User talk:Gregory.Szorc

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[edit] Watcher

Hi Gregory,

I've installed your AJAXwatcher script and I can see the "Watching Wiki Activity" Page just fine, except, it doesn't update when I go and add another comment to a discussion or edit/make an article. Is there anything else that needs to be done? I've given it a CHMOD of 777, but that didn't work...

Any help appreciated!

Are you using MediaWiki 1.5? The AJAX watcher is hard-coded to work against the 1.5 database layout. Does your browser display any JavaScript errors? You can test to make sure the query is working by querying the XML request page for the AJAX Watcher. Basically, make a query to Special:AJAXWatcher/get/all?lastUpdated=YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. For example, http://wiki.case.edu/Special:AJAXWatcher/get/all?lastUpdated=20060301000000 . The script should return an XML representation of all changes in your wiki from the date specified. --Gregory.Szorc 13:16, March 15, 2006 (EST)

Hey Gregory,

Thanks for your reply. Yep, i'm using MediaWiki 1.5.7. Here's a link to the watcher http://www.sensii.com/index.php/Special:AJAXWatcher. Feel free to test it by adding a comment/edit wherever you like. The query you suggested worked (see here) so i'm not sure what the problem might be? Apart from dropping your file (SpecialAJAXWatcher.php) into /includes, is there anything else that needs to be done?

Thanks again Gregory, your time is appreciated :)

[edit] How'd it go?

I noticed you'd tried the AJAX watcher on the site (sensii.com), how'd you find it?

It didn't work for some reason. I'll have to look at it in more detail when I get back from vacation. --Gregory.Szorc 02:07, March 17, 2006 (EST)

Ok, thanks. It'd be great to get it working :)

[edit] Ajax watcher

Hi Greg, i've taken the site offline until I can figure out what i'm doing different with your Ajax watcher to make it not work...

I literally uploaded the php files and added the include part in the config file, is there anything else required?

I tried to debug your site a week ago or so, but it was offline when I tried. I don't know what the deal is. --Gregory.Szorc 13:27, March 26, 2006 (EST)

[edit] IPTV

If you have time, may you answer here: http://wiki.case.edu/Talk:IPTV

[edit] Pesky SOM Articles

Well, I created some of those articles, so I might as well help you out, eh?

I sent out an email to the SOM first year class a day or two ago about the non-descriptive names. This is why there's been a lot of activity in that area lately. However, as you have probably noticed, there is not yet any standarization. Could you possibly write up a naming convention page specifically for SOM students? That way, I can just email the entire class the link, so people will know how to name new articles (of which there will be many more) and perhaps stem the tide of poorly named articles. Be as specific as possible -- this is the first time many of them have ever edited or created wiki articles. Hao.Liang 00:29, October 11, 2006 (EDT) (Wayne)

[edit] Fast Forward Articles

Greg, I added the Fast Forward articles as a way of adding content to the history category. I'd assumed that the Case Western Reserve University, Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology would be general historical overviews (at some point) and that this category would also be a good place to add more detailed information. I guess one could make a case for assigning each to sub-categories by school rather than to the history category as a whole. I mentioned their origin from Fast Forward mostly as a courtesy to explain the editorial slant. (I was the editor of Fast Forward and wrote many of the articles. These come from a three part series we did commemorating the 175th anniversary of the university.)

Heidi.Cool 14:23, October 19, 2006 (EDT)


Greg, Your suggestion to change the wording to "based on" rather than "originally appeared" makes sense. I'll make it so. Heidi.Cool 14:27, October 19, 2006 (EDT

[edit] MediaWiki API

Thanks for the link. Does it allow action=submit? The API page it links to has some comment where I can't tell if action=submit currently works. Also it looks like using mechanize is just plain easier. --Brian.Beck

P.S. - Does action=login work? The one on the MediaWiki page works (returns WrongPass), the Case Wiki one returns nothing. --129.22.145.5 21:19, October 21, 2006 (EDT)

I think list=allpages is busted. This gives me an Internal Error. --Brian.Beck 16:21, October 23, 2006 (EDT)

Note: it succeeds with format=json, assuming that output is correct (shouldn't there be page titles?) --Brian.Beck 16:24, October 23, 2006 (EDT)
The API is listed as experimental all over the documentation. I can try upgrading the API code to the latest, greatest version and see if it fixes things. --Gregory.Szorc 16:32, October 23, 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Mysteriously appearing sections when editing

Gregory,

Lately I've noticed that when I edit an article, after I click save page, sometimes parts of the article are duplicated. The duplicated sections are often in the wrong location. I would then have to re-edit to remove the duplicated sections. Have you noticed that, and do you know what's going on? Hao.Liang 18:01, November 13, 2006 (EST)

I have not noticed this. Can you point me to a specific article that has this issue? Can you try duplicating the behavior in the Sandbox. --Gregory.Szorc 18:22, November 13, 2006 (EST)
Example: Course:SOM/Block_3/Fall_2006/IQ_2/Template. I just added a line to the "Inserting Images" subheading. When I saved, the "inserting images" subheading was duplicated -- one copy was the new, updated version, and the other copy was the old version. Here's what happened, from the history: http://wiki.case.edu/index.php?title=Course%3ASOM%2FBlock_3%2FFall_2006%2FIQ_2%2FTemplate&diff=19494&oldid=18083 . I'm going to go fix it now. Hao.Liang 18:44, November 19, 2006 (EST)
To be more precise, I noticed that it not so much duplicated the updated section as replaced a pre-existing subheading. In other words, the "Italic/Bold" section was replaced with the new version of the "Inserting Images" section, and the older version of the "Inserting Images" section remained where it used to be. I don't know if that makes sense. Hao.Liang 18:51, November 19, 2006 (EST)

[edit] Department Chairs

Hey Greg, Thanks for fixing the Patrick E. Crago page. Is there any efficient way to indicate under the Department Chairs category to which department each individual belongs? That's why I added both BME and PEC. Just having the name appear in there is not very practical (assuming every department chair is listed). Also, what would be a good way of keeping a history of previous chairpersons, deans, provosts, etc.? Thanks. -lujan 14:14, December 5, 2006 (EST)

[edit] WikiFeeds

Trying to use WikiFeeds with thunderbird and a category, i get errors.

I'm trying http://myserver/wiki/Special:WikiFeeds/rss/recentcategorychanges/category/Category

Using with 'wget' works (so it is not an authentication issue)

Thanks, ittay 212.143.196.226 04:13, January 21, 2007 (EST)

Try putting the feed through http://www.feedvalidator.org/ and post here what is wrong. --Gregory.Szorc 12:22, January 21, 2007 (EST)
Here it is:
line 3, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:3:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity
line 3 is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
85.65.242.17 15:03, January 24, 2007 (EST)
You have extra blank lines before or after the <?php or ?> in a file being included by MediaWiki somewhere. Look at all the files you have edited by hand and remove any blank lines before or after these strings. The ?> is optional, so you can safely remove it. --Gregory.Szorc 15:14, January 24, 2007 (EST)

[edit] Spam blacklist

Noted. Will watch for repetitive URLs. --Andrew.Witte 14:59, January 28, 2007 (EST)

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