Wikitech-l September 2008

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Database dumps
by Byrial Jensen 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Until some weeks ago http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html used to show 4 dumps in progress at the same time. That meant that new database dumps normally was available within about 3 weeks for all databases except for enwiki and maybe dewiki where the dump process due to size took longer time. However the 4 dumps processes at one time become 3 some weeks ago. And after massive failures at June 4, only one dump has been in progress at the same time. So at the current speed it will take several months to come thru all dumps. Is it possible to speed up the process again using several dump processes at the same time? Thank you, Byrial

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EBNF grammar project status?
by Steve Bennett 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What's the status of the project to create a grammar for Wikitext in EBNF? There are two pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitext_Metasyntax http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec Nothing seems to have happened since January this year. Also the comments on the latter page seem to indicate a lack of clear goal: is this just a fun project, is it to improve the existing parser, or is it to facilititate a new parser? It's obviously a lot of work, so it needs to be of clear benefit. Brion requested the grammar IIRC (and there's a comment to that effect at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 ), so I'm wondering what became of it. Is there still a goal of replacing the parser? Or is there some alternative plan? Steve

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MediaWiki to Latex Converter
by Hugo Vincent 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems.

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Replacement stats for placeholder images?
by David Gerard 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I've been putting placeholder images on a lot of articles on en:wp. e.g. [[Image:Replace this image male.svg]], which goes to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]], which asks people to upload an image if they own one. I know it's inspired people to add free content images to articles in several cases. What I'm interested in is numbers. So what I'd need is a list of edits where one of the SVGs that redirects to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] is replaced with an image. (Checking which of those are actually free images can come next.) Is there a tolerably easy way to get this info from a dump? Any Wikipedia statistics fans who think this'd be easy? (If the placeholders do work, then it'd also be useful convincing some wikiprojects to encourage the things. Not that there's ownership of articles on en:wp, of *course* ...) - d.

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Dumps are currently halted...
by Jochen Magnus 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

Hello admins and hostmasters, download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html says: "Dumps are currently halted pending resolution of disk space issues. Hopefully will be resolved shortly." Meanwhile some weeks have passed, the german dump is six weeks old. May we still stay hopefully? Thank you! jo

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$wpEditToken = "+\\";
by Tei 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Reading the wikipedia html output, I have found that EditPage.php produce "+\" has the value for wpEditToken. This token seens supposedly random, to stop spammers to fill the wikipedia with viagra links. But It don't seems much random to me, on all computers I have tested, it seems constant to "+\" Is that a code bug, or maybe misconfiguration on the wikipedia guys?. Un saludo.

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ODJAR (Re: [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [41264] trunk/phase3)
by Tim Starling 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

brion(a)svn.wikimedia.org wrote: > Revision: 41264 > Author: brion > Date: 2008-09-25 18:43:33 +0000 (Thu, 25 Sep 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > * Improved upload file type detection for OpenDocument formats > > Added a check for the magic value header in OpenDocument zip archives which specifies which subtype it is. Such files will get detected with the appropriate mime type and matching extension, so ODT etc uploads will work again where enabled. > > (Previously the general ZIP check and blacklist would disable them.) > I think you're missing the point. It's trivial to make a file which is both a valid OpenDocument file, and a valid JAR file subject to the same origin policy. http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/odjar/ > print $mm->guessMimeType('.../odjar.odt') application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text Just done with zip/unzip, no hex editing involved. -- Tim Starling

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import dump
by zeyi 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, everyone, May i ask how can i import database dump meta_sub from http://download.wikimedia.org/ to MySQL? I used the easy tool Xml2sql, but failed. There are a list of available tools, but i don't have too much technical knowledge. :P May i ask which i can use for importing, it is best if as easy as Xml2sql. P.S. i need keep the information of namespace. thanks a lot. -- Zeyi He University of York YORK, UK

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Tex-feature-request: euro-symbol
by Michael Schönitzer 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hello, In several Tex-implementations, Euro-sign (€) can be created by \euro, \EURO \texteuro or \EUR. This isn't implemented in Mediawiki jet - but several WP-users have been asking for it. Could anyone please do this? Best Regards, Michi -- Michael F. Schönitzer Mail: michael(a)schoenitzer.de Homepage: http://www.schoenitzer.de Jabber: Schoenitzer(a)jabber.ccc.de/Home ICQ: 294808517 Magdalenenstraße 29 80638 München Tel: 089/152315

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empty paragraphs, line-breaks automatically added around parser function output
by Evgeny Fadeev 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, Result of my parser function is displayed in an odd way: it is surrounded by extra whitespace created by </br> and empty <p> tags. Is there a way to suppress those? These empty html elements sometimes make it difficult to make pages look good. Thank you! Evgeny.

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