How can one link to a
[[:Category:With members, but no text]]
but with no action=edit produced?
> Use {{fullurl}}.
Yes, but the <a>...</a> produced is many times larger than that of an
internal link, a few of these and the bloat adds up.
> Use {{localurl}}.
Yes, but that does not create a link.
> Hack up includes/*.php.
Yes, but let's assume we are just a lowly user.
I think for anything other than casual browsing, using
native clients would be better. Perfect use of the API.
I've been trying to get one for Android into decent
shape.
-Chad
On Feb 19, 2009 6:03 PM, "Brion Vibber" <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 2/19/09 4:14 AM, Angela wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com>...
That depends on how many people have been announcing new mobile
platforms. :)
In this work we're mainly targeting the popular has-a-good-browser
smartphones. These will be able to do decent editing at least for little
bits here and there, and creating a decent interface for doing that --
commenting, typo-fixing, slapping up pictures, maybe taking notes for
later "serious" editing -- would be great.
The first attack surface is a decent read-and-search UI, of course,
since that's going to be the biggest use.
-- brion
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Hoi,
Would this be a model to follow ?
Thanks,
GerardM
Aan u verzonden door GerardM via Google Reader: Norwegian Websites
Declare War on Internet Explorer 6 via Wired Top Stories door Michael
Calore op 19-2-09 Several prominent websites in Norway are refusing to
support the antiquated IE6 browser any longer, and have posted messages
to IE6 users urging them to upgrade. The campaign has caught on, and is
beginning to spread to other countries.
Dingen die u vanaf hier kunt doen:
- Abonneren op Wired Top Stories met Google Reader
- Aan de slag met Google Reader om eenvoudig al uw favoriete sites bij
te houden
$ HEAD -PS http://en.wikipedia.org/
HEAD http://en.wikipedia.org/ --> 403 Forbidden
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:49:14 GMT
Via: 1.0 sq29.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
Server: squid/2.7.STABLE6
Content-Length: 59481
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:49:14 GMT
Client-Peer: 208.80.152.2:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
X-Cache: MISS from sq29.wikimedia.org
X-Cache-Lookup: NONE from sq29.wikimedia.org:80
X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0
Tried from both California and Taiwan.
Though the were very interesting hardware fireworks yesterday, the
actual reason of slowdown was way way more prosaic.
First of all, site didn't crash, it just gradually slowed down. It
took us a while to actually notice the slowdown (at least half an hour
since the problem started).
Second, mostly it wasn't our mediawiki/extensions codebase hitting the
issue. Though of course, there were some extensions that could've
triggered same behavior, the reason was a little bit more complicated
from development perspective (or easier from system administration
perspective).
PHP calls external programs using 'sh -c', which doesn't simply check
current directory by checking getcwd(), but it also gets environment
variable $PWD too.
This is where interesting part begins, Apache does change current
working directory, but doesn't change environment variable, when it is
started.
We regularly start and stop and start and stop our application
servers, and usually that is done while being in ~ (which is on NFS).
What happened then, is that sometimes apache children call external
programs, so some requests end up blocking on NFS. This consumes more
and more of worker processes, until there're none left to serve the
site.
So, in the end, it is a mixture of unexpected behavior, incomplete
behavior, NFS suck, etc.
We didn't have strong push to have HA-NFS simply because our
application does not rely on it too much anymore.
We just didn't know that OS can give us surprises like that ;-)
(and the hardware issues were resolved by flashing service processor /
BIOS / RAID controller with new firmware, or so it seems, maybe even
harder reboot helped - might be that we still have some issues there,
but at least they will be more manageable).
--
Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
More internal NFS troubles -- some of our redundancy was not as complete
as we thought. :(
Sites down for approx 1 hr between 00:50 and 01:50 UTC, February 21.
Right now main sites are back up and working. SSL interface and blog
aggregator and a couple other little things are temporarily offline still.
We're bumping priority on non-NFS protocols for internal file usage. Sigh...
-- brion