Hi,
About some 6 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a
newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like
"Foundation", "Community", "Media" but the section"Technical news" is
the most important one.
This list, the server admin log and the diffs of the release notes are
the main sources of information. It is not always easy to understand
what some rather short technical-cryptic description means but in
general most changes can be discovered that way.
But that are all reports about things who are already changed. It
would be nice to know in advance about changes to come and the
advancement of projects.
Request; can the technical staff make and maintain a page where
important planed changes are announced? Changes who have an impact for
the user experiences for visitors, users or sysops. And for some large
projects, like the universal login, every x weeks an update about how
it is going with it.
Sending information directly to the internal news media is also good
of course, especially when it is urgent or really important so that is
not overlooked. But just putting it on a pages is more convenient I
suppose.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media
This way I believe Wikizine, and others like the Signpost, can inform
the community better.
Greetings,
Walter
The guy from Wikizine
http://www.wikizine.org
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mailto:request@wikizine.org?subject=subscribe
Hi,
Many must have informally requested it: would it be possible and
desirable to have -- be interpreted as em-dash (—)? It's a very useful
symbol, particularly in the context of writing an encyclopaedia, but
is not readily available on the keyboard. Many editors already seem to
naturally use -- to try and imitate a proper em-dash.
What are the issues involved? Anyone know of other uses of -- that
should not be interpreted this way? Is there any argument that it
should become some other kind of dash instead?
Also, I realise there are bots that occasionally go around replacing
-- with other dashes, but that does seem a bit kludgy.
In the meantime, on en I have created {{--}} which surprisingly no one
had thought of creating.
Steve
A growing number of third party software has already included
wikipedia data somehow. It starts with trillian, there is a wikipedia
widget for MacOS X and one company with friendly relations to
Wikimedia (Answers.com) has released a tool. Not to forget Babylon.
One tool with is missing support for wikipedia data is currently
Google Desktop. Version 4 was released hours ago and the company is
trying to catch up in terms of the number of gadgets offered by
announcing a contest for creating these. Details can befound at
http://desktop.google.com/contest.html. There is also an IDE for
development at http://desktop.google.com/designer.html a documentation
for the SDK at http://desktop.google.com/developer.html.
Maybe someone is interested in this challenge.
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 09:16
An: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org
Betreff: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki automated test run failure 2006-06-28
An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures:
Running test Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html)... FAILED!
Running test Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598)... FAILED!
Running test message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED!
Running test message transform: <onlyinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED!
Running test Language converter: output gets cut off unexpectedly (bug 5757)... FAILED!
Running test HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test Parsing optional HTML elements (Bug 6171)... FAILED!
Running test Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting... FAILED!
Running test Mixing markup for italics and bold... FAILED!
Passed 394 of 407 tests (96.81%) FAILED!
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An automated run of parserTests.php showed the following failures:
Running test Table security: embedded pipes (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-April/034637.html)... FAILED!
Running test Link containing double-single-quotes '' (bug 4598)... FAILED!
Running test message transform: <noinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED!
Running test message transform: <onlyinclude> in transcluded template (bug 4926)... FAILED!
Running test BUG 1887, part 2: A <math> with a thumbnail- math enabled... FAILED!
Running test Language converter: output gets cut off unexpectedly (bug 5757)... FAILED!
Running test HTML bullet list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML ordered list, unclosed tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested bullet list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test HTML nested ordered list, open tags (bug 5497)... FAILED!
Running test Parsing optional HTML elements (Bug 6171)... FAILED!
Running test Inline HTML vs wiki block nesting... FAILED!
Running test Mixing markup for italics and bold... FAILED!
Passed 394 of 407 tests (96.81%) FAILED!
I just read about an open-source MySQL plugin that enables fulltext
search on all MySQL table types:
http://sphinxsearch.com/
On the other hand, our current search seems to hold up nicely these days...
Just FYI,
Magnus
Hi all,
I'm curious to know exactly what the risk is from editing highly used
templates. There are several archive header templates on enwiki which
could potentially be used on many, many pages, and I want to ensure
that if I make a modification to one of them that it doesn't have any
ill effects.
If I make one edit to a template used on many infrequently visited
pages, would that cause issues?
~Mdd4696
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