Wikitech-l March 2006

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-03-21
by brion＠pobox.com 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test BUG 361: URL within URL, not bracketed... FAILED! Running test External links: invalid character... FAILED! Running test Bug 2702: Mismatched <i> and <a> tags are invalid... FAILED! Running test A table with no data.... FAILED! Running test A table with nothing but a caption... FAILED! Running test Link containing "#<" and "#>" % as a hex sequences... FAILED! Running test Template with thumb image (wiht link in description)... FAILED! Running test Link to image page... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887: A ISBN with a thumbnail... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887: A <math> with a thumbnail... FAILED! Running test BUG 561: {{/Subpage}}... FAILED! Running test Simple category... FAILED! Running test Basic section headings... FAILED! Running test Section headings with TOC... FAILED! Running test Handling of sections up to level 6 and beyond... FAILED! Running test Resolving duplicate section names... FAILED! Running test Template with sections, __NOTOC__... FAILED! Running test Link inside a section heading... FAILED! Running test Media link with nasty text... FAILED! Running test Bug 2095: link with pipe and three closing brackets... FAILED! Running test Parser hook: static parser hook inside a comment... FAILED! Running test Sanitizer: Validating the contents of the id attribute (bug 4515)... FAILED! Passed 275 of 297 tests (92.59%) FAILED!

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CVS service is restored
by Ivan Krstic 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Heads up: SourceForge seems to have restored CVS service for the project. -- Ivan Krstic <krstic(a)fas.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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Question: CSS Formatting on Page
by Varun Munjal 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hello - I am not sure how to include CSS formatting right on my Wiki page, and I would like to include formatting like this: |align="left" width="35%" style="background-color:#FFF7F7; border-top:1px solid #AA8888; border-bottom:1px solid #AA8888; border-top:1px solid #AA8888; padding-top:5px; padding-right:10px; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px;" valign="top"| When I try to do so (without a template), it just shows up as text! Is there a plugin or directive that I can install/change to enable this? Many thanks, vm2058(a)gmail.com.

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export Spezial:Allmessages to language.php
by Heinz 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Does there exist out there a solution for an export of "Spezial:Allmessages" to a language.php file? thx-Heinz

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Odd, and potentially somewhat serious bug with SVG image uploads.
by Gregory Maxwell 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Today I uploaded a replacement of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nuvola_apps_important.svg The image is used in MANY places. The first upload attempt just went to a blank screen. I tried again and got an error like: "If reporting this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the following details: Request: POST http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload, from 0.0.0.0 via srv6.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE12) to commons.wikimedia.org ([unknown]) Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:42:02 GMT" I then noticed that the image was actually replaced with my new version, yet there is *no* record of my change anywhere on the image page or in the upload log. I've tried at least half-a-dozen more times with the same error each time. I find it more than a little troubling that the image was replaced with my new version, and yet there seems to be no record of it.

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-03-20
by brion＠pobox.com 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

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Database redundancy
by chris muse 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

We have been looking into possibly setting up a MySQL cluster to avoid some of the complexities of a master-slave environment. Does the mediawiki code support MySQL clustering? Has anyone tried testing a cluster with Wikipedia or a smaller db? Also, how does wikipedia currently handle automatic failover of a master-slave transition and then also later the slave-master transition when the master comes back online? What do your scripts do now to deal with that and what kind of monitoring do you to make sure everything is in good health? Thanks, Chris

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-03-19
by brion＠pobox.com 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

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Proposed code changes for the OutputPage.php
by Shinjiman Ho 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Hi all, I am a new comer for contributing the code for MediaWiki. (don't mind if my English is not good enough) I am having a proposed changes for the function headElement() function, which accepts various language while in different language code. The main propose of this changes is to display the correct language/font correctly. This problem is already exists in the Chinese wikis, which the language is in Chinese, however the browsers (at least IE and Firefox browsers) are detected as a Simplified Chinese webpage. The problem have been discussed in its local Wikipedia pages: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88… http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E7%B9%81%E7%AE%80%E4%BD%93%E8%BD%AC… http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88… (All these webpages are from Chinese Wikipedia, in Chinese language) And according to those pages, the users generally have a consensus to having a change of display the language/font when it's in Traditional Chinese. The display language has been tested under Internet Explorer and Firefox, the results have been shown below: Key: IE = Internet Explorer FF = Mozilla Firefox SC = Simplified Chinese TC = Traditional Chinese TC-HKSCS = Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong Suppmelmentary Character Set ! = There's some problem when displaying the language of the webpage, the language is incorrect zh: SC(IE), SC(FF) zh-hant: TC(IE), TC(FF) zh-hans: TC(IE)!, SC(FF) zh-cn: SC(IE), SC(FF) zh-tw: TC(IE), TC(FF) zh-hk: SC(IE)!, TC-HKSCS(FF) zh-mo: SC(IE)!, SC(FF)! zh-sg: SC(IE), SC(FF) however, the Internet Explorer browser does not perfectly supporting the zh-hans and zh-hant tags respectively. So to fix this language/font problem, we need a several PHP scripts to display that properly. the steps are indicated below: 1. Detects if a user is logged on or not, if so do the display language-code check against the language value in user perferences; 2. If the user is not logged on, do the display language-code check against the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE value; 3. If the browser does not support the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE (for very old browser only). Automatically fallback to global language. For display language code checking: 1. Detect is that a non zh-cn ot zh-tw installation, if so return the global language; 2. Do the match for the language against several language-codes, if matches return the display language code; 3. When none of them above matches, then automatically fallback to the global language. (this part of code can also performed besides the Chinese language) For solving this problem, I've wrote a piece of code to there, however, there's no idea which file are better inserting these pieces of code, or in a seprate file. After I have had suggestions from here, I will put my code into Bugzilla to do the checkout of my piece of code. thanks :) Shinjiman -- http://meta.wikimedia.org/User:Shinjiman http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Shinjiman

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table pages: status, open questions
by Rich Morin 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

I continue to work on my DB table summary pages: * tidied up the formatting * added some section headers * added an "Inter-table Relationships" section which tries to list all of a table's columns which reflect columns in other tables * created a simple diagram of the inter-table relationships: http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/tmp/db_tables.png * guessed at some table descriptions, etc. * added information on three tables which are used in Semantic MediaWiki The top-level page is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RichMorin/MySQL_Tables General comments, corrections, and suggestions are solicited. Lacking any specific feedback to date, I have had to guess at a number of details. So, significant errors may be present! In addition, there are several pages that have major holes: archive The internal format of ar_flags is not defined. trackbacks None of the columns are defined. validate None of the columns are defined. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm(a)cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development

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