Wikitech-l April 2010

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 19, 2010 - April 26, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 104 Bugs ASSIGNED : 5 Bugs REOPENED : 10 Bugs RESOLVED : 67 Total bugs still open: 4351 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 45 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 5 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 6 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 5 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 8 CentralAuth 5 Site requests 5 Images and files 5 server 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 20 Wikimedia 9 MediaWiki extensions 25 Wikipedia Mobile 4 Top 5 Bug Resolvers tparscal [AT] wikimedia.org 10 s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl 8 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 8 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 7 hcatlin [AT] wikimedia.org 5

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Using two databases in one mediawiki
by 李琴 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

hi all, I built two mediawiki(wiki1,wiki2),and each of them has a database(wikidb1,wikidb2).I want to use both of the database in wiki1.That's mean I can query the data which belong to wikidb2 in wiki1. I have already use the following code in wiki1. $dbName = "wikidb2"; $dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER ); $dbw->selectDB( $dbName ); $pageId = $dbw->selectField( 'page','page_id', array( 'page_title' => $title, 'page_namespace' => 0 ), __METHOD__); But it didn't work. Is there any way or any function to solve this problem? Thanks a lot vanessa lee

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Why is the English 20100312-pages-meta-history file smaller than the 20100130 version?
by Jeff Kubina 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Why is the English full dump file enwiki-20100312-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 at 178.7GB smaller than the file enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 at 280.3GB? Is the 20100312 dump incomplete or was a larger compression block size used for the 20100312 dump? -- Jeff Kubina http://google.com/profiles/jeff.kubina

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problems of .svg pictures
by caoyanjiao987 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Ni Hao: We built a Local_Wiki using mediawiki and now we want to upload the pictures. By the tool "uploading files" in itself , we can't uploading the pictures whose suffix are .svg and those which have special letters in them. How can we solve the problem. Now for the .svg pictures, our only solution is to convert them to .png first in the edit box and upload them. Besides, there are many pictures showed on the page but they are not in the context of edit box and how can we upload them(including the .svg pictures and non .svg pictures) if we adopt the method mentioned above. Look forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Joy

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Cache problems on Wiki-Brest
by Seb35 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello, The site Wiki-Brest (MW 1.15) enabled the $wgUseFileCache because they experienced slowness. This works well but they have problems with the cached pages of categories, whose some pages don't appear directly after their inclusion in the category, and this problem seems affect only unlogged users (=cached pages); it works after a ?action=purge of the category page. Have you an idea of what is wrong? For instance <http://www.wiki-brest.net/index.php/Test_qui_suis-je> doesn't appear in <http://www.wiki-brest.net/index.php/Catégorie:Tourisme_dans_le_Pays_de_Brest> when you are unlogged (if nobody has done a purge since), but appears when you are logged. Thanks, Sébastien/Seb35 PS: I intend also to ask the creation of a mediawiki-fr list (like mediawiki-sv) to have a support for the French-speaking community of MediaWiki users.

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MSSQL Support
by Chad 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

All, In r65404 [0], I have removed the current MSSQL implementation from MediaWiki. It is very broken, and is based on the older MSSQL driver for PHP which is no longer supported. There is a native driver that should be be used; we already have a bug open requesting support for [1]. Additionally, we have a new committer (CC'd this to him specifically) who is planning to work on MSSQL support. A branch will probably be best for this, at least initially. I'd probably like to see new-installer merged before we work on trying to merge any new MSSQL implementations. On a related note, does anyone know how functional the current IBM DB2 implementation is? -Chad [0] http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/65404 [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/22093

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Automatic links to man pages
by Strainu 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi, Is there a way to create a link to a unix command man page by writing "man command" (like it happens with RFCs)? I searched for an extension to do this, but I've been unlucky :) If nothing has been implemented, do you think it would be a good idea to have this in Wikipedia? I personally think it would be very useful for many articles related to Linux/Unix. Strainu

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 12, 2010 - April 19, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 107 Bugs ASSIGNED : 9 Bugs REOPENED : 23 Bugs RESOLVED : 84 Total bugs still open: 4328 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 55 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 8 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 10 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 8 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 3 Bugs marked LATER : 3 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 9 LiquidThreads 5 General/Unknown 4 server 4 Semantic MediaWiki 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 15 Wikimedia 13 MediaWiki extensions 20 Wikipedia Mobile 4 Mediawiki Testing Environment 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers jeluf [AT] gmx.de 24 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 9 Bryan.TongMinh [AT] Gmail.com 6 brion [AT] pobox.com 6 happy-melon [AT] live.com 5

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Git import of the recent full enwiki dump
by Richard Hartmann 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

-- This email has been sent to two lists -- Hi all, I would be interested to import the whole enwiki dump [1] into git[2]. This data set is probably the largest set of changes on earth, so it's highly interesting to see what git will make of it. As of right now, I am trying to import on my local machine, but my first, rough, projections tell me my machine will melt down at some point ;) Assuming my local import fails, I would appreciate it if this could be added to wikitech's longer-term todo list. If anyone has access to a system with several TiB of free disk space which they can spare for a week or three, it would be awesome. If given shell access, I can take care of this task, but I would be happy to assist anyone attempting it, as well. If need be, I can get various people from various communities to vouch for me, my character & that I Do Not Break Stuff. Richard Hartmann PS: If anyone attempts to do this, please poke me. Either via email or RichiH on freenode, OFTC and IRCnet. [1] http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/ [2] http://git-scm.com/

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How to add attribute to anchor tag from certain wiki links?
by Jack Bates 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

How can I add an attribute to the HTML anchor tag resulting from certain wiki links? e.g. how can I change the link [[Search]] such that it results in the HTML anchor tag, <a href="/doc/index.php?title=Search" rel="down">Search</a> ^ added rel="down" attribute

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