Wikitech-l October 2004

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Re: WikiMedia +WikiTech
by Andre Engels 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

> Hi. I'm Paginazero, an Italian user/contributor to it.wiki. > As most of my contributions are related to the chemistry, I'm eagerly > waiting to have the WikiTeX functions included in MediaWiki - that would > be a great help to avoid image uploading and to define a common > standard for writing chemical formulae and reaction schemes. > I'm so impatient that I already began to prepare a tutorial for the Italian > users! > Looking forward to getting rid of ASCII-art formulae, I thank you all for > your kind attention. If I can be of any help, let me know. But WikiTex IS already included in MediaWiki since a year or so (at least it's older than 1.3). Just type <math>some LaTeX</math>. Andre Engels

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making a Graph extension to mediawiki
by Victor Fariña 03 Oct '04

03 Oct '04

Hi I am developing a graphviz extension to mediawiki, basically it is usefull to make graphs online using the graphviz program , i think its very usefull , and i am using it at my wiki (http://www.wickle.com/wikis/index.php/Graphviz_extension) you can download and test it if you like. there are samples on the wiki page . best regards -- Problems with Windows - Reboot. Problems with Linux - Be root. Vic (aKa CoffMan) vic(a)wickle.com

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error message (info)
by Anthere 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

When wikipedia gets unavailable, the message displayed is this one : '''Wikimedia Fundraising Drive 2004'''. Help us raise $50,000. See [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/fundraising our fundraising page] for details. [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_site_notice Information on this message] - [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:MediaWiki:Sitenotice|action=edit}} Edit this message]

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Vandalism problem
by Ray Saintonge 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

We've been having a bit of trouble with a vandal [[User:Hi332211]] at Wiktionary. He has been using the move function to transfer the Main Page to silly places. I managed to get the Main Page back to where it belongs, but lost its history in the process. By using the history link in Recent Changes corresponding to when he made the move I find the entire history is now at http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=You_are_an_idiot%21&curid=58201… but I don't know how to put it back where it belongs. The talk page is now at [[Wiktionary talk:Main Page]] along with its history. Someone else had put it there in an attempt to fix the vandalism. I hesitate to attempt correcting this lest I lose that history as well. The Main Page has been protected, and the vandal is now blocked. Ec

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[Patch] new function Parser::replaceImageLinks() instead of calling replaceInternalLinks twice
by Rowan Collins 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

In order to solve some conflicts between internal and external links, wmahan rearranged Parser.php to call replaceInternalLinks() before replaceExternalLinks(). However, this in turn broke the ability to put external links inside image captions, since these are created in replaceInternalLinks() In order to cope with *internal* links inside image captions, replaceInternalLinks() is currently called twice, the second pass catching those images that couldn't be parsed properly because they had internal links in them. This has always been rather a hack, but until now, it worked. However, we really want things to be dealt with in the order: 1 internal links 2 external links 3 images In order to do this, we need a seperate function that parses *all* image rendering. I have called this replaceImageLinks(), and based it on replaceInternalLinks(), but without anything that isn't relevant to images (including all the prefix and trail processing, for a start). I rather suspect this may actually make it a whole lot more efficient than the previous code; still not as efficient as doing proper parsing in one go, but with the current structure of the code there's no way to tell that [[foo [[bar]] baz]] is one entity (that would require looking ahead, and remember we need to be able to process [[Image:Foo|opts|Caption with a [[piped|link]] in]], so there's no clever spotting pipes to be done) Download from: http://195.137.84.82/~ron/replaceImageLinks.diff It seems to work for me, but obviously I would welcome all comments and testing. Note: this patch fails parserTests.php on a couple of things, but the "Image caption with a free URL" and "Thumbnail image caption with a free URL" tests are actually wrong themselves, so that's no surprise; testing manually, these cases seem to have the appropriate result. The "Image caption with a link" appears to fail (unrelatedly) because the word "link" now appears in a comment, not just surrounded by HTML tags, so the removal of /<*?>/ now kills it; which is a shame. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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shell accounts
by Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

I'm a little confused on the process whereby we make decisions about shell access. I'm thinking right now primarily of access for a couple of people from the German e.V. to work on their website, which doesn't yet exist, rather than thinking of shell access to the main cluster. Related to this, it seems sensible to me that we should buy a special server to host things that we want to be separate, like for example the donation pages, so that if wikipedia is blown up for some reason, people can still donate money. This would also permit us to give shell accounts more freely to people with a specific need on some auxiliary website. --Jimbo -- "La nÃ¨fle est un fruit." - first words of 50,000th article on fr.wikipedia.org

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Please, delete :cs:Wikipedie:Co je článek
by Vít Zvánovec 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

This can be done only by devolopers: :cs:Wikipedie:Co je článek (http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Co_je_%C4%8Dl%C3%A1nek) is in a bad namespace, that's why it cannot be deleted normally. (You can click on it in http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages) It claims, it has 138 bytes. (http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Shortpages) Can you please delete it? How can be deleted a file with no name - see http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Unusedimages, for a file: . . 08:23, 14. 9. 2004 . . Beny Vít Zvánovec, sysop of cs:

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Admin interface / user rights
by Ashar Voultoiz 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hello, For the next 3 days I will be able to spend my full time on MediaWiki development. I am really willing to code an administration interface that will superseed the install script and manually editing localsettings.php. My idea so far is that the install script will just deal with things like database and path, everything else will be available in the admin interface. I am also willing to completly rewrite the rule system. Instead of anonymous / logged in / Sysops / Bureaucrate, I am willing to assign users to groups, each group having rights like "edit, move, special page, site administration, mediawiki, protecting page ...". Is there any dev already working on one of those two topics ? Do you have any specific idea to share ? Finally, should I start it now for the 1.4 release or wait for a later release ? cheers, -- Ashar Voultoiz

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Nauruose
by Gerard Meijssen 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Some time ago I wrote to this list that the local word for Nauruan should be Nauruose, the source I quoted was the Nauruan wikipedia. Consequently it was changed for use with interwikis. However, it has transpired that the Nauruan wikipedia has been squated. Nobody knows what language the content is in. I am afraid that Nauruose is propably wrong. Thanks, GerardM

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Wikimedia + WikiTeX ?
by Paginazero 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hi. I'm Paginazero, an Italian user/contributor to it.wiki. As most of my contributions are related to the chemistry, I'm eagerly waiting to have the WikiTeX functions included in MediaWiki - that would be a great help to avoid image uploading and to define a common standard for writing chemical formulae and reaction schemes. I'm so impatient that I already began to prepare a tutorial for the Italian users! Looking forward to getting rid of ASCII-art formulae, I thank you all for your kind attention. If I can be of any help, let me know. G.

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