Wikitech-l October 2003

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shell account
by E23 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Greetings, I'm hereby asking for a shell account on the servers ("developer status"?). My primary reason for the request is to satisfy my own urge to start looking for possible causes when the wiki decides to hang (especially since there has been a number of occasions when the swedish wikipedia has been unresponsive while others has worked fine). At least it will give me something to do while I'm waiting for it to save my edits. I'm not promising anything besides doing no harm, although I do have some experience in this area. I'm an administrator on swedish wikipedia, and I seem to have the trust from the other admins. I put out a question[1] about it, and got 4 supportive replys and none vehemently against. Yours, E23, user page at [2]. 1.http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beg%E4ran_om_administrat%F6rsskap 2.http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%E4ndare:E23

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Maybe we should try to reach a consensus
by Tomos at Wikipedia 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Taw>>RedHat doesn't have CJK LaTeX which is needed for texvc to be >>able to generate math with CJK characters, what was requested by some >>people from Japanese Wikipedia. Well, Taw, I appreciate that you remember my request. Some people at Japanese wikipedia indicated that being able to use Japanese in TeX would be good. I personally do not know much about how good, or how crucial, it is. But I have seen japanese wikipedians mentioning to it multiple times, and one time I specifically asked if I should make a request to others (outside japanese wikipedia). Some wikipedians responded that that would be nice. So I believe it is at least somewhat meaningful thing for math and other TeX-intensive articles. Regards, Tomos _________________________________________________________________ See when your friends are online with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com

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Plucker
by Evan Prodromou 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

So, I've seen the TomeRaider format downloads available for en.wikipedia.org and ilk, but I'm wondering: has anyone done any work on making Wikipedia (or, uh, other MediaWiki-based sites (*cough* *cough*)) work with Plucker? http://plkr.org/ I haven't used it, but it looks real real cool, and it's Free Software, too. So, y'know. Free and stuff. As in Freedom. Anyways, I have some ideas for doing Plucker stuff with Wikitravel, and I wanted to see if I'm treading over old territory. I think that the TomeRaider stuff is pretty cool, but it's kinda heavyweight. Because travellers usually have some inkling of where they're going, they don't really need the world-wide travel guide: just the articles for their destinations. I think for Wikitravel we'd want something like a "Plucker version" link next to the "Printable version", or something similar. Anyways, just testing the waters. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org> Wikitravel - http://www.wikitravel.org/ The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide

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Re: [Intlwiki-l] Re: fy.wikipedia.com and vikipedio
by Brion Vibber 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

On Thursday, Oct 30, 2003, at 14:26 US/Pacific, Walter Vermeir wrote: > > www.vikipedio.org does not work also Okay, will everybody who's created a non-*.wikipedia.org domain and pointed it at our servers please list it here right now? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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suggestion to developpers : Google search form
by Luc Van Oostenryck 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

The Google search form is in fact independent of the language. Is it possible to remove it from the "searchdisabled" text so that only the "<p>Full-text search has been temporarily disabled due to high server load; we hope to get it online again after some hardware upcoming upgrades. In the meantime, you can search via google:</p>" remain? Thanks -- Looxix

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Mis à jour
by Brion Vibber 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

[fr] Nouveux dans stable: * traîter des URLs en 'Media:' comme 'Image:' * invalidiser cache pour pages Image: quand on fait un lien (pour voir les backlinks) * lien de dons ($wgSiteSupportPage; allmessages['sitesupport']) * $wgExtraSubtitle * $wgDebugDumpSql * $wgDisableSearchUpdates (quand on n'utilise pas le moteur de recherche, comment lui mettre à jour?) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Where is LanguageFy.php?
by Andre Engels 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

When I go to the CVS web interface, or when I try to upload CVS at home, I do not get the LanguageFy.php file. However, at my work, from which I originally uploaded it, I do get to download it. Is it perhaps in a wrong directory or with wrong permissions? Andre Engels

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Re: [Intlwiki-l] lt.wikipedia
by Brion Vibber 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote: > Possibly a permissions problem? Apache will run the script as > 'nobody' typically, and you probably ran it as 'brion' or 'root'? Apache runs as the 'apache' user on this machine, and I even tried su'ing to apache to run it manually (which required giving it a login shell for a minute). Works fine. And now it magically works again! Why? I don't know. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: [Intlwiki-l] lt.wikipedia
by Brion Vibber 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 03:30 US/Pacific, Mantas Dirgìla wrote: > Today is the second day when lt.wikipedia.org shows "internal server > error". > Is it a technical difficulty or the site has been deleted? It certainly hasn't been deleted. In fact I can run the wiki CGI program just fine on the command line. I have no idea what's wrong. Apache log says: "Premature end of script headers: /home/usemod/wiki-lt/work-http/wiki.cgi". -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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[Intlwiki-l] lt.wikipedia
by Daniel Mayer 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

Cross posted ot Wikitech-l Andre wrote: >The person was talking about lt.wikipedia.org, not >it.wikipedia.org - that's Lithuanian, not Italian. Yikes! Sorry about that. If I made that mistake then the developers reading the headline may have made the same mistake and thus have not yet looked into why lt.wikipedia.org is not working. Please somebody fix the Lithuanian Wikipedia! >Try http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi instead. Thanks for the link. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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