Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk livestream chat transcript (was Re: [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC)

I note now that the full chat transcript has been restored; thank you. I am still interested in the answer to the question. Sincerely, Jim On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:46 AM James Salsman wrote: > > Just now I asked the following question on the Technical Talk > livestream

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk livestream chat transcript (was Re: [Wikimedia Technical Talks] Data and Decision Science at Wikimedia with Kate Zimmerman, 26 February 2020 @ 6PM UTC)

est at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0NPhT-fsE=25m40s 10:20 AM: Does the Foundation still share that identifying information with research affiliates? If so, how many are them world-wide; if not, when did sharing this information stop? 10:25 AM: MediaWiki @James Salsman I see your question, but d

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

Well, I'm thrilled about this, especially after having had a look through https://www.slideshare.net/lucidworks/searching-for-better-code-presented-by-grant-ingersoll-lucidworks Honestly, though, it's only the third best thing that happened this week after Valerie Plame entering politics and the

[Wikitech-l] browser microphone audio upload gadgets?

Is there a standard MediaWiki audio recorder, e.g. something from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaStream_Recording_API#See_also which is working in some javascript gadget? My 2017 Google Summer of Code student made one for Wiktionary, but I'm not sure whether it is still

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

Victoria, Does the restriction on "Disclosure of a person's identity or other private information without their consent" forbid the Foundation from sharing the geolocation and IP addresses of editors with researchers under NDA or law enforcement officials claiming to have, e.g., an Interpol

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] ORES support checklist for communities

Amir, Would you please comment on how these two techniques for creating new articles affects the quality of ORES models? (1) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-March/006236.html (2) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-April/006238.html Thank you.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 February 2018)

I am happy about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I=30m30s Aaron Halfaker describes optimized ways to refine backlog presentation. But I am unhappy that his first slides are missing and I hope he will post the whole deck. Also I would love to see the Turkish Wikipedia in InterPlanetary

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] AMD petition

> Could you clarify the relationship with Wikimedia on this? I'm missing the > link. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > 2017-03-13 23:03 GMT+01:00 James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>: > > > Please join me in asking AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in > >

[Wikitech-l] AMD petition

Please join me in asking AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in their chips -- a chance to regain secure x86 hardware. https://www.change.org/p/advanced-micro-devices-amd-release-the-source-code-for-the-secure-processor-psp ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] please critique my grant application

Please critique and endorse my grant application, especially after Doc James replaces his name as the applicant so I can be the adviser and my Google Summer of Code co-mentor and student can be co-grantees: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Intelligibility_Transcriptions Thank you!

Re: [Wikitech-l] private key compromise OCSP declarations per RFC 5280

139359c Would it be a good idea to have HTTP ready to go in case HTTPS becomes unstable? On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:06 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been informed off-list that the answer to my question is no, > and asked to open a phabricator task to allo

Re: [Wikitech-l] private key compromise OCSP declarations per RFC 5280

to categorize such a task or the group to assign it to. Any ideas? On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 8:32 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are Foundation servers able to withstand Online Certificate Status > Protocol certificate revocations, such as might occur according to RFC

[Wikitech-l] private key compromise OCSP declarations per RFC 5280

Are Foundation servers able to withstand Online Certificate Status Protocol certificate revocations, such as might occur according to RFC 5280 when a government agency declares a private key compromised because of secret evidence? ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] New-feature demo: smart Recent Changes filtering with ORES

Who is speaking on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_hJlkEqkc ? What is the URL to test it? I'm glad someone is using https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service#Edit_quality_models ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] measuring time to proofread wikipedias and the Making Work Pay Tax Credit

I am pleased to announce that, thanks to Google Summer of Code student Priyanka Mandikal, the project for the Accuracy Review of Wikipedias project has delivered a working demonstration of open source code and data available here: https://github.com/priyankamandikal/arowf/ Please try it out at:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reply: [GSoC 2016] Query about the ideas' project time

> > > Hi Linxuan, Thank you for your question: >... What does the "reputation score" in the description refer to? I've asked Priyanka to reply with her current design, but here is some of the advice I gave her: "Each reviewer needs, at a minimum, data indicating the number and proportion of

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] GSoC Org Apps close soon

If anyone has objections to Fabian, Maribel, and me continuing to mentor http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review under the GSoC program, please state your objections now. Quim, thank you for your kind words on the IEG application. -- Forwarded message -- From: *'sttaylor' via

Re: [Wikitech-l] Could someone relatively new to Python please QA the Accuracy review login framework?

>>> Have you looked at using OAuth for authentication? >> >> Yes; the modules in use support OAuth but we made a conscious decision to >> support anonymity. Lack of anonymity can interfere with the operation of the >> reviewer reputation database. > > I'd love to read the background discussion

[Wikitech-l] Could someone relatively new to Python please QA the Accuracy review login framework?

> Have you looked at using OAuth for authentication? Yes; the modules in use support OAuth but we made a conscious decision to support anonymity. Lack of anonymity can interfere with the operation of the reviewer reputation database. On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, James Salsman <

[Wikitech-l] Accuracy review on tool labs?

John, Are you sure it makes sense to run accuracy review on wikimedia servers? Best regards, Jim ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Could someone relatively new to Python please QA the Accuracy review login framework?

An Outreachy candidate for http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review who went ahead and started unpaid has been making good progress, and is about to land the central guts of the project on github. It's a new way to transition from creating to maintaining Wikipedia articles, with an emphasis on

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared hosting)

Sorry I forgot to copy this list. -- Forwarded message -- From: *James Salsman* <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Subject: Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared hosting) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

Were there any objections to my request below? Can we also please hire additional database, system, and if necessary network administration support to make sure that the third party spam prevention bot infrastructure is supported more robustly in the future? On Monday, December 14, 2015, James

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

Hi Giles, I regret I will probably not be available for the IRC office hours as scheduled. In the discussion of shared hosting, I worry that en:User:Dispenser's reflinks project, which requires a 20 TB cache, is being forgotten again. He tried to host it himself, but it's offline again. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] need review and co-mentor volunteers for GSoC Accuracy review proposal

at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89416 Best regards, James Salsman I invite review of this preliminary proposal for a Google Summer of Code project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review If you would like to co-mentor

Re: [Wikitech-l] need review and co-mentor volunteers for GSoC Accuracy review proposal

if you had airtight evidence that was incontrovertibly true (and for the reasons above, there can obviously be no such evidence) wouldn't it still be the case that there would only be one way to find out? Best regards, James Salsman On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:58 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com

[Wikitech-l] need review and co-mentor volunteers for GSoC Accuracy review proposal

to break the tie. Possible stretch goals for Global Learning Xprize Meta-Team systems [http://www.wiki.xprize.org/Meta-team#Goals] integration TBD. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

would be in trouble if they didn't comply with various demands which someone had pinned up across from Dan Mosedale's cube. Five years later I was reviewing CALEA compliance documents at Cisco. I wonder what Mosedale wants to do for DNS these days. Best regards, James Salsman

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

it just proxies whatever normal public dns you tell it to Presumably they seed the namecoin table with DNS records and use those instead when they exist? I don't know whether those can be expired efficiently. As for on the current web making sure you're sending your password to the right

[Wikitech-l] dnschain

. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Conflict resolution wikis

participant driving the process schedule (to the extent that human is skilled at it) but there are some very attractive opportunities for e.g. Wikidata and maintenance bot integration down the road if it works out. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ARM servers

virtualization for Labs but aren't using Zen. It would be great to see what the developers for the virtualization that Labs uses say about prospects for arm builds. Best regards, James On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:05 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolas Charbonnier's Latest ARM Server solutions

[Wikitech-l] ARM servers

Nicolas Charbonnier's Latest ARM Server solutions booths tour may be of some interest for those of you interested in low power server hardware: http://armdevices.net/2013/12/30/latest-arm-server-solutions-booths-tour/ Mitac isn't represented there, but he did an interview of them a year and a

[Wikitech-l] Principal component analysis for multivariate testing

. Best regards, James Salsman [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_analysis [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis [3] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/software/ [4] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/files/2013/08/EIG5.0.1.tar.gz

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Updates on VE data analysis

Dario, Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to and after the visual editor roll-out? It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated with those statistics. For example, why are you not providing a daily version of the hourly graph at

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Updates on VE data analysis

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... We do have a graph of total hourly edits on enwiki across mainspaces here: http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_edits_api - it's trivial to bin by day and filter to the main namespace only, I'll

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parallel computing project

Aryeh Gregor writes: To clarify, the subject needs to 1) be reasonably doable in a short timeframe, 2) not build on top of something that's already too optimized Integrating a subset of RTMP (e.g. the http://code.google.com/p/rtmplite subset) into the chunk-based file upload API --

Re: [Wikitech-l] fundraising earmarks for code review, image bundle dumps, search failover auction, Wikinews independence, bugzilla queue maintenance etc.

take up that issue in earnest. I'm also trying to raise money for Gnash developers to make that particular hurdle a complete non-issue. Perhaps there are Mediawiki users other than the Foundation who would not be opposed to the use of Flash for microphone audio upload? Best regards, James Salsman

[Wikitech-l] list of proposed fundraising stimuli (was Re: fundraising...)

Ryan Kaldari wrote: ... [we're] in the process of hooking up Open Web Analytics http://www.openwebanalytics.com It's great to see that donor logs are going in to a database instead of just a text file, but multiple regression in SQL is absurdly difficult because of the limitations of SQL, so I

[Wikitech-l] fundraising earmarks for code review, image bundle dumps, search failover auction, Wikinews independence, bugzilla queue maintenance etc.

but rejected because of the number of slots requested. Could those be funded by donor earmarks? Regards, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] fundraising earmarks for code review, image bundle dumps, search failover auction, Wikinews independence, bugzilla queue maintenance etc.

which could be used. There is ample opportunity to run more than just 30 earmarking options. I'm sure people could suggest others, either that they think of or find on their favorite mailing lists or village pumps. Best regards, James Salsman

Re: [Wikitech-l] fundraising earmarks for code review, image bundle dumps, search failover auction, Wikinews independence, bugzilla queue maintenance etc.

deal from each of them to get some competition between them going? Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM, James Salsman jsalsman at gmail.com wrote: Absolutely; a multivariate linear regression test to determine the extent to which each of the earmark options tends to maximize total

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flash and other proprietary technologies on Wikimedia projects

pronunciation for hola even though the English Wiktionary does) then please let Erik know. Thank you! Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Take me back too hip

jida...@jidanni.org wrote: The first words the user* sees on every page are Take me back I agree that link should be renamed with different text. I've already seen two people confuse it with the back button's functionality, thinking they needed to click it after logging in to get back to

[Wikitech-l] page load time statistics

Regarding http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Statistics#Page_load_times does anyone have any recommendations for open source alternatives to tools such as http://loadimpact.com/pageanalyzer.php ? Thank you. Regards, James Salsman ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] image bundles' size?

more people to decide which of the first three was best; if there isn't substantial agreement, get a fourth proposal in light of the first three, etc. Can anyone think of a way to motivate volunteers to resolve edit conflicts as a third party? Sincerely, James Salsman