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::I've had another look at Scribunto. I'm not confident about getting it working any time soon. I think we would be better developing all new templates with SMW and foregoing the WP compatibility on infoboxes. They are generally vastly over complex for WS purposes anyway IMO. I'm happy to leave pages with the Scributo required 'Cite' templates as they are. If a Scribunto miracle happens they will just start working. Otherwise I don't think its much of a loss as is. I'll try to contribute a bit on the 'person' template if you're happy with this because there are lots of pages where it is needed. I'm also warming to the idea of separate namespaces because I feel that trying to maintain extensive WP compatibility whilst majoring on SMW is so much wasted effort --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 16:39, 6 January 2014 (GMT) | ::I've had another look at Scribunto. I'm not confident about getting it working any time soon. I think we would be better developing all new templates with SMW and foregoing the WP compatibility on infoboxes. They are generally vastly over complex for WS purposes anyway IMO. I'm happy to leave pages with the Scributo required 'Cite' templates as they are. If a Scribunto miracle happens they will just start working. Otherwise I don't think its much of a loss as is. I'll try to contribute a bit on the 'person' template if you're happy with this because there are lots of pages where it is needed. I'm also warming to the idea of separate namespaces because I feel that trying to maintain extensive WP compatibility whilst majoring on SMW is so much wasted effort --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 16:39, 6 January 2014 (GMT) | ||
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| + | :::I've just spent another 3 hours on the Scribunto issue to no avail. It requires pcre >= 8.1. I cannot find a single EPEL repo with a version higher than 7.8 (which is what we currently have). I do have an outstanding help request on the Centos forums but will not hold my breath on a successful answer from there. The problem with installing it from elsewhere is that it has to be compiled into php and, since php is core OS stuff and so central to the functioning of everything, I am not going to attempt a non-standard hack at it. I did so with a few things on the old server and it caused no end of troubles which were never fully resolved. Upshot? We need to forget about being able to run any and all Wikipedia templates simply by importing them. There are quite a few existing pages that use 'cite' and we'll just have to live with that; but this template and other potential site dependent ones need to be developed without Lua or Scribunto - for now anyway --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] ([[User talk:Peter|talk]]) 14:45, 24 January 2014 (GMT) | ||
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I think this means we need Scribunto installed for the infobox template to work... Robin (talk) 17:38, 22 December 2013 (GMT)
- It does. I spent ages trying to get the necessary server dependencies up to the required releases. I guess I'll have another go as and when since there have been lots of OS component u/grades since - but haven't the inclination right now. Same applies to removing all those problem properties. I need to psych myself up for jobs like that first --Peter P (talk) 17:55, 22 December 2013 (GMT)
- I've had another look at Scribunto. I'm not confident about getting it working any time soon. I think we would be better developing all new templates with SMW and foregoing the WP compatibility on infoboxes. They are generally vastly over complex for WS purposes anyway IMO. I'm happy to leave pages with the Scributo required 'Cite' templates as they are. If a Scribunto miracle happens they will just start working. Otherwise I don't think its much of a loss as is. I'll try to contribute a bit on the 'person' template if you're happy with this because there are lots of pages where it is needed. I'm also warming to the idea of separate namespaces because I feel that trying to maintain extensive WP compatibility whilst majoring on SMW is so much wasted effort --Peter P (talk) 16:39, 6 January 2014 (GMT)
- I've just spent another 3 hours on the Scribunto issue to no avail. It requires pcre >= 8.1. I cannot find a single EPEL repo with a version higher than 7.8 (which is what we currently have). I do have an outstanding help request on the Centos forums but will not hold my breath on a successful answer from there. The problem with installing it from elsewhere is that it has to be compiled into php and, since php is core OS stuff and so central to the functioning of everything, I am not going to attempt a non-standard hack at it. I did so with a few things on the old server and it caused no end of troubles which were never fully resolved. Upshot? We need to forget about being able to run any and all Wikipedia templates simply by importing them. There are quite a few existing pages that use 'cite' and we'll just have to live with that; but this template and other potential site dependent ones need to be developed without Lua or Scribunto - for now anyway --Peter P (talk) 14:45, 24 January 2014 (GMT)
