Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-15/From the editor

Questions here:

  • Are you currently working on getting database dumps for the English Wikipedia to work properly? What is the status of this?
  • What is the status of Single User Login?
  • What does the Foundation have in the way of disaster recovery plans?
  • What is the status of stable versions? (the partial and growing content fork at http://www.veropedia.com/ seems to be pre-empting this long-awaited and long-promised feature)
  • Any chance that internal search functionality will be upgraded?
  • What are the long-term plans for MediaWiki? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChazBeckett (talk • contribs) 11:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about servers? There seems to be no problem accessing the various Wikimedia sites, while earlier (2004-05) one could experience very slow response. The list of servers are however not changed for quite some time. Is the current fast response due to tuning the existing servers, adding new servers without updating the list, or some other explanation? Have heard rumors that Google/Yahoo takes a significant part of the load, without stating it, as a service to Wikimedia - is that correct? Ulflarsen 11:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When adding or removing a new line in an article, mediawiki sees it as removing an entire paragraph and adding a new paragraph. This, in theory, hides any changes that the editor makes to the article. Is this any work on improving this? Jon513 13:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that's incorrect. The behavior you describe is caused by splitting or combining paragraphs, not merely adding lines AFAIK. I actually filed a bug for it. Circeus 21:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When these is a questionable fact not fit for outright removal, or a statement which needs to be explain, often the best course of action is to speak directly to whoever put in the sentence in the first place. Sifting though the history can be difficult, and in large article nearly impossible. Is there any way to add a feature that tell who wrote a particular sentence. Jon513 13:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Solutions already exist for this: Wikiblame and User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance that the useful StringFunctions extension will be enabled on Wikimedia wikis? If not, why? :) Nihiltres(t.l) 16:02, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What perennial, unworkable request do you find the most irritating? Circeus 21:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the larger, heavily-cited articles, especially BLPs that have 200 or more references using the {{cite}} template, are becoming very slow to render in browsers. Is anyone looking at optimizing the rendering process, such as possibly adding server-side caching of intermediate representations of the articles or improving the parsing speed of templates? Wasted Time R 22:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What other major changes to you see in the future for Mediawiki (besides stable versions)? 22:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Are there any plans to make Mediawiki more WYSIWYG? 22:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Magnus Manske and Tim Starling have their official days. Is there a developer you feel is unappreciated at present for her/his contribution? - Cimon Avaro, not logged in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.254.50 (talk) 22:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You must get requested to do a lot more work than you have time for, how do you decide which requests to fulfill and what kind of work do you typically spend your time on? ssepp(talk) 21:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]