Wikitech-l January 2005

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by Hugo Vincent

Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems.

11 years, 5 months

machine translaton of the articles...

by prasad gadgil

Hi, I have just joined, I am from mumbai, india. I would like to get the articles translated in marathi, my mother tongue. Looking at the effort and no of volunteers, this will not be usable in any reasonable amount of time. That has made me think of alternatives - machine translation. A state funded institute has a software available but I don't have access to it yet. Pl. comment about this approach. Has this been tried for any other language earlier. Thanks & regards, Prasad Gadgil ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

18 years

Time to get some new servers

by Camille Constans

Hello, As wikipedia is slow at the busy time, I propose to get some new servers for our cluster. - Some new web servers(3 or 4), P4 2,8Ghz with 2Go of RAM - A server which could be a backup for nfs server, zwinger, with bigger disk, 80Go is very low, maybe 200 or 250Go - Upgrading disk of zwinger to 200 or 250Go (or add a new one) - A db server in 64 bits mode with 4Go of RAM (if we cant make working geoffrin), like this one : http://www.macomp.com/products/servers/patriot2200.asp With raid 10 disk system, 4 or 6 drives in raid and 1 stand-by. I prefer 15000rpm disk, but I can understand that they are more expensive - Maybe another squid server What do you think of that ? Shaihulud

18 years, 5 months

mediawiki specialpage:makesysop error

by Justin M. Gregg

Hi, I am new to using MedaWiki, and when I try to make a sysop from this page: http://www.glossologia.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Makesysop I get the following text: "Error: could not submit form This form is used by bureaucrats to turn ordinary users into administrators. Type the name of the user in the box and press the button to make the user an administrator *User "Bob" could not be made into a sysop. (Did you enter the name correctly?)" * I am using MySQL and phpMyAdmin if that helps any. Runs fine for me except for this problem. Thanks.

18 years, 9 months

Proxy scanning: a suggestion

by Neil Harris

I've noticed increasing levels of vandalism via anonymizing proxies. We turned off the automatic proxy-scanning some time ago because of complaints by the clue-deficient who saw this as potential attacks. However, it might be a good idea to do the following: * whenever an admin _blocks_ a user, the IP they were editing from should be automatically proxy-scanned, and blocked indefinitely if it is an open proxy (_in addition to_ the username/IP block that would have been applied) By restricting proxy scans to proven vandals, this will reduce the rate of proxy scans to a few dozen a day (from tens of thousands before), and result in a proportionately trivial level of complaints which can safely be auto-replied or ignored. It will also allow the reply to be very clear: "we detected abuse from your user, verified that it was coming from an unsecured proxy on your network, and took appropriate action". 99% of the code for this already exists, so it should be trivial to put in place -- however, I'm aware that our heroic developers are somewhat busy... -- Neil

18 years, 9 months

performance

by NSK

MediaWiki 1.3.9 and 1.4beta4 are very slow and uses too many CPU cycles and memory compared to other wikis. The database schema, as I see it, seems to be inefficient. Are there any changes planned for 1.4 final to increase performance? -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org

18 years, 9 months

Google preventing comment spam

by shi zhao

see http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html Are we can join in the exterior links (rel="nofollow") , preventing wikispam? [[zh:user:shizhao]]

18 years, 10 months

Why www.wikipedia.org => en.wikipedia.org ?

by Grégoire Colbert

Saluton [English version follows], Mi volas scii kial la adreso http://www.wikipedia.org kondukas automate al la adreso http://en.wikipedia.org... Chu Wikipedia estas angla projekto kun tradukoj, au chu ghi vere estas internacia? Oni povas uzi tiun PHP programon por solvi tiun problemon : function handle_http_accept_language() { $knownlangs = array( "eo", "fr", "en" ); # Etc $lang = "eo"; # Default $lastquality = 0.0; # Note HTTP reference RFC 2616 - # ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt $langtag = '((?:[a-zA-Z]{1,8})(?:-[a-zA-Z]{1,8})*)'; $qvalue ='(0(?:\.[0-9]{1,3})?|1(?:\.0{1,3}))'; $eachbit = '^' . $langtag . '(?:;q=' . $qvalue . ')?(?:,\s*)?(.*)$'; $alh = trim( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ); while(strlen($alh)) { if( preg_match( "/$eachbit/", $alh, $m ) ) { $tag = $m[1]; $quality = $m[2]; if(strlen($quality) == 0) $quality = 1; $alh = $m[3]; #echo "language '$tag' quality '$quality'\n"; if(in_array($tag, $knownlangs) and $quality > $lastquality) { $lang = $tag; $lastquality = $quality; } } else { break; } } return $lang; } Mi ne subskribis al la listo, char estas mia nura propono. :-) Dankon, Grégoire =========== Hello, I want to know why the address http://www.wikipedia.org redirects automatically to http://en.wikipedia.org... Is Wikipedia an english project with translations, or is it a real international project? We can use this PHP program to solve this problem : function handle_http_accept_language() { $knownlangs = array( "eo", "fr", "en" ); # Etc $lang = "eo"; # Default $lastquality = 0.0; # Note HTTP reference RFC 2616 - # ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt $langtag = '((?:[a-zA-Z]{1,8})(?:-[a-zA-Z]{1,8})*)'; $qvalue ='(0(?:\.[0-9]{1,3})?|1(?:\.0{1,3}))'; $eachbit = '^' . $langtag . '(?:;q=' . $qvalue . ')?(?:,\s*)?(.*)$'; $alh = trim( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ); while(strlen($alh)) { if( preg_match( "/$eachbit/", $alh, $m ) ) { $tag = $m[1]; $quality = $m[2]; if(strlen($quality) == 0) $quality = 1; $alh = $m[3]; #echo "language '$tag' quality '$quality'\n"; if(in_array($tag, $knownlangs) and $quality > $lastquality) { $lang = $tag; $lastquality = $quality; } } else { break; } } return $lang; } I did not subscribe to the list, because this is my only proposition. Thank you, Grégoire

18 years, 10 months

RSS feed for user's watch list (feature suggestion)

by DIG

Hello, It is a feature suggestion. I also submitted it through Mediazilla (#1265). It would be useful for the wiki contributor to have a RSS feed, containing fresh information about articles from his/her watch list. The relevant URL for this kind of feed should be composed of two parts: (1) first part is user specific and may looks like this: http://XX.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:USERNAME (2) second part is a randomly generated string and is here to protect user's privacy, which does not change (it can, however, be changed at the user's request). Example: http://XX.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:USERNAME?rss_id=febcbda8a5c3 The whole link to RSS feed will only be available to the user on the user's page _after_ authentication and may be placed under "Preferences" or inside "Navigation block" (latter is better, I think). This way the user will receive fresh information about his/her watched articles through the RSS feed, while keeping his/her watch list private. Best regards, P.S. Please, CC me, I am not on the list (yet). -- DIG (Dmitri I GOULIAEV) 1024D/63A6C649: 26A0 E4D5 AB3F C2D4 0112 66CD 4343 C0AF 63A6 C649

18 years, 10 months

per-article anon edit rights

by Gordon Morehouse

Hello all, I'm using Mediawiki 1.3.9 to run a personal wiki, and I've disabled anonymous editing. However, there are a couple articles which I'd like to allow users who are not logged in to edit. Is this possible and if so how could I accomplish it?

18 years, 10 months

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