Wikitech-l September 2007

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-09-29
by brion＠pobox.com 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.12alpha (r26239). 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"... 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://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] * 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 527 of 544 tests (96.88%)... 17 tests failed!

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Math Rendering
by John Andrewartha 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Hi, I have MW 1.11.0 installed on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with latex2e gs dvips and dvipng on Apache 2.2.4_2 The above packages work OK from the keyboard. MW works as intended, the texvc builds, but, still no rendering of math. The .tex file is created in /math/tmp with, no log. It seems I am not calling latex and CO after. I have tried making the path explicit in ./math/render.ml and rebuilt, still no. Also tried is "env latex ....." in render.ml same result. What am I doing wrong??? John

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-09-28
by brion＠pobox.com 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.12alpha (r26195). 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"... 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://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] * 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 527 of 544 tests (96.88%)... 17 tests failed!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [26204] trunk/extensions/OggHandler/cortado-truncation-bugfix.diff
by Brion Vibber 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

tstarling(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > Revision: 26204 > Author: tstarling > Date: 2007-09-28 11:36:33 +0000 (Fri, 28 Sep 2007) > > Log Message: > ----------- > Fix for bug 11232. Improved port of GStreamer's GstBaseAudioSink > (gstbaseaudiosink.c in gst-plugins-base). AudioSink should block on EOS > until playback is finished. This behaviour is also mentioned in > GStreamer's part-element-sink.txt. Do we have to update the compiled .jar for this? Some compilation directions probably would help since I apparently did something wrong last time. ;) -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

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Manipulating <ref>
by Liz Kim 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hi all, Does anyone know a way to manipulate the referencing style in wiki? For example, =================================== xyz <ref name=xyz:1>Some descriptions</ref> <references/> =================================== will produce something like: =================================== xyz [1] 1. Some descriptions =================================== and I would like to be able to edit the [1]. Instead of having all the footnotes be numbered, I would like to name them myself and have the footnotes be organized alphabetically. For example, I would like to view results such as: =================================== xxx[Smith 2000] yyy[Adams 2007] zzz[Thomas 2002] Adams 2007: Some descriptions Smith 2000: Some descriptions Thomas 2002: Some descriptions =================================== Perhaps some sort of a template? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -- LK

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enwiki - how many rows should there be?
by Saqib Kadri 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

download.wikimedia.org says enwiki 20070908 has 10,218,632 pages, and when I run it mwdumper says it inserted 5,654,236 pages into the database. But MySQL is only showing about 2.6 million rows. I ran mwdumper twice, the first time gave 2,639,569/2,678,371/2,615,000 rows for the page/revision/text tables, respectively. The second time gave 2,583,864/2,510,365/2,615,000 rows. Which number of rows is correct - 10 million, 5 million, or 2.6 million? Did something go wrong with the DB insert? Note that this is on a Linux machine with MySQL 4.1.22, and there is plenty of space on the hard drive. Thanks.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Request For Comments - Extension:SphinxSearch
by Monahon, Peter B. 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

> > > "... Do we/can we collect > > > search queries on en:wp?..." > "...It would be ridiculously easy..." http://vps.epstone.net/~andrew/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js > "...yes...no privacy implication... > How many searches do we get a > day? Is this useful data to those > working on MediaWiki/Wikipedia > search?..." I think all users, especially editors and those who want to add new pages could benefit from such a feature. I suggest insuring that the word(s) searched for show up in red if there's still no page. In other words, more than just what was searched for, but if it was found or findable via that search (and maybe if it was selected or discarded). Any other ideas on features and benefits? Sounds like an opportunity to create SpecialSearchStats.php for all MediaWiki installs. Perhaps even coordinating it with SpecialStatistics.php? Someone did a nice job with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_statistics but that's navel gazing - where "Wikipedia" appears in Google. What's more important to me is what people are searching for on other search engines, with an eye to help identify where Wikipedia is unresponsive to people's interests. For Google, see the weekly list at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html and the hourly feed at http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends ... versus whatever we think should be on Wikipedia. ... I know we're busy with v1.12 testing, and that basic function comes before such enhancements as above ... funny thing, though, when there's loads of money behind something: standing at the gas/petrol pump credit card terminal early this morning as they turned it on and it booted up (everything's computerized) I saw it's BIOS was v20.2!

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Request For Comments - Extension:SphinxSearch
by Paul Grinberg 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hello, I just uploaded the first version of a new extension called SphinxSearch ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch ). This extension uses the Sphinx Search engine as the backend for full text searches of wiki content. See the MW page for full description of the extension. Since this is the first release of the extension, and since searching is such a fundamental requirement of a wiki-type webpage, I wanted to submit this extension for your scrutiny. I would like to get feedback on not only the extension's functionality, but also the clarity and completeness of the installation instructions. At the same time, I have a question to the community. Is there a good way to change the default behavior of the Search box on the left of every page (rendered with monobook that is)? In other words, my extension adds a new Special Page. I would like the search box to use my special page instead of the default Special:Search. The reason for this is because I do not want to completely get rid of the build-in search engine ... at least not yet. Many thanks in advance, paul.

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Good thing we use PHP
by David Gerard 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

http://use.perl.org/~Aristotle/journal/33448 Dear Lord. I just thought the *language* felt like TRS-80 BASIC. I see it appears to have been written in it as well. - d.

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MediaWiki automated test run failure 2007-09-27
by brion＠pobox.com 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures: This is MediaWiki version 1.12alpha (r26173). 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"... 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://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] * 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 527 of 544 tests (96.88%)... 17 tests failed!

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