[Wikitech-l] Re: Stream of recent changes diffs

2021-07-08 Thread Roy Smith
On that topic, I'll share some of my experience. First, parsing wikitext is way more difficult than you probably imagine. People are often tempted to do a poor-man's job of it with regular expressions and the like. Down that path lies madness. Don't go there. There's only two rational ways

[Wikitech-l] Re: Stream of recent changes diffs

2021-07-08 Thread David Lynch
I'm afraid that the visual differ isn't helpfully set up for this. Its approach is to fetch the parsoid HTML for the revisions to compare, and then generate the comparison output client-side. It's not terribly reusable outside of the VisualEditor context -- all of the describing of changes that it

[Wikitech-l] Two open developer positions for OpenRefine (paid contractors, part time, remote)

2021-07-08 Thread sandra . fauconnier
Hi everyone, I'm very happy to announce: OpenRefine [1] has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons [2] functionalities. Needless to say, we would love to receive applications from Wikimedians :-)

[Wikitech-l] Re: [discovery] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021

2021-07-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Il 07/07/21 22:47, Trey Jones ha scritto: Google Meet link:https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849# I'm pretty sure it's possible to dial-in by phone from an EU number too, I did so in some WMF-hosted meeting only few months ago. I