I have noticed that some people from other wikipedias change our swedish å on the Swedish Wikipedia, when they make language links. I have thought about why, and I suppose its because they see something different than we do.
In the normal HTML, our å is written å ä is written ä and ö is written ö. Is this the present configuration in the php script, or does our strange letters confuse people so much that they change them since they look like errors in their point of view?
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:01:19 +0100
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Subject: internel Server error on german site
hi,
the search-button on the german site does not work!
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"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr(a)bomis.com>
Greetings!
What's up with Wiktionary?
I've been reading the Talk pages and
there's an awful lot of complaining and
whining. First, about the Interlingua
entries. I need a large file type of list
that I can work from to add entries.
They are moving to the index section.
They can be deleted when I'm done
the bulk of entering the multilingual
info I have.
Now, please don't misunderstand me...
I'm willing to follow protocols and
learn the wiki-ways. Plus whatever
conventions can be made clear I'll
willingly follow.
But...
Someone complained about my French,
ehem ehem, not my swearing mind you,
my use of French, in that it isn't proper
enough, and not accurate enough. Well
all I can say is that I'm not a native
French speaker, my French High School
teacher learned it in Algiers and it's been
years since I had a fluent conversation in
it for more than five minutes. I do what
I can. My German is rotten also, but
I do what I can. When I don't know
I either leave it blank or put in the English
as a marker for me to look up that word
later. Again, the index entries are there
to help me enter in new info into the main
Wiktionary... similarly with Wikipedia
articles. Two windows open, cut and
paste the look ups, edit here and there,
etc.
Now I'm getting requests to "slow down"
how un-wiki is that???
Then about the use of HTML tags, well,
frankly, the "list" tags in the Wiktionary
are all HTML, my additions are usually
a mixture of both HTML and wiki-coding.
I find it more assuring to write <BR> than
to let the parser put a line where it thinks
it should. Same for <P> and for <HR>
the ---- is sometimes good sometimes
not clear enough for me. These are basic
HTML tags that shouldn't scare anyone.
If tables are a problem, I've only put these
in the Wikipedia Homepage for Interlingua
and Volapuk and in a couple of wikipedia
entries where everything needed a certain
layout, like the table of HTML and ASCII
codes in the Interlingua Wikipedia.
Now my questions regarding the Wiktionary
are:
Is there a set way of entering the info?
Is there an entity that can decide this once
and for all?
Is it possible to have foreign language
appendixes on the English Wiktionary?
Or...
Is there a possibility that a namespace
will happen anytime soon for other languages?
(There's even complaints that "this is an English
dictionary, isn't it!!!" Well, maybe so but I thought
it was also a multilingual dictionary, and that's where
I'm interested in helping out).
So those are the issues and I welcome
any insights or clues you can pass my way.
Cheers,
Jay B.
Hi
I'm looking for more detailed statistics on the growth on wikipedia. But
more then a few milestones I'm not able to find.
On the mainpage of Wikepedia is it stated: "We started on January 15,
2001 and are already working on XXX articles
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article> in the
English version."
with XXX the number of articles on a given date. But it would be nice to
see how that evolves over time in a single graph. [yearly, monthly ,weekly]
Is it possible to generate such graphs?
Wouter Vanden Hove
I have written a very rudimentary wikipedia offline reader. It can be
downloaded at
http://test.wikipedia.org/upload/WINOL.zip
This contains the current source (GPL), and a Windows exe. You'll also
need the SQL dump (better stick to en;-)
For those few how tried the last version: Get this one! It doesn't need
the conversion anymore, it reads the articles right from the SQL file.
You'll have to run the "Tools/Index" once on the SQL file, though. This
will create a ~4 MB index of the article titles and the position of
their data set in the SQL file. Takes about 1 min.
Don't expect too much from this version. You can browse the 'pedia, read
all the text and see most of the formatting, but that's about it. No
images, no offline edit, no search function. Yet.
Magnus
Hello all,
Is this the expected behaviour of the "Go" function (next to "Search") that
when I put in the box "Domenico" there's "Domenico Cimarosa" page displayed
?
This seems to happen consistently so it might be designed that way.
Regards,
Kpjas.
As a new Wiktionary "full time" contributor I'm interested
about the development status of software branch meant for Wiktionary.
If the development is suspended for the time being
then please add at least features
that makes life easy on "normal" Wikipedias:
- let "diff" link on Recent Changes point to respective revisions
(currently _every_ diff-link shows differences between current and
last but one revision)
- add "Show preview before edit box and not after it" option
I hope that others will appreciate those improvements
as much as I will. Thanks in advance.
Youandme
Hi!
While browsing thru http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_stubs ist stumpled accross this page:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=T%C3%BCbingen&redirect=no
I put a redirect on it for the time being but this is not the best behaviour. Basically this page should be "merged" with the correct one witout umlaut( [[Tuebingen]] ), but I don't know how to do this.
When I try to go to "What links here" I am suddenly at a page Tübingen (with the umlaut intact), I am a bit baffled by this, and don't know where to start looking.
Cheers
Leo
Just a reminder to all -- when inserting user-supplied text directly into
the output stream, always remember to run it through htmlspecialchars() or
some other filter to avoid injection of JavaScript or other potentially
malicious goodies. (As well as accidentally page-ugliness due to someone
talking about an html tag in an edit summary, etc.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 2/25/03 1:36 AM, "Brion Vibber" <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> On lun, 2003-02-24 at 22:09, Jay Bowks wrote:
>> Hey Brion,
>> thanks so much for doing all the work of redirecting the Wiktionary
>> entries. How'd you change the caps so quick ? :-)))
>
> The magic of perl scripts!
>
> while( $x = <> ) {
> $x =~ s/^(\[\[[A-Z \(\)]+\]\])/lc "$1"/e;
> print $x;
> }
>
Because I love syntactic sugar, I can't help saying that the above can be
reduced to
while(<>) { s/^(\[\[[A-Z ()]+\]\])/lc $1/e; print }
Or, using the -p tag:
perl -p -e "s/^(\[\[[A-Z ()]+\]\])/lc $1/e"
to get that sedlike functionality.