Hi all
While looking for a reason our Special:ActiveUsers page and API call was
being jailed to current month and not 30 days back(still wondering about
it). I was told on irc ActiveUsers had been removed from current MW.
Yep, last week a commit to remove the Special page, however it still
looks like it is being shown as an active link on the statistics Special
page.
Got a couple of questions because I don't know if thought out:
My first would be - Why? I realize it might give a limited amount of
stats, but I find it useful to know who has been active on the wiki
rather quickly. Larger wikis or very active wikis should drop the
return in days down to keep the db from being hit too hard. e.g. Last 7
days or last 3 days, it can be set in localsettings.
Why not a flag to turn off or on the Special page? Seems it would have
been simpler to take this route than start axing it out, which now looks
like there are some remnants left - the aforementioned
Special:Statistics page. There is still a link to the ActiveUsers page,
active and errors out on mediawiki.org.
Is there a planned alternative? Last year, I think, the API in 1.19
added a way to pull active users with an API call. Will that be removed
too?
Struggling to get user participation up on a wiki, statistical data
helps whether it is huge sets or small sets of data. Every little bit
helps. Interested in how everyone else feels about this.
Thanks!
Tom
Hello Everyone,
I was wondering if there is a way to create 2 level of tabs in Media Wiki.
I followed the steps here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Header_Tabs#Usage and have
installed the extension.
It works perfectly fine with creating single level tabs on top of the page.
I wanted to extend this so that I can have tabs within a tabbed page. Is
this possible?
I would really appreciate any suggestions/comments.
p.s This is my first post here so pardon me if I am not posting the right
way or not posting the right question.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Shrenik Shah
I periodically experience a DDoS attack from Microsoft. It appears to be their search engines, although I guess a bot network could be messing with reverse DNS. The attacks come from names like "msnbot-nn-nn-nn-nn.search.msn.com", where "nn" are byte values in the IP address. There will be a dozen or more crawling my site at the same time.
The symptom is that these guys are so hot and heavy that the number of httpd instances shoots through the roof to the point that none of them get serviced before timing out.
I've complained to Microsoft, but of course, received no answer.
So why am I complaining here? The logs show that this is only happening to MediaWiki sites I host -- other, simpler sites don't seem to act like a tar pit.
I've tried adding ipfilter(8) blocks, but then they just pop up on some other subnet. Also, I don't want to block legit traffic coming from Microsoft. I also don't want to stop spidering via "robots.txt" because I want well-behaved search engines like Google to have access.
Anyone else seen this aggressive crawling of their wiki sites? Any ideas for fixing it?
Thanks for any advice offered!
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:::: The way you see people is the way you treat them. -- Zig Ziglar
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
Hi,
What extensions are available to police my Media Wiki's ?
I have several personal computer language ones which I will want to make
public at some point.
And more to the point I am wanting to put up a quite high profile one that
may/probably get attacked for having political information on it.
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
fyi
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Proposal: Wikitech contributors
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:45:58 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I have been drafting a proposal to attract new contributors, help them
settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many
of these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as
well and we are just used to them.
The proposal has evolved into a deeper restructuring of our community
spaces. We're still drafting it, but a round of wider feedback is
welcome before opening the official RFC at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors
In summary:
* wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our open
source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an
ontology of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully
Gerrit.
* Semantic user profiles would identify interests, project membership
and preferences so users could get notifications about specific topics.
* Nodes would automatically structure links to the key information about
a specific topic: wiki pages, events, news, projects, bug reports,
Gerrit changesets, related contributors, and people interested.
* All project teams, whoever is in them, would have a standard way to
report goals, members, tasks and updates.
The proposal includes a draft plan for a first iteration, including
contracting out some software development and redesigning part of
wikitech and mediawiki.org.
Your feedback is welcome at the discussion page. I will be consolidating
there any feedback received here or through other channels. The official
RFC should follow pretty soon, maybe next week.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi,
I am sandeep and pursuing my MS by Research at IIIT-Hyderabad.
I am thinking of applying for GSoC this year. I have gone through the
ideas page of mediawiki and find the following ideas quite apt for me to
work on.
1. Visual Editor Plugins.
2. Proofread extension needs to be refactored.
3. Prototyping inline comments.
I am quick learner and a good programmer. I have good knowledge in *C,
C++, Python,Java* etc.. Apart from these, because of my interest in web
development i learned *PHP, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery* etc.. and
implemented several websites for small startups. With the development of
websites, i think i gained some experience in UI design as well.
Please let me know of further details if i want to work on any of
these ideas as part of GSoC.
Thank you,
Sandeep,
MS by Research,
IIIT-Hyderabad.
Hi
I am Shondhi and pursuing my B.Tech from DA-IICT, India. I am currently in
my 4th year. My programming language include - C, C++ and Java and web
development skills- PHP,javascript,CSS, HTML.
I have been around in MediaWiki as a user since 15 days. I have tried to
get familiar with the working of the community so far. I am interested to
work in the following projects-
1) Allow smoother and easier *Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery.*
2)
Tracked in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>
(?)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla>
*Bug 27001 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27001>*
*MW bugzilla* integration extension.
3)
Tracked in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>
(?)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla>
*Bug 46525 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46525>*
Build an *interwiki notifications*framework and implement it for
InstantCommons.
4) *co-ment-like tool* for inline comments. Tracked in
Bugzilla<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>
(?) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla> *Bug
46440<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440>
*
Kindly, find link to my user page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shondhi_Singhal
1st and 2nd project are the projects that I would like to contribute even
if GSOC or IPW dint exist.
I have installed mediawiki on my LAMP server. I have also cloned Mozilla
bugzilla to the github. I have worked with lightbox in my previous web
development projects so I have a base for the 1st project.
I tried to contact the mentor of the first project but there has been no
response yet. I am here to learn and enhance my skills. Wikipedia gives me
a platform where my work can reach to millions of its user. Kindly, guide
me to start contributing.
Looking forward to the response.
Thanks,
Shondhi Singhal
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar
