Wikitech-l April 2009

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European network outage
by Brion Vibber 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

We’re encountering some networking problems between our Tampa and Amsterdam data centers, which is breaking access to the sites for people in Europe. Mark’s poking to see if it can be resolved; if necessary we’ll reroute European visitors directly to the Tampa center. -- brion

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DEADLINE for WMDE contract applications
by Daniel Kinzler 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hello all At the developer meetup, I announced that Wikimedia Deutschland is offering contracts for a couple of projects we feel are important. We again invite anyone to apply NOW for any project that interests you. The DEADLINE for applying is SUNDAY, APRIL 19! We did not receive any offer for the most urgent project: Evaluate the impact of using flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Evaluate_the_impact_of_u…>. We feel that it would be very helpful to run a full analysis on this before the English language Wikipedia decides on how to implement flagged revisions. It's a powerful tool, and we should make sure we use it to it's full potential. Below, the other projects are listed again: * Rewrite CatScan, a tool for finding pages in a set of categories recursively, based on various criteria - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan * Store interwiki-links in the database, just like we already store interlanguage-links - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Store_interwiki-links_in… * Improve the Gadgets extension to allow for gadgets to be enabled per default, be restricted to specific user groups, etc - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Improve_the_Gadets_exten… * Implement full support for TIFF files, including multi-page TIFFs, similar to how DjVu is handled - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Implement_full_support_f… If you would like to help with any of the above, please contact me at <daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de> and provide the following information: * Your real name and country of residence * How you plan to go about implementing the desired function * Any experience working with MediaWiki * How many working hours you would spend on it, and how much you ask for it * In what time frame you would be able to do the job This information is also available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers Thanks you all for your interest! -- daniel

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SUL user names, how can I tell which ones are merged?
by Erik Zachte 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

For wikistats I would like to aggregate edit counts per editor for all wikis, so that we get a better count for how many people work on our projects. I checked several wiki pages on SUL, but am a bit unclear to where we are now. At the moment: can different Wikimedia wikis still have same names for different users? So that John or Jane on one wiki belongs to person x, and on another wiki to person y? My hunch is yes, as I believe total migration is still a work in progress, but please confirm. And if so, is there a way I can tell which user names on which wikis are post SUL and unified? Thanks, Erik Zachte

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Dealing with Large Files when attempting a wikipedia database download.
by Jameson Scanlon 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Does anyone on the wikitech mailing list happen to know whether it would be possible for some of the larger wikipedia database downloads (which are, say, 16GB or so in size) to be split into parts so that they can be downloaded. For whatever reason, whenever I have attempted to download the ~14GB files (say, from http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/2008-06/en/ ), I have found that only 2GB (presumably, the first 2GB) of what I have sought to download has actually been downloaded. Is there anyway around this? Could anyone possibly suggest what possible reasons there might be for this difficulty in downloading the material? Thanks. .

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Collection extension
by Bence Damokos 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, Is there a planned deployment date for the Collection (PediaPress) extension on Wikimedia wikis that currently don't have them? The blog post about it [1] mentioned March if everything went well. Best regards, Bence [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/02/20/wiki-to-print-feature-activated-in-six…

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 06, 2009 - April 13, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 124 Bugs ASSIGNED : 12 Bugs REOPENED : 17 Bugs RESOLVED : 71 Total bugs still open: 3546 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 40 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 7 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 10 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 8 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 2 Bugs marked LATER : 4 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 9 Uploading 6 Uniwiki 4 AbuseFilter 3 GlobalBlocking 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 27 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 20 Top 5 Bug Resolvers innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 14 niklas.laxstrom [AT] gmail.com 10 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 8 agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 6 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 6

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension - Database handling
by Chad 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

And $wgExtNewTables and friends -Chad On Apr 14, 2009 5:56 PM, "Roan Kattouw" <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote: 2009/4/14 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>: > Prince Gerald Albert wrote: >> Is it a good practice to create my own table to store my extension ... Note that there's also the LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates hook [1], which you can use to have your schema changes done as part of update.php . Of course users still have to run update.php in that case, but they have to do that on upgrade as well. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia....

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Extension - Database handling
by Prince Gerald Albert 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I'm writing an extension for mediawiki, where I require creating tables to store my data and access it back. I tried searching several places to know how I can create a new table to use it for my extension. Can somebody guide me in doing so or point me to links where I can know the details of it. Is it a good practice to create my own table to store my extension related data to it? Is there any standard practice for it? Thanks Prince Gerald. DISCLAIMER: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and attachments please check them for viruses and defect. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Large nested templates (example: NYRepresentatives)
by William Allen Simpson 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I don't edit very often anymore, but I saw this as it happened to be be immediately above something else.... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_dele… A large 68K template, listing all the congresscritters ever elected in NY, organized by district number. Meta template usage. Lots of template calls. All the information is already in a 100K+ master list article, or another organized by district, or another series of district articles. Since all the information is also in a category, it's pointless. I've tried to suggest alternatives (such as an existing template that points to each district article, where the same information is already displayed). Mostly occurs on 1,900+ stubs, where the underlying edit is only a few K. As displayed, the huge template overwhelms the tiny articles. Nominated for deletion because of its size. Thought folks might like to know about it -- previous discussions of template server thrashing.

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New SVN committers
by Brion Vibber 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Added today: Rememberthedot -- general patches and awesomeness. Aude -- OpenStreetMap, SlippyMap extension, and other geodata-related goodies. Welcome aboard! I've asked a few other folks from my email archives for some account details and sample patches. If you've been inquiring about commit access and *haven't* heard from me today, please resend! I'll see about setting up a clearer open request queue and giving a couple more people access to add folks so we don't get so behind. -- brion

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