Wikitech-l April 2006

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Why does Article::getDB() use DB_MASTER?
by Jitse Niesen 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

According to docs/database.txt (thanks Tim for writing this useful text), database reads should use wfGetDB( DB_SLAVE ). However, when browsing through the code, I found the following definition of Article::getDB() : /** * Get the database which should be used for reads * * @return Database */ function &getDB() { $ret =& wfGetDB( DB_MASTER ); return $ret; } As far as I can see, the Database object returned by this function is used to load the contents of the article. Why is DB_MASTER used instead of DB_SLAVE? Jitse

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-04-29
by brion＠pobox.com 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: Running test Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html)... FAILED! Running test Magic Word: {{NUMBEROFFILES}}... FAILED! Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED! Passed 300 of 303 tests (99.01%) FAILED!

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Define and Formalize wiki markup
by Pedro de Medeiros 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello, list members. I have noticed that there is a summer of code project for definition and formalization of wiki markup language. But it is stated in the current meta-wiki page that this would be "mostly a documentation step and developer discipline issue." Well, the summer of code rules clearly specify that a valid project can't be one of documentation, but of coding (and I assume "discipline issues", whatever that means, is also non-coding). With that said, I am interest in such project if it involves coding. To make this change into a valid summer of code project, I propose to do a wiki parser, for which I have already designed some draft rules in a yacc/bison manner. Who should I talk to? Maybe I can email some of my draft yacc/bison parser to the mentor? Cheers. -- Pedro de Medeiros - Computer Science - University of Brasília Email: pedro.medeiros(a)gmail.com - Home Page: http://www.nonseq.net Linux User No.: 234250 - ICQ: 2878740 - Jabber: medeiros(a)jabber.org

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crear plantilla
by wiwo wowi 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

He visto en la wikipedia en español, en la palabra calamar, que hay una especie de plantilla y dentro hay unos datos. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamar Yo tengo unas cuantas plantas y me gustaría crearme una wiki de ellas para uso personal, me gustaría que me dijerais como puedo crearme una plantilla parecida con los campos que yo quiero.

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bn: fa: hi: time and date numbers formatting
by Ashar Voultoiz 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello, I fixed bug #5679 [1] in trunk tonight [2] and synced live site [3]. For bn: fa: hi: languages, it means that most of the time the date output on the site should now use the correct numerals instead of the latin one (1,2,3,4 .. 0). cheers, [1] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5679 [2] trunk revision 13908 [3] https://wikitech.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Server_admin_log&diff=8316&ol… -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080

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Overwrite images without the warning screen
by c2odessa＠2odessa.com 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

QUESTION #1 Does anyone know how to modify speicialupload.php file so that I can upload images and overwrite images without this warning screen: A file with this name exists already, please check Image:example.jpg if you are not sure if you want to change it. I want to disable the warning screen altogether. QUESTION #2 I know about the "ignore all warnings" check box (which I do not have on my 1.5 version of wiki), is there anyway to permantently have this checked....I will upload to 1.6x if this is necessary to disable this screen. Is the "ignore all warnings" check box found on mediawiki 1.5x? or only 1.6x? Thank you in advance. I was suggested to go here from the IRC mediawiki group. ----- My site: http://www.2odessa.com

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how to find out: "double" users and administrators
by Uwe Brauer 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello May be these are very trivial question: - How can I find out, whether the same user has various accounts and give the false impression that many users contribute. I presume it must be via the IP (also in case of multi user machines that might be misleading). - How can I find out that someone is a administrator of a specific page? Right there exist a long list of administrators, but couldn't a administrator get a specific signature or something like this? Thanks Uwe Brauer.

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Mirror(s) to prevent downtime and lessen load on main servers?
by Aerik Sylvan 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Before I go find the foundation mailing list and ask them, has there been any discussion of a wikipedia owned mirror to lessen the load on the main servers and keep the content accessible in case of an outage? I'm imagining that this could be accomplished by the the mirror independantly refreshing from the recent changes page RSS feed - although I guess it would be more efficient for it to pull the updates directly from the database. Anyway, the beauty of an official mirror is that searches could be randomly directed to it (or one of several official mirrors) and the "edit" links from the mirror(s) point back to the "live" site. This is such an obvious idea that I'd guess it's already been proposed and discussed, but I did a little searching and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask. Aerik

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odd behaviour of {fullurl:...}
by William Allen Simpson 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A couple of us were trying to figure out the syntax to add a working link to Special:Log in a template. [{{fullurl:Special:Log|page={{{1}}}{{{2}}}}} log] Works fine as long as parameter 2 is only one word. With a space in 2, only the first word shows up in the URL. Tried wrapping {{fullurl:{{{1}}}{{{2}}}}}, but page= won't take a full page name. [{{fullurl:Special:Whatlinkshere/{{{1}}}{{{2}}}|limit=999}} links] Always works. Is there some reason that fullurl stops encoding spaces to underscores when it runs into a pipe? And speaking of syntax, why {{fullurl: instead of {{#fullurl: to match the latest parser syntax?

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Hyper Estraier extension
by Tietew 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello, I wrote a MediaWiki extension to search wikicontent using Hyper Estraier, a full-text search engine. Description has been posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Estraier_extension About Hyper Estraier: * Sourceforge: http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ * OS Reviews: http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/misc/hyperestraier And I set up a demo site uses this extension to search Japanese Wikipedia content. http://ja.wikipedia.tietew.jp/wiki/Special:Search Look'n'feel is derived from LuceneSearch.php. Search results and content summary are generated by Hyper Estraier search server. == Background == Current wikipedia's lucene-search is tooo bad about searching Japanese. I think Hyper Estraier is better for languages whose sentence is not separated by space, such as Japanese and Chinese. see also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006#I18n_search_index ## I have no idea which engine is better for europian languages. == Request == I want to test and demo real-time index update from live Wikipedia. Could you please give me a permittion to access OAIRepository? == Comparation == word: "ウィキペディア" (Wikipedia) Hyper Estraier: 490 hits http://ja.wikipedia.tietew.jp/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&s… http://ja.wikipedia.tietew.jp/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&s… Lucene: 397 hits ... but only 40 documents are shown http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&search=… http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&search=… word: "百科事典" (hyakka-jiten; encyclopedia) Hyper Estraier: 352 hits http://ja.wikipedia.tietew.jp/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&s… http://ja.wikipedia.tietew.jp/w/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search&s… Lucene: 171 hits ... but only 23 documents are shown http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search?search=%E7%99%BE%E7%… http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search?search=%E7%99%BE%E7%… Thank you. -- [[User:Tietew]] <tietew(a)tietew.net> Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tietew PGP/GPG: 26CB 71BB B595 09C4 0153 81C4 773C 963A D51B 8CAA

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