mcmwt-updates — Mailing list for informing users of updates, new versions etc.

[Mcmwt-updates] MWT 0.9.5 released

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

Hey guys,
I've just released MWT 0.9.5, which is the first release with major changes
in quite a while.
I suggest that anyone still using previous versions upgrade *soon*. The
developers are planning to remove query.php, which earlier versions still
rely on for the login process. The page is still at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MWT

This release is a bit of a milestone because of some fairly big changes to
the way MWT works, even though the interface is relatively unchanged:
*The messages, captions, and menus can all be edited, or translated, as you
want. So far the only translation I've got is into Finnish though. :)
*MWT can now work on other wikis! I took it for a test run on wikiversity
today. There isn't a whole lot to see there though. If you have a wiki you'd
like me to get it working on, I'd be glad to help. Any wikimedia wiki is
welcome to be added to the main distribution if we get it working.
*The back end now operates using only api.php, so migrating from
query.phpis now complete as of this version.

A full list of changes can be found in the todo.txt file of the source code,
I don't think I need to go through it all here though.

Cheers,

--Michael Billington

[Mcmwt-updates] Please upgrade to the latest version of MWT

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

Due to changes in the MediaWiki API, all versions prior to the current one (
0.9.4 rc2) are no longer able to function.

This means upgrade time, and you can find the current version linked to from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MWT as usual.

If there is some pressing reason that you cannot upgrade, then please check
the help > about form. If the version given is greater than 0.9, then you
can fix the problem by adding these 2 lines to the top of your configuration
file, under <MWT>:
(this should be in Data\Settings.txt)

<api:rc>?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcprop=user|comment|title|ids|sizes&rcshow=anon&rclimit=50</api:rc>
<api:hist>?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=(page)&rvlimit=20&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|ids</api:hist>


Thank you all for using MWT, happy anti-vandalism.

--Michael Billington

[Mcmwt-updates] Two more for the devs...

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

I just lodged two bug reports, here is the first one's description:

Ok, thjis is a bug that I have just come accross, it
seems that there is a bug in the user login script that
will not only cause MWT to think that you are logged in
(when you aren't), but will also post nonsense to the
users list. Unfortunately, as of yet I am unable to
replicate it, but here's my theory on what is happening:

Under normal curcumstances, when you are not logged in
it will display "Sign in / crate account" in the
corner. MWT looks for this, and if it finds it then it
prompts for login. Every so often, it will display like
this instead:
http://www.coderwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:CoderWiki_Broken_Again.png
, so MWT can't find that you aren't logged in, and
attempts to retrieve the user name. It instead
retrieves a ton of garbled mess, which (because it
isn't on the user list) will be submitted to the user
list. This means that every time the bug hits somebody
the user list breaks. This bug is a problem because it
allows editors to use MWT without logging in, which is
not a good thing.

Proposed (temporary) solution:
a) give the user a message box to ask "is this your
user name?"
b) instruct users who are affected by the bug to open
IE, log in (ticking remember me) and then start MWT,
they should then not be affected by it, as they are
*actually* logged in.

Proposed (permanent) solution:
Find a better way to detect if a user is logged in or
not, this is pretty hard without having the HTML source
for the page when it lookss wrong.

And the second one (a mere priority 2)

Basically, if a user is impatient, they can try to load
a diff while MWT is loading (before it has any diffs
loaded), this crashes the programme, should be easily
fixed though. (and doesn't occur after statup)

OK, you can comment on the first bug at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1543019&group_id=171433&atid=857960
and the second bug at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1543020&group_id=171433&atid=857960

See you all around
                         Mike B