In case no one has yet noticed,
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060402/ reports that the two
largest parts of the latest enwiki dump have failed.
The next round of dumping has not yet been started, and at least one
project is eagerly awaiting data from April.
Thanks,
Beland
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I notice a few new files recently have been checked in with DOS line endings.
While Subversion does provide for conversion of EOL sequences for the local
operating system style, unlike CVS it's not set by default for newly added
files. Some quick directions on turning it on:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion/auto-props
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Moin,
a freshly installed wiki, with almost no content:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics
shows "There are 1,386 total pages in the database.".
Huh? How is that number computed? I also noted that updating from 1.4.x to
1.5.x increased the number of "total pages" by quite a few hundred. Are
there things counting as pages that should be counted?
Best wishes,
Tels
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Hi
Does anyone have the knowledge and understanding to answer this email ?
Ant
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---- Forwarded message from james.johnstone(a)ayion.com ---
From: james.johnstone(a)ayion.com
To: board(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Using the Wikipedia "Featured Article"
Date: 2006-04-05 08:23:40
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing to follow up on something I asked about a little while ago
> that has come up for us again.
> I wrote to you around two months ago asking about whether or not we could
> use an RSS feed of the Wikipedia "Todays Featured Article" block to
> include it in a piece of educational software we are currently in the
> process of developing, but we never got as far as to request whether or
> not we could do this.
>
> So the question we are trying to get answered is, can we include the RSS
> feed of the "Today's Featured Article" section in this educational
> software package that we are developing?
> The include would be displayed on the students "Start page", the page they
> see when they first open up the service to gain access to other
> information.
>
> This permission would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Regards,
>
> James Johnstone
> head of development
> ayion educational
>
>
>
>
---- End forwarded message ---
>can falter. Additionally, as the Mozilla note mentioned,
>contributions that aren't part of the mainline will likely bitrot. (I
>don't have a solution to this; just a cautionary note.)
Well, the main solution is to create an ecosystem where people get
hired to work (full-time) on providing such extensions (or additions
to the mainline) to MediaWiki. Only this setup can provide some continuity.
I'm working on getting projects setup to do exactly that. (I
mentioned this in a private note.) But for that to work the MediaWiki
community needs be accepting of (corporate) contributions (assuming
they follow the licenses and community spirit).
Are there any examples or even defined processes (on meta?) that I
could look up?
Thanks,
Dirk
Google's doing their Summer of Code program again this year. We missed last
years', but I'm going to try signing us up as a mentoring organization this year.
Feel free to put any relevant-sounding project ideas here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006
Mozilla's experience last year wasn't so good[1]; some of their projects didn't
complete, and most of them haven't been touched since the end of the summer.
Mono however had a much more positive experience[2], with most of their projects
completing and being further developed and adopted after the end.
So I think it will be important to try to engage the folks working on our
projects if we want to keep them. :)
[1]
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/03/summer_of_code_six_mon…
[2] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Apr-13.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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