Wikitech-l April 2003

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Search feature not working
by Tim Starling 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

At the moment, all the search feature does is tells you there are no title matches (regardless of what you search for), and directs you to a Google search. The go button still works, so at the moment "go" is the only way to do a title search. I had assumed the dev. team has this under control and I worked around it, but I've had a new user (Susurrus) complain directly to me, asking me to forward his complaint on to here. So here it is. I know about "miser mode", but this isn't miser mode, it's nonexistent mode. What's going on? -- Tim Starling. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp

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clock out of sync
by Youandme 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

I watch a constant degradation of Wikipedia's clock. Before the weekend it was 5 minutes (acceptable for me) but today I see the difference is about 10 minutes. Some time ago there was a small thread started about synchronization through the Net. Has been the idea dropped or the possible solutions are to complicated? Youandme (worried, as Wikipedia slips into the Past)

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Patch for LanguageDe.php
by Thomas Corell 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Here is an update with typo corrections for LanguageDe.php. A user detected that "longapgewarning" was not translated. Please check if the added array element works properly (included in the patch). Is there somewhere a information abount missing translations? A small grep shows some problem (other missing elements): Language.php:1 LanguageCs.php:0 LanguageDa.php:1 LanguageDe.php:0 LanguageEn.php:0 LanguageEo.php:1 LanguageEs.php:0 LanguageFr.php:1 LanguageIt.php:0 LanguageJa.php:0 LanguageKo.php:0 LanguageNl.php:1 LanguagePl.php:1 LanguageRu.php:0 LanguageSv.php:0 LanguageZh.php:0 Smurf -- ------------------------- Anthill inside! --------------------------- 266c266 < "perfdisabled" => "Diese Funktion wurde wegen Überlastung des Servers vorrübergehend deaktiviert. Versuchen Sie es bitte zwischen 02:00 und 14:00 UTC noch einmal (Aktuelle Serverzeit : ".date("H:i:s")." UTC).", --- > "perfdisabled" => "Diese Funktion wurde wegen Überlastung des Servers vorübergehend deaktiviert. Versuchen Sie es bitte zwischen 02:00 und 14:00 UTC noch einmal (Aktuelle Serverzeit : ".date("H:i:s")." UTC).", 331c331 < "anontalkpagetext" => "---- ''Dies ist Die Diskussions-Seite eines nicht angemeldeten Benutzers. Wir müssen hier die numerische [[IP-Adresse]] zur Identifizierung verwenden. Eine solche Adresse kann nacheinander von mehreren Benutzer verwendet werden. Wenn Sie ein anonymer Benutzer sind und denken, dass irrelevante Kommentare an Sie gerichtet wurden, [[Spezial:Userlogin|melden Sie sich bitte an]], um zukünftige Verwirrung zu vermeiden. ''", --- > "anontalkpagetext" => "---- ''Dies ist die Diskussions-Seite eines nicht angemeldeten Benutzers. Wir müssen hier die numerische [[IP-Adresse]] zur Identifizierung verwenden. Eine solche Adresse kann nacheinander von mehreren Benutzer verwendet werden. Wenn Sie ein anonymer Benutzer sind und denken, dass irrelevante Kommentare an Sie gerichtet wurden, [[Spezial:Userlogin|melden Sie sich bitte an]], um zukünftige Verwirrung zu vermeiden. ''", 351c351 < Sie geben uns hiermit ihre Zusage, daß Sie den Text selbst verfasst haben, daß der Text Allgemeingut (public domain) ist, oder daß de Copyright-Inhaber seine Zustimmung gegeben hat. Falls dieser Text bereits woanders veröffentlicht wurde, weisen Sie bitte auf der 'Diskussion:'-Seite darauf hin. --- > Sie geben uns hiermit ihre Zusage, daß Sie den Text selbst verfasst haben, daß der Text Allgemeingut (public domain) ist, oder daß der Copyright-Inhaber seine Zustimmung gegeben hat. Falls dieser Text bereits woanders veröffentlicht wurde, weisen Sie bitte auf der 'Diskussion:'-Seite darauf hin. 352a353,354 > "longpagewarning" => "WARNUNG: Diese Seite ist $1KB groß; einige Browser könnten Probleme haben, Seiten zu editieren, die größer als 32KB sind. > Überlegen Sie bitte, ob eine Aufteilung der Seite in kleinere Abschnitte möglich ist.",

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error when installing Wikipedia
by Nicolas Delahaye 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Hi I am installing wikipedia from scratch, am a newbie in php, and got the latest version of the code (phase3). I also got an error, and was wondering if I did something wrong, or if I needed to configure more, or run something else before install.php. I followed the steps of INSTALL, turned register_globals on, and got following fatal error. I am on RedHat 7.2, with apache 1.3.27, mysql 3.23.56 and php 4.3.1. Anyone to help me? Thanks Nicolas [root@localhost wiki]# php install.php Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki" created. Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki/upload" created. Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki/style" created. Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki/upload/tmp" created. Copying files... * * * Warning! This script will completely erase the existing database "wikidb" and all its contents. Are you sure you want to do this? (yes/no) yes You should have already created a root password for the database. Enter the root password here: Creating database... Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/wiki/User.php on line 287 _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Search feature not working
by Tim Starling 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

>From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> >On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 17:20, Tim Starling wrote: > > At the moment, all the search feature does is tells you there are no >title > > matches (regardless of what you search for), and directs you to a Google > > search. The go button still works, so at the moment "go" is the only way >to > > do a title search. I had assumed the dev. team has this under control >and I > > worked around it, but I've had a new user (Susurrus) complain directly >to > > me, asking me to forward his complaint on to here. So here it is. I know > > about "miser mode", but this isn't miser mode, it's nonexistent mode. >What's > > going on? > >I've just gone ahead and turned the title search back on. I mean, heck, >who wants to actually be able to read or write anything on the wiki? >Much better to be able to search it -- _if_ you're lucky enough to get >through at all. > >Hooray! > >If it starts to suck too much (which it likely will come morning), I'll >disable it again. > Nothing that a few boxes full of high-end computer hardware wouldn't fix. When's that new server coming? Do we have any idea how much difference it will make? -- Tim Starling. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp

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Raised number of max connections
by Brion Vibber 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

I've been getting a lot of timeouts lately. A fair chunk of connections are from the 'grub' distributed search engine spider, which connects too often and doesn't play with robots.txt as nicely as I'd like. Some time ago I'd put them in the 403 rejection list but, they don't get the hint and keep on trying to connect. This doesn't touch the database, but does eat up some apache connections. Although I have now explicitly banned grub in robots.txt and filled out their little update form, they're still connecting -- even to the banned- for-all /w subdirectory. It's pissing me off. I've upped the max connections on apache from 175 to 260, and on mysql from 400 to 560. Lee or Magnus; if we get mysql too-many-connections errors, either bring down the apache limit or move up the mysql limit. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Slow again
by Luc Van Oostenryck 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

Is there someone playing again with (unmastered) SQL queries? Wikipedia is again almost dead. -- Looxix

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"Edit this section"
by erik_moeller＠gmx.de 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

Just an idea, don't know if I'll find time to implement it: Long articles can get painful to edit, because you have to scroll to the section you want to work on, and always load the entire page. Some browsers also have problems with long texts. Realistically, some articles will always be in the 20-30K range. So an easy way to edit smaller portions of a large article might make sense. We already have section markers in the text: == foo == === bar === It would not be very difficult to add a little [edit] link behind each section headline (should be made as non-ugly as possible), which would lead to an URL like http://www.wikipedia.org/w/ wiki.phtml?title=Robert_Atkins&action=edit&section=References The resulting edit window would only contain the text from this section and subsection. Preview would also only show this text. When saved, it would be merged with the remaining text. Edit conflicts could be handled at first like they are now: If an edit conflict occurs, the entire text - not just the section - has to be edited again. However, smarter edit conflict handling would be neat -- if someone edits text in an entirely different section, the two edits could be auto- merged. The name of the section that is being edited could also be automatically added to the recent changes comment line, so when I edit ==External links==, the text (section: "External links") is appended to the RC comment. One problem case would be articles with duplicate section titles. To properly reference section titles, there might therefore have to be an additional iteration parameter. Or we assume that this doesn't happen and always edit the first section of that name. What do you think? Regards, Erik

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Bug -- half-deleted image
by Tim Starling 20 Apr '03

20 Apr '03

Navigating from [[:Image:Rach3.jpg]] to http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/e/e9/Rach3.jpg produces a 404 error: "The requested URL /upload/e/e9/Rach3.jpg was not found on this server". I'm not sure how it got that way, but obviously the image table of the database needs to be updated to reflect reality. Don't bother trying to find or recover the missing file. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Edit screen: save space
by tarquin 20 Apr '03

20 Apr '03

Karl Eichwalder wrote: >The logo at the left upper corner and label stuff on top of the edit box >("Bearbeiten von André Breton...") are wasting precious vertical space. >Please implement switches to turn off these decorations. > Time to implement the "minimal skin" seen here, maybe: http://www.twoevils.org/files/wiki/Rabbit-minimal.html > > >

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