Wikitech-l June 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 13 Sep '24

13 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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About to commit improved DB2 database support
by Leons Petrazickis 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I've been informally mentoring André, Tiago, Diego, and César. They are four students at Minho University who are currently working on a project to improve DB2 database support in MediaWiki. So far, they've: - Fixed several outstanding issues with DB2 support involving character encoding, Windows vs Linux, etc - Added DB2 support to the new MediaWiki 1.17 Installer and Updater - Put in the appropriate Updater sql patches to reflect database schema changes since 1.14 MediaWiki already had some DB2 support, but it's been broken since 1.15 and never complete. As a result of their work, it's now possible to successfully install MediaWiki on DB2 out of the box and to use the core wiki features. I'll shortly commit their first patch using my SVN account (leonsp). I've taken some care to look over the code and make sure it abides by the MediaWiki code guidelines. Regards, Leons Petrazickis http://lpetr.org/blog/

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Experimental Wikia RTE branch for MediaWiki trunk
by Brion Vibber 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

(CC'd inez @ wikia) In the process of getting a better feel for the current state of Wikia, Wikihow, & a few others' rich text editor tools, I'm going through Wikia's CKEditor-based RTE extension and seeing if I can get it working on MediaWiki trunk. I've got a fork from Wikia's SVN in this gitorious project: http://www.gitorious.org/mediawiki-wikia-rte The 'master' branch is a straight git-svn clone of the subtree; 'tweaks' branch has some extra doc comments and some initial tweaks to get it loading (if not actually working right yet ;) on stock MediaWiki 1.18-SVN. Current state: * most stuff won't work yet! * the editor can be loaded if forced with &useeditor=wysiwyg * load/save results in some corruption, probably mostly due to the parser annotations not all being present (need to customize a few bits) * the editor is loaded through ResourceLoader, using a quick stub to work around the lack of removal of certain lines * it's almost certain that the CSS and some JS is broken :D * there are various Wikia-specific PHP-side and JS-side extensions, many of which still need to be switched to the stock MW equivalent or copied over. Note that definitions for such things can usually be found in the modified MediaWiki core in Wikia's SVN tree -- https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/ At a minimum I'd like to end up with something that works on stock MediaWiki 1.18 (and if it can be made to work on stock or lightly-patched 1.17, even better!). It should be a more stable option for 1.17 users than the old FCKEditor extension. I'm still a bit leery of the internal annotations & edge-case checks for the round-tripping and whether this structure would work for us in the long term, but there's some good stuff in here that's going to be useful to learn from whatever we do, and it's a useful tool for many cases in the short term. If anybody feels like trying it out / pitching in on the fixes, do feel free to give a shout. I can set a few folks up with commit access on the git repo or take some pulls for now, and will merge it into our SVN extensions when it's a bit more stable. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)

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RL dynamic parameters
by Bryan Tong Minh 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hello, How do I pass parameters dynamically to an RL module? I need to pass a FileRepo object to the RL module when I call $wgOut->addModuleStyle(). Bryan

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Unit testing now working - break it and be reverted
by Chad 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi everyone, Painstakingly, all of the unit tests are now passing on cruise control (Sqlite) and my local install (Sqlite & Mysql). This is as of r90150 [0]. Thank you immensely to Brion for finally tracking down and eliminating that pesky BlockTest bug. This means? We know that according to what we have covered by PHPUnit (barring things marked incomplete/skipped), everything is currently working. I'd like for Max to turn IRC annoyances back on with the codurr bot for CC failures. From here on out, I'm going to take the stance that if you break a test, it must be fixed or reverted on sight. -Chad [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/90150

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New Employee Announcement - Jeff Green
by CT Woo 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

All, Please join me to welcome Jeff Green to Wikimedia Foundation. Jeff is taking up the Special Ops position in the Tech Ops department where one of his responsibilities is to keep our Fundraising infrastructure secured, in compliance with regulation, scalable and highly available. Jeff comes with strong systems operation background especially in scaling and building highly secured infrastructure. He hails from Craiglist where he started as their first system administrator and served as their lead system administrator as well as their Operations manager, most of his tenure there. When not working, Jeff likes cycling, playing music, and building stuff. He is a proud father of two young kids and a lucky husband. He and his family will be moving back to Massachusetts this August. Please drop by next week to the 3rd floor to welcome him. For those who have already met him earlier, do come by as well to see the new 'ponytailess' Jeff ;-) Thanks, CT

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