We are now running:
Linux 2.4.17 Apache 1.3.23 Php 4.1.1 mod_fastcgi 2.2.12
And the latest version of wikipedia that Magnus sent me earlier today.
Also, the machine has been upgraded from 512 megabytes of memory to 1 gigabyte of memory.
It is hoped that this will improve our performance, perhaps substantially.
I'm in the process of rolling upgrades to all my servers, bumping them all up to 2 gig, and in some cases beyond. Wikipedia will eventually benefit from that.
In the meantime, everyone please keep the bug reports flowing, or even better, check out the CVS on sourceforge and send in patches. :-)
--Jimbo
In the 'Wikipedia:Bug reports' page, it came up that someone's trying to make an article titled "β-cyclodextrine", ie using the HTML character entity for the greek letter beta (β).
Currently the code makes a mess of attempts to do this; it can be sorted out, but the question is how *should* it behave?
Possibility one: Ampersands in general and HTML entities in specific should not work in article titles; links to such pages will be considered invalid. (I believe this is how it worked on the old software.) The user should probably instead title that page "Beta-cyclodextrine".
Possibility two: Ampersands will be escaped; HTML entities will not work as such in article titles, but the name typed as "β-cyclodextrine" would appear as typed, with an ampersand, the word "beta" and a semicolon. The user should probably instead title that page "Beta-cyclodextrine", but might well call a page "HTML entity β".
Possibility three: HTML entities should work in article titles. Thus the name typed as "β-cyclodextrine" will appear in body text and the page title with a beta character. For "HTML entity β" to display as intended the wikipedian must type "HTML entity β".
Possibility four...?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Can someone take a look at http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/RQ-1_Predator and tell me why the picture at the bottom isn't showing up? If you click on the link, the picture will be displayed by itself, but it'd be nice to see it in the page itself.
I've upload numerous other pictures with no problems....
--[[the Epopt]]
On sab, 2002-02-02 at 16:58, wikipedia@epoptic.org wrote:
Can someone take a look at http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/RQ-1_Predator and tell me why the picture at the bottom isn't showing up? If you click on the link, the picture will be displayed by itself, but it'd be nice to see it in the page itself.
I've upload numerous other pictures with no problems....
There's a minor buglet in the image URL matching code that causes it to reject URLs with dashes in them. I've put a fix in the CVS version; next time Jimbo updates the running code it should work again.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I'm inclined to think #1 is best.
On 1 Feb 2002, Brion Vibber wrote:
In the 'Wikipedia:Bug reports' page, it came up that someone's trying to make an article titled "β-cyclodextrine", ie using the HTML character entity for the greek letter beta (β).
Currently the code makes a mess of attempts to do this; it can be sorted out, but the question is how *should* it behave?
Possibility one: Ampersands in general and HTML entities in specific should not work in article titles; links to such pages will be considered invalid. (I believe this is how it worked on the old software.) The user should probably instead title that page "Beta-cyclodextrine".
Possibility two: Ampersands will be escaped; HTML entities will not work as such in article titles, but the name typed as "β-cyclodextrine" would appear as typed, with an ampersand, the word "beta" and a semicolon. The user should probably instead title that page "Beta-cyclodextrine", but might well call a page "HTML entity β".
Possibility three: HTML entities should work in article titles. Thus the name typed as "β-cyclodextrine" will appear in body text and the page title with a beta character. For "HTML entity β" to display as intended the wikipedian must type "HTML entity β".
Possibility four...?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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