Wikitech-l August 2007

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by Greg Chaki

I'd like to first say I'm extremely impressed with the amount of expertise I see amongst all of your replies. I think you can comfortably take pride in being a select group of soon-to-be very sought after developers. I personally appreciate the work you individuals have put into the Wiki-revolution; it's made my life that much more pleasant. I myself, however, am not a web developer, I'm an entrepreneur. I am working on a project that I think will legitimately change people's lives. It starts by creating an online database. From the research that I've done, a MySQL/PHP combo seems the most potent for what I need, and MediaWiki delivers that nicely. I am, therefore, seeking a MediaWiki developer to not simply work for me, but work with me. I have a flexible budget, but I think the money you'd make from the hourly rate is least enticing. You have the chance to be part of something for the greater good, like Wikipedia has been to us, but also the chance to make a healthy fortune should this project head in the direction investors and myself predict it will. I am carefully selecting a group of 9 individuals for this project, 1 of which is a web developer (the only internet-related position). Please e-mail me if you are interested. I am looking for problem solvers and perfectionists. Best, Greg

15 years, 9 months

OTRS keeps logging me out

by David Gerard

(I assume this would be the right list to ask about this ...) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 I keep getting logged out of OTRS. This is particularly annoying when I'm just about to answer an email, hit submit and it's logged me out ... It appears I can still do stuff, just, by opening another tag, making sure I'm logged in in that and then hitting "submit" immediately. Obviously this is a pain in the backside. I've cleared the cookie from secure.wikimedia.org and it doesn't help. Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this? - d.

15 years, 9 months

[Bugzilla] A bit of a bug backlog

by Casey Brown

There's quite a bit of a backlog on Bugzilla that could use help if you can provide it. The current developers have a lot of work to do and have already been doing a lot of work, so if there are any others who could help, this is for you: 88 shell requests (sysadmins with shell access only) --> [1] 146 bugs need a patch review --> [2] 9 bugs need to be checked to see if a problem still exists in trunk --> [3] 27 are *easy* --> [4] It would be greatly appreciated if you could help with these or any of the other 2247 waiting bugs.[5] Even if you are completely without technical knowlege, you can still help by doing minor cleanup like adding keywords, marking duplicates, etc. Sorrry for cross-posting. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. [1] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=shell&resolution=--- [2] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-review&resolution =--- [3] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=testme&resolution=--- [4] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easy&resolution=--- [5] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_… = Note: Links may not work directly due to your client not including "=---" in the link, it may work best to just copy them into your browser.

15 years, 9 months

widgetsearch or livsearch

by Michael Heyder

Hi, we found something like 'widgetsearch' on http://de.uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Have_a_nice_Mettbr%C3%B6tche. Obviously it does not seems to be the ajaxsearch. Is there a silmiar extension or must it develeped new - mic

15 years, 9 months

MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-08-30

by brion＠pobox.com

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.11alpha (r25303). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/LabeledSectionTransclusion/lstParserTests.txt"... 8 previously failing test(s) now PASSING! :) * Basic section headings [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * Section headings with TOC [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * Handling of sections up to level 6 and beyond [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * TOC regression (bug 9764) [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * TOC with wgMaxTocLevel=3 (bug 6204) [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * Resolving duplicate section names [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * Fuzz testing: Parser14 [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] * -{}- tags within headlines (within html for parserConvert()) [Fixed between 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267) and 30-Aug-2007 07:15:18, 1.11alpha (r25303)] 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] * Table security: embedded pipes (http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-April/022293.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] * Fuzz testing: image with bogus manual thumbnail [Introduced between 08-Apr-2007 07:15:22, 1.10alpha (r21099) and 25-Apr-2007 07:15:46, 1.10alpha (r21547)] * 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 526 of 544 tests (96.69%)... 18 tests failed!

15 years, 9 months

Statistic needed: uptake of Wikipedia?

by David Gerard

I've been asked for a statistic and I'm not sure where to look: the uptake of Wikipedia. That is, how many new users come to the site per unit time (any unit time). Could be readers or editors, could be English Wikipedia or all Wikipedias. Anyone got a pointer to a substantiable number? - d.

15 years, 9 months

URL dereferrer

by WikipediaEditor-Iamunknown

The English-language Wikipedia currently has a template, [[Template:Derefer]], which links to an external website that then redirects to the target URL. It is useful because the method of redirection (the "meta" HTML element) strips the HTTP request of the referrer URL. The template is currently transcluded only a few times, as it should be, but those few times are rather sensitive situations. One of the linked websites - Perverted Justice - redirects any URL referred by Wikipedia to an alleged "attack site" with outing information; this is the only that the website can be linked to in a manner that gives the actual website information, not the "attack site". Anyways, I am concerned that the redirection page is an external website. It seems that it could be hijacked and redirected to a malicious web page. So my question is: Would it be possible to set up and host such a page on the Wikipedia servers? Thanks, --Iamunknown ([[User talk:Iamunknown]])

15 years, 9 months

Integration with Picnik

by Steve Bennett

There is a new tool called PicNik that allows on-web touching up of photos: all basic tools like contrast, cropping, sharpness, conversion to greyscale etc. This is something that Wikipedia in particular has really been lacking: an easy way to improve the quality of a lot of the fairly tacky travel happy snaps that get uploaded. It's definitely not free software, but a lot of the uses of it are free. They don't host your images: you upload an image, work on it for a bit, then download it again. They have integration with facebook, flickr and a few other sites. So I asked them about MediaWiki integration. There are apparently two ways we can achive this: either we extend MediaWiki to make use of their API, or we implement an API directly to allow them to retrieve an image (obviously pretty simple), then upload the updated version (credit and authentication issues). Could someone give me an idea of how much work would be involved? I might be interested in attempting some of the coding, especially if someone else is interested and can give me some guidance. >We have an API that any third-party site can use to pass a photo over to Picnik for editing and when the user is done editing Picnik saves the result back to the site. It looks like MediaWiki has an extension mechanism, maybe that would be a good place to start. How could we do this? Extend the image page to have a link to Picnik, then provide a mechanism whereby Picnik can call MediaWiki with a certain URL. Picnik seems pretty flexible on this point. The URL for info about the API is as follows: http://www.picnik.com/info/api >We can also add "integration bridges" to Picnik. Integration bridges use a third-party API to access the photos on that site. The pages in Picnik that show thumbnails from Flickr and Picasa Web and can save to them are examples of integration bridges. Does MediaWiki have an API for accessing the photo content stored in a wiki, and updating it? I don't know the answer to that question. Obviously it's easy to retrieve the content of one image, but allowing higher level (bulk) manipulation and organisation of images would be pretty cool if that was possible. Also, are there any other ways of getting an image back into MediaWiki besides special:upload ? Any other comments about this idea are very welcome. Particularly if there are any objections to linking to such a site. I really think the potential benefits are very significant, so hopefully those objections can be overcome. Steve

15 years, 9 months

MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-08-29

by brion＠pobox.com

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.11alpha (r25267). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/LabeledSectionTransclusion/lstParserTests.txt"... 8 previously passing test(s) now FAILING! :( * Basic section headings [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * Section headings with TOC [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * Handling of sections up to level 6 and beyond [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * TOC regression (bug 9764) [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * TOC with wgMaxTocLevel=3 (bug 6204) [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * Resolving duplicate section names [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * Fuzz testing: Parser14 [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] * -{}- tags within headlines (within html for parserConvert()) [Introduced between 28-Aug-2007 07:15:28, 1.11alpha (r25222) and 29-Aug-2007 07:15:31, 1.11alpha (r25267)] 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] * Table security: embedded pipes (http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-April/022293.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] * Fuzz testing: image with bogus manual thumbnail [Introduced between 08-Apr-2007 07:15:22, 1.10alpha (r21099) and 25-Apr-2007 07:15:46, 1.10alpha (r21547)] * 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 518 of 544 tests (95.22%)... 26 tests failed!

15 years, 9 months

MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-08-28

by brion＠pobox.com

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.11alpha (r25222). Reading tests from "maintenance/parserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Cite/citeParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/Poem/poemParserTests.txt"... Reading tests from "extensions/LabeledSectionTransclusion/lstParserTests.txt"... 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] * Table security: embedded pipes (http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-April/022293.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] * Fuzz testing: image with bogus manual thumbnail [Introduced between 08-Apr-2007 07:15:22, 1.10alpha (r21099) and 25-Apr-2007 07:15:46, 1.10alpha (r21547)] * 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 526 of 544 tests (96.69%)... 18 tests failed!

15 years, 9 months

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