User talk:Gnosygnu/Archives/2015/November

Error on XOWA contact page
Hi, Gnosygnu. I noticed on the XOWA contact page, it says, "Post to XOWA's discussion page: https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues If you are not a SourceForge user, you can still post as 'Anonymous'" However, the link is to GitHub, not SourceForge. - Paul2520 (talk) 05:58, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Cool. Can't believe I never caught that! I'm away from my main computer now, but I'll correct it sometime in the next few days. Thanks! gnosygnu 05:01, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

using XOWA with sep11wiki
Hi again! I was looking at the sep11wiki, and trying to get it to work with XOWA. Either it's taking a really long time for a rather small wiki, or somethings wrong. Any ideas? - Paul2520 (talk) 12:44, 29 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey! Thanks for the report, and sorry for the late reply. The main issue is that the xml is non-standard: it omits a case attribute for the namespace elements

got    : &lt;namespace key="-2">Media&lt;/namespace> expected: &lt;namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media&lt;/namespace>

I'll fix this for tomorrow's build. Also, it looks like the Main Page is also non-standard (http://sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam). I'll try to fix that as well.

Also, I like to credit users with reporting bugs. You'd get a line in the XOWA change log with something like "Fix non-standard namespaces in xml dumps {detected by anonymous}". Let me know if you want to be referenced by a nickname, or would like to remain "anonymous"

Thanks! gnosygnu 05:07, 1 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I suspected it may be related to XML formatting, but wasn't sure how to debug. I would be honored with a mention in the change log. paul2520 is a suitable nickname. - Paul2520 (talk) 09:16, 1 November 2015 (UTC)


 * This works great, by the way! - Paul2520 (talk) 07:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool! Thanks for the confirm! And thanks again for the original report! gnosygnu 02:09, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

fresh install
Gnosygnu, hello! Glad to see you're continuing the great work with XOWA! I just bought a new computer and guess what my 1st task is? A fresh copy!! Hopefully it will be a little less painful this time around.

I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post, so I won't mind if the message gets deleted. Hopefully you WONT be hearing from me soon about tech issues. :)

Take care. Senorfish — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.18.5.82 (talk) 04:16, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Glad to hear you're going to give it a try! Let me know if you come across anything. gnosygnu 02:11, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for XOWA
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your tool XOWA!

Thank you so much for your hard work! Keep on going. It is so useful!

Greetings, --Fake4d (talk) 12:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem! Thanks for taking the time to drop me a line! That's really great, and means a lot. Let me know if there's anything else. Thanks! gnosygnu 03:10, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

using XOWA with Esolangs.org
This is probably a trivial end-case, but if you're interested in a little challenge, feel free. This came up because I've been using XOWA quite a bit, both when I'm offline or have a slow connection. I also use it with an XML dump of the Esolangs.org wiki. There are two pages that show up in search, but don't work on links. Namely, /// and /ˈæmbiːɛf/. Of course you can get there via the language list, but what about Wikipedia pages like &?

This is clearly an issue due to technical reasons, so I understand if it's not pressing. Just thought I would bring it up. - Paul2520 (talk) 08:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi! Good to hear that XOWA is working out well for you. And thanks for the report as well as the links. Just so you know, the forward slashes shouldn't be an issue. There are some nuances for other wikis (en.wikisource.org) but for most wikis, subpages (as described in Naming_conventions) are disabled by default. This means that titles like "///" are legitimate. For the record, I was also able to get to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null/ as well.

I wasn't able to reproduce any problems with your two pages. I downloaded the latest esolang dump and was able to navigate to both pages: http://esolangs.org/wiki//// and https://esolangs.org/wiki//ˈæmbiːɛf/. I was also able to get to them via search. See the image at http://imgur.com/8sg1pa5.

Can you take a look and see what I might be doing differently? If not, post a screenshot on your side? Thanks! gnosygnu 03:28, 13 November 2015 (UTC)


 * using your method, *mbi* to find https://esolangs.org/wiki//ˈæmbiːɛf/ works for me. But if I type /// (or try to click on a link), it doesn't do anything. Here's a screenshot. See "URL" at the bottom. It doesn't have the full Esolangs.org/wiki path like a "regular" link does. - Paul2520 (talk) 05:45, 13 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah! I see the issue now. Thanks for the screenshots!

There are basically two separate bugs:


 * 1)   doesn't work as a clickable link, such as in your example of http://Esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list. This should be a minor bug, and I'll get it fixed in the next release (I may skip this week's though, so it won't be until next week)
 * 2)   doesn't work when searched for. The XOWA search function only works for alpha-numeric characters so punctuation-only titles won't ever be pulled up. This is a harder fix. I have some infrastructure in place for it, but I probably won't be able to fix it for some time.

Let me know if I missed anything else above. Thanks again for following-up! gnosygnu 03:16, 14 November 2015 (UTC)


 * FYI: I fixed the 1st bug in tonight's release: https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases/tag/v2.11.3.1 . Will let you know when #2 gets fixed. Thanks. gnosygnu 02:57, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks! If I type "///" in the search bar, I can click the link and go to the page. But now if I type just one /, /ˈæmbiːɛf/ doesn't seem to show up. I'm happy, though. I can also get to both via the language list. Keep up the good work! - Paul2520 (talk) 18:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Great. Thanks for confirming. Regarding the search bar behavior, this can be controlled by an option. At  there's a setting called "AllPages minimum length". The default is 10000. It basically means: "only show pages that are at least 10 kb long". If you change it to 1000 it will show  . It's a workaround, but it may help you get by until I rewrite the search function. gnosygnu 02:48, 17 November 2015 (UTC)