Wikitech-l August 2002

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Re: [Wikitech-l] German wiki software reverts?
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

> Today around 2 pm (PDT) somebody copied the old version back with > misspellings intact... I put the latest CVS version back in its > place; if there was a reason for the revert (such as other changes > made), please commit the changes to CVS and make sure a current, > consistent version is put on the live server. That may have been me--I made changes to that file today to fix the "Benutzer_Diskussion" bug, and add the ISBN update. I'm usually pretty good about keeping up with CVS, but I may have dropped the ball on this one.

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German wiki software reverts?
by Brion VIBBER 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Yesterday I fixed a couple typos in LanguageDe.php (Portugiesisch and Schwedisch were misspelled in the list of interlanguage links). I committed the fixes to CVS, and copied the updated version onto the live server, and everything was hunky-dory. Today around 2 pm (PDT) somebody copied the old version back with misspellings intact... I put the latest CVS version back in its place; if there was a reason for the revert (such as other changes made), please commit the changes to CVS and make sure a current, consistent version is put on the live server. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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German speakers, please test
by Jimmy Wales 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Your new software is up and running. I think it looks o.k., but I'm often wrong about such things. :-) If this goes well, then which language is next? :-)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload trouble whit audio
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

> But when i attempt to upload the audio on wikipedia I always > get <quote> "Internal error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. > > Could not copy file "" to > "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/upload/d/d3/Ww1_rap_by_pagel.ogg". > </quote> > > Is this normal ? The file is 2.11mb > Giskart Yes, there's a hard limit of 1Mb for uploads. It's not recommended to upload images larger than 100k, or sounds much larger than 200k. 2Mb is definitely larger than would be useful for an encyclopedia. Such a file should be on an external site and merely referenced from here.

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Upload trouble whit audio
by Giskart 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hy, After a lot of effort i have get the creator of some audio so far to release his content under GNU/FDL http://www.pagel.clara.net/mp3 But when i attempt to upload the audio on wikipedia i always get <quote> "Internal error >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Could not copy file "" to "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/upload/d/d3/Ww1_rap_by_pagel.ogg". </quote> Is this normal ? The file is 2.11mb Giskart

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International images (Was: German speakers, please test)
by Toby Bartels 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

LDC (?) wrote: >I would think the simplest way to do it is to have [[image:...]] >reference the English wiki, and [[bild:...]] the German one. It's already been remarked that these words are not unique, so that some language marker must be used. For user friendliness, to link from one language's wiki to another's data, I'd allow using *both* language's term for the upload space. For example, if I (on [[en:]]) want to use [[de:bild:foo.png]], then I should be able to do it with "[[de:image:foo.png]]" (so that I don't need to know what they call the namespace on [[de:]]) *or* "[[de:bild:foo.png]]" (so that I can cut and paste the wiki from the page where I found the image on [[de:]]). -- Toby

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Re: Re: Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] German speakers, please test
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

>> I would think the simplest way to do it is to have [[image:...]] >> reference the English wiki, and [[bild:...]] the German one. > So what do you call the French one? And isn't "bild" also in some > other Germanic language? The latter isn't a problem; it can link to local images in the Dutch wikipedia as well--I didn't intend to be able to cross-link from any language to any other, just to have "local" and "main" images. But your point about French is a good one. I aleady do accept links like "en:user:Fred", so "en:bild:Fred.jpg" isn't much of a stretch.

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Re: Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] German speakers, please test
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

> Some images should be on a wiki in a particular language (for > instance the map of China and environs) and some should be on > one wiki and usable by all (most chemical diagrams, pictures > without words). How about [[en:image:foo.jpg]] to mean that an > image is on the English wiki, even if the link is on the German > one? I would generally prefer to encourage duplication; that way, the whole German (or Spanish, etc.) wiki could be easily reproduced from a database and image directory backup. But since images are kind of "external" anyway, and the links properly define where to get them, I might be convinced that inter-wiki image links are OK. I would think the simplest way to do it is to have [[image:...]] reference the English wiki, and [[bild:...]] the German one.

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Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] German speakers, please test
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

> Any objection to batch-adding them? > I was just starting on that now. I'd have no objection to a batch process that added images that are already referenced to the new site, and properly updated the database. I wouldn't want to move images that aren't referenced.

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Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] German speakers, please test
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

> * Redirects with special pages don't work; I'll take a look at that--that's a special piece of code in Article.php. > * Somebody commented out the rewrite rules I added that kept > existing links to the wiki intact. I put them back. That was me; I was just debugging something and I wasn't sure what they did so I commented them out to make sure they weren't causing my problem. But if they work OK now, they shoulud certainly be left in.

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