Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-24 Thread Alolita Sharma
Cool, Priestley is awesome. If he comes to visit we should prevent him from leaving :) +1. We should definitely think about adopting Phabricator as a project if we're going to invest in its core developer. Look forward to having a less painful (and as Steven aptly puts it - "a happier") solution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-24 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > As one quick update, we're also in touch with Evan Priestley, who's no > longer at Facebook and now running Phabricator as a dedicated open > source project and potential business. If all goes well, Evan's going > to come visit WMF som

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-24 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > It would appear from reading this page that the only alternative to > Gerrit that has a serious following is GitHub. Is that the case? > Personally, it seems like Phabricator or Barkeep has the best chance > of dislodging Gerrit, but those wo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-24 Thread Steven Walling
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Basically, I'm thinking, let's not put so many of our eggs in the GitHub > basket. GitHub is fine for FLOSS projects with fewer than a hundred > repositories, ones that don't already have several communications > channels, ones where privac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/17/2012 08:41 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > It would appear from reading this page that the only alternative to > Gerrit that has a serious following is GitHub. Is that the case? We definitely need a GitHub *strategy*. GitHub draws together tons of open source contributors. So we ought to add

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Peter Gehres
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr wrote: > > > I agree that better tools and non captcha based tech are the way to go. > > > > At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how > > badly you distort the captchas,

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:18:43 -0700, Steven Walling wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr wrote: I agree that better tools and non captcha based tech are the way to go. At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how badly you distort the captchas, it doesn

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] request for Git statistics (or, "don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions") (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13)

2012-07-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sumana Harihareswara, 24/07/2012 22:47: Ohloh would sure be a nice resource - I'm not sure how to get it fixed exactly, but please feel free to poke around, tell Ohloh where our new repository is, and try to get it fixed. Sorry, it's a low priority for me right now, but you have my authorization

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr wrote: > I agree that better tools and non captcha based tech are the way to go. > > At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how > badly you distort the captchas, it doesn't matter, as if it's human > readable, humans can pick ou

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Leslie Carr
>> Can you provide references? >> What is the basis of the spam/work to do? Maybe we could make their >> lives easier through creating a new tool, or better anti-spam measures. >> > But lastly, there is a very important fact in captcha cracking you're > missing. Human aided captcha cracking alrea

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:08:23 -0700, Platonides wrote: On 24/07/12 16:11, matanya wrote: As for the last few month the spam rate stewards deal with is raising. Can you provide references? What is the basis of the spam/work to do? Maybe we could make their lives easier through creating a new

Re: [Wikitech-l] Category Internacionalization.

2012-07-24 Thread Platonides
El 24/07/12 19:45, Mauricio Etchevest escribió: > Hi ! > > I'm working on a extension for Media Wiki. And I need to detect when a > categorization is made on an article. > > So I search for the annotation with the keyword "category" but, then I need > to detect categorizations in other languages.

[Wikitech-l] Category Internacionalization.

2012-07-24 Thread Mauricio Etchevest
Hi ! I'm working on a extension for Media Wiki. And I need to detect when a categorization is made on an article. So I search for the annotation with the keyword "category" but, then I need to detect categorizations in other languages.How can I get the translation of the keyword "category" ? Wic

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread Platonides
On 24/07/12 16:11, matanya wrote: > As for the last few month the spam rate stewards deal with is raising. Can you provide references? What is the basis of the spam/work to do? Maybe we could make their lives easier through creating a new tool, or better anti-spam measures. > I suggest we implem

[Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-24 Thread matanya
As for the last few month the spam rate stewards deal with is raising. I suggest we implement a new mechanism: Instead of giving the user a CAPTCHA to solve, give him a image from commons and ask him to add a brief description in his own language. We can give him two images, one with known descri

[Wikitech-l] ANN: Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprise (MLODE) Leipzig, September 23-24-25, 2012

2012-07-24 Thread Sebastian Hellmann
*Save the date: Leipzig, Germany 23-24-25 September 2012 http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode Co-located with the Leipziger Semantic Web Day: http://aksw.org/lswt == Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises == MLODE will bring together developers, data producers, academia and enterpri

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment of Wikidata

2012-07-24 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Bináris wrote: > Result: after some explanations we have 26 supporters in addition to 3 > initiators/starters, and no opposers. (22 of them in the first 24 hours.) > As I wrote earlier, this is an enthusiastic community. So huwiki is looking > forward to test Wikid

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment of Wikidata

2012-07-24 Thread Bináris
2012/7/14 Lydia Pintscher > > Just to keep everyone updated: We have discussed this here at > Wikimania together with a few of the admins of the Hungarian > Wikipedia. Things are looking good and the next step is to take this > to the Hungarian Wikipedia to figure out if the community is ok with