Hello,
Is this list an appropriate place to be discussing MediaWiki issues?
I was recently setting up a MediaWiki-based wiki and came across a use case
where it did not generate pretty URLs consistently (in function
Title->getLocalURL). I've filed a bug report and submitted a patch:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25718
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25718>As far as I can tell,
this does not break existing links anywhere in a typical MediaWiki
installation such as Wikipedia, but the commentators on the bug report don't
seem convinced.
Could this list with its collective understanding of Wikipedia and
MediaWiki's features be kind enough to comment? It seems like I've touched
something at the core of how MediaWiki works, but in a part of the
getLocalURL function that is rarely used.
Best,
Kiran
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.zaiki.in/
Hi All,
English wikipedia has now stub articles on
- National Waterway 1 (India)
- National Waterway 2 (India)
- National Waterway 5 (India)
- National Waterway 6 (India)
If any other language wikipedia's have the articles please update in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month/October_2010
Articles require pictures please help.
Thanks,
Naveen Francis
On 25 September 2010 20:11, Naveen Francis <naveenpf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Let us collaborate and contribute to the Wiki.
> After the great success of Wikimedia India newsletter combined with good
> old days of WP:INCOTM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM> let
> us start Wikimedia India Collaboration of the Month.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month
>
> I have selected 6 articles.
>
> - Inland Waterways Authority of India
> - National Waterway 1 (India)
> - National Waterway 2 (India)
> - National Waterway 3 (India)
> - National Waterway 4 (India)
> - National Waterway 5 (India)
>
>
> Selected these articles because even english wikipedia doesn't have these
> article.These is experimental. Next time onwards we will nominate the
> articles which we have to select.
>
> Please add respective articles in all languages under
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_of_the_month/October_2010
>
> Please feel free to add any language if I have missed(
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/Languages#List).
>
> Indian wikipedians let us start and see who all will complete all the 6
> article before 31 October 2010 !!!
>
> --
> Naveen Francis
>
Hi all,
Tamil wikipedians thought of inviting fellow editors of Tamil origin in
English wikipedia and pull them over to Tamil wikipedia. User:Ravidreams
even called it "hijacking editors" funnily. There was some initial success
with editors like User:Sodabottle joining ta.wiki and contributing heavily.
(I too joined it, but that does not matter much), It was decided to invite
experienced English wikipedians of Tamil origin to contribute to tamil wiki.
The advantage being that experienced wiki editors are aware of wiki culture
and its mechanisms and the learning curve for them would just be language
typing skill. So a "Welcome message"[1] was created and it is decided to
post on talk pages. We have started doing this.
Just when i created a template for it, it struck me why not post this to new
users as well along with the usual {{Welcome}} template. There could a user
in remote places trying to edit about his/her village and when we come
across such new users, why not post this welcome to Indic wikipedia message
along with welcome template? (I assume most of us welcome new users with a
welcome template). They might be unaware of Indic wikipedia / might be more
interested in contributing native tongue. So I am just going to try posting
the "ContributeToTamilWikipedia" message along with Welcome template
whenever i know the user is a Tamil. I have also altered my "Friendly"
configuration[2] to have the custom template, so its really easy to welcome
users, just a few clicks. If you feel this is good to do, please create
welcome message to target your language users and let me know. I would add
it to my friendly configuration and can Invite users. Even if I don't know
Bengali, I can invite a Bengali user editing say Siliguri article with a
Bengali Wikipedia welcome message and he would at least visit Bengali
Wikipedia, if not contribute there.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ContributeToTamilWikipedia>[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki/vector.js
Regards
Srikanth.L
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