Hello,
I know this might not be the right place to ask, but
since wikipedia is the only site giving problems I'll
start here.
I have recently gotten internet in my home. As opposed
to working in an internetcafe and installed zonealarm.
I checked the tabs so wikipedia was allowed for
cookies,' "adds" and everything. Somehow I hot an ip
address (number) not a www.wikipedia.org or for me
nl.wikipedia.org.
Everything worked fine. No problems could see the
pictures and everything.
Now I was forced to reinstall. But this time for some
reason I have no IP number showing up, just the name.
So I gave it the same settings as the IP number
before. But I have constant problems, no pictures and
forced logouts. The only way everything works is if I
switch off zonealarm which is not exactly the idea off
a firewall?
Anybody got any clues or got the IP number so I can
add that?
Walter (user:waerth nl,en,de etc etc etc)
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_activity
Hi, some people updated their bios, others added their as well, thank you.
I added a few names on it today; very shortly :-)
Please check and add to the (very short) comments.
Any contributor to the software or hardware maintenance should feel free
to add his/her name as well.
I will update the wikimedia website within 48 hours with this page.
Note : if some people would like to be on this page for the information
it provides for contributors, but DO NOT wish to be on the foundation
website, please add yourself to the meta page and mention you do not
want to be on the Foundation website.
Thank you.
On Sep 18, 2004, at 6:30 PM, zhengzhu wrote:
> ! The character-to-character mappings are mainly extracted from the
> ! Unihan database from the 4.0.1 version of the Unicode standard,
[snip]
> ! The phrases are extracted from various phrase tables in the SCIM
> ! package (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/scim), and the
> mappings
> ! of the phrases are computed using the character-to-character
> ! mappings.
Would it be possible to provide an automated script for deriving this
file from the source material? If there's a need to change it in the
future, it would be very helpful to have that ready to go.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:05:15 -0700 (PDT), andrew fabbro
<andrew(a)fabbro.org> wrote:
of government.
>
> The rest of the world's feelings are hurt by Chinese imperialism and the
Your word of "the rest of the world" here is a little bit strange for
me. You only have right to express your own opinion. But never, please
never assume you are the rest of the world. How to define the "rest of
the world" and how do you know its feeling is the same as yours?
> destruction of Tibetan culture. Until China can behave like a modern,
> grown-up nation, no one gives a shit about your "feelings".
Again, your word of "no one" here is strange for me. As far as I know,
you gave a shit-about my feelings, but it does not mean "no one". You
are assuming you are the reprentative for anybody except me? I am
confident many people in this world care my feelings.
I can only draw a conculsion from your words that you are little bit
arrogant. But that is not fully your fault.
For me, I am trying to care anybody's feeling when doing things.
Forgive my word if what I saying is a kind of offend in your culture.
Thanks for your attention for this suggestion. though it is a little
bit off-topic
>
> andrew fabbro [andrew(a)fabbro.org]
> ------------------------------[ quote-o-matic] -----------------------------
> "I've been thinking about all my cool electronic gadgets and how they've
> never brought me real happiness. I guess it's because I don't have
> enough of them." -- Matt Diamond
>
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Be good....
I just looked at the donation page. It is good. However, I think you
may provide more methods to get money for wikimedia. For example,
selling T-shirt printed with wikipedia log, similar sticker for
volunteers to put on car bumpers.
Sometimes, people are more willing to get something while
contributing. And those things I mentioned are useful to spread the
effect of wikipedia.
I saw a lot of bumper stickers everyday. And some are very interesting
and very impressive while some hurt my feeling a lot such as "Free
Tibet". I don't like the idea of fission my country with the excuse of
wrong behaviors of government.
I would definitely buy one with WikiMedia slogan and put it on my
rear bumper to proudly declare: I am a wikipedian! Joint us! And I
would wear the T-shirt often too :-). But make sure you provide size M
suitable for asians. Most T-shirts in USA are too large for us.
--
Be good....
Dear wikitechnicians and developers,
the publication of the patch - which was announced for today - needs to
be postponed for some days, because we need to check it into the 1.4 CVS.
However, for those of you being curious about the features:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EmailNotification (and subpages) has the
documentation.
Tom and Markus
Firstly, I'm disappointed Erik chose to characterise my stated
motivation as "false pretenses", as if I had some kind of bias towards
Klingon and I deliberately tried to mislead the list. I mistakenly
created Klingon, I did not try to pull a swiftie on the Wikimedia
community. I hope that Erik's choice of words was in error.
Jimbo issued one statement against Klingon and one statement in favour
of Klingon. His opinion was thus sufficiently ambiguous that my pretext
was removed. However he later clarified his position by withdrawing his
initial statement -- both on wikitech-l and on #wikipedia. I would have
been happy to re-enable the wiki as soon as he did this, however he
asked me to wait for the discussion to pan out.
The compromise agreed to by Erik and Timwi is to allow the Klingon
Wikipedia, but to avoid interlanguage links. Accordingly, I have
commented out the Klingon entry in $wgLanguageNames. This means that
markup of the form [[tlh:wIqIpe'DIya]] will create an external link
rather than an interlanguage link, just like links to meta or sep11.
Otherwise the wiki is fully functional.
http://tlh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
-- Tim Starling
Excerpt from
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
Wikidata is a proposed wiki-like database for various types of content.
This project requires significant changes to the software (or possibly a
completely new software) but has the potential to centrally store and
manage data from all Wikimedia projects, and to radically expand the range
of content that can be built using wiki principles.
Imagine that you can edit the content of an infobox on Wikipedia (e.g. the
country box for Germany) with one click, that you get an edit form
specific to the infobox you are editing, and that other Wikipedias
automatically and immediately use the same content (unless it is local and
needs to be translated).
Imagine that some data in an article can be automatically updated in the
background, without any work from you - whether it is the development of a
company stock, or the number of lines of code in an open source project.
Imagine that you can easily search wiki-databases on a variety of
subjects, without knowing anything about wikis.
This project is separate from the Wikimedia Commons, because a Wikidata
database does not necessarily have to be useful for another Wikimedia
project, and because it is larger in scope.
Applications
Astronomy - '''space.wikidata.org''' (spc.wikidata.org)
* astronomical objects
* constellations
* craters
* observatories and telescopes
* surveys
* space missions
Society - '''society.wikidata.org'''
* Schools and universities
* Cities, Countries, Subdivisions
* Ethnic groups
* Radio and television stations
...
<end excerpt, more examples on Meta>
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Jimmy has just registered wikidata.org. We both agree that such a project
makes sense. I've had similar ideas before, but the (IMHO premature)
existence of Wikispecies has compelled me to put some of this down and
develop the idea further.
There's a GUI mock-up on the meta page of what data entry could look like,
and there's a (very rough) proposed implementation strategy. If someone is
willing to do so, it may make sense to create a proof-of-concept from
scratch.
I'm putting this idea out there for now so that it can be picked up at any
later time. This is not urgent in any way, but it could open up a huge new
range of projects where Wikimedia can compete with proprietary content
producers. (Oh, and corporate users of MediaWiki would love us for this.)
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I see two immediate consequences for us:
1) I believe that, if we do a database redesign, the needs of a project
like Wikidata should be considered; that is, we should come up with an
abstract scheme that allows storage and revision-handling for many
different data structures. Otherwise we'll have to do another huge
conversion later.
2) For Wikispecies, I suggest that those involved with the project make
sure that all data entered into the wiki is in a *structured form* so
that it can then later be easily converted into a real database
structure.
Regards,
Erik
I mean storing most local settings into database, and administrators
can modify it online via a dedicated configuration php page. Thus less
efforts are needed for administration and updating to new version of
mediaWiki.
Most page interface messages can be stored in DB, why not to store
those essential configuration information?
The best case would be to use newversion immediately after unpacking
mediawiki-x-x.tar to the original www root.
I am tired of editing LocalSettings.php for already. :-) It is like
programming, not administration.
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Be good....