Wikitech-l October 2004

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Editing process
by NSK 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Hi, Because I noticed some discussion about having some form of peer review and "wikiflow" in Wikipedia, I thought you would want to know about the solution to this issue I introduced in my project. Our solution is described at: http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Article_versions and http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process In short, there are two editions for each article, a protected one visible to the websurfer and an editable one in a Test: namespace. Maintainers reviee the changes and keep the good ones. Admins move the good edits into the main namespace whenever it is decided to have a new article version (1.0->1.1->1.2->2.0 et cetera). My solution does not require any software changes, but I will soon introduce a new mediawiki that will automate this process. The changes will be opensourced under gpl so you will be able to import them in your mediawiki if you wish. I don't know whether this is useful to you but I hope it helps, -- NSK (Nikolaos S. Karastathis) Personal page at http://nsk.wikinerds.org/ Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org

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CVS 1.4 problem - recent changes views does neither show User link nor User_talk link
by Thomas Gries 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

The current CVS 1.4 version in a fresh checkout with a fresh database has a problem in Skin.php: recent changes views (standard or enhanced) do not show User link nor User_talk link. I analysed, that it could be problem of module makeLink() Does anyone know, what goes wrong and could please repair it in the CVS ? Tom

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Enotif 1.21 for MediaWiki 1.3.6 released
by Thomas Gries 17 Oct '04

17 Oct '04

I released the new version of my email notification patch. It is based on the current version MediaWiki 1.3.6. (Developers can ask me for the diffs against CVS 1.4, because I have it ready for 1.4) 1. Full tgz (MW+Enotif) http://www.tgries.de/mw/enotif/mw136_incl_enotif121.tgz 2. Patches and diffs to previous versions http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 3. Documentation pages http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif Changes enotif 1.2 -> 1.21: * "updated (since my last visit)" markers are only shown for pages after last visit (ie. watched pages without the marker have known content) * number of watching users per page is added in recent changes view Tom Gries Berlin

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How to change license and language after installation?
by Kiss All 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hi,all Originally, I just chosed the license of our internal medawiki as GFDL. But our group memebers don't think it is proper for the actual content. Could anybody tell me how to change it? I also installed mediawiki 1.3.5 on my personal machine with chinese language option. But the help link is linking to english wikipedia site's bad title page. I don't want to hack the sidebar and only want to switch to english. How can I do this? -- Be good..

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Wikispecies
by Benedikt Mandl 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

For those who havn't heard of wikispecies yet: wikispecies is a wikimedia project meant to accomodate the needs and demands of scientists to a species directory and database. It was set up at http:// species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to test it and discuss details. As the initial brainstorming on the village pump goes on, one thing becomes clear: wikispecies has the potential to attract many people who would not contribute to a general encyclopedia, but would to a scientific database. As wikispecies will strictly suppress any forking from wikipedia, I thought about an approach that would allow us to use the pool of species-folks for wikipedia. The tasks: 1.) Wikispecies provides an interface (already at www.wikispecies.org) with templates for different categories (such as "synonymes", "habitat", "morphology" etc.) 2.) These categories represent a table that can be accessed by wikipedia and wikispecies 3.) Wikispecies, which have an emphasis on things like "synonymes" or "original species description" will display these categories on a high order 4.) Wikipedia will display the information that seems interesting for the user of a general encyclopedia in an order that seems appropriate for that purpose As I don't understand the underlying technical questions, I would like to know if this is technically feasible and - more important - who would volunteer to set up a database that would work as proposed. Thank you very much in advance, Benedikt -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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case sense on links for czech wiktionary
by Nefercheprure Waenre 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Could please anybody sufficiently privileged make the Czech Wiktionary fully case sensitive? I.e. to add: $wgCapitalLinks = false; to LocalSettings.php ? It was discussed on the wiktionary itself and gained a wide acceptance. (23% of registered users were in favor, the rest is inactive (ca 40-60%) or unopposing (the rest)) Furthermore there was no opposition to the switch on wiktionary-l where I have been advised to ask. Therefore I reckon the claim be well supported. --TMA (sysop on wikt:cs:) http://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedista:TMA

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Coding request
by Fred Bauder 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Could you please do this? Fred > From: Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> > Reply-To: Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:32:40 -0400 > To: Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com>, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Hateful ban shows that Wikipedia is flawed almost > beyond hope > >> If the only tool you have is a hammer, then all your problems start to look >> like nails. The ArbCom needs more tools. > > Like the ability to queue edits made by a given user/ip for review > (only to non-Talk pages), rather than having them immediately made > live, for a period of time... > > -- > +sj+

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User-less wiki?
by Paul Fierro 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

We want to use the Wikipedia database in a public project, wrapping it in our own skin using MediaWiki as (more or less) middleware. In order to keep our MediaWiki customizations to a minimum, we've been focusing on modifying index.php to do the dirty work. What we're looking for is a simple way to have a user-less, read-only wiki. Since our content comes from the Wikipedia database, and we don't want to be involved in accepting submissions or moderation, we will be directing all edits and contributions to wikipedia.org. Because of this, we have no need for users and such. We expect to direct a fairly high amount of traffic to wikipedia.org as our project will be deployed on a network of very high traffic sites. I've stripped out the login box from the template and prevented such pages as [[Special::Userlogin]] from displaying, even if one knows enough about MediaWiki to munge our URLs. Furthermore, no pages that are not in the Main NS will display. I have this functioning with MediaWiki 1.3.6, but I've been working on it since 1.2.5. Unfortunately (for me), as MediaWiki matures, I find myself coding around its changes - for example when $wgValidSpecialPagesEn disappeared from Language.php in 1.3.0, I could no longer rely on this array. What I'm proposing is one or more settings in LocalSettings.php (or something equally straightforward) that will enable MediaWiki to operate in a read-only, no-user mode. Naturally, I will offer any help to achieve this. Is this something that can be accomplished? Paul

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problem resizing photo's
by VideoMontageForum 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hi, As a newbie in Wiki I have this question: Installing wikepedia 1.3.5 everything works fine. Only resizing images does'nt work. Uploaded images shows up in the original size. When I for example use this line [[image:picture.jpg|100px]] I get an error that something is wrong in image.php Do I have to install something extra like ImageMagick or something else. Hope someone will help me, Regards, Forkink wmf(a)xs4all.nl

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New feature to win the win the vandalism battle
by Thomas Gries 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

My email notification patch (see http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 ) and the recently proposed enhancement (proposed by Chris Phoenix see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Email_notification_to-do_list#diff_link ) are quite close to the original proposal of Emmanuel Engelhart: I propose to add a new feature, to improve our fight again vandalism. I mean a diff, for watchlist articles, between the current version and the lastread one. I need opinion about the feature ? and about an elegant technical solution too ? Emmanuel Engelhart [Kelson] Proposed for Enotif is to have (in the email notification) diff link: In addition to a link to the latest page, include a link to the diff between the latest page and the last version the user saw. What you already can have now, when you would use Enotif v1.2 Because Enotif already knows the exact time of a watched page change ( = when a notification is sent to each watching user), the page version just before that "Enotif sent" event is the last version which was actually(!) visited by the watching user. A green marker (introduced together with the Enotif patch) marks such watched pages having new (= not yet visited) contents. Just to say it again: the marker and the notification mails are only for watch listed pages, which page title are printed in bold, as you know,. This feature (marker in Watchlist and Recent-Changes view is already built in Enotif v1.2 -- see the documentation pages http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enotif . Enotif v1.2 is already available for Mediawiki 1.3.5 (as a diff file or as a MediaWiki1.3.5+Enotif v1.2 tgz package). I migrated successfully and without problems that patch to the current MediaWiki 1.3.6 and will publish it with some small improvements as MediaWiki1.3.6+Enotif v1.3 this weekend, October 17, 2004. Tom Gries Berlin

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Wikitech-l October 2004