Hi,
It would be nice if this worked:
some <ref name="foo"/>text
more <ref name="foo">foo.com </ref> text
<references />
That is, naming references before they're actually defined. It's a bit
awkward at the moment when you want to use a reference before the
first time you'd previously used it. You have to locate it, copy it
etc. If you're doing section editing, it's even more inconvenient.
Just thought I'd mention it.
:)
Steve
Hello,
I am admin in Lombard wikipedia, which is still small.
I would like to ask you if there is any way to send automatically a welcome message to any new user who creates a new account.
Many thanks.
Sincerely yours,
Claudi
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Requested by bug 4914 (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4914)
-----Original Message-----
From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of XaosFluX
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 07:18
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] automated welcome template
One method would be to send it to them off-wiki, as part of the email
confirmation message.
xaosflux
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claudi Meneghin" <clamengh(a)yahoo.fr>
To: <wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:18 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] automated welcome template
Hello,
I am admin in Lombard wikipedia, which is still small.
I would like to ask you if there is any way to send automatically a
welcome message to any new user who creates a new account.
Many thanks.
Sincerely yours,
Claudi
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Background:
Over on en, the userboxen wars have started up again. Some undergrad
calling himself User:Cyde, with a punny tag Cyde Weys, cajoled his way
into admin status by promising to stop his disruptive activity there, and
nearly the first edit of his first hour as admin began deleting a userbox.
He'd recently speedied others such as "Template:User infidel", and been
rebuffed after a week of deletion review. The past couple of days he's
been edit warring on "Template:User Christian", making it a page long with
a sideways cross, then a spinning cross, and that really stoked the flames.
Because he lied about his intent (to gain privileges), and has been so
disruptive, he probably should be desysopped, but the process for that
seems to be rare and undocumented.
I'd skipped the userbox wars the previous time around because at about
the same time, a couple of folks started turning all abbreviation pages
(encyclopedic) into disambiguation pages (explicitly not encyclopedic),
deleting/redirecting the categories and templates without any prior
discussion. Don't know what it is about the winter holiday break giving
a few folks too much time on their hands. (heavy sigh)
Technical:
Anyway, over at Wikipedia:Categories for Deletion, today folks are
proposing making a clean demarck between user space categories and
"encyclopedic" categories. Seems reasonable to me. Dunno whether it will
make some folks happier, but is worth a try.
Surely it's just a tag of some kind, but categories require some software
support. Is it possible to add a second group of category space labeled
"Wikipedian:"?
For example, "Wikipedian:Politicians" instead of the current
* "Category:Wikipedian politicians", previously known as
* "Category:Wikipedians who have run for public office"
Pointers to code would be appreciated.
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Running test Magic Word: {{NUMBEROFFILES}}... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED!
Running test Language converter: output gets cut off unexpectedly (bug 5757)... FAILED!
Running test HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, closed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, closed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Passed 304 of 314 tests (96.82%) FAILED!
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!
Running test Language converter: output gets cut off unexpectedly (bug 5757)... FAILED!
Running test HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, closed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, closed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Passed 303 of 313 tests (96.81%) FAILED!
Added two new SVN committers: Dominic Arkwright (dom) and Grace Pastorelly
(grace). They're contractors working on multilingual stuff for WiktionaryZ /
WikiData; they'll be working in a branch for now.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki
Also, I've set up a restricted shell on the SVN server for most of the accounts.
Please let me know if it breaks anything, or if you need an open shell to fiddle
with something else on the server. (Currently Tim's got a full shell so that he
can add new committer accounts if I'm unavailable.)
I spent some time poking around the web for nice, lightweight restricted shells
with a convenient option for Subversion, but couldn't find anything that didn't
look dreadful. So I whipped up a quick crappy one in Python:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/sillyshell/
As far as I know it should not be any less secure than the Subversion server
program itself, though it might be buggy.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
[Cross-post to wikien-l, wikitech-l and mediawiki-l; apologies for duplication]
On 03/05/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> The "Upload file" link in the left pane of monobook still takes you
> to the page for uploading an image to the English wikipedia. In most
> cases, it would be more helpful to be uploading the image to Commons
> (US fair use being the notable exception).
>
> Since I notice that certain other wikipedias at least make a commons
> upload link equally prominent, is it time we considered removing the
> upload-to-EN link entirely, or hiding it somewhere for those that
> really do want to upload fair use images? And instead, provide a link
> to upload to commons?
Allow me to recall a #mediawiki anecdote from about a week ago. A user
new to the software wanted to set up about three wikis using a fourth
as a mini version of our Commons (their own implementation); the
"usage" side had been established, but the user queried whether or not
uploads from all wikis could be diverted to the new.
Given that the "slave" wikis would all have access to the "master"
database (excuse the confusing mix of terminologies for those who are
placing this into 'SQL context), I considered it wouldn't be too
difficult.
Now for the relevant bit. It's been discussed before, a little, and I
touched upon it in a recent discussion sparked off from the newbie's
questions...but it could be feasible for us to replace our
Special:Upload pages with something a bit more intelligent. Making use
of the licencing dropdowns, we could, I think, redirect free images to
Commons in a seamless fashion (after checking existence and providing
a courteous note to the user, of course).
This has advantages and disadvantages. The user's upload experience is
simple, and the image can be used as before without trouble. On the
other hand, deliberate or accidental mis-selection of the licence
[cw]ould result in an influx of non-free materials arriving on the
Commons.
Nevertheless, I think the idea has potential, and it's something I
might be interested in helping to hack together in the future. I'll
throw it out here and see what people think. And since I'm at it, I'll
cross-post to mediawiki-l and wikitech-l, too.
Rob Church