Hi everyone,
I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/)
and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX
syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS
solution but nothing was apparent.
I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations
would be very welcome.
Do you know of anything suitable?
Kind Regards,
Hugo Vincent,
Bluewater Systems.
Hi,
today we came over 10k HTTP requests per second (even with inter-squid
traffic eliminated). Especially thanks to Mark and Tim, who've been
improving our caching, as well as doing lots of other work, and
achieved incredible results (while I was slacking). Really, thanks!
Domas
Hey,
I've put together an extension for rating articles if anyone is
interested. It's just a first version and hasn't been tested much, but
the details can be found here:
http://www.wikihow.com/WikiHow:RateArticle-Extension
You can see an example here on our development server:
http://wiki16.wikidiy.com/Get-a-Better-Deal-on-a-Home-Loan
(username password wikihow / wikihow2006) - scroll down to the bottom
of the page for the checkmarks.
I'd appreciate feedback if anyone has any. If someone wants to add
this to extensions in svn, that'd be great.
Thanks,
Travis
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In the previous discussion (about Special:Desysop), it was proposed to
merge the user rights pages (Special:Userrights, Special:Makesysop,
Special:Makebot, Special:GiveRollback, and now also Special:Desysop)
into the page Special:Userrights, using configuration settings. It seems
to be a good time to propose it:
I've merged these special pages to Special:Userrights using
configuration settings in
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/rotem/userrights ,
which is an improved user rights page.
This proposed system adds the following features to Special:Userrights:
* Flexible configuration settings for a limited interface – for example,
you can allow bureaucrats to grant only these permissions and revoke
only those permissions, and allow the stewards to do everything.
* Checkboxes instead of lists, mainly because it's possible to disable
them separately while it's not possible in lists.
* Changing the permissions of remote users for stewards, controllable by
a permission ("userrights_remote"), like in the stewards interface of
Special:Makesysop.
* Log comment, to explain the change, like in Makebot.
You can either download and test it directly, or watch the following images:
http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mediawikinewuserrightsbureaucratsl…
The limited interface for bureaucrats, like it can be set in Wikimedia
sites.
http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mediawikinewuserrightsstewardsgg7.p…
The full interface for stewards, like it can be set in Wikimedia sites,
editing a remote user.
This change should deprecate Makesysop, Makebot, GiveRollback and
Desysop and make them implementable by using only configuration
settings. However, these extensions may be kept for old versions, and
for sites which were not updated. (There seems to be a compatibility
issue with Special:Makesysop because one of its core functions
(HTMLSelectGroups) was removed, but it can be defined in
SpecialMakesysop.php or SpecialMakesysop_body.php as a class function.)
Additional technical information may be found in
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rotemliss/User_rights_suggestion#How_to_…
. You can also read the other parts of the page, but it's a bit old and
not updated in some parts. You can also ask here about anything unclear.
What do you think about this implementation? Which changes should be
done? Do you think some features should be added, or dropped?
Thank you very much for the feedback.
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Steve Summit
> And in case no one's made the observation: after just a couple
> of initial hiccups (affecting, not surprisingly, only the
> biggest wikis), it seems to be working very well, with all
> dumps successfully up-to-date, on a cycle of just a few days.
> <http://download.wikimedia.org/> is a very pretty picture now.
> Well done!
Sorry Steve you are quite mistaken.
I'm probably the one person looking at the xml download progress report most
often, as I wait impatiently for a good moment to run wikistats after month
has completed
Dumps for largest Wikipedias still fail very frequently.
There has not been a useful English dumps for months and maybe a handful in
a whole year.
Sometimes the jump job reports all is well when it is not (Brion knows this)
I hate to chase Brion because he has thousand obligations but dump process
is pretty unstable still
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060925/ is running now, but
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060920/ reports it is still in
progress
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060911/ reports on the 7z file all is
OK but is 36 Mb
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060906/ reports on the 7z file all is
OK but is 19 Mb
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060905/ reports on the 7z file all is
OK but is 98 bytes
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060816/ reports on the 7z file all is
OK and it is 5.1 Gb but I know it is incomplete it just stops in the middle
of an article
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060810/ failed
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060803/ in progress
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060717/ OK
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060702/ OK
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060619/ in progress
I could go on: 2 or 3 OK in 10 older runs
Early this year there was no valid en: archive dump for over 4 months.
I proposed doing the largest dumps in incremental steps (say one job per
letter of the alphabet and concat at the end), so that rerun after error
would be less costly
but Brion says there are no disk resources for that
As other people commented, the current situation helps to prevent forks ;)
So again I fully appreciate Brion can't be all things to al people.
But please don't suggest the dump process is reliable enough.
Erik Zachte
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hello,
at about 13:00 UTC on Sunday the 30th we will be performing some
maintenance on our network during which the site will be offline.
hopefully this won't last longer than a few minutes, although it will
involve a switch reload.
- river.
(see, not all our maintenance is scheduled 5 minutes in advance...)
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>
> Mike wrote:
> > ...look at this snippet of XML from enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
> > taken from late August. I don't see any namespace in the <title> elements,
> > ...
> > <title>AaA</title>
> > ...
> > <title>AlgeriA</title>
>
> Those are main namespace (namespace 0) articles, so they don't
> have a prefix. But all the non-main-namespace pages do.
> The first is <id>724</id><title>Wikipedia:Adding Wikipedia
> articles to Nupedia</title>.)
Thanks! That explains a lot.
Mike O
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> On 9/30/06, Walter Vermeir <walter(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
> > For Ogg Vorbis there is;
> > http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/
> > And with that you can play a Ogg Vorbis file without a player at the
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> I set it up weeks ago and have been able to gather fairly little
> interest in it... thus my frustration with people insisting that we
> must use proprietary formats for ease of use.
I, and I assume most of those who saw it, thought it was an early demo
- not something ready to roll. I also wasn't aware it ran under GCJ as
well as proprietary Java.
As such, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? ROLL IT OUT! SOMETHING USABLE! IT
SHOULD BE ON EVERY OGG IMAGE PAGE!
(The "about" will have to mention it works fine under GCJ and is
Free-As-In-Stallman Software all the way down.)
cc: to wikitech-l in case there's some technical hiccup to doing so
- d.