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:: If the template formatinfo is filled in correctly, the bot uses that, otherwise text is parsed with regex. Pronom signature files are parsed locally to check if the extension is known. That is my plan for version 0.0001 [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:36, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 
:: If the template formatinfo is filled in correctly, the bot uses that, otherwise text is parsed with regex. Pronom signature files are parsed locally to check if the extension is known. That is my plan for version 0.0001 [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:36, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 
::: [[Template:FormatInfo]] for people unfamiliar with this template [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 
::: [[Template:FormatInfo]] for people unfamiliar with this template [[User:Maurice.de.rooij|Maurice.de.rooij]] ([[User talk:Maurice.de.rooij|talk]]) 23:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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:So I assume the articles themselves should not be the file extension but some more descriptive string? Like [[Adobe Photoshop]] instead of [[PSD]], or [[ScreamTracker 3]] instead of [[S3M]]? --[[User:Darkstar|Darkstar]] ([[User talk:Darkstar|talk]]) 03:12, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

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Issues

Below is a list of "issues" which would ordinarily be in a ticketing system of some kind, but are here on the Wiki instead, because that's how we roll. When things are resolved feel free to remove or strike out the issue.

Time zone setting

OK, to get this community portal going... is this the place to report issues with the wiki server configuration? Anyway, its time-zone setting seems to be a bit odd. It's set (apparently) to UTC + 4 hours (somewhere in Asia?), but it thinks it's in UTC, so if you set up your user configuration to adjust it to your local time zone, it ends up 4 hours off. I had to use "-08:00" to get my current EDT time. (That will change by one hour in a week or two when Daylight Saving Time ends.) Dan Tobias (talk) 22:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

index.php

The Wiki is obviously working (yay), but it would be nice if the MediaWiki .htaccess file was adjusted so that the index.php disappears from wiki URLs.

Licensing

I'm not lawyer but I don't think declaring the content here Public Domain (US) as discussed in the FAQ will have desirable consequences outside the United States. It's been my experience working with datasets published by the US federal government that people outside the US are uncertain about whether or not they can use the data. I think using CC0 would be preferable to just saying Public Domain, if you really want to encourage reuse. Edsu (talk) 14:26, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Using templates

I'm a newbie with Mediawiki. Could someone add a quick help note about using the templates for this site? --Phillipkent (talk) 14:34, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Mediawiki site has extensive info about that: http://www.mediawiki.org/ Maurice.de.rooij (talk) 23:03, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Using bots

I am working on a bot that hoovers all file format extensions and have it create pages for them in the "ext" namespace. More bots are welcome for gardening, any ideas??? Also see http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/api.php for inspiration Maurice.de.rooij (talk) 22:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

How do you figure out what in a page is a file extension? Does an infobox have to be filled in correctly? Dan Tobias (talk) 23:29, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
If the template formatinfo is filled in correctly, the bot uses that, otherwise text is parsed with regex. Pronom signature files are parsed locally to check if the extension is known. That is my plan for version 0.0001 Maurice.de.rooij (talk) 23:36, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Template:FormatInfo for people unfamiliar with this template Maurice.de.rooij (talk) 23:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
So I assume the articles themselves should not be the file extension but some more descriptive string? Like Adobe Photoshop instead of PSD, or ScreamTracker 3 instead of S3M? --Darkstar (talk) 03:12, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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