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FINAL CALL FOR PAPER
Submission deadline; September 30 2010
The 2nd volume and 5th Issue of
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It's been roughly three years since I first saw this topic filed on
BugZilla[1] and before that is was often raised on IRC and on-wiki
during discussion about it being very clumsy and unpracticle to
systematically patrol uploads. Back then, from my point of view, this
was about local uploads.
Now adays I'm much more active on and for Wikimedia Commons, and not
so much on local uploads.
Obviously with more and more wikis moving towards Commons and the
growth of the wikis themselfs it's about time we can atleast some kind
of method of being able to atleast indicate that a file has been
'checked'. Or, to be more specific, to know what hasn't been checked.
On Commons there are several review systems for common external
resources that are used to import material from (such as Picassa and
Flickr). And those work very well. Bots crawl recent uploads and
whenever a reference to Flickr is found they are tagged as need-review
and the easy ones are even reviewed by bots (since is something unique
to Picassa and Flickr since they are machine readable and license info
can be automatically verified) and everyhting else (false matches and
errors) is manually reviewed.
However this is just a very tiny little bit of all the files on Commons.
Last march I've raised the topic of edit patrol on Commons [2] and
that has been a great success. We've got a team together and every
single anonymous edit made after April 1st 2010 has been or will soon
be patrolled [3]. Not once has it gone past the 30-day expiration time
for recentchanges table.
The same has been kept up for new page patrol aswell for several years.
Commons being primarily a media site, it's a bit of an akward thing to
say that we are totally unable to patrol uploads effectively.
We can't filter out uploads by bots, or trusted users. We can't filter
out what's been patrolled by patrollers. It's just an incredible mess
that sits there.
Several attempts have been made in the past to work around the
software. But no matter how you try, a patrol flag will make things a
whole lot easier.
Once there is the possiblity to click a link and *poof* toggle that
unpatrolled boolean I'm sure it won't take long before there are nice
AJAX-tools coming to make this easier en-mass and a checklist / team
will be formed to get the job done.
Alrighty, enough rant. What needs to be done for an implementation ?
When asking about this on IRC somebody said this; although a bit of a
workarond we can do this already by means of NewPage patrol in the
File namespace.
Unless it's well hidden, this is false. Because uploads don't create
an patrollable entry for the upload log action, nor for the
description page creation. As a matter of fact the creation of those
description page aren't registered in the recentchanges table at all
(Special:NewPages / Special:RecentChanges).
Depending on how uploads will become patrollable the above could
actually be a good thing. Since having to patrol both would be
ineffecient, and uploading a file isn't neccecarily asociated with
creating a page by users anyway. Plus it would mean duplicate entries
in Special:RecentChanges (upload action / page creation).
Log actions are already present in the recent changes table so I'm
guessing it doesn't take that much of a change in order to make
uploads patrollable.
One interesting thing about uploading (the same is true with moving,
and (un)protecting a page) is that it is also listed in the page
history (instead of just in the Logs) which means it is already very
accessable by the users and doesn't require a new system as to where
the [mark as patrolled] links should appear.
For re-uploads on the "diff" page (like with edits) and on new uploads
on the first revision. (although the latter may be subject to this
bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15936 which I hope
will be solved though it's not a show stopper, as long as there is any
way at all to get there (even if it requires to go to
Special:RecentChanges) that would be an incredible improvement to the
current situation).
Greetings,
Krinkle
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9501
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2010Mar#Mark…
[3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Counter_Vandalism_Unit#Anonymous_…
--
Greetings,
Krinkle
A Wikipedia Volunteer
krinkle(a)wikipedia.be
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
//> If you enabled tidy after importing the articles, did you purge them?
> That<small> is closed for me with tidy, but the extra</div> in the
> "Further reading" section does give me problems.
Based on your comments, we realized that tidy must not be working or not configured correctly after all.
It turns out tidy was not turned on b/c we were accidentally using a slightly different LocalSettings file. My technician is calling
it a "vim hiccup". Uh huh, call it what you want... ;)
We are still working on the "*Expression error: Unexpected> operator*" problem though.
Thanks for responding!
Brent
Hi,
We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to
have problems getting templates to render correctly. So far, we've
tracked down two sources of the problem.
Here is one example:
One is when tags are not closed properly. Here is an example from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa. This is a portion of the page
near the top that is part of the Infobox parameters...
<snip>
|symbol_type=Coat of arms
|image_map=South_Africa_(orthographic_projection).svg
|national_motto=''{{unicode|!ke e: ǀxarra
ǁke}}''{{spaces|2|}}<small>([[ǀXam language|ǀXam]])<br/>"Unity In Diversity"
|national_anthem=[[National anthem of South Africa]]
</snip>
Notice that the <small> tag is not closed.
On our version of the page many of the subsequent <tr> and <td> tags are
rendered as html entities and this ruins the layout of the page. I'm not
sure why this is works in the current on-line version but not ours.
(Another example is the Refimprove template--check the latest change by
Plastikspork--this makes any page with the Refimprove template broken).
We have the same extensions applied as Wikipedia. We also have the
wgUseTidy set to true.
If you have any ideas about how to troubleshoot this one, I'd appreciate it.
Brent
Hi everyone,
I'm in the process of figuring out a series of proposals that will
help improve the usability of Pending Changes, in response to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#A_way_to_resolve_the_lin…
One complaint that many people have with Pending Changes is that
bad-edit/reversions end up cluttering the page history. An example of
that is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Beatles&offset=20100830000000…
That leads to long stretches of history where nothing actually changes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Beatles&action=historysubmit&…
(note: no diff and "12 intermediate revisions not shown")
This isn't exclusive to articles under Pending Changes, just more
pronounced when PC is on a high traffic article.
Many of the edits are marked as "good faith", so deleting or hiding
them from most users wouldn't be a good idea.
Note that the two revisions in the diff example above
(diff=378780503&oldid=378261233) are identical, which could be easily
verified with an MD5 checksum of the text.
One general improvement we could make the history is to optionally
collapse long stretches of reversions. So, in the case of The Beatles
article above, instead of seeing this:
> (cur | prev) 14:37, 16 August 2010 Mclay1 (talk | contribs) m (135,528 bytes) (→External links) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:55, 14 August 2010 Yousou (talk | contribs) (135,560 bytes) (Undid revision 378906775 by 75.28.163.61 (talk)) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:52, 14 August 2010 75.28.163.61 (talk) (135,899 bytes) (→Events leading up to final tour) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 04:15, 14 August 2010 Nofoolz (talk | contribs) (135,560 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 04:09, 14 August 2010 174.115.162.100 (talk) (135,582 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 04:07, 14 August 2010 125.60.248.136 (talk) (135,560 bytes) (→Events leading up to final tour) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 21:49, 13 August 2010 Rodhullandemu (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (Reverted edits by Foofinshoe (talk) to last version by Rodhullandemu) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 21:48, 13 August 2010 Foofinshoe (talk | contribs) (135,540 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:57, 13 August 2010 Rodhullandemu (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (Reverted edits by 220.255.54.79 (talk) to last version by PiRSquared17) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:56, 13 August 2010 220.255.54.79 (talk) (135,542 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:54, 13 August 2010 PiRSquared17 (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (Reverted edits by 220.255.54.79 (talk) to last version by Skysmith) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 17:53, 13 August 2010 220.255.54.79 (talk) (135,535 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 15:18, 13 August 2010 Skysmith (talk | contribs) (135,537 bytes) (discuss this in the talk page first.) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 15:09, 13 August 2010 67.84.9.155 (talk) (135,637 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 15:08, 13 August 2010 67.84.9.155 (talk) (135,634 bytes) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 06:01, 13 August 2010 PL290 (talk | contribs) (135,537 bytes) (Undid revision 378639914 by Fsuseminole17 (talk)) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 01:46, 13 August 2010 Fsuseminole17 (talk | contribs) (135,572 bytes) (→Magical Mystery Tour, White Album and Yellow Submarine) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 13:54, 12 August 2010 DC (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (Reverted edits by 124.168.232.189 (talk) to last version by SieBot) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 13:53, 12 August 2010 124.168.232.189 (talk) (135,540 bytes) (Fixed Spelling.) (undo)
> (cur | prev) 22:45, 10 August 2010 SieBot (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (robot Adding: zu:The beatles) (undo)
...one would see this:
> (cur | prev) 14:37, 16 August 2010 Mclay1 (talk | contribs) m (135,528 bytes) (→External links) (undo)
> (4 revisions not shown)
> (cur | prev) 04:07, 14 August 2010 125.60.248.136 (talk) (135,560 bytes) (→Events leading up to final tour) (undo)
> (13 revisions not shown)
> (cur | prev) 22:45, 10 August 2010 SieBot (talk | contribs) m (135,537 bytes) (robot Adding: zu:The beatles) (undo)
The text "4 revisions not shown" would be a hyperlink that would
expose the collapsed revisions. The revisions would still be
available for everyone to view; they just wouldn't be given the same
level of visibility as revisions that had a more lasting effect on the
current article.
I've drafted this up here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/Reversion_collap…
Let me know what you think.
Thanks
Rob
Hi,
We are having a problem with the front page of our wikipedia mirror.
The function
{{#ifexpr:{{formatnum:{{PAGESIZE:Wikipedia:Today's featured
article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}|R}}>150|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured
article/{{#time:F j, Y}}}}|{{Wikipedia:Today's featured
article/{{#time:F j, Y|-1 days}}}}}}
causes the error "Expression error: Unexpected > operator" to appear on
the main page.
{#time:F j, Y}} correctly returns the date in format 'June 22, 2010'.
However, {{PAGESIZE:Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{#time:F j,
Y}}}}, doesn't seem to return anything.
Trying PAGESIZE with a normal page, {{PAGESIZE:Paw}}, does not return
anything either.
Because of the failure of PAGESIZE, ifexpr becomes {{#ifexpr:>150|...}}
which I believe causes the "Expression error: Unexpected > operator" error.
Does anybody have any ideas what is going on with this?
Thanks,
Brent
MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> 1.16.0
PHP <http://www.php.net/> 5.2.8 (apache2handler)
MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> 5.1.48-community
Hi,
We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia, but we continue to
have problems getting templates to render correctly. So far, we've
tracked down several sources of the problem.
Here is another example:
In several templates I've tracked down the problem to a call to the
#switch function. The function appears to work in that the correct text
is output from the function, but several of the tags following it are
converted to html entities. Here is a snippet of the
Historical_populations template:
<includeonly>{| class="toccolours {{#ifeq: {{{state|}}} | collapsed |
collapsible collapsed | }}" style="clear: {{{align|right}}}; width:
{{{width|15em}}}; text-align: center; border-spacing: 0; float:
{{{align|right}}}; margin: {{ #switch: {{{align|}}} | left = 0 1em 1em 0
| #default = 0 0 1em 1em }};"
|-
! colspan="{{#ifeq:{{{percentages}}}|off|2|3}}" class="navbox-title" |
<span style="font-size:110%;">{{{title|Historical populations}}}</span>
|- style="font-size: 95%;"
If I remove the #switch and hard-code the default text in (0 0 1em 1em),
it works fine.
We have the same extensions applied as Wikipedia. We also have the
wgUseTidy set to true.
If you have any ideas about how to troubleshoot this one, I'd appreciate it.
Brent
Hi all,
We have a beta version of the code for reading the XML dump and
extracting the article names with their associated images. It is in
the yahoo group wikishare files section folder
"WikiXMLArticleIndexer". Also uploaded to:
http://nekrom.com/red79/WikiXMLArticleIndexer.zip
It uses a zipreader library: "http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/"
so that it can stream the data from the file without having to unzip
the file. I tested it on these two files so far:
"enwiki-20100622-pages-articles.xml.bz2"
"simplewiki-20100902-pages-articles.xml.bz2"
The output file has one article name per line, and then has the
images (including the full download URL) in that article in
quotation marks.
One cool thing we came across was the image download URL's.
Like for "2/28/Bakuninfull.jpg", the "2/28" folder is encoded in the
file name "Bakuninfull.jpg" using an MD5 hash (neato!)
The full path of the images are these url's:
"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Bakuninfull.jpg"
and when we make the download script we can add the desired thumbnail
scaling to the image ie. like this:
"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Bakuninfull.jpg/22…"
Only bad news is its in C# :P
cheers,
Jamie
Here's the top few lines of output from running on
enwiki-20100622-pages-articles.xml.bz2
Anarchism "2/28/Bakuninfull.jpg" "3/36/German_anti-communist_poster_1918.jpg" "8/84/Members_of_the_Maquis_in_La_Tresorerie.jpg" "0/0f/ParcGuellOkupas.jpg" "b/b5/Max_stirner.jpg" "a/a6/WilliamGodwin.jpg" "e/ea/Portrait_of_Pierre_Joseph_Proudhon_1865.jpg" "0/00/Kropotkin2.jpg" "e/ed/Jarach_and_Zerzan.JPG" "2/23/Emilearmand01.jpg" "b/b8/Fransisco_Ferrer_Guardia.jpg" "7/7d/Gadewar.jpg"
Autism "0/0d/Autistic-sweetiepie-boy-with-ducksinarow.jpg" "8/83/Autismbrain.jpg" "7/72/Opening_a_window_to_the_autistic_brain.jpg"
Albedo "b/ba/water_reflectivity.jpg"
Alabama "b/bb/Alabama.JPG" "4/48/AlabamaWelcome.JPG" "8/87/Map_of_Alabama_terrain_NA.jpg" "6/6e/Birmingham_panorama.jpg" "3/39/Downtown_Mobile_2008_01.jpg" "b/b2/100_1830.JPG" "b/be/Montgomery_Alabama_panorama.jpg" "e/e1/Alabama_winter_2008.jpg" "c/cd/Alabama_quarter,_reverse_side,_2003.jpg" "7/7f/Mobile_Alabama_harbor_aerial_view.jpg" "b/b1/Alabama_state_capitol,_Montgomery.jpg" "1/19/Bob_Riley_greeting_soldiers_in_Birmingham,_19_Jan,_2004.jpg" "d/d4/Harrison-plaza2.jpg"
Achilles "c/cf/Leon_Benouville_The_Wrath_of_Achilles.jpg" "1/11/The_Education_of_Achilles,_by_James_Barry.jpg" "d/dd/AmbrosianIliadPict47Achilles.jpg" "5/58/Triumph_of_Achilles_in_Corfu_Achilleion.jpg" "1/1c/Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu.jpg" "a/a0/Aias_body_Akhilleus_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_1884.jpg" "c/c4/Achilles_in_Corfu.JPG" "0/01/Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Briseis_and_Achilles.jpg"
Abraham Lincoln "3/38/Abe-Lincoln-Birthplace-2.jpg" "f/f6/A&TLincoln.jpg" "4/4f/Abe_Lincoln_young.jpg" "4/4b/Young_Lincoln-1c.jpg" "2/27/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Alexander_Helser,_1860-crop.jpg" "c/cf/Lincoln_Douglas_Debates_1958_issue-4c.jpg" "1/13/The_Rail_Candidate.jpg" "4/41/Lincoln_1896_issue-4c.jpg" "6/60/Abraham_lincoln_inauguration_1861.jpg" "6/64/RunningtheMachine-LincAdmin.jpg" "6/67/PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg" "b/bb/Lincoln_second.jpg" "5/52/Abraham_Lincoln_1866_Issue-15c.jpg" "a/a2/Al16.jpg" "a/ab/TheApotheosisLincolnAndWashington1860s.jpg" "8/84/Abraham_Lincoln_Airmail_1960_Issue-25c.jpg"
Aristotle "e/e7/Arabic_aristotle.jpg" "a/ae/Aristotle_in_Nuremberg_Chronicle.jpg" "9/98/Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg" "7/77/Uni_Freiburg_-_Philosophen_4.jpg" "3/33/Octopus3.jpg" "1/13/Torpedo_fuscomaculata2.jpg" "c/cd/Triakis_semifasciata.jpg" "6/63/161Theophrastus_161_frontespizio.jpg" "a/a4/Aristoteles_Louvre.jpg"
Academy Award "d/d6/31st_Acad_Awards.jpg" "d/d9/81st_Academy_Awards_Ceremony.JPG"
Animalia (book) "f/f2/Animalia.jpg"
Altruism "a/a9/Belisaire_demandant_l'aumone_Jacques-Louis_David.jpg"
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Rob, you forgot to mention where/whom to ask to be invited for the Skype call. I'm sure you'd not want those requests to go to the mailing list (I at least wouldn't want them to).
Oops...sorry. Ask me directly.
Thanks
Rob
Hi everyone,
There's a few of us that have been having regular meetings every other
week over Skype to discuss test framework deployment (e.g. Selenium,
phpUnit, CruiseControl, etc).
The project page for this project is here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Test_framework_deployment
The notes from the last meeting are here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Test_framework_deployment/Meeting_notes_2010-…
We wanted to make these meetings more inclusive, while still
preserving our ability to hold a voice session. Here's the plan we
cooked up:
* We hold the meeting every week, alternating between using voice one
week and using IRC (#mediawiki) the next
* Publish the notes on mediawiki.org
* Establish a low bar for being invited to the Skype session
The bar we generally want to establish for being on the Skype call:
* You've productively contributed to the test framework conversation
in email and/or IRC
* You've been productive and non-disruptive on any previous calls
you've been on
* You ask to be on the call ahead of time (giving your Skype ID).
The next meeting we plan to have is Friday, September 17, 9:30am PDT
(16:30 UTC) on #mediawiki. Hope to see you there!
Rob
