Talk:Planet Wikimedia/Archive 1

Url format

Because it seems that other languages of "Planet.wikimedia" will be setup I recommend to change the url for this thing for the English language Planet to "http://en.planet.wikimedia.org" like it is custom in the Wikimedia-world. Now this system is still very new it is easy to do it. "planet.wikimedia.org" can be a page to select the language version. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 04:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

1.  Support--Shizhao 14:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

   Use "http://planet.wikimedia.org/en/" is good? --Shizhao 02:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

   Ok.  Support --Shizhao 02:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

2.  Support --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 20:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Support. --.anaconda 00:14, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
4.  Support — Kalan talk ru c 06:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
5.  Support --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
6.  Support - as obvious in retrospect as making www.wikipedia.org a multilingual portal was - David Gerard 15:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
7.  Support - VasilievVV 18:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. --brion 20:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk

The format "planet.wikimedia.org/XX/ could be used but is less clean. The main benefit of using a XX.(subdomain).domain.tld format is that you have an clear url to point to a languages version. If it would be more easy for technical reasons to not use a new subdomain but only a new directroy then redirects should be made to redirect XX.planet.wikimedia.org to "planet.wikimedia.org/XX/ --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 08:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsuccessful requests

Do they just get removed, or archived? Gary KIRK _parler! 16:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

If this is about your request, you'll have to allow at least a few hours for someone to go through the list and process new requests. :) If I do it, I'll typically wait until a batch of at least 3 accumulates.

If there is indeed a blog which shouldn't be in here, I'll try to move it somewhere appropriate (other language) or explain the reasons to the submitter. I guess we could maintain a list of rejects, though I'm not sure what the point would be.--Eloquence 16:52, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I've been adding pretty much everything that shows up here to open.wikiblogplanet.com - David Gerard 00:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Name change (not urgent)

My blog is already aggregated on en.planet, but it lists my name as "User:Jredmond". Any chance I could have it list "Jim Redmond" instead? No rush. Thanks! - jredmond 21:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Screwiness

OK, I made a new post to my Wikimedia category today, only to find that the PWM aggregator took every post in the feed and gave them the timestamp for the new post. I checked the source code of the feed and the posts all have their correct datestamps, so the aggregator must be doing something notright to the feed after it gets it. Cynical 21:45, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think they do have the correct timestamps. For instance, I see:

		<published>2006-04-19T13:40:04Z</published>
		<updated>2007-03-27T05:09:49Z</updated>

on the post "Wikimedia sites unavailable" in your filtered atom feed. That is definitely on your side. Do you have any idea what might cause it?--Eloquence 05:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the feed for now until this problem is fixed. As far as I can tell, this can only be done on your end...--Eloquence 06:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Main Planet Wikimedia Page

At planet.wikimedia.org it says that the only language available is English and that other languages are coming soon. Could this be updated to mention the new languages? Thanks! Greeves 00:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A bit of fancy graphic design per http://www.wikipedia.org/ wouldn't go astray either :-) Is the page editable to Meta admins the way www.wikipedia.org is? - David Gerard 22:51, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

As a temporary solution; redirect the url planet.wikimedia.org to some page here on meta (like Planet Wikimedia/portal ) where the index can be put for now. This until there is a fancy portal. --Walter Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine 23:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Tag-specific feeds from Feedburner

Does anybody know if it's possible to generate filtered feeds from a Feedburner-hosted blog feed? I've post this to the Feedburner forum, if I get a response, I'll link to it here. Padraic 19:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

According to this, there is no specific Feedburner way to do it - you just take your tag-generated feeds and "burn" them. Padraic 12:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Another screwiness

Hi,

every time I make a minor change to the wikinewsreports blog, the story comes back on top of planet wikimedia... is there any way to prevent that, other than not altering blog posts?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

As well I think the Wikinews blog posts aren't particular suited for the Planet Wikimedia. The Planet Wikimedia is about going ons inside our projects not outside events not related to us. So for example I can imagine that someone blogs about the progress of Wikinews and this perfectly fits the scope of Planet Wikimedia but please not the single news. Aside my personal taste that I don't like the style of most of the Wikinews reports I think they'd be much better in a Wikinews only Planet. As Wikinews is mutlilingual this would be as well cool for them: A own blog Planet used for news in many languages. Arnomane 09:25, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Feed issues

Can someone please alter the URL for my feed to this:

• http://thoughtsfordeletion.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published

Without the "?orderby=published" on the end it seems to be sorting things by update time which is causing old posts to bubble and clog up the tubes. --bainer (talk) 15:45, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

With Safari: links to original posts in the feed?

Hi,

Thank you for providing the Planet Wikimedia. I noticed that when reading the feed with Safari I do not get the links to the original posts. I know that my way of reading feeds is not the most advantaged, but... :-) --Teemul 07:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Portuguese Planet

Hi. Please, create planet in Portuguese. I already placed config.ini in svn.wikimedia.org. The http://pt.incubator.wikiblogplanet.com/ is very active, can become official. Regards, LeonardoGregianin 12:14, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the pt-Planet, but it's not working... recent posts keep appearing in the incubator, not on the Planet. Can anyone fix this? Thanks :) PatríciaR 20:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I am suspected that's the BOM issue for the file, please don't insert the BOM while updating the config.ini file. The BOM was removed on rev:28266. Shinjiman 05:36, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Copyrighted news from third partys that are related to wiki

From Planet Wikimedia/zh, we have recently discussed whether those feeds (which are related to wiki) should be included. They are including [1], et al. Donno how are the other languages done for the similar cases. Is that feed to be included, or not to be? Shinjiman 09:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

blogname instead of article name shown

my wordpress blog is not shown correctly on the german planet. (http://de.planet.wikimedia.org/) it does show the blogname instead of the article name. Elvis untot 14:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

it is still not correct, could someone please look at it? Elvis 11:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

anyone here? Elvis 10:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Character encoding of dates on German planet

There is a problem with the character encoding on the German planet: the HTML page is declared as UTF-8, and everything actually is, except for the month; the ä in "März" is encoded in ISO8859-1. --Dapeteばか 21:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Noise-to-signal increasing on Site removed, per Newyorkbrad. -- Thekohser 03:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Comment removed, per Newyorkbrad. -- Thekohser 03:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I've been working with David on his blog. I don't understand the charge -- there is no advertising or revenue on the blog, I don't see what the problem with ".org" is. The blog is almost entirely concerned with Wikimedia-related topics. -Peteforsyth 18:19, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Response removed, per Newyorkbrad. -- Thekohser 03:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Aggregator not updating

Anyone know how to fix it?--David Shankbone 05:17, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I too have noticed that the planet stopped spinning. enochlau (talk) 18:15, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I placed a quick bug report in with David posted to my talk - but I could not reply to the talk at that time. Sorry about that. When I get home, I'll post the bug number. NonvocalScream 18:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Mistake or forgive

Hello, i was member of the previous aggregator for french wikipedian but I wasn't inform of the change... So please could you add my little blog http://gdgourou.blogspot.com/ to http://fr.planet.wikimedia.org/ (french version) Sincerely --Gdgourou 11:29, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Done nojhan 10:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Portuguese Planet

Hi, the planet was added a new feed, but the posts are to appear in pt.planet?--217.129.73.151 20:12, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Request for removal

I would like to request that David Shankbone's blog be removed from the feed. His latest post about going on a television show is not about Wikimedia at all, and furthermore does not represent the kind of tone that I think we should have here. Making fun of an old woman's appearance? I don't care for this sort of thing for our feed.--Jimbo Wales 00:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I've not recently scanned the blog. I gather that the most recent was offtopic, is this a frequent thing for the Shankbone blog? NonvocalScream 05:57, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

There are other options available other than removal... For example, the feed software can accept filtered blog posts. Shankbone would set up his blog, and he would categorize WMF related posts by adding a certain tag to posts, for example, the tag "wiki" or "WMF". The blog link the feed software on planet Wikimedia uses can be set to republish only those posts that he categorizes as WMF related. Would this be an acceptable alternative? NonvocalScream 06:10, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Whatever. Just so the quality is upheld and I stop getting complaints. :)--Jimbo Wales

Ok, I'll contact David... he has been willing in the past to adjust. NonvocalScream 22:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

No worries, the tag is fine - 80% of my posts are wiki-based, but I am fine with having the posts tag-filtered and would welcome it, as I could probably free up my hand a bit more. NVS, I'm unsure how to wiki code the tag - could you make it "Wikipedia", as that's mostly what I use. David Shankbone 22:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, so I know how to place the request for a coder to alter the aggregation ini file: You will be tagging all Wikipedia/Wikimedia related posts with the tag "wikipedia" (lowercase) ? Also, check your posts to ensure it is designed for the audience :) Best, NonvocalScream 23:08, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

"Wikipedia" first capped and then lower case works - that's how I have it now on the historical posts. --David Shankbone 23:10, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Are you using Wordpress or Blogger? NonvocalScream 23:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Neither - GoDaddy (and yes, it sucks). --David Shankbone 23:29, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Godaddy uses an odd blogging engine, could you open a support ticket with them and find out how we in the RSS link, can filter RSS feed by categories? NonvocalScream 23:49, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I think this accomplished it last time [2]. That was when I first started it. I think it worked. --David Shankbone 00:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

David, I'm pretty sure we never got the filtered feed stuff working. Call me. -Peteforsyth 05:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I think, not certain, that the problem was over on Open, and that the feed worked here on Planet. That's my recollection. --David Shankbone 00:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)