Hello.
I have 2 questions about UTF-8 encoding in wiki.
1. How is the UTF-8 encoding encoded and decoded into other encodings?
Where in the sources can I find it? And what additional libraries or
software (except php, apache etc.) should I have in order to
encode/decode UTF-8?
2. How can I define (in the code) what encoding my Wiki uses? I mean what
variable contain information about the encoding?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Alexander
Dear colleagues,
== LanguageCs.php ==
1. Could anybody change these variables in the living copy of
LanguageCs.php?
# There are no month abbreviations in Czech language.
/* private */ $wgMonthAbbreviationsCs = array("1.", "2.", "3.",
"4.", "5.", "6.", "7.", "8.", "9.", "10.", "11.", "12.");
# Czech ISBN servers
/* private */ $wgBookstoreListCs = array(
"Národní knihovna" =>
"http://sigma.nkp.cz/F/?func=find-
a&find_code=WRD&request=&request_op=AND&find_code=WAU&request=&request
_op=AND&find_code=WTL&request=&request_op=AND&find_code=WYR&
request=&request_op=AND&find_code=WPB&request=&request_op=AND&find_cod
e=ISN&request=$1");
2. How to force caching of special pages in :cs? There is currently
no cached page at all.
3. The upload log file is missing.
4. To translate namespace Category into Kategorie. But there is
a lot of category pages in cs:, therefore they should be
automatically changed from [[Category:]] into [[Kategorie:]].
5. Wikipedie:Co je článek can't be deleted.
6. Would it be useful to transfer All system messages in MediaWiki of
LanguageCs.php into the living copy of LanguageCs.php? Approximately
half of all messages is in MediaWiki which may slow down perfomance.
== Rendering of layout (presumable Standard) ==
1. There is too much space between end of an external link and non-
space characters. For instance: [http://aa.bb.cc First]. is shown as
"First .", not as "First.".
2. All system messages (HTML) should have only 2 columns,
because there is no difference between Default text and Current text.
3. List of users (special pages) should distinguish between users
with their own pages (blue links) and without them (red links).
Yours sincerely,
Vít Zvánovec, bureaucrat of :cs
I would like that all developers (others may
participate as well of course) help setting up a list
to define how development tasks completed could be
rewarded.
This will be followed by a public poll to define how
the rewards would be perceived...
and a private poll for developers to know what their
opinion on the matter is
Please, contribute to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bounty
thanks :-)
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Can someone explain to me the purpose of the "Compare selected
versions" Javascript? It makes no sense to me, and it really slows
down the page for me. When I try to compare two versions, I have to
wait a long time for the page to change to reflect my selections.
Conceptually, I don't see the purpose. It is perfectly legal to
compare any two versions of the article. So turning on and off radio
buttons adds nothing to the functionality of the page, as far as I can
understand anyway.
I think I understand the difficulty with having a single line of
checkboxes or radio buttons... when you have 2 checked already, and
the user clicks a 3rd, how to interpret what they want? Presumably
they want to have unchecked one of the others, but which one?
But the current solution strikes me as inelegant.
--Jimbo
As the servers are already strugling, have you wondered what serverside compression will cost in server side CPU consumption?
With the new upload limit of 5Mb this is a more serious issue. What could be a middle ground is to only server 1 Mb max pictures when the thumbs are used and leave the 5Mb pictures to a detail screen. The 1 Mb pictures would be saved. This would cost a lot of harddisk but it is easier to upgrade harddisks than processors.
On that subject, has a SAN ever been contemplated for wikimedia ?
Thanks.
GerardM
Where is the template for translating the interface into a new language? I
looked at LanguageEn.php and Language.php, but LanguageEn.php is just an
include statement, and Language.php says not to use it as a template.
phma
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li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
I spoke a friend of mine who is in International Data Traffic.
I asked about the connectivity of Paris, London, Amsterdam.
Paris and Amsterdam are with Frankfurt and Stockholm on a par. London is on the end of the backbone. Paris is great for North and Middle Africa (superior to US) South Africa Paris is equal with US. Frankfurt is best for Eastern Europe but the difference with Paris is minimal.
I think the colo was to be Paris ? Great !!
GerardM
I thought of a neat feature today while browsing the Village pump,
pages in all talk namespaces have a neat + link besides the Edit link
so you can add a new section to it, so i thought it would be nice for
things like the Village pump to be able to have that link added with a
keyword to every page that had that keyword in the wikitext. I named
that keyword ADDSEC for "add section" and it's invoked with
__ADDSEC__.
I found out what i needed to do to get this, thanks to the help of
Gabriel Wicke. I modified the language/Language.php,
includes/MagicWord.php file and found that some changes had to be made
to includes/Parser.php and of course includes/SkinPHPTal.php.
I didn't implement it fully, due to a couple of reasons, but most of
all that my development box is wasted right now so i couldn't execute
the code, so i quite while i was ahead.
What needs to be done is:
1. Make Parser.php detect the presence of the MagicWord::get ( ADDSEC
) and set a variable
2. change the now "if ( $istalk ) {" in SkinPHPTal.php to "if (
$istalk || $thatvariable ) {
I'm sorry that i had to resort to such lame measures as not finishing
a simple feature, but having my box trashed and not fully
understanding how variables are passed around in mediawiki i'm just
sending this, perhaps if someone finishes it i'll have a better idea
of how to accomplish such things in the future.