User talk:Siebrand/archive

Hoi Siebrand,

Jij hebt kennelijk DynamicPageList gelinkt naar Extension:Intersection (tenminste als ik op Special:Version link in Wikibooks kom ik daarop uit). Ik heb altijd gedacht dat dit de juiste extensie was: Extension:DynamicPageList/old. Hij was fout verlinkt vanuit Special:Version, maar het is nu dus anders verlinkt, hetgeen ik ook niet helemaal begrijp. Werp jij eens wat licht in mijn duisternis? Londenp 23:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Omdat ik nogal druk bezig was met het inventariseren van extensies waarvoor localisatie mogelijk was of mogelijk te maken was, heb ik dit uitgezocht. Wikimedia draait (in ieder geval zichtbaar) geen extensies die niet in SVN zitten. In SVN zitten DynamicPageList2 (waar we het hier in ieder geval niet over hebben) en intersection (die de bestanden DynamicPageList.php en DynamicPageList.i18n.php) bevat. Daarnaast is er ook nog een andere DynamicPageList2, om het overzichtelijk te maken. Vandaar dat ik de pagina Extension:Intersection in het leven heb geroepen. Het is best mogelijk dat de pagina waar jij naar verwijst de documentatie is voor wat er in SVN in intersection/ staat. Het lijkt me dan handig die pagina te hernoemen naar Extension:Intersection. Groet, Siebrand 17:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Update Version Extension:SelectCategory
Hallo Siebold, du hast gestern die Versionsnummer von Extension:SelectCategory geändert. Leider scheint der Downloadlink nicht zu passen. Auch durch raten habe ich die aktuelle Version nicht gefunden. Kannst du das bitte noch fixen? Danke! --Ozz 07:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Siebrand 06:51, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Importing into SVN
Thanks for that :) Also, thanks for letting me know about the change in how the extension messages work, I'll be sure to keep that in mind during future updates of my extensions. Also, how would I go about getting SVN commit access for myself? --Skizzerz talk - contribs  MediaWiki Support Team  18:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you're already on Freenode's #mediawiki, try to get in touch with 'brion' who can give you access. Best point him to your resume here. Cheers! Siebrand 19:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

SieBot code
Hi. Have you released SieBot's code for others to look at? If not, are you willing to? --OldakQuill 13:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, it's an ugly shell script. Find it below. Have fun with it ;) Cheers! Siebrand 15:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * 1) Siebrand / 2008-02-09
 * 2) should be run as user 'siebrand' because pywikipediabot checks ownership of user-config.py
 * 3) script used to update MediaWiki statistics from transstat.php on a daily basis

/usr/bin/svn up /home/siebrand/phase3
 * 1) update svn

SVN_VERSION=`/usr/bin/svn info /home/siebrand/phase3 |grep "^Revision" |cut -b 11-`
 * 1) put SVN version of MediaWiki in a variable

cd /home/siebrand/phase3/maintenance/language /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/php /home/siebrand/phase3/maintenance/language/transstat.php > /home/siebrand/export/mwstats.txt
 * 1) create stats file

/bin/echo "Start" > /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page /bin/echo "StartTitleLocalisation_statisticsStopTitle" >> /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page /bin/echo "" >> /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page /bin/cat /home/siebrand/export/mwstats.txt >> /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page /bin/echo "End" >> /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page
 * 1) compile Wiki statistics page for pywikipedia bot

/usr/bin/python /home/siebrand/i18n/pagefromfile.py -family:mediawiki -lang:mediawiki -force -summary:"Updating statistics (r$SVN_VERSION)" -notitle -titlest art:StartTitle -titleend:StopTitle -file:/home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page -start:Start -end:End
 * 1) upload stats page to www.mediawiki.org

/bin/rm /home/siebrand/export/mwstats.txt /bin/rm /home/siebrand/export/mwstats_page
 * 1) house keeping

WhoIsWatching compatible with MediaWiki 1.12.0?
Hi Siebrand!

I am getting some errors with WhoIsWatching Extension running on MediaWiki 1.12.0. Is this extension compatible? Is this a known bug?

More detailed explaination can be found on the extension talk page

Thanks! --[mailto:pagemedias@gmail.com Luke] 13:57, 20 August 2008 (WST)

Betawiki
You may care to expand here, as my knowledge of the site is a little limited. &mdash; Anonymous Dissident  Talk 04:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Extension:DiscussionThreading --jdpond 19:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for updating the extension for current message standards!
 * Sure, no problem. I also replied to your e-mail. Cheers! Siebrand 21:02, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Use extension Collection
Hello,

I'm a french user. I've tried to use the extention to collect articles and output them in various formats.

Unfortunatly i've got some problems.

I work for the cityhall of Brest and we 've created a territorial wiki, called wiki-Brest : www.wiki-brest.net in version 1.11.

Could you help me to use the extension ?

I've downloaded the file .tar.gz with choice "current version (truck)", i’ve made the modifications in the localsetting.php and monobook.php like in the Readme.txt

And i’ve had a problem with the fuction cURL_init like that : Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init in /home/users/mairiebrest/wiki-brest/mediawiki-1.11.0/extensions/Collection/Collection.body.php on line 1316

Could you help me to install correctly this extension ?

Thanks

FILY Gaëlle contact@wiki-brest.net

Use extension Collection
Hello,

I'm a french user. I've tried to use the extention to collect articles and output them in various formats.

Unfortunatly i've got some problems.

I work for the cityhall of Brest and we 've created a territorial wiki, called wiki-Brest : www.wiki-brest.net in version 1.11.

Could you help me to use the extension ?

I've downloaded the file .tar.gz with choice "current version (truck)", i’ve made the modifications in the localsetting.php and monobook.php like in the Readme.txt

And i’ve had a problem with the fuction cURL_init like that : Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init in /home/users/mairiebrest/wiki-brest/mediawiki-1.11.0/extensions/Collection/Collection.body.php on line 1316

Could you help me to install correctly this extension ?

Thanks

FILY Gaëlle contact@wiki-brest.net
 * Sounds to me like you should consider updating to a more recent version of MediaWiki (most recent stable version is 1.13.2). I have no detailed knowledge of Extension:Collection. The extension page also does not give a 'min version', so I do not actually know if updating will help... Siebrand 21:34, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Extension:WhiteList maintenance
Hello,

I'm one of the developers of the Extension:WhiteList. Firstly, thank you for your recent maintenance on the extension. Your contributions will make the extension that much better.

However, I think something got lost in the process of your update. The extension as it stands right now is broken. It just so happens that I was in the middle of cleaning it up for several backwards compatability issues and can also fix these recently introduced bugs. However, there are still things that I cannot address. For example, your changelog made a reference to "table can now be added by running update.php by using hook LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates". Can you please clarify what you meant by this? Where is this new update.php file? Also, can I ask you to hold off on submitting any further updates to the extension code until I integrate in my changes? Many thanks. --Gri6507 23:28, 10 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, I've committed my changes. Probably the biggest change was actually a set of reverts to get back the backwards compatibility with older versions of MW. The problem is that the new API for i18n is NOT backwards compatible and if the extension is to work for all versions of MW, the developers have to jump through hoops to make it work. Please take a look at my changes and contact me directly if you have any questions about why some "hacks" are necessary.


 * Also, you are very welcome to make further changes to the extension. I'm a big proponent of open contributions. However, I'd like to ask that in the future, you please rev the version of the extension before commits. This makes the problem solving much easier in the long run. Of course, incremeting the version requires a change to the main Extension:WhiteList page (i.e., version, date last modified, change log, etc). --Gri6507 02:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You appear to have reverted valid translations, as well as a lot more than you indicated in your commit message. wfLoadExtensionMessages is backward compatible from 1.11 on, that was tagged on 2007-09-05. Also see Version_lifecycle. Support for 1.11 is no longer. WhiteList can also be downloaded from the branches, which means that it can still work for older versions. Consider my previous contribution to WhiteList my last. Siebrand 06:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * That may be the intended purpose, but unfortunately, it did not work. When I tried your changes across the various versions of MW I saw messages that would appear as anything from the correct message to "&amp;lt;message&amp;gt;" to " ", which is clearly not working correctly. That is why I reverted. Did you try to verify across MW versions? If so, which versions? The fact that the Version_lifecycle page indicated that v 1.11.x is no longer "supported" should be irrelevant. The bottom line is that there are MW installations out there as old as 1.6.x that CAN work with this extension and, if I can help them use it, I would like to preserve that backwards compatibility. Otherwise, I just don't see how we can call anything backwards compatible. --Gri6507 13:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not mean to imply that your contributions are not appreciated. On the contrary, they are very welcome. However, I just want to make sure that the extension still has backwards compatibility.
 * Also see independent comment by Aaron: Special:Code/MediaWiki/43378.
 * Thank you for pointing out this page. I did not know this section existed. --Gri6507 13:47, 11 November 2008 (UTC)