Will we join these efforts?
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/04/02/open-source-community-cra-compliance-initiative/
There's a risk that, say, MediaWiki consultants be inundated by
paperwork in the EU if they suddenly get treated as "manufacturers".
This can probably be avoided with some
[To all Wikimedia projects, minus mailing lists with an active
discussion already.]
On August 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees may decide a
rename to "Wikipedia Foundation" and various other things.
WikiTeam is connected to the ArchiveTeam, but we use our own software:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WikiTeam
https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam
The reason is that wikis, and specifically MediaWiki, provide open
formats and protocols which help export and import, unlike the
This is a use case worth covering for any CMS, in my opinion. Currently
when one doesn't want to maintain a CMS any longer I'm forced to tell
them to crawl with wget-warc/wpull (possibly via ArchiveTeam), submit to
Internet Archive and then somehow redirect users. Few CMS seem to care
about it
Aaron Gray, 09/10/2016 15:19:
Documents that can easily be imported and exported to PDF, Word and other
formats
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection ,
https://www.organicdesign.co.nz/LibreOffice_Wiki_Publisher .
libreoffice-pdfimport exists, but PDF is not a format meant for
You may want to add to the list
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code , maybe with a short
sentence explaining its features compared to the alternatives.
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Federico Leva (Nemo), 22/03/2016 09:45:
Hi Andrew, sorry for seeing your question only now.
What Apertium configuration are you using exactly? Can you detect
any pattern in the units which don't show the translation suggestion?
For instance, are they longer
Hi Andrew, sorry for seeing your question only now.
What Apertium configuration are you using exactly? Can you detect any
pattern in the units which don't show the translation suggestion? For
instance, are they longer, or do they contain a lot of non-alphanumeric
text? If it seems completely
Daniel Kinzler, 04/02/2016 19:02:
I agree that it would be nice to have a "strict TeX mode" for the math
extension. I'm not sure whether we would enable that on wikidata. While it would
make the life of consumers easier, it would make the life of people importing
from wikipedia harder. But
An i18n upgrade project started in 2011 finally completed, thanks to
many Google code-in students, Florian, Reedy and others.
Propose your tasks for GCI students too. :-)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015
Nemo
-- Forwarded message --
From: *Florian Schmidt*
Hello Vasli, your question is too generic. By "users", do you mean
editors or mere visitors? If visitors, will they be logged in or logged out?
Also, what kind of extensions do you plan to run? Which of the tweaks at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Performance_tuning are you ready
to
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-license-clarity-on-using-code-on-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange/271106
There are comments from a MediaWiki developer too:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271112/
Main docs are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRightsUrl
I assume you're talking of https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page and
friends, a tricky situation indeed. :) Given
https://help.libreoffice.org/api.php?action=query=rightsinfo=siteinfo
and
Only your webserver logs. There are few MediaWiki extensions which
intercept the access to files, usually for ACL purposes.
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Our usual search is available again at http://bugs.wmflabs.org/ (for
reports as of November 2014).
Detailed status at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95267
I've already set Firefox to search there with my old keyword bug, I
hope this saves as much time to you as it does to me. :)
Nemo
What you ask is called recursion in categories and is not a simple task.
I don't know an extension able to do it, but there are some tools by Magnus.
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php
* https://tools.wmflabs.org/quick-intersection/index.php
Nemo
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31923#1160268
Question by HappyDog: «However, one does have to question why we use the
wiki for these purposes at all. We don't use the wiki for internal issue
tracking, so I'm not sure why we are using it for support. I am not
aware of any other company
Yeah, these are both very common problems. The update script should
probably automatically add the required skin to LocalSettings.php, and
$wgMainCacheType should be interpreted in a smarter way now that APC is
not available by default. I suggest you file two bugs to this purpose.
Nemo
Messaggio inoltrato
Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group
for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group
Data: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:54:37 -0500
Mittente: Gregory Varnum
Greetings,
Please join the Affiliations Committee in congratulating the
The Engineering Community team has opened a new position for a Technical
writer. The right candidate could be subscribed to this list, or they could
be a brave friend of yours.
http://grnh.se/luq7bd
Of you have any questions, just ask me!
End forward of Quim's
We start in 30 min from now :)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
Hello,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
**2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2]
We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
in general and PDF
, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
We start in 30 min from now :)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
Hello,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
**2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia
, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
We start in 30 min from now :)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
Hello,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
**2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia
MediaWiki 1.4 is probably the first wiki I ever edited, so it's clearly
the most perfect version ever produced. To be honest, there were some
improvements that you may miss:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F (I just
added one bullet).
I'm not sure what makes you
Hi, I'm afraid your question is a bit generic. First of all, what search
are you using? Did you install some extensions and/or configure
something? If not, what database are you using?
MediaWiki definitely supports Chinese search in English wikis, e.g.
I'm marking for translation the top1000 most visited pages. Next in my
list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Timezone
Seems to be full of rubbish though, anyone bother cleaning up/updating?
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I filed a bug to track a proposal sent earlier to another list:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68266 .
Which comes with a question for you all wiki admins:
What wikis are using this [slashes in titles] on namespaces that do
not have
sub-pages *and* would cause problems if
1) First, you probably want to split the contents of the main page into
a set of templates, to make it modular.
2) Then, you can simply make multiple subpages of the main page each
hosting a different selection and presentation of the same content.
3) Finally, to split users across the different
Hiding the Navigation word via JS is something Vector started doing in
1.18 I think. It should be better in 1.24alpha, see
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65444#c16 on what's left
to do.
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The MediaWiki installation guide is in a very sad state, please help
make some sense out of it.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Current_issues/Installation_guide_consolidation
In this thread I show it's composed of
* 7 logical steps,
* 8 supposed main manual pages,
* 27+10
FYI
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39035
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See idea at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_place_to_work_together.
If you'd like to develop the Lockdown extension, you can get a few
thousands dollars to do it.
If you use the Lockdown extension, please document in bugzilla reports
what's missing for it to satisfy the
Forwarding on behalf of our beloved Florence, former WMF president etc. etc.
Nemo
Original Message
Subject:Tablet skin design
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:25:31 +0200
From: Florence Devouard
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
Hello
A friend of mine is
Were the antispam settings of this list changed recently? I've tried 5
times to send a message, without success.
http://p.defau.lt/?_yzbzvIVKfHPwMkIkVSsGg
Messages are silently discarded so I have no idea what's going on (maybe
they are still in the moderation queue), anyway the configuration
This conversation would IMHO be more appropriate on mediawiki-l because
it affects mainly third parties who care about the higher privacy
standards of EU, but thanks for starting it.
On asking WMF legals, no worries, they were already pointed to the
possibility of an issue with 2009/136/EC /
Still at 18.
I'm told not everybody knows this page with instructions about backport
to stable releases:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes#Backports_to_stable.2Fsupported_release
Most of those bugs still need patches to baked up rather than backports,
but please do remember to
Does anyone on this list use on their own wiki one of the extensions in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Rating_extensions? If yes it
would be useful to update their pages, to clarify
* what releases work with what versions of MediaWiki,
* what are the main traits/features you chose one
Today I found out that a wiki I like (but I don't edit) had started
being spammed, from its WikiApiary page: the exponential growth of
registered users, but not of active users, was suspect; a look to
RecentChanges immediately confirmed that a couple days ago (one) captcha
on signup was
We still have 18 open reports marked as needing backports to old stable
branches, marked 3 as major and 1 (for 1.21.x) as critical. What to do?
So you only want to use AWS as file backend? That sounds like something
worth an extension, if there isn't one already. To help actual MediaWiki
hosting, I filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58896 .
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Hah, David Gerard has not asked yet! Can we have patch files?
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Upgradingcurid=8407diff=847810oldid=847658
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Bugzilla_etiquette
«Last call to provide feedback on the Talk/Discussion page before
finalizing this soon. (Thanks everybody for the feedback so far!)
andre»
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As for Wikimedia projects, Magnus' wdsearch can display some sensible
result on red links. See http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=108 , some
Wikipedia/Wikivoyage wikis should start using it to enhance the
experience of those looking for information in their local (but
poorer) language and
Wonderful indeed. Hopefully, this will help you in maintaining your code
better without adding too much overhead to your work.
The page Quim asked would also be useful in the end as a source for a
post on blog.wikimedia.org, which seems appropriate for such an effort
(there's time to think
Roger, on how to get clearer labels, the easiest way is IMHO to use
monobook skin for your wiki.
You are right that Vector was designed to push the Go behaviour; in
general it was designed to make the most common things easier and all
the others much harder.
Nemo
Mark A. Hershberger, 11/08/2013 07:55:
One of the products of our MediaWiki Release Management meetup here at
Wikimania yesterday is a new mailing list for people running Wiki Farms.
We want to start standardizing the tools and methods of setting up
these farms.
If you're interested, please
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Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] Meetup MediaWiki release management
Data: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 14:02:57 +
Mittente: Markus Glaser
Hello all,
I just proposed a meetup on MediaWiki Release Management:
Thanks Luis for mentioning Bad Behaviour: all the information about it
on mediawiki.org was wrong (it was described as an AbuseFilter-like
thing) so I had never looked into it before. You're the first person
mentioning success with it, but it's possible we only hear from unhappy
MediaWiki
What sort of content? We have
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate (you may also abuse
it by having chunks of text which are not a translation of each other).
Otherwise, you can surely use Commons as source for the craziest hacks,
in particular
David Cuenca, 02/06/2013 02:22:
[...] specially now that projects like Wikidata have shown that it
is possible to have both localization and centralization living in harmony.
We're VERY far from such a harmony, or maybe I'm misunderstandind what
you mean here. We don't have a true solution
Adam Baso, 31/05/2013 20:39:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/getting-started-with-structured-data.html
I've tried the helper but I didn't find many tags of use (they already
know that stuff about Wikipedia). However, some of those schema.org tags
(like Article) could be
Is there any reason not to enable
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons by default? The docs don't
show any.
At least non-standard configuration for cache etc. can need some
adjustments, AFAIK, but it seems it mostly just works as expected?
Nemo
P.s.: I had already asked at
Al, the problem with stop forum spam is not memory but rather the CPU
usage and lag it creates, for an apparently limited amount of spam
blocked (at least on small wikis)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:Combating_spam#CPU_usage.3B_IP_blacklists
Nemo
Halz, in my experience this is the list of spam-flooded wikis
http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/display.php?t=mws=ausers_desc: there's
no way a wiki with a couple admins and a few hundreds articles can have
thousands active users, unless they're all spammers.
Another pattern in spammed wikis is
While not everybody is able to reduce their profit margins as Christ and
Tim said, everyone running a MediaWiki wiki can experiment and document
best practices. MediaWiki already has many defense tools, but they're
often unknown or hard to use (as this very thread shows).
One site I reached
Many generations of users in many (but not all) languages have been
confused for years by the (top) in [[Special:Contributions]]. This is
the message [[MediaWiki:Uctop]], which several languages, for clarity,
translate as current, and now also en.wiki thanks to a German-speaking
sysop probably
Mark, he meant his request
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated#Short_URL.
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The page has been removed because it took several seconds to load on the
English Wikipedia. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078
Niklas has already fixed the link, it needs to be backported to 1.21.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46719
On the uselessness of the
Messaggio originale
Oggetto: [Mediawiki-i18n] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle launches
Data: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:17:20 +0200
Mittente: Niklas Laxström
A: MediaWiki internationalisation mediawiki-i...@lists.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased
Platonides wrote:
I saw a few changes, but seems odd to argue with 2009 comments
(or even 2008).
New proposals mixed with old stuff.
Sorry, I don't follow. If a comment is obviously no longer relevant,
please strike it. Most of the old comments are still relevant.
Thanks,
Nemo
TL;DR: Please add feedback to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated
Since MediaWiki 1.20 has been released, a discussion (opened by hexmode)
is ongoing on how to make our release notes better so that users
understand what improvements there are and why
Just quick note that, as announced in August
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2012-August/039678.html,
translatewiki.net yesterday dropped support for about 260
extensions/message groups.
People still using code from SVN will no longer have the localisation
updates they might
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