Brent Palmer wrote:
We are creating an off-line version of the wikipedia,
but we continue to
have problems getting some citation items to render correctly.
If you're trying to emulate Wikipedia's configuration, I hope you know about
Wikimedia's NOC.[1]
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 >".
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.
Error messages like this are pretty easy to grep for, either in the PHP
source code or in Special:AllMessages.[2] In this case, it's displaying the
"pfunc_expr_missing_operand" MediaWiki message,[3] which means it's likely
that there's something wrong with your ParserFunctions extension
installation. That's at least a start in the right direction. Make sure
you're using a compatible version of the extension with your version of
MediaWiki. MediaWiki's ExtensionDistributor tool[4] can help with this.
wikitech-l isn't really an appropriate venue for these types of questions.
You should try #mediawiki on
irc.freenode.net or mediawiki-l.[5][6]
Hope that helps.
MZMcBride
[1]
http://noc.wikimedia.org/
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=allmessages
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pfunc_expr_missing_operand
[4]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor
[5]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC
[6]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists