Wikitech-l January 2008

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [30352] trunk/extensions
by Simetrical 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

On Jan 31, 2008 11:46 AM, <siebrand(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > * add OBSOLETE for GiveRollback, Makebot, Makesysop, and Oversight I might be wrong, but it seems to me that Oversight does a lot more than provide an interface for adding a new group. It adds the functionality -- the hiderevision right doesn't exist in core. In fact, Oversight doesn't provide an interface for adding the right at all, and is completely unaffected by the Userrights improvements, isn't it? Oversight was always added by stewards using Special:Userrights.

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Suggested tweak to parser.php
by Steve Bennett 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

In findColonNoLinks replace: if( $pos === false) { with if( $pos === false || $pos == strlen($str)-1) { Rationale: currently this input renders without a colon: ;Example: :Blah blah I don't know if there is a reported bug for this, but the behaviour has bitten me once or twice, and I don't think there's anything useful in treating a trailing colon as the start of a (non-existent) definition. Steve PS It may be preferable to implement this by searching the left($str, strlen($str)-1) or something, but I leave that to people who actually know PHP :)

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Library for extracting plain text
by Felipe Ortega 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi all. I'm adding some tweaks to the WikiXRay parser of meta-history dumps. I now extract internal, external links, and so on, but I'd also like to extract the plain text (without HTML code and, possibly, also filtering wiki tags). Does anyone nows a python library to do that? I believe there should be something out there, as there exist bots and crawlers automating the data extraction process from one wiki to other. Thanks in advance for your comments. Felipe. --------------------------------- ¿Con Mascota por primera vez? - Sé un mejor Amigo Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for a short-time developer permission
by jimbo.rules＠atlas.cz 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Thanks Jesse! I'll try it as soon as possible. --Pavel

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for a short-time developer permission
by jimbo.rules＠atlas.cz 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Huh! Hey! Can someone answer me, please?

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Request for a short-time developer permission
by jimbo.rules＠atlas.cz 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi all developers. Can I somehow get a developer permission for a short time. I would to translate messages to Czech language and I can do some minor repairs in extensions, too. Thanks for any reactions. --Pavel

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Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?
by David Gerard 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Discussions on the checkuser list (which is Wikimedia-wide) suggest that an all-project blocking mechanism would be very useful in keeping our more persistent vandals from hopping from project to project, wreaking havoc. This happens quite a bit. A variant of Wikia's regex block would be a likely candidate for a useful implementation. One detail it would need (in some coder's Copious Free Time) would be an option to unblock a globally-blocked IP or range locally. (One use case would be a local ISP which has several good editors from a small project, but has open proxies or similar that are a source of vandalism on many other projects.) Presumably such a global block would only be available to stewards, on due consideration. Before anyone starts coding - what are the devs' thoughts on a global blocking mechanism? What could go badly wrong? - d.

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New SVN committer
by Brion Vibber 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Added jayvdb (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayvdb), for pywikipediabot stuff. -- brion

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New SVN committer
by Brion Vibber 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Added nad (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nad); various extensions and SQLite backend support. -- brion

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section editing weirdness
by Steve Summit 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I wanted to edit the lead section of an article just now, so I tried the standard trick of editing the first section and then changing &section=1 to &section=0. But then three weird things happened: 1. I got redirected to &section=0#892555963146827592. 2. I got a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" message and a blank edit box instead of the lead section I expected 3. I got a message from [[NoScript]] saying "NoScript filtered a potential cross-site-scripting attempt from [chrome:]." I know some sweeping preprocessor changes were rolled out recently -- would they have affected section 0 editing? (The specific article this happened on was [[Calliope (music)]], id=183157865.)

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