Wikitech-l August 2010

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Fwd: changing main page articles from drop down. help required
by Noman 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Noman <nomang(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM Subject: chanfing main page articles from drop down. help required To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org how

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What is exactly needed for setting up a new language edition of WM project?
by Milos Rancic 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Please, tell me which data you need for setting up a project? According to my information, data are: * language * language code * type of project (Wikipedia, Wikinews etc.) * logo * the name of project in local language * the name of the project namespace * the name of the project talk namespace Anything else needed?

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Selenium Framework: Releases/Babaco/Compatibility Matrix - Question-
by Michelle Knight 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hi, Upon creating a Selenium test to run through the Navigable Table of Contents on http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en-wp/index.php?title=Manchester_Small-Scale…, I noticed the instruction: Verify that moving the cursor from one section to another causes the various sections to be highlighted in the table of contents . I do not see this and wonder if it applies to an older edited version. Does this instruction still apply as the contents appear in the preview section above the edit text box? If so, is it expected that moving the cursor from one section to another in the edit window highlights the matching section in the preview section above? I went to the live sandbox at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=submi<goog_1090557813> t<%20http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=submit> to verify the edit functionality with the preview and edit section. Again, I am confused as to whether moving the cursor from one section to another, in the edit box, highlights the matching section in the preview box. Are there any insights? Michelle Knight PS: I am using Firefox version 3.6.8 on an Ubuntu 9.10 Operating System. -- Michelle Knight (503) 345-4350 (971) 998-9084

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Experience Team - Insert Template
by Benedikt Kaempgen 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Dear all, The improvements to the page editing interface by the experience team are great. I especially like the new insert link. I was wondering, whether it is possible to have something similar for templates, maybe with following functionalities: - suggestions for templates are listed while typing - short descriptions from the template page are shown - when a template is chosen, the user is asked for its parameters With that the users would not need to remember all templates, their syntax to use, and their number of parameters. Does anyone know whether that exists already or is planned? If not, how could that be implemented? Regards, Benedikt -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) Benedikt Kämpgen Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 11.40 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721 608-7946 Fax: +49 721 608-6580 Email: benedikt.kaempgen(a)kit.edu Web: http://www.kit.edu/ KIT - University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association

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Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias
by paolo massa 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hi, I checked the dumps of the Italian Wikipedia at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/itwiki/ and I found there are 6 dumps available, the latest 2010-Jun-27, the oldest 2010-Mar-02. My question is: are older dumps stored somewhere? Is it possible to get them? Even if this involves running some script on old database dumps, that would be ok. (I posted this question at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Data_dumps#Oldest_Wikipedia_dump_availa… as well.) Thanks in advance! -- -- Paolo Massa Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org Blog: http://gnuband.org

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New committers
by Tim Starling 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Extension access only: * Devin Finzer (dfinzer): WMF intern working on pending changes data analysis * Mike Połtyn (holek): Extensions, e.g. LiquidThreads * Samuel Lampa: RDFIO (GSoC) * Nadeesha Weerasinghe: new Calcey employee Accounts disabled: * bhagya: ex-Calcey employee

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Math - Recommended for modern browsers
by Amir E. Aharoni 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

This is a follow up to "wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web". In Math preferences what does the "Recommended for modern browsers" option actually mean? I like to think of myself as someone who uses modern browsers, so i select it on every MediaWiki site in which i open an account, but i never seriously thought about its meaning except fantasizing that it uses MathML, which it probably doesn't. I also think that trying to select "MathML if possible" didn't change anything for me (Firefox 3.6.8 on XP). There's a question similar to mine at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Preferences since 2006. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore

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