Wikitech-l March 2007

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RSS feeds for watchlists
by Titoxd＠Wikimedia 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

As I was stuck in a traffic jam the other day (yeah. interesting place to think about MediaWiki stuff :P), an idea for adding RSS/Atom feed support for watchlists (as requested on Bug 471) came to me. I have no clue how feasible it is, so I'm just throwing the suggestion to gather comments. :) Currently, the method the bug fixes use is to create a login cookie or something similar for the RSS feed, which then faces authentication issues. However, I thought it would be easier to provide a *previously-authenticated* session token, which then is just plugged into any feed aggregator (a la Google Calendar, to point to a similar implementation). The way it would be done is like this: 1) Our unhappy user wants to have a create a feed for his watchlist. 2) The user clicks on [[Special:Watchlist/feed]] (or another URL), which then generates a random 128-character string. This URL is stored somewhere in the database; perhaps as a user_feed_token field in the user table. 3) [[Special:Watchlist/feed]] returns the string, and gives the unhappy user a link, of the following format: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Watchlist&target={{userID} }&token={{token}} 4) The unhappy user adds the link to his aggregator. 5) The aggregator displays the watchlist. 6) The unhappy user becomes happy. Watchlist data is obviously private; as a result, the token should be able to be reset by the user if necessary, and only one token should be active at any time, like it is done with email confirmation tokens. Also, the strength of the token should be at least 128 characters, but it can be more if necessary. I'm not sure whether to use the username or the user ID of our happy/unhappy user; I thought the ID number would be more cryptic, but that's minor. If the token is wrong, then the request fails gracefully; no "wrong token error" is required. Anyways, what do you all think? Comments? Flamebait? Titoxd.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Does anyone want to help me build a digg/reddit style wikipedia filter?
by Sheldon Rampton 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Ben Yates wrote: > I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of > need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions > about how to do stuff. For the ratings part, there's an existing MediaWiki extension that could serve as a starting-point: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AjaxRatingScript -------------------------------- | Sheldon Rampton | Research director, Center for Media & Democracy (www.prwatch.org) | Author of books including: | Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities | Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | Mad Cow USA | Trust Us, We're Experts | Weapons of Mass Deception | Banana Republicans | The Best War Ever -------------------------------- | Subscribe to our free weekly list serve by visiting: | http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/subscribe_sotd.html | | Donate now to support independent, public interest reporting: | https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=1118 --------------------------------

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New Special:Contributions form in SVN
by Erik Moeller 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I'm fine with showing this form on Special:Contributions itself, but do we really need to show it when a user has been specified? It seems that a simple link to the form - "choose a different user" - should be sufficient. -- Peace & Love, Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees. "An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic

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bot to append email to wiki page?
by Jim Hu 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Does anyone know if a bot exists to allow a wiki page to serve as an archive for a listserv? Preferably this would run on the mail server, not on the server that has the wiki. Thanks? Jim ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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MediaWiki 1.9.3 ImageMap Extension Errors and bugs
by Jeff V. Merkey 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi Tim, Bugs in the extension and/or an interface problem between the chair and keyboard on my end. Directory structure matches that described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap Configued in LocalSettings.php as: require_once( "$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php" ); require_once( "$IP/extensions/Cite.php" ); require_once( "$IP/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.php" ) Directory Structure of extensions installed in MediaWiki 1.9.3 is: [root@gadugi en]# find extensions/ extensions/ extensions/README extensions/Cite.php extensions/ParserFunctions extensions/ParserFunctions/Expr.php extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php extensions/Chr2Syl.php extensions/Cite.i18n.php extensions/Citation.php extensions/HTTPRedirect.php extensions/Purge.php extensions/Tidy.php extensions/tidy extensions/tidy/tidy.conf extensions/ImageMap extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap_body.php extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.i18n.php extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap.php extensions/ImageMap/desc-20.png extensions/ImageMap/desc.svg [root@gadugi en]# error logs report: [Mon Mar 12 17:20:32 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /wikidump/en/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap_body.php on line 71, referer: http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Main_Page [Mon Mar 12 17:21:12 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /wikidump/en/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap_body.php on line 71 [Mon Mar 12 17:23:07 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /wikidump/en/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap_body.php on line 71, referer: http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Main_Page [Mon Mar 12 17:26:01 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /wikidump/en/extensions/ImageMap/ImageMap_body.php on l: Jeff

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Image slideshow extension wanted
by Ian Tresman 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I hope this request is admissible for the list. I'm after a MediaWiki slideshow extension, and found a Javascript version under the GNU license at http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/slideshow/ But my knowledge of extensions is not good enough to convert this into an extension. Would someone else oblige... I'm willing to pay, and the resulting extension would remain under GNU and freely available to everyone. The extension would create a new <slideshow> tag. It would not need the "Slideshow Wizard" (described on the Web site above) that creates the slideshow, as it is quite easy to do this manually. And the one main improvement to the extension would be to be able to specify images either as a URL, or as a Wiki image, eg;. Image:picture.jpg (using the modest sized image, rather than the uploaded larger sized image. The option to restrict URLs to certain domains would prevent the use of inappropriate off-size images. I think this extension would be a useful additional. Regards, Ian Tresman

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Comprised IP address?
by Ian Tresman 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I'd appreciate some user IP address advice. My Web site was attacked by someone with an IP address that is used on Wikipedia by someone who has not logged into a personal account. They have suggested that their User IP address may have been compromised. Is the following accurate: If their User IP was identified with, for example, a college, then several people could indeed be using the same Wikipedia User IP address. But if their IP address is identified with a private residential broadband account, then the only ways it could be compromised is: a. Someone else has access to the same computer b. The home computer has a Trojan giving access to an intruder Regards, Ian Tresman

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [20439] trunk/phase3/includes/SpecialIpblocklist.php
by Rob Church 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

On 14/03/07, aaron(a)svn.wikimedia.org <aaron(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Revision: 20439 > Author: aaron > Date: 2007-03-13 21:38:52 -0800 (Tue, 13 Mar 2007) > > Log Message: > ----------- > *Hide blocks from regular users if ipb_deleted is set Er, isn't this taking it too far? There's no need to add a bunch of levels of hiding blocks; blocks ought to be open and transparent to all users. I also don't believe there's a need to be able to mark a block as deleted and restore it - just unblock and reblock as required. Rob Church

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-03-14
by brion＠pobox.com 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.10alpha (r20440). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... 1 new PASSING test(s) :) * 5 quotes, code coverage +1 line [Has never failed] 1 previously FAILING test(s) removed O_o * TODO: 5 quotes, code coverage +1 line [First recorded appearance: 11-Nov-2006 12:40:23, 1.9alpha (r17532)] 17 still FAILING test(s) :( * URL-encoding in URL functions (single parameter) [Has never passed] * URL-encoding in URL functions (multiple parameters) [Has never passed] * TODO: Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html) [Has never passed] * TODO: Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598) [Has never passed] * TODO: message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926) [Has never passed] * TODO: message transform: <onlyinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926) [Has never passed] * BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled [Has never passed] * TODO: HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * TODO: HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * TODO: HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * TODO: HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * TODO: Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting [Has never passed] * TODO: Mixing markup for italics and bold [Has never passed] * TODO: dt/dd/dl test [Has never passed] * TODO: Images with the "|" character in the comment [Has never passed] * TODO: Parents of subpages, two levels up, without trailing slash or name. [Has never passed] * TODO: Parents of subpages, two levels up, with lots of extra trailing slashes. [Has never passed] Passed 494 of 511 tests (96.67%)... 17 tests failed!

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Voice chat & VoIP systems
by Brion Vibber 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There's been some interest lately in setting up a good voice-chat system which could help in organization, preferably cross-platform and open source. (Various people have used proprietary systems like Skype in the past, and one of our interns at the office has been experimenting on his own with Ventrilo, another proprietary system which doesn't have a Linux client available.) Certainly I'd love for us to have a good, usable, and "ideologically pure" system available and would be happy to set up hosting for that. Apparently Kelly Martin has recommended Asterisk in private discussions that never reached anyone with the ability to make it happen. I'm told that Greg Maxwell has set up an experimental server of some kind, unspecified on the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/voip Greg or others, can you comment on server and client issues and make recommendations on what might be a good direction to move forward with this, as far as availability of clients, ease of use, quality etc? - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF92M/wRnhpk1wk44RAq0YAKCGIHyZoE9poxGkmUoXeacbqFVgdQCgxuYb 4xJYTmEUR0d0G4ADl/D5Am8= =F/UQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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