[Foundation-l] MediaWiki 1.7.1 and Wikipedia

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Brion Vibber wrote:

>Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>Brion, it is true.  The XML dumps are not renderable except on the 
>>unreleased Mediwiki. Take a look at the following.  I am running
>>1.6.7 with all of the extensions installed against the 20060702 XMl 
>>dumps.  The English and Cherokee versions are both broken. 
>>Also, SVG images are not rendered on 1.6.7 AT ALL from these dumps due 
>>to a bug in GetHeight and GetWidth in Image.php.
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>>http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Cherokee_Language
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>>http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Ute_Tribe
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>>http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Back_To_The_Future
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>These pages are most likely affected by the difference in parser treatment of
>embedded HTML in templates when HTML Tidy is engaged.
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>You can install HTML Tidy (I'm fairly certain current Fedora versions include a
>package, if not it's in Extras) and enable its use on your wiki. Unfortunately
>the bug (that the behavior is different) hasn't been resolved yet; fortunately
>it should be easy enough for you to work around by configuring your site
>appropriately.
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>If the image bug isn't fixed in 1.6.8 already, let me know and I'll merge it for
>1.6.9.
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>(By the way, as mentioned the other day we're pretty offtopic for Foundation-L.)
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Well, the technical discussion is certainly off topic.  The discussion 
about requiring XML dumps to
work on released MediaWiki versions is something Wikimedia folks need to 
think about and be aware of  since its clear folks
were under the assumption the XMl dumps work "as is", which we are 
seeing is not the case.

It's clear to me that everyone is on the same page here on this point, 
and the thread was useful to establish this
for everyone.  Let's move the discussion off line and you and I can 
dialouge about it.

Jeff



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