Wikitech-l March 2009

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Help with...different...Wiki request solutions
by David Di Biase 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hi there, I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though obvious in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the best solution for integration is. Here they are briefly: - They have a list of authors and animators and would like to sort them in a category by last name first. All the articles currently created begin with first and last. I realised that there is a transclusion option called {{DEFAULTSORT:}} which lets you define its sort value. The problem is, I'm not sure how to invert and display the name on the category page with the inverse. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category doesn't tell me much other than about the default sort value. - The Wiki is going to be based on a massive bibliographical system. I've searched high and low for good biblio extensions, but they pretty much do not do what we want. What I've decided to do is have the bibliography entries listed on each Article under a Bibliography header. I am writing an extension which finds all pages with a similar header and parses all the bibliographical entries, which are listed in MLA format. I'm wondering if there is a much better way of doing this, because then I have to consolidate duplicate entries by using a lot of regex (ack). That's about it for now, there are other minor things, but before I bother the mailing list I'm going to do my research and figure them out with the help files. For now these are the only things I can't seem to solve on my own. Regards, David

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Google Summer of Code needs you... to mentor student projects!
by Brion Vibber 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

We're a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code again this year, and we're dead set on making it our awesomest summer ever! One key thing though is making sure that students and potential students have access to a mentor who can answer their questions and just help steer them into becoming an active member of our development community. If you're an experienced MediaWiki developer and would like to help out with selecting and mentoring student projects, please give us a shout! We'll take you even if you live in the southern hemisphere. ;) We need folks who'll be available online fairly regularly over the summer and are knowledgeable about MediaWiki -- not necessarily knowing every piece of it, but knowing where to look so you can help the students can help themselves. If you're interested, don't forget to apply soon! Student submissions will complete next week and we'll need to start selecting then... http://socghop.appspot.com/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2009 -- brion

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URL extraction from database
by Andreas Rindler 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, we are trying to extract all URLs in wiki articles from our Mediawiki installation. We have tried Grep, Perl and Sed on mysql dumps, but it is very difficult to get the URLs only, without some garbage/text/comments before or after them. Does anyone know of a better way to achieve this? Thanks, Andi

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Usermerge userright - prospects for unmerging?
by David Gerard 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

The "usermerge" procedure is presently irreversible. Are there plans for a way to make it reversible in case of error? I'm assuming error (and a great deal of tedious mucking about to go back) is inevitable, since the action is taken by humans. - d.

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Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimedia sites
by Brion Vibber 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce too many new ones. :) * Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811) As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found. Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels (#wikimedia-tech on Freenode). We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum. I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog for Wikimedia tech activity & MediaWiki development, in part because I want to make sure community members can easily follow what we're working on and give feedback before we push things out: * http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on features, bugs, and general thoughts which might affect some projects distinctly from others. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco

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change Media tag to point to external file editing
by Gregor Rot 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi everybody, i would like to change the Media tag to point to external editing of wiki media files, for example: [[Media:my_file.pdf]] now generates a link like: http://myserver/images/d/d3/my_file.pdf but i have configured external file editing and would like a link like: http://myserver/index.php?title=Image:my_file.pdf&action=edit&externaledit=… I have tried to code in includes/parser/Parser.php (function replaceInternalLinks) with no success. Could somebody point me to the right direction? thank you, Gregor

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all the world's alphabets right there on the edit page
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Nice to have all the world's alphabets at one's fingertips right there on the (www.mediawiki.org) edit page. Wow, IPA, Pīnyīn, they're all there. I'm saving it for even when I'm not editing MediaWiki. (However, as it bloats the edit page up to 700% $ wget -O x.html http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WHATEVER\&action=edit $ perl -nwle 'print unless /onclick/' x.html|wc -c - x.html|sed '$d' 19748 - 139708 x.html there should also be some mechanism available for pages like these for users to opt out, perhaps via Preferences?)

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Re: A proposal to de-table Wikipedia infoboxes
by Håkon Wium Lie 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know if making such an infobox that does not support IE6 and > > IE7 is a good idea. I've now added code to make IE6/IE7 degrade gracefully: http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/ > It doesn't even support Firefox 2 . . . inline-block wasn't > implemented in Gecko until 1.9 (Firefox 3). Correct. The purpose of the case study was not to make all things work for all browsers, but rather to see how features supported by all modern browsers (in particular CSS 2.1) can improve Wikipedia. Whether FF2 should still be on the list of supported browsers is not for me to decide. At some point, however, it will be dropped from the list and it is worth preparing for that moment. > Also: "It should be fairly easy to do so, as the HTML code is > generated by templates." Has he *looked* at the templates? :) Yes, and they are quite scary :) That's why I chose to write my ideal HTML code by hand instead of trying to change the templates. What the sentence tries to say, however, is that not all articles have to be changed, "just" the templates. > The major reason why inline style is used on Wikipedia is, of > course, because ordinary editors don't have the ability to use > stylesheets. And while admins do, they can only effectively add > markup to *all* pages at once, regardless of whether they contain > the exact infobox in question. An awful lot of the provided CSS is > nation-box-specific, and so useless in 99.99% of Wikipedia's > articles. (Literally: there are about 2.7 million articles, and I'm > pretty sure there are less than 270 recognized nations.) But all > that CSS would have to be served with all of them. It could be done in one style sheet. And that style sheet wouldn't have to be very complex, if one can agree on a set of class names (i.e., a micro-format) which is inter-national. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome(a)opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

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Problems with the recent version of Cite Extension
by O. O. 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

I have installed Mediawiki 1.14.0 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download and am trying to get the Cite Extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite version 1.14.0 to work. When accessing the Main_Page I get the error: Fatal error: Call to undefined method ParserOptions::getIsSectionPreview() in /var/www/wiki2/extensions/Cite/Cite_body.php on line 699 I can however get the 1.13.0 version of the Cite Extension to work. Is this the correct place to be asking for help on the Cite Extension – or is there some other mailing list or newsgroup for this. Thanks, O. O.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki
by O. Olson 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Thanks Joshua. I would prefer that you post to the Mailing List / Newsgroup – so that all can benefit from your ideas. --- El dom 8-mar-09, Joshua C. Lerner <jlerner(a)gmail.com> escribió: > De: Joshua C. Lerner <jlerner(a)gmail.com> > Asunto: Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki > > Just for kicks I decided to try to do an import of ptwiki - > using what > I learned in bringing up mirrors of 4 Greek and 3 English > Wikimedia > sites, including Greek Wikipedia. Basically I had the best > luck with > Xml2sql (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xml2sql). The > conversion from > XML to SQL went smoothly: > > # ./xml2sql /mnt/pt/ptwiki-20090128-pages-articles.xml > > As did the import: > > # mysqlimport -u root -p --local pt > ./{page,revision,text}.txt > Enter password: > pt.page: Records: 1044220 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 > Warnings: 0 > pt.revision: Records: 1044220 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 > Warnings: 3 > pt.text: Records: 1044220 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 > Warnings: 0 > > I'm running maintenance/rebuildall.php at the moment: > > # php rebuildall.php > ** Rebuilding fulltext search index (if you abort this will > break > searching; run this script again to fix): > Dropping index... > Rebuilding index fields for 2119470 pages... > 442500 > > (still running) > > I'll send a note to the list with the results of this > experiment. Let > me know if you need additional information or help. Are you > trying to > set up any mirrors? > > Joshua Thanks for making this attempt. Let me know if your rebuildall.php has memory issues. This is really getting confusing for me – because there are so many ways – all of which guaranteed to work – that work, and the one that is recommended – does not seem to work. I would try out your approach too – but it would take time as I only have one computer to spare. Thanks, O.o. ¡Sé el Bello 51 de People en Español! ¡Es tu oportunidad de Brillar! Sube tus fotos ya. http://www.51bello.com/

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