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
(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.
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!
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.
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]])
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
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!
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!