> French, French, French !!!
Choose a volunteer, then go to http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net .
Browse the new codebase in CVS, and look at the files
"Language.php" and "LanguageDe.php" for an example of what
needs to be done for the translation. As soon as someone
makes me a "LanguageFr.php" that's reasonably complete, we
can move forward.
>It looks like the case-fixing script was not run. Examples:
>
>Broken link on the main page to [[Körper des Menschen]], article is
>still at [[Körper Des Menschen]].
I know I ran it; maybe I don't understand how it's supposed to work
and ran it at the wrong time or something. How tricky would it be
for you to update to run against the new DB format?
> I can't find the images. E.g.
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_am_Main
> references an image which can not be found.
> [[Spezial:Imagelist]] lists no images.
Ah, I see what happened. For the English wiki conversion,
I changed all the external links to local images into
[[image:...]] references. The external references to
wikipedia images on the German site really are external,
though, and they probably shouldn't have been translated.
On the other hand, those images really should be moved to
the new site so that the wikis are more independent, so I'm
inclined to think that leaving them "broken" is the right
thing to do, to encourage authors toput them into the new
site. I'm open to other idea though.
> 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? :-)
Astronomer already did most of the Spanish translation, so that
should be easy (especially since my Spanish is almost adequate to
make fixes in it as well). I think the Polish guys are also hot
to get started, but I haven't seen anyone step up as possible
administrative help there.
Hello all,
I recently wanted to start up an internal wiki at work, and I wanted the
best and most powerful software, so naturally I downloaded the new
Wikipedia code base.
I ran into a couple problems with the installation, however, and thought
I'd share them with you. I used Apache 1.3.26, PHP 4.2.2, and MySQL
2.23.52.
In the installation file, it should be mentioned that the
register_globals setting in the PHP configuration file (php.ini) needs
to be set 'On' for recent versions of PHP (4.2 and above, I believe).
There are security concerns with this, as I'm sure you're all aware.
There was also a problem creating the database tables. The field
'rc_cur_time' was added to the 'recentchanges' table, but was not put in
the buildTables.inc script. A patch is enclosed to fix this.
I had some issues with compiling and installing PHP, but other than
that, no major issues. Most of the other problems were because of my
unfamiliarity with PHP and MySQL.
Take care,
James Graves
This list's configuration has been changed. As requested, the
'Reply-To:' header will now be set to the list rather than the
sender. As I understood it, I had 2 votes for the change, one
against, and several people who didn't care. So, it is changed. I
deeply regret any difficulty this causes.
Also, the hostname should show correctly now. The list is now aware
that it's address is wikitech-l(a)nupedia.com (instead of
wikitech-l(a)ross.bomis.com). No vote was taken here, because I assume
that the majority of the community would prefer to have a list that is
not partly broken.
I think that about sums it up.
--
"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr(a)bomis.com>
> I'm not sure I'm the right person to raise this question but
> I wondered what the current thinking is on adapting the code
> for other character sets. If I recall correctly we or now
> assuming UTF-8, right? What exactly does that mean, btw? That
> we changed the MySQL character tables for those above 7F?
> Anyting else?
The English Wikipedia, and the German one being tested now, are
both ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. UTF-8 will be needed for Polish and
other languages. There won't be much software change involved;
just telling MySQL to index the right way.
As for a special notation for accented characters, I'm not fond
of the idea. Foreign users should have foreign keyboards. Others
should still be able to enter accents by whatever means their OS
and browser allow, and I'm not aware of any that don't have some
feature for it. I don't like duplicating effort that should be
already done elsewhere.
At 2002-08-23 08:43 -0700, Jason Richey wrote:
>I'm happy to make this change... Of course, I'd like to get the
>general consensus first. Anybody agree/disagree/not care?
>
>Jason
By the way, after setting the 'Reply-To:'
correctly, I also wouldn't mind losing the
'[list-name]' in the subject line of this
(and any other) mailing list. It makes such
a mess of the subject lines and it's only
useful for dummies who are too stupid or
lazy to set their filters correctly and
since this is a list for technicians I'm
quite sure it doesn't apply to any of us,
but I'd very much like to hear from anyone
who disagrees...
Greetings,
Jaap
There are quite some bug reports in
http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Beobachtete_Fe
hler
now. Most should be easy to fix, some might already be known from the
english WP, but what I think is most important are the bugs in the
conversion script. So I translated these:
* The conversion of article titles didn't work. So many articles are now
in http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial%3ALonelypages (e.g. [[Brian
De Palma]] should have been converted to [[Brian de Palma]]).
* /Talk-pages should have been converted into the Diskussion:-namespace
(like the /Diskussion-pages). It didn't work, but a "See also: " (should
be: "Siehe auch:") has been inserted.
* I thought all old revisions since beginning of the German WP should
have been integrated into the database. Or is it better to do this
later?
* Not very important: The Link to the Diskussion-namespace should be
[[Diskussion:... instead of [[diskussion:... - easy to fix :-)
The first three have already been mentioned on the old test site on
http://test-de.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia%3ABug+report
Did anybody ever take a look at it?
There has also been some discussion about how to name the German
user-namespace, and we ended up with "Wikipedianer:". "namespaces"
should not be translated to "Namensräume", but to "Verwandte Seiten".
Kurt