Wikitech-l October 2002

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Wikipedia Search - Strange Results
by rose.parks＠att.net 11 Oct '02

11 Oct '02

Hi Members, I went to try the new search on Wikipedia. I entered "JavaScript" as the search argument and got back two entries: 1. JavaScript (47 bytes) 2. Javascript (47 bytes) followed by a number of citations from articles. The actual title of the article is "JavaScript." The two articles are one and the same. I realize that the difference is in the capitalization. Is this the result we want? Two entries of the same article? Further, if you look at the entries, they are clearly not 47 bytes, but much longer - what happened? As Ever, Ruth Ifcher --

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Broken link because of encoding
by Lightning 10 Oct '02

10 Oct '02

I just noticed this... go to: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes_%26_Merrie_Melodies_filmography it takes you to looney tunes... and its not a redirect? and when i look at the history it works fine and it shows me how it really should be... whats going on? Lightning

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Common userspace.
by Brion VIBBER 10 Oct '02

10 Oct '02

The Cunctator wrote: > Now that the various wikis are being put together on *.wikipedia.org, the > user accounts need to be consolidated. There should not be walls between > editing the various translations of the wikipediae. May be worth considering. The system is very much not set up for that presently; user data is stored in a table per-database, includes per-wiki options, and the login cookies are limited to an individual hostname, so don't cross languages. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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deletion of old revisions
by Kurt Jansson 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

How do I delete old revisions? We have some former copyright violations that have been (or are beeing) rewritten now. But the old revisions should be deleted, I think. Kurt

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Too many connections
by Magnus Manske 09 Oct '02

09 Oct '02

I keep getting *Warning*: Too many connections in */usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/DatabaseFunctions.php* on line *17* Could not connect to DB on 127.0.0.1 at 14:17, German time, for both en (www) and de wikipedia.

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Search question
by Lightning 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

I kinda don't like how you can see markup in a search results page.. in fact.. you see a lot of markup in the exerpt from the webpage.. I really don't think that should be the acse.. Is there a way to strip that out before that text is shown? It just looks ugly, and confusing and crowds everything.. on the case of redirects, maybe we could change it to "This page is an alias to ..." ? Any onpinions on this? Lightning

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Power Search
by Magnus Manske 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

Since I got no feedback about the extended search on Lee's test site, I went ahead and put it into the CVS. It is also running on de.wikipedia.org now. All it does is append a form at the end of the search results where one can choose to search other namespaces, as well as turn off redirects as results. Both functions were requeseted on the lists. Not very pretty, but a start. Magnus

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i8n, templantes, and introduction
by Lightning 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

Hi, I am Lightning.. Thats also my username in wikipedia. Seems like there's this whole big hoop-la about i8n, and translation and yadda yadda yadda. I was kind of thinking, since some languages dont translate so easily, (as to say you cant just change that string and it will look right), are templates a possibility? I was looking through the code, and it looks pretty straight forward, but all the HTML in the code is just kinda, nasty and crowds the code.. I think a separation of the code and markup would be a really good thing. new themes would be easy to make, and it would allow for a lot more formatting options and easier changing of the look and feel of the page. Anyone have any opinions? has this been brought up before? Oh and also.. anyone ever consider adding a spellcheck feature? Because I have been thinking about it, but I'd like to know if this has been an idea shot down before for a reason, you know, so I dont waste my time [attempting] implementing it. Lightning

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multiple language relations
by Lightning 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

You know what.. multi languages are a pain in the ass. People need to keep putting links on all these pages by hand. And sometimes like what happened with the dutch wikipedia, links are wrong... heres the lodown.. all the days of the year pages, pointed to the dutch days of the year pages.. and all 365 links were wrong.. because the dutch dont capitalize months. hours and hours and hours of wasted work as well as a bunch of dead links... no good. How to avoid it.. a table, or a system in which we cross link article names eg id | name | language 1 | January | en 1 | januari | nl 1 | Enero | sp so when we go to a page, the page runs a select for what the article would be called in other languages, and makes links that way.. so much easier.. all you need is one table and ALL the wikipedia's can work from it. oh, and anyone have any comments on tighter integration amongst wikipedias? I think there's lots of room for improvement there...

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Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] Anchor
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 07 Oct '02

07 Oct '02

>> Can't you read my message ? >> Or aren't you intrested in my question ? >> Some people on the french's Wikipedia think that anchors are very >> important features and are waiting for your answer... > I seem to remember that Lee half-implemented anchors a while back, > but they're not actually enabled. If nobody else can answer more > fully, I'll go look over the code and see what still needs to be > done. Yes, they were fully implemented, but then I disabled them upon request and discussion by the list, because the syntax for specifying them was awkward and others felt the ability was premature and likely to be abused. I'm still working (slowly) on reforming wikitext syntax in general, so I hadn't gotten back to the issue of anchor syntax specifically, but if the list agrees to a syntax it will be trivial to re-enable the code. The link code is in fact still present; [[page#anchor]] and [[#localanchor]] will produce a link exactly as expected. My original syntax for placing the anchor itself as [[##anchor]], but other suggestions are welcome.

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