Wikitech-l October 2008

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What about Special:Popularpages ??
by Uwe Baumbach 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in our wiki $wgDisableCounters remains false as it defaults. Nevertheless we cannot get special page content Special:Popularpages or Spezial:Beliebteste_Seiten Any suggests? Thx. Uwe (Baumbach) http://wiki-de.genealogy.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI8b+FFEbayCH8zXkRAk9xAJwLhUpE6oiRsACxE9RLBzYltJKw4ACgq4Rn /h1Gyod1MawAFcqLu6icOVc= =Cgvx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu press stories
by nsk 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

Le samedi 11 octobre 2008 à 16:21 +0000, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org a écrit : > From: Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu press stories > Seems debian upgrades are painless. Yes, a Debian upgrade has never created any problems for me. > Sysadmins seems > much dependants of Google searches (?). And google search has become > some sort of "Ubuntu manual", while information about debian stuff is > often below a pile of random crap (the "for humans" motto seems to > work here, googling for information in google using "Debian" + "error > message" always show crazy useless craps from logs and robots, never > forums with sane or usable information. Debian is a community distribution. This means that, supposing you have RTFM and didn't find an answer there, and that the question is not trivial, the best way to get answers is to ask a fellow Debian user in the community. It's from person to person, either via IRC or mailing lists, not through impersonal searches that you get the most useful answers. -- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/

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question aobut uploading file
by Ting Wang 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Hallo, till now, if the user want to upload file or a picture during writing an article, he has to save the article and goto upload page, upload file and then go back to the article and add an image token. This waste just time, so i want to write an extension, with it users can upload file of picture during writing article. And I want to use standart uploading function of Mediawiki. I found include/UploadBase.php and include/UploadFormUpload.php in the svn of Mediawiki, but I can not find some document about how to using these classes. Through the svn log, I just found these file will be used for SpecialUpload. Ok, here is actully my question: 1. Is there some code or document about how to use these classes? 2. whether the classes fully implemented the function of specialupload? thanks

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why Ubuntu?
by nsk 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Le samedi 11 octobre 2008 à 01:20 +0000, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org a écrit : > From: "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Why Ubuntu? > 080511 15:35:42 <Simetrical> mark, why Ubuntu? > 080511 15:39:28 <mark> it's debian but with predictable release cycles > 080511 15:44:36 <mark> at some point ubuntu got all hyped and I saw an > opportunity to get everyone convinced to use something debian based <DebianFanBoyMode fanaticism="high"> Pfff. Real men use Debian, the real thing, not the "debian based" hype. :) </DebianFanBoyMode> I use Debian GNU/Linux for my desktops and laptops (lenny/testing with some sid/unstable plus custom things) and servers (etch/stable with some volatile and custom things) and I am very happy, never had any problem, always serving me with great stability and security. At some point I had tried Ubuntu for desktops/laptops/servers and very quickly I replaced it with Debian for all machines (desktops/laptops/servers), never looking back. May I ask whether you really tried Debian at all in the Wikimedia server farm before choosing Ubuntu? -- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/

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Why Ubuntu?
by nsk 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

I learn that you recently moved to an all-Ubuntu platform. May I ask whether you compared Ubuntu with Debian and whether you considered Ubuntu better for your purposes than Debian? Exactly what weaknesses Debian has compared to Ubuntu for your purposes? -- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/

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$wpEditToken = "+\\";
by Tei 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Reading the wikipedia html output, I have found that EditPage.php produce "+\" has the value for wpEditToken. This token seens supposedly random, to stop spammers to fill the wikipedia with viagra links. But It don't seems much random to me, on all computers I have tested, it seems constant to "+\" Is that a code bug, or maybe misconfiguration on the wikipedia guys?. Un saludo.

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A better metric than edit counts
by nsk 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Regarding http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=41921 I congratulate the decision to make it off by default. However, I think we could code a better alternative (perhaps in addition to the edit counts, sine other mediawiki users may want them): instead of counting edits, let's count how many characters each user added or changed in the wikitext database. Counting characters added or changed is much more indicative of the contributions of users than mere edit counts, although not perfect. It should be easy to code, considering that the software already counts it in diffs/rc (albeit also taking deletions into account). -- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/

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PHP 5.2.7RC1 Testing
by Ilia Alshanetsky 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hello! You are receiving this email because your project has been selected to take part in a new effort by the PHP QA Team to make sure that your project still works with PHP versions to-be-released. With this we hope to make sure that you are either aware of things that might break, or to make sure we don't introduce any strange regressions. With this effort we hope to build a better relationship between the PHP Team and the major projects. If you do not want to receive these heads-up emails, please reply to me personally and I will remove you from the list; but, we hope that you want to actively help us making PHP a better and more stable tool. The first release candidate of PHP 5.2.7 was just released and can be downloaded from http://downloads.php.net/ilia/. Please try this release candidate against your code and let us know if any regressions should you find any. The goal is to have 5.2.7 out within two to three weeks time, so timely testing would be extremely helpful. In case you think that other projects should also receive this kinds of emails, please let me know privately, and I will add them to the list of projects to contact. Best Regards, Ilia Alshanetsky 5.2 Release Master

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Patch needs review
by Remember the dot 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hello, Could we get a developer at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11686 to review the patch that's been submitted there? The patch has already been written, tested, and debugged, so it'd be great if we could get a developer to take a look. -- Remember the dot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot

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Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID
by Jonathan Leybovich 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Sebastian Moleski wrote: > I understand *what* people want to do with it. What I don't understand > is *why. What benefit does OpenID provide over just registering with > your usual user name and password at any site? Besides the advantages others have cited (improved security, usability, etc.) OpenID offers the best way to give liquidity to the credentials I have earned as a Wikipedia editor. It would be relatively easy for any website to confirm I am an expert in pre-vertebrate paleontology, for example, by cross-referencing my user id with my edit history. The only missing ingredient is being able to confirm that when I come to a site claiming to be User:XYZ I am in fact User:XYZ .

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