Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

2018-11-08 Thread Martin Dittus
Thank you Strainu and Bartosz, this was very useful. As far as I can tell, idwiki editors simply don't use the GeoData geotagging conventions. Instead, people specify article location as infobox latd/longd properties, which on enwiki (and likely others) is being deprecated in favour of GeoData

Re: [Wikitech-l] Incident with the beta-feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

2018-11-08 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the report. I'm sorry to hear about the edits being lost, which I know from experience is frustrating to me when I've written text that disappeared, but I understand that especially when using beta features sometimes these things happen. I'm glad that this was found in beta rather than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

2018-11-08 Thread Strainu
Pe joi, 8 noiembrie 2018, Martin Dittus a scris: > Thank you Strainu and Bartosz, this was very useful. > > As far as I can tell, idwiki editors simply don't use the GeoData > geotagging conventions. Instead, people specify article location as > infobox latd/longd properties, which on enwiki

[Wikitech-l] New interface for edit conflicts

2018-11-08 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Sorry for cross posting. The Technical Wishes team has released a new version of the beta feature “two-column edit conflict“ on all wikis.[1] In order to make edit conflict solving even easier than the first beta feature, the new interface allows to solve edit conflicts line by line. To try the

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-11-07

2018-11-08 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Hosting IRC discussion on Wednesday November 14th 2pm PST(22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office RfC: Session storage service interface * Hosting IRC discussion on Wednesday November

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

2018-11-08 Thread Eran Rosenthal
List of wikis by geo_tags count may help to identify wikis that aren't using geo tags: abwiki0 adywiki0 akwiki0 arcwiki0 aywiki0 bgwiki0 biwiki0 bjnwiki0 bmwiki0 bowiki0 bpywiki0 brwiki0 bugwiki0 bxrwiki0 chrwiki0 chywiki0 crhwiki

[Wikitech-l] Incident with the beta-feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

2018-11-08 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Hi, Since over one year the Technical Wishes team of Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on an extension for an easier and less scary handling of edit conflicts. After a first beta-version (available since beginning of 2017) this week a new version is being rolled out as part of the branch

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article geotags missing in geo_tags table for some WP languages?

2018-11-08 Thread Martin Dittus
Hehe I think you're right -- in our case it really doesn't need to be more complicated than that. (We're currently studying Wikipedia's language geography, I'll likely post some preliminary findings on the research list in the coming months.) Thanks all! m. On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 4:12 PM Eran