Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/2/7 A Kumaran > But let me just clarify the reasons for adding the comment snippet so we > could track > the articles that were changed by contributors using the tool, and to track > if any of the > changes made by the tool actually were reverted ultimately. As has been suggested, adding a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread A Kumaran
Folks - This is Kumaran, a member of the WikiBhasha team in Microsoft Research India. I just saw the notes posted in the mails, and I understand the concerns of adding comments, which may have other side effects. Your point is well taken, though we were not sure if it violated any policies of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
I have created the bug report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220 The person it is assigned to now - wikibasha.msr- is the same person who brushed it off as a "minor issue" on Feb 6. :-) On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > Wikibhasha should have an entry

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Wikibhasha should have an entry in the mediawiki extensions category. Siebrand Mazeland M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand On 7 feb. 2011, at 11:27, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under what > topic should i file one? (I don't find W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Siebrand, > > Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under > what topic should i file one? (I don't find Wikibasha listed seperately in > the "pick a product to enter a bug" page). > > And regarding the "highly di

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Siebrand, Thank you for the prompt reply . I will file a CR in bugzilla. But under what topic should i file one? (I don't find Wikibasha listed seperately in the "pick a product to enter a bug" page). And regarding the "highly disruptive" comment, imagine if everyone (bots and editors) start doin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Bala, Please get in touch with Gautam/ Arunram for contacts of WikiBhasha team , Microsoft Bangalore. They ( MS team) recently presented it in one of the Wikimeetups in Bangalore. You may share your concerns directly with them. Although I won't call it as disruptive, It is better to m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread sankarshan
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > Please create a change request in bugzilla.wikimedia.org to change the > inline text comment to some identification in the edit summary. The > Wikibhasha team at Microsoft research India will take all input very > seriously. Is there a w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Hi. Recently i have started contracting for Microsoft Research to be a community liason with regards to Wikibhasha. I understand your concerns, although I disagree that adding a comment on a page after an edit should be considered "highly disruptive". Please create a change request in bugzilla.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-07 Thread Shiju Alex
> > But i have no idea if Microsoft will actually listen to us. > If wikibasha is used in your respective wiki's and keeps adding this > signature, please urge the wikibasha developers to stop this practice. > It all depends on how active the respective wiki community is. If the language wikis h

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature

2011-02-06 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Microsoft's translation tool Wikibasha creates a code snippet like this - at the bottom of the article everytime it is used to edit wikipedia pages. I found this out when the MS representative made sample edits to Tamil wikipedia. He claims that they need this to track the edits made using wikibas