Wikitech-l August 2008

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by Hugo Vincent

Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems.

10 years, 9 months

Replacement stats for placeholder images?

by David Gerard

I've been putting placeholder images on a lot of articles on en:wp. e.g. [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]], which goes to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]], which asks people to upload an image if they own one. I know it's inspired people to add free content images to articles in several cases. What I'm interested in is numbers. So what I'd need is a list of edits where one of the SVGs that redirects to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] is replaced with an image. (Checking which of those are actually free images can come next.) Is there a tolerably easy way to get this info from a dump? Any Wikipedia statistics fans who think this'd be easy? (If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of articles on en:wp, of *course* ...) - d.

13 years, 5 months

Moving pages

by ANTHONY APPLEYARD

I am an administrator in the English Wikipedia. It would be useful if these could be made possible:- * When deleting some edits in a page, to directly select them and delete them, instead of having to delete everything and then undelete the rest. * To move deleted edits. For example, earlier today I had to histmerge [[WRYV]] into [[WXBW]]; they were about a radio station which changed its callsign. But under the visible edits of [[WXBW]] there were speedy-deleted edits about a small wrestling club called Wantagh Xtreme Backyard Wrestling, and I had to get that irrelevantia out of the way before I started the primary job. So I had to get the visible edits out of the way to leave [[WXBW]] clear to undelete the wrestling edits; then move them to [[Wantagh Xtreme Backyard Wrestling]], and then re-delete them. In this case the wanted edits were all earlier than all the wanted edits, and I needed to temporarily delete the wanted edits anyway to move page [[WRYV]] in over them to histmerge. Sometimes it is more complicated, and I must temporarily rename the wanted edits to extract the junk edits from under them. It would have been easier if I could move deleted edits while leaving them deleted.

14 years, 6 months

unbale to log into http://wiki.80-90.co.uk/index.php/Main_Page

by Tony Edwards

i have been unable to log into the wiki site all day. i havn't had this problem before and have used the site numerous amounts of times. it keeps telling me my password is incorrect and i have tryed everything but i am still unable to log in any help? thanks tony edwards

14 years, 6 months

MediaWiki wins 2008 BOSSIE award for "Best of open source for collaboration"

by Brianna Laugher

Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008 InfoWorld's 2008 Bossies recognize the top free and open products for business, IT, and personal productivity <http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2008/08/169-best_of_open_so-3.html> "The appeal of MediaWiki, the original application written for Wikipedia, goes far beyond the trademark look, navigation, and page editing -- though there's clearly value in using software that most users already know. Administrators should find MediaWiki simple to install, upgrade, and maintain. Customization is trivial using different skins or altering style sheers. Content contributors benefit from time-saving features, including automatic table of contents generation. And the system can do more by installing multimedia features and extensions; some of these let you write mathematical formulas or quickly build time lines." cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

14 years, 6 months

$wgTrackLinkChanges ([MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [37542] trunk/phase3)

by Bryan Tong Minh

> From: brion(a)svn.wikimedia.org <brion(a)svn.wikimedia.org> > Date: Jul 11, 2008 12:11 AM > Subject: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [37542] trunk/phase3 > To: mediawiki-cvs(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Revision: 37542 > Author: brion > Date: 2008-07-10 22:11:11 +0000 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > Hold back $wgTrackLinkChanges for a little bit; reverting r37322, > 37430, 37432, 37435. > Even disabled, it's started interfering with regular tasks like > running the parser tests. > > Modified Paths: > -------------- > trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES > trunk/phase3/includes/DefaultSettings.php > trunk/phase3/includes/LinksUpdate.php > trunk/phase3/maintenance/parserTests.inc > trunk/phase3/maintenance/postgres/tables.sql > trunk/phase3/maintenance/tables.sql > trunk/phase3/maintenance/updaters.inc > > Removed Paths: > ------------- > trunk/phase3/maintenance/postgres/archives/patch-recentlinkchanges.sql > Can I put this back in now that we have branched? Or is there more stuff to fix about it? Bryan

14 years, 7 months

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [40116] trunk/phase3

by Chad

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:04 PM, <catrope(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Revision: 40116 > Author: catrope > Date: 2008-08-28 00:04:57 +0000 (Thu, 28 Aug 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word. Patch by Soxred93 > > Modified Paths: > -------------- > trunk/phase3/CREDITS > trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES > trunk/phase3/includes/MagicWord.php > trunk/phase3/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php > trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php > > Modified: trunk/phase3/CREDITS > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/CREDITS 2008-08-27 23:57:54 UTC (rev 40115) > +++ trunk/phase3/CREDITS 2008-08-28 00:04:57 UTC (rev 40116) > @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ > * Max Semenik > * Mormegil > * RememberTheDot > +* Soxred93 > > == Translators == > * Anders Wegge Jakobsen > > Modified: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES 2008-08-27 23:57:54 UTC (rev 40115) > +++ trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES 2008-08-28 00:04:57 UTC (rev 40116) > @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ > * Backend upload code has been removed from SpecialUpload.php. This may cause > backwards incompatibility with upload extensions. > * BMP images are now displayed as PNG > +* (bug 13471) Added NUMBERINGROUP magic word > > === Bug fixes in 1.14 === > > > Modified: trunk/phase3/includes/MagicWord.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/includes/MagicWord.php 2008-08-27 23:57:54 UTC (rev 40115) > +++ trunk/phase3/includes/MagicWord.php 2008-08-28 00:04:57 UTC (rev 40116) > @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ > 'pagesincategory', > 'index', > 'noindex', > + 'numberingroup', > ); > > /* Array of caching hints for ParserCache */ > @@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ > 'localtimestamp' => 3600, > 'pagesinnamespace' => 3600, > 'numberofadmins' => 3600, > + 'numberingroup' => 3600, > ); > > static public $mDoubleUnderscoreIDs = array( > > Modified: trunk/phase3/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php 2008-08-27 23:57:54 UTC (rev 40115) > +++ trunk/phase3/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php 2008-08-28 00:04:57 UTC (rev 40116) > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'numberofarticles', array( __CLASS__, 'numberofarticles' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'numberoffiles', array( __CLASS__, 'numberoffiles' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'numberofadmins', array( __CLASS__, 'numberofadmins' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > + $parser->setFunctionHook( 'numberingroup', array( __CLASS__, 'numberingroup' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'numberofedits', array( __CLASS__, 'numberofedits' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'language', array( __CLASS__, 'language' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > $parser->setFunctionHook( 'padleft', array( __CLASS__, 'padleft' ), SFH_NO_HASH ); > @@ -224,6 +225,9 @@ > static function pagesinnamespace( $parser, $namespace = 0, $raw = null ) { > return self::formatRaw( SiteStats::pagesInNs( intval( $namespace ) ), $raw ); > } > + static function numberingroup( $parser, $name = '', $raw = null) { > + return self::formatRaw( SiteStats::numberingroup( strtolower( $name ) ), $raw ); > + } > > /** > * Return the number of pages in the given category, or 0 if it's nonexis- > > Modified: trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php 2008-08-27 23:57:54 UTC (rev 40115) > +++ trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php 2008-08-28 00:04:57 UTC (rev 40116) > @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ > 'pagesize' => array( 1, 'PAGESIZE' ), > 'index' => array( 1, '__INDEX__' ), > 'noindex' => array( 1, '__NOINDEX__' ), > + 'numberingroup' => array( 1, 'NUMBERINGROUP', 'NUMINGROUP' ), > 'staticredirect' => array( 1, '__STATICREDIRECT__' ), > ); > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-CVS mailing list > MediaWiki-CVS(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs > I see you used my SiteStats::numberingroup() method I introduced about a month back. While this is ok for most things, couldn't something like {{numberingroup:rollbacker}} get kind of expensive on a site like enwiki? -Chad

14 years, 7 months

[40082] trunk/phase3 - Fieldset at watchlist

by Raimond Spekking

>Revision: 40082 >Author: demon >Date: 2008-08-27 14:32:15 +0000 (Wed, 27 Aug 2008) >Log Message: >----------- >Remove fieldset from Watchlist that apparently only I liked :) I like fieldsets too and IMO it's not a good idea to remove it. Now the look of the watchlist is (again) inconsistent with the recent changes list and most all other forms too :-( Raymond.

14 years, 7 months

Apache mod_php in wikipedia

by howard chen

Hello, I was heard that wikipedia is running on Apache/mod_php, are there any reason not to use fast-cgi approach for performance (e.g. lighty / ngnix + fast cgi?) Thanks.

14 years, 7 months

Special:Statistics

by Raimond Spekking

I fiddled a bit with a new version of Special:Statistics. It can solve bug 5619 [0]. Please see the screenshot [1] from my local wiki. Two points to clarify: 1. Is action=raw [2] still needed? The API do the same job [3]. If the answer is no, should I depreciate it with an error message and link to the API or remove it in total? 2. At the moment we have the numbers of sysops in the list. Should we expand the list to all existing usergroups? [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5619 [1] http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SpecialStatisticsMockup.png [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Statistik?action=raw [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statist… Any suggestions/objections? Raymond.

14 years, 7 months

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