Wikitech-l November 2006

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-11-18
by brion＠pobox.com 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Reading tests from "/home/brion/src/wiki/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt"... 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 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: dt/dd/dl test... FAILED! Running test TODO: Images with the "|" character in the comment... FAILED! Running test TODO: Parents of subpages, two levels up, without trailing slash or name.... FAILED! Running test TODO: Parents of subpages, two levels up, with lots of extra trailing slashes.... FAILED! Running test TODO: Don't fall for the self-closing div... FAILED! Running test TODO: Always escape literal '>' in output, not just after '<'... FAILED! Reading tests from "/home/brion/src/wiki/phase3/extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Passed 449 of 469 tests (95.74%)... FAILED!

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How to enable Template:Languages functionality
by Tian-Jian "Barabbas" Jiang＠Gmail 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear all, I've upgraded my own MediaWiki and tried to enable Template:Languages functionality to support page translation. The result, however, is not correct: http://taipedia.info/mediawiki/index.php/Template:Languages The ParserFunctions extension had been installed. The keywords to search for this question are not easy to acquire to me, therefore I have to bother you guys here. Sorry about that and thanks for all your patience. Best Regards, Mike

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [17751] trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.txt
by Brion Vibber 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

simetrical(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > Log Message: ----------- Right angle bracket never needs to be > escaped except "when it appears in the string "]]>" in content, when > that string is not marking the end of a CDATA section." No point in > escaping it other times (even when it follows a literal left angle > bracket, since that will already be escaped). > http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#syntax Nick has recommended ensuring stray >s are escaped as a defensive measure, making it harder to build a working HTML element if something else gets mis-escaped. I'm not sure how much concrete danger there is, but the idea gives me warm fuzzies. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [17741] trunk/phase3
by Brion Vibber 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

simetrical(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > - $newminor . $sk->revComment( $this->mNewRev ) . "<br />" . > + $newminor . $sk->revComment( $this->mNewRev, true ) . "<br />" . Boolean parameters like this are a pain for code readability and maintainability; when you come back at the code later you won't remember what the heck "true" or "false" *means*. Consider using a class constant with a descriptive name; maybe something like Linker::COMMENT_LOCAL_ANCHORS (or pick a better name ;) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Labeled Section Transclusion (need feedback on current status!)
by Dovi Jacobs 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Over the past weeks and months, User:Sanbeg has quietly and modestly put a lot of work into "Labeled Section Transclusion" as an extension feature to the Wikimedia Software. This includes code for the extension, test cases, and a new page at the Mediawiki software website describing his extension, which may be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Labeled_Section_Transclusion While I knew that something was going on (I "subscribe" to the updates on the bug), I still wasn't fully aware of the extent of his work and of the amazing flexibility and numerous features that User:Sanbeg put into this new tool. It incorporates every single feature that I personally requested, all those that others requested, and even some new ones that none of us at Wikisource previously even thought of but look very useful. It looks so useful, in fact, that I have no doubt it will be put to a great many unforseen uses that even go beyond Wikisource. To my mind, this is no longer really just a Wikisource extension (though Wikisource certainly could use it), but is already something global: a tool that expands the basic flexibility of transclusion within the Mediawiki environment. The last time this was brought up by Birgitte, Brion responded (as best I remember) that it was best to hold back for the meantime because there was still not full Wikisource agreement (on the talk page) about how such a tool should function. That was probably true then, but it is certainly no longer the case, because this tool, once again, addresses every possible need that has been expressed by anyone (at least as far as I can tell). So what we really need now is some developer feedback! Dovi --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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Geohack
by Magnus Manske 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

(sending this message again, as I somehow was unsubscribed from wikitech-l for a while. Damn computers;-) Hi all, a long time ago, en:User:Egil wrote a great MediaWiki extension to handle geographic coordinates, like ISBNs are handled by Special:Booksources, and ran it off his server. When said server broke down, and Egil was unreachable, I wrote a workaround [1] to run it as a standalone script, and put it on the toolsever as a temporary measure. As it is tradition for temporary fixes, this one seems to have become permanent ;-) with ~640000 hits in October, making up >8% of toolserver traffic. I wonder if this would be the time to add Egils extension to the standard Wikipedia extension set. This would not only look more seamless, and offer localized pages, but also take advantage of the usual caching mechanisms. AFAIK, all that needs to be done is adding the extension, copying the wikisource to a local page, and fix the geo templates. This could be done gradually; unless the templates are adapted, the default behaviour (using toolserver) won't change, even if the extension is activated. Magnus [1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-11-17
by brion＠pobox.com 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 7945] U+200E wrong
by Dan Jacobson 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Regarding using <U+200E> on Special:Categories, b> ------- Additional Comments From brion(a)pobox.com 2006-11-16 15:53 UTC ------- b> That's a bidi override for bidi-safety. Well it causes an atrocious blip for anybody using less fancy readers than firefox and IE. Idea: why not emit it only if the line in question is bidi? I mean do I put an U+200E at the ends of all the lines I quote in email, for bidi safety? How about people who want to batch process output $ text_browser -dump ...|perl -anlwe ... OK, "the browser is supposed to deal with it" I'm sure. Anyway, goofy goofy goofy.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Bug 7946] pipe trick [[Project:Xyz|]] vs. importTextFile.php
by Dan Jacobson 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

b> ------- Additional Comments From brion(a)pobox.com 2006-11-16 15:56 UTC ------- b> Do you mean that when you use importTextFile.php to create a page with a given text, b> and you text is using the pipe trick ([[Project:Xyz|]] etc), that the input is not b> transformed properly? Roger. b> (Should transform to [[Project:Xyz|Xyz]] by running the pre- save b> transform at import time, presumably.) That happens only in a browser. b> If you do mean this, then I'm confused about your comments about action=raw exports; b> since the transformation is done at save time any pages you've created in the wiki b> will indeed round-trip properly since they're already transformed. That transformation happens only in a browser. Not with importTextFile.php. And let's say you fix importTextFile.php to make the conversion. Now the file I used with importTextFile.php is slightly different than what action=raw would show. Sigh.

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Adding new marks (or tags) to MediaWiki markup language
by Gabriel Simões 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Is it possible to add different marks, like ++ Text ++ or || Text || to MediaWiki markup language? What class of MediaWiki translate the wiki markup to HTML? Please, someone can help? Thanks ------------------------------------ Gabriel da Silva Simões Mestrando em Ciência da Computação Instituto de Informática - UFRGS SBC #12250 ICQ #16149875 CEL #(51)93232480

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