\"$key\"$checked /> <label for=\"wpEra$idCnt\">$formatted</label></div>\n" ); + $idCnt++; + } + $wgOut->addHTML( "</fieldset>\n" ); + } + $nowlocal = $wgLang->time( $now = wfTimestampNow(), true ); $nowserver = $wgLang->time( $now, false ); @@ -820,6 +852,7 @@ </td></tr></table></fieldset> <div class='prefsectiontip'>¹" . wfMsg( 'timezonetext' ) . "</div> </fieldset>\n\n" ); + # Editing # diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/includes/User.php phase3.new/includes/User.php --- phase3/includes/User.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:04 2006 +++ phase3.new/includes/User.php Mon Sep 4 20:13:47 2006 @@ -1174,6 +1174,18 @@ } /** + * Get the user's era names preference. + */ + function getEraPreference() { + if ( is_null( $this->mEraPreference ) ) { + global $wgLang; + $value = $this->getOption( 'era' ); + $this->mEraPreference = $value; + } + return $this->mEraPreference; + } + + /** * @param string $oname The option to check * @return bool False if the option is not selected, true if it is */ diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/languages/Language.php phase3.new/languages/Language.php --- phase3/languages/Language.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:24 2006 +++ phase3.new/languages/Language.php Mon Sep 4 20:01:35 2006 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ 'separatorTransformTable', 'fallback8bitEncoding', 'linkPrefixExtension', 'defaultUserOptionOverrides', 'linkTrail', 'namespaceAliases', 'dateFormats', 'datePreferences', 'datePreferenceMigrationMap', - 'defaultDateFormat', 'extraUserToggles' ); + 'defaultDateFormat', 'eraPreferences', 'extraUserToggles' ); static public $mMergeableMapKeys = array( 'messages', 'namespaceNames', 'mathNames', 'dateFormats', 'defaultUserOptionOverrides', 'magicWords' ); @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ function getDatePreferences() { $this->load(); return $this->datePreferences; + } + + function getEraPreferences() { + $this->load(); + return $this->eraPreferences; } function getDateFormats() { diff -ru --exclude=.svn phase3/languages/MessagesEn.php phase3.new/languages/MessagesEn.php --- phase3/languages/MessagesEn.php Mon Sep 4 21:07:24 2006 +++ phase3.new/languages/MessagesEn.php Mon Sep 4 21:05:23 2006 @@ -179,6 +179,17 @@ 'ISO 8601 both' => 'xnY-xnm-xnd"T"xnH:xni:xns', ); +/** + * A list of era naming preference keys which can be selected in user + * preferences. + * + */ +$eraPreferences = array( + 'default', + 'BC', + 'BCE', +); + $bookstoreList = array( 'AddALL' => 'http://www.addall.com/New/Partner.cgi?query=$1&type=ISBN', 'PriceSCAN' => 'http://www.pricescan.com/books/bookDetail.asp?isbn=$1', @@ -1007,6 +1018,10 @@ 'dateformat' => 'Date format', 'datedefault' => 'No preference', 'datetime' => 'Date and time', +'eraformat' => 'Era Names', +'eradefault' => 'No Preference', +'eraBC' => 'AD/BC', +'eraBCE' => 'CE/BCE', 'math_failure' => 'Failed to parse', 'math_unknown_error' => 'unknown error', 'math_unknown_function' => 'unknown function',

17 years, 8 months

customizing wiki search

by Liz Kim

Hi, We have a wiki directory site which is a simple table with names, phone numbers. ect.. I was thinking about creating a search script to do a look up, go through this file and find by anything in the content. I can think of two ways to approach this.. 1. Somehow customize the search to ONLY search within the page for this directory page. 2. Write a script that goes into the database to do a search.. Any inputs/suggestions? Thank you

17 years, 8 months

MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-09-08

by brion＠pobox.com

17 years, 8 months

Using dvipng in texvc

by Jan-Åke Larsson

I have taken a look at render.ml and have written a patch that will enable the use of the PNG-rendering program dvipng. This would reduce load on the server, and also enable full-alpha transparency (but I havent included that yet, IE has problems with full-alpha PNGs). There is already a patch somewhere, but in this attempt I have tried to make sure that the old dvips->convert renderer is used in the case dvipng fails (or indeed, is not present on the system). Unfortunately I do not have a server to test it on. Does anyone want to try it? The patch is small, so I suppose there is no real harm in including it here. /Jan-Åke Index: render.ml =================================================================== --- render.ml (revision 16007) +++ render.ml (working copy) @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ let cmd_latex tmpprefix = "latex " ^ tmpprefix ^ ".tex >/dev/null" (* Putting -transparent white in converts arguments will sort-of give you transperancy *) let cmd_convert tmpprefix finalpath = "convert -quality 100 -density 120 " ^ tmpprefix ^ ".ps " ^ finalpath ^ " >/dev/null 2>/dev/null" +(* Putting -bg Transparent in dvipng's arguments will give full-alpha transparency *) +(* Note that IE have problems with such PNGs and need an additional javascript snippet *) +(* Putting -bg transparent in dvipng's arguments will give binary transparency *) +let cmd_dvipng tmpprefix finalpath = "dvipng -gamma 1.5 -D 120 -T tight --strict " ^ tmpprefix ^ ".dvi -o " ^ finalpath ^ " >/dev/null 2>/dev/null" exception ExternalCommandFailure of string @@ -25,9 +29,11 @@ close_out f; if Util.run_in_other_directory tmppath (cmd_latex tmpprefix0) != 0 then (unlink_all (); raise (ExternalCommandFailure "latex")) - else if (Sys.command (cmd_dvips tmpprefix) != 0) + else if (Sys.command (cmd_dvipng tmpprefix (finalpath^"/"^md5^".png")) != 0) + then (if (Sys.command (cmd_dvips tmpprefix) != 0) then (unlink_all (); raise (ExternalCommandFailure "dvips")) else if (Sys.command (cmd_convert tmpprefix (finalpath^"/"^md5^".png")) != 0) then (unlink_all (); raise (ExternalCommandFailure "convert")) + else unlink_all ()) else unlink_all () end

17 years, 8 months

SVN: [16269] trunk/phase3/includes/SpecialDisambiguations.php

by Raimond Spekking

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >Revision: 16269 >Author: yurik >Date: 2006-08-29 09:51:11 -0700 (Tue, 29 Aug 2006) >Log Message: >----------- >* Ordered the query results by disambiguation page title Is this change activated/implemented on the WikiMedia projects? The last update on dewiki (http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Disambiguations&limit=100… - - The following data is cached, and was last updated 06:58, 6 September 2006.) shows an unsorted list. BTW: extract of the actual list: 998. Death in Venice (Edit) -> Apollo 999. (Edit) -> Amerika 1000. Koufax (Edit) -> Amerika What is line 999? I miss an article... Raymond. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/xYwp+qUcbEr56YRAhbZAJ9Enc17LGc37jv42Dcl8ATqt82wnQCgtC67 skyj4prM4yVPmHeEWzhZoew= =txc4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 8 months

directly write to database

by Liz Kim

Hello, I have over 200 .html files that need to be turned into wiki. These are all very simple text html files with maybe <b> tags and <p>.. very simple. Instead of copying and pasting all these files one by one, is there a way to access the database to write to it directly? Is there a way to easily understand the db strucutre? I am thinking there could be a script that can read the html code and i can easily parse out what I want to put into teh edit window of wiki.. Thank you, Liz

17 years, 8 months

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