[Wikitech-l] WikiSym 2009 in Orlando: Call for Papers - deadline March 27

2009-03-08 Thread phoebe ayers
Hello all, A reminder that WikiSym 2009 will be in Orlando, Florida, from October 25-27. The deadline for submitting papers, workshops and panel proposals is March 27; April 24th is the deadline for posters, demonstrations and WikiFest (practical experience) proposals. Topics of interest include:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-03-08 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Quick update on dump status: > > * Dumps are back up and running on srv31, the old dump batch host. > > Please note that unlike the wikis sites themselves, dump activity is > *not* considered time-critical -- there is no emergency requirement

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-03-08 Thread Stephen Bain
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Leon Weber wrote: > > Note that infinite money does not help you to infinite resources (time, > people, ...) ;) Sure it does, you just infinitely clone Brion. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mail

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2009-03-08 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for March 02, 2009 - March 09, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 177 Bugs ASSIGNED : 7 Bugs REOPENED : 14 Bugs RESOLVED

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-03-08 Thread Leon Weber
On 08.03.2009 18:17:18, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > > I don't really see why this should be.  Is there still a shortage > > of developers?  What's the plan to fix that? > > There's always a shortage of developers, in every software project > known

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread O. Olson
Thanks Joshua. I would prefer that you post to the Mailing List / Newsgroup – so that all can benefit from your ideas. --- El dom 8-mar-09, Joshua C. Lerner escribió: > De: Joshua C. Lerner > Asunto: Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki > > Just for kicks I decided

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-03-08 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > I don't really see why this should be.  Is there still a shortage > of developers?  What's the plan to fix that? There's always a shortage of developers, in every software project known to man (really, in every open-ended project known to man

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dump status update

2009-03-08 Thread Lars Aronsson
On February 23, Brion Vibber wrote about the development of a new dump process: > I've been needing to reprioritize resources for this for a > while; all of us having many other things to do at the same time I don't really see why this should be. Is there still a shortage of developers? Wha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread O. O.
Daniel Kinzler wrote: > O. O. schrieb: >> >> I thought that the pages-articles.xml.bz2 (i.e. the XML Dump) contains >> the templates – but I did not find a way to do install it separately. > > They should be contained. As it sais on the download page: "Articles, > templates, > image descrip

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread O. O.
Felipe Ortega wrote: > > > --- El dom, 8/3/09, O. O. escribió: > >> I thought that the >> pages-articles.xml.bz2 (i.e. the XML Dump) contains >> the templates – but I did not find a way to do install it >> separately. >> > > No, it only contains a dump of the current version of each artic

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Kinzler
O. O. schrieb: > Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> That sounds very *very* odd. because page content is imported as-is in both >> cases, it's not processed in any way. The only thing I can imagine is that >> things don't look right if you don't have all the templates imported yet. > > Thanks Daniel. Yes, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread Felipe Ortega
--- El dom, 8/3/09, O. O. escribió: >     I thought that the > pages-articles.xml.bz2 (i.e. the XML Dump) contains > the templates – but I did not find a way to do install it > separately. > No, it only contains a dump of the current version of each article (involving the page, revision an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread O. O.
Daniel Kinzler wrote: > > That sounds very *very* odd. because page content is imported as-is in both > cases, it's not processed in any way. The only thing I can imagine is that > things don't look right if you don't have all the templates imported yet. Thanks Daniel. Yes, I think that this may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Importing Wikipedia XML Dumps into MediaWiki

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Kinzler
> Thanks Daniel. I have tried MWDumper and the results seem different from > importDump.php i.e. the Formatting is messed up. In tracking down what I > might be doing wrong - I would prefer to do this using the native method. That sounds very *very* odd. because page content is imported as-is in