Toolserver-l February 2011

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Google Art Project ripping
by Beao at Toolserver.org 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hello everybody! I've been working on a bash script to rip the high quality images from the Google Art Project. >From what I understand, all depictions of the original works go under PD-Art, even though Google claims otherwise in their FAQ. What I'm wondering is whether anyone is interested in helping me rip all these images. There are a lot of images to rip, and each rip takes at least an hour. All you need is a GNU/Linux OS and some basic knowledge on using the terminal. -- Beao <http://toolserver.org/~beao/>

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APIs giving origin and author of text ("blame" maps), and signals on revision vandalism
by Luca de Alfaro 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Dear All, We wanted to let you know of three recent APIs we have built for WikiTrust that may be useful to tool developers. If anyone would like to build a service on top of these APIs (or have suggestions for other APIs that we might be able to provide with our data), we would love to work with you to make it happen. kind regards, Luca, Bo, and Ian VANDALISM API: A request like http://en.collaborativetrust.com/WikiTrust/RemoteAPI?method=quality&revid=4… returns the vandalism probability for revision 1234. This is a plain text floating point number from zero to one, where 1.0 means that the revision is vandalism. SELECTION API: A request like http://en.collaborativetrust.com/WikiTrust/RemoteAPI?method=select&pageid=2… returns a JSON array of objects describing the top-quality recent revisions of the page. Each entry consist of a revision_id, and of a few additional parameters. TEXT ORIGIN API: A request like http://en.collaborativetrust.com/WikiTrust/RemoteAPI?method=wikimarkup&page… returns a JSON object containing a string, consisting of the WikiTrust text with some additional markup. The markup consists in tags like: Since {{#t:10,84893431,Habitual gardner}}its inception in {{#t:10,86765634,Bassemkhalifa}}1928 the movement which means that the words “its inception in” were written by “Habitual gardner”, in revision 86765634 (and have trust 10). --- See http://www.wikitrust.net/vandalism-api for additional information about these APIs.

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rrdtool and netstats on TS
by Dr. Trigon 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hello all Has anybody ever used rrdtool on TS through python? Anyone recently? I am trying to get this working, but I always get: (process:26600): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. PangoFc will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/etc/opt/ts/pango/pango.modules' You should create this file by running: pango-querymodules > '/etc/opt/ts/pango/pango.modules' (process:26600): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' (process:26600): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin' google tells me there is e.g. TS-706 [1] dealing with similar issues but it does not seems to work for me... The other question is regarding http://toolserver.org/~daniel/stats/ which was not updated since Sep. 2010; why is this? Was this 'service' shut down? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance... Greetings [1] https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-706

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Backing up a user database
by Carl (CBM) 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

I realized I have to make some character set changes on one of my user databases, and I want to make a backup before I start. Of course there are server backups as well, but I view those as an absolute last resort. I was planning to use mysqldump for this. Is there a better option that I'm overlooking? Is there any reason that the output of 'mysqldump -hSERVER DATABASE' with no additional options would have problems restoring on the toolserver databases? Are there any subtle options that need to be set on mysqldump to make sure the output is usable in that environment? - Carl

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Accessing the toolserver from WP using Ajax
by Daniel Kinzler 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi all! what's the best way to get around the same original policy to fetch data from the toolserver with a XMLHTTPRequest in a Wikipedia gadget? Is there a best practice, a nice and easy, generally usable method? what would it take to make one? I know that some gadgets have been doing this, but I also know that it's a bit tricky. I think a general solution to this, documented somewhere, would make life a lot easier... does something like this exist? if not, why not? -- daniel PS: while i'm at it, is there a wrapper function for XMLHTTPRequest in the standard MEdiaWiki JS? I don't want to re-invent a sucky wheel :)

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NNTP access to Toolserver lists
by River Tarnell 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, As I previously posted on wikitech-l, some Wikimedia lists are now available via NNTP. toolserver-l and toolserver-announce are included in the initial selection of available lists; if you would like to read them via NNTP (and, for toolserver-l, post), see <http://news.tcx.org.uk/wikimedia.html>. Compared to the GMane interface, this gateway: * Does not rename lists (all lists are called wikimedia.<list name>), * Does not rewrite email addresses in posts, thereby breaking PGP signatures. - river.

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