Hello,
I'm the co-author of the WWW::Wikipedia Perl module (
https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Wikipedia). It programmatically parses the
raw source of a Wikipedia page.
Of late, a few changes in behaviour have been reported to me -- all related
to the "language" functionality.
As it turns out a number of pages are no longer returning the language
links in the raw source code like they used to. The canonical test for us
was to load "Russia" in English, then grab the Russian link. As you can
see, the page for "Russia" no longer has those links (which can normally be
seen down the left-hand side of the real page):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russia&action=raw
A shorter example is the page for "Rotation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotation&action=raw
I did find that some pages still have language links. See this one for
"Babushka"
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babushka&action=raw
Has there been some change that no longer outputs those links in some
instances, or is this an actual bug?
I apologize that this wasn't sent to some official bug tracker, but I
couldn't find that info off-hand from the Wikipedia site.
Thanks in advance,
--
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Ori Livneh
Hey,
as you remembered, we were asking about EasyRDF in order to use it in
Wikidata.
We have now cut off the pieces that we do not need, in order to simplify
the review. Most of the "interesting parts" of EasyRDF regarding security
issues -- parsing, serving, etc. -- has been removed.
Our code is here. We would invite comments and reviews.
<https://github.com/Wikidata/easyrdf_lite>
Cheers,
Denny
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Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that the mobile department has two new staff
members. Yuri Astrakhan & Adam Baso join as sr. software developers on
the mobile partner team. In this role Yuri and Adam will support
projects like Wikipedia Zero, SMS/USSD, and J2ME to further the reach
of our projects in geographic areas that have both financial and
technical impediments to access Wikipedia. They will be working
closely with Kul and Dan from the global development group.
Yuri has been heavily involved in Wikipedia-related projects 2005-2007
developing the API framework and querying subsystem, contributing to
pywikibot code, and making millions of changes as yurikbot, while at
the same time working as a software consultant for several large
banks. In 2008 Yuri joined a small hedge-fund to lead the development
of an automated trading platform. While there, Yuri continued various
open source projects such as time-series database (timeseriesdb).
After over five years, Yuri has rejoined the MediaWiki community and
will be working for us from New York.
Adam spent the past seven years working in the field of information
security, specializing in application security, identity management,
and encryption in the retail, government, and banking sectors. Adam
led the OWASP Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter for a couple of years,
and proudly organized the OWASP AppSec USA 2011 conference. Adam and
his wife are relocating to San Francisco from Minneapolis-Saint Paul,
and they look forward to the opportunity to live in such a thriving
software-friendly community.
The mobile group is excited and proud to welcome both Yuri & Adam as
sr. engineers to the partner team.
This completes the team and allows them to work aggressively to reach
our 4 billion page target through outreach projects like Wikipedia
Zero.
Please join me in welcoming Yuri and Adam to the Wikimedia Foundation!
--tomasz
Hi,
I don't know if there is a bugreport on this, forgive me if I duplicate.
Hungarian Wikipedia began to use Scribunto in the first batch, and we also
use Flagged Revisions.
This is a page:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abe_Sinz%C3%B3&action=history
where the editors were all trusted and/or bots, but the page had to be
explicitliy checked. The behaviour is just like when a template is modified
by untrusted user, and we have to check the articles where it is included.
But in this case it is not the template but a module.
All these pages
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Mi_hivatkozik_erre/Modul:Nyelvt…
have the same problem.
On the other side, the history of the involved module:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Nyelvtani_modul shows that it was only
edited by an admin and should be autochecked (or reviewed or patrollod or
anything because I always mix these words in English but uselang=en shows
checked).
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Bináris
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