On 6/1/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
On 5/31/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
But do go ahead and mention specifics if you see something awry.
Like this? :-) http://de.wap.wikipedia.org/transcode.php?go=Felsberg+%28Hessen%29&seg=2
"Error: Invalid wiki syntax"
Perfectly normal and to be expected. The codebase has about as many bugs as lines of code. It's the working articles that should surprise you.
Oh, you're writing a new parser for that? In that case, why not use my wiki2xml stuff for the next generation? It was working OK last time I checked (some month ago...) and usually breaks gracefully (dumping raw wikitext in worsed case). It also comes, among other generators, with plain-text output, which can be adapted to the output format of your choice. Finally, it was surprisingly fast (the online demo sucks, though, because it takes forever to get article and template texts on the toolserver).
Magnus