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1 Re: Www.wikipedia.org template
2 List of Wikipedias
3 List of Wikipedias by sample of articles (answer)
4 lt.wikt
5 Remote loading / caching question
6 Verify

[edit] Re: Www.wikipedia.org template

I don't use IE, but there have reports on the en.wiki en:Talk:Main Page about issues where the horizontal scrollbar reaches far too wide in IE (5 and 6, I believe). The current system needs to be re-worked; IE users make up a significant userbase and the main page is highly visible. I apologize for not testing the changes first; 1100% looked like a simple typo that would fix the issue. When you talked about re-working the "template," did you mean re-working the code to be more effective or redesigning it? I could probably help with fixing the code (or find someone to). Let me know. Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] List of Wikipedias

There is a discussion you may have an interest on Meta:Babel. There is an objection to add 100K+ almost-substub only projects regarding of bad public relation. Please give a look and if possible, give your opinion. Cheers, --Aphaia 08:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Wikipedias by sample of articles (answer)

I have a script which I can make public (perhaps here?). Note that it is not an online, automatic script like Mutante's; it's a plain python script which sits on my laptop and which I manually run every time I want results. It's also quite slow -- it takes about 25-30 minutes to get the results for one Wikipedia, so I have to let it run for two or three hours to get five or six more Wikipedias in the table -- and that's why I'm not done yet, only 150 out of 243; it'll probably take me a week or so. Should I publish the source code here? (Note also that there are some suggestions in the talk page of the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles that I'd like to implement -- I'll probably change the script after I'm done with all Wikipedias and then run it again after a couple of months.) --Smeira 14:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

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I've just posted the source code at List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Source code. --Smeira 16:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Yes, I tend to like Volapük variable names... it's a pity I can't use diacritics; so pükavödem ends up as pukavodem. Maybe someday someone will develop a version of python in Volapük... :^) --Smeira 11:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for the link to Python 3.0! I'll try to have a look at it when I find some time (judging by current commitments, at some point between New Year's eve and when hell freezes over...) --Smeira 09:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] lt.wikt

Hello, please set http://lt.wiktionary.org from 1.000 to 10.000 entries on Www.wiktionary.org portal, thanks --Vpovilaitis ^apt. 16:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Remote loading / caching question

I'm sure this isn't the right place to ask this question, but I saw that you recently contributed to the talk page of live mirrors so I figured you could probably guide me. I've done a lot of research here and on Wikipedia for policies on remote loading of wiki content, and see that it's a big no-no. I'm thinking of developing an application that will screen scrape a page once from wikipedia and then cache it as html locally. Yes, technically this is remote loading, but the burden on Wikipedia's hardware should be minimal, and I won't be scraping the whole site, just a few hundred pages.

I know the right thing to do is to set up my own Mediawiki installation etc., but that's a huge hurdle and quite resource intensive, considering that I won't be scraping very many pages very often. So, I guess what I'm asking is: how strict is the "no remote loading" policy? Is it only enforced against people who actually interfere with Wikipedia's service, or is it ruthless? I certainly don't want to piss anyone off (because I love Wikipedia) and I don't want to get blocked, but I also don't want to make more work for myself than I have to. Hopefully you see where I'm coming from. If you can give me some guidance, I'd appreciate it. Intently 17:58, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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You are awesome. It's hard to get information sometimes, so thanks a bunch. (FYI, it's a web-based app, I'll put a link on my talk page when it's ready to be released.) Intently 23:52, 26 March 2008 (UTC)