User talk:Yaron Koren

Thanks
Thanks for the encouragement! I noticed that about midway adding members to the category, but was hoping someone else would take that particular bull by the horns. I spent the better part of today putting things into categories, and I'm a bit tuckered out. Kol tuv, Egfrank 16:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU
Thank you, Yaron, for the great extension Replace Text. I'm new to MediaWiki but am having fun getting up and running. I still don't understand caching or optimizing, and I had just begun to look for bots, knowing that I needed a way to clean up the text in my recipe wiki. I still don't know what a bot is, but along came your extension just in time. I "think" in terms of "search and replace," anyway, so your Replace Text extension filled my need. I have only begun using it and am watching how it seems to work as a cron job, and I still don't know what causes the job to apparently start and then stop and then start again, and how my logging in (or trying to) or logging out (or trying to) affects the background processes. But Replace Text is chugging away right now, and I can find other things to do until it's finished. I see that others seem to think that the replace operations are nearly instantaneous, but I think they're getting that impression simply from the "done" message, while the process actually continues in the background. But it's all good, and, again, I thank you very much for your contribution. _Brian7632416 02:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Another big thanks
Have found your semantic googlemaps extension to be easier to use than the traditional non semantic googlemaps. Brilliant stuff. Many thanks from http://www.everyoneshome.org.uk for the great documentation and implimentation of this powerful extension! :)


 * Hi, thanks. Robert Buzink did about half the work, but since he's not doing MediaWiki programming any more, I guess I can take the credit. :) I'm looking forward to seeing your site launched. Yaron Koren 14:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

ReplaceText is not replacing :-(
ReplaceText ist the extensions I was looking for. I need a little hint to get it doing its job. Please help me there:.

Regards, jan--89.52.183.168 17:46, 17 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It's fixed in the new version; thanks for the bug report. Yaron Koren 16:57, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Problem with Semantic Forms
I keep getting this issue:

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Article::__construct must be an instance of Title, null given, called in /homepages/16/d208095195/htdocs/matt/mtpwiki/extensions/SemanticForms/includes/SF_Utils.inc on line 45 and defined in /homepages/16/d208095195/htdocs/matt/mtpwiki/includes/Article.php on line 50

I am trying to set up a form which will use your one-step method of creating a page title, however it doesn't want to work. I'd appreciate any help you can give. You can find me on Wikipedia at w:user:mwilso24 or email me at mwilson@musicaltheatreproductions.ca


 * What version of SF are you using? My guess is that it's a relatively old one, and that upgrading will fix the problem. Yaron Koren 00:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * SF 1.5.3, I downloaded it today. --Mwilso24 01:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Weird. What does your form's "info" tag look like? Yaron Koren 01:19, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The form pulls from two different templates. As I only produce 2 shows per year, there will be no conflict or duplicate file names. I really appreciate your help with this. --Mwilso24 12:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow, I have no idea. Can you try to duplicate the problem on scratchpad.referata.com? Yaron Koren 17:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Problems with average function
I am using average function to calculate average of two numbers, If one of which is zero, i get answer as zero. For Example for numbers 0 and 0.5, I get result as 0, instead of 0.25 Is this a known issue?

Also I would like to limit the the number of digits after decimal point, like 0.33 instead of 0.333333333 is it possible to do this?

Thanks for help in advance! - Irion


 * No, I've never heard of that happening. It could be a mistake somewhere on your side - is the type of the property set to "Number"? For the second question, you could probably use StringFunctions to get the format you want. Yaron Koren 15:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Semantic Bundle
We still have our 'one reply a month' talk there and it's your turn! :) siebrand 20:29, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, I saw your response soon after you wrote it; I just didn't have anything interesting to say in response. But maybe we can talk about it next week. :) Yaron Koren 20:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, YES!. That's a pretty good idea. siebrand 21:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Even More Thanks
Continued gratitude to you, Yaron, for your extension:Replace Text. It just keeps going and going and going (working and working and working), and I don't know what I and my little Web site would have done without it. (SQL, I guess? Aaack!) Brian7632416 16:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Cool, I'm glad to hear it. Yaron Koren 16:15, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Help
Yaron, it seems you know your way around - do you know if it is possible to make a list of all the newest pages from a wiki in a certain namespace? I have read Help:NewPages and tested it out but there is a slight problem, the results of this template always have the "Created page with: " thing in them. Is it possible to remove this content from the results so that you only have the name of the page and who created it? Thanks so much, --173.34.87.249 05:20, 14 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The DynamicPageList extension is probably your best bet. Yaron Koren 05:28, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Dude you rock!!!
And more questions, lol. Sorry I'm a newbie.

Not sure were to post it. I think it's related to not sure perhaps you can point me the right way.

I have a Property Connects to:: on a page, that connects it to another page, my question is:

Having Page A connect to Page B and Page B connect to Page C and Page C connects to Page D, is there a query, etc that I can make to display the connections from Page A to Page D.

Something like:

Page A connects to Page D through:
 * Page B
 * Page C

This might be a delusion post due to lack of sleep though.

Thanks! Ojmorales0002 04:53, 22 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Um, thanks. :) I don't think there's any way to do that, but I would ask on the semediawiki-user mailing list - other people there know more than I do about this kind of thing. Yaron Koren 17:55, 22 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Gotcha. Thanks man.

Ojmorales0002 19:02, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Comparison of Dynamic Pagelist x Semantic Mediawiki
You wrote "Removing link to "comparison" page - it's currently unfinished and poorly-thought-out". Please help to improve the comparison and add some information: Comparison of Dynamic Pagelist x Semantic Mediawiki --Jannis 13:18, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Semantic Result Formats
I love the awesome work you put into this extension, and all the related ones. But I couldn't find much of a documentation on usage of the Math formulae added into the extension. Does the max compare results with each other, and could you give a small example on how this would be syntaxed? I figured that if it works as intended, then I could, say do special formatting to the top 3 parameters of each column (individually) displayed in an #ask or #show result using a template. Is that right? Thanks! 99.19.119.151 06:53, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Yeah, there's not much documentation - the idea is that if you have, say, a property called "Has population" for a group of countries, you can call something like " " to get the highest number in there (setting a high limit is important, so you don't miss any pages). I didn't quite understand your example, but I think you may have mis-interpreted what the math formats do. Yaron Koren 14:30, 10 June 2010 (UTC)