User:WikiMaster/Projects

Outreach

Goals

One hundred daily contributors September 28, 2011 (PortlandWiki's second birthday).
Easier user interface; make PortlandWiki readily accessible to non-geek contributors.

Planning

PortlandWiki:Planning

Neighborhoods

Template:Infobox Neighborhood Portland OR

Semantic MediaWiki

Calendar Tools

Extension:Semantic Result Formats

Semantic Result Formats (SRF) is a MediaWiki extension, used in conjunction with the Semantic MediaWiki extension, that bundles a number of further result formats for SMW's inline queries. The individual formats can be added to the installation independently, including...

- Extension:Semantic Result Formats/calendar format

(Extension:Semantic Result Formats/calendar format replaces the Extension:Semantic Calendar.)

- - Discourse DB Opinion calendar

(The Discourse DB Opinion calendar is a use-case example of the Extension:Semantic Result Formats/calendar format.)

Transclude External Templates

Portland's Wikipedia meetup page.
Magic Words: wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Invite

Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding

How to use Scary transclusing

Enable $wgEnableScaryTranscluding

$wgEnableScaryTranscluding = true;

Make sure the relevent interwiki prefixes have iw_trans set to 1 in the database.

You should now be able to type {{wiki:template name}} or {{wiki::main namespace page name}} to transclude the page from a foriegn wiki.

You can also do {{raw:wiki:template name}} to do a raw transclude, where all templates on the foreign page are expanded as if they come from your wiki instead of the other wiki.

Scary Transclusions: Exact Character Case Matters!

May 24, 2011: Noticed that at least some scary transclusions seemed to stop working. Also noticed this for the first time:

Ultimately discovered that the lowercase "wikipedia" was removed from the Special:Interwiki table. Restored it, ran an update.php command in the maintenance folder and the scary transclusions began working again. -WikiMaster (talk) 12:37, 24 May 2011 (PDT)

Transclusion template fix?
(yup, in a sort of half-ass way. hip hip fuckin' hooray. only wasted half a dozen painful hours so far...)
Intermittent functionality at this point. Caching issue?
Try purging page:

And the "Template fetch failed" error message is often something that goes away if you purge the page cache adding "?action=purge" to the URL.

Source: "Template fetch failed"

These syntax examples appear to work after page purge:

{{wikipedia::Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland}}

{{wikipedia::Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Invite}}

Transcluded invite begins here.

[Interwiki transcluding is disabled]

Transcluded invite ends here.

Image Transclusion & Namespaces Transclusion Issues

wikimedia:Mass Effect Wiki Collaboration.png (image link doesn't work)

(link to actual image)

50px|link=MediaWiki (image link doesn't work; namespace issues?)
Photo: White Stag sign, Portland. (this image shows up because it's already uploaded to portlandwiki)
File:Portland Oregon - White Stag sign.jpg
This image resides on PortlandWiki server AND Wikipedia server.
Manual:Linked images (namespace issues playing havoc with interwiki linking?)

Further (transclusion issues) research.

kotra asks:

Are you trying to transclude the content from a Wikipedia page into PW? If so I think we would need to use mediawikiwiki:Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding. -kotra (talk) 18:40, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Yup! That's exactly what I'm trying to do. Thanks kotra! - Dave Myers 16:49, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

External Data | Import/Export Data

Spent day researching how to upload pre written articles en masse.

MediaWiki Manuals

Importing from other types of files

The Edit.php, importImages.php and ImportTextFile.php maintenance scripts can be used to import text and images into MediaWiki.

External Data

Inserting articles straight into MediaWiki database

Must Read: Wikipedia:Creating a bot

MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator | MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator

(Depends on Snoopy; already trying to get DreamHost to help with server config.)

(Finally got Snoopy installed but MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator's scant documentation is hard to follow. Now looking at tools listed under Also, And....)

Other mediawiki extensions

Best mediawiki extensions - Features "mediawiki extension list Best mediawiki extension list" from ETCwiki.
Extension:Deployment

This extension enables installation and updating of extensions and MediaWiki itself. It obtains deployment packages by using the API provided by the Distribution extension, parses these and applies them. For this it provides several special pages. You can read more about the deployment effort on the deployment page.

Will need to config SOAP.