Change log/2017

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v4.5.2.1704 (2017-04-26)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-04 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis

PC

minor

  • Full-text search: Tweak UI including consistently-sized wikis, borders around snips, and vertical-centering for snip num.
  • Search: Include pages with scores of 10,000 or less.
Example: list byzantine emperors; list latin proverbs.
  • Scribunto.Common: Fix script error 'Country data' on many en.w game pages.
Message: =Module:CountryData:12 bad argument: string expected, got nil
Resolved by: Return error message if title is invalid.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
  • Parser.Time: Fix script error 'Check date value in access date' on many en.w page.
Message: Check date values in: |access-date=
Resolved by: Ignore multiple years / multiple days when parsing date for #time function.
Example: {{#time:Y-m-d|12 November 2016 2008}} {{#time:Y-m-d|2 12 November 2016}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipas,_Cotabato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Handle '[convert invalid number]' on some en.w pages. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
Resolved by: Add more support for UNIQ substitutions with extension tags.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/Ethanol
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Fix script errors for chart on a few dozen en.w pages.
Message: Module:Chart:212 group names should contain (2)
Resolved by: Change UNIQ marker to include quotes.
Example: '\"`UNIQ--item-0-QINU`\"'.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/Fokus_(magazine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_film_solar_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Greece
  • Scribunto.Uniq: Fix script error on a few dozen en.w pages on American soccer.
Message: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 282
Resolved by: Replace xtag_bgn / xtag_end with UNIQ.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/2015_San_Jose_Earthquakes_season
  • Scribunto.Regex: Fix script error '=Module:fr-verb:249 Internal error: expected pronunciation' on many en.d page in French section.
Message: =Module:fr-verb:249 Internal error: expected pronunciation "tʁae" to end with "je"
Resolved by: If gsub_replace lua proc returns nothing, do not replace with empty string.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tracer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitter https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voir
  • Luaj: Fix script error '=Module:zh-glyph:120 attempt to concatenate nil and string' on a few hundred en.d pages for Chinese chars.
Message: =Module:zh-glyph:120 attempt to concatenate nil and string [broken since: stack]
Resolved by: Add more logic for surrogate pairs (2-length chars).
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/儉 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僮 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僉 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/僅 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/佻
  • Scribunto.Regex: Fix script error '=Module:ru-pron:827 Number of parts of speech' on a few dozen en.d page in Russian section.
Message: =Module:ru-pron:827 Number of parts of speech (4) should match number of words (5)
Resolved by: Add only first match for mw.ustring.match, not all of them.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/действительное_причастие_настоящего_времени
  • Parser.Table: Fix premature short paragraphs on some pages.
Resolved by: Close previous paragraph when starting table.
Example: [[A]] b\n{| -> <p>[[A]] b</p> x> <p>[[A]]\n<p>b.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_engine_(web)
  • Wikibase.Coordinate: Reverse NS / EW direction for geocoordinates; also, standardize spacing / symbols for wikibase.
Message: =Module:Location map:353 Malformed coordinates value
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulme_Arch_Bridge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5936167 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
  • Wikibase.Scribunto: Fix '{{#statements}}' showing up in page.
Resolved by: Support #statements keyword.
Example: {{#statements:P6|from=Q668}}.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
  • Scribunto.Site: Fix script error 'scn.wikipedia.org' on a few en.w page.
Message: =Module:Interwiki/data:42 could not find a host in URL 'scn.wikipedia.org'; please check your wiki's interwiki data
Resolved by: Use fully-qualified url for url property, not domain.
Example: url -> https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 x> scn.wikipedia.org.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_lane
  • Scribunto.Lang: Fix script error 'No name for language egy' on 1 en.w page.
Message: =Module:language:121 No name for the language egy could be found ;
Resolved by: Return 1st three letters of unknown language codes, not blank.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country-name_etymologies
  • Parser.Xml: Fix script error 'Unable to convert section' on 1 en.w page.
Message: =Module:Decimals:10 Unable to convert "Expression error: Unrecognized word "section>"." to a number
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
  • Parser.Date: Parse times with format of 'm/d/yyyy' where d == 13.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/tongue-in-chic https://en.wiktionary.org/serve_up
  • Personal_wikis: Do not prompt for upgrading to latest search database version when first using search.
Resolved by: Create personal wikis with latest search database schema.

trivial

  • Mass_parse: Do not fail when generating full-text search indexes.
  • Mass_parse: Embed page_score in full-text search index.
  • Scribunto.Regex: Demote message level of "regex is invalid" from warn to log.
Links: https://en.wiktionary.org/仝

v4.5.0.1703 (2017-03-29)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-03 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-03 Russian wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Russian_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-03 Hindi wikis. {requested by anonymous}
Links: Wiki_setup/Hindi_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-03 Tibetan wikis. {requested by anonymous}
Links: Wiki_setup/Tibetan_wikis

PC

major

  • Full-text search: Add Full-text search for Wikipedias.
Links: App/Full-text_search
  • Full-text search: Redesign Search UI including highlighting matches in snips and ignoring HTML tags.
  • Gui: Add search and allpages button. {requested by Ope30}
  • Wikibase: Fix "Module:Wikidata:813 attempt to call nil" on many ru.w pages.
Message: Module:Wikidata:813 attempt to call nil
Resolved by: Synchronize latest of mw.wikibase.lua and mw.wikibase.entity.lua.
Example: /xowa/bin/any/xowa/xtns/Scribunto/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/mw.wikibase.lua|mw.wikibase.entity.lua.
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Армения https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пайк,_Роберт
  • Wikibase: Fix 'mw.wikibase.entity.lua:56 attempt to call nil' on several dozen ru.w pages.
Message: mw.wikibase.entity.lua:56 attempt to call nil
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бейлина,_Нина_Михайловна

minor

  • Page_sync: Show synced page immediately, not after another refresh. {detected by khanhhung2512 }
  • Category: Fix fatal page load error when page_cat_db_id is invalid. {detected by Ope30}
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wells_Hill
  • File: Handle long directory names on Windows systems. {detected by Ope30}
Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quiz/Geschichte
  • Wikibase: Fix missing image on some ru.w pages. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Add 'datatype' property to 'Property:' pages.
Links: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Маргарян,_Андраник_Наапетович
  • Import: Fix file selector not working on Import offline. {detected by anonymous}
Links: Dashboard/Import/Offline
  • Gui: Add option to display actual HTML in SWT browser.
Links: Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.wiki.hdumps
  • Options: Add 'options link' to get direct call to option group.
Links: Special:XowaCfg
  • Gui: Add url_box format for displaying custom urls like 'English Wikipedia/Earth'. {requested by Ope30}
Links: Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.gui.url bar
  • Gui: Change back-color of Options.Shortcut.Bindings window from gray to white.
  • Personal_wikis: Fix perpetual "Do you want to upgrade your search databases" when using Search field for personal wikis.

trivial

  • Html: Upgrade oojs-ui to show XowaSearch magnifying glass on Safari.
  • Mass_parse: Fix critical import failure when importing ru.wikinews.org.
Resolved by: Ignore duplicate page titles.
  • Mass_parse: Do not fail if no images in wiki.

Android

major

  • Full-text search: Add Full-text search for Wikipedias.
Links: App/Full-text_search

v4.4.0.1703 (2017-03-06)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-02 German Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/German_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-02 French Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/French_wikis

PC

major

  • Gui: Add night mode. {assisted by anonymous4; requested by Lasairiona}
  • Personal_wikis: Add page backup feature. {suggested by Lasairiona}
  • Full-text search: Add preliminary implementation of full-text search for personal wikis.
Links: Special:XowaSearch
  • XULRunner: Fix bad layout on French Wikipedia main page.
Resolved by: Upgrade xulrunner from v24 to v31.
Example: flex:.35em.

minor

  • Wikibase: Fix multiple "unknown datavalue type" on many fr.w pages.
Message: Erreur de script: =Module:Wikidata:522 unknown datavalue type. Erreur de script: =Module:Coordinates:808 unknown datavalue type.
Resolved by: Use scribunto key name for datatypes.
Links: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Malle https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulon
  • Personal_wikis: Update modified date on page save. {detected by Lasairiona}
  • Personal_wikis: Show personal wikis in left sidebar. {detected by Lasairiona}
  • Personal_wikis: Add timestamp to quick save status message.
Example: saved Main Page (01:02:03.456).
  • Personal_wikis: Speed up creation of wikis.
Resolved by: Do not download css when creating wiki.
  • Personal_wikis: Speed up loading of wikis.
Resolved by: Do not load every personal wiki on startup.
  • App: Speed up loading of app. {detected by Lasairiona}
Resolved by: Remove initialMemorySize of 256 MB.
  • Command-line: Support ?curid for command-line calls. {detected by shopuz}
  • Log: Remove "current" directory; always use timestamp directory. {detected by anonymous}

trivial

  • Search: Clear cache after pages are reindexed.
  • App_update: Redownload update_db if download fails.
  • App: Fix rare crash to desktop.
Resolved by: Call toString on Error, not getMessage.
  • Log: Delete old Download Central logs.
Example: /xowa/user/anonymous/app/tmp/xolog.

v4.3.0.1702 (2017-02-21)

Wiki

  • Package: Publish 2017-02 English Wikipedia.
Links: Wiki_setup/English_wikis
  • Package: Publish 2017-02 Gujarati wikis.
Links: Wiki_setup/Gujarati_wikis

PC

major

  • Personal_wikis: Add "Delete Page" button to edit mode.
  • Personal_wikis: Add Category insertions, updates.
Links: App/Personal_wikis/Default_Main_Page#Category
  • Personal_wikis: Add import option.
Links: Special:XowaWikiDirectory
  • Gui: Fix extremely short url bar on some machines.
Resolved by: Support High DPI machines.
  • Dev: Change license to GPLv3 / Apache2.

minor

  • Import: Fix page_redirects to English namespaces in non-English wikis .
  • Wiki: Support curid query argument. {requested by anonymous}
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=303
  • Gui: Change keyboard shortcut to focus html browser from escape to Ctrl+M.
  • Gui: Change keyboard shortcut to restore url bar from Ctrl+U to escape.
  • Sql: Add SQL exec page.
Links: Special:XowaSql

trivial

  • Options: Remove Javascript enabled option else user can inadvertently cause many Special screens to stop working. {detected by anonymous}
  • Personal_wikis: Update invalid page_ids (-1, 0) to valid page_ids.
  • Gui: Hide info box control in lower-right hand corner.

v4.2.0.1702 (2017-02-12)

PC

major

  • Personal_wikis: Support creation of personal wikis. {requested by Dax}
Links: Special:XowaWikiItem

minor

  • Wiki: Support renamed folders. {detected by Ope30}
Example: /xowa/wiki/en.wikipedia.org-2016.12.
  • DownloadCentral: Add button to remove items from "Available" list. {requested by markusmaresch}
  • DownloadCentral: When moving items between tables, add item to correct spot in table, not at bottom.

v4.1.0.1702 (2017-02-04)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2017-01 Simple Wikipedia. {requested by anonymous}
  • Package: Publish 2017-01 Chinese wikis. {requested by anonymous}

PC

major

  • App_update: Add in-app application updater.
Links: App/Setup/Update/In-app

minor

  • Html_dump: Fix Special:Random not working if "Prefer HTML databases" checked. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Update title to redirected page.
  • Parser: Fix missing text for unknown number of pages.
Resolved by: Escape dangling tags; do not let them gobble up rest of page.
Example: <ref>aEOS -> &lt;ref>aEOS.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
  • Parser: Fix broken tables on a few dozen en.w pages.
Resolved by: Ignore whitespace between dl and tblw.
Example: ": {|".
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland
  • Custom_wiki: Show images in pages within the File namespace. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Rename files by replacing "spaces" with "underscores". {detected by Jakz, anonymous}
Example: "A b.png" -> "A_b.png".
  • Custom_wiki: Show img.src for files when viewing html. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Integrate files with app cache.
Links: Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.files.general
  • Custom_wiki: Do not delete xml file after import. {detected by anonymous}
  • Custom_wiki: Use extension of thumbnail, not original. {detected by anonymous}
Example: A.svg -> 400.png x> 400.svg.
  • Custom_wiki: Use relative not absolute path for orig dir.
Example: -> ~{orig_dir}7/70/ x> C:\xowa\wiki\custom_wiki\file\orig\7\70.
  • Html: Show Creative Commons license at bottom of page. {requested by Ope30}
  • Html: Show missing left sidebar on small wikis. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: If MediaWiki:Sidebar does not exist, use language's message 'sidebar', not null.
Links: https://sw.wiktionary.org https://sw.wikibooks.org https://af.wikipedia.org https://af.wiktionary.org https://af.wikibooks.org
  • Wiki: Support renamed folders. {requested by Ope30}
Example: /xowa/wiki/en.wikipedia.org-2016.12.
  • Embeddable: Fix default ns_mgr being used for wikis. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Embeddable: Fix multiple multi-threaded parsing errors. {detected by Rüdiger Gleim}
  • Mass_parse: Fix #ifexist not working after dumping 1st namespace.
Resolved by: Clear ns_loaded cache; Add different cache clearing methods.

trivial

  • Cfg: Change operating-system specific config file from "os.gfs" to "os.os_name.gfs".
Example: /xowa/user/anonymous/app/cfg/os.lnx_64.gfs.

v4.0.0.1701 (2017-01-01)

Wikis

  • Package: Publish 2016-12 Italian wikis.
  • Package: Publish 2016-12 Swahili wikis.

PC

major

  • Cfg: Add new Options system.
Links: Options
  • Setup: Change to semantic versioning.
Example: 4.0.17011.1 vs 4.1.

minor

  • Wikibase: Fix 'Attached KML error' on many dozen en.w pages. {detected by Ope30}
Resolved by: Do not cast 'numeric-id' to 'string'; leave as 'int'.
Example: Route map: Attached KML Error: item specified on Wikidata, or in |wikidata=, is not a KML file (P31→Q26267864 not found).
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame
  • Gui: Allow Ctrl+Insert to be used to copy text. {detected by William}
Resolved by: Do not override Ctrl+Insert with Ctrl+Minus.
  • Gui: Support numpad keys for page find. {detected by William}
  • Gui: Add option to auto-remember last tab opened.
  • Gui: Support Command key on Mac OS X for keyboard shortcuts.
  • Html: Remove horizontal scroll bar on some Mac OS X configurations.
Resolved by: Replace width:20vw with width:20em in /xowa/user/wiki/home/html/xowa_common.css.
  • Edit: Add section-editing. {requested by anonymous}
  • Cfg: Add better support for Shortcuts.
  • Category: Show Hidden Categories in "Hidden" section.
Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
  • Search.Suggest: Do not add * at end of search phrase; use auto-wildcard option instead.
  • Search: Fix 'url_default' not working.
  • Xtn.Popups: Fix multiple blue lines at bottom of page whenever new popup shows.
Resolved by: Suppress attributes from mw-body class.
  • Redirect: Allow redirects to Special pages.
Example: #REDIRECT [[Special:XowaCfg]].
Links: Options
  • Gui: Allow navigation to urls with arguments.
Example: Special:XowaCfg%3Fgrp%3Dxowa.html.css.
  • Mass_parse: Fix memory leak / slow performance due to over-zealous page caching.
Resolved by: Add two levels of permenance to page cache; add separate ifexists cache.

trivial

  • Cfg: Remove 'Gui - Url bar' Symbols.
  • Cfg: Replace 'Custom wiki commands' with 'Unzip bz2 file'.
  • Cfg: Remove Search Suggest 'AllPages look-ahead', 'AllPages minimum length', and 'Log enabled'.
  • Cfg: Remove config page for Firefox Addon.
  • Wikibase: Add "fiwikivoyage" to list of known wikis.
  • Html: Remove content_editable support.

dev

  • Math: Refactor Math classes.
  • Mass_parse: Refactor make cmd to merge other wkr tables such as log_basic_temp.
  • Gui: Refactor IptKey; in particular, use SWING and SWT constants where possible; also handle modifers.
  • Mass_parse: Improve performance when returning Keyvals from Scribunto function.

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