Wikitech-l May 2009

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Extracting pages history error
by Bilal Abdul Kader 03 May '09

03 May '09

Greetings, I am trying to replicate enwiki locally but I am always getting a CRC error extracting the page history file (enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2<http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-meta-histor…>). Anybody was able to do so? I am not sure if the error is at the source (when zipping it) or because of the download manager at my end. bilal

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Spezial:Code SVN to Wiki link
by Chad 03 May '09

03 May '09

No, I didn't grant Coder rights, I just linked a svn and wiki account. Not all committers are Coders on mw.org. Should they be? -Chad On May 2, 2009 8:24 AM, "Roan Kattouw" <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote: 2009/5/2 Jan Luca <jan(a)jans-seite.de>: > Should I ask Brion for Coder rights? > No, Chad already gave you coder rights. Any coder can make someone else a coder. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik...

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How to generate the static dumps?
by Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez 03 May '09

03 May '09

Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with the maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at http://static.wikipedia.org". So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible. (I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have installed, so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to go). -- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- Participe en Universidad 2010, del 8 al 12 de febrero de 2010 La Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2010.cu

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] site notice not accessible to users with disabilities
by Aryeh Gregor 03 May '09

03 May '09

(replying to foundation-l post on wikitech-l) On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > So far this is the best way to provide a dynamic notice to the majority > of our visitors without causing problems for others. If you have > technical suggestions for alternate implementations, they're welcome in > a more relevant channel such as wikitech-l. The only non-script solution that seems like it would work well is <iframe seamless> from HTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#attr-iframe-seamless This solves the current problem that <iframe>s must have a prespecified height, which is why we can't use them now. Of course, <iframe> isn't necessarily terribly well supported in weird browsers, but it would be better than JavaScript. One possible way we might have more graceful fallback now is to have some <noscript> content. One possibility would be an <iframe> containing the content (which might be the wrong height, but oh well); another would be to have a message pointing to the announcements. Of course, it would be non-dismissible without JavaScript, so it would be best to keep it less obtrusive if possible. So the message seems like a better idea.

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Spezial:Code SVN to Wiki link
by Jan Luca 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hello, how can I link my SVN-account to my wiki-account? Gruß jan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump process does not work
by Chad 01 May '09

01 May '09

Document the dump process? You must be joking :) -Chad On May 1, 2009 3:24 PM, "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Russell Blau wrote: > "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote in message > news:49FB3CA6.90602@wi... Mwhaha .. that would be awesome if it was actually useful data. The libs, binaries and configs have all been fixed. I've run a couple of batch jobs for the small wikis [tokiponawiktionary, emlwiki] and am running [afwiki] right now to try a bigger data set. No issues so far past the main page not noticing them finishing. After afwiki finishes up I'll remove the failed runs as they don't provide us with any useful data. Will set the worker to begin processing after that. Plus I'll actually document the setup. --tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists....

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New SVN committers
by Brion Vibber 01 May '09

01 May '09

Added a few more folks from the queue, welcome aboard! alexsh (Alexsh) - Chinese localization, PyWikipediaBot updates, etc jan (Jan Luca) - TSPoll extension & misc rfong (Roger Fong) - Wikinvest stock chart extension robin (SPQRobin) - WikimediaIncubator extension & misc As always, please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access for notes on using the developer SVN. (Please don't forget to set up your auto-props configuration so new files are properly marked for cross-platform line endings!) Please add any new requests to the request queue at: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access_requests If I haven't gotten to you yet that doesn't mean I hate you forever, don't worry. :) Just got to dig through some more stuff... -- brion

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