Hi,
Its been a wonderful time working on SemanticMediaWiki this summer
as part of my Google Summer of Code project GreenSMW.
While most of the planned milestones have been reached, I am still working
on more improvements to SMW after GSoC. I have a written a self-evaluation
of my project [1]
SMW
Hey all. The following is a (admittedly rather thorough) wrapup
report on my Google Summer of Code project entitled: TranslateSvg:
bringing the translation revolution to Wikimedia Commons. TL;DR: I'm
happy.
On 9 July 2011, South Sudan declared independence, and during that
buzz, an Italian
On 21/08/12 14:47, Nischay Nahata wrote:
Hi,
Its been a wonderful time working on SemanticMediaWiki this summer
as part of my Google Summer of Code project GreenSMW.
While most of the planned milestones have been reached, I am still working
on more improvements to SMW after GSoC. I have a
Yay! Happy times, wrapping up projects and hearing great things. This is
quite an exciting project, and I'm interested to see how it all works out!
You promised us a video, though! I guess you reused '[1]' later in the
email and forgot :)
Thanks for coming out to work on this brilliant
Once code review is complete, there'll be at least one more testing
phase, this time with specific questions, followed by a pitch by me to
Wikimedia Commons. Only after that will I even utter the d word in
the context of TranslateSvg.
Please let me know when you get here, I am really
Hey,
Not sure if anybody has seen this article yet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed
Thought it was interesting and possibly worth discussion.
--Tyler Romeo
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Hi everyone,
some of us at Wikidata[1] are currently thinking about the best
approach to improve the connection between our backend (web API) and
our JavaScript front-end. What we basically want is to make our data
model available in the front-end in a broader span. This will allow us
to go for
VisualEditor doesn't use a 3rd party framework, mostly because I don't
really believe in them - that's another topic though. Here are some
thoughts on this topic:
- I suggest you create some classes (JavaScript prototypes) in a
namespace, such as a global 'WikiData' object (which can be
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Hey,
Not sure if anybody has seen this article yet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-20/Op-ed
Thought it was interesting and possibly worth discussion.
I responded on the talk page[1], taking
That was unfortunate - I've been ridiculed (by Max) for things I've said
before as well, I feel your pain Ori.
That said however, I generally agree with this piece. I have more faith
than the author seems to have that we are on the right track to doing
better work in the future, but the points
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
One of the most important points here is about experimenting on users; and
it should be taken seriously. I also believe strongly that, as the author
suggests, we should treat editors as colleagues rather than customers.
Yes,
Well said. Thank you for sharing.
- Trevor
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
One of the most important points here is about experimenting on users;
and
it should be taken seriously. I
While I don't agree with the negative sentiment around experimentation, I
think there's value both in MZMcBride's op-ed, and in the comment thread
that follows. He correctly calls out some of our long term organizational
failings around product planning, resource allocation, execution, and
The criticism around AFTv5 in terms of product design (nevermind the code)
is largely echoed in the comments, yet we seem rather sure that we're
giving editors a tool of importance. My daily sampling of what's flowing
into the enwiki db from the feature appears to be 99% garbage, with the
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote:
That was unfortunate - I've been ridiculed (by Max) for things I've said
before as well, I feel your pain Ori.
That said however, I generally agree with this piece. I have more faith
than the author seems to have
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
One of the most important points here is about experimenting on users; and
it should be taken seriously.
Loaded terminology. Experimenting on wikis is one thing, while
Experimenting on users sounds BAD -- the lab
On 21/08/12 22:01, Ryan Lane wrote:
One of the most important points here is about experimenting on users; and
it should be taken seriously. I also believe strongly that, as the author
suggests, we should treat editors as colleagues rather than customers.
This assumes that we aren't
On 22.08.2012, 0:20 S wrote:
(There is My preferences Appearance check Exclude me from feature
experiments; though it's probable some artifacts will leak out, as
happened for a few weeks in the bug he references.)
Unfortunately, anons have no preferences and most registered users
don't know
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:20 PM, S Page sp...@wikimedia.org wrote:
(There is My preferences Appearance check Exclude me from feature
experiments; though it's probable some artifacts will leak out, as
happened for a few weeks in the bug he references.)
As the person who implemented that
[This didn't send the first time, trying again]
Re: Ryan Lane
That said, a number of the points are misguided. FlaggedRevs is a poor
example to be used by either the foundation or the community.
FlaggedRevs is a perfect example of how design by committee (where the
committee is the community)
I most definitely agree - WONTFIXING a request that is a bad idea is
just as important as fixing bugs, or implementing the good ideas. The
art is of course in being able to determine what constitutes a bad
idea and a good idea. Its also important to keep in mind the
community is full of many
Re Denny
* Questions by Bawulff I redacted from my answer (because I was
[..]
Most of all, we need global identifiers for the different wikis. We
could add a table which only contains mapping of the local prefixes to
global identifiers, but we think that the current interwiki table
could
On 21/08/12 23:50, bawolff wrote:
LiquidThreads was also originally community designed. The maintainer
added every feature under the sun that the community requested, which
lead it to become a bloated and difficult to maintain piece of
software...
I most definitely agree - WONTFIXING a
On 08/21/2012 06:29 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
When I'm doing an ops change that is user facing I write a blog post
and I post something to wikitech-l. I don't bother using village pump.
There's a reason for that. There's a *lot* of village pumps. Hundreds.
In different languages. I can't possibly
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:33:59 -0700, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote:
Re Denny
* Questions by Bawulff I redacted from my answer (because I was
[..]
Most of all, we need global identifiers for the different wikis. We
could add a table which only contains mapping of the local prefixes to
Lua is now enabled on www.mediawiki.org.
Note that this is not a temporary deployment. You can rewrite existing
templates to use Lua, we're not going to break them by turning it off
again.
-- Tim Starling
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