It's currently not possible to link to a category without making that
page a member of it (See
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_issues#How_to_link_to_category_with…).
This is a bit of a problem of course, Brion proposes a separate link
table for category-member links as a solution. This would also allow to
add a field that records the date when a page was added to the category
which would be very useful for sorting category overview pages by date.
This would be hard to change later, so i'd like to start some discussion
on this now before the category feature goes live.
Gabriel Wicke
Thank goodness new servers are forthcoming. But actually they were needed a
month ago already. Edit counts have been dropping on most Wikipedias for
some time now.
So far it seems we have been ordering servers when performance deteriorated.
Given the fact that from ordering till installation some weeks pass:
I wonder if it would be possible to define some criteria that would trigger
a hardware upgrade before the bottleneck becomes severe. I'm no expert on
this, but I'm thinking of average response times rising above a threshold
for a reasonably long period (long period in order to filter out temporary
setbacks).
Erik Zachte
In the Cologne Blue skin for both en:Wiktionary and Wikisource the
sub-title "The Free Encyclopedia" continues to appear, It should be
changed to "The Free Dictionary" for that project. I'll raise the
matter in Scriptorium to see what the Wikisource participants would like.
Could someone please look into this.
Thanks
Ec
I've integrated IMSoP's patch from the sf.net tracker that gets rid of
the need to have js enabled for selecting diffs from the page history.
Please test this at http://wikidev.net/Main_Page?action=history
(remember the usual refresh ceremony: shift-reload/ctrl-f5/cmd-r...).
Because the two radio button columns are a real form configuration the
browser remembers the selected buttons when going back from the diff
view to change the versions. Disadvantage is the need to press enter or
the button at the end of the form to get the diff.
Please comment, if the opinion is in favour i'll type commit tomorrow or
so.
Gabriel Wicke
Hi all,
We want to mirror Wikipedia in our new search engine. Is there any script
that already fetch data from wikipedia ?.
It will be great if there is something in JAVA.
Thanks.
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Hello,
When the wiki has problems talking to the database, it responds with a
message saying "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical
difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.". That's fine.
However, it seems that the message is sent along with an HTTP status code
of 200 (OK). I suggest that such error messages be delivered with an HTTP
status code of 500 (internal server error). This will prevent un-cool
things such as search engines recording an error page.
If my suggestion is accepted, then the text of the error message should be
expanded a bit (possibly using a number of whitespaces), so that Internet
Explorer will not replace the error message with its own "user friendly"
messages (i.e. MSN commercials).
--
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Hi,
I just started a search on de.wikipedia.org on "uucp" - as Wikipedia is
*very* slow at the moment the request had a timeout:
> Konnte keine Verbindung zur Datenbank auf $1 herstellen
("could'n connect to database on $1")
I think $1 should be expanded :)
Regards
Götz