Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early

• ding Quinobi 6 July 2005 03:14 (UTC)
  • dang Triddle July 6, 2005 04:43 (UTC)
    • dong? (didn't want to ruin the melody) But anyway, um, how has this been advertised? I would mention it on the help desk talk page, VP technical and news, Wikipedia:Announcements, Wikipedia:Goings-on, add it to the Wikipedia:Community Portal, the technical mailing list, talking to other high profile techies (like ones who have their own bots, listed here). Also see Wikipedia:Bot requests for requests and those who answer them (if there are any). And finally, see if there are any larger projects to make this a part of, kind of like how the Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects does for cleanup projects. Whew. How's that? --Dmcdevit July 6, 2005 04:56 (UTC)
      • donk! (hrm I think my bell was cracked) Thanks for the ideas. I was wondering how I was going to get the word out and this seems like a great way. Triddle July 6, 2005 19:25 (UTC)

Member template

It seems like a good idea to create a template that members can put on their user page. I was thinking that a full width table would be nice; I know it would incorporate best into my existing user page. it seems to me the following info would be useful:

• A bold blurb about the project and getting help
• The current collaboration (if there is one)
• A count of the number of cases completed

I'm curious to hear other people's ideas, especially about the content and shape of the template. Triddle 15:47, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Source code comming up

I've got some new source code that will be released soon, definitely in time for the next database dump. It is composed of two parts and is implemented in Perl. The parts are a module that makes parsing dumps of the cur and links table very simple (a callback is invoked for each record in the dump file; a special subroutine can be used to avoid expensive memory copy operations when they are not needed; the records passed into the callback are nearly identical to a DBD $sth->fetchrow_hashref) and a new tool called wpfsck. Wpfsck is a wrapper around Parse::MediaWikiDump which multiplexes the input data and handles brokering out the data to multiple individual but simultaneously running cleanup projects. The idea is to only have to scan a dump file once, put together all the data required to do the processing from that one run, then save the results to disk. Currently wpfsck is doing a Stubsensor run and a Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs run. Adding additional projects is simple. I'd like to make wpfsck on my machine available as a resource to the rest of the wikipedia community. This will be done by publishing the code so those who can will be able to use the framework for their own cleanup projects and taking requests for additional cleanup projects that I will run myself and incorporate into my version of wpfsck.

Wikipedia:Bot requests

This page seems to duplicate Wikipedia:Bot requests in some ways. Though perhaps this effort will bear more fruit. In any case, there are already a number of worthy requests posted there. -- Beland 05:12, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, but someone mentioned that already. OK, time for a nap, Beland! -- Beland 05:14, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Incorrect naming

Really, this should be at Wikipedia:WikiProject Help desk. I don't mind doing the move, I just want to check first. Steve block 13:10, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem here, feel free to do the move. Thanks too! Triddle 16:13, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

I've been thinking more and more that this should be titled Wikipedia:Computer help desk. What do you think? Triddle 16:39, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

I have no idea. Um, Wikipedia software help desk? Wikipedia technical help? I'll hold off the move until you decide. Is it just you? I'd offer to help but I don't know much about computers. Steve block 21:08, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Help desk and Computer help desk neither one fit the stated scope of the project IMO. Perhaps something like Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scripts_and_bots would be more appropriate. My $0.02 worth Quinobi 23:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Far East language support

I've had difficulty converting roman letters into Korean Hangul and Japanese Kana. Like 'annyong' (Korean) or 'neko' (Japanese for cat).

Unicode for Hangul is difficult. How do you get the codes onto a page?

I have written a Javascript progrom for romaji to hiragana conversion (see User:Ed Poor/kana. I'd like to make this a link for users' monobook.js page. Uncle Ed 14:35, July 18, 2005 (UTC)