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- There should be a space dedicated for scripts that can be downloaded by FSD volunteer. I suggest a link to a page in the side-bar that lists the scripts.
- COMPLETED --LorenzoAncora (talk) 13:44, 28 December 2018 (EST)
- Proof read: I have emailed already emailed https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Backlog#FSF_staff_tasks to Donald and asked him to suggest the sysadmins to have a look on this. However, we must proof-read the FSF staff tasks section so the FSF sysadmins clearly understand the text so they can start working on this.
- OBSOLETE --LorenzoAncora (talk) 13:44, 28 December 2018 (EST)
search links
- Fix search links: Fix links (multimedia, etc) at top of search results.
date command
Add: date --date='TZ="America/New_York" 12:00 this Fri'
- https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Template:IRC_text
- The entries in https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/ -- updated by Ted
Copyright current year
Add the current year in /var/www/w/skins/Vector/VectorTemplate.php "Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
Favicon
"I think I would just use the fsf.org (https://static.fsf.org/fsforg/img/favicon.ico) one for any fsf.org subdomain." - quidam
Special:Ask
Special:AdminLinks "Semantic search" is blank.
- Comment: To fix all of the above MediaWiki debugging needs to be enabled. It is also good to see the PHP error log. « Saper // @talk » 13:17, 27 January 2018 (EST)
- It seems to work some how now asking for License:MPL « Saper // @talk » 15:59, 8 August 2018 (EDT)
What links here?
We want the "What links here?" enabled in the sidebar, it's the standard procedure to maintain MediaWiki instances. It's not stored in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&action=edit. I got this response from #mediawiki "It's enabled by default on normal pages. I'd say there may be an extension installed on that wiki that's hiding it. Moonbook, https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat?useskin=monobook, has "What links here?". It's strange because it's not present in the original source code. it's not hidden with CSS or JavaScript"
IRC link text
The IRC resource was displayed twice like this on IceCat for example.
IRC general channel [irc:chat.freenode.net/icecat irc:chat.freenode.net/icecat]
- I attempted to fix this but it seems that something is interfering with the formatting. Strangely enough, if I make a simple page without the form, and use the IRC template, it works as expected. I don't know if this is the case, but I think there is some template interfering.--Adfeno (talk) 23:23, 26 January 2018 (EST)
- As requested in #fsf IRC channel, here is the comment I made there, describing my studies so far:
- It basically involves three templates (it might involve more, but I only researched three so far) {{Print entry}} {{Entry}} and {{Show}}. There is a fourth one ({{IRC}}) but I think we might be able to replace it ({{Print entry}} calls it, so instead of calling {{IRC}}: we can take the code from it and insert in the caller template).
- I think that #replace will just mask the underlying issue. --David Hedlund (talk) 10:49, 27 January 2018 (EST)
- I think there is so far the following possibilities:
- an issue between the templates used;
- an issue with the
#ask:
queries and thetemplate
result format; - we have reached a setting limit that makes the formatting not work (perhaps a limit on the
template
result format, although I have tried to remove the call to {{IRC}} but it didn't work, we might have to make tests by simplifying thetemplate
result calls even further to see if this is indeed the problematic setting); - an issue with the "IRC [level name]" properties when setting (
#set:
) or their query and display.
- I think we can make use of
#nowiki
or#-
display parameters when querying for the "IRC [level" properties of an entry (this is queried for in {{Show}}) in order to take the property value in raw (example:irc:chat.freenode.net/fsf
) but then we will need to change either {{Print entry}} or {{IRC}} (the first one is the problematic, so I recommend to test with it first) so that it removesirc:
but also allows any other:
(because the URL scheme allows port numbers). - --Adfeno (talk) 08:47, 27 January 2018 (EST)
- It basically involves three templates (it might involve more, but I only researched three so far) {{Print entry}} {{Entry}} and {{Show}}. There is a fourth one ({{IRC}}) but I think we might be able to replace it ({{Print entry}} calls it, so instead of calling {{IRC}}: we can take the code from it and insert in the caller template).
- While MediaWiki understands IRC URLs very well, Our copy Semantic MediaWiki gets confused if a property of type
URL
has a protocol different from HTTP, this problem also happens if the property definition/setting is invisible (using#set:
), but in all cases it works as expected if the protocol is HTTP. I don't know if this is a bug in Semantic MediaWiki (or MediaWiki) but this affects at least our copy of it. An example of the issue with IRC property can be seen in: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Free_Software_Directory:Sandbox&oldid=48884 --Adfeno (talk) 11:32, 27 January 2018 (EST) - As of SMW 2.5.1, http https and ftp URL schemes will be printed with double slashes, all other without: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/568d058ea68859d134654a959001ba0739c781e3/includes/dataitems/SMW_DI_URI.php#L68-L70 « Saper // @talk » 12:49, 27 January 2018 (EST)
- Fixed in [1]. --Adfeno (talk) 14:43, 2 November 2018 (EDT)
- Log
- Adding
#-
didn't seem to help. « Saper // @talk » 08:54, 27 January 2018 (EST) - Removed dependency on {{IRC}}: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Print_entry&oldid=48860
- Use
#replace
in IRC URL properties to get the address correctly: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Print_entry&oldid=48889 --Adfeno (talk) 11:59, 27 January 2018 (EST) - Use
#nowiki
in the query for IRC URL properties to pass the property value to {{Print entry}}: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Template:Show&oldid=48890 --Adfeno (talk) 11:59, 27 January 2018 (EST) - Replace the numeric reference to the colon in "irc:" with the actual character when inside the "replace" ParserFunction that prepares the IRC URLs to be displayed. [2]. --Adfeno (talk) 14:43, 2 November 2018 (EDT)
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