Wikitech-l March 2005

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searching old versions?
by Ilya N. Golubev 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

History pages do not (obviously) refer to searching in old versions of article. There is certainly a way to retrieve article versions one by one, and one could (theoretically) do that in batch mode and search in them locally. And that would be suboptimal wrt both user bandwidth and wikipedia server load. Is there a way to search in old versions of article? For instance, one knows that there was a version of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_future> that contained a reference to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall>, "twin pines" phrase, "destroyed" word. The date of the version is unknown. How does one find that version starting from <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future&action=history>?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Nofollow vote results on en.wikipedia
by David Gerard 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Tony Sidaway wrote: > Matthew Trump said: >> Following the advice of the developers, community vote was set up. It >> was open for two weeks and had spirited debate about the use of >> "nofollow". The result of the vote was >> Remove "nofollow" -- 61% (85 votes) >> Keep "nofollow" -- 39% (55 votes) > This is not a consensus. There is no need to take any action. Not quite. Adding "nofollow" was a unilateral decision, not a consensus one. The vote to ratify it or not sprang up *immediately*. The consensus would be required to *keep* this radical change - not to put things back how they were before it. - d.

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Favicon on wikimediafoundation.org
by Yann Forget 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Hi, Just a small thing to enhance the foundation web site. There is no favicon on it. Would be nice to have one. http://wikimediafoundation.org Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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Changing md5 of wikisysop user
by Export TheGeek 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

First, let me say i hope this is the right list! well.. I forgot my password for sysop so I created a new md5 based off a new password and entered the md5 value into user_password in the user table on the wiki mysql database, but attempting to login still yeilds invalid password.. anybody have any thoughts on how to enter a new md5 and have it work? did i miss some sort of has / calculation done to the initial plaintext password? Many thanks! -Export

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Pictures on the Dutch Wikipedia do not work anymore
by Walter Vermeir 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

The normal [[image:Whatever.jpeg]] still work but not http://www.someserver.tld/foto.jpeg You get a url and not the picture. It seems to be so since yesterday. For normal use of Wikipedia that is no problem. But there is one special use of this form that now does not work anymore. Since 27th of october 2002 we have on the Dutch Wikipedia a Nedstat counter. http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=1940085 So now we have stats form the early days of the Dutch Wikipedia, befor wikimedia has its one internal stats and the are also live. Also the other Dutch projects use this system. Because you can not use real html on the wiki pages the counter is a external image that is loaded. http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/n?id=AB2adQNZADwCBJkmGvXB60CHw0rg.gif ... and this does not work now anymore. I whould like a solution. Is there some option so you can put the external images again on or to include a html image tag? Walter

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Wiktionary capitalization
by Yann Forget 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi, Could someone turn off the capitalization on http://bg.wiktionary.org and http://ne.wiktionary.org ? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-development_tasks_for_developers#Wiktion… Thanks, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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[daniwo59@aol.com: [Foundation-l] a message i am forwarding from project gutenberg]
by Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

----- Forwarded message from daniwo59(a)aol.com ----- From: daniwo59(a)aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:13:33 EST To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] a message i am forwarding from project gutenberg I am forwarding this message I received from Project Gutenberg Hello Danny, could you please forward this and introduce me to the right people? Thanks. What I want to do is to set up a hierarchy of cache servers for Project Gutenberg. I know you are doing this on Wikipedia. I want to do something very similar: set up some squid servers around the world and take some load off the main Gutenberg site at _ibiblio.org_ (http://ibiblio.org/) . Before reinventing the wheel I'd like to take a look at your squid configuration files and maybe have a little chat with one of your system admins. I look forward to hearing from you -- Marcello Perathoner _webmaster(a)gutenberg.org_ (mailto:webmaster@gutenberg.org) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "Pianosa is een Italie" - first words of 50,000th article on nl.wikipedia.org

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Update of fr.wikinews interwiki links.
by notafish 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi. It seems that the [[commons:Name_of_page_on_commons]] interwiki does not work on fr.wikinews. On the same topic, why doesn't a [[w:Article]] send directly back to fr.wikipedia rather than English Wikipedia ? This would be very very handy. And I have probably missed other links that don't work. I have noticed on en.wikinews that every link of the form Wikipedia name space [[Wikipedia:Foo]] sends back directly to Wikipedia, that does not work on fr. Link should be of the form :[[Wikipédia:Foo]] btw. Thanx, Delphine

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How long can a title be? Database issue.
by Richard Holton 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

In looking through the MediaWiki schema (both current and new), I've noticed that page titles are given a max length of 255 chars. However, it seems that in some cases, this title includes the namespace, and in others it does not -- namespace is stored as an Int or is implied by context (eg, categorylinks, imagelinks). This sounds a warning klaxon in my head. Is my concern misplaced? Would it make sense to always use the namespace (as an int) plus title (without namespace) to reference a page (again, unless implied by context)? Rich Holton en.wikipedia:User:Rholton

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03 Mar '05

Hi, I've noticed that even though I will log out of my account on a recently-installed Wikimedia 1.3.11, it will keep me logged in in at least the main page. Seems to be same for both IE6 and FireFox 1, so I thought it could be a cookie problem. Then I found what I believe is the issue in Bug 63, here: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63 The bug is marked fixed, but the last post merely says it was fixed in the CVS ("... set cookie with logged in and log out timestamp, then check them when checking If-Modified-Since."). I was just wondering if someone who is using CVS could fill me in on the code modified, or give me some pointers for how to do it myself. Thank you!

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