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Brion Vibber

6 Dec 2004 6 Dec '04

1:59 p.m.

commons.wikipedia.org is now running on REL1_4. Overall it's looking pretty good, but there may yet be surprises. Large categories full of images present a bit of a difficulty, as least with the thumbnails not all rendered yet... We'll expand the beta onto the other Wikimedia wikis over the next week or so. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

6 Dec 6 Dec

4:38 p.m.

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:59:29 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

commons.wikipedia.org is now running on REL1_4. Overall it's looking pretty good, but there may yet be surprises. Large categories full of images present a bit of a difficulty, as least with the thumbnails not all rendered yet... We'll expand the beta onto the other Wikimedia wikis over the next week or so.

Looks good, one thing that does not work anymore however is html/javascript in MediaWiki messages, will there be a possibility to gain that functionality in some other way, for example to get the special character toolbar in use on MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning on en. is. it. de. and others?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Andreas Hoerstemeier

5:01 p.m.

Brion Vibber wrote:

commons.wikipedia.org is now running on REL1_4. Overall it's looking pretty good, but there may yet be surprises. Large categories full of images present a bit of a difficulty, as least with the thumbnails not all rendered yet...

Is it intentionally that the image descirption pages don't show the picture anymore? IIRC there was some talk to show downscaled pictures there, especially in the case the image is very high resolution. I can see the "Download full scale version" link, but no scaled down version... [[User:Ahoerstemeier]]

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Brion Vibber

10:34 p.m.

On Dec 6, 2004, at 1:01 AM, Andreas Hoerstemeier wrote:

Is it intentionally that the image descirption pages don't show the picture anymore? IIRC there was some talk to show downscaled pictures there, especially in the case the image is very high resolution. I can see the "Download full scale version" link, but no scaled down version...

Should be fixed now. (Accounts without the max image size option set were not handled right) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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SpeedyGonsales

19 Dec 19 Dec

12:25 p.m.

Hello, Brion! You wrote on Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:34:51 -0800: BV> On Dec 6, 2004, at 1:01 AM, Andreas Hoerstemeier wrote: ??>> Is it intentionally that the image descirption pages don't show the ??>> picture anymore? IIRC there was some talk to show downscaled pictures ??>> there, especially in the case the image is very high resolution. I can ??>> see the "Download full scale version" link, but no scaled down ??>> version... BV> Should be fixed now. (Accounts without the max image size option set BV> were not handled right) Are you sure? I just installed 1.4beta3 on my PC, and one jpg is not shown, other is shown, but for other I get notices: Undefined variable: maxWidth in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 72 Undefined variable: maxHeight in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 76. I made quick-fix on spot: $maxWidth=400; $maxHeight=400; but I don't like "magic" numbers... Some better idea? -- God speed

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Brion Vibber

21 Dec 21 Dec

11:21 a.m.

On Dec 18, 2004, at 8:25 PM, SpeedyGonsales wrote:

BV> Should be fixed now. (Accounts without the max image size option set BV> were not handled right) Are you sure? I just installed 1.4beta3 on my PC, and one jpg is not shown, other is shown, but for other I get notices: Undefined variable: maxWidth in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 72 Undefined variable: maxHeight in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 76.

Perhaps your machine has image resizing disabled (no ImageMagick and no GD library module in PHP, or you have turned it off explicitly). If so, I've checked in a fix for this case: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/2004-December/ 005604.html -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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SpeedyGonsales

23 Dec 23 Dec

8:57 a.m.

Brion! wrote on Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:21:01 -0800: BV> On Dec 18, 2004, at 8:25 PM, SpeedyGonsales wrote: BV>>> Should be fixed now. (Accounts without the max image size option BV>>>set were not handled right) ??>> Are you sure? I just installed 1.4beta3 on my PC, and one jpg ??>> is not shown, other is shown, but for other I get notices: ??>> Undefined variable: maxWidth in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 72 ??>> Undefined variable: maxHeight in $path/includes/ImagePage.php line 76. BV> Perhaps your machine has image resizing disabled (no ImageMagick and no BV> GD library module in PHP, or you have turned it off explicitly). Yup, that's the case. BV> If so, I've checked in a fix for this case: BV> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-cvs/2004-December/ BV> 005604.html And the solution. Well done. And best wishes for easy transition 1.3.7 -> 1.4 on wikipedia. -- God speed

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Yann Forget

6 Dec 6 Dec

9:43 p.m.

Hi, Le Monday 6 December 2004 06:59, Brion Vibber a écrit :

commons.wikipedia.org is now running on REL1_4. Overall it's looking pretty good, but there may yet be surprises. Large categories full of images present a bit of a difficulty, as least with the thumbnails not all rendered yet...

I noticed that some translations and customization are needed. The head message in French on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges French translation of "Special Pages" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Specialpages Where is the place to translate this ? BTW, the favicon disappeared and the Special:Allmessages gives a error message when the language interface is not in English, cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Allmessages "Your current interface language fr is not supported by Special:AllMessages at this site."

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Thanks, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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Petr Kadlec

10:17 p.m.

I noticed that some translations and customization are needed.

I am sorry to bring it up again, but the Czech translation in CVS (i.e. and everywhere else except cs: Wikipedia) is _terrible_ (not to mention incomplete). Someone with proper rights, *PLEASE*, update LanguageCs.php with either http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LanguageCs.php , or messages exported from cs:MediaWiki: namespace, which (both) are complete and correct (although there are some issues with Wikipedia-centric messages that should be fixed in MediaWiki distribution per se). Best regards, [[ cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]

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Yann Forget

9:43 p.m.

Hi, Le Monday 6 December 2004 06:59, Brion Vibber a écrit :

commons.wikipedia.org is now running on REL1_4. Overall it's looking pretty good, but there may yet be surprises. Large categories full of images present a bit of a difficulty, as least with the thumbnails not all rendered yet...

Great! That's very much appreciated by non English users who can now choose the language interface.

We'll expand the beta onto the other Wikimedia wikis over the next week or so.

May I suggest to put REL1.4 on Wikisource first as many users requested a localized language interface there.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Thanks a lot, Brion. Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

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Andreas Hoerstemeier
Brion Vibber
Petr Kadlec
SpeedyGonsales
Yann Forget
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason