Wikitech-l April 2010

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Added iwlinks table to track interwiki links on trunk
by Brion Vibber 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Tossed this together during hacking this evening in Berlin, finally fixes https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14473 Somehow we never got round to recording interwiki links into the database link tables (eventually langlinks was added, but only for the sidebar interlanguage links; inline interwiki links were simply dropped). The table will be added by update.php for MySQL, should work for SQLite (untested); probably still need to add a PostgreSQL updater for it. Note that the magic indirection for things like [[wikt:fr:blah]] isn't resolved on the source wiki side, so that'll currently record as ('wikt', 'fr:blah'). At some point we'll probably want to make the project/language pairings something we can evaluate and normalize to provide better tracking. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Upload protection on commons
by John Doe 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that? John

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 05, 2010 - April 12, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 89 Bugs ASSIGNED : 9 Bugs REOPENED : 11 Bugs RESOLVED : 99 Total bugs still open: 4336 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 62 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 14 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 14 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 3 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 15 General/Unknown 5 Images and files 4 General/Unknown 3 Site requests 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 22 Wikimedia 11 MediaWiki extensions 29 Top 5 Bug Resolvers alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 18 jeluf [AT] gmx.de 15 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 12 Bryan.TongMinh [AT] Gmail.com 7 conrad.irwin [AT] gmail.com 5

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Maintenance costs
by Branden Visser 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi everyone, We're considering hosting MediaWiki for an institution of approximately 16,000 users. We're wondering what costs (monetary or employee-hours) others have experienced in a similar deployment. Currently we're looking at a relatively light single-use (say, 50 concurrent users peak), but are considering a more enterprise deployment in the future that could host documentation for more projects and see more activity. Any additional advice or lessons learned about similar deployments is also very welcome. Cheers, Branden

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Wiki syntax for representing that a page is a "child" of another page?
by Jack Bates 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Does there exist a recommended wiki syntax for representing that a page is hierarchically a "child" of another page? I don't want to rename the pages Currently I use this static, hierarchical index of wiki pages which are part of our user manual, http://github.com/jablko/manual/raw/master/manual.html - to compile the pages into this PDF, http://ica-atom.org/manual.pdf Now however, instead of the static index, I want to represent in each page's wiki markup, which pages are logically "children" of that page Among the reasons for doing this is that, to build the PDF based on the static index, currently I recursively concatenate first the body of a page, followed by each of its children Now I have a case where, instead of concatenating the children after the page body, the children need to be inserted at various positions in the page body So I think I need to indicate these positions with some wiki syntax, and this will make the static index redundant I thought "transclusion" was a candidate, because pages are recursively transcluded to build the PDF, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion In the wiki however, I don't actually want to display pages embedded in each other - instead I want links to child pages. This represents enough information about the hierarchical structure to build the PDF My current best candidate is the <a href="..." rel="down"/> "link relation", * http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg21260 * http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-divilly-atom-hierarchy-03 Is there a better syntax for representing, at a particular position in a page, that another page is a "child"?

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wiki(m|p)edia.org on IE8 compatibility blacklist
by Tisza Gergő 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, wikipedia.de and wiktionary.org are on the IE8 compatibility blacklist again (you can check by opening res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml in IE8 or at http://ie8blacklist.appspot.com/ ), which means that IE8 renders Wikipedia pages just as IE7 would. I see no obvious difference when switching into IE8 standards mode. Does someone know the reason for the blacklisting? If not, could someone from the foundation ask them to remove these sites from the list? (Information on removal requests can be found at the end of this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd567845%28VS.85%29.aspx )

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Languages
by Huib Laurens 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Hello, I'm using a mediawiki farm with multible wiki, all using there own code. I have been busy and they are using one /images/ /cache/ and one /skins/ but I'm wondering... Is it also possible to use one directory with the languages for all wiki's ? Best regards Huib

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Commonist now supporting the new login token
by Marcin Cieslak 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Hello, I have hacked up a patched version[1] of a popular Commonist tool[2] so that it can now login to commons. [1] http://saper.info/files/commonist-0.3.43-patched.jar [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist -- << Marcin Cieslak // saper(a)saper.info >>

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Mailing list owner
by Tim Starling 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

I've made myself mailing list owner of mediawiki-l and wikitech-l temporarily, since I don't think Brion is interested in moderating either of them anymore. But it's a relatively simple task, and it seems to me that it could be done by someone with more spare time and less awesome hacking skills ;) The tasks are: * Manage the mailman configuration for these two lists. * Put members on moderation if they post inappropriate content. * Deal with people who send administrative requests to the list or to *-owner@lists. You can also expect to get some forwarded spam. Anyone interested? -- Tim Starling

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No such anchor: CITEREF...
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

I don't get it. In e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai there are tons of e.g., <a href="#CITEREFPatelMasselos2003">Patel & Masselos 2003</a> <a href="#CITEREFMehta2004">Mehta 2004</a> <a href="#CITEREFHansen2001">Hansen 2001</a> But no corresponding anchors. One will only get No such anchor: CITEREFHansen2001 in ones browser. What's the deal?

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Wikitech-l April 2010