Hi,
We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to
have problems getting some citation items to render correctly.
When using the cite template and citing a paper or journal and the URL
tag is missing, you get an error in the citation list at the bottom with
error "Missing operand for >". (see example below from the article Cyprus).
^ Drayton, Penny (January 1993). [Expression error: Missing operand for
> "Aphrodite's island"]. Wood & water 2 (41). Cited by: Trubshaw, Bob
(February 1993). "The Black Stone – the Omphalos of the Goddess".
Mercian Mysteries (14). http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/blstone.htm.
Retrieved 2006-11-12. "In Cyprus is another highly venerated
We haven't been able to find exactly where the error occurs since there
are several layers of templates. Does anybody know if this was just a
template problem briefly or if there is way to track it down. We are
using the 6/22/2010 dump. I did look at the change history of several
templates but I haven't found any that were fixed between that dump date
and the current online version.
Thanks,
Brent
Hi all,
This is a preliminary list of what needs to be done to generate images dumps. If anyone can help with #2 to provide the access log of image usage stats please send me an email!
1. run wikix to generate list of images for a given wiki ie. enwiki
2. sort the image list based on usage frequency from access log files
3. download images over HTTP
4. scale images down to desired thumbnail size
5. tar image collection into multiple tar files (first tar file has the most commonly used images)
6. post to Wikimedia image dump or bittorrent
cheers,
Jamie
I would like to get wiki-admin access at the test wiki in order to
debug and test the MediaWiki editor wikEd (I am an en-admin). Right
now, I have an issue where I need to test the code for the next
version as a gadget-installation and, for obvious reasons, I do not
want to do this on Wikipedia. Thanks, Cacycle
We are currently attempting to refactor some specific modifications to
the standard MW code we use (1.13.2) into an extension so we can upgrade
to a more recent maintained version. One modification we have keeps a
flag in the revisions table specifying that article text was imported
from WP. This flag generates an attribution statement at the bottom of
the article that acknowledges the import.
I don't want to start a discussion about the various legal issues
surrounding text licensing. However, assuming we must acknowledge use of
licensed text, a legitimate technical issue is how to associate state
with an article in a way that records the import of licensed text. I
bring this up here because I assume we are not the only site that faces
this issue.
Some of our users want to encode the attribution information in a
template. The problem with this approach is anyone can come along and
remove it. That would mean the organization legally responsible for the
site would entrust the integrity of site content to any arbitrary author.
We may go this route, but for the sake of this discussion I assume such a
strategy is not viable. So, the remainder of this post assumes we need to
keep such licensing state in the db.
After asking around, one suggestion was to keep the licensing state in
the page_props table. This seems very reasonable and I would be
interested in comments by this community on the idea. Of course, there
has to be a way to get this state set, but it seems likely that could be
achieved using an extension triggered when an article is edited.
Since this post is already getting long, let me close by asking whether
support for associating licensing information with articles might be
useful to a large number of sites. If so, the perhaps it belongs in the
core.
--
-- Dan Nessett
I have finished moving the Vector and WikiEditor sub-extensions of the
UsabiltiyInitiative extension to their own extension folders, removing
dependencies on shared code, in favor of ResourceLoader functionality.
This is a big step towards getting Wikipedia to run a lot faster, but
it's going to require a little bit of transitioning.
There are two branches of the UsabilityInitiative extension which were
made prior to me dismantling it...
* /branches/REL1_16/extensions/UsabilityInitiative/ -- official release
version
* /branches/usability-initiative-1_16/ -- intermediate version with more
recent patches, should be merged soon
I am porting the remaining sub-extension of UsabilityInitiative to no
longer depend on UsabilityInitiative.php and work with ResourceLoader if
really necessary. There is at least one other extension which depends on
UsabilityInitiative that I know of (SimpleSurvey), and there may be
others; these need to be detached from UsabilityInitiative.php before
November (when we roughly plan to deploy 1.17 last I heard).
If you need help detaching code form UsabilityInitiative stuff, let me
know, I can help. You can also look at the examples of how to use
ResourceLoader which can be seen in the shiny newly-refactored Vector
and WikiEditor extensions.
Again - If anyone needs any general help converting extensions to use
ResourceLoader - please contact me.
- Trevor
Are there any standards for where to put selenium tests? Right now the
Simple Selenium test is in phase3/maintenance/tests/selenium and the
PagedTiffHandler selenium tests are in PagedTiffHandler/selenium. This
suggests a convention of putting extension selenium test files in a sub-
directory of the top-level directory named 'selenium'. Is that an
official convention?
--
-- Dan Nessett
Hi all.
"Recent changes" shows bytes added/removed in green/red. But "View history"
only shows revision length in bytes, and "User contributions" shows no byte
counts at all.
I think it would be nice for both "View history"[1] and "User contributions" to
show bytes added/removed. This would make it easier to distinguish between
small contributions from big ones: between multiple-sentence additions and
small typo fixes.
What do you think?
All the best,
-Jason
^ [1]. You can already get bytes added/removed to history revisions using a
gadget. Just add the following line to your vector.js:
importScript('fr:MediaWiki:Gadget-HistoryNumDiff.js');
Hi!
I've read on the techblog that the new UI go live in April. I have
some questions:
1) What version? Acai, babaco, citron?
2) How/where could a wiki customize the special character insert menu,
and the inserted strings? And the embed file (picture) button inserts
this: "[[Example.jpg]]", without any "File:" or "Image:"!
3) The search and replace button is available in firefox, but does not
appear at all in opera. Why?
4) Currently the new navigable TOC does not work on FF/Opera at all
(I've tried those).
Not too early for live deployment?
Regards,
Akos Szabo (Glanthor Reviol)
Hi,
I was involved in an open source project that was usurped by one of the main developers for the sole reason of making money, and that project continues now to take advantage of the community to increase the profit of that developer. I never would have thought such a thing was possible until I saw that happen. If that developer wasn't acting greedy, there would now be open source hardware for radio transceivers of all types, but instead there is only open source software for radio of all types. I find it a shame, and when I was working on that project I could *feel* it being usurped! I unfortunately may be paranoid as I feel the same thing here with the wikimedia foundation usurping wikipedia. If you don't believe me, just consider that it is a very gradual process, like getting people used to not being able to download image dumps anymore, and ignoring ALL requests to restore this functionality. Also failing to provide full history backups of the flagship wiki. These two facts allow the wikimedia foundation to maintain the control of intellectual property that wasn't created by the people. If you want the wikimedia foundation to respect you as volunteers, you will have to DEMAND respect by making sure that they never usurp the project. I think the best way to do this is to make sure we can all download up to date full history with images wikipedia's so a fork at any time is possible. Sure it may be paranoid, but trust me it is worth it to be paranoid regarding a project as important as wikipedia. I have been in situations like this before, I wish I had acted before even if I was wrong! I wouldn't even be speaking now except for reading the heart-felt words of volunteers in this thread that are unhappy with how the wikimedia foundation is running. We need to organize to get wikimedia foundation to release images tarballs, they are only ignoring multiple requests to do so, so far.
cheers,
Jamie