Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor template editing interface

2014-04-28 Thread S Page
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I don't quite understand your question [linking templatedata easily to Wikidata], sorry. I'm talking about adding fields to TemplateData which VisualEditor uses to build a user interface around templates.

[Wikitech-l] OpenHistoricalMaps (was: GSoC and OPW participants announced)

2014-04-28 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 21/04/2014 22:00, Quim Gil a écrit : Jaime Lyn Schatz OpenHistoricalMaps and Wikimaps OpenHistoricalMaps is a totally crazy project. The idea is to attach to each point in the OSM database two new keys start_date and end_date. Potentially that means folks will be able to create maps of a

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.04 release

2014-04-28 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.04. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.6 and MediaWiki 1.21.9 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.04.tar.bz2 * sha256sum:

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor template editing interface

2014-04-28 Thread James Forrester
On 28 April 2014 01:55, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't quite understand your question [linking templatedata easily to Wikidata], sorry. I'm talking about adding fields to TemplateData which

Re: [Wikitech-l] [teampractices] RfC on Product Management Tools and Development Toolchain

2014-04-28 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: as previously announced [1], we've been facilitating a collective review of Wikimedia's current product management tools and development toolchain.

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenHistoricalMaps (was: GSoC and OPW participants announced)

2014-04-28 Thread Tomasz Finc
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 21/04/2014 22:00, Quim Gil a écrit : Jaime Lyn Schatz OpenHistoricalMaps and Wikimaps OpenHistoricalMaps is a totally crazy project. The idea is to attach to each point in the OSM

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit vs Phabricator

2014-04-28 Thread Quim Gil
Phabricator as our future code contribution and review tool? This possibility has implications for current and new code contributors, as well as local testing and continuous integration. We welcome more feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator Identify

[Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?

2014-04-28 Thread Ilias Koumoundouros
Hello, and thank you for your work, I was looking at the Librivox project today and I thought that it'd be great to have voice support in Mediawiki, to aid people with sight impairments or disabilities. So I was wondering whether there is a text-to-speech extension for Mediawiki, or if there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text-to-speech extension?

2014-04-28 Thread Arcane 21
I'm not disabled myself, but I do see the benefits in such a venture, and assuming there is text-to-speech program with a MediaWiki friendly API (or at least can hook into MediaWiki fairly well) that could be used as a backend, I would think this would not only be possible, but a great idea.

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Typography refresh, now that dust has settled

2014-04-28 Thread Steven Walling
FYI, if you're interested in continuing to talk about this and related issues, I strongly encourage Wikitech subscribers to join the Design list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM Subject: Typography refresh, now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Unit testing for MediaWiki projects

2014-04-28 Thread Erik Moeller
As a reminder, this is happening tomorrow at 12 PM PDT / 19:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday): https://plus.google.com/events/cae6ng1m9o4mhdbpo10u5v05bvg We're going to talk about various strategies for automated testing and improvements to our continuous integration infrastructure. Antoine 'hashar'

[Wikitech-l] need to download wikipedia data

2014-04-28 Thread Imran Rasheed
Dear All, Best regard of the day I need to download wikipedia data for some text retrieval and evaluation for my academic research. So I need to know how to download the content of the following wikipedia link. *http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/ http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/* I need data in the

Re: [Wikitech-l] New wikibugs bot

2014-04-28 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:45 +0200, Merlijn van Deen wrote: As the original wikibugs bot did not come back online today, the tasks of wikibugs have now fully been taken over by a python re-implementation of the same bot, running on Tool Labs. A few improvements over the old bot: - running

Re: [Wikitech-l] need to download wikipedia data

2014-04-28 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 10:58 +0530, Imran Rasheed wrote: I need to download wikipedia data for some text retrieval and evaluation for my academic research. So I need to know how to download the content of the following wikipedia link. *http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/