Re: [Wikitech-l] Winter, v. 0.6

This is awesome, thank you. but do you work on i18n? specially for RTL languages because in some languages (like Hebrew or Persian) it doesn't work correctly. Thank you Best On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > Beautiful! When can we expect to be able to enable this as a beta

[Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

Hello, As discussions in pywikipedia-l people are not sure whether is necessary to add username of bot operator in user agent or not. In user agent policy it's mentioned that people need to add contacting information, but it's not clear it's abou

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pywikibot bug triage

And you can add your name in here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140724> Best On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > Hello, > There will be the next round of bug triage > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/How_to_triage&g

[Wikitech-l] Pywikibot bug triage

Hello, There will be the next round of bug triage for pywikibot in July 24th - 27th in #pywikibot channel. We will focus on prioritizing and categorizing bugs listed here.

Re: [Wikitech-l] An unhappy "resolution" on skin naming (was: What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.))

To unsubscribe go here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l On 6/1/14, Sajjad Manal wrote: > Hey. > May I please know how to unsubscribe from the mails from Wikimedia?? > On 1 Jun 2014 13:14, "Daniel Friesen" wrote: > >> I'm not happy at all with how the skin naming topic "en

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

s an outside with no > prior knowledge of how this stuff works) > On 20 May 2014 14:09, "Amir Ladsgroup" wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > > > > > I'm confused. Why wouldn't you just mark a user account as be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

xamples of bot tasks that needs to be seen in RC and they weren't abuse > On 20 May 2014 07:36, "Amir Ladsgroup" wrote: > > > Thank you legoktm for exampling, > > Another case that happened in Persian Wikipedia, is creating > bot-generated > > articl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

goktm wrote: > > On 5/19/14, 6:39 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > >> On 19 May 2014 19:36, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: >> >> As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is >>> necessary >>> >>> Sure, but as I'm not a bot operator,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is necessary but I think the best solution would be having something like "flag=1" (optional) and this causes bot edits to be marked as human and for admin (+flooders) edits marked as bot. Implementing the parameter (whether the cur

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team changes

Congratulations to both :) Best On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > On Mar 17, 2014 5:00 PM, "Rob Lanphier" wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community > > Team[1]. The headlines: > > * Quim Gil is taking over as the n

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

I made this topic: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics#How_to_help_pywikibot I'll send a note in pywikipedia-l and discuss about how and who want to present at the Hackathon. Best On 3/6/14, Quim Gil wrote: > On 03/06/2014 04:04 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

I'll be there if I can get the visa in time and I love to have a presentation about it but I'm not sure others will like the idea or not Best On 3/6/14, Strainu wrote: > 2014-03-06 13:43 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup : >> I have another idea that someone have a presentation about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

I haven't read this topic carefully but I suggest we make a sprint for pywikibot issues (e.g. very important bugs or a bug triage to take care of 200 left uncategorized/unknown importance bug) I have another idea that someone have a presentation about "how we can help pywikibot" I don't know if ot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Syrian authorities censored Wikipedia access

a similar research has been done about Iran by university of Pennsylvania http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/fileLibrary/PDFs/CItation_Filtered_Wikipedia_Report_11_5_2013-2.pdf it's really interesting :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > On 2/19/14, Sumana Harihareswara wro

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Compressing full-history dumps faster

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > On 01/21/2014 09:47 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > >> One of the things I can't understand is why we are extracting summary of >> pages for Yahoo? Is it our job to do it? the dumps are really huge &g

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Compressing full-history dumps faster

One of the things I can't understand is why we are extracting summary of pages for Yahoo? Is it our job to do it? the dumps are really huge e.g. forwikidata: wikidatawiki-20140106-abstract.xml

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

*pronounces, stupid spellchecker On 1/7/14, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF > @Sumana: It pounces like "shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor" > > Best > > On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >> On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like "shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor" Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: >> I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is >> conveniently two and a hal

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Mass file undeletion tools?

You can use PWB, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB you need to run delete.py -undelete Best On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Nathan Larson > wrote: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UndeleteBatch should work. > > no match for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

We can run an analyze on known spams (that we are receiving) and ordinary mails and see what's the best score. Don't need an admin access and wait and see which score is better. i.e. I've admin access in several mailing lists but I don't like to test on them like lab rat Best On 12/14/13, Federico

[Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

Hello, public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of non-stop spamming. Some mailing lists decided to discard any mails from non-members (that is not good, LGBT mailing has recently decided this but admins were have to do it because of spams and they don't want this) but some mai

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

Happy to see Kunal is joining WMF. Congrats :) Best On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, "Terry Chay" wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has > joine

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

I disagree with Alex, usually people don't give a damn about new deployments. Just geeks and technical people (poeple who work on templates, bots, etc.) care about these stuff Best On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, > > What about subscribing to this list instead? I think t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipediabot] Using the content of a file as input for articles

you have several options 1-use regex e.g.: import re, codecs site=wikipedia.getSite() f=codecs.open("file.txt","r","utf-8") R=re.compile("\{\{(.+?)\}\}") #or other types of regex for name in R.findall(f.read()): page=wikipedia.Page(site,name) #do whatever you like with the page 2- use re

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need help of Python developers

I think Pywikibot developers ([[mw:PWB]]) will help you. As one of the developers of PWB and a bot operator in Wikidata (with more than 8M edits) I think legoktm (another dev and bot operator) and I can help you. Tell me the tasks with more details, I'll do it

[Wikitech-l] Next Bugday: ''Pywikibot'' ''20:00 Thursday, October 24, 2013 - Sunday, October 27 22:00'' UTC

Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: 20:00 Thursday, October 24, 2013 - Sunday, October 27 22:00 UTC[1] in #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC [2] We will be triaging bug reports pywikibot [3]. Pywikibot recently moved its code repository from SVN to Git and its bugtracker from Source

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

etc. but It was not official > And why all those new nested folders? Just curiosity. > Sorry but I can't understand what you are saying > L. > Il giorno 25/set/2013 17:27, "Amir Ladsgroup" ha > scritto: > >> Hello folks! >> *Name of pywikipedia

[Wikitech-l] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

Hello folks! *Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially changed to "pywikibot", please update local documentation *Bug tracker of pywikibot is changed from sf.net to bugzilla. Open bugs was imported from there by a bot that legoktm has written [1], So don't file new bugs in sf.net anymore

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

On 22 September 2013 15:54, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > > > Hello, > > Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of > categories > > but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of > > categories (they think interwiki is just for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

Yes It works, Just give me the languages On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Does it work outside Wikipedia too? I'd like to run it on some wikiquotes; > seeing what categories exist in a language but not another is very useful > to find out what's going on in the proj

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

So technically you may do or have done a good job. When people appreciate > it, good for you. But I fail to see the point. > > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 22 September 2013 21:54, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > >> Hello, >> Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest w

[Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons of tons (before writing my engine that was 30K out of 170K) categories without

Re: [Wikitech-l] People with knowledge of English swear words needed :o

About swears in English language, sorry I can't help but I'm very good at Persian :D, We have an abuse filter about Persian swears which is hidden from public https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87:%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C

Re: [Wikitech-l] Persian Wikipedia stance on SSL

;safety vs. accessibility" issue and I'm saying this much concern about safety will cause enormous lack of accessibility in Iran Best On 9/10/13, George William Herbert wrote: > > > > > On Sep 10, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > >> and problem of interne

[Wikitech-l] Persian Wikipedia stance on SSL

Hello! I recently closed a huge [[w:fa:ویکی‌پدیا:نظرخواهی برای استفاده از اس‌اس‌ال برای ویکی‌پدیای فارسی|RfC]] about using SSL in Persian Wikipedia which mainly runs by Iranian users. Iran is the number one target in PRISM surveillance program (Further information: https://bit.ly/17N57rx) and long

Re: [Wikitech-l] List of projects "supported" by Wikimedia

On 08/29/2013 03:02 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: >> Hi, >> Thank you but I think PWB (pywikipedia) is missing >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB > > Hi, I actually asked around about the PyWikiBot repositories since I > wasn't sure what to do about it. PWB is in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] List of projects "supported" by Wikimedia

Hi, Thank you but I think PWB (pywikipedia) is missing http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB Best On 8/29/13, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, in the context of the tech community metrics KPIs [1]... We need a > list of OSS projects developed by the Wikimedia/MediaWiki community and > deployed in Wikimedia ser

Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

Same for me. I added a filter but I'm thinking about a better solution... Best On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: > Meanwhile you can fix the filters and add the option "do not send to spam > folder". I did it for all my wiki filters... > > > 2013/8/6 Bináris >

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