In case you haven't noticed, Duesentrieb's category tree extension is live
on all Wikimedia wikis. The subcategory list on category pages is displayed
as a tree by default. You can click "show as list" to show it in the old
display format. This additionally sets a cookie so that further requests
will show a list by default (except pages cached as a tree on the client).
The suggestion has been made to add a user preference in addition to the
cookie mechanism. I think we'll probably wait and see what the demand is for
that.
-- Tim Starling
I'm writing to ask a developer to take a look at a proposal being developed
at English Wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection
There are some long festering basic conflicts in how people use categories
that we think could be solved if a category intersection feature were
implemented. We are aware that this has been discussed quite a bit in the
past, and that code to do category intersections has even been written
(DynamicPageList2).
Rick Block and I have been working on a design and policy proposal for a
MediaWiki category intersection feature that would allow categories to be
defined as the intersection of other categories and would also provide a
simple interface for creating "on the fly" intersections. We think this
would solve may categorization headaches, while also providing a generally
useful new feature. Rick and I are both admins, and software designers who
have been very involved in categorization policy for a couple of
years. We've shown the proposal to select members of the community who
have been very involved with categorization and have gotten a favorable
response.
Before we go any further with this proposal we'd like feedback from
developers. Do you think what we are proposing is feasible? If so, do you
have any suggestions for improving it? If not, what makes it unfeasible,
and do you have any ideas about how to make it feasible? Please reply on
the talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Category_intersection
Thanks very much for your time.
-- Sam
I've been getting a pile of these, from two different threads. Is it
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On 31/08/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> there is a template
> you can use to tell people when wikification is not needed, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikify/wikified_wrongly
> (its for [[WP:WWF]] members, but that doesn't mean you can't use it).
That seems like extra procedure for no good reason. What on earth is
wrong with just removing the {{wikify}} tag when it's not needed? It's
a fairly subjective editorial judgement.
- d.
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Hello,
Some French-language Wikipedians would like to translate the text of the two
images at the bottom of each page: "A Wikimedia project" and "Powered by
MediaWiki". To answer them I would like to know:
* if it is technically possible;
* what people from the Foundation think about it.
Thanks for your answers.
g.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Disciplus Simplex
http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.
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Most developers have specialisations -- some of us hate UI design and love
DB performance optimisation, others don't know any PHP but can speak
HTML/CSS like a second language. This is a problem for writing features for
an open source web app -- the nature of the work is cross-disciplinary, but
the culture encourages individual effort. The result of this is that
developers are placed under pressure to learn a huge skill set, and that can
be a disincentive to participation.
I have an idea for a feature, and I was wondering if anyone might want to
collaborate on it. The idea is to display, in a box in the edit window,
information about who else has the same edit window open. For example, it
could display each username, along with the amount of time they have been
idle and the edit summary they have typed if any. The box will periodically
refresh itself, say once every 10 seconds. At the same time as fetching
updated data, the client sends back information about how long the user has
been idle and so on.
An optional subfeature would be allow the user to remove themselves from the
box voluntarily, e.g. to signal that they have no interest in actually
saving the article and that they are just looking at the source.
There are three different skill sets which are required to make this feature:
Person 1: User interface design
Person 2: Client-side programming
Person 3: Server-side programming
The tasks can be roughly divided as follows:
Person 1: Make a mockup of the user interface by taking the HTML of an edit
page from MediaWiki and adding a box with the required information. Edit the
HTML and the CSS. PHP or JavaScript knowledge is not required, although some
JS knowledge may be desirable to allow them to demonstrate any necessary
show/hide buttons and popups.
Person 2: Write the JavaScript. Monitor the edit window and send the
information I have described to the server. To update the info box, write a
model server response with a text editor, save it as a static file. Have the
JS load the model response and update the box in response. Deliver a
request/response format specification.
Person 3: Write the PHP. Implement the AJAX handler using the specification
from Person 2. Implement an internationalised user interface based on the
mockup delivered by Person 1.
I can probably be Person 3, but I don't think I can handle the other two
tasks as well. Any volunteers? Anyone know anyone who might be interested?
-- Tim Starling
On 03/09/06, greg(a)svn.leuksman.com <greg(a)svn.leuksman.com> wrote:
> Revision: 16352
> Author: greg
> Date: 2006-09-02 18:14:11 -0700 (Sat, 02 Sep 2006)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Make sure LocalSettings.php ends in a newline.
> - $localSettings = "<" . "?php$endl$local$endl?" . ">";
> + $localSettings = "<" . "?php$endl$local$endl?" . ">\r\n";
Shouldn't that be a regular Unix newline character, i.e. "\n"? It
makes no major difference, since the line below it forces a
conversion, but it seems odd to me.
Rob Church
When uploading PDF-Files i get no/empty description page description page.
Uploads are possible. The link to them is working.
Any ideas why?
I use:
* MediaWiki: 1.7.1
* PHP: 5.1.2 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.18
thx, heinzJ