Okay. I recompiled the kernel on Pliny. I included support for a
serial console (null modem connected to ttyS0 on Larousse). I can get
a login prompt using the serial console, but authentication is failing
for some reason. I am using agetty, which I don't know anything about
configuring. Anybody now of a better getty, or how to properly
configure agetty? I haven't used it while booting up yet (so I don't
know if it is working in that regard). I looked throught the bios
config, and didn't find any remote access or console redirection
config options, so the most we can hope for is console redirection
from the time the kernel loads.
the old kernel is still available (label=linux) in /etc/lilo.conf, in
case we have any trouble with this one.
--
"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr(a)bomis.com>
OK, the list of users below have been nominated for
Adminhood and seconded. Now all we need is their
consent to become sysops. To get this I'm going to
place a note on their talk pages explaining the
situation and asking them to add their consent. Should
this consent be in the form of a response on their
talk page or does it have to be placed by them onto
WikiEN-L (thus we getting them to sign-up to this
mailing list)?
User:CatherineMunro
User:Hephaestos
User:The Anome
User:Someone_else
Also, these users were nominated by me but nobody has
seconded the nominations yet. Could somebody who is
familiar with these users please do so (or object with
a very brief reason why - then I'll drop my nomination
for the user - there is no need to drag people through
the dirt when they haven't even asked to become
Admins)?
User:RTC
User:GrahamN
One more thing: James Lovejoy (aka Minesweeper) has
been nominated, seconded and has indicated consent on
the mailing list. Could you "make it so" Erik?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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I wonder if we shouldn't contact the developers of other open source
wiki software, and convene a by-email "mini summit meeting" about wiki
syntax, and try to formalize a standard that they and we can all
follow.
We've deviated, with good cause and good results, from the traditional
CamelCase method, but there's a lot of syntax that wikis share, but
lots of little idiosyncracies that should probably be ironed out.
Or, we could just create our own standard, publish it, and recommend
that everyone else follow it. Maybe a bad idea, though.
--Jimbo
Creating new TeX formulas currently doesn't work. See
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
for an example. When testing, you have to make sure that you use a new
formula that doesn't yet exist on Wikipedia, because the existent ones
work.
Axel
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Some notes.
1.
>From english database dump (cur only)
things that looked like character entities were extracted.
2.
Lot of them were incorrect - they didn't end with ;, but with <, space
or something like that.
Here are results from perlscripting:
These were considered "html entities":
547567 &\S+?; &#\d+;? &#[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+;?
Other matches:
574064 &\S+?;?
516728 &\S+?; &#\d+; &#[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+;
29547  
23015
3.
Of that 547567:
823 hex refs (all correctly ended)
134505 decimal refs (103661 ended correctly - only 77%)
412239 other (incorrectly ended already excluded)
4.
After hex->dec conversion:
32701 unique entities
32415 unique numerical entities
286 unique named entities (after second look it seems that lot of
these are things like cgi part of URLs
etc. and not real html entities)
5.
30 most popular named entities:
294565 sup2
48034 deg
23015 nbsp
9558 middot
2449 eacute
2092 amp
1738 gt
1480 lt
1474 times
1417 radic
1273 quot
1210 mdash
909 ouml
759 uuml
743 alpha
708 rarr
651 lambda
629 aacute
615 pi
612 phi
511 epsilon
510 mu
508 egrave
455 iacute
409 ndash
396 oacute
395 omega
390 le
368 gamma
357 sigma
6.
XHTML absolutely can't contain incorrect &-entities. It won't even display.
So if we want to move to XHTML and have goodies like MathML,
we must make Wikipedia parser understand them.
7.
Search will benefit much from replacing html entities with proper characters
in searching text form.
8.
If we want to add option of generating PNGs of non-Latin characters,
then we must parse them.
9.
We may want small inline images, like those on Sensei's Library generated
by W1 B3 etc. Of course we can't make every W1 turn into image.
But using &W1; will do fine. They will be needed if we ever add support
for game diagrams, Using lot of [[Image:w1.png]] just doesn't seem right.
10. Summary note:
We need to make parser understand &-entities.
It's impossible to ignore the problem for much longer.
If you create new parser for Wikipedia, please consider this issue.
Someone knows how fast the aspell/pspell function are? It seems to be easy
(if apache and php are properly configured) to run a spellcheck through a
wikipedia page, which displays misspelled works in a proper color.
Should be used by pressing 'preview', IMHO.
Some Pseudo-Code:
- Create array of words from article text.
- foreach word pspell_check(appropriate_dict, wort)
-TRUE: next
-FALSE: enclose word in color tag
That's without personal spellbooks, replacements and so one, I think
getting wikipedia tags inside the languagedict, or use a additional dict is
enought.
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Often when I create a new page I get an "article doesn't exist" message
aver saving. I also happens that after editing an article my browser
shows the old version of it. I thought it would be a bug in Mozilla's
caching, but it also happens after clearing the cache and reloading the
page. But when I reload it after about 20 seconds the new page version
is shown. So I guess it takes some time until the new content is written
into the database.
But maybe it's still a problem at my end. Did anybody else experience this?
Kurt
Following the directions at:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Software
to get latest version:
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net:
/cvsroot/wikipedia login (ENTER)
Logging in to
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/wikipedia
CVS password: (ENTER)
cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net:
Connection reset by peer
$
So what is the likely problem?
Fred
We seem somehow to have broken the link to this hottly contested article
which can no longer be accessed for some reason. It does not show up on
recently deleted.
Fred
There is some suspicion that our server-crashes-all-the-time problem is
related to the hard disk and/or SCSI controller.
Here's a diagnostic program for the disk (DOS program, runs from a
floppy... do we have a floppy drive?):
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Here's the detailed specs for the drive:
http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A78005A3…
Is the SCSI controller built-in to the motherboard? What's the motherboard
manufacturer? Do they have any diagnostics? Or is there something we could
get direct from Adaptec (Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter)?
I'd also recommend upgrading our old kernel to a current 2.4.x to ensure
that drivers are current; Jason may be recompiling anyway for serial
console support, so two birds with one stone.
It's also high time we move the mailing lists to the other server so we
can still communicate during downtime...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)