Wikitech-l December 2008

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Bring your language to Commons
by Lars Aronsson 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

New user accounts on Wikimedia Commons automatically get a greeting from [[User:Wikimedia Commons Welcome]]. However, this greeting is in English and not all users speak English. At the top of the message there is a list of links to translations in other languages, but I think there is a better way. Since most new user accounts on Commons (about two thirds) are created by SUL, and arrive through a link that specifies the uselang= parameter, wouldn't it be very easy to set the user preference for user interface language from the uselang parameter when the account is created by SUL? The greeting template (and other templates, such as deletion requests) could then access the user's interface language setting through a {{USELANG}} magic word, and present the corresponding translation. This way, new Swedish speaking users (who typically arrive from the Swedish Wikipedia, one that doesn't allow local uploads) could be guided to the Swedish language village pump and find a community there. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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User Interface Documents for MediaWiki / Wikipedia?
by howard chen 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello, Are there any User Interface documents related to MediaWiki / Wikipedia? Such as the one in WordPress E.g. http://wpdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wf-dashboard_v002_093008jw.pdf Thanks

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The never-dying topic: category intersection
by Aerik Sylvan 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Okay, it's not quite done, and it's still really crude, but starting to take shape - I've got some basic intersections functionality running on Wikidweb - I hacked skin.php and added links to the special intersections page. The intersections are using a MyIsam fulltext index. I'm not using 'boolean mode' queries, as this seems to give more interesting results. (look at any article page at http://wikidweb.com) The UI on the special page itself is really ugly and needs lots of work, and once this is all done it will have to be ported to an up-to-date version of mediawiki (I'm way down rev), but *it's a start*. Comments, suggestions, criticisms, and offers to help all welcome. Best Regards, Aerik -- http://eventfeed.org - An Initiative Promoting Syndication of Events http://www.wikidweb.com - the Wiki Directory of the Web http://tagthis.info - Hosted Tagging for your website!

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The never-dying topic: category intersection
by Magnus Manske 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

(feel free to bash me if we had this variant already, I couldn't find it in the list archives) Task: On German Wikipedia (yay atomic categories!), find women who were born in 1901 and died in 1986. Runtime : Toolserver, <2 sec Query: SELECT * FROM ( SELECT page_title,count(cl_to) AS cnt FROM page,categorylinks WHERE page_id=cl_from AND cl_to in ( "Frau" , "Geboren_1901" , "Gestorben_1986" ) GROUP BY cl_from ) AS tbl1 WHERE tbl1.cnt = 3 ; Trying to "poison" the query by also looking in all GFDL images ("GFDL-Bild", ~60K entries in category) increases runtime to 3 sec., so not that bad. I've implemented this as a tool now: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/category_intersection.php Queries seem to take a little longer there (2-4 sec) compared to the command line. Articles on en.wikipedia with "1905 births" and "1967 deaths" took <0.4 sec. OTOH, looking for images on Commons in "GFDL" and "Buildings in Berlin" took ~2min. Might be the giant GFDL category, or the toolserver, or both. I'll try to fiddle with it some more utilising cat_pages/cat_files. Magnus

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Does info@wikipedia.org work?
by David Gerard 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Just a quick check - I did the BBC Radio 4 Today show about the [[:en:Virgin Killer]] blocking. Both presenters asked afterwards how to get their crappy articles fixed - I said "email info(a)wikimedia.org". Bet you they email info(a)wikipedia.org - does that address redirect in the obvious and sensible fashion? Same for info-en@, etc? I realise these addresses are deprecated, but you know people are going to go there first. - d.

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

08 Dec '08

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 01, 2008 - December 08, 2008 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 107 Bugs ASSIGNED : 10 Bugs REOPENED : 12 Bugs RESOLVED : 52 Total bugs still open: 3197 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 21 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 4 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 11 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 7 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 9 Bugs marked LATER : 0 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Uniwiki 10 Site requests 6 Special pages 4 API 4 General/Unknown 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 25 Wikimedia 10 MediaWiki extensions 15 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] home.nl 7 markus [AT] semantic-mediawiki.org 7 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 6 siebrand [AT] wikipedia.be 5 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 5

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Re: [Wikitech-l] The never-dying topic: category intersection
by Aerik Sylvan 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Magnus - I checked out your tool, but it looks like you're using a query against the categorylinks table? Have you played with setting up a new table for categories and fulltext indexing it? Use group_concat to get all of a pages categories into one field, then create a fulltext index on that field. You get much better performance than using the categorylinks table (kind of weird, eh?) Are you pinging a live database, or a copy made from a dump? (please excuse my ignorance if this is common knowledge) I'm working on dummying up a UI using the same approach (fulltext index of categories) on wikidweb and will write back when I've got something worth looking at... Best Regards, Aerik -- http://eventfeed.org - An Initiative Promoting Syndication of Events http://www.wikidweb.com - the Wiki Directory of the Web http://tagthis.info - Hosted Tagging for your website!

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Donating/offering domain wikipedia.ro for use
by Gutza 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Dear all, I am an administrator, bureaucrat and checkuser on the Romanian Wikipedia. I have contacted the current owner of domain wikipedia.ro asking him to consider donating the domain to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (there is no local chapter in Romania). He's considering the option, but in the meanwhile he has offered to allow us use of the domain -- in other words, he asked for the appropriate nameserver IP addresses he should associate with that domain (obviously, that should lead to the content currently served at ro.wikipedia.org). Could that be arranged? If so, please provide the respective IP addresses so I can pass them on to him. In a different train of thoughts, should he agree donating the domain altogether to WMF, can WMF to take ownership, or is that against any policy? Best regards, Gutza

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GitTorrent (pie-in-the-sky post)
by David Gerard 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

http://advogato.org/article/994.html Peer-to-peer git repositories. Imagine a MediaWiki with the data stored in git, and updates distributed peer-to-peer. "Imagine if Wikipedia could be mirrored locally, run on a local mirror, where content was pushed and pulled, GPG-Digitally-signed; content shared via peer-to-peer instead of overloading the Wikipedia servers." This would certainly go some way to solving the "a good dump is all but impossible" problem ... (so, anyone hacked up a git backend for MediaWiki revisions rather than MySQL? :-) ) - d.

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DISPLAYTITLE patch waiting for review
by Remember the dot 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Greetings developers, I finally got around to finishing my patch for bug 12298: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12998 This patch should completely eliminate the need for JavaScript hacks that alter the page title. If a developer could take a look, that would be great! -- Remember the dot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot

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