Hello Everyone,
Just a reminder: the MediaWiki Action API Technical Documentation Survey
will close at 12:00 AM PST / 8:00 AM UTC.
If you have a few moments today to share your knowledge and opinions to
help improve technical documentation for the MediaWiki Action API, we would
appreciate it!
https://goo.gl/forms/Y5PGILb6b3awC3OJ2
*Notes about the Mediawiki Action API Survey:*
*Survey Period: *December 6, 2018 - January 14, 2019
*Privacy Policy:* This survey will be conducted via a third-party service,
which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy
and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Action_API_Survey_Privacy_S…
.
Thanks for your participation!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
Hello!
I hope you are having a good start to the new year. In November 2018, I
downloaded hundreds of English Wikipedia pages from the mainspace using the
Special:Export <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export> page for
textual analysis. I tried downloading more today in the same fashion, but
the exported XML files do not have the content of the pages. Maybe I am
doing something wrong or missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
I also have a question, if you may, about the Special:Export page. Does it
work on other Wikipedia language editions (e.g. Arabic)? When I used it in
November 2018 to download pages from the mainspace in Arabic, I got
content-less XML files.
Best,
Reem
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I upgraded teflpedia.com from MW1.22.2 to MW1.31.1 last week.
A few days later I got a warning that my shared hosting account was
running out of storage. It had ballooned by 2GB and was hitting it's
limit.
The increase was .cagefs/tmp/magick-* files piling up. So I Googled
that and read that those may be ImageMagick dump files from
ImageMagick failing to complete stuff.
So I visited my Special:ListFiles page. Then I again checked
.cagefs/tmp/ and found more magick-* files, like magick-rsYwKaSU 62MB
each, piled in there. I removed them again.
I have mitigated the problem by setting $wgMaxShellMemory = 300000; in
my LocalSettings.php. I don't know why this mitigates it, but it seems
to. It is a setting that had been working in my MW1.22.2 for years. It
seems to work on my shared webhosting server. The default value in
DefaultSettings.php -- $wgMaxShellMemory = 307200 -- causes this
problem for me. Is it too high for my shared webhosting environment?
It seems to be what was causing the problem. I don't know why. Setting
it too low causes the problem too, but 300000 (300MB) has worked for
me for years on this webhost. So I'll leave that set in my
LocalSettings.php with a note to keep an eye on it.
There are some notes from years past on this talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgMaxShellMemory
If you have clue or suggestions about this, please let us know.
Thanks!
Roger
teflpedia.org
hosted on Dathorn.com shared webhosting
Hi,
The latest episode of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets has been
released, featuring an interview with Denny Vrandečić, the co-creator of
Semantic MediaWiki and creator of Wikidata:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-25-denny-vrandei
-Yaron
I use QuestyCaptch (it is in ConfirmEdit extension) to fight spam.
I use CSS in wiki's Common.css page to make the question more
noticeable, because otherwise it just shows up in normal text which is
not obvious and very easy to overlook.
I am successfully styling the QuestyCaptcha question for page edits
that add URLs with this in Common.css:
/* ConfirmEdit QuestyCaptcha, on add URL in edit
*
*/
label[for=wpCaptchaWord] {
color: green;
font-size: 120%;
font-weight: bold;
}
However, that does not style the question at all on the Account
Creation page. The QuestyCaptcha quesion is very easy to overlook on
that page. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Roger
teflpedia.com
Hi Everyone,
Over the last few months, the Wikimedia Developer Advocacy team has been
working to improve technical documentation for the MediaWiki Action API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page>.
So far, we have:
- Started efforts to revise, simplify, and reorganize the MediaWiki
Action API pages on MediaWiki using a new documentation template for
sub-pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Documentation_template
- Updated the API navigation-template:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:API
As we continue to make improvements to the technical documentation, we
could use your help to better guide our efforts!
Would you please take a few moments to complete the following survey and
share your opinions and experiences with us?
https://goo.gl/forms/Y5PGILb6b3awC3OJ2
*Notes about the Mediawiki Action API Survey:*
*Survey Period: *December 6, 2018 - January 6, 2019
*Privacy Policy:* This survey will be conducted via a third-party service,
which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy
and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Action_API_Survey_Privacy_S…
.
Thanks for your participation!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org