I am discontinuing some MediaWiki sites that are currently running 1.15.4.
The client would like a static copy of the site for backup purposes. I
tried the current DumpHTML extension but it is looking for Class
RequestContext which I believe was introduced in MediaWiki 1.18. Is there
a 1.15 version of the extension? I would rather avoid having to upgrade
to 1.18. I tried using wget with additional code to handle MediaWiki
login but have so far not been successful.
Thanks, Norbert
Hi guys!
SMWCon Fall 2012, the conference on Semantic MediaWiki is now fully
available on YouTube.
Use this YouTube playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwtfwT1GnUQRaLki-YcF-_n8ndayi--W5
And the conference page is still here:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2012
Here is the small review of the second day of the conference.
In the keynote Peter Haase have presented Information Workbench
platform. In fact it's an enterprise semantic wiki, it has lots of
import\export features, visualizations and RDF support and visual
editor. Nice mature product that have proven that semantic wiki can be
useful in big companies.
The talks about new features in well-known extensions have made me
excited the most: Jeroen (+Nischay, +MWJames) have told about Semantic
Maps and Semantic Result formats. Lots of new plots and graphs,
interactive charts, SHAPES on the map, searching through markers,
clusters... wow! Stephan Gambke have also presented his new 'filtered'
format that have gained popularity immediately in our community.
Stephan made 'filtered' format available for calendars and have great
plans on further development. Big hooray to the developers that have
made SMW even more functional and beautiful!
Searching and SMW is the topic that is now being actively developed by
GESIS institute, so we had two talks about SolrStore and SMW.
Also we had two talks about the new SMW extensions that may be of
interest: Semantic Image Annotator that guys from AIFB have developed
to help annotate parts of the scan pages of books (Corpora analysis)
and Semantic Expressiveness that allows you to use much shorter syntax
for your queries: Daniel Werner described how it helps him to develop
RPG Wiki. Among lightning talk there was Presentation of Toneelstof -
pretty impressive visualization with a clear use csse that uses SMW in
a background.
At the end of the conference Joel Natividad described how linked data
may help in city infrastructure.
P.S. dear speakers, if you have time, please add to the template Talk
link to your talk on YouTube in a parameter Video. I'm quite slow guy
as you can see
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote, Program Chair
(((re-sending, hopefully it will arrive now)))
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want
to take part?
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi, sorry for cross-replying.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Lydia Pintscher
<lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper(a)saper.info> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research
>> "Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2]
>> So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE
>> will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and
>> there is still some possibility for other large FOSS projects to join.
>>
>> I think it could fit nicely into our recent efforts directed
>> at newcomer experience after Git migration. And MediaWiki is
>> a bit different than above projects.
>>
>> Are we interested
>> to include MediaWiki in that research?
>>
>> As Kevin explains in his post he tried to avoid spamming mailing
>> lists to look for project interested, so I am doing this for him :-)
>>
>> //Saper
>
> I've worked with Kevin in preparation for his survey and later
> promotion from the KDE-side quite a bit. This is not the kind of
> research project that is of no value to the project taking part. I
> expect the results to be very useful for KDE (and likely also the
> other projects taking part).
It turns out that Sumana and me have been in touch with Kevin in the
past days after Asheesh Laroia proposed directly to include Wikimedia
in this research.
Said and done, Wikimedia is also included in the survey and you are
encouraged to invest some minutes in it:
https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151
I will send a proper announcement next Monday, but in the meantime
here is an illustrative link of links:
http://kevincarillo.org/2012/11/15/survey-update-after-1-week/
--
Quim
I'm thinking of an implementation that may have 100 thousand categories. Is that possible? Is there a documented limit? Would there be a performance hit?
Thanks,
Al
Hmmm, I would think that the labels (including the English one) would be replaceable via an i18n resource. No?
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From: Hazard-SJ <hazard_sj(a)yahoo.com>
To: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Rename "Category" to "Topic"
You could try editing the large (I assume) number of system messages, and you'd have to make a number of code edits to complete the implementation (i.e., to remane Special:Categories, Special:UnusedCategories, Special:SpecialPages (to reflect the updates), etc. It really isn't worth doing.
Hazard-SJ
________________________________
From: Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com>
To: "mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 8:59 PM
Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Rename "Category" to "Topic"
I have a unique situation and would like to rename the Category functionality and call it "Topic" instead. IOW, everywhere you see a "Category" or "Categories" label on a regular wiki page - such as at the bottom of every page - I would like the label to be "Topic" and "Topics" instead.
Is that possible?
Thanks,
Al
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Hello,
I have just ran "php update.php" to update MW from 1.19.1 to 1.20.0 and now
I go "Fatal exception of type MWException". How can I debug?
Regards,
Frederic
Dear all,
we are happy to announce the release of the new Semantic MediaWiki
version SMW 1.8 [1]. A record number of people have contributed to this
release, and a large number of changes have been made, both visible and
internal. Major new features of SMW 1.8 include:
* New data storage: more efficient, less database activity
* Interface improvements in Special:Ask
* New atom and RSS printer
* SMW now provides information about #ask queries used on the wiki [2]
* Support for #subobjects without a name
* Ask API now stable, with added continuation support
Moreover, a large number of bugs have been fixed, compatibility to all
recent MW versions has been ensured, a lot of internal improvements have
been made, and translations have been added. Many internal changes
prepare further improvements in upcoming versions. The great new
Semantic Result Formats 1.8 also is based on SMW 1.8 -- it will be
released shortly.
== Extensions for SMW 1.8 ==
Latest versions of major SMW extensions are compatible with the new
release. In particular this involves Semantic Forms, Semantic Maps 2.0,
Semantic Drilldown 1.2.4, Semantic Internal Objects 0.7, and the amazing
new Semantic Result Formats 1.8. There are known issues with "distance
queries" in S Maps and with "remote autocompletion" in S Forms.
== Installation and Upgrade ==
To get the new version, you can download the file package [3] (includes
the required version 0.5.1 of the Validator extension) or pull directly
from git using the tag "1.8" [4]. Installation instructions are at [5].
Users who upgrade existing installations will need to refresh their data
(you can continue using the old data until this is done). It is not
difficult, but please do read the upgrade instructions [5].
Users who are now running the git master branch should be aware that
this branch will soon become the place of SMW 1.9 development, and may
thus be less stable than in recent weeks. You can switch to the release
tag "1.8" for stability [4].
== The most important bit ==
SMW 1.8 was a team effort that had an amazing amount of support from too
many people to list here. We would not have this release without the
significant contributions from James "Hong Kong" and Nischay Nahata.
Karsten Hoffmeyer once more did a great job in getting the documentation
ready for the release. Further thanks are due to the Wikimedia
Foundation, Wikimedia Germany e.V., Google Inc., and to the University
of Oxford who each supported some of us in doing this work.
We hope you enjoy the new release.
Cheers,
Markus & Jeroen
[1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_1.8.0
[2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_property_Has_query
[3]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/files/semediawiki/Semantic%20Me…
[4] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Download#Git
[5] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Installation
I have a unique situation and would like to rename the Category functionality and call it "Topic" instead. IOW, everywhere you see a "Category" or "Categories" label on a regular wiki page - such as at the bottom of every page - I would like the label to be "Topic" and "Topics" instead.
Is that possible?
Thanks,
Al
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Going to FOSDEM
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:32:18 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Are you going to FOSDEM? If so (or if you are considering going) please
add yourself to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
I still don't know. Depends on whether we have a MediaWiki EU critical mass.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation