I've been using secure for login for months now, and at first it seemed
pretty good, other than the inability to switch sites easily. (And always
editing links from secure.wikimedia.org/.../w to en.wikipedia.org/w, but
I've gotten used to doing that extra bit by hand.)
Anyway, it's just been a dog lately. During EDT daylight hours, it often
gives an error not able to access page, especially saving.
So, I've reverted to the old practice from the dog days of 2005-06, and
mostly edit in very off hours. Yet it slowed down drastically again!
The logs show a problem some hours ago. But nothing recent. Are there too
many secure users? I've found no way to see the status.
Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML
updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any
way to convert XML to HTML, like the static HTML version? I need it in HTML,
and I don't want a one year old version of Wikipedia, with all the useless
information on user talk, discussions, etc.
Thank you.
Hi!
Is there any way of customize the formatting of links according to the
wikiproject that they are pointing to?
For example, if at Wikibooks we want to make the links to Wikipedia to be
green and the links to the Wiktionary to have and dotted grey underline (or
if some user wants to have a complete rainbow of colors and effects in his
links ;-)), or each of these links have an small icon corresponding to the
project, how could this be achieved? Is there any css classes for the links?
Thanks,
Helder
$ wget
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xm…
After a while, I get:
2009-07-17 21:17:28 (0.00 B/s) - Connection closed at byte 4100096. Giving up.
I try again, and I get the same error (again). I've tried downloading it from
various locations (france, cuba, finland), and the connection always closes
at byte 4100096.
Is there anything wrong?
--
Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
Today I was able to make a graph of the biographies in the Swedish
Wikipedia, showing how male and female biographies are distributed
by decade of birth,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA2-gender-age.png
Among living people (born 1920 or later, secion A), there are 1
woman to 3 men. The gender inequality ratio peaks at 1:13 among
people born 1800-1849 (section B). The Swedish Wikipedia contains
articles about 16,987 women and 70,318 men, together making up 27
percent of all articles in the Swedish Wikipedia.
Knowing this is the result of a long and hard group effort in
categorizing all biographies, that started a year ago.
Samples in older printed encyclopedias indicate that Wikipedia,
with an overall ratio of 1 female to 4 male biographies, as
inequal as that might seem, could be the most gender equal Swedish
encyclopedia to date. And we're the first to keep count.
----
A year ago, I was intrigued by the various parody illustration of
Wikipedia's content as a bookshelf, such as
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_broken_dow…
The embarrasing fact is that we don't know what an accurate
diagram would look like. We know how many articles there are in
total, but not what percentage is about geographic places, people,
historic events, popular culture, or abstract scientific concepts.
So one year ago I started to categorize all biographies in the
Swedish Wikipedia as either "men" or "women". This is something
the German Wikipedia had already done. With the help of some
friends and a modified pywikipediabot script, it took 18 weeks and
was completed at the end of December 2008. We had found 80,150
biographies or 26.6 percent of all articles. Of these, 15,500 were
women (5.1%) and 64.650 were men (21.4%) for a ratio of 1 woman to
4 men. The German Wikipedia had (and still has) 1:6.
That was 26.6 % of all articles. I suspect another big section of
the bookshelf is articles about geographic places. I have not yet
started to identify them systematically. That should probably be
done by assigning geographic coordinates.
During the first half of 2009, another 7000 biographies have been
added to the Swedish Wikipedia (280 each week). This remains 27%
of all articles and the ratio of women:men also remains constant.
Already before, we had categories for years of birth and death,
but nobody had tried to cover all biographies. After all 80,150
biographies were categorized by gender, only 80% of them were
categorized by birth year. This has since increased to 91%.
It turns out that people born 1920 or later, i.e. mostly living
people, are 1 women to 3 men, and quite evenly distributed over
the decades, from 4,195 born in the 1920s to 8,439 in the 1970s.
As one goes back into the 19th century, the total number of
biographies declines (2,122 born in the 1870s, 1,494 in the 1840s)
and at the same time the gender inequality steadily increases, to
peak at 1:13 among people born 1800-1849. For people born in the
18th century, the ratio is "only" 1:8.
The great inequality in older times could be the result of good
coverage of scientists and members of parliament (all men), and
less coverage of artists and writers (many women active in this
time).
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
CentralNotice was disabled on all sites except Meta on the 11th as
part of the fight with ms1. Is there a likely timeline for when that
will be restored?
-Robert Rohde
Hi,
I am proofreading Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar [1] on the English Wikisource.
It uses intricate formatting and for proper display of Biblical Hebrew it
needs a font which isn't installed on most people's computers. Fortunately,
this font, called Ezra SIL SR, is Free Software, released under the Open
Font License.[2]
Some modern browsers, such as Firefox 3.5 are able to render downloadable
fonts in a way that is consistent with draft CSS 3 standard. Would it be
possible to upload such a free font to Wikimedia servers and let people who
use modern browsers, but don't have the font on their computer, enjoy the
book with proper fonts without bothering with installing new fonts?
Thanks in advance.
[1] (
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar_%281910_Kaut…)
[2] (
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=silhebrunic2 )
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
"We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
Since we seem to routinely have our deployment linger a bit behind trunk
but still need to make updates on it, I've gone ahead and created a
branch with out live versions of MediaWiki & extensions on it:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/wmf-deployment
Misc coders: please don't commit to it or we break you. :)
With Subversion 1.5 or later on the client, merging updates from trunk
should be easier, as SVN now saves merge info into properties and can
more intelligently figure out where you last left off. For instance to
update the UsabilityInitiative extension to the current version from trunk:
cd extensions/UsabilityInitiative
svn merge \
svn+ssh://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/UsabilityIni…
svn commit
The theoretical workflow is:
* Merge updates that need to go live into branches/wmf-deployment
* Test it locally & on staging server (once we've got a nicer staging
area set up)
* Update deployment master: svn up
* Poke live test on test.wikipedia.org
* Deploy updates to all servers: scap
For the moment I've applied the various 'svn up' and manually merged
live patches from our live deployment, with the exception of any
_manually added_ files. There's a lot of cruft and I'm not sure yet
which of the extra files are ancient one-offs and which we really need. :)
We'll want to test a fresh checkout on test.wikipedia for a bit before
syncing live to all wikis.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
I tried to run parserTests on the latest version in Trunk (r53382). However, I get the following error:
A database error has occurred
Query: SELECT lc_value FROM `mw_l10n_cache` WHERE lc_lang = 'en' AND lc_key = 'deps' LIMIT 1
Function: LCStore_DB::get
Error: 1146 Table 'wikidb.mw_l10n_cache' doesn't exist (localhost)
Since I can run the tests on 1.16a (r52088), this suggests there is a database schema change contemplated between 1.16a and REL1_16. Is this correct? If so, how do I update my database to conform to the new schema?
