Re: [Wikitech-l] Who uses MobileFrontend?

2013-05-02 Thread Isarra Yos
On 30/04/13 20:36, Max Semenik wrote: Hi, as one of WMF developers who work on MobileFrontend[1], I'd love to know how third parties use this extension. How does your caching works? How are you detecting mobile devices? Do you have any problems with running it? Finally, just tell us if you tried

[Wikitech-l] Connor Schlesiger GSoC Proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Connor Schlesiger
Please review my Google Summer of Code proposal: Link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Connorschlesiger/GSoC_2013_Proposal Thank you, Connor Schlesiger ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Connor Schlesiger GSoC Proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Max Semenik
On 02.05.2013, 13:12 Connor wrote: Please review my Google Summer of Code proposal: Link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Connorschlesiger/GSoC_2013_Proposal Unfortunately, your proposal is not related to MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects and as such it will be declined. If you want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Connor Schlesiger GSoC Proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/02/2013 07:19 AM, Max Semenik wrote: On 02.05.2013, 13:12 Connor wrote: Please review my Google Summer of Code proposal: Link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Connorschlesiger/GSoC_2013_Proposal Unfortunately, your proposal is not related to MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW Browser Test Automation - Proposal Summary

2013-05-02 Thread Željko Filipin
Hi Indrani, We already have an ongoing browser test automation project[1]. For a quick overview take a look at the first 14 minutes of tech talk from 28 February[2]. Other comments are inline. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Indrani Sen i@se12.qmul.ac.uk wrote: Tools : Test Automation

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Incremental updates for Kwix Reader(offline wikipedia)- Application

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/01/2013 07:03 PM, Kiran Mathew Koshy wrote: Hello, I have submitted my project application for GSoC '13. Please review it. Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kiran_mathew_1993 Thanks, Hi and thanks for your interest in improving MediaWiki!

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: MediaWiki-Moodle extension

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/01/2013 05:13 PM, Rohan Verma wrote: Hello I have finished writing my proposal for the moodle extension GSoC project. Here is the link to the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Clancer. I am currently linking to the existing bug report

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki API 2.0 (was GSoC Application)

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/29/2013 05:27 PM, Quim Gil wrote: On 04/29/2013 02:18 PM, Aayush Sharma wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aayush251/gsoc Please review my GSoC application. Hi Aayush, please write more specific emails in a mailing list. It will help getting more people looking at your

Re: [Wikitech-l] «Improvement of glossary tools» idea for GSoC 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/30/2013 07:07 PM, Yevheniy Vlasenko wrote: Greetings My name is Yevheniy Vlasenko and I am a student of Master’s Program at Chernihiv State Technological University(Ukraine), Department of Computer Science. I would like to present an idea «Improvement of glossary tools» (Semantic

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Auto tagging using Semantic analysis Semi-Supervised Learning [was: Project Idea Proposal]

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I've left some comments on the talk page. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/01/2013 12:38 AM, Dheeraj Joshi wrote: Sorry for the previous unclear message : Here is the link to my proposal : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dheerajjoshi1991

[Wikitech-l] jQuery.IME onscreen keyboard for users (was: Submitted Proposal)

2013-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/30/2013 03:03 PM, Siddha Ganju wrote: Hi! I am Siddha Ganju, a Computer Science and Engineering student from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh,India. I have submitted a proposal[1] on jQuery.IME - the next big improvements. All suggestions are welcome!

Re: [Wikitech-l] «Improvement of glossary tools» idea for GSoC 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Zhenya
Hello, Sumana. Not really, as far as I was very busy with my studying ( finishing the last year of Bachelor degree and doing Master's Program) --- Thanks, Yevheniy Vlasenko 2 мая 2013, в 15:40, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org написал(а): On 04/30/2013 07:07 PM, Yevheniy Vlasenko

[Wikitech-l] Using composition to improve testability?

2013-05-02 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! I came across a general design issue when trying to make ApiQueryLangLinks more flexible, taking into account extensions manipulating language links via the new LanguageLinks hook. To do this, I want to introduce a LangLinkLoader class with two implementations, one with the old behavior,

[Wikitech-l] Incremental XML dumps GSoC proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Petr Onderka
I realized I didn't post my proposal to the list yet (I have added it to the official GSoC site few days ago), so here it is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Svick/Incremental_dumps In short, the project aims to create new format for dumps (which allow users to download parts of the database

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering April 2013 report

2013-05-02 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in April 2013 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/April Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/02/wikimedia-engineering-april-2013-report/ We're also proposing a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using composition to improve testability?

2013-05-02 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: 1) The composition approach, using: [...] Disadvantages: * more classes * ??? * A lot of added complexity 2) The subclassing approach, using: [...] 3) Instead of making a bunch of one-public-method classes used

Re: [Wikitech-l] Incremental XML dumps GSoC proposal

2013-05-02 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 02-05-2013, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 15:40 +0200, ο/η Petr Onderka έγραψε: I realized I didn't post my proposal to the list yet (I have added it to the official GSoC site few days ago), so here it is: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Svick/Incremental_dumps In short, the project aims to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using composition to improve testability?

2013-05-02 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 02.05.2013 16:12, Brad Jorsch wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: 1) The composition approach, using: [...] Disadvantages: * more classes * ??? * A lot of added complexity The the number of classes, and the object graph, some. Not in the

[Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-02 Thread Krinkle
Hi all, Our current release note strategy is clearly not working. Too many times do people omit it. Either because they consider the commit not important enough for release notes or because it is a pain to do due to the continuous merge conflicts. Not to mention fix-ups and small clarifications

[Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread Jiabao Wu
Hey all, I have made a big change to my proposal in accordance to community's responses. I'd like to invite feedback on this new proposal, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jiabao_wu/GSoC_2013_Application I know the VisualEditor team and everyone else are all very busy as its almost closing in

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Krautzberger
Looks good. I left a comment. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Jiabao Wu jiabao.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have made a big change to my proposal in accordance to community's responses. I'd like to invite feedback on this new proposal,

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-02 Thread Brad Jorsch
I like the idea of not having to mess with RELEASE-NOTES-#.## merge conflicts. But I'm not entirely sure about everything in the proposal. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: For more details see Proposal 2 on this page:

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread praveenp
Hi, Currently math extensions gives poor results on non-latin codes. If this can handle such wide part, this will be awesome. try this: http://ml.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Yukthibhasa.djvu/227action=edit praveenp On Thursday 02 May 2013 10:34 PM, Jiabao Wu wrote: Hey all, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread Jiabao Wu
Thanks a lot for your advices and encouragements. :D On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Peter Krautzberger peter.krautzber...@mathjax.org wrote: Looks good. I left a comment. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Jiabao Wu jiabao.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have made a big change to my

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread Jiabao Wu
Hi praveenp, Is the language Malayalam...? It looks pretty cute, but I can't understand it (as google translate can't translate it) :P What non-Latin codes you would actually like the mathematical equation plugin to support? On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Jiabao Wu jiabao.f...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: MediaWiki-Moodle extension

2013-05-02 Thread Rohan Verma
Hello Sumana Thank you for your feedback I have updated my proposal on my user page. This project will also benefit Wikimedia projects that also use a Moodle instance. As far as I know, there are no Wikimedia projects that also make use of Moodle; did you perhaps mean MediaWiki instances? See

[Wikitech-l] GSoC deadline is May 3

2013-05-02 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, Just a reminder that the Google Summer of Code deadline is tomorrow, May 3 at 19:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130503T19 So far we have 33 students going after a total of 27 projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Students Last

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who uses MobileFrontend?

2013-05-02 Thread S Page
WikiApiary (the _Check usage and version matrix_ link on the extension's page) suggests the following wikis use MobileFrontend beyond all of the WMF sites. Oddly, this list doesn't include Uncyclopedia, though its page http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Uncyclopedia#tab=Extensions lists MobileFrontend.

[Wikitech-l] GSoC project proposal - Section handling in Semantic Forms

2013-05-02 Thread Himeshi De Silva
Hi, I have submitted a proposal for GSoC 2013 for the project Section handling in Semantic Forms. Link to proposal - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Himeshi/GSoC_2013_Application Link to bug report - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46662 I would appreciate your comments and

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSoc2013] Interested in developing Entity Suggester

2013-05-02 Thread Nilesh Chakraborty
Hi Lydia, I am currently drafting my proposal, I shall submit within a few hours once the initial version is complete. I installed mediawiki-vagrant on my PC and it went quite smoothly. I could do all the usual things through the browser; I logged into the mysql server to examine the database

[Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Krautzberger
Hi, Here's an idea somebody suggested to me. I would like to propose a way for any visitor to opt-in to MathJax on the fly. (Oh, maybe I should add a disclaimer: I work for MathJax.) This would be simply a button on pages with math that would switch MathJax on (and possibly off via a cookie).

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin

2013-05-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/02/2013 01:44 PM, praveenp wrote: Hi, Currently math extensions gives poor results on non-latin codes. If this can handle such wide part, this will be awesome. try this: http://ml.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Yukthibhasa.djvu/227action=edit See also

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax opt-in for all visitors

2013-05-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/03/2013 01:13 AM, Peter Krautzberger wrote: (I've heard complaints that user registration is not not very accessible). Separate from your main suggestion, what issues are you aware of here? We are aware of the CAPTCHA, of course. We would like to have a version for vision-impaired people