[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018: Call for Position Statements

[Rachel Farrand]

Event: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018

Dates: January 22 & 23, 2018

Location: San Francisco, California, USA


Details: The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 (WMDS 18) is an invitation
only event hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The format of the WMDS 18
will be discussions and conversations with stated goals and actionable
outcomes regarding the future Wikimedia Tech strategy. Participants will
submit position statements to the event organizers
,
which will be anonymised and ranked by our Program Committee
.
Invitations will be extended to the top 40 position statements; the 10
remaining invitations will be chosen by the program committee to ensure
diversity at the event in terms of technical background, organizations /
projects represented, and regional representation.

The Wikimedia Foundation has been hosting invitation-only, strategic,
technical events yearly beginning in 2012 starting with the Architecture
Summit. This event has changed names and grown over time until the
Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017. As we are experimenting with a new format
this year and will collect feedback and make changes for the future based
on that feedback.



Next steps for interested prospective attendees:

   1.

   Review the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 event page
   
   2.

   Review Thematic Overview
   
   3.

   Spend some time thinking about how you believe Wikimedia Tech should
   move forward into the future
   4.

   Submit Position Statement
   


*Position Statements can be submitted between Friday, September 8th and
Friday, September 29th.*

We are looking forward to reviewing your statements!


On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Victoria Coleman 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to give you all a heads up about the upcoming Dev Summit. This
> year the Summit will be held in San Francisco on January 22nd and 23rd,
> 2018. We are still finalizing the details and will be sending out the call
> for participation soon. But meantime, we wanted to share a preview of the
> game plan with you so that you can hold the dates and begin to think about
> ways of participating.
>
> This has been a year of strategy making for the Foundation and our
> communities. As the way forward becomes clearer, we,  the technology
> community entrusted with delivering the products and infrastructure for
> supporting the community vision, need to reflect on what the movement
> strategy means for us and how to best prepare, plan and execute that
> support. This year, the Developer Summit is dedicated to this reflection.
> We invite technologists, managers and users to study, reflect and propose
> ways to support the strategic vision we are committed to. We would like you
> to capture your thoughts in a short position statement and join the
> conversation.
>
> Specifically, we invite you to think about ways of imagining, creating,
> planning, building and maintaining the technology foundation needed to
> enable the key tenets of our strategy:
>
> The infrastructure for open: We will empower individuals and institutions
> to participate and share, through open standards, platforms, and datasets.
> We will host, broker, share, and exchange free knowledge across
> institutions and communities. We will be a leading advocate and partner for
> increasing the creation, curation, and dissemination in free and open
> knowledge.
>
> An encyclopedia, and so much more: We will adapt to our changing world to
> offer knowledge in the most effective ways, across digital formats,
> devices, and experiences. We will adapt our communities and technology to
> the needs of the people we serve. As we include other forms of free
> knowledge, we will aim for these projects to be as successful as Wikipedia.
>
> Reliable, relevant information: We will continue our commitment to
> providing useful information that it is reliable, accurate, and relevant to
> users. We will integrate technologies that support accuracy at scale and
> enable greater insight into how knowledge is produced and shared. We will
> embrace the effort of increasing the quality, depth, breadth, and diversity
> of free knowledge, in all forms.
> This direction poses key questions for our technical community. Here are
> some example topics we would welcome ideas and discussion in:
>
>
>- How do we maintain and grow the technical community and ready it for
>the mission ahead?
>- What should the role of open source be in the next 15 years of the
>movement? How does it help or hinder? How do we promote it or adapt it? How
>do we leverage it?
>- What are the 

[Wikitech-l] Historic stats

[Lars Aronsson]

In Wiktionary, every site/language documents words from every language,
as I am sure you know. A typical wiki page, e.g. "war" contains information
about the English noun as well as the German verb.

Through categories, we also know how many entries there are. How many
English lemmas, how many English nouns, how many German verbs.

But if I want to plot a graph of the growth over time of English nouns
and German verbs, it is a pity that this is not available anywhere.
But it would be possible to generate such data from the history
dump, by finding out when the page "war" was created and when its
English and German sections were created. In SQL terms, it would be
for each combination of page and section (heading), find the earliest
date when that section was present in that page. But a practical
implementation would of course solve that as a single-pass filter,
reading the stdout from bunzip.

So has anybody already written a program that reads through the
XML dump of articles and their history, and generates statistics
of this kind?


--
  Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se)
  Linköping, Sweden



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Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

[Petr Bena]

Are we running same firefox? I have same experience like you, but with
Chrome. Firefox is best performing and rock solid compared to anything else
to me and I run it on all my computers including virtual boxes, with ~100
tabs I achieved months of uptime with no crash. Can't say this about chrome
or others.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 at 02:08, Risker  wrote:

> Gonna be honest...after using Firefox almost exclusively for the last 10
> years whenever I had a choice, I'm ready to give up on it. I don't expect
> all the bells and whistles (and privacy compromises) of the big commercial
> browsers, but Firefox has decided to take a path that is actively awful.
> It's not just awful on Wikipedia (where I know logged-in users with lots of
> preferences and scripts are always going to be slow), it is awful on every
> website I go to, and it crashes on a multiple-times-a-day basis.  It does
> this on all three of my computers.  I've been trying to stay loyal and look
> at the bigger "free knowledge" bit...but I have had six crashes today and
> I'm done.  I hear this a lot from people I know outside of Wikimedia, and
> I've been told its unreliability is why several companies have decided
> against adding it (or have removed it) as an acceptable alternate browser.
>
> So no, I do not think it would be a good idea for anyone, let alone the
> Wikimedia Foundation, to advocate on behalf of this software.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On 3 September 2017 at 03:22, Stas Malyshev 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > After Firefox and Chromium, there's a bunch of open source web browsers
> > > listed on [2], but a brief spot check showed many as being Linux only
> > > (or outdated Mac builds). One that looked promising was Brave[3],
> though
> > > it's a relatively new browser and I would need to do more research
> > > regarding #3.
> >
> > I've been using Brave for a couple of months occasionally, and it seems
> > to work pretty well. It has (some) adblocking in default config, and
> > some other privacy-enhancing settings, which are probably not very
> > important for Wikimedia sites but may either break some other sites or
> > make them bearable :)
> > It's pretty young, so I don't think we can say much about security
> > record yet - IIRC it's based on Chromium, and it's updated pretty
> > frequently, and it's easy to use (though the UI might be a bit more
> > spartan then others for now, and not many extensions available - but for
> > ex-IE users it may not be an issue).
> >
> > --
> > Stas Malyshev
> > smalys...@wikimedia.org
> >
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