Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Platonides
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Would the export to ODF work for languages that are not in the Latin script?? Thanks, GerardM Why wouldn't it? ODF uses UTF-8 internally... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The PDF export does not support most scripts. Consequently exporting to PDF is not enabled for many languages. When the export to ODF is functional and it is part of the same software, a solution must be found. The best solution is to ditch the library that does PDF export for one that does

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/3/9 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Would the export to ODF work for languages that are not in the Latin script?? Why wouldn't it? ODF uses UTF-8 internally... UTF-8 itself is not enough. Everything must be thoroughly tested. I tried to export the English

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread qli
发件人: Platonides 发送时间: 2011-03-09 16:28:11 收件人: wikitech-l 抄送: dev-l 主题: Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Would the export to ODF work for languages that are not in the Latin script?? Thanks, GerardM Why wouldn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 09.03.2011 09:59, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: Export to openZIM produced the best result. I read it on the Kiwix reader for Windows. Directionality was OK, the right font was used for Hebrew, but a wrong one for IPA (it may have been hard for the converter to understand it, because in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread emmanuel
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:37:23 +0100, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: On 09.03.2011 09:59, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: Export to openZIM produced the best result. I read it on the Kiwix reader for Windows. Directionality was OK, the right font was used for Hebrew, but a wrong one for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [openZIM dev-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

2011-03-09 Thread Manuel Schneider
CCing Wikimedia CH as the main sponsor of openZIM... On 09.03.2011 06:50, Tomasz Finc wrote: Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now see

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread David Gerard
Is there a standard answer to this question - how much researchers are allowed to hammer the site? - d. -- Forwarded message -- From: ramesh kumar ramesh_ch...@hotmail.com Date: 9 March 2011 09:47 Subject: Reg. Research using Wikipedia To: wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/3/9 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Is there a standard answer to this question - how much researchers are allowed to hammer the site? If they use the API and wait for one request to finish before they start the next one (i.e. don't make parallel requests), that's pretty much always fine.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Platonides
Dear Members, I am Ramesh, pursuing my PhD in Monash University, Malaysia. My Research is on blog classification using Wikipedia Categories. As for my experiment, I use 12 main categories of Wikipedia. I want to identify which particular article belongs to which main 12 categories?. So I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread James Linden
Why do you need to access the live wikipedia for this? Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the same data. Probably faster. In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia (using mediawiki and various import tools) is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Platonides
James Linden wrote: Why do you need to access the live wikipedia for this? Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the same data. Probably faster. In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia (using mediawiki and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 March 2011 16:00, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members, I am Ramesh, pursuing my PhD in Monash University, Malaysia. My Research is on blog classification using Wikipedia Categories. As for my experiment, I use 12 main categories of Wikipedia. I want to identify which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-09 Thread Alex
On 3/9/2011 11:29 AM, James Linden wrote: Why do you need to access the live wikipedia for this? Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the same data. Probably faster. In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia

[Wikitech-l] RFC: MediaWiki Style Guide (Forms)

2011-03-09 Thread Brandon Harris
One of my goals for the year at the Foundation is Development of a MediaWiki Style Guide. To that end, I have completed the first draft of one section, focused on Forms and Form elements. This project has multiple goals: * To create consistency across various

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: MediaWiki Style Guide (Forms)

2011-03-09 Thread MZMcBride
Brandon Harris wrote: One of my goals for the year at the Foundation is Development of a MediaWiki Style Guide. To that end, I have completed the first draft of one section, focused on Forms and Form elements. I think it's a good first draft. :-) My only comment is that some of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: MediaWiki Style Guide (Forms)

2011-03-09 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
* Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org [Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:33:59 -0800]: One of my goals for the year at the Foundation is Development of a MediaWiki Style Guide. To that end, I have completed the first draft of one section, focused on Forms and Form elements. This project