I get an error, and beneath it there is a message that says Your cache
administrator is: nobody Looks like there is a bug on it that's 4 or 5
years old ;)
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nathan Larson
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Derric Atzrott
datzr
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
To satisfy Applebaum's request, there needs to be a mechanism whereby
someone can edit even if *all of their communications with Wikipedia,
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
There is a bit of amnesia about the fact that almost all editors are also
readers and regular users of the projects we create, and those editors have
been encouraged since Day One to inform developers of any technical
In the comment thread at the bottom someone gave him a heads up about the
fonts controversy, hopefully he doesn't get totally discouraged from
MediaWiki design studies after reading it ;)
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
wrote:
That's precisely my point. Because current talk page discussions are - on
the software level - unstructured, it allows social conventions to do
everything you want it to do structure wise, and to invent new
a little disappointing that the FOSS
outreach program (which currently has 8 participants) is the only mention
of women in the entire goals document, and the gender gap is never
mentioned.
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
If part of the plan for the growth team is to invite
anonymous editors to sign up, why not tailor some of those invitations
specifically to female anonymous editors? Then you could add a measure,
retention of female
Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions Seb
poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode
interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to
mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the
I can see it being useful in two circumstances:
1) As part of the oversight right, in order to edit an edit summary without
hiding the entire revision
2) A right of a user to edit their own edit summaries, if the edit summary
is blank
Since it's possible and at least some people are interested
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:09 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
Issues arise in the fact that malicious editors can abuse it after the
initial review has been done. Or you can run into cases where offensive
material is added attacking another editor, so editor B reports the issue
and
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 16 November 2014 14:36, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
James: would it be possible to automatically save the text of a page to a
user's sandbox when they encounter an edit conflict? This would overwrite
Is the risk of an attacker taking over an account with CSS/JS edit
permissions any more or less because that person knows how to use CSS/JS?
If the criteria will be that only people who know how to use CSS/JS will
get access to make those edits, I'm not sure that is perfectly tailored to
the need
I think it was doomed to fail as soon as people argued that an organization
with an ~$80m annual budget had too many "resource constraints" to address
a backlog of bugs in its core product. That happened in the first five or
so replies to the thread!
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:05 PM John Erling
I appreciate that Amir is acknowledging that as neat as this tool sounds,
its use is fraught with risk. The comparison that immediately jumped to my
mind is predictive algorithms used in the criminal justice system to assess
risk of bail jumping or criminal recidividism. These algorithms have
For my part, I think Amir is going way above and beyond to be so thoughtful
and open about the future of his tool.
I don't see how any part of it constitutes creating biometric identifiers,
nor is it obvious to me how it must remove anonymity of users.
John, perhaps you can elaborate on your
. This will render the archive table obsolete, so it can
be deprecated/eliminated.
I would like to code this for v1.23.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55398 Thanks.
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Élie Roux elie.r...@telecom-bretagne.euwrote:
Dear MediaWiki developers,
I'm responsible for the development of a new Wiki that will contain many
Tibetan resources. Traditionnaly, Tibetan titles of books or even parts of
books are extremely long, as you can
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Reposted to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_title_size_limitations .
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Why not make assigning bugs work sort of like FlaggedRevs -- as a new user,
you can make changes, but the changes won't take effect until they're
reviewed and approved? After a bureaucrat sees that you're behaving
responsibly, or after you've made a certain number of changes that have
been
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
With my hat of third party wiki admin I personally agree with all this.
Another possibility further down in the roadmap:
Imagine a World in which you could transclude in your wiki content from
a subset of this interwiki
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Derric Atzrott
datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote:
The issue seems to be confined to Wikipedia. I am not seeing it affect
Mediawiki.org
Additionally the issue seems to be affecting more than just the English
language Wikipedia. The lojban language
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As mentioned by Mark and quoted in my email, http://wikiapiary.com/
could be a good starting point.
Just improvising a hypothetical starting point for a process to maintain
the decentralized interwiki table:
In order to
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Nathan Larson
nathanlarson3...@gmail.comwrote:
Do we really need to set criteria for a wiki being a candidate? Are we
trying to keep the number of approved interwiki links down? I had in mind
just letting everyone have a prefix and a URL that we would
away. Spam is a form of vandalism, so it would fall under the duties
of patrollers. At Wikipedia, RecentChanges patrollers are expected to be on
the lookout for spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol#Spam
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To aggregate some of the arguments and counter-arguments, I posted
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/The_dofollow_FAQ and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Costs_and_benefits_of_using_nofollow.
It does seem, from my googling of what the owners of smaller wikis
have
to say about it, that nofollow
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 11/18/2013 09:46 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very
different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even
medium-sized wiki
As I said
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Sen Slybe kik...@gmail.com wrote:
It's very excited to upgrade for the new version,so I can final have a try
for the visual editor...
Is here not suppose ask this kind question ,I sorry if that's so.I just
really like mediawikii and WANA thx for you hard work
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Sen kik...@gmail.com wrote:
i wana to,but i dont know any easy way to switch the version,the upgrade
for me is use the patch,but i mod some system file,so if everytime i need
to change them,that's seems pretty crazy..
If you're finding you need to hack
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/29/13, Sen kik...@gmail.com wrote:
i know it's depend the mediawiki language,but can i change it by my own?i
use chinese mediawiki,but i wana the mediawiki signature time format use
english.
sorry again,if
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
There's two internationalization changes in play here. First of all,
month names get translated. This is something that you cannot change
without modifying core (as far as I know).
Actually what am I talking about.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Sen Slybe kik...@gmail.com wrote:
This's my first time talk at a open source mail list,I got say this is
very feel great,I personally use mediawiki to record what I seeing,what I
think,I really like it,maybe first it's kind hard to learn like about the
wired
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
How about getting this stuff included in the Signpost? I think that's a
good medium for it.
There used to be a Technology report but I've not seen it for a while...
Dan
BRION, they called it.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
I can definitely understand the reasoning behind this. Right now with both
Gadgets and common.js we are allowing non-reviewed code to be injected
directly into every page. While there is a bit of trust to be had
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
In this case we should promptly work to fix this issue. To be honest, the
only difficult part of our code review process is having to learn Git if
you do not already know how to use it. If there were a way to submit
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Or perhaps he merely suggested something that you disagreed with (or didn't
understand), without losing [his] mind or being a troll?
I'm a little skeptical about Jeroen's GitHub suggestion, but it seems like
something
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.
jaroslaw.w.tuszyn...@leidos.com wrote:
Lately someone deleted 70 pages from the middle of several thousand page
Russian encyclopedia used by Wikisource. Everything was done by the
book: since the uploader forgot to add a license and did
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they
just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or CAPTMCA
soon enough.
There are likely a number of strings that should be
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de
wrote:
I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they
just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or
to make what we are passionate about a reality, to the
extent that's possible given the resources at hand. Thanks,
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
Id say that http://getwiki.net/-GetWiki:1.0 was similar to your superset
concept (minus the merging part)
Yeah, per WikiIndex http://wikiindex.org/GetWiki, Instead of red links,
GetWiki uses green links to point to articles
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen
mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF does not
use. This ranges from major projects like Semantic MW to one-off
extensions that WMF does not have a use for (e.g. Absentee Landlord) to
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:35 PM, This, that and the other
at.li...@live.com.au wrote:
I can't say I care about people reading through the interwiki list. It's
just that with the one interwiki map, we are projecting our internal
interwikis, like strategy:, foundation:, sulutil:, wmch: onto
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I think the interwiki map should be retired. I think broken links
should be removed from it, and no new wikis should be added.
Interwiki prefixes, local namespaces and article titles containing a
plain colon
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:00 AM, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote:
What if filling the interwiki table with predefined links was an
installation option, possibly with several lists, and void?
Probably won't (and shouldn't) happen, since we're trying to keep the
installer options close to the
I forgot to mention, another problem is that you can't even import
Wikipedia: namespace pages to your wiki without changing your interwiki
table to get rid of the wikipedia: interwiki prefix first. The importer
will say, Page 'Wikipedia:Sandbox' is not imported because its name is
reserved for
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I tested the existing process by creating a new riseup.net email
account via Tor, then requesting account creation and a global
exemption via stewa...@wikimedia.org. My account creation request was
granted, but for
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It would allow a motivated person to reset their identity and go
undetected provided they avoid the kind of articles and behaviors they
got in trouble over in the first place. It's not clear to me that the
consequences
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote:
Hi,
to test changes to operations/mediawiki-config, I'd like to
display the settings for a given wiki.
So far I figured out:
| ?php
| $IP = 'wmf-config';
| $cluster = 'pmtpa';
| require
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Your scenario is based on the premise that Wikipedia vandals care enough
about vandalizing Wikipedia that they would get in their car (assuming
they're old enough to have a license), drive to the nearest Starbucks,
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
For example, MZMcBride, what if your password is wiki, and somebody
compromises your account, and changes your password and email. You don't
have a committed identity, so your account is now unrecoverable. You now
have to
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote:
1) As I understand it, the reason we went from 0 to 1 character required is
spammers were actively trying to find accounts with no password so they
could edit with an autoconfirmed account. We rely on number of
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The discussion will be in #wikimedia-office at 13:00 UTC on Friday the
14th:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=RFC+reviewiso=20140214T14p1=37ah=1
Cool, now I have something to tell
.) that are,
by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for
making an exception for the meta namespace?
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On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:11 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:
4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that
are,
by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki
language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English
users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian
sure this meets the criteria for a highest priority bug? and then linking
to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Priority ?
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see that the page
exists in the db, mediawiki is acting like the template doesn't exist.
If anyone has any experience with these kinds of problems or importing
database dumps in general, your help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Nathan Day
Thanks for the solution Roan, that fixed the issue! Hip hip, hoorah and
three cheers for Roan.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote:
2010/5/21 Nathan Day nathanryan...@gmail.com:
I have been trying to set up a mirror site of wiktionary
[snip]
1
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? It feels like
sweeping reports under the carpet. If a team is convinced that something
won't be addressed any time soon then they can WONTFIX. If anybody feels
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote:
On 11/13/2012 11:54 AM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
Once no RESOLVED LATER tickets remain, I can remove the resolution.
Silence means approval.
No it doesn't.
The above exchange really confuses me.
I'm not
the
relevant information.
Best Regards,
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said, it is not much to simply import
the missing templates manually, I was wondering if anyone had
experienced this problem or has a quicker solution than the manual
import/export.
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They are template articles that are missing. Not interwiki links. :-)
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, OQ overlo...@gmail.com wrote:
You sure those aren't interwiki links and not templates?
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workaround, patch or idea.
On 21 May 2010 21:35, Nathan Day nathanryan...@gmail.com wrote:
2. For the articles that do show up, the templates are not transcluding.
For
an article that has Template:Hat for example, where I can see that the page
exists in the db, mediawiki is acting like
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