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

Neighborhoods

Template:Infobox Neighborhood Portland OR

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.

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?)
(this image shows up because it's already uploaded to portlandwiki)
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)

Admin

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.

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....)