Dear List Members,
Is there a definition (in human language) of the fields of the SQL
dumps at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki ?
For example in the file page.sql.gz what is the definition of the
following fields: counter, is_new, random, touched, latest,
no_title_convert ?
Sorry if I'm sending this question to the wrong list. If this is the
case, then could you please suggest a list where I should send this
question ?
Thanks.
> From: Iv Ray <pobox(a)verysmall.org>
>
> Jan Steinman schrieb:
>>
>> Good designs for anarchy and consensus tend to
>> make poor designs for hierarchy and control.
>
> ... thanks God, there are people in MediaWiki, who think about good
> design...
I see you missed my point completely.
My objection was strictly to your categorization of "good design" as
"designed the way I think it should be done." Design serves a purpose.
It does not necessarily serve *your* purpose. In fact, a good design
for one purpose may well be a completely poor design for another
purpose. That's why hammers aren't used for driving screws.
:::: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look
at change. -- Wayne Dyer.
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AO08-18>
> From: Iv Ray <pobox(a)verysmall.org>
>
> Right, there are many reason for a good software design, and a good
> design will make implementing permissions (and other features) easier.
This may raise some hackles.
Although there is always room for improvement, it can be argued that
MediaWiki *is* a good design for what it was designed for!
It's just that limiting visibility was not and is not important to the
designers. One should not design for things that are not specified nor
desired. That would be a bad design! :-)
Gotta go now and put a sail on my Porche. I just can't believe those
arrogant German engineers, making it so hard to attach a sail to their
car! Must be poor design...
I agree with several here who said that two or more wikis is the way
to go. When the page gets mature enough to share, a simple export/
import script can make these perfected words of wisdom available to
the unwashed masses. Good designs for anarchy and consensus tend to
make poor designs for hierarchy and control.
:::: Political language -- and with variations this is true of all
political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to
make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- George Orwell ::::
:::: Jan Steinman http://www.EcoReality.org ::::
Hi all,
I used the mediawiki API to display the revisions about a protein (5-Methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine_methyltransferase)
As you can see here
http://bit.ly/5omL (via wikipedia)
or here
http://tinyurl.com/5gpb3n (via the API)
the xml attribute 'size' was not used before the revision @id=133637806 .
Could you explain me why ? Is there a way to obtain this information using the API ?
Many thanks in advance
Pierre Lindenbaum
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Hi,
Is there a set of URL parameters sent in a GET request to MediaWiki
that will return ONLY the wikitext of a page as the response.
Basically, I'm looking for something like the 'view source' page, but
that just returns the wikitext from the textbox, not including the
surrounding HTML.
Thank you,
Garth
Hi, I'm a citizen of Republic of Moldova and I want to inform you
that in our country everyone is writing Moldovan language with latin
letters.
When we were under soviet union occupation, they tryed to russificate us
and forced to have our language written with cyrilic.
In 1991, after getting the freedom to choose, we choose our language to be
written with latin letters, as we did before russians conquest us (without
ask the people) and divided from Romania (our mother land).
Thereby, as a free moldovan speaking man, I'm asking you to remove
mo.wikipedia.org (witch is in cyrillic and is very offensive for us) and
respect our choice as a independent nation or to make it with latin letters.
Thank you.
I posted this to the forum and I thought I'd try here too.
I moved my existing install to a new server and in the process I
upgraded to the latest version.
Both before the upgrade and after I am getting a new path and a 404
http://www.tradwiki.com
Not Found
The requested document was not found on this server.
Web Server at tradwiki.com
The URL in the address field of the browser changes to
http://www.tradwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
but my real path should be http://www.tradwiki.com/w/Main_Page
Anyone know what might have happened and what to do to resolve it?
Thanks
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Jason
Could someone explain how to fix this error? I'm starting to see this on
my mediawiki site. As an example :
From http://asianmediawiki.com/SP is you click on any of the cast
member pages it produces this error message:
Database error
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in
the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "Parser::replaceLinkHolders". MySQL returned error
"1271: Illegal mix of collations for operation ' IN '
(asianmediawiki1.asianmediawiki.dreamhosters.com)".
Except for person "Taro Omiya".
Anybody could provide clues on this problems? Thanks