Wikitech-l October 2006

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Regarding Ogg Theora and its file extension; should it be changed on the commons?
by George Chriss 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Just poking around on #theora, I was told by a dev that: 1) The file extension was not going to be changed, and 2) It had been discussed to death.[1] Hope this helps, George [[:en:User:GChriss]] [1] http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2004-June/000580.html On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:45:11 -0400 Wikimedia developers wrote: On 10/11/06, Mark Clements <gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > I think the issue about whether the standard _should_ exist should be > discussed elsewhere, e.g. the ogg mailing list. Where is the urgency? Why not get a standard established before we change our behavior? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Getting pictures to show up in mediawiki
by Andy Rabagliati 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Folks, In support of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team I am trying to automate the cutting down of the English Wikipedia dump. This would be used to create a CD or DVD with content from a chosen list of articles. I have documented the steps I take on the page above, and one of my problems is that I cannot get pictures to show up. I have tried adding enwiki-20060518-imagelinks.sql.gz to my mediawiki installation, but I think this just provides the reverse - indicating from a picture page which articles link to it ? If I upload a picture, it works. What I would like is to put all the pictures where the uploaded one would go, and have it all 'magically' work. At the moment all pictures show up as redlinks, like http://localhost/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Lunar-Phase… Which XML dump should I add, or what else could I include from the enwiki-20060518-pages-articles.xml.bz2 file to make pictures work ? Cheers, Andy!

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-10-11
by brion＠pobox.com 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test TODO: Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Template with thumb image (with link in description)... FAILED! Running test Template infinite loop... FAILED! Running test TODO: message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED! Running test TODO: message transform: <onlyinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Parsing optional HTML elements (Bug 6171)... FAILED! Running test TODO: Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting... FAILED! Running test TODO: Mixing markup for italics and bold... FAILED! Running test TODO: 5 quotes, code coverage +1 line... FAILED! Running test TODO: HTML Hex character encoding.... FAILED! Running test TODO: dt/dd/dl test... FAILED! Passed 420 of 437 tests (96.11%) FAILED!

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MediaWiki 1.8.0 released
by Brion Vibber 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 10, 2006 This is the quarterly release snapshot for Fall 2006. While the code has been running on Wikipedia for some time, installation and upgrade bits may be less well tested. Bug fix releases may follow in the coming days or weeks. MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia. Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature development happen will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release. Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN == Configuration changes == * $wgUseETag, to enable/disable sending of HTTP ETag headers (default: disabled) * $wgLegalTitleChars now includes '+' by default for better compatibility with importing data dumps from Wikipedia * $wgDefaultUserOptions now includes all default option settings instead of only overrides. == Major new features == * (bug 7098) Add an option to disable/enable sending of HTTP ETag headers, as it seems to result in broken behaviour in combination with Squid 2.6 (disabled by default). * (bug 550) Allow blocks on anonymous users only. * (bug 6420) Render thumbnails for DJVU images, support multipage DJVU display on image pages. Added new 'page=' thumbnail option to select a page from a multipage djvu for thumbnail generation. * Full Postgres support is now enabled. It requires version 8.1 or better, and needs to have both plpgsql and tsearch2 already installed. * (bug 6386) fix grammatical errors in danish naming of talk namespaces. Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_0/phase3/HISTORY Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.8.0.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 9141eba6b8faf17fe80edeb7699cfca4 mediawiki-1.8.0.tar.gz SHA-1 checksum: 28084a2a1c307e558fa5e99975d3a3dbee2e9586 mediawiki-1.8.0.tar.gz Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.) http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.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 Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFLCV1wRnhpk1wk44RAoUcAJ9cGr304axlxgLLUWMwwfd4K8tR/ACgj12i K8n5h25gWOLReeSsjdzBPlg= =ceUE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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installed fonts for SVG->PNG
by Dschwen 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hi, what Fonts are installed on the wikimedia servers that can be used by the automatic SVG->PNG conversion. A list could be helpful for people who create SVG illustrations. And since I heard a couple of complaints about 'poor font support' maybe the list can be extended? Best -- [[:en:User:Dschwen]] [[:de:User:Dschwen]] [[:commons:User:Dschwen]]

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Comments on the new wikipedias
by GerardM 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hoi, For some of the newly created wikipedias there are reasons why I would not create them as languages in WiktionaryZ in this manner They are: http://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/ Tarantino http://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/ Zamboanga Chavacano http://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/ Classical Chinese http://cu.wikipedia.org/ Old Church Slavonic http://ru-sib.wikipedia.org/ Siberian/Nort Russian - Tarantino is supposed to use the roa code. This code does not signify anything but that it is a Romance language. The code does specify what is included in the code and Tarantino is not one of them. - In ISO-639-3 cbk is the code for Chavacano. Zamboangueño is an alternative name.. - For Classical Chinese there is no specificity as what is meant by this. This is also easy to explain as the zh (zho) code itself is depreciated in the ISO-639-3 because there are some 10 languages that are included in this code. - I might include the Old Church Slavonic as chu. It is used as liturgical language of various Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches. It is considered extinct. - The ru-sib is a created language. It is a bad idea to create a code as if it is a dialect of the Russian language when it is not. Thanks, GerardM

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Throttling rebuildall.php?
by Mike O 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Summit" <scs(a)eskimo.com> > To: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org > Try running the command > > ulimit -a Doesn't look like it. Here's the output: core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited So CPU time isn't limited in this account. So it should run fine. But there still could be some bot killing the process. I guess I'll have to ask the ISP why it happens. I can't think of any reason. Mike O -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-10-10
by brion＠pobox.com 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

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in search of (partial) Images dump
by Clarence Risher 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

I am specifically trying to fetch http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/scans/EB1911_tiff/*/* without wasting the resources to spider wikisource (where the images in question are linked) to find all the filenames. I made my original inquiries on IRC and was told that http://dumps.wikimedia.org/images/special/commons/20051126_upload.tar may contain the files that I want, but I would rather not waste the time downloading all 290GB just to find out. I was told that wikitech was the right place to ask about such things, so here I am. Any pointers would be appreciated.

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Opening a WP page in a frame
by Nyenyec N 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

Hi, I'm working on a tool that helps automating aspects of image license checking in Wikipedia (developing it for HuWiki). The idea is to show an unchecked image page in a frame and a list of available actions in another frame. However I realized that it's not straightforward to show a Wikipedia page in a frame at all, it automatically takes over the top frame after loading. I've seen that http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Flacus/Wikipedia_Interwiki-Link-Check… does some dark magic rewriting the page contents but do I have to do that too? What's the reason for this behavior and what's the easiest way to get around it? Thanks, nyenyec Example: <html> <frameset rows="50%,50%"> <frame src="about:blank" /> <frame src="http://en.wikipedia.org" /> </frameset> </html>

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