Wikitech-l October 2006

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Special page names case-insensitive and localisable
by Tim Starling 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Cross-posted to wikipedia-l and wikitech-l, I suggest you reply to wikitech-l. I've just committed a change to make special page names case-insensitive and localisable. The default name for a special page can be changed, but a redirect from the English name will always be kept. At present, there are no local sets of names committed, although one has been proposed for German. I have created a wiki page for discussion and coordination of this task: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special_page_names The following is for developers, everyone else can stop reading here. There are a few practice changes associated with this change, for both core and extension developers. Instead of Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Contributions' ); use SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Contributions' ); Instead of Title::makeTitleSafe( NS_SPECIAL, "Blockip/$ip" ); use SpecialPage::getSafeTitleFor( 'Blockip', $ip ); Instead of ($title->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL && $title->getDBkey() == 'Userlogout') use $title->isSpecial('Userlogout') Only the last of these three changes is compulsory for extensions; recognition of core special page names must be migrated. Old titles will continue to work, so the first two changes are optional for extensions and can be done at your leisure. All three changes should be considered compulsory for core code. Extension special pages can provide local special page names using the LangugeGetSpecialPageAliases hook. Hard-coded special page names in messages should be changed simultaneously when the special page names themselves are changed. Special page names are language-dependent, not site-dependent, so there should be no need for a {{SPECIALNAME:xxx}} function. -- Tim Starling

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Wikimania 2007 Hacking Days call-for-help
by Tian-Jian "Barabbas" Jiang＠Gmail 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Good day. I am Mike Tian-Jian Jiang ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/barabbas ), a team member of wikimania 2007. I'm trying to arrange Hacking Days currently, here's some rough plan that needs your precious suggestions. We would like to invite experts like you to provide speech and to encourage hackers involving MediaWiki/Wikimedia development. Please let me know if you have any advise to these outlines. For academic professionals, we will also hold a Conference for oral and poster paper presentations. Also please forward this mail to whom may be interested in. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Mike Hacking Days Agenda plan: * Wikimania 2006: o http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days (Schedule MindMap is missing......) o http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days_Extras * Wikimania 2005 o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_hacking_days or o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005:Hacking_Days * MediaWiki API Introduction：as web 2.0 trend... o Query API o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API o Python Bot Framework * MediaWiki API application contest：a contest likes Google and Yahoo!'s, tries to attract hackers. o Wikipedia Gadget o Wikipedia Yahoo! Widget * MediaWiki enhancement o Wikiwyg + Ingy's AJAX version + Flash version o Collaboration editing/versioning o Site searching (Is there any plan to make Lucene available for other languages besides English?) o Improving Simplified-Traditional Chinese conversion o Audio/Video processing/streaming o Community: from "Talk" page to forum/bbs with more a flexible reputation system. o Spam/Captcha * MediaWiki system administration o Large scale data processing; please refers to + http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/database <http://docs.google.com/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20http://blog.i…> + http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html <http://docs.google.com/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20http://labs.g…> o Load balancing o "The great wall" problem * Wikipedia content applications o (Crosslingual) search: especially for translation/transliteration of named entities from Wikimedia contents. o (Crosslingual) question-answering: CLEF 2006 already has a pilot task WiQA.

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Problem with mwdumper or the last frwiki dump
by Emmanuel Engelhart 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

HI I have downloaded the last frwiki dump, in particulary: http://download.wikimedia.org/frwiki/latest/frwiki-latest-pages-meta-histor… I have checked the md5. I have tried to upload with the following command: /home/kelson/tools/jre1.5.0_06/bin/java -server -classpath /home/kelson/tools/mysql-connector-java-5.0.4/mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar:/home/kelson/tools/mwdumper.jar org.mediawiki.dumper.Dumper --output=mysql://localhost/frwiki?user=*******\&password=******** --format=sql:1.5 frwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 >& titi And that's what I have got on stderr : 8 pages (1,26/sec), 1000 revs (157,456/sec) 10 pages (0,712/sec), 2000 revs (142,339/sec) 16 pages (0,712/sec), 3000 revs (133,583/sec) 20 pages (0,631/sec), 4000 revs (126,267/sec) 28 pages (0,759/sec), 5000 revs (135,45/sec) 32 pages (0,744/sec), 6000 revs (139,519/sec) Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: java.sql.SQLException: Not a valid escape sequence: {[Mm]sg:/{{/',530,'Orthogaffe','20040603204946',........... Any idea what goes wrong Kelson

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Doing backups and avoiding downtime
by Travis Derouin 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi, We've been using mysqldump to do daily full database backups in case our hardware on our DB server fails. This causes some problems because for a short period of 4 minutes or so, the site in inaccessible because mysqldump has the db locked. I'm not too familiar with the maintenance/dumpPages.xml script, but this script doesn't backup the whole db, including user accounts, recent changes, links, etc, does it? And if it does, it probably doesn't avoid the problem of having to lock the DB for a few minutes, right? Is there any reason why Squid is reporting this error to anonymous users for pages that should be cached? Squid does seem to be caching pages properly. If mysqldump is still the answer,(I'm using the --quick option) are there any other ways we can avoid this brief downtime to capture a backup? How does Wikipedia do this? Thanks a lot, Travis

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dumps failed
by Jochen Magnus 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

The last recent dumps (at least) for the german wikipedia are from September 25. Unfortunatly, dump processes at October 14 and 31 failed. I know, there is a lot of work to do, but I'm still hoping for new data for our mirror. Thank you in advance! Jochen

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Dump recovery robust against errors?
by Felipe Ortega 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

During a massive dump import proccess (with mwdumper), which involves the top 10 wikipedias, I've found some 'odd' errors like, for example, this one recovering itwiki latest dump (2006-10-21, reports as OK): ..... 478,834 pages (154.138/sec), 4,603,000 revs (1,481.718/sec) ERROR 1062 at line 2955: Duplicate entry '103-Matematica' for key 2 479,091 pages (153.95/sec), 4,604,000 revs (1,479.44/sec) ..... . From that point on, the recovery process fails and no more data gets into MySQL database.. I've made a little check out method to test if the total number of pages and revisions fits with the online hints in the web page, but sometimes I don't know how to manage this errors in other way than downloading the next dump backwards, till one of them works fine (because all dumps report to be OK). If you're not very careful you'd think that the import process did its job, because an aprox. 85% of pages was in the DB... Any way to solve this non-config errors? BTW, I don't chase Brion at all.... He does his best with the dump process and mwdumper. Thanks, all the best. Felipe. --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Re: [Wikitech-l] SVN: [17300] trunk/phase3
by Raimond Spekking 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

tstarling(a)svn.wikimedia.org schrieb: > Revision: 17300 > Author: tstarling > Date: 2006-10-29 22:25:31 -0800 (Sun, 29 Oct 2006) > > Log Message: > ----------- > * Used special page subpages in a few more places, instead of query parameters Sorry for the stupid question: But what subpages are now possible? Raymond.

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templates: javascript+html?
by Liz Kim 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Can templates include non-wiki codes? I am trying to add a link calling a javascript function. It works fine when added to the article itself, but template does not seem to work. Thanks! -- details: wiki: <html><a href="javascript:function('ID')">LINK</a> <div id="ID">TEXT</div></html> template try: <html><nowiki><a href=javascript:showhide('{{{ID}}}')">{{{LINK}}}</a> <div id="{{{ID}}}">{{{TEXT}}}</div></nowiki></html> wiki using template: {{TEMPLATE_NAME|ID=someid |LINK=somelink |TEXT=sometext}}

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Attention to all JS/CSS writers
by Simetrical 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Currently most of the existing classes and id's used in the interface can conflict with user-specified classes and id's. Unless there are objections, I will be changing over all of them to begin with a reserved prefix "mw-", as is the current practice for adding new ones, and add a check to stop content id's (particularly for headers) from beginning with "mw-". I may also consolidate some id's that are different in different skins and change some that are otherwise inconsistent or weird. When I finalize the changes, I'll post a full list of them here and on enwiki VP:T a few days to a week before committing them, so that people have a chance to update their scripts and CSS. Okay?

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Password reminder from Wikipedia spam
by Sherool 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Could we please get the feature eluded to here: <http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5370> turned on for the English Wikipedia (and probably the rest of the projects too)? At least one vandal seems to have spesialised in spamming people with passwod reminders (he must have a bot), and growing number of people have been complaining about it. After replying to some threads about it on the admin noticeboard on enWiki I seem to have incured the "wrath" of this individual as well since I found 112 password reminders in my mailbox today. Sure they are easy to filter out, but we can't let spammers have free reign like this. If there is such a "throttle" feature it needs to be activated ASAP (how many times a day does the average user forget his password?). If nothing else all these mails are a unnessesary strain on our mail system. Pluss some users have "threatened" to report it to SpamCop and such, and we don't want our mailserver blacklisted now do we? -- [[:en:User:Sherool]]

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