On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
> More pointedly, is there a really *good* "Software Development Version
> Management HOWTO" anywhere at all? I've looked at the git book, and it
> just knocked me on my ass from the first chapter. I *almost* understand
> BZR... but I haven't seen a good 30,000ft explanation of any of them,
> written for people who are good programmers, but have never worked with
> one before.
I think this might be what you're looking for:
http://producingoss.com/en/vc.html
...though the information is a little dated. Then again, our version
control system is a little dated, so maybe this is just right (though
ignore pretty much everything said about CVS).
Regarding MediaWiki-specific information about branching and so on,
that's largely covered here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access
...though that documentation could stand some improvement. (volunteers?)
Rob
Hi *,
New to the list, so please tell me to RTFM if I've missed anything or this
is the incorrect place for my question.
We've been using and hacking 2 different extensions (PdfBook and PdfExport)
to render our wiki pages to PDF. Both extensions have been hacked enough to
work quite well but now we I a requirement to include CSS so that the
rendered PDF looks EXACTLY like the wiki. Since htmldoc doesn't support CSS
as of yet, I've been looking at some different approaches to rendering
wiki's to PDF.
The first option I came across was PrinceXML. This does quite a nice job but
at a cost of a license ~$6k USD. Unfortunately that's a deal breaker due to
the nature of the projects (some of which are funded and others are
completely open and not funded except for my time). I then ran across
wkhtmltopdf which utilizes QTWebkit. After a few scripts to test externally,
this seems to be a viable option that I would like to put some cycles
towards.
I've been using mediawiki for quite some time and know PHP, so writing an
extension should not be to terribly hard. I've been reading through the
manual on extension development (hooking, parsers, etc) and kinda get the
idea of how to do it. I'm sure that after a little trial and error and
looking at others source, I should be able to get what I need done and give
the extension back if anyone would be interested.
Has anyone gone down this road before with trying to render wiki's with
CSS?? (We currently have custom Common.css and Print.css files on many wiki
sites). Obviously I don't want to have to re-invent the wheel, but I have
yet to see any extensions that support CSS.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!!
TIA,
max
Hi Brion,
thanks for the hint. Is there a tutorial or documentation on how to use stored procedures in MediaWiki? Do you - or anybody else - know an extension that makes use of this feature? Something we can take a look at?
Greetings,
Robert Vogel
Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH
4)
One more question.
The books is a review about nanowires. It is based on approx thousand
article careful review.
How i should escape from blacklisting references?
Most of references for some reasons become blacklisted, while trying
uploading the initial draft, which has to be formatted.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanowires
It is possible to observe hundred blacklisted lines if you scroll down and
remove <ref> ....</ref> quotations.
Or just one blacklisting notice if you add word </references> to the end of
document.
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From: gintare statkute <g.statkute(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Subject: references?
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
How to work with references? Could you reply with minimal hint.
There is about 1000 references to various articles in my book. I would like
to make a separate page listing them all.
1) I would like that any changes in this page would reflect in all book
contents. I.e. if i change the ref2 to ref7, i would like that all ref2
entries in all book would be renamed to ref7.
2) Additionally i would like to have double reference.
I mean that if i insert the reference to some page from references list, i
want that the link to this page/place appears at the reference in the
reference list. I.e. in the reference list page i will be able to see where
every reference is cited in the text.
I would like that back references would be generated automatically. Any time
when i am inserting the ref.No from the references list to some page i would
like that information about this entrance as a backward reference would
appear below ref.No.
3) Additionally i would like that in any page automatically at the bottom
would be generated and updated a list of references mentioned in that page.
Summarizing once more, the questions are:
1) How to create references list for whole book. Change in main list should
be reflected in all book.
2) How to create backward automatic self-updating references? .
3) How to create self updating list of refernces in every page. Self
updating from that page, where every reference can be updated from main
references list.
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+358923164491 (to skype from mobile in Europe)
skype: gintare.statkute
How to work with references? Could you reply with minimal hint.
There is about 1000 references to various articles in my book. I would like
to make a separate page listing them all.
1) I would like that any changes in this page would reflect in all book
contents. I.e. if i change the ref2 to ref7, i would like that all ref2
entries in all book would be renamed to ref7.
2) Additionally i would like to have double reference.
I mean that if i insert the reference to some page from references list, i
want that the link to this page/place appears at the reference in the
reference list. I.e. in the reference list page i will be able to see where
every reference is cited in the text.
I would like that back references would be generated automatically. Any time
when i am inserting the ref.No from the references list to some page i would
like that information about this entrance as a backward reference would
appear below ref.No.
3) Additionally i would like that in any page automatically at the bottom
would be generated and updated a list of references mentioned in that page.
Summarizing once more, the questions are:
1) How to create references list for whole book. Change in main list should
be reflected in all book.
2) How to create backward automatic self-updating references? .
3) How to create self updating list of refernces in every page. Self
updating from that page, where every reference can be updated from main
references list.
--
+358923164491 (to skype from mobile in Europe)
skype: gintare.statkute
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+358923164491 (to skype from mobile in Europe)
skype: gintare.statkute
Hi everyone,
I've just rewritten our pre-commit hooks today (/trunk/tools/subversion/hooks)
and deployed them to the MediaWiki repository. The following rules are in place:
* No empty commit summaries
* Lint test for all php files
* No committing as root
If anyone has any problems with the new hooks, let me know :)
-Chad
I add a lot of images to Wikimedia. I would love to see a couple of
changes made to make the process easier for me. They are
1) Would be great to be able to upload more than 10 images at a time.
I am wanting to upload a set of normal Xray ( would be a least a few
hundred if not thousand images ). Can we increase the limit to 50 or a
100? Have posted here with no response
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Prototype_upload_wizard_feedback#…
2) When I click "Use this file on a wiki" can we have the description
automatically added as a caption? This would save me a lot of clicks.
If someone with greater technical ability than I could make these
changes would appreciate it.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
A few month ago Frank Schulenburg asked me if it would be possible to
exempt single IP addresses from the account creation throttle.
He filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25000
Besides the existing way of defining an exempt in the config files I
hacked a bit and committed
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/72959
An easy way, a bit too easy: it was reverted *hides*.
Now he asked me again on Wikimania what to do because he will need in
the future more exempts for bigger groups. All known ways seem not very
nice:
* Account creation by admin does not scale for > 100 new accounts
* Edit the config file is restricted to sysadmins
I think about writing an extension with a special page where admins can
define IP address, start and end time of the throttle exempt.
What do you think? Have I missed an easier way to approach his needs?
Raymond.
At the Wikimania Developer Days this week, several developers led a
workshop for MediaWiki beginners, and a code review training covering
our coding standards. First-draft notes for both are up:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshophttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_review_management/Aug_2011_training
and I intend on improving them into a more productized curriculum for
future hackathons.
Thanks to Guillaume Paumier and to Waldir Pimenta for many of those
notes, to Roan Kattouw, Timo Tijhof, Andrew Garrett, Brion Vibber, Tim
Starling, Brandon Harris, and other developers for teaching, to Amir
Aharoni for initiating the idea of the beginners' workshop, and to
Florian Hackenberger for volunteering to have Tim Starling review his
code live & onstage.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation