Wikitech-l November 2003

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GNU FDL and XML-export
by Thomas R. Koll 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

Hi, Doesn't the FDL expect the last five authors also to be shown in the XML-Export? I'm asking because if you want to use the export for your own page you will violate the FDL. ciao, tom -- http://www.tomk32.de - just a geek trying to change the world -.- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TomK32 /|> http://tomk32.bookcrossing.com / \ http://tinyurl.com/u6de

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Patch for Bug #827757: Wikitext not escaped in log entry descriptions
by Evan Prodromou 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

Attached is a patch to escape the descriptions in log entries. It's pretty much self-contained, and I think qualifies as a Righteous Patch. B-) ~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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Fast server response
by Daniel Mayer 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

This is unnatural. What gives? ;) Has the mega monster server already been installed? If so it would be great to see how many disabled database features can be enabled before the new server configuration gets bogged down. And then there is induced demand. It happens all the time in California; you add a couple new lanes to a highway and that just encourages more people to drive more often. Before long congestion hits again. The only long-term solution is to get more people to carpool and use the bus. I think I just went on a tangent (happens often during the holidays). Daniel Mayer (aka mav) runs and hides. ;)

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Wikitext Tables
by Evan Prodromou 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide:_Usin… Oh please oh please oh please! I'm trying to figure this out from the source of OutputPage.php, but, y'know... it'd help if someone knowledgeable actually added the docs themselves. ~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: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia full dump (English) broken link?
by Peter Bartlett 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi Jose, Glad you finding something to use the Wikipedia fore. A quick heads up - the text is not "copyright-free" in the sense of public domain but does have a "free" licence so you should be able to do what you want for no cost and without extra permissions as long as you attribute us when publishing. See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights for the full details. Pete -----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Jose Quesada Sent: 27 November 2003 22:36 To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia full dump (English) broken link? Hi, Here at CU we work with corpora of text to train models that 'understand' language (see, e.g., LSA.colorado.edu). We wanted to use Wikipedia to create a copyright-free corpus of text that anyone in the scientific community could use. To do that we downloaded the DB dumps a while ago ( about 2 billion words), but due to a computer problem, we lost them. I have noticed that the link to the full english database (2280MB): http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 doesn't work anymore; it returns a Forbidden error, says that you don't have permission to access /archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 on this server Could you please grant us access to the file? Thanks a lot in advance, -Jose -- Jose Quesada, PhD. quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado (Boulder) Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522 office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177 Campus Box 344 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0344 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Wikipedia full dump (English) broken link?
by Jose Quesada 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi, Here at CU we work with corpora of text to train models that 'understand' language (see, e.g., LSA.colorado.edu). We wanted to use Wikipedia to create a copyright-free corpus of text that anyone in the scientific community could use. To do that we downloaded the DB dumps a while ago ( about 2 billion words), but due to a computer problem, we lost them. I have noticed that the link to the full english database (2280MB): http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 doesn't work anymore; it returns a Forbidden error, says that you don't have permission to access /archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 on this server Could you please grant us access to the file? Thanks a lot in advance, -Jose -- Jose Quesada, PhD. quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado (Boulder) Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522 office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177 Campus Box 344 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0344

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Re: Wikipedia full dump (English) broken link?
by Jose Quesada 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:35:18 -0800, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote: Thanks,I'll do that. Sorry, my mistake. Cheers, -Jose > Hello, it would be best to send this request to > wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org, the technical > mailing list, because the people there can really help you. > > Jose Quesada wrote: > >> Hi Jimmy, >> >> I contact you as "Benevolent Dictator" of wikipedia. >> Here at CU we work with corpora of text to train models that >> 'understand' >> language (see, e.g., LSA.colorado.edu). We wanted to use Wikipedia to >> create a copyright-free corpus of text that anyone in the scientific >> community could use. To do that we downloaded the DB dumps a while ago >> ( about 2 billion words), but due to a computer problem, we lost them. >> >> I have noticed that the link to the full english database (2280MB): >> http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 >> >> doesn't work anymore; it returns a Forbidden error, says that >> you don't have permission to access >> /archives/en/20031125_old_table.sql.bz2 on this server >> >> Could you please grant us access to the file? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance, >> -Jose >> >> PS: I exchanged e-mails with Larry Sanger a while ago. He seemed a >> really >> nice person to me >> >> -- >> >> Jose Quesada, PhD. >> >> quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate >> http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science >> University of Colorado (Boulder) >> >> Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522 >> office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177 >> Campus Box 344 >> University of Colorado at Boulder >> Boulder, CO 80309-0344 >> -- Jose Quesada, PhD. quesadaj(a)psych.colorado.edu Research associate http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado (Boulder) Muenzinger psychology building Phone:303 492 1522 office D447A Fax: 303 492 7177 Campus Box 344 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0344

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RE: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] possible link rendering bug?
by Poor, Edmund W 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

Brion, Thanks for discovering the link cache bug. It's not everyone who has the humility to admit the existence of a mistake, but you have consistently shown the willingness to speak frankly to the Wikipedia community about the true state of the software which fuels the world's largest wikiwiki. I have no doubt that you and the other developers will be able to straighten out this snag. Just call it a worm and sic that "brilliant" early bird, Tim Starling on it! Ed Poor

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Block log
by Tim Starling 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

The block log isn't working on en, it just gives empty strings for target usernames. -- Tim Starling _________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp

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Patch for Bug #845036: 'Hide minor edits' application too broad
by Evan Prodromou 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

Here's a patch for the overbroad HME bug. I took out the checks for the user preferences on hide minor edits on the Related Changes and User Contributions pages. I also re-enabled the hide/show minor edits link on Related Changes and Recent Changes; it seems to have been lost accidentally. Another side-effect is that the User Contributions page now also has a show/hide minor edits link, for parallelism. The code was checking for the param, so I figured it should probably be present and do something. B-) The contributions are also flagged as minor if applicable. Yes, another overbroad patch. I just didn't think it was valuable without the extra stuff. ~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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