After a long period of absence, test.wikipedia.org has returned. Unlike the old test.wikipedia.org, it is running essentially the same code as the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. The difference is that it uses the copy from NFS rather than the synced copy on the local apache hard drives, which means that we can more easily test for errors in the Wikimedia environment before we take the final step and do a sync. Hopefully this will reduce the number of transient PHP errors seen on the site, which are most often due to differences between the developer's test environment and the Wikimedia environment.
The rather cynical protected warning on the main page is my doing, I want to have at least one goatse-free page on the wiki so that I can test the code in peace.
-- Tim Starling
How I can submit a request for a new feature?
It could be nice if a administrator (or also a user) can set a flag to decide to receive a confirmation of modification to an article watched.
It could be also nice if in this e-mail there is the difference between the new article and the old.
En effect it is very difficult to follow all watched articles most of all if the user works during the day. The vandalic acts are easy to indentify, but changes with "wrong informations" requires time to control these informations. With an helpful e-mail an user can control and verify informations when he's the convenient time.
I think that this feature is not implemented yet, but Wikipedia is frequently tried by "misleading benchmarks", this feature can easily helps administrators and users.
Ilario
To fill out a feature request:
1. Go to http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org 2. Create an account or log in 3. Click "Enter a new bug" 4. Set the bug's priority as normal 5. Set the bug's severity as enhancement 6. Provide a useful summary and description of the requested functionality 7. Hit Save/Commit
Rob Church
On 13/01/06, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
How I can submit a request for a new feature?
It could be nice if a administrator (or also a user) can set a flag to decide to receive a confirmation of modification to an article watched.
It could be also nice if in this e-mail there is the difference between the new article and the old.
En effect it is very difficult to follow all watched articles most of all if the user works during the day. The vandalic acts are easy to indentify, but changes with "wrong informations" requires time to control these informations. With an helpful e-mail an user can control and verify informations when he's the convenient time.
I think that this feature is not implemented yet, but Wikipedia is frequently tried by "misleading benchmarks", this feature can easily helps administrators and users.
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It could be also nice if in this e-mail there is the difference between the new article and the old.
I've already written something like this. Check out:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4323
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A proposal:
How about moving test-wikipedias to test:? It seems more appropriate and less permanent.
Mark
On 13/01/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
After a long period of absence, test.wikipedia.org has returned. Unlike the old test.wikipedia.org, it is running essentially the same code as the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. The difference is that it uses the copy from NFS rather than the synced copy on the local apache hard drives, which means that we can more easily test for errors in the Wikimedia environment before we take the final step and do a sync. Hopefully this will reduce the number of transient PHP errors seen on the site, which are most often due to differences between the developer's test environment and the Wikimedia environment.
The rather cynical protected warning on the main page is my doing, I want to have at least one goatse-free page on the wiki so that I can test the code in peace.
-- Tim Starling
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Actually, based on content from web.archive.org, it looks as if somebody might've started an Old Norse testwiki on the old test:. Is that content saved anywhere, or was it just cleared? I remember I had a few humourous pages there of my own...
Mark
On 14/01/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
A proposal:
How about moving test-wikipedias to test:? It seems more appropriate and less permanent.
Mark
On 13/01/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
After a long period of absence, test.wikipedia.org has returned. Unlike the old test.wikipedia.org, it is running essentially the same code as the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. The difference is that it uses the copy from NFS rather than the synced copy on the local apache hard drives, which means that we can more easily test for errors in the Wikimedia environment before we take the final step and do a sync. Hopefully this will reduce the number of transient PHP errors seen on the site, which are most often due to differences between the developer's test environment and the Wikimedia environment.
The rather cynical protected warning on the main page is my doing, I want to have at least one goatse-free page on the wiki so that I can test the code in peace.
-- Tim Starling
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-- "Take away their language, destroy their souls." -- Joseph Stalin
Mark Williamson wrote:
Actually, based on content from web.archive.org, it looks as if somebody might've started an Old Norse testwiki on the old test:. Is that content saved anywhere, or was it just cleared? I remember I had a few humourous pages there of my own...
Gone, dead, buried. Sorry.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 1/14/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Actually, based on content from web.archive.org, it looks as if somebody might've started an Old Norse testwiki on the old test:. Is that content saved anywhere, or was it just cleared? I remember I had a few humourous pages there of my own...
Gone, dead, buried. Sorry.
Tim made a backup of it before he dropped it, it's in his ~
It is? Where can we download his ~?
Mark
On 14/01/06, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/14/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Actually, based on content from web.archive.org, it looks as if somebody might've started an Old Norse testwiki on the old test:. Is that content saved anywhere, or was it just cleared? I remember I had a few humourous pages there of my own...
Gone, dead, buried. Sorry.
Tim made a backup of it before he dropped it, it's in his ~
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On 15/01/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
It is? Where can we download his ~?
For some reason, I'm having to try hard not to make childish jokes here; sorry, too tired.
anyway, as Brion said:
Gone, dead, buried. Sorry.
What I actually wanted to point out was the message on the old testwiki front page: "EVERYTHING ON THIS WIKI WILL BE ERASED WHEN THE WIKI IS REINITIALIZED." This seemed like a perfectly good policy, and the idea of actually trying to use a wiki specifically designed as a trap for instability is frankly rather silly.
If a wiki is needed for test *content*, that's a separate issue, though it rather opens up a can of worms regarding most of the other content of meta, if you ask me...
[Obviously, if people ignored this advice and created content on that wiki, and there *is* a dump somewhere, that's lucky for them, and it should probably be retrieved]
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
On 1/15/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
It is? Where can we download his ~?
I set up a copy of the old testwiki at http://avar.lir.dk/mw/testwiki/wiki/Main_Page
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