Dear WikiMedia-l,
The idea is to create a knowledge network like Freemind or TheBrain's PersonalBrain, but on WikiMedia.
All the bits and pieces are available: Link autocomplete from VisualEditor for rapid link creation, the DynamicPageList extension to include backlinks (which thoughts point to this thought?).
All but one:
To have effective thought creation and linking, I need pages to be created, and linkable by autocomplete, the second they are first linked to by any single page.
How would you do this? Is there a way to put placeholder text in a new page automatically, as a link to it is created for the first time in any other page in the wiki?
Thanks.
Javier
fyi
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Subject: Meetup: Lua meets Wikipedia
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:14:38 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, there is a meetup tomorrow Thursday in San Francisco + video streaming:
Lua meets Wikipedia
http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/106078042/
The talks will start at about 6pm Pacific - 1:00 AM UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130315T0100
Video will be streamed and stored at YouTube. The URLs will be available
at the meetup page as soon as we have them.
We are co-organizing this meetup with the Bay Area Lua Developers
meetup, who has the first slot with a demo-based minimal crash course.
SF(Rob Lanphier && Aaron Schulz) + remote(Tim Starling && Brad Jorsch)
will continue with a session specific to Lua support in Wikipedia and
MediaWiki in general.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
MediaWiki + Semantic MediaWiki + Semantic Forms
You can search the keywords in MediaWiki or visit http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org
Steven
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From: "Arcane 21"<arcane(a)live.com>;
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:58 AM
To: "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Was wondering if I could make a "story generator" inMediaWiki?
I've been experimenting with trying to implement some "fun" features on my wiki after having been inspired by some of the "quote generators" on RationalWiki, and I was wondering if there is any way to make a "story generator" on MediaWiki.
Specifically, I wanted to type a bunch of words into a series of boxes, click enter, and either a new page or a popup window would show the autogenerated story based on the forms I filled out.
The below website is basically what I'd like to create in MediaWiki:
http://www.world-english.org/instantstory.htm
I was wondering if this is possible, and if so, what and how would I need to go about creating it?
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I'm trying to get Template:Time_ago working on my wiki. But it doesn't
insert a time. As far as I can tell I need to do something to turn on
parser functions.
How should I approach this to figure out what's broken and, hence, what
to fix?
Thanks.
Well this is weird.
I had a page on my wiki.
Created file link on it
[[File:The_Proud_Father.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Proud Father. Sam
Brown, ca. 1920-30]]
Saved the page.
Followed the link.
Uploaded the file (3021 x 3575, 1.55MB)...
... and, ever since then both that file's page and the article page it
was to appear on, are blank. Server is not serving any code at all.
Some sort of PHP or memory limit? I can view other pages just fine.
Hi all
The default numerals in my Arabic mediawiki <http://wikibrary.org> is use
the Hindu numerals :
(٠ - ١ - ٢ - ٣ - ٤ - ٥ - ٦ - ٧ - ٨ - ٩)
in the Arab world we prefer to use the global and Arabic numerals :
(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
so how to change the default numerals ?
Note that Arabic wikipedia <https://ar.wikipedia.org> use the Arabic
numerals :
(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
our wiki website :
http://wikibrary.org
and we are using mediawiki Version : 1.20.3
and thanks a lot .
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*Karam Qubsi*
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Is Special:RevisionDelete working for anyone with 1.20.2 or 3?
To test if its working, go to: www.MyWiki.com/wiki/Special:RevisionDelete
(replace mywiki.com with your own)
After the update this is still not working (at least for me). Can anyone
test it and let me know if its working for you?
Copy pasted below is the bug report that was submitted by someone. It was
marked as 'resolved' but it may still be broken?
thanks
Dan
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When I go to Special:RevisionDelete with proper permissions, I get this
error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function isSpecial() on a non-object in
/includes/specials/SpecialRevisiondelete.php on line 150
Here is line 150:
if ( $this->targetObj->isSpecial( 'Log' ) ) {
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43012
I was running mediawiki on a Shared host and traffic was around 10K views a
day (small to moderate size wiki). I was forced to leave that setup because
of high CPU usage. I was not able to install Squid there or do anything to
speed things up. I had talked about that before on this list and I'm
thankful for the recommendations.
Now I'm on a VPS where Squid is running and currently I don't have CPU
issues except when there's a traffic spike. So I've decided to look for a
dedicated server. I've seen on web hosting forums that (low-end?) dedicated
servers are available for pretty cheap ($100). Currently I'm paying $70 for
the VPS.
My key issue is that the webhost has to willing to let me remain anonymous
and because of this my options are limited. For example they have to accept
Paypal. I have not looked around yet at what options are available but I
will look into that next after this discussion.
To be prepared for the future, I want the server to be able to support 30K
views a day (3 times the current traffic) and display pages with no
noticeable/serious delays. I hope a $100 server with Squid can do this for
me.
Are there any server specs that I should look for? The first one would be
RAM. What's the minimum RAM I should have? Other desirable specs?
My second issue is the hit ratio for Squid: According to Squid's cache
manager, the cache hit rate is about 40% and the byte hit ratio is 20%.
Average time taken to serve a "missed" request is 0.7 seconds, while for a
hit its only 0.02 seconds (35 times faster). So a higher hit ratio would be
really nice.
Looking at Squid's access logs, I also noticed that calls to Load.php are
always "misses". Can anything be done to fix that?
What can be done to optimize Squid for mediawiki and increase the hit
ratio? The RAM I have available is 1.3GB and I told Squid it can use 130MB
and it goes over and the total RAM used usually stays around 40%. I know
1.3GB may be small. I've heard we need to leave some ram free, to ensure
system stability. I may have more RAM in the dedicated server when I get it.
If anyone has a high hit ratio, I would really be thankful if you could
email me your Squid.conf (remove any sensitive information) and I can
compare it with my setup. Or you could tell me the settings I should change
or add.
thanks!
Dan