[Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW Round 9 - Proposal - Extensive and robust localisation file format coverage

2014-10-27 Thread Alisha Jain
Hello, I am Alisha Jain and I am quite interested in contributing to Extensive and robust localisation file format coverage for FOSS OPW round - 9. I have selected this project because of my interest in parsers. I have been in contact with my mentors Niklas Laxström and Federico Leva and tried

[Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW Round 9 - Wikipedia Education Program need-finding research

2014-10-27 Thread Anke Nowottne
Hello, I´m Anke Nowottne a Berlin based designer and teacher and I´m applying for Outreach Program for Women Round 9. I chose a Mentorship task part of the Wikipedia Education Program, which links to both my design and my educational skills and interests. »Conduct need-finding interviews, then

[Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Ricordisamoa
There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ and many of them are still working according to www.mediawiki.org. However, a quick glance shows that many of them are overlapping each other and likely to be unmaintained.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote: There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ and many of them are still working according to www.mediawiki.org. However, a quick glance shows that many of them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 27/10/2014 16:38, Andre Klapper ha scritto: On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote: There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ and many of them are still working according to www.mediawiki.org.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Il 27/10/2014 16:38, Andre Klapper ha scritto: On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote: There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
i18n is the least of our concerns with respect to unmaintained extensions. If they don't even work with recent MediaWiki versions in the first place, getting them translated to 200 languages is not only pointless, but actually harmful as it diverts translators' time and attention away from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 27/10/2014 17:03, Siebrand Mazeland ha scritto: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Il 27/10/2014 16:38, Andre Klapper ha scritto: On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote: There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread James Montalvo
If a project appears to be abandoned but is in Gerrit already, what is the process to become the maintainer? On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: Il 27/10/2014 17:03, Siebrand Mazeland ha scritto: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Ricordisamoa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obsolete MediaWiki extensions

2014-10-27 Thread Brian Wolff
If the old maintainer is still around, ask them if they are ok with you taking over. ( just to avoid stepping on toes) If they cant be reached, ask at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership explaining why you want to take over maintinance of the extension. Helps if you have pre

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Technical Debt

2014-10-27 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Addshore addshorew...@gmail.com wrote: I did some work toward getting scrutinizer some time ago including the following pull req that has been merged (and I guess deployed now) as prior to this the inspection crashed out.

[Wikitech-l] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Tomasz Finc
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one review at the time, has terrific tables

[Wikitech-l] Plural rule changes for many languages - MediaWiki migrates to CLDR 26

2014-10-27 Thread Niklas Laxström
MediaWiki is upgrading its plural rules to match CLDR version 26. The updates include incompatible changes for plural forms in Russian, Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages that fall back to Russian [1]. In addition there are minor changes for other languages. In January 2014, CLDR 24

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome Marielle :) On Oct 27, 2014 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first website[1] in 1997

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Welcome Marielle! and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to make it easy to insert

[Wikitech-l] OPW 9 Proposal : Pywikibot - Compat to core migration.

2014-10-27 Thread Priyanka Jayaswal
Hi Andre!! On Thu Oct 23 13:31:31 UTC 2014 Andre wrote : Further information about the project has been provided on the Proposal page: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/0/01/ProposalPywikibot-CompattoCoreMigration.pdf Is that information available as a wikipage somewhere? PDF

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Marielle Volz joins Wikimedia as Software Developer

2014-10-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Welcome! Awesome introduction indeed. בתאריך 27 באוק 2014 20:49, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org כתב: I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team. Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first

[Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: The MediaWiki Content Translation Extension: November 3rd

2014-10-27 Thread Rachel Farrand
Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* The MediaWiki Content Translation Extension *Presenter:* Joel Sahleen, Software Engineer, Wikimedia Language Engineering *Date:* November 3rd *Time:* 1800 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: slight change to the XML dump format

2014-10-27 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Thank you Google for hiding the start of this thread in my spam folder _ I'm going to have to change my import tools for the new format, but that's the way it goes; it's a reasonable change. Have you checked with folks on the xml data dumps list to see who might be affected? Ariel Στις

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: slight change to the XML dump format

2014-10-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You may want to wait until the dumps are fixed. Magnus fixed the one but last dump by hand. The following dump is still broken. Wait until we KNOW the dumps are ok. Thanks, GerardM On 27 October 2014 21:58, Ariel T. Glenn agl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you Google for hiding the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requiring PHP = 5.3.3 for MediaWiki core

2014-10-27 Thread Krinkle
On 24 Oct 2014, at 17:31, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: ​How much longer? 1.25 is May 2015; Wikimedia's ZAP - HAT migration is nominally to be finished within a month…​ Since neither ZAP or HAT is defined anywhere on wikitech or mediawiki.org, created: