Some weeks ago, we restarted speak to switch the French Wikipedia to
UTF-8.
The discussion deadline was schedule to yesterday and a very large
consensus
is achieved:
* For: 27,
* Neutral: 1,
* Against: 0.
The only concerns relate to tell users how to get a Unicode compliant
browser and fix eventual problem the switch may generate.
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Is my vote included here ?
I hope you will not follow the opinion of some to just ban and automatically revert those using non utf browsers as some users were suggesting :-)
Was the page of explanation for these unfortunate users set as suggested before the switch ?
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Hello.
Wanting to play with Wikipedia on my own comp, i tried to install MediaWiki
1.1.0. Using MediaWiki 1.1.0 (stable), Windows 2000, Apache2, php 4.3.4
(latest), MySQL 4.0.18 (latest).
I followed the instructions from INSTALL document. But there's a mistake there:
if you reply 'no' to database overwrite, the software doesn't correctly install
/ configure some stuff.
I'm using fr: locale, so i set that as language. After install, characters were
a real mess, accents wrongs & such.
So finally, I just trashed everything, did a fresh php install, then restored
database from dump (i restored it prior to mediawiki install the previous
attempt). This time it worked.
Or maybe that's just a mistake from me at some point, but i think i trashed
everything, then installed, replying 'no' to overwrite, and still some issues...
Also, MediaWiki apparently requires php to be an apache module, using
getallheaders function. Which isn't specified in the install document ^_-
(ok, implicitely with the --with-apache= directive on the ./configure line for
php... not intuitive for poor Windows users :))
As a side note, i get a warning in 'recent changes' saying Windows can't handle
dates before 1970, January 1st, 00:00. Only seems to appear when no change to
show, though, so not that a big deal :)
Nicolas
Hi list,
I made a python script to convert wikipedia articles to LaTeX or PDF.
http://swalter.homelinux.org/wiki2pdf/
It runs on my own box, so you may not be able to use it 24/7. But you
can get the source from:
http://cowww.epfl.ch/~swalter/wiki2pdf/source.php
(Requires: Apache with PHP, Python, LaTeX with ucs [Unicode] package)
Images and tables are not yet supported, but I plan to implement them
soon. Theoretically all languages with latin alphabet should work, but I
have only tested de,en,fr,it.
Please test the script and post your comments/errors/criticism.
Regards,
Stephan
--
http://cowww.epfl.ch/~swalter/
This might be a clueless question.
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Impressum&action=edit
This contains a very out of date and invalid phone number for me.
I wanted to change it, but when I logged in and tried to edit the page,
I can not.
To be more specific, I get an edit box just fine, but when I go into the
edit box and try to delete or add text, nothing happens. It's as if the
box is somehow read-only.
This is true in all my browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Safari, IE.
I've added into the head branch some quick preliminary stuff for
supporting syndication feeds, adding an RSS option to Special:Newpages.
Access like so: http://....?title=Special:Newpages&feed=rss
It should be quite easily extendible to other QueryPage-based special
pages (indeed, a change to QueryPage could probably make it available
for every one of them), and to other similar feed formats such as Atom
(subclass in Feed.php). These feeds at least for now don't include page
text or anything, just titles, dates, edit comments, and links.
This replaces the old (and broken for a long time) rdf/recent.phtml...
once it's working smoothly in all the places it's appropriate we'll
also want handy visible links to the syndication feeds, of course.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I have started used the MediaWiki software for a new purpose:
internal organizational planning. I work with a couple of nonprofit
organizations, and I'm helping them set up and get familiar with
using their own internal wikis to develop meeting agendas, draft
policies, and so forth. It seems to work quite well for this purpose.
Has anyone else tried this? I'd be interested in comparing notes.
This has also raised my interest in writing some hooks into the
software. For example, my prwatch.org website has a page that lists
staff bios. We've recently added several new staff members, and it
has occurred to me that it might be nice to use our internal wiki as
a way for each staff member to be able to update and maintain his or
her own bio. They could add it to our internal wiki (which is
passwork-protected), but then I could use SSI includes and some
custom PHP to display the text of the bios inside pages that look
like static HTML to people who visit the prwatch.org web site.
To make this work, I'd need a standalone parser for the wiki markup.
I've tinkered at the edges of the MediaWiki code, but I don't
understand it well enough to know where the parser resides or how I'd
adapt it to make a standalone parser. Can someone here give me some
guidance?
Incidentally, I think there might be some commercial potential for
this type of application. I can imagine a lot of situations where
companies would find wikis helpful both for internal organizational
planning and for maintaining the publicly-displayed content of their
websites, but where they would want to ensure that only authorized
people are allowed to modify the content. If these hooks were written
into the MediaWiki software, someone could probably make a nifty
living out of going around as a consultant and helping companies set
this up.
--Sheldon Rampton
Hi,
does anybody know who is in charge for the wikipedia.misc list/group?
My message to the list is being helt for several days now without a
reason. Perhaps the admin died or something? ;-)
Regards,
Nils.
--
Created by 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters.
Another Wikisourceror has raised the matter of footnotes in the
Scriptorium. http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource%3AScriptorium
> Hello! I wasn't able to figure out how to insert raw html anchors in
> to the text. I am mainly interested in inserting
>
> Hello! I wasn't able to figure out how to insert raw html anchors in
> to the text. I am mainly interested in inserting "clickable"
> footnotes, something like
>
> <a href="#footnote1">1</a>
>
> but as you see it does not work. Apparently the program automatically
> escapes the "angle" characters, is there a
>
I know that some time ago we talked about being able to annotate at
Wikisource, but it's still a small enough project that the technical
people aren't regularly there. Can anybody help him?
Ec
Hello,
Have we some news about the oldest servers ?
Where is Geoffrin now ?
I understand, it's not very interesting to use Larousse now :)
And Pliny ? Pliny could be a good web server if the drive problem is fixed.
Shaihulud
This Saturday at 6:30pm (repeated Monday 7am and 945am) the tech magazine
"neues" of the country-wide German public TV channel "3Sat" will report on
information gathering in the WWW. Within this report, Wikipedia will be
discussed as an example of a cost-free and license-free service. At the end
of the magazine at around 7pm there will be the possibility to ask questions
in the related chat-room at www.3sat.de/neues .
Below you will find the complete message published in the recent newsletter
(in German):
Wissen im Netz:
Das riesige World Wide Web hat Vor- und Nachteile. Einer der
Vorteile: Man kommt schnell und meist kostenlos an Informationen. Nachteil:
Wo und wie Suchen? In jüngster Zeit finden sich vermehrt Angebote, nämlich
Online-Enzyklopädien, die Wissen bündeln. Und zwar aktuell nicht nur
kommerzielle Portale, sondern auch "freie" Seiten, wie "Wikipedia". Der
Unterschied ist, dass hier jeder interessierte Nutzer selbst Artikel
schreiben kann. Außerdem darf man das bereits gesammeltes Wissen kostenlos
abrufen und weiterverarbeiten. neues checkt die Qualität solcher
Online-Enzyklopädien und gibt Tipps zum Thema Wissen im Netz.
Chat zum Thema !
Ab 19 Uhr können Sie zum Thema Wikipedia Ihre Fragen im Chat
stellen. Unter www.3sat.de/neues
Have fun!
Mark Krüger