Hello all,
I'm quiet new to Wikipedia... so let me say hello to everyone.
Dou did a great work!
I'd like to suggest a nice feature: Why not let users create a kind of
Template page with links like
[[law]]
[[businesslaw]]
....
every time a user access this page, wiki shows the content of
[[law]] and [[businesslaw]].... This would enable students to create
a easy printable page with all info nessesary to learn for a certain
subject...
warm regards, Phil
I did some of the improvements I mentioned in my last post while the
mailing list was down. At the test site, all language links now come
from that new database. I already made some dummy entries to test on. So
please, try it. THose who have access to the server, please have a look
at the code (SpecialIntl.php, mostly), just so if the code goes live one
day, I will not be the only one to blame ;-)
Magnus
Could we add an user preference option that if recent changes page is viewed
in "all changes since" mode, it will auto-reload after 5 minutes ?
(or 15 minutes, or whatever user puts into his preferences)
I think that it should be default behaviour in case of empty recent changes page,
with option to make it always behave that way.
Server croaked at or about 2003-02-03 20:49:47 UTC. Logs look fairly
normal. Load average and memory usage recorded a few minutes earlier at
20:40 looked fine. Response times for wiki pages loaded right up to the
end are good. No obvious trigger so far, and damn is it annoying.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
It is worse now than it was during the Slashdotting especially with Konqueror.
Sometimes all I get for hours are timeouts.
Does this have anything to do with the new table structures Brion installed a
few days ago? Everything was working fine before then.
--mav
I hope this mail won't get more nerve.
>Generally, give higher exposure to the open source side of
Wikipedia.
>Most people who come to the Wikipedia project simply don't
do so from a
>software development perspective, so we need to highlight
more that this
>side exists as well.
I agree. If you remember, isn't it good idea to rename
wikipedia software *or* set up a independent wiki for it?
>We need to make the Wikipedia-code Wikipedia-independent.
That is exactly what I meant before (but not all though). If
wikipedia software becomes more independent, it makes more
sense to seprate development process from meta-wikipedia.
But it is not necessary to prohibit discussion in meta-
wikipedia about the development. I am imagining of UseMod.
(I bet no one advocates all of my ideas are wrong because I
am ignorant, which I admit)
>The fact that with OpenFacts there will soon be another
Wikipedia
>specifically for open source documentation should also help
in
>attracting new developers.
What are OpenFacts?
I've put in some more fixes of the user_talk code (it inserted duplicate
rows, which I didn't notice before because of the PRIMARY key; also, it
now does the promised regex match to see if the User talk: page is
really an anonymous IP).
I've also implemented something I call the slash trick, analogous to the
pipe trick: If you put a / at the *end* of a subpage link like this:
[[/foo/]]
the / at the *beginning* (and of course the one at the end) is not
shown. This makes it slightly prettier to do stuff like Table of
Contents, while not hiding the subpage indicator by default.
Why not [[/foo|]] ? The pipe is already overloaded with many functions,
so we would have ambiguity in cases like [[/foo (bar)|]]. Besides, it
looks prettier ^_^
Regards,
Erik
--
FOKUS - Fraunhofer Insitute for Open Communication Systems
Project BerliOS - http://www.berlios.de
I'd like to implement an "Ignore this page" feature that can be used to
ignore a page, and, optionally, its subpages in the recent changes list.
It would work similar to the Watchlist feature: An additional "blacklist"
table, a "My blacklist" link (for removal only). Only for pages, not for
users. This would be a site option, meaning that it could be turned on for
e.g. meta, and turned off for the normal Wikipedias.
I'd also like to implement subpage support for both the blacklist and the
watchlist feature. The simplest way to do this (and therefore the best, at
least at first) is to make this a user preference: Ignore subpages of
ignored pages, Watch subpages of watched pages.
My primary motivation is OpenFacts, a Wikipedia for many different open
source projects. There might be a few projects taking up a lot of
Recent_Changes space, and it should be easy to filter those. But both
features should also be useful on meta, and require no additional
footprint if deactivated. Therefore, if there are no objections, I'll
implement it in CVS, which makes it easier for me to keep OpenFacts up-to-
date.
Note that I'm not sure when I'll get to this - maybe tomorrow, maybe in a
couple of months. If someone else needs it, too, I'll prioritize it.
Regards,
Erik