Wikitech-l June 2010

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58 discussions

CAPTCHA can be required for logins from toolserver hosts
by Carl (CBM) 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

At the moment, logins to enwiki from nightshade.toolserver.org are throwing up a CAPTCHA. This is easy to check by loading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin in w3m or another browser from that host. Logins from willow.toolserver.org do not require a CAPTCHA at the moment. The CAPTCHA requirement makes it impossible for bots to log in via the API. The fundamental problem is that bots are run automatically, of course. But the API also does not report the CAPTCHA requirement at all, so bot developers are given a "WrongPass" error that they have to investigate to find that a CAPTCHA is the problem. This CAPTCHA situation has happened before, most likely due to some erroneous bot on toolserver triggering it. But individual bot operators cannot fix it, and so to them it has the same effect as a toolserver outage. Moreover, whatever bot operator caused it probably has no way to know it was them. It seems like this may take collaboration between toolserver and wikimedia to fix, but probably the fix will involve at least some change on the wikimedia side. So I have filed a bug at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23982 to coordinate discussion there. - Carl

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No dump for frwiki for about 70 days
by Nicolas Vervelle 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi, I hope this is the correct list to post for problems with XML dumps of wikipedia. There seems to be a problem with the dump for the French wiki. The database dump progress page<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html>reports at the end : 2010-06-14 17:49:00 frwiki (new): missing status record The date/time is continuously updating but no new dump has been available for 74 days. Can someone fix this problem ? Thanks in advance Nico

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Please review PagedTiffHandler
by Daniel Kinzler 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi all Some months ago, Wikimedia Germany contracted Hallo Welt to write a handler for TIFF files. The extension is now complete, and the commons community would like to have it enabled. It would be great if some of you could have a look at the code. I have filed a request on bugzilla for review & enabling in May <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23258>. If you have comments or ideas, please comment there. I will help with fixing any remaining issues, so this can go live soon. Thanks Daniel

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Account creation only block
by George Herbert 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Without having time to deep-dive the source code tonight - How difficult do developers feel that it would be to add the ability to block an account or IP range and only remove the ability to create accounts, not remove the ability to edit? We have the bit to block and block account creation (or not), and the AO vs hard block bits, but this would presumably be a bit for block but don't prevent edits... If the code already allows this, the UI currently doesn't, and that would be a plus. I don't recall what the code does, though. If we'd need to add support in the code to do this, I will look into that more. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com

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Fixme, please fix me!
by Chad 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Just a friendly reminder to everyone about their outstanding FIXMEs in Code Review. The following is a list of everyone who has a commit with a fixme on it: mah - 5 tparscal - 5 jeroendedauw - 4 reedy - 4 siebrand - 4 catrope - 3 werdna - 3 adam - 2 maxsem - 2 neilk - 2 philip - 2 aaron - 1 brion - 1 dale - 1 daniel - 1 demon - 1 devunt - 1 diana - 1 gurch - 1 hartman - 1 ishimatsu - 1 jojo - 1 mgrabovsky - 1 ning - 1 pdhanda - 1 purodha - 1 platonides - 1 shmichael - 1 simetrical - 1 svip - 1 than4213 - 1 thomasv - 1 tisane - 1 tomasz - 1 tstarling - 1 vyznev - 1 TOTAL: 63 Please be sure to ping anyone you know isn't on this mailing list (like some contractors, or people working on special projects maybe?) so we can get everyone informed. Thanks, -Chad

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New committers
by Tim Starling 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Extension access only: * Wiktor Walc (wwalc): FCKeditor Access upgraded to core: * Ryan Kaldari -- Tim Starling

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for June 07, 2010 - June 14, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 150 Bugs ASSIGNED : 9 Bugs REOPENED : 23 Bugs RESOLVED : 111 Total bugs still open: 4533 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 67 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 11 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 20 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 11 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 5 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 18 Site requests 6 Vector Skin 5 General/Unknown 5 General/Unknown 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 28 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 34 Wikipedia Mobile 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 28 jeluf [AT] gmx.de 14 hcatlin [AT] wikimedia.org 6 yaron57 [AT] gmail.com 6 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 6

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How to find the category information?
by 杨杰 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi, everyone, I want to do some experiments on classification using web pages of wikipedia. Now that I have got the web page archive, the experiment needs the following category information: 1. what is the category (or categories) of a web page (an article)? eg. once I can get the two tips, the information is enough. a. Web page P1 belongs to category C1; b. Category C1 is under two parent categories CC1 and CC2, while the two categories own their parent category chains seperately. Then I can build a tree, which leaves are the web pages. 2. how do guys in wikipedia deal with the category work upon the huge amount of articles, for example, category method, level or inheritance between categories. Could you give me some adivces or URLs to find them ? Thanks & Best wishes, -- Yang Jie（杨杰） hi.baidu.com/thinkdifferent Group of CLOUD, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University PHONE: 86 1346888 3723 TEL: 86 29 82665263 EXT. 608 MSN: xtyangjie2004(a)yahoo.com.cn once i didn't know software is not free, but found it days later; now i realize that it's indeed free.

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varchar(255) binary in tables.sql
by Ryan Chan 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hello all, I remember in old days, UTF-8 string are stored as varbinary, are there reason to change to varchar(255) binary? Also, what is the default server/connection/client character set settings now? Thanks.

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Bug at Planet Wikimedia
by Tim Landscheidt 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hi, at <URI:http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/> and the correspond- ing RSS feed there is the problem that some links get man- gled, i. e. the link to Ziko's article "Don’t give me a link. Give me an explanation!" is /empty/. The issue was raised at <URI:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia#Problems> and there seems to be a related bug at <URI:https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22937>. I installed Planet 2.0 on my local box and downloaded the configuration files from Subversion's trunk, and the links were properly processed. <URI:http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet.wikimedia.org> says that it sits on "singer currently, installed from a nightly snapshot of planet 2.0". To squash the bug could someone with sufficient karma please check which version of Planet is actually installed on singer and whether the checkout from Subversion is up-to-date? TIA, Tim

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