Hello,
we have a problem on bg.wikipedia. Our MediaWiki namespace pages aren't
used for system messages anymore. The pages are still there, of course,
but it's as if someone had turned off message substitution.
... Who broke it?
Stanislav
Hi all,
I did not no until recently about the existence of the wikipedia.ch
portal, but when I found it I thought it was a very good idea. Checking
out wikipedia.ie, I found that it does not exist. Wouldn't it be a good
idea to register this and set up an Irish portal? Admittedly, there are
only two languages to show on it (English and Irish) but it would be
good for the spread of wikipedia in Ireland and the spread of the Irish
wikipedia ( http://ga.wikipedia.org ). What do people think?
-- John Collison
[[User:Ludraman]]
I'd like the possibility of showing the intro paragraph of a linked
article when the mouse hovers over it.
How about something along the lines of:
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~monniaux/wikilinks/pagea.html
Done exclusively with Javascript *without duplication of content* (read
the HTML sources).
I'm proposing again my idea of a Java-based client-side search engine:
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~monniaux/wikipedia_en/search_applet.html
(Need good JVM, NOT the old Microsoft VM.)
The index is downloaded by chunks, as needed by the client. There's some
caching.
[The index was generated 6 months ago from a database dumb. I'll remake
it once I get mysql working again.]
What do you think? If interested, I may implement sentence search.
Full-text word search is already implemented.
The Commons' idea of the Picture of the day seems great to me, so that
an idea occurred to me (yes, it happens sometimes, really!). It would
be perfect if I would be able to include the picture on the title page
of the Czech Wikipedia. It would also attract people to the Commons
project (which is a little bit problem on cs:, users seem to be scared
a little bit by the english-speaking look of Commons etc.).
But there is an obvious problem: I don't think it is possible to do
that. The only syntax I came up with was something like
{{commons:Template:Potd|width=300|float=right|lang=cs}}, but I didn't
even expect _that_ to work (and it did not). I don't believe there
would be some other, working way, but for sure: don't you know about a
method of using Commons' POTD on another project?
Sure, we could copy all required pages from Commons and every day add
a copy of a new one manually, but it would be useless duplication of
work, I think.
As a programmer, I am able to imagine two approaches: either allow
cross-project template inclusion (which seems to be a terrible idea),
or allow some "image redirects" (i.e. on Commons, there would be a
page called e.g. Image:POTD.redirect that would contain something like
"#REDIRECT [[Image:{{Template:Potd/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}}}]]"),
which seems a little bit more reasonable, but it is only a vague idea.
Any comments?
Best regards,
[[ :cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]
Proposed, too, about 6 months ago:
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~monniaux/wikipedia_en/search_applet.html
(The index is 6-month-old, I'll reindex the wiki when I have some time -
need to download a newer database dump.)
Client-side search applet.
The search engine could also be used server-side.
I proposed this 6 months ago (but at the time, people were not
interested or feared of server overload):
http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~monniaux/wikilinks/pagea.html
(And, yes, it can be done in an efficient, cache-friendly way. Read the
HTML before talking of "content duplication" and "database overload".)
Hi all,
Thanks to Amgine, the Wikiforum extension is now testable 24/7 on his
server [1]. This extension was asked by many French users to replace (at
least partly) hand organized French Village Pump (the hell for those who
try to keep it legible!). In fact, the extension is really more "wiki"
than "forum". This is just a special page (special:forum) that maintain
a list of the latest edited pages into a new "thread" namespace.
Features:
- The X latest threads are fully included into the forum's page (20 on
the test server).
- The Y next threads are listed as links into the forum's page (30 on
the test server).
- All the threads are listed into "All pages" special page.
- Threads are created via a special page accessible from the forum's page.
- Threads pages are pure Wiki pages that can be moved, watched,
protected, categorized, etc. like all other pages.
- Mostly all the forum page rendering is done via CSS, so it can be
customized "per project" and "per user" (via personal CSS).
- Multilinguage interface: Actually English, French and Japanese, but
any other language can be added easily. Test server is set as English so
the interface is also in (bad) English.
- Only one SQL request.
I'll fix many small things, but I don't plane to code more advanced
features.
Any suggestions, proposals, opinions, criticisms are welcomed, but keep
in mind this is an extension designed to be independent to Mediawiki and
that more advance features (like get the creation date or the total
number of edits per thread) may really decrease performance.
As I said in introduction, the goal is to add it (at least) on French
Wikipedia as soon as developers agreed. So please check it!
Aoineko
[1] http://test-wikipedia.saewyc.net/index.php/Special:Forum
PS: I didn't put the last version on CVS because I'm rewriting CSS
elements in a more elegant way.
That's pretty neat, but there needs to be a way to have threads with
duplicate names (since on a real forum, you can do that).
Otherwise, capital job! This should make some of the really, REALLY
convoluted talk pages easier to understand.
- Craig
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