Have also a look on http://www.giswiki.de/index.php/QuickWMS-Extension. It's
an extension for mediawiki that integrates web map services
Heinz
"Lars Aronsson" <lars-ABUHZ1rI0YgwFerOooGFRg(a)public.gmane.org> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:<Pine.LNX.4.61.0508310333360.26356(a)sara.aronsson.se>...
>
> The company Demis in the Netherlands sells software for a map
> server and also runs a demo on their own site. The map data for
> this demo have been collected from public domain sources, and the
> company doesn't claim any copyright for the generated maps. The
> maps are not the very best, but good enough for many purposes.
> Some maps of this origin are already at Wikimedia Commons, e.g.
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-Hrusica-in-contex--raw.png
> and have been used for further processing, e.g.
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LocationArno.PNG
>
> I developed a simple tool that makes it easier to find the right
> map, and then I uploaded two dozens of them to
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_maps_from_demis.nl
>
> However, the people at Demis are concerned about a "Slashdot
> effect" that might overburden their map server if everybody starts
> to use this tool. They would prefer if somebody could buy the
> Demis software and run their own server. Unfortunately, the map
> server only runs on Microsoft Windows.
>
> Does anybody have a Demis server running already, that I can use
> for my tool? There are many WMS-compliant servers out there, but
> most have very fuzzy or complicated copyright restrictions.
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars-ABUHZ1rI0YgwFerOooGFRg(a)public.gmane.org)
> Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
The company Demis in the Netherlands sells software for a map
server and also runs a demo on their own site. The map data for
this demo have been collected from public domain sources, and the
company doesn't claim any copyright for the generated maps. The
maps are not the very best, but good enough for many purposes.
Some maps of this origin are already at Wikimedia Commons, e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-Hrusica-in-contex--raw.png
and have been used for further processing, e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LocationArno.PNG
I developed a simple tool that makes it easier to find the right
map, and then I uploaded two dozens of them to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_maps_from_demis.nl
However, the people at Demis are concerned about a "Slashdot
effect" that might overburden their map server if everybody starts
to use this tool. They would prefer if somebody could buy the
Demis software and run their own server. Unfortunately, the map
server only runs on Microsoft Windows.
Does anybody have a Demis server running already, that I can use
for my tool? There are many WMS-compliant servers out there, but
most have very fuzzy or complicated copyright restrictions.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Finally new wikistats
See http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/004043.html
for an explanation why they could not be run for so long.
For some projects, like wikipedia, the newest dumps are already 6 weeks old.
Please don't ask me for next update, as it is not in my hands.
Data for French and German wikipedias are missing.
For French I will have to look into why the job failed.
For German the full xml database export is corrupt.
Does this imply that no mediawiki 1.5 full database backup for German is
available at all?
Or are sql dumps still made as well?
If not, a mediawiki 1.4 dump of June 23 is the best we have when worst comes
to worst and a restore is needed.
Even when sql dumps are also made, I still have difficulty understanding why
database dumps have such low priority.
Sure with distributed servers the change for a total collapse diminishes,
but never say never.
We may survive a power outage more comfortably now (which we did by sheer
luck only last time), but other calamities may occur,
what about deliberate sabotage, to name an unlikely but devastating
scenario?
Total database export takes more than a week, so it must be heavy on the
database servers.
If a dedicated database server would be needed to produce exports/dumps as
often as possible, that would seem a good investment to me.
If a site admin would care to comment on this, thanks in advance.
Erik Zachte
Many people have asked me about the status of Wikidata. My response is
in CVS ;-) (wikidata branch). It's largely a redesign of the existing
namespace system to be more flexible and powerful. Namespaces form the
foundation of Wikidata, as each namespace will be associated with a
virtual table schema. This has necessitated the changes so far, but
these will also be useful for most other Wikimedia projects.
For example, these changes make it possible to define an arbitrary
number of synonyms for each namespace, so that we can finally rename
"Image:" to "File:" without breaking links (and additional synonyms like
"Video:" and "Sound:"). Another new feature are default prefixes, which
make it possible to define that any unprefixed link [[Bla]] in one
namespace will be be prefixed by "Foo:". This could be useful for
Wikibooks, esp. large spaces like Cookbook: and Jokebook:, so that you
can simply type "Carrots" and it goes to [[Cookbook:Carrots]].
Together with the existing namespace filtering, this effectively allows
the creation of "wikis within a wiki". What namespaces are needed can be
decided by each project community without developer interaction, as the
new namespace manager is a special page that a user group can be given
access to.
As you hopefully will agree, the changes that are part of Wikidata don't
just bloat MediaWiki up - they add useful functionality for all projects.
See my CVS commit comment and the Namespace.php docs for further detail.
There's still quite a bit of coding, hacking and testing to do, but I
anticipate finalizing the first milestone in the coming days. This will
also include a design whitepaper for the Wikidata table design, and some
GUI demos.
From now on, I will commit more often -- this is important, I think, to
ensure that people see that work is being done.
What's the timetable? My guesstimates so far have been mostly wrong, so
I'm careful not to make too exact predictions, especially when certain
design decisions haven't been made yet. But I'm fully committed to
further implementing Wikidata and Ultimate Wiktionary in the coming
months. I'll have to take a two-week-break soon to make some extra
money, however.
If you want to work on Wikidata with me, please contact me, and I can
hand out a few tasks. Also, I always appreciate comments on my code --
what is ugly, what should be refactored, etc.
Best,
Erik
"Thomas Koll" <tomk32-Mmb7MZpHnFY(a)public.gmane.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:<37469BEE-91DC-4526-8987-96AE8A1A7966(a)gmx.de>...
>
> Am 31.08.2005 um 03:56 schrieb Lars Aronsson:
> > However, the people at Demis are concerned about a "Slashdot
> > effect" that might overburden their map server if everybody starts
> > to use this tool.
>
> The map needs to be generated only once for Wikipedia, I don't think
> that
> more than a dozen Wikipedians will do that anyways. Simply don't
> propagate
> the existence of that service to prominently.
>
On the german wikipedia the existence of the demis web-mapping-service is
known more than a year ore more
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Karten#Weltweit_und_f.C3.BCr_jedes_La
nd
heinz
>
> > Unfortunately, the map
> > server only runs on Microsoft Windows.
>
> OK, that's always a reason to be concerned...
>
> ciao, tom
>
> --
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TomK32
> http://www.tomk32.de
I am going to engage in a project that needs to have certain features
of a Wiki, e.g. ability of people to start new articles and
cross-reference each other's articles, but NOT edit each other's
contributions. Can someone suggest to me either what software might
be appropriate or whom I might contact for further information and
suggestions about this? I don't want to take up wikitech-l time and
space with this, so if you can help with this please write to me
individually at jshapiro(a)fielding.edu.
Thanks.
Jeremy Shapiro
I am asking about rules for using the pre tag in templates, specifically as it
pertains to the style attribute?
1.4.8 templates using the pre tag and style attribute allowed style changes
and this no longer works in 1.5rc3 without modifying parser.php to ignore pre
in the strip routine. Without modification the style attribute is removed
from a pre tag in a template.
I have been searching for the specific code that changed to disable the style
attribute. The parser appears to handle the pre tag in the same manner.
Could it be that the template is handled differently?
It is interesting that replacing pre tag with the div tag in the same template
does work, but of course the results are very different.
Why is style attribute disabled for pre and not for div?
For example,
Template:YCB (short for yellow code box)
<pre style="
margin-top: 8pt;
margin-bottom: 8pt;
background-color: #ffff80;
white-space:pre;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#999999;
color:#333333;
padding:10px;
width=100%;">{{{1}}}</pre>
DirSample
The following shows simple program execution.
{{YCB|1=<nowiki>
[atl@donald lt]$ ls
hw sw
</nowiki>}}
A little help to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Answering to:
" "In most languages" is not true. The majority of the
world's languages do not have gender.
This includes:
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, ..."
Most languages have grammar genders or similar.
You can find more in:
http://www.ielanguages.com/eurolang.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
The most part of Indo-European languages have genders.
Af far as for what i've found those languages have
numbers and (2 or 3) genders:
Italian (2)
French (2)
German (3)
Spanish (2)
Greek (3)
Portguese (2 in Portugal, 3 in Brazil)
Dutch (less used)
Belgian
Danish (2)
Norwegian (3)
Bulgarian (3)
Polish (3)
Czech (4)
Russian (3)
Yiddish (2)
Plus
Australian Aborigenal and many african language. I
don't know enough for others not indo-european
languages.
All Romance language have genders. All germanic
languages have genders, but english. All slavich
languages have ganders.
The 10 most spoken language in the wolrd are
Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
Arabic* (174,950,000)
Portuguese (170,000,000)
Russian (170,000,000)
Japanese (125,000,000)
German (98,000,000)
French* (79,572,000)
Spanish, Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian,
French, German have genders. Italian too.
I think it's enough to consider this could be a
problem for many wikipedians. Creating redirects for
different forms of a word is a concern for most
languages.
Regards,
Valentina Faussone
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Hi,
look at this:
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There are 1163 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages,
pages about BMF-Wiki, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that
probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are
18446744073709551584 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
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What is :) 18446744073709551584 ?? Little bit to much for us ;).
How can i correct this counter?
We use Mediawiki 1.4.8
Regards
