Wikitech-l March 2007

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Error on install
by Kirill Krasnov 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi All. In new install I see this error: # Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. # Generating configuration file... # Database type: MySQL # Loading class: DatabaseMysql # Attempting to connect to database server as ttd_wiki...success. # Connected to 4.1.10-standard # Database ta_wiki exists # Creating tables... using MySQL 4 table defs... Warning: fopen(../maintenance/tables.sql) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/wiki/includes/Database.php on line 1959 Could not open "../maintenance/tables.sql". -- Best regards, Kirill Krasnov ICQ 82427351

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MediaWiki 1.9.3 (and Wikipedia)
by Jeff V. Merkey 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I have completed analysis of all downloaded images from Wikipedia for the last dump of enwiki-20070206. I ran across something that may be of interest. When images are uploaded and contain unicode HTML strings in the filenames, they are not getting converted into unicode utf8 characters after being uploaded. MediaWiki is simply storing them based upon absolute filename. This is itself is not a problem for downloading images or rendering, but may cause invalid references during XML dump import if the programs reading the XML data attempt to render the names as utf8. The following images were identified to contain HTML unicode tags in the filenames themselves in the last dump (not a large number of them, but interesting). &-20013;&-33775;&-27665;&-22283;&-20840;&-22294;.jpg Portret_konny_genera&-322;a_Ignacego_Kruszewskiego.jpg AM_Pozna&-324;.PNG HüseyinK&-305;vr&-305;ko&-287;lu.jpg S&-322;upsk-_Bulwar_nad_rzek&-261;_S&-322;upi&-261;.JPG Braille&-12288;Writer.jpg Ra&-1513;&-1493;&-1500;&-1497;_&-1504;&-1514;&-1503;&-1502;&-1493;&-1511;&-1496;&-1503;.jpg &-1505;&-1490;&-1492;_&-1490;&-1497;&-1497;&-1501;_&-1490;&-1497;&-1512;.jpg Stanis&-322;aw_Kania.jpg It may make sense to render the names in utf8 instead of HTML unicode strings during upload. Jeff

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Error on search in 1.8.3
by Jim Hu 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I get the following fatal error [Fri Mar 9 10:04:13 2007] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getText() on a non-object in /Volumes/dimer_web/WebServer/ Documents/colimod/colipedia/includes/SpecialSearch.php on line 333 When I search for "MG1655" at http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php But other searches work just fine. MG1655 does not correspond to an existing page when I add it to the url. Searching for nonsense strings that don't have pages does not cause this crash. MG1655 occurs as a text match on lots of pages (10069 matches in the text table), but I don't see why line 333 should care. In fact, I don't see how the code ever reaches 333, which is for a single hit result. Here are some db queries, in case these give any clues: mysql> select * from page where page_title like "%MG1655%"; Empty set (0.54 sec) mysql> select count(*) from text where old_text like "%MG1655%"; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 10069 | +----------+ 1 row in set (6.92 sec) Any thoughts? 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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1.9.3 rebuildall.php hangs with errors
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

The rebuildall.php script in MediaWiki 1.9.3 hangs after importing the enwiki-20070206 XML dump during text search rebuilding. The import loaded 4,500,000 pages (1,500,000 articles) and completed. When rebuildall.php is invoked, the text search reports 2 X the number of pages (9,500,000+), runs till it reaches this number, then deadlocks. Thread state is NS (stopped). There is no state information when attempts are made to use gdb and attach to the process. Jeff

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postcomment extension
by Travis Derouin 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi, I've added an extension we've been using at wikihow for awhile to easily post new messages to discussion pages: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Postcomment It's pretty basic. You can see it in action here: http://www.wikihow.com/Discussion:Transfer-Cassette-Tape-to-Computer Travis

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-03-09
by brion＠pobox.com 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.10alpha (r20281). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... 3 previously failing test(s) now PASSING! :) * Blank ref followed by ref with content [Fixed between 08-Mar-2007 08:17:23, 1.10alpha (r20223) and 09-Mar-2007 08:15:17, 1.10alpha (r20281)] * Regression: non-blank ref "0" followed by ref with content [Fixed between 08-Mar-2007 08:17:23, 1.10alpha (r20223) and 09-Mar-2007 08:15:17, 1.10alpha (r20281)] * Regression sanity check: non-blank ref "1" followed by ref with content [Fixed between 08-Mar-2007 08:17:23, 1.10alpha (r20223) and 09-Mar-2007 08:15:17, 1.10alpha (r20281)] 18 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: 5 quotes, code coverage +1 line [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 493 of 511 tests (96.48%)... 18 tests failed!

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"Planet" feed aggregators
by Erik Moeller 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

We're looking into the possibility of setting up a planet-style feed aggregator for Wikimedia blogs. It would be nice to get some software recommendations. Specifically, we would need an aggregator that supports - web based administration - filtering feeds based on tags assigned to posts It should scale well a large number of blogs & readers. It would also be nice to be able to form "groups" of blogs, but that is optional. Any tips & reviews would be appreciated. -- 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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Approved BOT Code
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Which are considered the best bots in use on Wikipedia and is the code available? Jeff

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wiki XML
by Sheldon Rampton 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I agree wholeheartedly with Jared. A rewrite shouldn't invalidate > everyone's collective time spent learning the current syntax. I mean, > that's a whole lot of peoples time you could potentially be wasting. I agree with you on this point. People should definitely still be able to input and edit articles using the same wikitext markup to which they've grown accustomed. Increasingly, however, people are wanting something easier. I know people who find wikitext difficult and are asking for WYSIWYG. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to use wikitext as a basis for WYSIWYG. The people who are trying to do it are going through something like the following: wikitext -> HTML -> a Javascript WYSIWYG editor When they save their changes, they have to go back through HTML on the way to wikitext, and since there's no one-to-one correspondence between wikitext and HTML, the results are inconsistent. It's hard to imagine a good fix for this problem because the only people interested in working on wikitext-to-HTML conversion are a subset of the relatively small number who actually write code for MediaWiki. Moreover, it's a moving target. Wikitext syntax changes every time someone writes a new parser function, and with the proliferation of MediaWiki-powered websites outside Wikimedia, it's looking more and more like a language with numerous dialects rather than a single consistent markup standard. I realize that it's ambitious to contemplate putting XML under the hood of MediaWiki -- just as it was ambitious in its day for Apple to contemplate putting Unix under the hood of its graphical user interface. The result, however, was a better, more extensible operating system. If they hadn't done it, they'd probably have gone the way of Atari or Amiga. IMHO, MediaWiki is currently the best software in existence for web- based wikis, and it has the considerable advantage of serving as the content management system for Wikipedia, which alone will guarantee its place in the world for the foreseeable future. However, there are other competitors in the wings that are getting serious about WYSIWYG, and MediaWiki might start to look dated if other platforms manage to offer a significantly more user-friendly experience. By the way, Jim...I like your RSS extension. I'm probably going to install it on my own wiki. -------------------------------- | 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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LibraryThing features Wikipedia ISBN citations
by Lars Aronsson 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

LibraryThing.com is a (commercial) website that allows users to catalog their own book collections and compare it to what other users have. Picking up on my idea to data mine ISBN numbers out of Wikipedia articles, LibraryThing now for each book presents a list of which (English) Wikipedia articles reference that book. The site's owner Tim Spalding explained how this works in his blog on February 26, http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/02/wikipedia-citatons-with-feed.php The idea is free for taking. There are lots more data to be mined out of Wikipedia (and sister projects) and reused in other contexts. One way to do the data mining is my Extraktor script, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LA2/Extraktor Note that GFDL must still be respected. But since ISBN extraction and other kinds of cross-referencing don't copy text or images, these actions are not subject to copyright. And since the whole purpose is to link back to Wikipedia, I think there is every reason to encourage this kind of reuse. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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