Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions
Thanks Joseph! Just a followup reminder that submissions are due TOMORROW. If you have submitted a proposal already but it's marked as a "draft", please finalize it and mark it as "completed" by tomorrow as well. (If you are a submitter you may already have email from me about this). thanks everyone! We are going to have a great program this year! Phoebe (for the program committee) On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Joseph Seddon <jsed...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > REMINDER: Deadline for submitting presentations, panels, > roundtables and workshops to Wikimania is *April 10*. > > You have TWO days remaining. > > The deadline for posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*. > > Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit > your ideas! Please also note, for those who have already submitted, there > is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress" > submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please > note that it is "completed". Thank you! > > Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-prog...@wikimedia.org > > Seddon > > Phoebe > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > All, > > > I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for > Submissions, > > > which can be found in French here: > > > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > > > and in English here: > > > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > > > > > On behalf of the Wikimania programme committee, > > > Phoebe Ayers > > > - > > > > > > Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l’un des projets Wikimédia > > > (tels que Wikipédia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, > Wikimedia > > > Commons, Wiktionnaire, MediaWiki ou autres), un créateur de contenu > libre > > > ou un consommateur, nous recevrons avec plaisir votre proposition pour > > une > > > session lors de Wikimania 2017. > > > > > > *dates importantes* > > > > > > Appel aux propositions ouvert : 2 février 2017 > > > Date limite de soumission des présentations (conférence, panneau, table > > > ronde et atelier) : *15 avril 2017* > > > Date limite de soumission des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > > > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 15 mai 2017. > > > Notification d’acceptation des présentations : 20 avril 2017 > > > Notification d’acceptation des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > > > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 10 juin 2017 > > > > > > *Types de soumissions & Comment soumettre: *https://wikimania2017. > > > wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > > > > > > *Des questions ?* Merci de contacter le Comité du programme par > > > wikimania-program(à)wikimedia.org. > > > > > > > > > > > > Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects > (such > > > as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia > > Commons, > > > Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or > > > consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2017. > > > > > > *Important dates* > > > > > > Call for proposals opens: February 2, 2017 > > > Deadline for submitting presentation (lecture, panel, roundtable and > > > workshop) submissions: *April 10, 2017* > > > Deadline for submitting lightning talks, poster, and birds of a feather > > > submissions: May 15, 2017 > > > Notification of acceptance for presentations: April 20, 2017 > > > Notification of acceptance for lightning talks, poster and birds of a > > > feather submissions: June 10, 2017 > > > > > > *Submission types & how to submit:* https://wikimania2017. > > > wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > > > > > *Any questions?* Please contact the Programme Committee at > > > wikimania-program at wikimedia.org > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > > > gmail.com * > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions
FYI all: deadline for presentations has been extended to April 10. -- Forwarded message -- From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:53 PM Subject: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, We have extended the deadline for submitting presentations, panels, roundtables and workshops to Wikimania until *April 10*. The deadline for posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*. Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit your ideas! Please also note, for those who have already submitted, there is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress" submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please note that it is "completed". Thank you! Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-prog...@wikimedia.org best, Phoebe On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions, > which can be found in French here: > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > and in English here: > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > On behalf of the Wikimania programme committee, > Phoebe Ayers > - > > Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l’un des projets Wikimédia > (tels que Wikipédia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia > Commons, Wiktionnaire, MediaWiki ou autres), un créateur de contenu libre > ou un consommateur, nous recevrons avec plaisir votre proposition pour une > session lors de Wikimania 2017. > > *dates importantes* > > Appel aux propositions ouvert : 2 février 2017 > Date limite de soumission des présentations (conférence, panneau, table > ronde et atelier) : *15 avril 2017* > Date limite de soumission des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 15 mai 2017. > Notification d’acceptation des présentations : 20 avril 2017 > Notification d’acceptation des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions > d’oiseaux de la même plume : 10 juin 2017 > > *Types de soumissions & Comment soumettre: *https://wikimania2017.wikimedi > a.org/wiki/Submissions/fr > > *Des questions ?* Merci de contacter le Comité du programme par > wikimania-program(à)wikimedia.org. > > > > Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such > as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, > Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or > consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2017. > > *Important dates* > > Call for proposals opens: February 2, 2017 > Deadline for submitting presentation (lecture, panel, roundtable and > workshop) submissions: *April 10, 2017* > Deadline for submitting lightning talks, poster, and birds of a feather > submissions: May 15, 2017 > Notification of acceptance for presentations: April 20, 2017 > Notification of acceptance for lightning talks, poster and birds of a > feather submissions: June 10, 2017 > > *Submission types & how to submit:* > https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en > > > *Any questions?* Please contact the Programme Committee at > wikimania-program at wikimedia.org > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/15 00:58, phoebe ayers wrote: Hi all, I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said to me well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often and I can never remember what my login is, since my usual login was taken. But if I could enter my email address, it would be a lot easier and I'd be more likely to just do it. It looks like it would be enough to provide a send forgotten username to this email feature. Which is bug 13015 [1], fixed in 2011 [2] and afaik never enabled. As it provides a list of usernames, there's no issue with too-many-usernames, which to use for login? Hmm. I just tried asking for a password reset with my email [on English Wikipedia] and what I got was a list of temporary passwords for all the accounts associated with that email (a bunch, in my case, since I registered variations on my full name). The email lists the username and the temp password for each account. But yes, it's not clear that link can be used for retrieving login as well as password. Changing the text to 'Forgot your password or login?' could help. (Of course, checking your email and resetting the password is still an extra step for the infrequent editor). -- phoebe p.s. this is an old issue; that was still likely an unfixed bug when I first filed it! -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Global user pages deployed to all wikis
Hooray! This is so cool. /goes to edit her meta userpage... -- phoebe p.s. re: babel, my absolute favorite use is on Wikidata, where you can add babel templates to your userpage and then get the appropriate fields to add stuff in that language :) I love showing that to people who are getting started on Wikidata. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Global user pages have now been deployed to all public wikis for users with CentralAuth accounts. Documentation on the feature is available at mediawiki.org[1], and if you notice any bugs please file them in Phabricator[2]. Thanks to all the people who helped with the creation and deployment (incomplete, and in no particular order): Jack Phoenix ShoutWiki, Isarra, MZMcBride, Nemo, Quiddity, Aaron S, Matt F, James F, and everyone who helped with testing it while it was in beta. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=PHID-PROJ-j536clyie42uptgjkft7 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] E-mail login to wiki - needs feedback
Hi all, I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said to me well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often and I can never remember what my login is, since my usual login was taken. But if I could enter my email address, it would be a lot easier and I'd be more likely to just do it. Struck by the idea that this was a barrier to editing, I asked around and got similar feedback from other people, for both public and private mediawikis. So I submitted the bug for consideration. I know it's difficult and there's been a lot of discussion on how to technically do it, but I think the underlying need definitely still exists. thanks, Phoebe On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Tony Thomas 01tonytho...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Before someone starts with a proposal for the proposed-tech-project 'Allow user login with e-mail address'[1], is there still community consensus for the same ? I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail address is easy to remember than a complex username. Currently multiple users can sign-up with the same e-mail id - which would possibly be a blocker, and can be fixed. Thanks to MzMcbride, we have an RFC[2] too on the same. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30085 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Login_via_e-mail_address Thanks, Tony Thomas http://tttwrites.wordpress.com/ FOSS@Amrita http://foss.amrita.ac.in *where there is a wifi, there is a way* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecating print-on-demand functionality
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.com wrote: so the Book Creator will still be active, maybe under another name, maybe with another engine, but still active? Same name and functionality, just the Order a printed book feature will disappear. Erik That is great -- the book creator and PDF tools are both good tools, and are very handy for projects big and small, especially projects like Wikibooks and Wikivoyage that need to make offline reading easy. (I have actually used both tools the most on internal wikis; when I need to catch up on big discussions, I've made many pdfs from meta that I can read offline.) It was a worthwhile experiment with Pediapress, and I'm glad they stuck with it as long as they did! best, -- Phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!
On 4 April 2014 09:37, VP Singh vpsing...@gmail.com wrote: I want to ask wikimedia , about the .wiki tld. I am AN IT expert and I was going to register science.wiiki (example) in epa ( early phase access) which will be in may for my firm. I was surprised to find that it was already registered by Top Level Design. Visit: http://whois.domaintools.com/science.wiki. It is true that wiki is a generic term but it is slightly more complex than that. Top Level Design are the ones who initially applied to ICANN for .wiki to be created. see http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Top_Level_Design and http://dotwiki.org/ I don't know exactly how it will work, but it seems that .wiki is not yet available for individual application -- that starts in May: http://nic.wiki/sunrise-opens-corporate-wiki-strategies/ Incidentally, Top Level Design is run by Ray King, who has been a long-time part of the wiki scene in Portland. In addition to running domain-related businesses, he genuinely loves wikis :) He is, however, totally unaffiliated with Wikimedia. -- Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Question for the group: Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation? I have needed such a thing for wikis for small non-profits/library associations that I've been involved with, where I didn't want to host it myself (because I didn't want to take personal responsibility for the site of an organization that I might not stay involved with, and because I don't really have the chops to deal with security and spam issues); but also did not have a good hosting option with a larger organization or library, which I find are often not very familiar with mediawiki (e.g. I've been trying to get our library systems dept. to install some basic extensions for our internal mediawiki for a couple years now). There's not a lot of money in that particular use case, unfortunately, but I imagine I'm not alone in that need either. -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Scott lives and works in Cambridge, MA[5]. He is a square dancer[6] and theatrical lighting designer. I have it on good word that he’s a demon on MIT Mystery Hunt [7]—not sure if he’s on the same team as our Board Members or not [8], but if not… Welcome, Scott! And yes, Team Codex features WMF board members (2.5*) and advisory board members (2)... innumerable editors... and now features engineers... things are looking up for hunt/world domination! -- phoebe * I'm the .5. I am not very good at the mystery hunt. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Not much usage of the Visual Editor?
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that's disconcerting - is this actually all the edits with the Visual Editor? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor I'll have to make a point of hammering on it more ;-) Yes the RecentChanges tag should be comprehensive. I think part of this is due to the opt in nature of the tool, and the rest is due to some well-known limitations. It doesn't yet handle templates, images, or references very well, and it's pretty slow on English Wikipedia still. I think the VisualEditor and Parsoid team are aware of all these, and have work in progress or on the near-term roadmap. Yeah, I expect the overlap between people who follow wikimedia news enough to know they can opt-in and people who do fairly complex formatting work is pretty high. E.G. I have it installed, but rarely use it because most of my on-wiki work is fixing references, which the VE can't cope with yet (or, it's simply faster for me to do it by hand, as I can write markup in my sleep). Would it be helpful for the dev team to have more people using it on a regular basis? -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2013 12:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think it is particularly obvious outside of our project the way that Wikidata is being weaponized as the reason for attempting to force changes in local consensus about infoboxes (their existence and content) with respect to specific article categories or even individual articles. It's not obvious within the project either, at least for someone like me who hasn't been following the endless arguments over whether some WikiProject should be able to decide not to use infoboxes on their articles and whether they're ganging up to prevent any local consensus to use infoboxes on their articles, etc, etc, etc. Personally, I don't consider that people making spurious arguments based on the existence of wikidata is a problem with the planned wikidata phase 2 deployment. Why do you think those arguments are spurious? Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them spurious. Those articles belong a lot more to the editors of each of the Wikipedias than they do to Wikidata, or Wikimedia, that's for certain. Not agreeing with the arguments of some editors *also* doesn't mean the entire engineering and operators department is doing it wrong, or that the Wikidata project (which is not developed by WMF, incidentally, and is having its own interesting discussions *among its own community* as we speak) somehow is not capable of also debating these questions. I do not agree with your arguments, Risker. I think Wikidata is great and I am happy it has been deployed (or will be soon). I think it will enable lots and lots of super cool things in the years to come, and having over the years lived through the deployments of commons, categories, new skins and who knows what else I am also confident, along with Denny, that we will figure it out in the wild as we go. That viewpoint doesn't make me a bad Wikipedian, and it doesn't mean I'm not willing to hear you and others who disagree out (and I'm perfectly willing to learn about the infobox debates, which are actually new to me -- somehow in 10 years of editing I've managed to avoid this hotbed of disagreement). But do please bear in mind that in your messages you are telling *the entire* technical list, including all the paid development staff and the longtime technical volunteers, which includes pretty much everyone who has written MediaWiki over the years, that they don't know how wiki development works. In my opinion that's pretty patronizing, and is not helping your argument -- which, as far as I can tell, is that Wikidata phase II shouldn't be enabled on en:wp except after a community-wide RFC, correct? As far as that goes, since you are so strongly arguing for the autonomy of en:wp, I think the ball's in the en:wp court; an en:wp editor should be the one to organize an RFC. If the results skew strongly to one side or another, the WMF has listened to such things in the past. Personally I don't see the need for an RFC at this point in time, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone else the right to organize one, and I will happily vote accordingly. -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2013 12:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think it is particularly obvious outside of our project the way that Wikidata is being weaponized as the reason for attempting to force changes in local consensus about infoboxes (their existence and content) with respect to specific article categories or even individual articles. It's not obvious within the project either, at least for someone like me who hasn't been following the endless arguments over whether some WikiProject should be able to decide not to use infoboxes on their articles and whether they're ganging up to prevent any local consensus to use infoboxes on their articles, etc, etc, etc. Personally, I don't consider that people making spurious arguments based on the existence of wikidata is a problem with the planned wikidata phase 2 deployment. Why do you think those arguments are spurious? Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them spurious. Those articles belong a lot more to the editors of each of the Wikipedias than they do to Wikidata, or Wikimedia, that's for certain. It's disturbing that even at the same time as the engineering and operations departments are working so hard to professionalize their work, to bring themselves up to industry standards, to properly staff themselves with people who understand not just the technical side, but also the content side - that
Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2013 12:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think it is particularly obvious outside of our project the way that Wikidata is being weaponized as the reason for attempting to force changes in local consensus about infoboxes (their existence and content) with respect to specific article categories or even individual articles. It's not obvious within the project either, at least for someone like me who hasn't been following the endless arguments over whether some WikiProject should be able to decide not to use infoboxes on their articles and whether they're ganging up to prevent any local consensus to use infoboxes on their articles, etc, etc, etc. Personally, I don't consider that people making spurious arguments based on the existence of wikidata is a problem with the planned wikidata phase 2 deployment. Why do you think those arguments are spurious? Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them spurious. Those articles belong a lot more to the editors of each of the Wikipedias than they do to Wikidata, or Wikimedia, that's for certain. Not agreeing with the arguments of some editors *also* doesn't mean the entire engineering and operators department is doing it wrong, or that the Wikidata project (which is not developed by WMF, incidentally, and is having its own interesting discussions *among its own community* as we speak) somehow is not capable of also debating these questions. I do not agree with your arguments, Risker. I think Wikidata is great and I am happy it has been deployed (or will be soon). I think it will enable lots and lots of super cool things in the years to come, and having over the years lived through the deployments of commons, categories, new skins and who knows what else I am also confident, along with Denny, that we will figure it out in the wild as we go. That viewpoint doesn't make me a bad Wikipedian, and it doesn't mean I'm not willing to hear you and others who disagree out (and I'm perfectly willing to learn about the infobox debates, which are actually new to me -- somehow in 10 years of editing I've managed to avoid this hotbed of disagreement). But do please bear in mind that in your messages you are telling *the entire* technical list, including all the paid development staff and the longtime technical volunteers, which includes pretty much everyone who has written MediaWiki over the years, that they don't know how wiki development works. In my opinion that's pretty patronizing, and is not helping your argument -- which, as far as I can tell, is that Wikidata phase II shouldn't be enabled on en:wp except after a community-wide RFC, correct? As far as that goes, since you are so strongly arguing for the autonomy of en:wp, I think the ball's in the en:wp court; an en:wp editor should be the one to organize an RFC. If the results skew strongly to one side or another, the WMF has listened to such things in the past. Personally I don't see the need for an RFC at this point in time, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone else the right to organize one, and I will happily vote accordingly. -- phoebe And just to add to this, it looks like the best place to propose such an RFC, or to discuss Wikidata on the English Wikipedia, is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of April 8th
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 April 2013 19:07, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:00 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sorry, I don't know what this means. I thought Wikidata was already deployed to the English Wikipedia (and possibly other projects as well). I've posted an announcement with more details on the technical village pump at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikidata_phase_2_is_coming_soon Let me know if anything is still unclear so I can clarify. Cheers Lydia Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the control of English Wikipedia is a rather big issue, and I would expect to see a Request for Comment with at least 200-300 participants. Risker/Anne In my opinion, as a casual Wikidata editor and not-so-casual Wikipedia editor, I think the Commons analogy continues to hold up pretty well. Commons exists. We can use it, as a project. We don't *have* to (and indeed don't always, on en:wp, where fair use images are accepted). As I understand it, the same is true with Wikidata -- it will be around, if and when it seems appropriate to use. Of course Commons and Wikidata will both be more useful and more awesome the more projects do use them. But my very non-technical understanding of this deployment is that basically we made the projects able to see that Wikidata exists (correct me if I'm wrong!) Now as far as I can tell there's a whole lot of work yet to do in order to figure out how exactly one might link to data or produce an infobox and what that might look like -- deployment does not seem to mean ready for prime-time, yet -- and of course the data-building itself is just barely getting started. Best practices for infoboxes does seem like a project-wide RFC to me. But hopefully, when we get to that point, wikidata will be a useful option. -- phoebe * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas for GSOC
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Many of the ideas listed there are too generic (Write an extension), improvements of existing features (Improve Extension:CSS) This may sound naive, but why are improvements of existing features discarded? My thinking was that, if the student didn't have to start from scratch, they would have more time to polish their work and make it fit with our strict standards, hence making it more likely for their work to be merged and deployed. I have some ideas for existing features and extensions that could use a good summer's work, and I just added one of them to the page, despite not having any ability to personally mentor -- I assumed if there was interest it could get picked up by someone. I hope this is ok! -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Adam Wight joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Adam Wight has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer. Before joining us, Adam was customizing open-source web services for non-profits at Giant Rabbit. This makes him the first Fundraising engineer to be familiar with CiviCRM **before** joining the team — in fact, he has contributed event registration workflow and other minor changes back to the project. :-) He also did work on the Atako Project (the first open-source Google Gadget directory), “Halfway Library” to share and review books, and “Prokaryote” a evolution/behavior patterns simulator used in university and high school classrooms. If you ever snuck into the Unix lab to get their workstations running SETI@home, you probably used his code (he wrote the X-windows implementation). He has recently contributed an Offline extension for Mediawiki, and he is helping with a distributed wiki project OneCommons. Welcome Adam! All very cool projects :) On the side, he’s involved with a number of education and agricultural projects, including being the programmer at the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture and is a cofounder and worker at The Local food coop at UC Berkeley. He also is obsessed with blacksmithing (no, this is not a new coding process — I mean that he’s a blacksmith and has been a carpenter and housepainter). We should start having local foodie/Wikipedian dinners! Edit this eggplant? -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/05/12 18:17, David Gerard wrote: Discussion on Oliver Keyes' blog: http://quominus.org/archives/714 He's coming from the perspective of liaison with newbies. Read the comments. I have to say it's the first time I met him. I'll try to summarise his points below with my comments: 1a) The steps are not clear. Solution: Make the Enter a new bug report link of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ much bigger. The intermediate page asking you to login is not cool, but I think that's a clear enough path. 1b) There's no indication that your login is your email. Granted. This can be confusing. Specially for the perspective of a mediawiki user. The only positive point might be that, if you have recently registered, you probably remember that your email is your login. The email sent by bugzilla does help, although it isn't explicit, either: To use the wonders of Bugzilla, you can use the following: E-mail address: platoni...@gmail.com Password: HPqd4NwIu Proposal: Add a message at the front page noting that you need a different login for bugzilla, that it is our email, and it'll be publicly visible. +1. This is probably the biggest problem I have using bugzilla as an occasional, non-technical user :) If there's any way to tie the login to SUL that would be cool, but just providing more explanatory messages would be helpful! -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Patch submitted: authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Nicolas Brouard brou...@ined.fr wrote: Thank you for your support. I just submitted a complete patch entitled Can't authenticate using my mother language username (UNICODE) when I only have (a public) access to Wikipedia with an ASCII (english) keyboard in about 20 languages on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590 People supporting this idea, please for it. Cool! See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28085, a bug I submitted ages ago based on feedback I've gotten talking to users who only occasionally edited. The idea is that that remembering a username can be a barrier to casual editing (a few tries to remember a username that you don't use much and you might just give up) -- and being able to log in with an email address might help make things smoother. -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] book about wikitude
Incidental: a book about developing for Wikitude was recently published: Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119992818/ I know nothing about it other than the title :) phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] sep11.wikipedia.org
2011/9/11 Kirill Krasnov krasnovfo...@gmail.com: Hi, John. You wrote Sunday, September 11, 2011, 8:38:07 PM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks 2011/9/11 Краснов Кирилл krasnovfo...@gmail.com Sorry, what is sep11.wikipedia.org? Is it project Wikipedia Org? Why not domain jan01.wikipedia.org, mar08.wikipedia.org, etc? Why not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis ? Sorry for my badly english. I translate with google next text: I honor the memory of all victims of this tragic day. I express my condolences to all relatives and friends who lost loved ones. But Wikipedia is an international project, which should equally take into account all the rights and freedoms of people around the world. What a tragedy of September 11 terrorist attack other notable terrorist attacks? Why for that date, there is a subdomain Wikipedia, and for other important dates, no? Why not make a date on every terrorist attack? For example, in Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks ? -- Best regards, Kirill http://www.kraeg.ru/ Kirill, The Sept. 11 wiki is closed now. But it was set up very early in Wikipedia's history, before we had really figured out how huge and international Wikipedia would be (and before we started using the Wikimedia name). First, as Finne says, there were lots of entries created on the English Wikipedia that weren't strictly encyclopedic, so a separate subdomain was created for them. Then, a few years later after discussion about whether such a project was really appropriate for Wikimedia, the wiki was closed, and later the content was moved over to the Internet Archive and elsewhere. We kept the link as a redirect simply for historical preservation purposes :) You can read more on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki As a historical note, I believe the 9/11 attacks were one of the first times that the Wikipedia community really responded by writing articles in real-time, a phenomena that has become one of our extraordinary hallmarks as a project in the last ten years. best, -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it seems that every year we choose locations that for one reason or the other are likely not to be accessible to some groups or nationality (I hear complaints every year about these issues)(no judgements, just a fact). So I agree that this uploading issue should be faced once for all, setting up a workflow with WMF technicians that would allow videos and slides to be online in reasonable time. Aubrey Yes! if we can set up a system for media upload *before* the next conference to try and address this issue, which does come up every year, that would be fantastic. Copying wikitech :) The problem: how and where should we annually upload video and slides from ~100 conference presentations, keeping them freely easily accessible and the metadata (such as links to papers, submission pages, wikipages of notes, etc) intact? -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia projects + Open Library books?
Funny you should ask :) I follow a list called CODE4LIB (library hackers, includes many open library people) and this very subject just came up: (see adding VIAF links to Wikipedia): https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1106L=CODE4LIB https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1105L=CODE4LIB There is also an open library bot on en:wp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot That's all I know about specifically, but there is a big overlap between our communities, and collaboration could definitely be fruitful. -- phoebe On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: So the Open Library, a project by the Internet Archive that has a structured wiki page for every book and which also lends books online, has announced they just got new Read API.[1, 2] The announcement describes its as: The idea is, you can hit the Read API with an identifier or a series of identifiers or an array of identifiers, and it will tell whether there is a readable or borrowable version available through Open Library. As you render a page in your own bookish website, you can paint links into Open Library based on the response. I wonder if there is some use case for this in Wikipedia or other projects? Perhaps linking references or book articles to Open Library copies? Letting Wikimedians know when they can borrow reference works for free online? I figure that identifiers like ISBNs are all over the place in Wikimedia content. Not sure, but it's interesting to think about. Their open source online book reader is also pretty awesome and isn't Flash based. Steven 1. http://blog.openlibrary.org/2011/06/03/announcing-a-new-read-api/ 2. http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/read ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering May 2011 report
I'm always impressed by this report, and by the volume of activity going on -- nice work, all. You're setting a really nice standard with the engineering reports for readable, detailed-but-layperson-accessible, interesting monthly documentation :) cheers, phoebe On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, The report of Wikimedia engineering activities for May 2011 is out: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/03/wikimedia-engineering-may-2011-report/ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2011/May -- Guillaume Paumier ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] supporting small languages (was WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism)
(changing the thread title) On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken feed. Thanks, GerardM This is not a comment on the amount of money but on the idea of improvements to scripts/fonts/standards etc. I understand there's been discussion about creating a list of problems for representing various languages on the internet. For example, some languages have problems being written online because they are not well supported in Unicode, or some don't have free fonts, etc. etc. These are problems for *any* website that wants to support that particular language. There are also bugs related to how *we* support particular languages in MediaWiki -- as far as I know these have mainly been collected in Bugzilla. So my questions are: 1) have there ever been any comprehensive lists made of these language-related bugs (either within MediaWiki or in general); and, 2) what needs to be done (technically) to support small(er) languages? (I know we, in particular GerardM, have been discussing this for a long time. But I'm curious what the current state of affairs is, and if issues for small languages are collected together in one place). best, Phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community to take problems reported (via the localized interface?) and reproduce them or act as a translator between developers and bug reporters? There is already some infrastructure for this kind of idea: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors I didn't know about this mailing list until a few days ago, but it's a start in building the bridge between MediaWiki development and (power-)users. MZMcBride Fascinating! I didn't know this existed either. To answer Mark's question, I'm interested in facilitating more user participation in bug-collecting. Using Bugzilla confuses the heck out of me, but mostly because I don't do it very often! There are many good ideas in this list. I have one small idea re: bugzilla -- is it possible to make browsing bugs more transparent (like a link on the sidebar)? I only just discovered that it's possible to look at bugs by category, component or keyword rather than search, and for the hapless newbie who is nonetheless sometimes interested in looking (at) bugs to see what's going on (like me) it would help. First rule of taxonomies: everyone describes stuff differently, so browse is useful :) -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Have a bugathon where we label a lot of bugs as appropriate bugathon bugs that need either: a) test patch / update patch to recent svn version a) confirmation / replication of new / unconfirmed bugs We can provide a simple ready to go Wiki installation for people to use for bug triaging and that way we can re-energize developers and clean up some of the backlog of bugs. Is this something that we should be doing? This is something we do at hack-a-tons. I don't remember the number of bugs smashed at the last one, but it was a decent number. I believe the next hack-a-ton is in Berlin, soon. I'm not sure if they have this planned. It's apparently GLAM focused (which excludes devs like me), so I'd imagine not, unless the bugs targeted are GLAM related. - Ryan Lane I'm curious: is there a way that non-technical people can help with sprints like this? Documentation-building, maybe? Something else? I'm interested in development sprints, bugathons etc that involve both technical non-technical people; I've been involved in a few and it's pretty fun. But I don't know how many useful ways non-programmers non-developers can help. -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] IRC general meetings
Reminder that an open community meeting is proposed for this Saturday, Feb. 5. on IRC: freednode#wikimedia Please add your agenda items! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings based on feedback I'd like to move the time down to 1800-1900 UTC (that's 10 am PST). Let me know if you can help moderate. Looking forward to it, Phoebe On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was pretty successful and we discussed afterwards making such community meetings a regular event. I'd like to revive this idea :) I've made a proposal for having community meetings on the first Saturday of the month: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings Which would make the first upcoming meeting on February 5. I proposed 17:00UTC as a time, but please discuss good days/times on the talk page if you are interested in attending; we'll need to rotate times. I envision this as not really a QA session like the staff office hours, but rather as a chance for community members to get together and talk about important issues in a structured way. To that end, please add your proposed agenda items to the wiki. It would also be great to have some volunteers to take notes/moderate. Of course this is just an experiment -- but there seemed to be a lot of interest in having such meetings, so I'd like to try it out. Let me know what you think and if you'd be interested. best, Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] OT: Sunday in San Francisco
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Have you seen http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visiting_San_Francisco ? I think that might have been copied from elsewhere for a specific event. The part near the end about having breakfast and lunch provided? Awesome, but I don't think they're giving everyone who comes to SF free food ;-) -Chad If only! Would it be worth giving this page a quick hack to make it a general visitors guide / pointer to good visitors guides? Considering how many visitors the WMF office gets, it would probably be a good idea :) -- phoebe ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MATH markup question
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Aryeh Gregor wrote: When I load their homepage, the formulas don't appear for about two seconds of 100% CPU usage, on Firefox 4b9. And that's for two small formulas. I'm not impressed. IMO, the correct way forward is to work on native MathML support -- Gecko and WebKit both support it these days, and Opera somewhat does too. I'm sure the support is a bit spotty, but if Wikipedia used it (even as an off-by-default option) that would surely drive a lot of progress. These days (with the deployment of HTML5 parsers) it can be embedded directly into HTML, it's not limited to XML. Looking at http://www.mathjax.org/demos/tex-samples/ it may indeed take a couple of seconds to convert from TeX to the graphical view, but without 100% CPU usage or looking blocked. I'm not using 49b but 3.6.12, though. I see a similar result in chromium. A disadvantage is that the showing the formula needs to reposition the content, instead of reserving the space in advance. Delurking to say that while I don't know if it's useful for us at all, Mathjax is getting lots of buzz in other settings (like publishing and the science library world); and also I just today came across this http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html It's not directly applicable but it is a fun usability idea for turning symbols into LaTeX (and by extension I can imagine symbols to markup, letters to unicode, etc.) -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sage Rossragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: One of the great frustrations of Wikinews for me is that it doesn't have a system for identifying and pointing users toward opportunities to get out into the offline world and do original reporting. A fine-grained cross-project opt-in geonotice system could be a solution. Here's how I imagine it working: there is a new opt-in geonotice (in addition to the current one that reaches everyone in the specified geography). For the opt-in geonotice (which would hopefully be able to reach across projects, since many causal Wikinewsies visit that site only rarely) any trusted user could add new items to let nearby people know about reporting or photography opportunities. For these opt-in notices, we would not need to lock down the ability to add items like we do for the current geonotice system (it's a fully protected page), since people who opt-in will expect a bit a noise. I think this would be awesome to try out! Geonotices have proved to be wonderful for helping out with local meetups; I can even imagine having two filters, opt-into notifications for local events and opt-into notifications for wikinews stuff. Both pages to set the notifications could be unprotected, and we could just see how it went. That is all :) phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?
Thanks for the responses, all. Daniel and Bilal: the notes about the possible servers at Syracuse and Concordia are very interesting; it sounds like the researchers interested in such things should team up. Daniel: I am not sure what type of data is needed -- this is not my project (I'm only the messenger!) but I'll pass along your message and send you private details (and encourage the researcher to reply himself). River: Well, you say that part of the issue with the toolserver is money and time... and this person that I've been talking to is offering to throw money and time at the problem. So, what can they constructively do? All: Like I said, I am unclear on the technical issues involved, but as for why a separate research toolserver might be useful... : I see a difference in the type of information a researcher might want to pull (public data, large sets of related page information, full-text mining, ??) and the types of tools that the current toolserver mainly supports (editcount tools, catscan, etc). I also see a difference in how the two groups might be authenticated -- there's a difference between being a trusted Wikipedian or trusted Wikimedia developer and being a trusted technically-competent researcher (for instance, I recognized the affiliation of the person who was trying to apply, because I've read their research papers; but if you were going on wikimedia status alone, they don't have any). -- Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] research-oriented toolserver?
Hi all, I'm not sure exactly where to raise this, so am asking here. A researcher I have been in touch with has proposed starting a 2nd, research-oriented Wikimedia toolserver. He thinks his lab can pay for the hardware and would be willing to maintain it, if they could get help setting it up. He got this idea after a member of his research group tried (unsuccessfully so far -- no response) to get an account on the current toolserver; their Wikipedia-related research has been put on hold for a few months because of the delay. (It seems like there is a big backlog of account requests right now and only one person working on them?) This research group has done some interesting Wikipedia research to date and I expect they could do more with access to the right data. Personally, I think a dedicated toolserver is a great idea for the research community, but I know very little about the technical issues involved and/or whether this has been proposed before. Please comment, and I can pass on replies and put the researcher in touch with the tech team if it seems like a good idea. -- user: first post on wikitech phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] WikiSym 2009 in Orlando: Call for Papers - deadline March 27
Hello all, A reminder that WikiSym 2009 will be in Orlando, Florida, from October 25-27. The deadline for submitting papers, workshops and panel proposals is March 27; April 24th is the deadline for posters, demonstrations and WikiFest (practical experience) proposals. Topics of interest include: * social software for collaboration and work group processes * wiki user experiences, usability, and discourse analysis * reputation systems, quality assurance processes * scalability---social and technical * wiki technologies and implementations * translation and multilingual wiki content * educational applications * wiki for non-textual media (images, video, audio) * content dynamics and wiki evolution * wiki journalism * wiki archiving and versioning * wiki administration: dealing with abuse and resolving conflict * wiki and the semantic web, knowledge management, tacit knowledge * wiki for small audiences (departmental and family wikis) * legal issues (copyright, licensing) * visualization of wiki structure * wiki fiction For more information, see the Call for Papers: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php?page=Call+for+Papers WikiSym is an annual conference devoted to research into all aspects of wikis, including wiki communities, wiki software and technology, and using wikis in education and organizations. Research papers about the Wikimedia projects are welcome! Papers are peer reviewed and archived in the ACM digital library (see past proceedings: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11299coll=ACMdl=ACMtype=seriesidx=SERIES11299part=seriesWantType=Proceedingstitle=ISW The conference is colocated with OOPSLA 2009. For more, see: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ -- Phoebe Ayers (2009 Wikimedia Liason) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
