[Wikitech-l] Announcement: GCoS 2014: Project proposal for A system for reviewing funding requests.

2014-03-21 Thread Rahul Mishra
Hello, Please ignore my earlier mail, i have done some editing in my draft and mailing it again. I am Rahul Mishra,final year undergraduate and pursuing my B-Tech form Netaji Subhash Engineering College having majors Computer Sciences Engineering. I am very much interested in the project of

[Wikitech-l] Update on HHVM

2014-03-21 Thread Ori Livneh
Hi! This is a quick heads-up about the status of HHVM migration, and what the MediaWiki Core team is working on. There are three challenges that we have to solve before we can run HHVM in production: * We need good packages. The packages provided by Facebook have some deep issues that need to be

[Wikitech-l] GSOC 2014 proposal - Wikimedia Identities Editor

2014-03-21 Thread Vinay Raghavan
Hi, I'm interested in working on the 'WikiMedia Identities Editor' project for Google Summer of Code 2014. The basic idea of the project is to have a platform where the contributors of MediaWiki can maintain an online identity. The current procedures are not so easy to follow and also not very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

2014-03-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi I do not understand what you expect of Wikidata... Thanks GerardM Op 20 mrt. 2014 19:25 schreef Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.com: Hi! I think will be good idea to introduce support for files in TeX and ABC/Lilypond (Score extension) formats, so such files could be hosted on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

2014-03-21 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Eugene, you already can upload scores to Commons and transcribe them on Wikisource as agreed on this RFC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal Thanks, Micru On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eugene Zelenko

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Update on HHVM

2014-03-21 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Thanks for the update, Ori. Exciting stuff :) On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:42:41AM -0700, Ori Livneh wrote: * We need good packages. The packages provided by Facebook have some deep issues that need to be fixed before they meet our packaging standards. This is a good opportunity to recognize

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

2014-03-21 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi, Micru! On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:13 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eugene, you already can upload scores to Commons and transcribe them on Wikisource as agreed on this RFC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal My

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

2014-03-21 Thread Eugene Zelenko
Hi, Gerard! On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi I do not understand what you expect of Wikidata... Thanks GerardM Wikidata allows to refer to media file. In this case: TeX of music score. Eugene.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

2014-03-21 Thread David Cuenca
Oh, so you mean: Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9890 It has been 7 years open maybe some day... Micru On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zele...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Micru! On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:13 AM,

[Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal - Book Management in Wikibooks/Wikisource

2014-03-21 Thread Rishabh Shukla
Hi everyone, I am a participant of GSOC 2014. I am looking forward to contribute into Book Management in Wikibooks/Wikisource project of mediawiki foundation. Link for my proposal page at mediawiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /User_talk:Hrishy. Please have a look at it and suggest any edits I

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2014 Proposal: One stop translation search

2014-03-21 Thread Erick Guan
Hi, I'm Erick Guan, a 2nd student and wikipedian since 2008 who is interested in MediaWiki development. In general, the goal of this project would be: redesign Special:SearchTranslations page, bugfix and alternative backend based on ElasticSearch. This made the Extension:Translate more powerful

[Wikitech-l] Localisation Update v2 GSoC Proposal

2014-03-21 Thread Konarak Ratnakar
Hello everyone, My name is Konarak Ratnakar. I'm planning on creating a new localisation update service, named LUv2, as a summer of code project. You can read the full details on the proposal page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalisationUpdate/LUv2. I would be glad to answer any

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth upload

2014-03-21 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-03-19 20:34 GMT+01:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com: Eventually I found that in my case the source for the error was the econding of title, since I was doing it (erroneously) two times, so that, for example: Teatro_comunale_(Bolzano) - Teatro_comunale_%28Bolzano%29

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for GSoC 2014 - Implementing a To-do list

2014-03-21 Thread Hareesh
Hi, I've submitted a proposal to implement a to-do list in the wiki projects. [1]. The project aims at: * Providing a To-do list to the users who opt in. * Facilitating the ease of maintaining records of the tasks to be done by an user. Help me in improving this proposal. Please leave your

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] [Semantic Forms] GSoC Proposal

2014-03-21 Thread Pubudu Fernando
Hi, I'm Pubudu Fernando and I'm currently a first year Computer Science and Engineering student at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka. For my GSoC '14 project, I would like to work on switching Semantic Forms autocompletion to use the Select2 library. Thanks, Best Regards, Pubudu Fernando

[Wikitech-l] GSoC FOSS OPW selection process

2014-03-21 Thread Quim Gil
The application deadline for GSoC and FOSS OPW has passed. The pool of candidates to choose from includes * 43 GSoC proposals from 42 candidates * 18 OPW proposals from 18 candidates, one of them a GSoC candidate as well There are many projects that have received several proposals. In a few

[Wikitech-l] other paid open source internships

2014-03-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
If you're looking for a paid open source-related internship this summer and you missed the deadline for OPW*/GSoC**, check out http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/summer-internships-for-open-source-enthusiasts/ . Deadlines vary from March 31st to May 15th to none and eligibility requirements vary (for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
It's not just IEG Grants -- PEG Grants also I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants Good luck with your application! On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 8:51, Kushal Khandelwal wrote: Hi Community I am Kushal Khandelwal from India. Currently pursuing my undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani KK

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating skins from core MediaWiki (GSoC proposal)

2014-03-21 Thread Gryllida
Thought the deadline is March 21. I also hope you find a second student to help with this, looks like a lot of great work. On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, at 7:34, Bartosz DziewoƄski wrote: I realize this has been discussed on this list rather recently (starting with Jon's CologneBlue question), and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating skins from core MediaWiki (GSoC proposal)

2014-03-21 Thread Jon Robson
FYI, I would like to mentor this project. That said I would be keen to get a 2nd mentor to make sure we do the best job possible as the skin code is a bit of a nightmare and an important part of our codebase. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: Thought the

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of March 24th

2014-03-21 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_March_24th Notable items... == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy window, currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki] [Semantic Forms] GSoC Proposal

2014-03-21 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Pubudu, On Friday, March 21, 2014, Pubudu Fernando pubudu.ferna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm Pubudu Fernando and I'm currently a first year Computer Science and Engineering student at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka. For my GSoC '14 project, I would like to work on switching

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for GSoC 2014 - Implementing a To-do list

2014-03-21 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Hareesh, On Friday, March 21, 2014, Hareesh hareesh.hsr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've submitted a proposal to implement a to-do list in the wiki projects. [1]. The project aims at: * Providing a To-do list to the users who opt in. * Facilitating the ease of maintaining records of the

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [GoSOC 2014] MediaWiki Project Proposal

2014-03-21 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Hi, I am Nikunj Gupta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mecyborgfrom The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India and I am interested in working for the project catalogue for mediawiki extensionsas a GSoC 2014 candidate and I have drafted a proposal for the project. There are

Re: [Wikitech-l] [GSOC] A system for reviewing funding requests Details of project

2014-03-21 Thread Kushal Khandelwal
Thank you Gryllida. If you can have a look at the application and give me some feedback and your inputs. Thank you for your help. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: It's not just IEG Grants -- PEG Grants also I think. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants