Wikitech-l May 2008

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having trouble importing through svn: can someone guide pls
by Viral Gupta 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi All, We have just got the wikimedia SVN repository access for our project. While trying to do the setup using Subclipse. I am giving the following details URL: svn+ssh://pmwx@svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3 then i select the *Use PRivate key authentication *and give *username*,*password *with port 22. I get the following message: *Folder does not exist remotely.* Can someone guide on this. Thanks --Viral

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Article selection with MWDumper.
by Chris Ball 07 May '08

07 May '08

Dear wikitech list, I'm preparing a Spanish Wikipedia snapshot for the One Laptop per Child laptop, and to get the size down I'm trying to do some article selection using MWDumper¹. As background, here are the steps I've gone thrown so far using the eswiki dump: thunk:cjb~% mysql -u eswiki -p eswiki < eswiki-20080416-pagelinks.sql mysql> SELECT pl_namespace, pl_title, COUNT(*) INTO outfile \ "/tmp/incominglinks" FROM pagelinks GROUP BY pl_namespace, pl_title The "incominglinks" file, after processing it to be one article per line and excluding articles with few inbound links, looks like this: thunk:cjb~ % wc -l incominglinks.names 162974 incominglinks.names This is where MWDumper comes in -- I'd like to create an XML dump of each article in the incominglinks.names. I tried: thunk:cjb~% java -jar mwdumper-2008-04-13.jar \ --output=bzip2:eswiki_limited.xml.bz2 \ --format=xml \ --filter=list:incominglinks.names \ eswiki-20080416-pages-articles.xml.bz2 MWDumper didn't return any errors, and ran through the whole of the .bz2 to completion. I then ran: thunk:cjb~ % perl -nle 'print $1 if /<title>(.*?)<\/title>/' \ < eswiki_limited.xml > incominglinks.output The resulting file is: thunk:cjb~ % wc -l incominglinks.output 45395 incominglinks.output Can anyone think of possible reasons for the discrepancy in number of articles asked for and received? I've looked briefly at character set and namespaces, and neither seems responsible. Here is an example of articles present in the input and not the output: thunk:cjb~ % grep nuclear incominglinks.names.sorted Abandono_de_la_energía_nuclear Accidente_nuclear Arma_nuclear Armas_nucleares Bomba_nuclear Central_nuclear [59 matches] thunk:cjb~ % grep nuclear incominglinks.output.sorted thunk:cjb~ % Here are complete versions of the two files above: http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/incominglinks.names.sorted http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/incominglinks.output.sorted So, a few questions: * Any ideas on what could cause many articles to be being dropped here? * Is there any further output I could provide that would be useful? * Is there a tool other than MWDumper that could do this for me? Thanks very much for any suggestions! - Chris. ¹: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MWDumper -- Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34167] trunk/phase3/includes/EditPage.php
by Roan Kattouw 06 May '08

06 May '08

nikerabbit(a)svn.wikimedia.org schreef: > + # Why we don't use Xml::element here? > + # Is it because if $source is '', it returns <textarea />? Yes. <textarea /> violates standards and renders very nastily in Firefox: the rest of the HTML is treated as the textarea's content. Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34303] trunk/extensions/Resign/SpecialResign.php
by Simetrical 06 May '08

06 May '08

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:49 AM, <werdna(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Log Message: > ----------- > Revert r34282. User class not created yet, causes fatal errors :( Is there any reason we don't load AutoLoader.php very early on, before LocalSettings.php is executed? The overhead is supposed to be minimal until somebody actually uses the relevant classes, right?

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Assuring Security by testing
by Michael Osipov 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi devs, I've been investigating MediaWiki within my Bachelor's thesis "Application of security test tools in open source" at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) [1]. Basically, I am looking for security measures which have been taken to prevent security leaks/vulnerabilities especially with security test tools MediaWiki is one of the most popular applications across the web. So the attack area maybe quite large. I have searched across the wiki itself, the mailist list and repo. I have noticed some things, I'd like like to remark: You advise, as most projects do, to turn "register_globals" off to decrease attack possibilities [3]. A security reponse team [2] handles security vulnerabilities and patches them immediately. Most releases do include security fixes. I am sure that you do anything you can to assure security. Spite the recommondations and the security team. Does this team or any other group/person take any measures to assure security with testing tools, with a special test plan or functional requirements? Thanks in advance, Michael [1] https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/ThesisFOSSSecurityTools [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Security#General_PHP_recommend… -- <NO> OOXML - Say NO To Microsoft Office broken standard http://www.noooxml.org

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Proxy blocker
by Cédric Krier 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, My IP (83.217.93.246) is considered as an open proxy. My server is no more a open proxy. It will be great to remove the constraint. My wikipedia account is krier.cedric. Thanks -- Cédric Krier

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Wikimania 2008: Registration opened
by Casey Brown 04 May '08

04 May '08

With less than three months to go until the fourth annual Wikimania conference, registration has finally opened and will remain so until the 15th of June. This year Wikimania starts with the a promise to "Change the Shape of Wisdom" as it is hosted by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the reincarnation of the ancient Library of Alexandria, one of pillars of this Earth when Philosophy and Wisdom are bought into question. In Alexandria, from the 17th to the 19th of July, ideas will be shared and discussed between people from all over the globe, once again igniting the golden cosmopolitan age of the city. As always, the conference will take place over 4 different tracks, with a variety of speakers: Keynote, invited, and other. The conference tracks this year are: * Wikimedia Communities - Interesting projects and particularities within the communities; policy creation within individual projects; conflict resolution and community dynamics; reputation and identity; multilingualism, languages and cultures; social studies. * Free Knowledge - Open access to information; ways to gather and distribute free knowledge, usage of the Wikimedia projects in education, journalism, research; ways to improve content quality and usability; copyright laws and other legal areas that interfere with Wikimedia projects. Free Content in Middle-East/Africa countries. * Technical infrastructure - Issues related to MediaWiki development and extensions; Wikimedia hardware layout; new ideas for development (including usable case studies from other wikis or similar projects). * Scientific track - Papers submitted to the scientific track were peer reviewed by scientific standards and accepted or rejected based on these reviews. The papers will be published in proceedings afterwards. Based on the number and the quality of the submission, a journal special issue may be pursued This year the conference is taking an interesting direction that hopes to enlighten third world and Middle Eastern countries about the new digital realm that is continuously expanding and evolving; as such, along with many well reputed figures, an emphasis has been put on bringing in Arab speakers. Speakers include Ahmed N. Tantawy, the Technical Director of IBM in the Middle East; Eliane Metni, the founding director of the International Education Association; Tim Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing; Eric M. Johnson, the team leader for the Knowledge Management Action Team at the U.S. Department of State; and Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Take part on one of the most important IT events of the year. Check the registration prices online. <http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration> While these prices do not include accommodation, the local team has taken the effort to make all sorts of housing opportunities available, starting from dorms up to luxury hotel rooms. Check these when your registering. You will also be pleased to know that transportation is available to and from Cairo International Airport in the 2 days before and after the conference. And what is a gathering without fun? Tours and parties are being planned out for the participants of the event. After all Alexandria is cultural city that brims with hospitality and the main idea of the event is to provide a gathering place. Hope to see you there! The Wikimania Local Team ---- Please forward this message along to whomever you think will be interested! (Sorry if you've already this e-mail more than once!) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34169] trunk/phase3
by Bryan Tong Minh 03 May '08

03 May '08

> From: vasilievvv(a)svn.wikimedia.org <vasilievvv(a)svn.wikimedia.org> > Date: May 3, 2008 3:09 PM > Subject: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34169] trunk/phase3 > To: mediawiki-cvs(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Revision: 34169 > Author: vasilievvv > Date: 2008-05-03 13:09:34 +0000 (Sat, 03 May 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > * (bug 709) Cannot rename/move images and other media files. > Currently in experimental mode, use $wgAllowImageMoving to enable it. > Known issues: > * Doesn't work with rev_deleted > * May also have some security and caching issues. > [...] > + if( preg_match( '/^(\d+)px-/', $file, > $matches ) ) { > + list( $unused, $width ) = $matches; > + $this->thumbs[] = array( > + $thumbDirRel . '/' . $file, > + $newThumbDirRel . '/' > . $width . 'px-' . $this->newName > + ); > + } else { > + wfDebug( 'Strange file in > thumbnail directory: ' . $thumbDirRel . '/' . $file ); > + } I don't know whether it is correct to assume that all files are /^(\d+)px-/. Subclasses of MediaHandler::makeParamString may return an arbitrary prefix not limited to /^(\d+)px-/. I think it is safest to simply move all files in the directory to the new location. [...] > + function addOlds() { > + $archiveBase = 'archive'; It may be better to use File::getArchivePath() here. > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-CVS mailing list > MediaWiki-CVS(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs > Looks all very promising :) I hope that we get this working soon! Bryan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34137] trunk/phase3/includes/filerepo/File.php
by Bryan Tong Minh 03 May '08

03 May '08

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Bryan Tong Minh <dev.btongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Revision: 34137 > Author: aaron > Date: 2008-05-02 21:29:05 +0000 (Fri, 02 May 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > Don't keep puring squids for images where no thumb is needed (bug 13776) > > Modified Paths: > -------------- > trunk/phase3/includes/filerepo/File.php [...] > > + if ( $wgUseSquid && !$thumb->isError() && $thumb->url != $this->getURL() ) { > SquidUpdate::purge( array( $thumbUrl ) ); Now that I think about it, shouldn't a purge also be triggered on error during thumb generation? Bryan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [34130] trunk/phase3/maintenance
by Brion Vibber 02 May '08

02 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ialex(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > Moved constant definition to populateParentId.inc, throws an E_NOTICE when used by update.php, thanks to MinuteElectron for reporting it. > > +define( 'BATCH_SIZE', 200 ); A more general problem is that this is a pretty generic name; a BATCH_SIZE is defined with a different value in updateRestrictions.php and could easily appear elsewhere. - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgbbE8ACgkQwRnhpk1wk47wNQCffm+wjGuGlfw3pK6Dr2hq4M2r DasAoKV8OoqCaY2/w3dk/C3X9TTYRIcQ =83Dj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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