On 10/08/2011 8:47 AM, Chad wrote:
I guess that's only embarrassing if those sorts of things bother you.
I think it would be fair to have it both ways. There are a class of
people who are bothered by things of that sort. I'm sure I'm not alone,
at least on this issue. :P
I'm with Dan on this
On 10/08/2011 8:55 AM, Chad wrote:
Most of our users won't know or care whether their pages validate.
Those that do presumably know how to use a validator already.
Isn't an unstated goal of MediaWiki/Wikipedia to decrease ignorance?
If you already know how to use a validator you might still be
On 10/08/2011 9:08 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
On 11-08-09 03:37 PM, John Elliot wrote:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://en.wikipedia.org
Embarrassing? You do realize that the validator is complaining that it
sees `ul/ul`, right?
I hadn't realised that.
I can't even find the spot
On 10/08/2011 9:13 AM, Platonides wrote:
John Elliot wrote:
Ah, but I don't know how to use the hook (yet), do I? :P I'll figure it
out and fix up my code.
See docs/hooks.txt from your mediawiki folder.
Will do. Thanks!
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established that MediaWiki is broken because it's
outputting empty ul elements, so maybe you can have a look at fixing
that up too.
Thanks.
John.
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On 10/08/2011 10:16 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
On 11-08-09 04:14 PM, John Elliot wrote:
On 10/08/2011 9:08 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
I can't even find the spot in the HTML4 or XHTML1 spec where it says
that a perfectly fine marked up list is invalid if it doesn't contain
any items.
Well you
On 10/08/2011 11:19 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
Would you like to argue for a $wgStricterParsing bool that will
sacrifice parser output consistency for things like folding == headers
into parent th's (perhaps turn into a span if they explicitly use ah#
instead of ==), and other things we haven't
On 10/08/2011 12:19 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
Oh right, one the 'other' things I had one mind but couldn't remember
while writing was converting things like valign, width/height, etc...
into css styles.
That'd be nice.
Though given the fact that block content in a th in XHTML was valid and
/552a90f5142bb108cb268e1e47da10351b4f873f
[3]: https://gist.github.com/1115789
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We are currently having a widespread failure with no one on IRC
John
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irc.wikimedia.org has been down for six hours without any information can
someone please take a look and give us some information?
John
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rests on attaching ACLs
to wikispaces (and to namespaces within wikispaces) - whether it's a Halo
ACL or a MW ACL, I can't say I care too much. I'm just hoping to start the
conversation among you.
Best regards,
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Thanks for the comment. Actually, I do want to attach an ACL to an interwiki
that is a descriptor for a set of pages within any namespace on the local
wiki. That's somewhat the point - to not use Categories as the prime
descriptor for pages that have a certain ACL. Using interwiki descriptors
[mailto:brion.vib...@gmail.com]On Behalf Of
Brion Vibber
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:50 PM
To: jmccl...@hypergrove.com; Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwikis
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:35 PM, John McClure jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote:
I am wondering if interwikis can be be more
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
MZ, if you're aware of *any* specific bugs where this is an issue, please
let me or Mark know and we'll take a look at them.
http://wikisource.org/wiki/WS:BUGS
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to be used as page names (i.e.
\/w\/.*\.php).
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I am wondering if interwikis can be be more powerfully leveraged.
For instance, I'd like much to say ZZZ:my_ns:my_page to indicate a page in a
particular subset of pages within a namespace in my wiki. Ultiimately an ACL
can be associated with each interwiki descriptor.
And although I haven't
: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=45
Ping statistics for 208.80.152.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 164ms, Maximum = 164ms, Average = 164ms
Hope this helps someone figure out the problem
John
a
note on the mailing list
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into
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What is your username?
John
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:10 AM, William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently, I've had a rare need to check interwiki links. I've discovered
that many times, the universal login credentials are not working.
For example, after login
Depends on the language, enwiki can take weeks to dump, while rue wiki may
only take 30 seconds.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Anthony Ventresque (Dr)
aventres...@ntu.edu.sg wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Anthony Ventresque (Dr)
aventres...@ntu.edu.sg wrote:
I was indeed
Yeah, all you need to do is remove the incorrect links from all affected
articles.
You sorta did that with -localright. however that just fixed the correct
article but still left some articles pointing to the wrong article. you need
to fix every article, as long as one page has the wrong link it
The issues should be fixed, if you continue to have issues let me know
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its just a matter of matching page titles, if there is a page in namespace 0
and a page in namespace (article and article talk) with the same title they
go together. its fairly simple
John
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear dev's,
I am
according to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html the last dump was
2010-11-10 04:30:28 is that page broken or are dumps still halted?
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English, Portuguese and Italian are currently supported.
Here's a demo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_euNYfN9BY (3 minutes)
If you are interested in this project, have any advice/suggestions
or know of similar projects, please contact me.
John Graves
AUT University
Auckland
?
ArbCom members are expected to be responsive to discussions about
English Wikipedia occurring on internal-l?
Could you please clarify who are you're obliquely attacking here?
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and may be keen to help.
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in developing an extension for handling molecular files
(files containing informations about chemical molecules : atoms, bonds,
...).
If I understand
is done for 'secure' interwikis.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440
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may not have much value on WMF projects ('at worst they
access admin functions'), but it could be used to access their gmail
or similar.
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, and not on $wgFileExtensions + $wgZipFileExtensions.
$wgZipFileExtensions would consist of array('xml')
Then check the mimetypes of the files in the zip, against
$wgMimeTypeBlacklist (with 'application/zip' removed), again allowing
desired XML mimetypes through.
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my password now ;-(
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I know a few years ago something similar happened to me, the only thing you
can do is wait for your ISP to refresh their DNS settings, What probably
happened is that either the WMF servers changed IP addresses and the ISP
didnt or that the ISP has wrong information which is normally updated daily.
the 'Misc' section of the prefs to be 'Performance')
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On 9/24/10, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote:
There are static dumps available here:
http://download.wikimedia.org/dewiki/
Is there any problem with using them?
I think they are from June 2008.
A fresh static dump would be good.
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articles by month? not all of
pages but only article pages? Is that possible? Thanks!
Zeyi
On Sep 14 2010, John Doe wrote:
http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txthttp://toolserver.org/%7Ebetacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txt
try that
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1
If you want we have a toolserver database query service, and generating such
data should be easy if you file a request
https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ you should be able to get the data
you need.
Δ
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM, zh...@york.ac.uk wrote:
On Sep 14 2010, Roan Kattouw
Better yet, http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txtwhich
is updated daily,
Δ
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:08 AM, John Doe phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
If you want we have a toolserver database query service, and generating
such data should be easy if you file a request
http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txt
try that
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:35 PM, zh...@york.ac.uk wrote:
Hi, the link seems not work.
best,
Zeyi
On Sep 14 2010, John Doe wrote:
Better yet,
http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/reports/sysopprotecton.txtwhichhttp
at least some impact.
There is one very, very simple solution.
All changes should either be:
a) a patch on bugzilla, reviewed by anyone, and approved _on_bugzilla_
by a tech lead
b) the landing of a branch, approved by a tech lead in some public forum.
From that, all else flows.
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projects have
different layouts, esp. templates such as the header on each page.
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will die: it'll be possible, and encouraged, to obtain
multiple resources in one request.
Does that approach gain much over HTTP pipelining?
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translations for them (and the talk namespaces) are necessary.
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslatetask=viewgroup=ext-proofreadpagelanguage=frlimit=100
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be enabled by
default. Was there any discussion about the default setting for this
pref?
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For example, on mw:Tracker/PM_tool, one dot point is the separation of
tasks, features, etc. This is bug 9412.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9412
I'd be happy to work on a few of these in a few weeks time.
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$wgForeignFileRepos[] = array(
'class' = 'ForeignAPIRepo',
'name'= 'enwp',
'apibase' = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',
'fetchDescription'= true, // Optional
'descriptionCacheExpiry' = 43200, // 12 hours, optional
I have seen that upload protection was recently enabled on commons. Where
the bugs worked out and was there an announcement of that?
John
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Dresden_photochrom2.jpgaction=history
-
(curhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Dresden_photochrom2.jpgdiff=37613780oldid=37613770
|
. the recent addition that I am referring to is the upload
permission that was added.
John
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Commons, just like all the other WMF mediawiki installations has
supported protecting files for ages.
-Peachey
Modifing commons.js should do it. I don't know JavaScript or I would
give you the exact code
On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
makele...@gmail.com wrote:
ok i will try to put the code in my skin.php file instead.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Happy-melon
is better than nothing especially because most of those idiots wont
know how to fix their broken programs.
John
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
Anyway, you probably are missing one important point.
We're trying to make Wikipedia's service better.
I'm sure
provided in this thread clearly show that the solution had
a positive desired effect.
A few negative side-effects have been put forward, such as preventing
browsing without a UA, but Domas has also indicated that other tech
team members can overturn the change if they don't like it.
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-agent for the unidentified traffic.
I am even less in favour of Domas retiring to an armchair, and think
that anyone suggesting that is deluding themselves about Wikimedia's
need of Domas, and Domas' reason for volunteering.
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that would work if it was single ips that where the main cause. what happens
is there are wide distributions of IPs which lead to either blocking hole
ISP ranges or being unable to easily identify DDoS like behavior.
John
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote
like Adblock and IETab.
fwiw, Mozilla-in-IE was at a similar stage three years ago.
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/12/xule-what-if/
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 January 2010 05:07, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
An important distinction is that IE for Mac users on Mac OS (classic)
don't have the copious upgrade options available to IE 5.5 users on
Windows.
I
what browser people on Mac Classic should migrate to for
viewing Wikipedia. I'm reasonably confident that Wikipedia would
render fine in IE 5 for Mac (or iCab, or Classilla).
In this thread, Chad suggested that the IE for Mac stylesheet could be
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include?
http://stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/
Alternatively, we could load the stylesheet at runtime with
JavaScript. That approach is already being used for IE specific
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Platonides wrote:
What were the reasons for replacing lighttpd with Sun Java System Web
Server ?
Probably the same
points to the MediaWiki wiki.
https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main
Are there plans to make greater use of the Confluence wiki?
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Domains#confluence.toolserver.org
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or a simpler method would be to use a javascript tool like I use which
was created by lupin called popups which can actually get the redirect
target page show the first picture and first paragraph on mouse hover
On 12/6/09, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at
will at least publicly disclose the problem.
If you do neither, you're well on your way to being a bottom-feeder.
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it would be as simple as adding \.exe\s to the meta spam blacklist
On 9/5/09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
See this talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.148.6.25
The poster purports to be a journalist experimenting with putting
toxic links on Wikipedia to see who
/List_of_Wikipedias
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nc the cu is an extension and not part of trunk so thst will not work
On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote:
Andrew Garrett schrieb:
On 17/06/2009, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Hi all
I wonder if the column rc_ip can be safely removed from mediawiki.
As far as I
wikis. what you want done cannot be done
untill CU is merged into the trunk
On 6/17/09, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote:
John Doe schrieb:
nc the cu is an extension and not part of trunk so thst will not work
Huh, why shouldn't it? The idea was that the extension would hijack the way
that sufficient alternate traffic will be within the same window.
Unfortunately this time frame is pretty long for some articles, and from
some tests it seems to be weeks on Norsk (bokmål) Wikipedia.
John
Robert Rohde skrev:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri
Hotlinking fair use images are something that should not be possible.
John
Brian skrev:
Two things
1. There isn't a good way to get an image dump
2. Allowing hotlinking seems to fit nicely within the WMF mission.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote
Wikipedia can be moved to Commons if this is correct.
Robert Rohde skrev:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:37 AM, John at Darkstarvac...@jeb.no wrote:
Platonides comment on fair use images, you say in point 2 that
hotlinking is something that fits nicely withing the wmf mission, I say
it should
existing inbound links and then
they can simply be embedded on the page itself.
Analyzing a dumb log would be very costly indeed.
John
John at Darkstar skrev:
I tried to convince myself to stay out of this thread, but this was
somewhat interesting. ;)
I'm not quite sure this will work out
thanks, I take this as the first step in creating global preferences?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi!
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The advantage of this clear separation is that writing an
what the problem is with the current Wikipedia dump process?
its choking with almost 300 million revisions.
it wasnt designed for a wiki this size and needed re-written two years ago
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Aryeh Gregor
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toolserver users dont have access to text
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
Perhaps the toolserver can make you a current dump of current en?
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Christian Storm st...@iparadigms.com
wrote:
Thanks to everyone who got the
This would break soo much, a lot of wikis have purposefully changed the
default messages for tracking purposes and other reasons. deleting these
messages would cause a lot of problems
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Eugene Zelenko
eugene.zele...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi!
We need to clean up old
resources, and put together a management plan?
Morten Warncke-Wang, Research Assistant
John Riedl, Professor
GroupLens Research
www.grouplens.org
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Has the dumper been tweaked to remove all hidden revisions, including
hidden usernames recently fixed in bug 17792?
That was a bug in contributions
this week with some more concrete details.
Has the dumper been tweaked to remove all hidden revisions, including
hidden usernames recently fixed in bug 17792?
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Please see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16854
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it
appears to me
software [Abbyy FineReader, I believe]).
I have found the djvu files from IA to be of an appropriate quality,
especially for transcription purposes. The PDFs are usually much
larger, and not much better quality.
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