Wikitech-l March 2007

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SpecialPage with forms
by Gabriel Simões 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

How can I write a form, with soma text input's, using a specialpage? ------------------------------------ Gabriel da Silva Simões Mestrando em Ciência da Computação Instituto de Informática - UFRGS SBC #12250 ICQ #16149875 CEL #(51)93232480

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Re: [Wikitech-l] index.php how does it work?
by Ian Tresman 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

At 22:56 22/03/2007, you wrote: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/index.php/article_name > > > > My Mediawiki is set-up so that index.php is displayed in the URL, > > followed by the article name. > > > > I can see no .htaccess files, so how does index.php process the > > subsequent article name, rather than Apache looking for a directory > > whose name is /article_name... and then why is there no 404 error? > > > > Where's the clever bit of code that handles this? > >Does it need a clever bit of code? index.php isn't a directory, so >there is no reason to think article_name is a subdirectory of it. You learn something new every day. I assumed that index.php/name would only consider /name to be a subdirectory. It doesn't. I'm familiar with # and ? following filename, but not / Does this usage have a name? Is this a feature of Apache or PHP? Regards, Ian

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index.php how does it work?
by Ian Tresman 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

http://www.mediawiki.org/index.php/article_name My Mediawiki is set-up so that index.php is displayed in the URL, followed by the article name. I can see no .htaccess files, so how does index.php process the subsequent article name, rather than Apache looking for a directory whose name is /article_name... and then why is there no 404 error? Where's the clever bit of code that handles this? Regards, Ian Tresman

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nofollow on external links, and interwiki links
by David Gerard 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

There's some discussion on wikien-l at present about nofollow on external links, and how that doesn't apply to interwiki links. 1. I understand when the nofollow was switched on for all external links, Brion suggested people code something finer-grained if they didn't like the all-or-nothing nature of denying pagerank to good external links. Has anyone been working on this? 2. Interwiki links (as defined on [[m:interwiki map]]) don't attract a nofollow. Are any of those likely to be attractive nuisances to search engine spammers? Geni flagged del.icio.us as one that link spammers are already abusing elsewhere. - d.

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internal links tool
by Travis Derouin 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, I've been putting together a tool that makes a bit easier to do internal linking for wikiHow users. If you check out an editing page at wikihow: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Toilet-Train-a-Cat&action=edit&advan… and select some text, say the word "litter" in the first step you can select the 2nd internal links button (2nd from the right) on the toolbar to get a popup with results that match your text selection. (in FF you can use the accesskey 'r'). The textarea behind the popup becomes disabled at this point. >From here you can either click on one of the links to create the internal link, or "no thanks". Similarly, you can press 1 through 9 on the keyboard to insert the desired link, or hit escape to close the popup, and the textarea goes back to normal editing. In IE, the accesskey doesn't seem to work because the text becomes de-selected when you hit the ALT key. Is this a known issue, are there any workarounds? Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be made to be more useful? Is there any easy way to retrieve search results from a standard Mediawiki installation that are easily parsed by Javascript? Right now our custom Lucene plugin can display the results in a straight text, one result per line format, which helps out the javascript end of this plugin. Is there anything similar built into Mediawiki? Travis

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [20616] trunk/phase3
by Brion Vibber 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 raymond(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > +'nolinkshere-ns' => "No pages link to '''[[:$1]]''' at namespace {{ns:$2}}.", This looks kind of ugly... for main namespace it just shows a space, and for talk namespaces it's got the underscore. - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGApTZwRnhpk1wk44RAv+yAKChYXMx2ZxNrWyAf7pwEMgg0nNK0gCfURPv gZCybJzeS2+dh1qMcKVUK50= =BQte -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [20612] trunk/phase3/includes/Article.php
by Rob Church 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

On 22/03/07, 80686(a)svn.wikimedia.org <80686(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Revision: 20612 > Author: 80686 > Date: 2007-03-22 00:19:47 -0800 (Thu, 22 Mar 2007) > > Log Message: > ----------- > fixed bug in call of hook ArticleViewHeader This non-critical fix was first applied to a release branch and the committer failed to update the release notes in both the branch and trunk. Did the release manager give consent for this? Rob Church

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Tiddlywiki
by Alex Powell 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, I don't suppose anyone has taken a look at: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ Seems that it would make a nice offlinable skin for mediawiki to take pages away for editing. Obviously it parses slightly different wikitext as default, but it probably wouldn't matter if it wasn't perfect, just "good enough" would allow people to quickly save off pages for editing. Alex -- Alex Powell Exscien Training Ltd Tel: 01865 920024 Direct: 01865 920032 Mob: 07717 765210 alexp(a)exscien.com http://www.exscien.com Registered in England and Wales 05927635, 59 East Ave, Oxford, OX4 1XP, England

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Request for advice
by Arwel Parry 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I'm consulting wikitech-l because I can't think where else to ask! One of the more active bureaucrats on cy.wikipedia has posed me the following question: "Currently, the Welsh wikipedia's default settings mean that all intrawiki (mewnwici) links are underlined without having to roll the mouse over them. It's different from all the other wikipedias, and it looks a little ugly. It can be changed by going to "fy newisiadau" (there's a detailed explanation about it in Y Caffi), but as a bureaucrat, I was wondering if there was a way for you to change the default settings of the site so that it looks more professional for everyone." ("fy newisiadau" = "my preferences", and the detailed explanation in "Y Caffi" is in Welsh but it's quite well summarised here - cy.wikipedia appears to be the only one with this default action). I'm not familiar with how the default appearance is set - can someone advise, please? -- Arwel Parry

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-03-22
by brion＠pobox.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.10alpha (r20611). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... 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] * Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html) [Has never passed] * Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598) [Has never passed] * message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926) [Has never passed] * 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] * HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497) [Has never passed] * Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting [Has never passed] * Mixing markup for italics and bold [Has never passed] * dt/dd/dl test [Has never passed] * Images with the "|" character in the comment [Has never passed] * Parents of subpages, two levels up, without trailing slash or name. [Has never passed] * 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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