Wikitech-l November 2004

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[support@candidhosting.com: [candidhosting.com #115227] Install & Setup Gig Link]
by Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

We probably need to discuss what we need. ----- Forwarded message from Candid Hosting Support <support(a)candidhosting.com> ----- From: "Candid Hosting Support" <support(a)candidhosting.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:40:21 -0500 (EST) To: mmemmer(a)neutelligent.com, JWales(a)BOMIS.com Subject: [candidhosting.com #115227] Install & Setup Gig Link for Fiber has been ordered and I expect delivery this week, however I think I may have made an error. I assumed that it would be SC to SC fiber. Please let me know the connector type you will have on your switch so I may get the approperate cable and a spare. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "La nèfle est un fruit." - first words of 50,000th article on fr.wikipedia.org

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Non-ASCII characters in interwiki links, URLs, etc.
by Petr Kadlec 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi all! It seems to me that handling of non-ASCII characters in interwiki links (or in URLs in general) is a bit problematic. As an example, take [[en:Václav Havel]]. Since en: does not use UTF-8, the URL is ".../V%E1clav_Havel". If you try to use the interwiki link to cs: (specified in the source as [[cs:Václav Havel]]), it leads to http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E1clav_Havel, which is _wrong_, because the cs: Wikipedia uses UTF-8 and the proper link should be ".../V%C3%A1clav_Havel". And, vice versa, the Czech article contains an interwiki link (specified again as [[en:Václav Havel]]) leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel, which is, again, wrong. I believe that a correct solution (apart from the long-term solution of using UTF-8 everywhere) could be: * Accept UTF-8 in URLs on en: (but how could they be recognized??) * Interwiki linking should use UTF-8 even on en: (or, does another Wikipedia except en: use latin-1?) Best regards, [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]

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who's afraid of stupid newbies?
by Robin Shannon 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Over at the wikien list a small flame war between PHP and perl, resulted in a bunch of people all saying that they would love to contribute to mediawiki development, however do not have the technical know-how to do so. And thus was born the idea of a group PHP tutorial with the aim of bringing people who dont know PHP up to a level where they can do menial coding, simple bug fixes etc. for mediawiki, freeing up time that the more skilled developers could use on something else, and hopefully (after the internship of doing easy stuff) become full blooded developers. So what they are looking for is someone who has a good knowledge of PHP to act as thier guide. <uncle sam voice> IS THAT PERSON YOU!?!?!?!?! </uncle sam voice> hopefully, [[w:User:The bellman]] rjs -- hit me: robin.shannon.id.au jab me: saudade(a)jabber.zim.net.au This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Recombo Plus License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/

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[Fwd: Patch for mediawiki (img_auth.php)]
by Erik Moeller 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

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RE: [Wikitech-l] Database abstraction layer
by Domas Mituzas 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

-----Original Message----- > Why did we write our own database abstraction layer when there's one already in PEAR? PEAR DB abstraction layer handles separate API functions. MediaWiki DB abstraction layer handles separate API functions AND separate flavours, query syntax and methods. Maybe it would be a great idea to separate our db api and run as separate PEAR/SF/whatever project ;-) *giggle* Domas

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patches, CVS access, et cetera.
by Dan Keshet 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi, After a couple of false starts, I've posted a short patch for Bug 144 (related changes for Categories). I can also close Bug 923, which I posted (poor use of strings in recentchangeslinked). So: 1) [[m:Development policy]] seems to say I should ask for CVS access. I don't really want CVS access, but if it was set up for me, I'd check in patches for 144 and 923. Alternately, somebody with access could check them in. I really want 144 closed by 1.4; I got a bunch of excited mail from people following that bug. 2) The patch for 923 subtly changes the meaning of the string 'rclsub'. Will translators know that the string changed? Is there a policy on allowing changes to strings close to release? 3) [[m:Development tasks]] seems unloved. The KDE project has a "junior jobs" concept where easy problems are prefixed with JJ: in bugzilla. I would be interested in a similar project for Mediawiki. I don't have time to do major things like database redesign or delta-compression, but if I could take a couple hours each week checking off simple bugs and free up time for core developers to work on the big issues I'd be willing to do that. Peace, Dan Keshet (English Wikipedia)

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Corrupt old entries on eswiktionary
by Brion Vibber 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

A bunch of compressed old entries on es.wiktionary.org are corrupted. For example, history entries on the Portada are corrupt from June 16 through August 11 and September 24 through October 25. A spot-check of corrupt entries shows a byte pattern very reminiscent of a text conversion from Latin-1 to UTF-8. I need to know when this wiki was converted, and exactly what was done; are there prior backups? Is the conversion reversible? Might we have the same problem on other wikis? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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$wgEnableEmail $wgEnableEmailUser
by Thomas Gries 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Brion wrote > E-mail functions are not always available on a given server (or may be > available but non-functional), and in general open e-mail can be > abused. Being able to disable all e-mail functions on the wiki prevents >false presentation of unusable features, and disabling of user-to-user > e-mail could cut down on abuse (for instance as a spam relay). To summarise: As written on the IRC, we have now ( Brion_and_Tom together ) the following variables in DefaultSettings.php (1) $wgEnableMail (2) $wgEnableEmailUser (3) $wgEmailnotificationForUserTalkPages (4) $wgEmailnotificationForAllPages (5) $wgEmailnotificationForMinorChanges The switches 1 to 2 are general switches, the switches 3 to 5 are used to determine the behaviour for the Email Notification for Page Changes, this patch scheduled for publication on 30.11.2004 See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 and http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif

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Fatal Error on start page
by Roy 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Any ideas about this message: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in c:\apache\htdocs\mediawiki\includes\Parser.php on line 1532 I get it right away when I try to go to the main wiki page. Roy.

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preview and Unicode characters
by Reinhardt Wiewe 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

Dear friends, I am using Mozilla Firefox and need to used Unicode characters. I have installed lots of fonts (some supporting Unicode). Please look first at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests/Unicode_ISO_8859-1/Table_o… then edit the section and make a preview. The spaces between the characters are different in the preview and what is saved. The page contains more anchors and sections a.. #char458 b.. #char502 c.. #char544 d.. #char622 e.. #char675 4.1 Note on character 458 4.2 Note on character 502 4.3 Note on character 544 6.1 Note on character 622 6.2 Note on character 675 You may experience the same behaviour there. It maight be that it is a random problem of the browser. Is there a way to avoid this? Regards Reinhardt

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