2013/4/8 Risker risker...@gmail.com:
Eran raises a key point. On his project, there was a significant
discussion prior to the deployment. Hewiki has voluntarily, as a community,
decided to participate in the early development of a tool. This is a very
good thing, and one that reflects well
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 03:00 +, reporter wrote:
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 01, 2013 - April 08, 2013
Most urgent open issues
The list is still not reliable (it includes closed tickets) though in
testing last week it worked well. Pretty baffled. I'm sorry.
andre
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On 04/06/2013 09:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like
nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying
they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as
it's false good news.)
On 04/07/2013 02:52 PM, Max Semenik wrote:
On 07.04.2013, 20:11 Paul wrote:
Indeed. We have a Universal Language Selector for 3rd party websites
already. This one would be super-duper great. This is where Wikidata
can play its part as well!
As for images, we have already a PageImages
Sumana Harihareswara, 08/04/2013 14:36:
Nemo, I have sympathy for you here -- it took a while for me to get
used to the use of socialize in the way the Wikimedia communities use
it.
Not communities, the WMF.
I think socializing is more than just communication implies,
though;
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Somewhere near
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Community_metricshttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metricswould
be good.
Done:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report
Željko
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 5:00 AM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.orgwrote:
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 01, 2013 - April 08, 2013
Charts are visible here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report
Željko
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On Apr 8, 2013 12:11 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
As I've indicated very early in this thread, Phase 2 affects an area of
English Wikipedia that is already under considerable dispute (i.e.,
infoboxes); requests for comment (RFCs) were already being drafted before
this deployment was
TronGreetings, Programs!/Tron
So, not many updates for a while, as things have been progressing at a
fair clip in the oh, my god boring gruntwork front.
The biggest news is the addition of Petr Bena to the tools project
sysadmin team as its first volunteer. Petr has been very involved in
the
On 04/01/2013 04:30 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Does it still make sense to have the testing week on April 15-21?
Yes, Let us do it then. I'm about to release RC2, but it doesn't
include a fix for at least one problem that was discovered in RC1. I'll
release RC3 next week -- hopefully with the
It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate.
Since last week, patches to fix the following bugs were included in the tarball:
Bug 46719: Remove link to Special:ActiveUsers from Special:Statistics
Bug 46493: Handle invalid titles on ProtectedPages and ProtectedTitles
Bug 46787: API:
On 04/08/2013 10:30 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
The database replication is also well on its way; you can find the
current roadmap at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Database_plan
Thank you for the update, Marc-Andre.
I see in the database plan:
Review schema, generate
On 8 April 2013 09:20, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Apr 8, 2013 12:11 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
As I've indicated very early in this thread, Phase 2 affects an area of
English Wikipedia that is already under considerable dispute (i.e.,
infoboxes); requests for
On 04/08/2013 12:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Since those dates are now in the past :-) can you help provide new
estimated times of arrival? Thanks!
I think those dates are in the past because those bits are complete. :-)
As far as I know, we're still on track.
-- Marc
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
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Apr 6, 2013 9:05 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote:
In case y'all missed this:
Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a
volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
French
On 8 April 2013 18:21, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Technical measures to prevent this could be interesting though. Requiring
that actions like delete be first nominated by another admin in a different
jurisdiction could be an interesting feature, although probably totally
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was
undeleted.
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Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
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On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:33:01 +0200, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was
undeleted.
It was, and I think it was the most viewed one on fr.wiki yesterday (or two
days ago).
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On 8 April 2013 18:33, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Not that it's wikitech related, but please tell me the article was
undeleted.
Undeleted and then promptly translated into a dozen new languages!
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On 8 April 2013 17:51, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Indeed. This is sheer bikeshedding.
- d.
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
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:51 PM, 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
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:59 PM, 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
(Volunteer with no Wikidata association apart from a couple of edits.)
Risker, while I see your point, and I agree that the deployment cycle is maybe
just a little too rapid (give the editors some time to update their help pages
;) ), then your last mail is both unfair and untrue.
Most of
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote:
In my experience the Wikidata team has been extremely professional and
amazingly productive, both in the quality and quantity of their creations. I
was honestly surprised that it's possible to get something
On 04/07/2013 08:20 AM, Yury Katkov wrote:
Yuvi, that's great project of you!
What do you think about adding not only languages but also technologies?
For example if you know Semantic Web technologies (RDF and SPARQL) you can
help Semantic MediaWiki.
And/or Wikidata.
Matt Flaschen
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
Hi, I need to use the localization framework - wfMessage() to translate my
own custom messages. I have a message dictionary in the form of
{languageCode = message, ...}, and looking for a way to inject those
messages into the message cache. The actual messages dictionary is stored
as a custom
I have a message dictionary in the form of
{languageCode = message, ...}, and looking for a way to inject those
messages into the message cache.
My immediate reaction was to suggest that you create wikipages of all the
messages. But I'm guessing this is for Zero and you can't have those
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote:
// Some magic method to add the entire message map into message cache
messageCache-Add('custom-key1', $messageMap);
So, we used to have a $messagecache-add(), but it was removed
after a very very long deprecation.
So, we used to have a $messagecache-add(), but it was removed
after a very very long deprecation.
Just when I was about to use it :) I basically look for this functionality:
* Figure out which localized string to use for language X, in case there is
no message in X. Something like use
On 04/08/2013 03:21 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
* Figure out which localized string to use for language X, in case there is
no message in X. Something like use Russian if Belarusian message is not
available. I remember this was present in pywiki framework, and suspect
mediawiki has it somewhere.
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
On 8 April 2013 19:46, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote:
Risker, while I see your point, and I agree that the deployment cycle is
maybe just a little too rapid (give the editors some time to update their
help pages ;) ), then your last mail is both unfair and untrue.
Risker is
David,
could you please assume that people mean well, and that everybody is
interested in the best for the project? Also see
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_policy
Thanks,
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Take a look at the CentralNotice extension. It provides it's own
interface for adding custom translatable messages. There might be some
code there that is useful to you.
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/8/13 12:05 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
Hi, I need to use the localization framework - wfMessage() to
Take a look at the CentralNotice extension. It provides it's own interface
for adding custom translatable messages. There might be some code there
that is useful to you.
Sadly unlikely; CN adds messages by creating WikiPages.
~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team
About a year ago, we were struggling with a git-review bug that caused
lots of bogus warnings to appear. When running git review, you'd get
a warning saying you're about to submit multiple commits, followed by
a list of lots of other people's commits that have already been
merged. I fixed this in
On 04/08/2013 09:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Finally, I'll be preparing a third release candidate for next week.
Quim Gil wants to do a testing week during that time. If you'd like
to help me put together a testing plan for that week, let me know.
Great! I will prepare a landing page.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Another big one is (1 comment) which gives no information about the
comment or where it was made and no easy way to jump straight to it.
(a link or AJAX or whatever).
This one drives me crazy, especially after I've
It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of
Code together with other 176 organizations:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia
The next step in the process is to get the mentors registered.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:32 PM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Another big one is (1 comment) which gives no information about the
comment or where it was made and no easy way to jump straight to it.
(a link or AJAX
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 04/06/2013 09:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like
nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying
they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as
it's false
phoebe ayers wrote:
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
Does anyone know what this means:
mwext-CentralNotice-merge : LOST
... or why I'm getting:
Please wait while Jenkins is getting ready to work
Your browser will reload automatically when Jenkins is ready.
from https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/
~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising
I think as long as it's pretty obvious from the context that Wikimedia is
not establishing a sovereign socialist nation, we should be fine with the
current terminology.
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Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com |
Yes, Jenkins is broken right now.
-Chad
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Does anyone know what this means:
mwext-CentralNotice-merge : LOST
... or why I'm getting:
Please wait while Jenkins is getting ready to work
Your browser will reload
Jenkins is lost in the WMF network right now. Operations is in the process
of searching subnets, but if we can't him, he's likely died and been lost
forever.
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Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
We found him. He was playing in the dirt. He's
a very bad boy and has been punished.
-Chad
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Jenkins is lost in the WMF network right now. Operations is in the process
of searching subnets, but if we can't him, he's likely
On 04/08/2013 07:40 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of
Code together with other 176 organizations:
Thank you, Quim! I'm glad you're able to take over administering our
GSoC this year and that we are (in my opinion) on our way to a
Sumana,
SMC is one of the oldest open source projects from India focused on improving
Indic language computing. Also Santhosh Thottingal of Wikimedia's I18n team is
one of the founding members of SMC :-)
Looking forward to a great GDoC summer ahead!
Alolita
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Sorry, but this announcement was frankly too little, too late. I had looked
at the Wikimedia blog post, the Noun Project blog post, the eventbrite
page, the talk pages of the event pages in mediawiki, meta and wikipedia
(btw, why so much duplication? where was the central hub?) and there was
On Monday, April 8, 2013, Waldir Pimenta wrote:
Sorry, but this announcement was frankly too little, too late. I had
looked at the Wikimedia blog post, the Noun Project blog post, the
eventbrite page, the talk pages of the event pages in mediawiki, meta and
wikipedia (btw, why so much
I share Sumana's and Max's concerns. The lead paragraph and the lead
sentence of the article are indeed meant to provide a good, stand-alone
summary of the subject, withing the limits of their corresponding lengths.
The guidelines concerning these are located at
On 04/07/2013 03:24 PM, Gaurav Chawla wrote:
- I introduced voting to include the users view into the
information/definition that wikIcards will show. That will give a more
accepted defn.
I agree with Quim (on the bug). Consensus is a better approach for
content (voting on such things is
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