There's a question being discussed on wikien-l at present about
whether [[en:Ireland]] should be the country, the island or a
disambig.
The arguments are both on correctness and on reader expectation. The
first is for Manual of Style wonks (as well as anyone with an
opinion), but the second is theoretically numerically ascertainable.
The question is:
* how to get numbers on how readers travel from one page to another
within Wikipedia
* without risking a privacy violation.
Examples of the latter would be if we included jumps to or from a user
page or even a WP: pseudo-pagespace page. So let's ignore those.
The first idea that springs to my mind is logging referers for article
pages, if the referer is an article page on the same Wikipedia or
[[Special:Search]].
1. Is this technically feasible given our logging structure?
2. Is there a privacy gotcha I'm ignoring?
The huge benefit from this would be seeing how readers actually use
Wikipedia, which would give us solid reasons to put given pages,
links, redirects, etc. somewhere.
This should of course include jumps from [[Special:Search]], so we
know what the heck people are actually searching for!
I realise our current logging of pretty much every page view without
crippling the servers is a miracle of computer system administration.
How feasible is my idea?
- d.
Hi all,
as Domas' magic stuff(tm) currently gathers article traffic data very
efficient: Could this system be expanded to get a list of user agents
used to browse Wikipedia, sorted by their count?
I think this would be a very cool way to have accurate statistics
about browser usage, not only on Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Marco
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Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers,
I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes.
Files nearing the high end of that range might not actually succeed,
though, as it'll be hitting post-size limits etc.
As time goes on we'll be improving ways to upload large video files in
particular...
- -- brion
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Does anyone know where to find the method wfLocalFile($arg)? I've tried
to grep for the method but I've not gotten anything but calls to the
method. I'm still new to php and mediawiki development so I may be
looking in the wrong place.
The overlying problem:
I am currently working on a new extension that aims to allow users to
upload a document (doc, docx, odf,...) and convert that document to
wikitext server side. I've gotten other major components of this already
worked out. I am currently hung up trying to upload the file (possibly
using the UploadForm) while using mediawiki's existing validations. I do
not want to use the current base UploadForm to store the document in the
current architecture for a few reasons. I have already tried to capture
the temp file created by php before calling processUpload but it seems
the file gets cleaned up before I can grab it.
I could write the the extension to handle the upload as you normally
would in php, but again, I would like to use some of the existing
validations.
Thanks ahead of time,
Matt Alline
Application Developer II, HGDC
BearingPoint
Management & Technology Consultants
5912 Highway 49
Suite H1
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
USA
T + 1 601 584 1532
F + 1 601 584 0852
www.bearingpoint.com
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I've been looking through the following links looking for a hook that
will allow me to insert text into the text area on the edit page.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageSecurity/OutputPage.php
(the EditPage.php doc is still empty)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::showEditForm:fields
Am I looking in the wrong place again?
Matt Alline
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I created a new usergroup in my mediawiki install called Staff and I
want to set up a Restriction level so i can page edit
restrictions/protection except the manual page about RestrcitionLevels
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRestrictionLevels> doesn't
show much information about it so i was wondering how i would go about
setting it up?
-Peachey
Hi,
I patched UtfNormal.php to use the new intl extension's
normalization function, http://php.net/manual/en/normalizer.normalize.php
But running UtfNormalTest.php causes 200+ errors, whilst the PHP
normalization routines are error free.
So kind at a standstill wondering what the problem is. I guess WM
use utf8_normalize() which is based on ICU like intl, does than have the
same errors?
Jared
See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15059 for a request.
But such additional stats seem to be *not* really intended, however.
> Hi all,
>
>as Domas' magic stuff(tm) currently gathers article traffic data very
>efficient: Could this system be expanded to get a list of user agents
>used to browse Wikipedia, sorted by their count?
>I think this would be a very cool way to have accurate statistics
>about browser usage, not only on Wikipedia.
>
>Thanks,
>Marco
I'm not sure if its a bug on GMail's end or what, but recent I've been
getting emails from multiple different MediaWiki mailing lists that
seem to have no headers so it displays as (unknown sender) or (no
sender) and doesn't display in the "message thread" that it doesn't
appear to be meant to go into. Anyone else having this issue or is it
just me?
-Peachey