Hello all,
I have just set up www.TeachMeQuick.co.uk
If you know anybody who is doing GCSEs or A Levels, please tell them about it.
Thanks for your people helping me with this website
:)
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- orphaned pages (iznogood@iznogood-factory.org)
- Re: automatic checking for or flagging of copyright violations (Daniel Mayer)
- Re: we need responsive servers on Tuesday (Kurt Jansson)
- Re: we need responsive servers on Tuesday (Mark Bergsma)
- Re: 4 new Wikipedias have just been created (Tim Starling)
- CLARIFICATION ON SHARATHA THIDIS (gutty prakasam)
- Mediawiki search configuration, please Heeeelp... (Philippe Roth)
- Re: CLARIFICATION ON SHARATHA THIDIS (Rowan Collins)
- Enabling table-grouping tags (Phil Boswell)
- categorylinks_table mysql ERROR 1071 at line 12: Specified key was too long (mm)
- Re: Enabling table-grouping tags (Rowan Collins)
- Cluster strategy - expansion plans (Jimmy Wales)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:36:13 +0200 From: iznogood@iznogood-factory.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] orphaned pages To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 20050622143613.4cd65466@iznogood Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Hello,
I'm a french wikipedia contributor especially to link orphaned pages.
But I have a problem with frequency list of orphaned pages update.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages
I wonder if it is possible to make an update on week or 2 weeks bases even if it is only on french orphaned list page.
That will ease my linkage job.
Thanks.
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:32:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] automatic checking for or flagging of copyright violations To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 20050622203228.4082.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
--- aerik@thesylvans.com wrote:
Wouldn't automatically checking edits against google searches add an awful big load to the servers? Not only is it several thousand hits, but then also thousands more string comparisons? Amd then we'd have event handling for any suspect edits...
The load could be distributed offline via possible changes to the rc patrol software already in use. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CryptoDerk/CDVF
That way we could also get around Google's 1000 search per day limit.
-- mav
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:50:46 +0200 From: Kurt Jansson jansson@gmx.net Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] we need responsive servers on Tuesday To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 42B9CF26.4000403@gmx.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Domas Mituzas wrote:
Sure. I'm just giving an advise to relax and not to worry. Things will go as they have to go :) People look live ok only when relaxed :) And we sure, will try not crashing :)
The servers were responsive, I was relaxed, and everything went well. :-)
You're all doing a great job here, thanks!
Kurt
Message: 4 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:09:43 +0200 From: Mark Bergsma mark@nedworks.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] we need responsive servers on Tuesday To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 42B9E1A7.1040703@nedworks.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Kurt Jansson wrote:
Domas Mituzas wrote:
Sure. I'm just giving an advise to relax and not to worry. Things will go as they have to go :) People look live ok only when relaxed :) And we sure, will try not crashing :)
The servers were responsive, I was relaxed, and everything went well. :-)
You're all doing a great job here, thanks!
Actually, we had severe (network) problems in florida at that time... :)
-- Mark
mark@nedworks.org
Message: 5 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:36:28 +1000 From: Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au Subject: [Wikitech-l] Re: 4 new Wikipedias have just been created To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org, wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 42BA040C.1060603@physics.unimelb.edu.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Cross-posted to wikitech-l, please reply to one list only.
Wouter Steenbeek wrote:
But there seems to be a technical defect on sco:. A few articles were created, among which some by Mark fyi, but the statistics ignore them... I was aiming to add the Scottish Wikipedia to the List of Wikipedias but I can't, for that reason.
For some reason (probably some theory of Jamesday's about great ways to optimise selects on single-row tables), the query for the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} tag looks like this:
$s = $dbr->selectRow( 'site_stats', array( 'ss_total_views', 'ss_total_edits', 'ss_good_articles' ), array( 'ss_row_id' => 1 ), $fname
i.e. using the new primary key in a way that's always meant to match. For this latest batch of wikis, I created the site_stats row using:
INSERT INTO site_stats() VALUES ()
which creates a row with default values in every column. The default for ss_row_id is 0. I'll fix this on these wikis shortly, I just thought it was a nice example of the problems you can get when you optimise things that don't really need optimising.
-- Tim Starling
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: gutty prakasam guttychennai@yahoo.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] CLARIFICATION ON SHARATHA THIDIS To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 20050623053312.61063.qmail@web31612.mail.mud.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
DEAR SIR,
THERE IS A CONFUSION ON SHARATHA THIDHI,
LAST YEAR MY FATHER EXPIRED ON 28TH OF JUNE. THE SAME YEAR EXTRA MONTH CAME . THIS YEAR WHEN THE CALCULATION FOR THE 1ST YEAR CERIMONY FALLS ON 15TH TO 18TH OF JULY I.E. 1ST DAY MASIKAM, 2 DAY VIMOGAM 3 DAY SHRATHAM AND THE 4 DAY SUBHAM CONDUCTING HOMA.
NOW THERE IS A CONFUSION SITUATION ARISE. THE DAY 16TH AND 17TH OF JULY IS THE IMPORTANT DAY WHERE THE SHRATHA THIDHI IS SUNNYA AS PER THE RULE WE CAN'T CONDUCT CEREMONY'S ON THESE DAYS WHERE THE SHRATHA THIDHI IS SUNNYA.
IF YOU CAN ABLE TO GET ME THE CLARIFICATION ON THIS. HOW TO CONDUCT THE CEREMONY.
AS PER HINDU SASTHARA WE CAN'T AVOID ANY CEREMONYS.
HOPE YOU RECEIVE A LINE IN RESPONSE IN THIS REGARD
THANKS AND REGDS GUTTY PRAKASAM
KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT.
THANKS AND REGDS GUTTY
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Message: 7 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:12:03 +0200 From: "Philippe Roth" philippe.roth@epfl.ch Subject: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki search configuration, please Heeeelp... To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 5D5E3EAD8471514FB9E0607C4B2E10163042FD@rex1.intranet.epfl.ch Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dear All,
We just made a fresh install of our wiki base 1.2.4 to mediawiki 1.4.5 Everything seems to be OK except that we have problems with search... We have several articles about "plotters". But if we make a search for "plotter", there is no article found. Same with "plot*", nothing. The articles are found only when we make a search for "plotters".
How can we configure our installation to make search like "plot*","plotter" and so on successful?
Many thanks in advance for light.
Best regards, Philippe Roth
Message: 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:21:01 +0100 From: Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] CLARIFICATION ON SHARATHA THIDIS To: guttychennai@yahoo.com, Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 9f02ca4c050623032159565f14@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 23/06/05, gutty prakasam guttychennai@yahoo.com wrote:
DEAR SIR,
THERE IS A CONFUSION ON SHARATHA THIDHI,
[...]
Gutty,
- TYPING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS is considered shouting, and thus somewhat rude.
- This is not the right place to ask this question; this is a
technical mailing list for those working on a particular piece of software.
Presumably, you hoped to tap the knowledge of contributors to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia? If so, perhaps you could try the English Wikipedia's Reference Desk at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
Or if, as I suspect, English is not your first language, perhaps you could look on http://wikipedia.org/ to see if there is an active Wikipedia in your own language.
HTH
Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
Message: 9 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:43:59 +0100 From: "Phil Boswell" phil.boswell@gmail.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Enabling table-grouping tags To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: d9e3es$47v$1@sea.gmane.org
Would it be possible to consider enabling the <colgroup> and <col> HTML tags, which according to the design guide I favour (http://www.ncdesign.org/html/060table.htm) work fine for all versions of IE since IE3, and for Netscape since v6.
The <thead>, <tbody> and <tfoot> tags would probably also be helpful.
I think this would allow a great many contorted and cluttered tables to be tidied up considerably. -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
Message: 10 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:07:35 +0300 From: mm mt1900@rdslink.ro Subject: [Wikitech-l] categorylinks_table mysql ERROR 1071 at line 12: Specified key was too long To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 42BA97F7.6070003@rdslink.ro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
While trying to load data in categorylinks_table I get the mysql error 1071 or 1064 as you can see belove. MySQL version on my Linux Fedora Core 3 is Ver 11.18 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) Can somebody help me? Thanks, Mircea
mysql> ro < /mnt/120GB/wikipedia/encic/ro/ro_categorylinks_table.sql -> ; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'ro < /mnt/120GB/wikipedia/encic/ro/ro_categorylinks_table.sql' at line 1 mysql>
[mircea@h bat]$ mysql -u mircea -psome_pass ro < /mnt/120GB/wikipedia/encic/ro/ro_categorylinks_table.sql; ERROR 1071 at line 12: Specified key was too long. Max key length is 500 [mircea@h bat]$
Message: 11 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:43:08 +0100 From: Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling table-grouping tags To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 9f02ca4c05062306432f0dc2ea@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 23/06/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to consider enabling the <colgroup> and <col> HTML tags [...]
There is existing discussion of this at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986 inlcuding patches. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
Message: 12 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:30:10 +0200 From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Cluster strategy - expansion plans To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 42BAE392.4040701@wikia.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I wonder if people can update me/us on how the integration with the Amsterdam cluster is going. Are there any lessons? Are we still committed to our multiple-data-center strategy? Is there anything new which we have learned?
I am working with Yahoo to finalize the details of the South Korean facility... what have we learned which might help with this?
What might we ask of a large potential donor next?
--Jimbo
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