Fixing broken links in Wiki (Articles Tutorials)

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  Yes, I noticed a few issues too, they are interesting because they mean some info/tags are missing on the wiki. It will be useful to make an api checker tool based on that.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  December 2019

  @plicatibu I think that mp3 in some cases uses the media system in the OS (as there may be hardware to accelerate the playback), but wav uses code (software playback) within Gideros to play. If wav files work then the issue will be specific to mp3.

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• antix Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  Quick question... has cross origin access been disabled on the wiki? I can't seem to scrape anything anymore.
  
  nope, it's working again

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  MoKaLux said:

  MoKaLux said:

  Edit: it looks like we have indeed the sidebar but it is hidden (it's the little arrow near the gideros logo at the top of the page). So its placement depends on the skin.

  The sidebar is already here but the default skin puts it in a place that is not usable. You just need to change the default skin to one of the above. The skins are already installed.
  Then we can modifiy this https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar and add all the links we want.
  
  That seems easy, I don't see the problem changing the default skin.

  @hgy29 I cannot change the content of the sidebar because it needs special permission. We have the side bar! now needs to modify its content and we are done?!

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  Seems like the side bar is actually the menu bar (based on its current content)

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  Just seen this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MintyDocs#Download_and_installation
  
  I don't know what it looks like, but worth a try I think
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019

  hgy29 said:

  Seems like the side bar is actually the menu bar (based on its current content)

  It can be customized to add other links (for example all the API links) but I don't have permission to customize it!
  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar#Customize_the_sidebar
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  + changing the default theme to timeless for example brings the menu bar:
  
  
  And the wiki would look like this:
  
  edit: oh I see someone is trying it, cool
  

  

  

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019

  you can use this wikimedia function:
  {{Special:PrefixIndex/Bitmap}}
  To retrieve every page links corresponding to bitmap in this example. Can be used on anything (accelerometer, bitmap, b2,...)

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  Actually it was me doing some tests!
  I can't do what you can in the sidebar unluckily, but you can add a category tree (which I did). Now we have to add a category to each API page...

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  December 2019

  I think changing the default theme has broken the trail thing at the top of the page (now missing) ?

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  @SinisterSoft I found the trail thing very annoying I am glad it's gone but I think we can add it back if you want (I have to look at the mediawiki help page).
  @hgy29 it seems you want to mimic the old version but I don't think that will work because gideros is too big.
  Can I suggest to only link to Main API functions, Plugins functions and maybe LUA functions in the menu bar?
  
  PS: i really like the new look of the wiki

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  It is all handled by categories, and you can configure the depth, so all is possible.
  BTW I fixed the breadcrumb plugin so that it works with the new default skin (sorry @MoKaLux )

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• plicatibu Member

  December 2019

  @MoKaLux I liked it too.

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• oleg Member

  December 2019

  Guys, do you really need this picture and this text? I think they are superfluous. And they take up a lot of space
  
  
  

  

  

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  @oleg yes I don't like it too much.
  I tested the wiki without the picture but it looks worst without it imho!
  
  
  let's vote!
  +1 for the image
  -1 against the image

  

  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  December 2019

  I’d put banner image there, if we had one

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  hgy29 said:

  Actually it was me doing some tests!
  I can't do what you can in the sidebar unluckily, but you can add a category tree (which I did). Now we have to add a category to each API page...

  And it's going to take ages!
  
  It's better to do this imho

  MoKaLux said:

  Can I suggest to only link to Main API functions, Plugins functions and maybe LUA functions in the menu?

  Since all the Main API templates are already done the result would be immediate!

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  hgy29 said:

  I’d put banner image there, if we had one

  I was thinking about adding an image gallery of gideros games/apps.

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• oleg Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  hgy29 said:

  I’d put banner image there, if we had one

  In Wikipedia it is accepted to put banners in the right panel. It's more ergonomic
  
  And all sorts of screenshots in wikipedia are usually inserted into the bottom of the article
  
  
  Also, the right pane should contain a link to the Gideros download page and to the main site
  
  
  

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• antix Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  I agree with @oleg, that image should go
  
  I woudn't replace it with anything else though, there's no need for an extraneous mage there.
  
  Personally I don't care for the new font that is being used for the titles either
  
  The entire sidebar on the left is gone also.
  
  Would it not be better to have a page called "playground" or something and get that how you want it before modifying up the main page?
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  December 2019

  I moved the language enhancements into the lua language section, it seems more logical to place them there.

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• antix Member

  December 2019

  The wiki is really odd. Some pages when scraped using api.php don't return expected results.
  
  Facebook Instant Games for example actually returns an HTML div, not the wikitext.
  
  Is this because wikimedia is doing strange things or is it because the page has not been created appropriately?
  
  I've added a check to my scraper and pages that are broken like facebook instant are not processed.

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• antix Member

  December 2019

  @hgy29 the PHP script you provided also has issues with things like FaceBook Instant Games. The namespace is "FBInstant" which does not correspond to any webpage on the wiki, thus it cannot be scraped. The actual wiki page is titled "Facebook_Instant_Games".
  

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• antix Member

  December 2019

  The link in the Main API for AlertDialog now somehow points to the Accelerometer page.

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019

  antix said:

  The link in the Main API for AlertDialog now somehow points to the Accelerometer page.

  thank you, the issue is now fixed

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019

  antix said:

  @hgy29 the PHP script you provided also has issues with things like FaceBook Instant Games. The namespace is "FBInstant" which does not correspond to any webpage on the wiki, thus it cannot be scraped. The actual wiki page is titled "Facebook_Instant_Games".
  

  FBInstant page created + added GIDEROSOBJ:FBInstant to it.
  
  This facebook thing is a little tricky

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• MoKaLux Member

  December 2019

  antix said:

  The wiki is really odd. Some pages when scraped using api.php don't return expected results.
  ...
  I've added a check to my scraper and pages that are broken like facebook instant are not processed.

  Please let me know if you find other broken things, I'll try to fix them!?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  December 2019

  The facebook instant may be a bit of a hack because I added it (!!) and it's not really like any of the other API or plugins (like the Lua enhancements). I tried to make it as similar but it was all done very quickly so we could be in the very first group of officially recognised development kits for Facebook Instants.

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• antix Member

  December 2019

  @SinisterSoft oh. Might be time to tidy it up
  
  The PHP script that @hgy29 supplied doesn't seem to contain Sprite and Bitmap namespaces. It's a nice script but there's just too much missing stuff to make it truly useful right now.
  
  Besides that however, I'm now able to scrape pretty much any page and reformat it as I like. I'm going to rejig my own method (scraping) to get the navigation menu made and then I think I'll just release it for others to use or mess about with.

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