Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Alex Monk joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2014-05-15 Thread James Forrester
On 14 May 2014 23:38, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, It is with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Alex Monk[0] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. Welcome, Alex; great to be able to say so formally! ​J​​.​ -- James D.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/14/2014 12:43 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: * File namespace serving raw data from Commons (where people are familiar with take down notices and have the infrastructure to deal with that) We shouldn't let copyright considerations dictate which WMF project hosts the data.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Niklas Laxström
2014-05-14 1:34 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these

[Wikitech-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

2014-05-15 Thread David Cuenca
Hi, During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them (reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

2014-05-15 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-05-15 11:25 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com: During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them (reasons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
yup we will move it.as long as Git repositories are easier for me to setup on GitHub I will always start projects there... ;) On 15 May 2014 10:59, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-14 1:34 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org: For the short term, I think further exploration of the Map namespace is great, but I think generic visualization work could go into the Visualization namespace. My suggestion for a name for this namespace may seem a bit

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

2014-05-15 Thread Samuel Klein
Thanks Micru! I think we should start by including datasets on wikisource, with descriptions about them (storing the files on commons where possible). And adding more data formats to the formats accepted on commons. Other tools can follow later. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:25 AM, David Cuenca

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Alex Monk joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/14/2014 05:38 PM, Terry Chay wrote: Hello everyone, It's a testament to either how awesome our people are… or just how notorious I am for not announcing things promptly that I noticed this sitting in my Google Docs the other day with the note from the VisualEditor Team: terry, we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcluding non-text content as HTML on wikitext pages

2014-05-15 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 14.05.2014 16:04, schrieb Gabriel Wicke: On 05/14/2014 03:22 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: My patch doesn't change the handling of html.../html by the parser. As before, the parser will pass HTML code in html.../html through only if wgRawHtml is enabled, and will mangle/sanitize it otherwise.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

2014-05-15 Thread David Cuenca
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer, How can I put this open data on Wikidata is a question that I have been asked many times, this page was needed. Thanks for your comment! On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Samuel Klein

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a

Re: [Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Bryan's made some updates to the docs! Here's what Bryan just said to me (forwarded with permission): I put the core of my narrative on wikitech [0] along with the diagram. The page I put that on could use a little more attention to ensure that references to pmtpa are gone. It might be good to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread dan-nl
PictureIt: Envision: Imagine: On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] performance guidelines discussion today

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/15/2014 01:00 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote: That's 230am in India. Wish these meetings were held a bit earlier (9am PDT :-) Best, Alolita Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization Localization Wikimedia Foundation Thanks, Alolita. I'll hold another

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s? The only downside might be a slight conflict with VisualEditor On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:20 AM, dan-nl dan.entous.wikime...@gmail.comwrote: PictureIt: Envision: Imagine: On May 15, 2014, at 17:06 , Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? On 14

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk - Elasticsearch: May 15 @19:00 UTC

2014-05-15 Thread Quim Gil
This session is starting in 15 minutes. On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Join Nik Everett on May 15 at 19:00 UTC for his talk on Elasticsearch: What it is? Why we chose it? How does it work? What is left to do before we cut over to it completely?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk - Elasticsearch: May 15 @19:00 UTC

2014-05-15 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Join Nik Everett on May 15 at 19:00 UTC for his talk on Elasticsearch: What it is? Why we chose it? How does it work? What is left to do before we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Andreescu
By the way, the Vega work is deployed to this wiki: http://analytics-wiki.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#Visualization Jon/DJ/Aude, if you want I can add a more generic proxy name for that wiki and put your stuff on there too? It's in the analytics project in labs but I'm happy to give anyone

[Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Quim Gil
This is a casual request for comments about the use of 3rd party authentication providers for our future Wikimedia Phabricator instance. Wikimedia Phabricator is expected to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and many other tools, each of them having their own registration and user account. The plan is to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is a casual request for comments about the use of 3rd party authentication providers for our future Wikimedia Phabricator instance. Wikimedia Phabricator is expected to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and many other tools,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are good reasons to plan for Wikimedia SUL only (consistency with the rest of Wikimedia projects), and there are good reasons to plan for other providers as well (the easiest path for most first-time contributors). If

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread dan-nl
i like the idea of having one wikimedia login for all wikimedia wikis, tools, labs, gerrit, mail lists, etc. and keeping other logins such as google, yahoo, or github in their own domain. On May 15, 2014, at 23:20 , Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is a casual request for comments

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread dan-nl
DataDisplay: On May 15, 2014, at 22:59 , Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: By the way, the Vega work is deployed to this wiki: http://analytics-wiki.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/Main_Page#Visualization Jon/DJ/Aude, if you want I can add a more generic proxy name for that wiki and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Green
Folks, this looks really fantastic, way to go!! I'd really love to contribute to this, as time allows, BTW. * Data (one or more sets of data, can be geojson, topojson, tsv, csv, layers from OSM [3], OHM [4], etc.) snip / * Datasets in WikiData using an alternative data model I'm especially

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Chad
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are good reasons to plan for Wikimedia SUL only (consistency with the rest of Wikimedia projects), and there are good reasons to plan for other providers as well (the easiest path for most first-time contributors).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Visual: ? The mild conflict VisualEditor: conflict aside, that seems reasonable. View: might also work if it's not used for something else. Either way, it's going to be a bit tricky to translate. It might be good to design

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread hoo
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 14:20 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: This is a casual request for comments about the use of 3rd party authentication providers for our future Wikimedia Phabricator instance. Wikimedia Phabricator is expected to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and many other tools, each of them having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: However, Phabricator can support authentication using 3rd party providers like GitHub, Google, etc. You can get an idea at https://secure.phabricator.com/auth/start/ I think since this is already built and would require no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Ideally you would be able to link your (say) github and WMF account. So that if I (as an outsider) start a bug report/patch/etc using my existing github account, and then eventually get a WMF account (so that I can do labs-related things?) I can manage my bugs/patches regardless of which account's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Raylton P. Sousa
There is some privacy question around it? 2014-05-15 20:42 GMT-03:00 C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org: Ideally you would be able to link your (say) github and WMF account. So that if I (as an outsider) start a bug report/patch/etc using my existing github account, and then eventually

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-15 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 21:34 +, Jeremy Baron wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: There are good reasons to plan for Wikimedia SUL only (consistency with the rest of Wikimedia projects), and there are good reasons to plan for other providers as well

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] performance guidelines discussion today

2014-05-15 Thread Alolita Sharma
Thanks Sumana! That works :-) Best, Alolita Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization Localization Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 05/15/2014 01:00 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote: That's