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Jun172009
Discussion threading on Wikimedia sites with LiquidThreads
Wikimedia sites will know very well the pains of managing discussion in a MediaWiki installation. Presently, like a lot of early MediaWiki, it’s a hacked together solution — make the discussion pages editable, add some niceties like signatures (with the date/time and user who made the edit), and a button at the top for creating [...]
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Jun162009
Semantic Data in Wikipedia
I’ve been in Berlin at Wikimedia Deutschland’s 5th Birthday (5 Jahre, if you speak the local parlance).
At this party, I stayed with Daniel Kinzler (Duesentrieb) of Toolserver and Wikimedia DE fame. Daniel and I had lengthy conversations about plans for implementing some sort of system for bringing Wikimedia to the semantic web. -
Jun122009
I’ve rediscovered eBay.
So I’ve rediscovered eBay. This is bad.
In the last 24 hours, I’ve bought (prices include shipping):An external 2.5″ HDD enclosure, £4.98
A new dock-USB cable, £1.75.
A dock-Component Video cable, £6.23.
A brand-new wireless Apple Mighty Mouse £34 ex. shipping (estimated at £3.95, but I may be able to combine).I’m also the top bidder on a £5 brand [...]
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Apr162009
New Preference System for MediaWiki
Just a quick note to mention that I’m working on a brand new preferences system for MediaWiki, the free software that runs Wikipedia.
Since it’s mostly done, I’ve activated a test setup of it over at my test wiki. Improvements include about ten bug fixes, see the tracking bug for full details (click on the links [...] -
Apr112009
Handy PHP function to insert an array into another array at a specific position
I guess the code says it all.
/**
* Insert array into another array after the specified *KEY*
* @param array $array The array.
* @param array $insert The array to insert.
* @param mixed $after The key to insert after
*/
function array_insert_after( $array, $insert, $after ) {
// Find the offset of the element to insert after.
$keys = [...]