Wikitech-l November 2008

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for November 17, 2008 - November 24, 2008 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 86 Bugs ASSIGNED : 6 Bugs REOPENED : 14 Bugs RESOLVED : 75 Total bugs still open: 3138 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 47 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 8 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 9 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 4 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 6 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Uniwiki 4 Site requests 4 Special pages 4 Images 4 General/Unknown 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 18 Wikimedia 10 MediaWiki extensions 14 Top 5 Bug Resolvers rhalsell [AT] wikimedia.org 11 roan.kattouw [AT] home.nl 10 markus [AT] semantic-mediawiki.org 9 brion [AT] wikimedia.org 8 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 8

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Mailing List messages without headers
by K. Peachey 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

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

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Donating/offering domain wikipedia.ro for use
by Manuel Schneider 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Am Freitag, 21. November 2008 schrieb Ilmari Karonen: > It's pretty fugly compared to the .de page, though. IMHO. Which is why > I didn't mention it in my previous post. :) have you ever checked the new version, online since just a few days? It's a complete rewrite of the portal, using own software featuring multi-language and multi-project pages and automatic language detection. All project portals are served by the same scripts, which makes it now easy to maintain all projects and language (project name, title, description, logos ect.) -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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Re: [Wikitech-l] *background-color ?
by Platonides 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Guy Van den Broeck wrote: > Hi, > > yes this is a hack to have IE5.5 render the changed stuff with a blue > background because the curly underline css doesn't work in that > browser. Feel free to come up with a better solution that is standards > compliant and cross browser compatible. > > Cheers, > > Guy Ok, thanks. Probably needs a note documenting it.

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bad html emitted with custom editnotice (Help Desk)
by Steve Summit 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

When you edit [[Wikipedia:Help desk]], you get the custom editnotice [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-4-Help desk]]. The editnotice is emitted inside a table, between <td> and </td>. The editnotice contains a bulleted list, rendered as <ul> with a bunch of <li>'s. However, for some reason, the last </li> and </ul> come out *after* the closing </td>, making them orphans, so to speak. I don't know if this affects other custom editnotices.

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PHP 5.2.7RC4 Testing
by Ilia Alshanetsky 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '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 fourth & final 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. Since the last release a few memory related issues were addressed, hopefuly we are finally at a conclusion of the release cycle. The goal is to have 5.2.7 by end of next week, 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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*background-color ?
by Platonides 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

common/diff.css contains: 92 span.diff-html-changed { 93 background: url(images/diffunderline.gif) bottom repeat-x; 94 *background-color: #c6c6fd; /* light blue */ 95 } Now, *background-color is a parser error. Is it one of those rules designed to work only on some user agents or just a typo? PS: Could someone replace on common/shared.css border:1px solid darkblue; by border: 1px solid #00008B; /*darkblue*/ ? Just to get rid of the warning.

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Can I submit a patch?
by Lambert Lum 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

For the last 9 months I have been programming mediawiki customizations for my company. Would it possible for me to submit a patch to the core mediawiki code? I have identified a bug in HTMLFileCache.php. One of the member variables is not properly set early enough, and if extension code is written in a certain way, the cache code will crash. I lost an entire week to this bug. I almost gave up, were it not for prodding from others in my company. As a second question, if I am allowed to submit a patch who would submit such a patch to? For reference, here are a couple of sites I have constructed for my company. http://www.santacruz.com http://www.morganhillobserver.com/

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Alternative Mediawiki (Parser) Implementations (was: Re: Extension of Wikitext
by Dirk Riehle 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

One option might be to use one of the alternative Mediawiki (parser) implementations. I know of JAMwiki and Bliki. JAMwiki is a mostly complete Java implementation. The parser can be taken out and is reasonably well factored, based on a grammar for JFlex, a parser generator (if I remember this correctly). Bliki is purely a Mediawiki parser implementation, not a full-blown wiki engine, also done in Java. I'm generally interested in finding a non-php well-factored Mediawiki syntax parser, ideally written in Java, that I can use for my own projects. Are there new alternatives; does anyone have opinions/insights into the state of the tools mentioned above? It seems pretty tough to track the Mediawiki syntax... Cheers, Dirk On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Alex Bernier <alex.bernier(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I hope it is the right place to ask my question... > > I work on a "collaborative correction of books" project. I know there is > already some projects related to this subject, like Wikisource. The main > difference between my project and Wikisource is that my books are stored > in text using DAISY (see http://www.daisy.org/), a format based on XML. I > have some questions : > > 1) Is there some tools to import XML files in a Wiki ? > > 2) Is there tools to export a Wiki page in XML ? > > 3) I will have to extend the Wikitext (I want to import DAISY XML files in > my Wiiki and export them from the Wiki to XML DAISY after correction, > without loosing information). I think it would be easy for the majority of > the new tags I want to add, but it would be more difficult for some of them. > For example, I need to improve the headings possibilities of the Wikitext. > For the moment, it is limited to 5 levels. I need potentially infinite > imbrications, like this: > <level> > <hd>Title 1</hd> > <level> > <hd>Title 2</hd> > ... > <level> > <hd>Title n</hd> > </level> > </level> > </level> > > Is it possible to add this kind of thing in the Wikitext ? If yes, is it > possible to do this with an extension, or is it necessary to do "low-levels" > modifications of the Wikitext parser ? > > Best regards, > > Alex Bernier > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Phone: +1 650 215 3459 Weblog: http://www.riehle.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/driehle

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How to add custom styles?
by Platonides 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Now shared stylesheets are provided by upload.wikimedia.org https://wikitech.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Server_admin_log&diff=17499&o… This breaks javascript code adding custom rules. Just a checking like if (document.styleSheets[0].cssRules) now throws "0x805303e8 (NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR)" http://mrclay.org/index.php/2008/09/06/case-of-the-ns_error_dom_security_er… Is there a recommended way to do this?

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