The Wikimedia Research Network is a voluntary association of individuals
interested in studying the content, communities and technology of the
Wikimedia projects. It is free for anyone to join:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_Network
Today, 20:00 UTC, the WRN will convene on IRC, on the channel
#wikimedia-research
on
irc.freenode.net
Unlike the first meeting, this one will focus on very specific issues. I
intend to split the channel very quickly into two main topic areas:
* MediaWiki (software) related research
* study of the Wikimedia content and the project communities.
If you've never used IRC before, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_instructions
for instructions. To convert UTC to your local timezone, go to:
http://worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx
== Agenda ==
For the technical side (this may depend on certain individuals being
present):
* Single login: helping Brion with the implementation by providing GUI
mock-ups and workflows
* Standardized wiki syntax: Lee's proposal
( http://piclab.com/lee/index.php/Wiki_syntax_proposal )
* Wikiversity/Wikisophia: defining the project's technical requirements
* If there is interest:
** Wikinews, Wikicommons enhancements
** next generation discussion system
* Planning the first community meeting: Wikibooks
* anything on your mind
Ideas for the content/community side:
* organizing a community-wide survey
* evaluating the state of the article validation system (possible
feedback to tech team)
* increasing collaboration across projects (Wikimedia COTW and similar)
* sharing study results and pooling data
* anything on your mind
== Research tasks and topics ==
As discussed in the last meeting, we have updated the following pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_Network/Interests
(Members of the WRN by topical interest)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research
(Research ideas and list of individuals doing research)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Development_tasks
(MediaWiki development tasks and specifications)
The latter two pages should become a major focus of attention for the
WRN over the coming months. They are the starting point to further,
project-specific pages. Please take a look and edit these pages as you
see fit. I would especially appreciate help with moving development
tasks from the "To do" section into the table (this requires classifying
and describing them, so only do that if you know what I mean with a
particular item ;-).
== Research mailing list ==
Specifically for the topic of *content* and *community* related
research, a new mailing list has been created:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Technical discussions should continue to take place on:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
There is not yet an organizational mailing list for the WRN itself; I
have requested permission to set this up.
All best,
Erik
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/14/automati.shtml
Andy Baio made a lazy web request for easier wikipedia diff usage.
People are answering.
The two entries so far are doing HTTP requests on all history for the
given page.
These are implemented in Greasemonkey user scripts, an extension I'm
somewhat responsible for; thus my feeling of duty to inform this is
going on. Expect more.
It's a crazily great thing from the user's perspective...
I've reworked the user_groups system, again, into something that seems
to actually more or less work for now.
* user_groups ur_group is now a short string key ('sysop' etc)
* groups table is gone
* user_rights table is gone
* Permissions for groups are for now set in $wgGroupPermissions.
An in-database management system could be re-added in the future
if it's really needed, but for now it's mostly just been screwing
things up.
* Group.php and Special:Groups are deprecated; will probably die.
* User group memberships are set explicitly through addGroup and
removeGroup methods instead of being re-saved on every change to
the user record.
In 1.4, the group keys are in a comma-separated list in the user_rights
table (in 1.3 and earlier the user_rights field in the user table).
They're now split to individual rows in user_groups; this means you can
for instance easily grab a list of all sysops without a nasty LIKE clause.
On an upgrade from 1.4 or older, the user_rights data should be
automatically migrated. When updating an existing 1.5 alpha wiki, the
previous user_groups table will be renamed and a clean one simply added;
due to the various funkadelic problems before I don't think there's much
point trying to migrate automatically -- the user_rights fields were
overwritten with garbage and I wouldn't trust the contents fo the old
user_groups.
So when you update your alpha wiki, be sure to add yourself a sysop
back, something like:
INSERT INTO user_groups values (1,'sysop'),(1,'bureaucrat');
The good news is, the sysop user created at installation should actually
work now... :D
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I've noticed several errors on the downtime message page and its
translations. Once the servers are back up and the admins are no longer
busy with the upgrade, where can I go to fix them?
Also, I've checked yesterday and noticed that the word "Wikimedia" is
*still* misspelt on the "Wiki doesn't exist" page. Where can I edit that?
Thanks,
Timwi
I was just thinking: what is the point of making the "Speicla page" tab on a
"WhatLinksHere" page a link if it goes nowhere?
Actually, it appears to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ but that seems to
do little useful: either a blank page or an error.
Either it should go somewhere (maybe Special Pages?) or it shoud not be a
link.
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
Those of you who use Firefox can try out two new Wikipedia/MediaWiki toys:
http://phiffer.org/projects/wikipedia-animate/http://gleepglop.com/journal/articles/2005/06/16/wikidiff
Both are methods to animate the history of an article. Both require
Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension to add JavaScript to any webpage, to
be installed:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Both are still fairly experimental, but still nifty. The first one loads
on every article view, so only enable it when you need it. The second
one can be loaded from the history page, and I found it to be generally
more reliable.
If this isn't working at all, make sure your little Greasemonkey icon is
activated.
This is the result of a little contest by Andy Baio:
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/14/automati.shtml
(Oh, and perhaps someone could add this to en:Wikipedia:Tools and
similar pages.)
Best,
Erik
> Having detailed info such as do we get root access? Shell
access in
> general? The ability to install applications? What services are
> avalible (mysql? php? perl? .. ) would be nice, if you could
contact
> the company and relay that info back that would be great.
The only info company replied was :
http://www.nexenservices.com/offre.php?cPath=2 (english
version at
http://www.nexenservices.com/offre.php?set_lang=en&cPath=2 ).
Since it's a virtual dedicated server, i think we get root access.
There is MySQL & Apache & PHP, that's for sure.
Nicolas
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Hi, I need to crate a template, but really have a problem for the how to
... it might be easy, but I just can't find out how to do it.
For now I have every article with this headline:
<small>
[[article/de|Deutsch]] -
[[article/en|English]] -
[[article/it|Italiano]]
</small>
each page is linked to each other page with the same headline - I mean:
article/de has this headline as well as article/en and article/it
what is equal to all is the first part of the article up to the slash
creating a template with {{PAGENAME}} does not work as the pagename is
not unique.
is there a way how I can tell a template that it only must consider the
pagename up to the "/" sign?
the reason I need this is that I plan to add further languages and just
imagine you have 5000 pages sooner or later that all have this headline.
can someone help me with this?
thank you!!!
Ciao, Sabine
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Dear All,
We just made a fresh install of our wiki base 1.2.4 to mediawiki 1.4.5
Everything seems to be OK except that we have problems with search...
We have several articles about "plotters".
But if we make a search for "plotter", there is no article found. Same
with "plot*", nothing.
The articles are found only when we make a search for "plotters".
How can we configure our installation to make search like
"plot*","plotter" and so on successful?
Many thanks in advance for light.
Best regards,
Philippe Roth