User:WikiMaster/Projects

Outreach

Goals

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

Planning

PortlandWiki:Planning

Transclude External Templates

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

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.

Further (transclusion issues) research.

• User:Peter17/Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion
• Help:Templates
• Help:Template
• Help:Embed page
• Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding
• Manual:$wgTranscludeCacheExpiry
• Manual:$wgHTTPTimeout
• Manual talk:$wgGroupPermissions

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)

Admin

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

MediaWiki Manuals

• Manual:FAQ - Wiki Importing

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.

• Manual:Importing XML dumps
• Category:Editor handbook

Looked at

• 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....)

Also

• MediaWiki API:Main page
• Article Class Reference

Article::doEdit()

• get wiki data from UseModWiki
• Automatic mediawiki page import powershell script

And

• Extension:External Data

(Extension:External Data is part of the Semantic Bundle already installed on PortlandWiki.)

• Extension:MassEditRegex
• Manual:Importing external content

Manual:Importing external content - Converting content from a CSV text file

csv and xls converter to wiki

Other mediawiki extensions

• Extension:EmbedVideo
• Template:Extension
• Extension:AddPageService

Will need to config SOAP.

• Extension:Data Transfer

Other Admin To Do

• Complete what's left undone of these tasks.

Other Resources

• Infoboxes: Template:Infobox, Infobox
• PortlandWiki's Interwiki Database: Special:Interwiki

Interwiki | magicword

Wiki Modules For Drupal 7

• Wikitools (7.x-1.0-alpha1 tar.gz (13.18 KB) | zip (14.84 KB) 2011-Mar-11)
• SimpleWiki filter (7.x-1.x-dev tar.gz (34.03 KB) | zip (34.32 KB) 2011-Feb-24)
• Package names for contributed modules (Drupal 7)
• Semantic Wiki Module in Drupal 7?

Interesting stuff

• jonasjohn.de Projects:

snippet library — A code snippets collection.