Re: [Wikitech-l] Should references/ be transparently appended when missing?

2009-01-08 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it appears to me that it would be significantly more user-friendly to append a references/ section at the bottom of the text that is being parsed when it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision history edit compressor

2009-01-08 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu wrote: Anthony wrote: Using skip-deltas I think you could make a system fast enough to run live. At the very least it could be used as part of an incremental dump system. Using *smart* skip-deltas, you'd resolve the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should references/ be transparently appended when missing?

2009-01-08 Thread Bence Damokos
I would support this, I think it's better to have non-MOS compliant articles with footnote marks that actually lead to the footnotes then faulty articles. Experienced users, and indeed bots, could than see to MOS-compliance. Later, a possibly an enhanced version of this feature could work like the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki conflicts

2009-01-08 Thread Platonides
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization The last one is my own creation, which has surprisingly caught on; Unfortunately i haven't had much time to maintain it lately, and i'd be very glad if someone could help with that. I think it's popular because

Re: [Wikitech-l] api file uploading

2009-01-08 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: Chad schreef: I think the thing in the way of this is a better upload system (less integrated with Special:Upload). I know Bryan was working on it for awhile, dunno where he is on it these days. Bryan recently put all of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision history edit compressor

2009-01-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
Robert Rohde schreef: Could someone walk me through how I would do that? Basically, you need to ask Brion for SVN access first; he'll probably give you some pointers on how to continue from there. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] api file uploading

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Dale
great :) this will greatly benefit both the add_media_wizard and the in-browser theora video transcoder / uploader :) --michael Bryan Tong Minh wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@home.nl wrote: Chad schreef: I think the thing in the way of this is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should references/ be transparently appended when missing?

2009-01-08 Thread Kalan
Whether it will be performed or not, I think that having a Pages with refs without references tag-like category is necessary (especially if the decision will be to append). A category (maybe a separate one) would be useful too if there are references of some group (ref group=... /) that are not

[Wikitech-l] default quality for ogg content?

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Dale
Once we ship the firefogg extension support for the uploading videos; commons should request that users select the highest quality source video footage available ie the HD video their camera captured or DV original edited footage from their local computer and then commons will supply the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Character-counting parser function

2009-01-08 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg L greg_l_at_wikipe...@comcast.netwrote: I'm not a developer so it would be great if either of you (Aryeh or Mr.Z-man) could explain whether a character-counting parser function (or similar tool) is currently available (or could be made) for template

Re: [Wikitech-l] Character-counting parser function

2009-01-08 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg L greg_l_at_wikipe...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not a developer so it would be great if either of you (Aryeh or Mr.Z-man) could explain whether a character-counting parser function (or similar tool) is currently available (or could be made) for template

[Wikitech-l] Now hiring for Wikipedia Usability Initiative

2009-01-08 Thread Brion Vibber
I'm very happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is now opening hiring for the Wikipedia Usability Initiative! Realized by a grant from the Stanton Foundation, the goal of this initiative is to measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by improving the

Re: [Wikitech-l] nstab-main caching

2009-01-08 Thread K. Peachey
How about creating something like [[Mediawiki:Nstab-mainpage]] which would work the same way as [[Mediawiki:Nstab-main]] thus removing any need for a paser-function ect, although it might not work for people that redirect their Main Page to some other name.

Re: [Wikitech-l] nstab-main caching

2009-01-08 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:28 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: How about creating something like [[Mediawiki:Nstab-mainpage]] which would work the same way as