FWIW, we do index the full text of (PDF and?) DjVu files on Commons
(because it's stored in img_metadata). It's probably the biggest
improvement CirrusSearch brought for Commons.
And we also index office documents via Tika (*.doc and similar).
And I think it should not be a feature of the
I've written about my problem ~2 years ago:
http://wikitech-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/6G0YPmWQ/need-a-way-to-modify-text-before-indexing-was-searchupdate
It seems I've lost the latest message, so I want to answer to it now:
With lsearchd and Elasticsearch, we absolutely wouldn't want to munge
Hi!
Change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79025/ that was merged to 1.22
breaks my TikaMW extension - I used that hook to extract contents from
binary files so the user can then search on it.
Maybe you can add some other hook for this purpose?
See also
It's not bad design. It's bad only theoretically and just different
from strongly-typed languages. I like its inconsistent function names
- for a lot of functions they're similar to C and in most cases they're
very easy to remember, as opposed to some other languages, including
python (!!).
Hi!
Sorry for not answering via normal Reply, it's because I'm getting
messages in digests.
But I want to say thanks for clarification and for position=top advice
- it's OK with position=top.
Thanks :)
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Hello!
I've got a serious issue with ResourceLoader.
WHAT FOR it's made to load extension styles_ DYNAMICALLY using
JavaScript?
It's a very bad idea, it leads to page style flickering during load.
I.e. first the page is displayed using only skin CSS and then you see
how
Hello!
I have implemented an idea for WikiEditor extension: replace
step-by-step publish feature with another one - publish staying in
edit mode via AJAX. You can see a demo at http://wiki.4intra.net/ if
you want. It works simply by sending an API save article request while
NOT closing the
You can't cache program state and loaded code like that in PHP. We
explicitly have to abuse the autoloader and develop other patterns to
avoid loading unused portions of code because if we don't our
initialization is unreasonably long.
Yeah, I understand it, the idea was to serialize globals
Hey,
I'm curious what the list thinks of deprecating and eventually
removing the
Hooks class. Some relevant info:
/**
* Hooks class.
*
* Used to supersede $wgHooks, because globals are EVIL.
*
* @since 1.18
*/
fixing bug 32621 is a todo. The first attempt failed and some tweaks
are needed to use the PathRouter to fix that bug.
PathRouter allows for the use of custom paths to expand.
NamespacePaths is an example of one thing you can do (say giving
Help: pages a /help/ path) but you could also apply
And what is the point of making pretty urls in case of MediaWiki?
I think they're already pretty much pretty in MediaWiki :)
/edit/$1 is slightly prettier than ?action=edit, but as I understand it
doesn't affect anything, even like SEO.
And I don't think /help/$1 is any better than /Help:$1 at
Hello!
WebRequest::getPathInfo() still depends on PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years
ago. I.e. WebRequest uses REQUEST_URI instead of mangled PATH_INFO
which is not mangled since PHP 5.2.4. Yeah, Apache still replaces
multiple /// with single /, but afaik it's done for REQUEST_URI as well
as
I doubt Daniel would have introduced it if it was un-necessary or
pointless, I believe from memory it was to improve the handling of
paths over a wide range of set-ups and environments (where sometimes
it would fail). You would need to git blame the file and find the
revision where it was
I would just like to note that while it may be silly or useless
to
insert licenses into minified JavaScript, it is nonetheless *legally
required* to do so, regardless of the technical aspect of it.
My 2 points - during my own research about free licenses, I've decided
that for JS, a good
It's also annoying that while the toolbar (normal or advanced) loads
I can't type in the header (for section=new) or the edit area, at
least on Firefox:* is this the same problem?
(*) Might also be a recent regression:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795232
Maybe...
It's also
By the way, I've just tried to use ttf2woff from fontutils to convert
Ubuntu TTF font to WOFF format for use in one of my projects.
And the resulting WOFF produced by this utility is not usable in any
Linux browsers (tried Firefox, Chrome, Opera). Don't know if it works on
Windows.
And at the
By the way, I've just tried to use ttf2woff from fontutils to convert
Ubuntu TTF font to WOFF format for use in one of my projects.
And the resulting WOFF produced by this utility is not usable in any
Linux browsers (tried Firefox, Chrome, Opera). Don't know if it works on
Windows.
And at the
Fontforge has an option to export the fonts to WOFF format.
Thanks, Fontforge worked even better than the online converter - usable
WOFF, and the size is 50kb instead of 54kb :-)
[1] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/wiki/MicroTypeExpress
As I
vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote 2013-02-14 21:38:
Hello Wiki Developers!
I have a question: I think it's slightly annoying that WikiEditor
shows up only some moment after the editing page loads and that the
textarea gets moved down (because WikiEditor is only built
dynamically
via JS).
Do you think
There are so many extensions useful to the enterprise but probably
also so
many which are not useful at all or not maintained and if I wanted to
start
a corporate wiki right now I would probably be very lost what to look
at
and how people do things, so it seemed like a good idea to list the
I guess this would not directly solve any of the problems listed, but
would
it be helpful to bring back to life
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Enterprise_hub ? It was started by
somebody
an year or two ago but seems to have been abandoned at a draft stage.
I am
thinking if everybody adds some
Hello Wiki Developers!
I have a question: I think it's slightly annoying that WikiEditor shows
up only some moment after the editing page loads and that the textarea
gets moved down (because WikiEditor is only built dynamically via JS).
Do you think it's possible to cache the generated
I understand from your comments that keeping things stable and
preserving
compatibiliy HAS been a priority for core developers at least since
Daniel's email. Is this really the case? If this is the case, it
makes me
wonder why I hear some complaints about it.
Mariya, but did you hear that
1) removal of global $action
2) removal of Xml::hidden()
3) broken Output::add() (had to migrate to resource loader)
4) various parser tag bugs
5) removal of MessageCache::addMessage()
6) removal of ts_makeSortable() (javascript)
7) brokage of WikiEditor adaptation
8) MediaWiki:common.js no more
1. A desire for a department to have their own space on the wiki.
In our organisation (CUSTIS, Russia) we easily solve it by creating one
primary wiki + separate ones for different departments.
It's just a normal wiki family with shared code.
Very simple solution without any extensions.
The
In practice, we have found this doesn't work well for us (with
thousands of employees).
Yeah, our company doesn't have thousands of employees :-)
Each department winds up writing its own wiki page about the same
topic (say, Topic X), and they're all different.
So it means most of your
Per the previous comments in this post, anything over 1% precision
should be regarded as failure, and our Fancy Captcha was at 25% a
year
ago. So yeah, approximately all, and our captcha is well known to
actually suck.
Maybe you'll just use recaptcha instead of fancycaptcha?
The problem is that reCaptcha (a) used as a service, would pass
private user data to a third party (b) is closed source, so we can' t
just put up our own instance. Has anyone reimplemented it or any of
it? There's piles of stuff on Wikisource we could feed it, for
example.
OK, then we can take
Luke Welling WMF писал 2013-01-22 21:59:
Even ignoring openness and privacy, exactly the same problems are
present
with reCAPTCHA as with Fancy Captcha. It's often very hard or
impossible
for humans to read, and is a big enough target to have been broken by
various people.
It's very good to
It's very good to discuss, but what are the other options to minimize
spam?
(maybe I know one: find XRumer authors and tear their arms off... :-))
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On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff
that
people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite
come to
mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others.
I don't know if this would be relevant to your question,
Actually registration is open to everyone now by simple form
submission. So actually, any one developer could get any change they
wanted merged. All they need to do is trivially register a second
labs account.
Okay, but current situation is also a problem, because with it
reviewing and
Sorry, I've replied to Sumana directly instead of the mailing list. So
now duplicating into the mailing list.
Sumana Harihareswara писал 2012-12-19 22:30:
Try these tips:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Code_review/Getting_reviews
Sumana, it's all very good but:
1) I think it's not so
Hello!
28 SEPTEMBER I've pushed minor changes to the gerrit, to the Drafts
extensions.
Since then I've corrected two of them (uploaded patch set 2), but
after that, nobody did the review. As I understand, Gerrit will abandon
changes after a month of inactivity, and it will come tomorrow...
Matma Rex писал 2012-12-19 15:01:
You could add people as reviewers, or personally ask someone to
review, prefereably someone who worked on the extension in the past.
Okay, I've just done it...
So, do you mean all committers just add random reviewers when they see
no reaction?
Antoine Musso писал 2012-12-19 16:19:
Le 19/12/12 11:57, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
Hello!
28 SEPTEMBER I've pushed minor changes to the gerrit, to the Drafts
extensions.
Since then I've corrected two of them (uploaded patch set 2), but
after that, nobody did the review. As I understand, Gerrit
Page history structure isn't quite immutable; revisions may be added
or
deleted, pages may be renamed, etc etc.
Shelling out to an external process means when that process dies due
to a
dead database connection etc, we can restart it cleanly.
Brion, thanks for clarifying it.
Also, I want
Hello!
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki ImportExport, I've
discovered a feature that is totally new for me: 2-phase backup dump.
I.e. the first pass dumper creates XML file without page texts, and the
second pass dumper adds page texts.
I have several questions about it - what
Brion Vibber wrote 2012-11-21 23:20:
While generating a full dump, we're holding the database connection
open for a long, long time. Hours, days, or weeks in the case of
English Wikipedia.
There's two issues with this:
* the DB server needs to maintain a consistent snapshot of data since
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