Wikitech-l March 2011

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Database dumps
by Byrial Jensen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Until some weeks ago http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html used to show 4 dumps in progress at the same time. That meant that new database dumps normally was available within about 3 weeks for all databases except for enwiki and maybe dewiki where the dump process due to size took longer time. However the 4 dumps processes at one time become 3 some weeks ago. And after massive failures at June 4, only one dump has been in progress at the same time. So at the current speed it will take several months to come thru all dumps. Is it possible to speed up the process again using several dump processes at the same time? Thank you, Byrial

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User-Agent:
by Domas Mituzas 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi! from now on specific per-bot/per-software/per-client User-Agent header is mandatory for contacting Wikimedia sites. Domas

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EBNF grammar project status?
by Steve Bennett 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF? There are two pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear benefit. Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 ), so I'm wondering what became of it. Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative plan? Steve

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Missing Section Headings
by Marc Riddell 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Hello, I have been a WP editor since 2006. I hope you can help me. For some reason I no longer have Section Heading titles showing in the Articles. This is true of all Headings including the one that carries the Article subject's name. When there is a Table of Contents, it appears fine and, when I click on a particular Section, it goes to that Section, but all that is there is a straight line separating the Sections. There is also no button to edit a Section. If I edit the page and remove the "== ==" markers from the Section Titles, the Title then shows up, but not as a Section Heading. Also, I don't have any Date separators on my Want List. This started 2 days ago. Any thoughts? Thanks, Marc Riddell [[User:Michael David]]

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MediaWiki to Latex Converter
by Hugo Vincent 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems.

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API Sandbox
by SALIL P A 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hi I was planning to make an api sandbox for mediawiki as a part of gsoc 2011. while going through mediawiki documentation, i found that many functions needed POST rather than GET requests. i am planning for flickr like api sandbox<http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/?method=flickr.contacts.getList>for mediawiki. in flickr the documentation of every method has a link to api explorer (sandbox) where user can test different values for each parameter and the result is displayed in a div in the same page. media wiki sandbox will display available parameters that can be used for a particular method (drop-down if the values are previously known). the user can fill the forms with his own values. the api then will send a GET or POST request (AJAX request) according to the scenario (using JQuery or some other JS library) and display the results in a div in the same page. the page shall also display a url for executing the same ajax request. to make the api sandbox really useful, it ideally should have automatic php code generation too ( i don't know if it is overambitious ). for example for login and logout, user can just give his userid and password and the code he would write for php is automatically displayed. i eagerly await for suggestions -- Salil IRC : _Salil_

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Merging content from multiple wikis
by Tod 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

This is a fork of this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/228949?page=last Is there a possibility that I could instead (easily) merge the handful of individual wiki's content into one consolidated wiki and implement a more enhanced search against it instead? I've no experience performing a merge like this so expert advice would be appreciated! Thanks - Tod

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Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15
by Daniel Kinzler 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi all! Wikimedia Germany invites anyone interested in improving MediaWiki to come and join us at or third developer meet-up. Like the last two years, it's going to be awesome! Unlike the last two years, there will be more hacking and less talking - it'll be a Hackathon, not a BarCamp. We'll meet on May 13 to 15, in Berlin, on the 4th floor of the betahaus coworking space <http://betahaus.de/>. There will not be an entrance fee, but registration is mandatory and now open: <http://de.amiando.com/hackathon2011>. Registration will close on April 10. If you like to attend, please register in time! More information can be found at <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2011>. The Berlin Hackathon 2011 is an opportunity for MediaWiki hackers to come together, squash bugs and write crazy new features. Our main focus this time around will probably be: * Improving usability / accessibility * Interactive Maps * Fixing the parser * WMF Ops (new data center, virtualization) * Supporting the Wiki Loves Monuments image hunt * Squashing bugs If you have different ideas, please let us know: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2011#Topics> The Hackathon will be hosting the Language committee and Wiki loves Monuments group. There is a limited number of seats reserved for these groups and if you belong to one of them, you should receive an invitation code soon. If you have any doubts or questions, contact us at <hackathon(a)wikimedia.de>. We’re excited to see you in Berlin, your Hackathon Team Daniel Kinzler (Program Coordinator) Nicole Ebber (Logistics) Cornelius Kibelka (Assistant)

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HipHop
by Tim Starling 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I think we should migrate MediaWiki to target HipHop [1] as its primary high-performance platform. I think we should continue to support Zend, for the benefit of small installations. But we should additionally support HipHop, use it on Wikimedia, and optimise our algorithms for it. In cases where an algorithm optimised for HipHop would be excessively slow when running under Zend, we can split the implementations by subclassing. I was skeptical about HipHop at first, since the road is littered with the bodies of dead PHP compilers. But it looks like Facebook is pretty well committed to this one, and they have the resources to maintain it. I waited and watched for a while, but I think the time has come to make a decision on this. Facebook now write their PHP code to target HipHop exclusively, so by trying to write code that works on both platforms, we'll be in new territory, to some degree. Maybe that's scary, but I think it can work. Who's with me? -- Tim Starling [1] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/

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On HTML5
by Joseph Roberts 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hello! What is the current concensus on HTML5? Are we going to fully support it and use as many features as we can or are we going to keep just using javascript alterntives? I would assume that we would continue to use javascript in the case that the client does not support HTML5, though that may mean we have to write things twice. Also, if we are indeed going to use HTML5, are we going to use XHTML5? I would like to work on integrating MediaWiki with HTML5 if at all possible, I am just unsure on what parts we wish to use the new standard. TIA - Joseph Roberts

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