Wikitech-l July 2005

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Deactivating Mediawiki caching
by Merlin 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hi everybody, I am trying to make some changes to the Mediawiki software. It apears that there is some kind of caching that I do not understand. If I make changes to one php file it will not be imediatelly affected if I refresh the browser window. Only if I include an php error into that file and remove it again the refresh shows the changes. Any ideas where to disable this? Thank you in advance, Merlin

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Upgrade status
by Brion Vibber 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

I've upgraded the 'Nostalgia Wikipedia', a copy of the English Wikipedia database from December 2001, to MediaWiki 1.5 as an initial test of our upgrade infrastructure: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version (Editing is disabled, and it's running the nostalgia skin, so you can look but not touch. :) We'll be hitting a few more over the next few hours, including Commons. After some more live testing to work out kinks, the remaining wikis will get upgraded bit by bit over the coming days. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Validation feature
by Magnus Manske 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Now that 1.5 is running, and the big bugs bite^W are on the verge of extinction, I feel it is my duty to introduce some new ones. :-) Did anyone look into the validation feature again? I have fixed what seemed to be the most pressing problems. I'm not sure about performance, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't load the whole table into memory at any point. There has been a request for the feature on the German mailing list, and I'd wager it won't stay the only one, on many lists. Should we * sit back and wait for it to mend itself magically * let everyone have a final look and turn it on to see what happens * turn it on right now ? Magnus

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic Unit Conversion (Patch for Bug 235)
by Ryan Kaldari 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

I think that perhaps there is an opportunity to implement a more broadly useful feature here: content substitution based on user prefs. What if we came up with a more generic way to implement this type of behavior which could also be applied to other situations in which content is region or preference specific? Besides units of measurement, this could also be applied to date and time formats. For example: the plane was shot at {{time|21:30|9:30 pm}} on {{date|15 January|January 15}} causing the loss of {{measurement|89 liters|23 gallons}} of fuel. Each user could then specify their preferred format: time: 24-hour clock date: European format measurement: metric This would solve several problems: * The 12-hour/24-hour time debate (see Manual of Style (dates and numbers)) * Would no longer have the awkward convention of making all dates into links just so they are formatted a certain way * Would no longer have to show both standard and metric measurements everywhere in article contents, which makes them far less easy to read. Of course how or if this feature is actually used would be up to each wiki, but I imagine it could find a lot of different uses. Just a thought. Ryan Kaldari

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Page output
by Nicolay Vasiliev 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hello there! Can you suggest me at which moment the content of generated page will be printed? I mean, which function of MediaWiki is responsible for final page output. I found the "output" function in OutputPage.php, but there is the wfProfileOut( $fname ) calling - I can't find the concrete wfProfileOut declaring because there is a lot of functions with the same name in different files. Help me please. TIA

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How to remove cache feature
by thomas Armstrong 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi. I'm modifying Mediawiki code to show some extra data, but they are not displayed because of cache feature of Mediawiki. In order to solve this, I must 'Edit > Preferences > Clear Cache' constantly on my browser, but I don't want my Wiki users to do this. Is there any way to remove this feature? Thank you very much.

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MediaWiki 1.5beta2 released
by Brion Vibber 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.5 beta 2 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series. While most exciting new bugs should have been ironed out at this point, third-party wiki operators should probably not run this beta release on a public site without closely following additional development. Anyone who _has_ been running beta 1 is very very strongly advised to upgrade to beta 2, as it fixes many bugs from the previous beta including a couple of HTML and SQL injections. This release should be followed by one or two release candidates and a 1.5.0 final within the next few weeks. Beta upgraders, note there are some minor database changes. For upgrades from 1.4, see the file UPGRADE for details on significant database and configuration file changes. Beta 2 includes a preliminary command-line XML wiki dump importer tool, maintenance/importDump.php, paired with maintenance/dumpBackup.php. These use the same format as Special:Export and Special:Import, able to package a wiki's entire page set independent of the backend database and compression format. Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=339820 Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5beta2.tar.gz?down… MD5 checksum: 00b867fce68f0549ecb9a4938191dd19 Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCylIewRnhpk1wk44RAkYcAKCXIXwwEww0BWYkfwd23W44ZqjV2ACgli/R aUg/ZaK2CwI6uASuTav+Iag= =L57c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Page output
by Nicolay A. Vasiliev 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

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Dump uploading trouble
by Nicolay A Vasiliev 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hello there! I am trying to upload the Norwegian wikibooks dump. When I upload the 20050623_cur_table.sql I get an error message "ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\'." Does anyone know what happens and how can I solve it? TIA

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Export format tweaks
by Brion Vibber 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

I've updated the Special:Export schema in MediaWiki 1.5 to include a <siteinfo> chunk with some site configuration information. For example at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Chlamyphorus_truncatus you can see the custom namespace assignments. and at: http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/Especial:Export/aristocratizar you can see that wiki's marked as case-sensitive. This should make it easier to ensure that page titles are processed correctly on import. I've also added an xml:space="preserve" hint to the <text> elements, which may or may not keep some overzealous tools from stripping the whitespace automatically. The XML Schema definition for version 0.3 of the export format is at http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.3.xsd and in the docs/ subdirectory in MediaWiki CVS HEAD. We'll be providing the full-wiki public data dumps in this format starting in a few days, replacing the old SQL dumps. For the reasons behind this switch, see my earlier posting: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-May/029298.html -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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