Wikitech-l December 2009

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mysql changes
by Domas Mituzas 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

Hi. today I did master switch for en.wikipedia.org to mysql5.1, we have been running s2 (twenty other major languages) for few days on fully-5.1 setup. Some higher level description of the branch is at http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/MySQL_5.1_(fork) Actual tree is at https://code.launchpad.net/~wikimedia/sakila-server/mysql-5.1-wm Actual upgrade happened with no downtime, and there're no horror stories to tell about the process, was way too smooth. Rest of cluster wil follow soon. Cheers, Domas

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz
by David Gerard 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

This is probably not the right place, you would want wikitech-l (where I've cc'ed this reply). - d. 2009/12/11 Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa(a)gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I have downloaded enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz and I want to extract > main titles and store them in another file. For example, some titles have > meta information (e.g. disambiguation etc.) and I want these to be removed. > Can I remove all the text between parentheses from the titles to achieve > this? > > Also some titles start with the "!" character. and some are enclosed between > two or three of them such as !Adiso_Amigos!. What is the purpose of "!" in > such cases? Also why some titles are enclosed between two double quotes such > as "400_Years_of_Telescope"? > > Finally, is there a document describing all these conventions? > > P.S: Is this the right place to ask such questions? > > Cheers, > Behrang Saeedzadeh > ------------------------------- > http://my.opera.com/behrangsa > http://twitter.com/behrangsa > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >

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Production machine config
by William Pietri 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi, all. The FlaggedRevs lab site mysteriously got better, which makes me nervous. To counteract that, I'd like to put together some basic smoke and load tests. My plan is to do that on Amazon's cloud infrastructure. A few questions: 1. Does anybody have an AMI (basically, a virtual machine config) that's already like WMF production servers? 2. If not, is there something like a Puppet config that I can use to help build the AMI? 3. What's the best way for me to find out details on production server configs? I see the info in Special:Version, but I'm wondering a) where to find those packages, and b) if there are other requirements (e.g., particular kernel versions, supporting software, etc)? Once I get the AMI working, I'll post details here so others can easily spin up pseudo-production boxes. William

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Adding headings into content from within an Extension
by Jani Patokallio 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Greetings, I've got a simple Extension that expands an {{#include}} parser function into random text. It works well for most things, but if I try to stick in a new heading, includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php::expand() fails on this... $titleText = $this->title->getPrefixedDBkey(); because "$this" (a PPFrame_DOM) does not have a title object. As a temporary band-aid, I inserted this into Preprocessor_DOM.php: if(! $this->title) $this->title = Title::newFromText("XXX"); But is there a way to fix this from within the extension? Code attached, it's pretty trivial. While I'm at it, for extra credit, is there a way to determine the equivalent of expand's $expansionDepth (== how deep in the transclusions we are) from within an extension? Cheers, -jani

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Output articles
by 李琴 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

hi: I want to know the article output fuction.It's mean the function using when output a article. Thanks a lot :) vanessa

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Hack the Wiki at the Chaos Communication Congress
by Daniel Kinzler 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi all I'm looking for people interested in attending the upcoming 26th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin, Dec 27-30, <http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/>) and being available for questions and discussions about any aspect of interacting with Wikipedia and/or MediaWiki in code. I'm trying to organize a "hack the wiki" - The idea is to have a place where people interested in contributing to the Wikipedia/MediaWiki user experience on the technical level can discuss their ideas and get help implementing them - be it by writing extensions, toolserver tools, javasacript gadgets, api-based bots, or whatever. The background is that there has been some criticism from the German hacker community of the "wiki 2000" experience Wikipedia supposedly offers. There's quite a bit of energy directed at hacking up alternative ways to access and use Wikipedia content there . I'd like to channel some of that drive into improvements usable directly in medaiwiki or on the wikimedia sites. Note that this my personal pet project, nothing official by WMDE. At least, not yet. If there are enough people interested, I hope we can get support for things like travel cost from WMDE. So please let me know if you are interested,so I can get things organized. Oh, and: that congress is great fun, with tons of cool blinking stuff and thousands of geeks - well worth going to in any case :) Regards Daniel

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Output article
by 李琴 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

hi: I add a <div> tag on my page,and I want to output the articles in <div></div> just like the articles ordinary output. getContent(),and use the $wgOut->addHTML() didn't work well. What should I do ? Thanks very much! vanessa

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for November 30, 2009 - December 07, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 113 Bugs ASSIGNED : 6 Bugs REOPENED : 15 Bugs RESOLVED : 68 Total bugs still open: 4193 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 35 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 8 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 13 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 4 Bugs marked LATER : 0 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component LiquidThreads 22 Site requests 5 Translate 4 UsabilityInitiative 3 General/Unknown 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 11 Wikimedia 9 MediaWiki extensions 34 Wikipedia Mobile 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 22 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 9 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 6 cbass [AT] wikimedia.org 5 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 4

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Redirect disclosure on hover
by Gregory Maxwell 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

On thing that annoys me about mediawiki is that I'll sometimes follow a link only to discover that the link is just a redirect to a page that I've read already. Would it be so terrible to resolve redirects at parse time so that the destination bar in my browser (and the link coloring) reflect the redirect target? This would have some caching interaction— changes to redirects wouldn't be effective until the linking pages were re-parsed... of course, work queue entries could be created... and the harm caused by this could be mitigated by using a priority tracking and event-merging work-queue. (I have no clue if such a beast is being used today...) Another alternative would be adding no-op material to the URL: I.e. http://site/redirectname#Redirect-to-targetname though this wouldn't solve the link coloring and would inhibit any support to linking to real anchors in these cases. The destination could also be displayed using some kind of tool-tip on the link which also has the link coloring weakness but would still be helpful. Thoughts?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts looking for a developer
by Q 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Martin Peeks wrote: >> Sadly while both myself and Sean have access to the stable server and >> hence the code, both of us lack the knowledge and ability to fix it. > > I should clarify, the code is no longer on the toolserver for some reason. > Stable was EOL'd a while back[1] and it was notified that all projects on stable should convert to multi-maintainer projects on the 'normal' TS soonish. A copy might be laying around somewhere, would have to ask a TS root. 1 - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2009-October/002593.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREIAAYFAksZlf4ACgkQ69PBoSWyJd6d9ACghGBxt3GKpoLj98eSkdLBRSIR xVwAn0KlKgoeHw9SRtUiHrPBffJFgoUK =Cp9t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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