[Wikitech-l] math request

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Brollo
Hi all, I'm new into the list. Please be patient if my questions are not soo deep or have been discussed previously (I'm mainly a it.wikisourcian). 1. As I see, .png images from math tag have a white background. This is disturbing if such images are posted into a coloured background page. Should

Re: [Wikitech-l] math request

2010-02-19 Thread Q
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2/19/2010 4:42 AM, Alex Brollo wrote: Hi all, I'm new into the list. Please be patient if my questions are not soo deep or have been discussed previously (I'm mainly a it.wikisourcian). 1. As I see, .png images from math tag have a white

[Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

2010-02-19 Thread Jamie Morken
Hi, There hasn't been a successful pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 or pages-meta-history.xml.7z dump from the http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ site in the last 5 dumps.  How is the new dump system coming along for these large wiki files?  I personally am a bit concerned that these files

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

2010-02-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
We were actually a week away from having a finished snapshot last month when we had an unscheduled change. Long and short of it is that Tim's re compression of ES has made huge progress in improving the speed of the work and we simply need to wait for that to finish to re-asses how much more

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki complete page edit history

2010-02-19 Thread Tomasz Finc
The pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 is showing 115.4GB written (in progress) at: http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/ The older pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 from http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20091128/ shows 255.1GB written (failed build) So once the 20100130 current

Re: [Wikitech-l] math request

2010-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: 1. As I see, .png images from math tag have a white background. This is disturbing if such images are posted into a coloured background page. Should it be possible to replace the white background  with a transparent

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

2010-02-19 Thread Tei
On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca wrote: I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia commons images too at some point something that could be fun is git. plus something like a ticket system, where you ask for permissions to download a tree

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump problems

2010-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 February 2010 14:54, Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca wrote: I hope you guys are planning on adding some way to download the wikimedia commons images too at some point something that could be fun is git. git is not intended

Re: [Wikitech-l] math request

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Brollo
2010/2/19 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com 2. I know that math tag manages css style, so that it's easy to redim/align the resulring .png image (a very useful trick for inline, simple formulas). Nevertheless, the default font is ruined by a redim,

Re: [Wikitech-l] math request

2010-02-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: I can't post here images, so I can't let you see what I mean. Nevertheless, try math\sqrt 2/math then math style=height:1em\sqrt 2/math. If you use CSS to resize an image, you're relying on the browser's resizing

[Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I'm experimenting with converting the MediaWiki SVN repository to Git. To do that properly commits need to be rewritten to turn SVN commiter ID's like avar into name/email pairs like Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/ava...@gmail.com. We have a USERINFO directory in SVN that keeps metadata for commiters,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: If you're one of the guilty or know the contact info for them please add it to USERINFO/ If you're not sure the best way to create this file, see this page on MediaWiki.org:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Liangent
Will MediaWiki repository be moved to Git? On 2/20/10, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: If you're one of the guilty or know the contact info for them please add it to USERINFO/ If you're not sure the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Chad
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: Will MediaWiki repository be moved to Git? On 2/20/10, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: If you're one of the guilty or know the contact

Re: [Wikitech-l] Only 132 / 252 SVN users have valid USERINFO data

2010-02-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:43, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: Will MediaWiki repository be moved to Git? Some people want to move to git. Some people like other DCVSes. There is a git mirror and running over on GitHub