Two weeks agos, fr decided to go to UTF-8. Now we can say, that fr is working fine :)
Some problems we had :
- Pbs with illegal windows caracters (which are not in ISO8859-1). Corrected by a bot after the conversion, but It could have been done before.
- Cache pb, anonym users created pages with old encoding. If we do another conversion, we'll have to clear the squid cache I think.
- Name of pictures. The name of pictures are converted in UTF-8, but not the file name on server. Now it's fine, we have a script which convert it.
It tooks around 3 hours to convert the french wiki. During this 3 hours, 20' to make the dump, 2 hours to convert the dump, and 40' to get back the dump in the database.
The fr site was offline only for the 40' of getting back the dump in database. During the rest of the time, the wiki was in read only.
I would like to thank Med, for his conversion software, Looxix for his small python script to convert the pictures file names and all the work he had done to convert illegal windows caracters with his bot.
If some people want to go to UTF-8, I can say we're ready now :)
Shaihulud
Title should say it all...though I am sure it is not clear :-)
What about an option for the user to have a merge of rc of meta and one
local wikipedia ?
Same for rc ?
That will increase meta visibility (at the user choice only). And it
should not spoil rc, since meta traffic is rather low.
"Camille Constans" <wikipedia(a)shaihome.net> schrieb:
> If some people want to go to UTF-8, I can say we're ready now :)
There has been a request of going to UTF-8 for nl: in November or so.
Given that it seems to be possible now, I guess I am hereby reiterating
that request.
Andre Engels
Could a developer please delete the old revisions listed on
the following
page?
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%F6schkandidaten/Versionen/oldid-Li…
They all contain copyright violations. Deletion of old revisions
will be necessary about every two weeks. Is this list the right
place for such requests?
de:Benutzer:El
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I have searched around and tried to find ways to better
navigate my wiki using MediaWiki and I didn't find much.
Maybe there is something I'm missing, but anyway, over
the weekend I hacked the code a little so it would do
this:
http://www.jeeptech.com/wiki/index.php/Transmission/Factory/AX-15
I generate the navigation based on the title. This works
great for me since I just want to have a tree structure
to my site.
My implementation is not super clean, but it works. What
are the chances of having something like this included or
hooks for user code to generate a top and bottom navigation
bar. Perhaps there is a plan I'm not aware of.
--
Terry L. Howe
http://www.jeeptech.com/http://www.tiptoprockracing.com/
Installation, compatibility, security fixlets vs 1.2.0:
* Detect use of PHP as CGI and disable index.php/Title URLs
* Try to auto-create math tmp & output directories if not present
* Disable Asksql in default install ($wgAllowSysopQueries)
* Better handling of get_magic_quotes_gpc (apostrophe problems)
* French localisation no longer hard-codes "Wikipedia" name
There are no database format changes since 1.2.1.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
All,
please participate on:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_Syntax
We are trying to develop a standardized syntax for extensions such as the
LaTeX extension for mathematical formulas, the upcoming hieroglyphs
extension, the SVG extension etc.
There will be a brainstorming phase until April 4, after which we will
vote on these different proposals.
This will hopefully allow us to finally start working on a generalized
extension interface.
Regards,
Erik
"wiki pedista" <wikipedista(a)yahoo.com> schrieb:
> I noticed that in the english wikipedia the special
> pages have a saved version. In the spanish wiki not.
> Who is in charge of running the queries and saving
> the results in those pages? Who can do it?
Anyone can do it. It's a special URL. You take the URL in the form with
w/wiki.phtml?, and add "&magic=yes" to it.
On Spanish this gives:
http://es.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Especial:Shortpages&magic=yes
(plus the same for the other pages), on other languages you have of course
to use your own name for the 'Special' namespace.
You will then get the page as if it worked normally, and it will be
archived in the version that you last saw.
You should of course not over-use this possibility, that would defeat the
purpose of having the special pags archived.
P.S.: I have done an update on es: for you now. :-)
Andre Engels