Wikitech-l April 2011

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Wikipedia Offline GSoC Proposal (Request for Feedback)
by Yuvi Panda 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello everyone. I'm applying for GSoC to work on Wikipedia Offline, streamlining the process to make collection and generation much easier. My proposal is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda. It'll be awesome if I can have feedback on this. I promise you invisible pink unicorns as prizes :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in

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Google Sumer of Code
by Jeroen De Dauw 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hey all, I'd like remind all students interested in doing a GSoC project on MediaWiki that to be eligible, you need to submit your application via the official GSoC web app here [0]. Simply putting it on mediawiki.org does not suffice. You only got a day left, so hurry up if you did not submit it yet! :) [0] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011 Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

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Peng Wan's proposal to figure out the most popular pages
by Peng Wan 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

This is Peng Wan. I have submitted my application to wikimedia of Gsoc. My Project title is "Figuring out the most popular pages". Here is the project's short description: The feature aims to figure out the most popular and favorite pages in wikimedia. The most popular pages are calculated when users click on pages. The click event can send the action to the database. Then we can figure out the most popular pages by querying through the destination urls. As for the most favorite pages, I want to add a "like" or "+1" tag in every page. If one user likes the content in the page, s/he just need to click the "like" link to add the "like" number in database. Here is my proposal link: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/buaajack… I would appreciate for your advice about my proposal. Thanks Peng Wan

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New SVN committer
by Priyanka Dhanda 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Extension and Core: * Paul Copperman (pcopp) Paul has contributed several patches to core MediaWiki and FlaggedRevs -- Priyanka Dhanda Code Maintenance Engineer Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org San Francisco, CA

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Undefined property: SkinVector::$mTitle
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hmmm, maybe I should have never 'linked so deep': Notice: Undefined property: SkinVector::$mTitle in /home/jidanni/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php on line 55 Fatal error: Call to a member function quickUserCan() on a non-object. The code that used to work was: $wgFilterCallback='JidanniTitleFilter'; function JidanniTitleFilter($mTitle){ if (preg_match("/^\d/", $mTitle->getText()) && $mTitle->getNamespace() <= NS_TALK) EditPage::spamPage ('***請退（"←"鍵），另存所打的字，然後見「首頁」=>「使用說明」中之「頻率編入其單位」。謝謝。***'); return true;} return false;} Maybe I should just say in my message 'if the page you were trying to edit was a talk page, then ...', instead of trying to determine it myself with the ever changing internal parameters.

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Core html of a wikisource page
by Alex Brollo 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I saved the HTML source of a typical Page: page from it.source, the resulting txt file having ~ 28 kBy; then I saved the "core html" only, t.i. the content of <div class="pagetext">, and this file have 2.1 kBy; so there's a more than tenfold ratio between "container" and "real content". I there a trick to download the "core html" only? And, most important: could this save a little bit of server load/bandwidth? I humbly think that "core html" alone could be useful as a means to obtain a "well formed page content", and that this could be useful to obtain derived formats of the page (i.e. ePub). Alex brollo

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Lack of search results from Wikisource services
by Billinghurst 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I haven't been able to get an answer/response via IRC so I will try this methodology. When running searches at English and French Wikisources today, I have been not given search results, though it will successfully run an ajax check and locate a link, and if it is blue to forward you to that link. These links do not give results (searches tried by myself and another) Secure, logged in, English Wikisource https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASear… Non-secure, not logged in, French WS http://fr.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial%3ARecherche&redirs=… Some assistance would be great. Regards Andrew

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Rules for text in languages/messages/Messages***.php
by Dan Nessett 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I recently fixed a bug (14901) and attached some patches to the bug ticket. Included were some changes to languages/messages/MessagesEn.php. Following the directions given at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Localisation#Changing_existing_messages, I contacted #mediawiki-i18n and asked them for instructions how to proceed with the internationalization part of the work. After looking over my changes, they pointed out that my new message text violated some requirements, specifically: + I had used "/n" rather than literal newlines in the text + I had put newlines in front of some messages + I had put trailing whitespace in some messages Since I was (and am) unfamiliar with MW internationalization workflow and since this text is destined for email messages, not display on a wiki page, I was puzzled by these requirements. However, it was explained to me that internationalization occurs by display of the text on translate.net, which means the text must conform to web page display rules. Consequently, the problems specified above interfere with the translation work. I understand I need to fix these problems. However, before proceeding I wonder if there are other constraints that I must observe. I have read the material at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation, but did not find the above constraints mentioned there. Is there another place where they are specified? -- -- Dan Nessett

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Need some help with a problem with the Cite extension
by Strainu 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi, Today, some users on ro.wp reported that the citations used more than once in the text had changed appeareance. Instead of "^a,b", we now have something like "↑ 34,0 34,1". This was considered disturbing by some users. Furthermore, the backlinks from the notes section to the article are not functioning. This does not happen on en.wp or other wikis. See http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorin_Goian vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyozellus >From [[Special:Version]], I checked that the versions of the Cite extension were identical, then I searched for a relevant bug in bugzilla, both at the "Site requests" and at the "Cite extension", but I could find nothing. Does anybody know what is the matter with the links? I did not file a bug report because I'm not sure if this is a php problem or some setting on ro.wp which makes the extension misbehave. Thanks a lot for any pointers, Strainu

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Need some help with a problem with the Cite extension
by bawolff 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 23:35:00 +0300 > From: Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Need some help with a problem with the Cite > extension > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <BANLkTik6Lbr=oC1sgCpbMhY0QJnWt6MJTQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > Today, some users on ro.wp reported that the citations used more than > once in the text had changed appeareance. Instead of "^a,b", we now > have something like "? 34,0 34,1". This was considered disturbing by > some users. Furthermore, the backlinks from the notes section to the > article are not functioning. This does not happen on en.wp or other > wikis. See http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorin_Goian vs. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyozellus > > >From [[Special:Version]], I checked that the versions of the Cite > extension were identical, then I searched for a relevant bug in > bugzilla, both at the "Site requests" and at the "Cite extension", but > I could find nothing. Does anybody know what is the matter with the > links? I did not file a bug report because I'm not sure if this is a > php problem or some setting on ro.wp which makes the extension > misbehave. > > Thanks a lot for any pointers, > Strainu >From what I can tell, it seems as if a wrong version of [[ro:mediawiki:cite_references_link_many_format]] somehow got cached somewhere. It was changed to its current value in April 2007. However, it was showing the wrong value in [[special:allmessages]]. Anyways, after purging that page (or perhaps this is all a big coincidence), the right version appeared in Special:allmessages and the correct behaviour was observed on [[Dorin_Goian]] (after purging that page too to get rid of the parser cached version of it). So I'm not sure what the deal with that was, but it seems to be a one time issue. (Or also entirely possible, it fixed itself well I was looking at it, and I just think purging the page had something to do with it, where really its all a big coincidence). -bawolff

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