Wikitext-l March 2012

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Template contains list items, but no start tag?
by Adam Wight 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

I found this task in [[mw:Parsoid/Todo]]: * Move list handler from tokenizer to sync23 phase token transformer to support list items from templates. Does this mean, using a template like {{Foreach|delim=*}} can generate some list items, and the calling page has control over whether these items are in their own list, or continue another list? In this case, the attached tests describe the feature correctly? Regards, Adam Wight

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext
by Sumana Harihareswara 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Forwarding this to the wikitext-l list just in case. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-l] Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:45:51 +0200 From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org CC: Lydia Pintscher <lydia(a)pintscher.de>, Abraham Taherivand <abraham.taherivand(a)wikimedia.de> Hi all. I have a bold proposal (read: evil plan). To put it briefly: I want to remove the assumption that MediaWiki pages contain always wikitext. Instead, I propose a pluggable handler system for different types of content, similar to what we have for file uploads. So, I propose to associate a "content model" identifier with each page, and have handlers for each model that provide serialization, rendering, an editor, etc. The background is that the Wikidata project needs a way to store structured data (JSON) on wiki pages instead of wikitext. Having a pluggable system would solve that problem along with several others, like doing away with the special cases for JS/CSS, the ability to maintain categories etc separate from body text, manage Gadgets sanely on a wiki page, or several other things (see the link below). I have described my plans in more detail on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/ContentHandler A very rough prototype is in a dev branch here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/Wikidata/phase3/ Please let me know what you think (here on the list, preferably, not on the talk page there, at least for now). Note that we *definitely* need this ability for Wikidata. We could do it differently, but I think this would be the cleanest solution, and would have a lot of mid- and long term benefits, even if it's a short term pain. I'm presenting my plan here to find out if I'm on the right track, and whether it is feasible to put this on the road map for 1.20. It would be my (and the Wikidata team's) priority to implement this and see it through before Wikimania. I'm convinced we have the manpower to get it done. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Long live the visual editor!
by Adam Wight 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

In-place editing is going to be the future of all collaborative content, or at least, it's hard to imagine otherwise. This is possibly the greatest step forward that the VisualEditor promises to bring Mediawiki. Odd that it was hardly mentioned in the tldr thread "Odd plans on Future/Parser_plan - are they true?". Perhaps some people have not tried the new editor? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox Let me please not reopen the questions of l33tism or wikitext whimsey, I simply wanted to state that clicking directly on the cursor location you want to edit is a big deal. One's poor brain does not have to shift gears; the computer actually saves you a little bit of your life (how often can you say that?); this is a good interface. ...and having a parser in Javascript will really broaden the horizons for wikipedia: embedding wiki content in another application, offline editing, abandoning legacy mediawiki code, to name a few. -Adam

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Pre-save transformations in VisualEditor
by Adam Wight 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

So, in the course of trying to implement user signature processing in the PEGjs grammar (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35392), it occurred to me that this is in a whole new class of transformation function. "~~~~" is actually replaced in the wikitext during the round-trip of saving on the server. Ha ha, not the quaint little evening project I thought I was taking on! Looking at includes/parser/Parser.php::pstPass2, in addition to user signatures, pre-save transformations can also insert the current timestamp, do a literal transclusion using the {{subst: tag, or complete the "context" of a wikilink. Implementing this class of transformation in the VisualEditor gets tricky because the client wikitext must be kept in sync. Is there already a provision made for mutating wikitext after a round-trip? Thanks, Adam Wight

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How to install the darn thing?
by Adam Wight 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Dear authors, No action from Extension:VisualEditor. I get (different) fatal javascript errors on both 1.18.1 and 1.20, where can I file the bug? Is there already a howto install doc? Here are the errors, the stack traces don't look that helpful. Using mediawiki r114124 and VisualEditor r114350, mw.loader::execute> Exception thrown by ext.visualEditor.sandbox: Cannot read property 'HeadingNode' of undefined TypeError arguments: Array[2] 0: "HeadingNode" 1: undefined length: 2 __proto__: Array[0] get message: function getter() { [native code] } get stack: function getter() { [native code] } set message: function setter() { [native code] } set stack: function setter() { [native code] } type: "non_object_property_load" __proto__: Error I won't even mention the error I get with MW 1.18.1. Regards, Adam Wight

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[ANN] wiktionary.dbpedia.org online - Linked Data, SPARQL and Dumps
by Jonas Brekle 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi lists, we are proud to announce that we now host the data we extract from wiktionary publicly on wiktionary.dbpedia.org. We offer Linked Data: http://wiktionary.dbpedia.org/resource/word a SPARQL endpoint: http://wiktionary.dbpedia.org/sparql and N-Triple Dumps: http://downloads.dbpedia.org/wiktionary/ There is also a wiki explaining some details: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Wiktionary/ We currently extracted data from the English and German Wiktionary (28M triples and 3.7M triples), but plan to extend that to at least the biggest 5 wiktionaries within the next weeks, as our approach focuses on extendability. The data for each word is structured hierarchically (as wiktionary is) and contains information about language, part of speech, definitions, translations, synonyms, hyperonyms and hyponyms etc. There might be some quality issues, but we want to release early, so bear with us and report major problems. Thanks goes to the wiktionary community which does a great job creating this dataset, and we hope to enable new use cases and consequently promote the contribution to the wiktionary project. Regards, Jonas Brekle Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Research Group: http://aksw.org

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Wiki Query Language
by Sebastian Hellmann 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hello all, is there a query language for wiki syntax? (NOTE: I really do not mean the Wikipedia API here.) I am looking for an easy way to scrape data from Wiki pages. In this way, we could apply a crowd-sourcing approach to knowledge extraction from Wikis. There must be thousands of data scraping approaches. But is there one amongst them that has developed a "wiki scraper language" ? Maybe with some sort of fuzziness involved, if the pages are too messy. I have not yet worked with the XML transformation of the wiki markup: *action=expandtemplates ** generatexml - Generate XML parse tree Is it any good for issuing XPATH queries ? Thank you very much, Sebastian -- Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org

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VisualEditor - massive code changes
by Inez Korczynski 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hello, As the VisualEditor team agreed last week to go forward with the approach of using ContentEditable in a view layer, I performed some major cleanup in the source code (structural changes and class naming): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113189 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113191 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113192 Basically the ContentEditable approach is no longer a "hack" built around EditingSurface and now has it's own set of view files. The EditingSurface demo is not working properly anymore, but I don't think it has to (this is due to changes in model classes which refers now to ve.ce vs. ve.es, as before). Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Inez

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