Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Phabricator for Wikimedia Projects: Dec 11

If you missed the talk and would like to view the recording, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I66xR-fq2O8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yr5z9Ix2f8 It has been released under a creative commons license. If you have any questions about Phabricator please feel free to get in

[Wikitech-l] Recent growth of wikidatawiki.imagelinks table size

Dear list members, I have noticed a recent growth in the dump files for the `wikidatawiki.imagelinks' table: wikidatawiki-20140912-imagelinks.sql.gz 253K wikidatawiki-20141009-imagelinks.sql.gz 1.8M wikidatawiki-20141106-imagelinks.sql.gz 5.5M wikidatawiki-20141205-imagelinks.sql.gz 11.9M Does

[Wikitech-l] User account ownership

What about storing structured info about who actually owns a user account? For example, bots - maintainer(s), doppelgänger - main account, WMF account - personal account. This would lead to several advantages, such as the ability to block a bot and its maintainer at once, as well as to prevent

[Wikitech-l] ANN: WikiMedia recent changes DDP API

Hi! I made a a Meteor DDP API to the stream of recent changes on all WikiMedia wikis. Now you can simply use DDP.connect on in your Meteor application to connect to stream of changes on Wikipedia. :-) http://wikimedia.meteor.com/ Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

Re: [Wikitech-l] User account ownership

There are countless structured X proposals: some are listed at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24516, you can add yours. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Requests for comment indices automatization

Hi. We have two requests for comment indices on mediawiki.org: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Archive The current system requires manually updating the various lists, which is kind of gross as the lists predictably

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recent growth of wikidatawiki.imagelinks table size

Maybe pages using some of the properties at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata have links that are tracking in the parser output from rendering wikidata pages. If so, then they'd go in the imagelinks table and globalimagelinks too. This could be useful for checking usage before

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recent growth of wikidatawiki.imagelinks table size

I think that'S around the time we started tracking properties using the CommonsMedia data type as image links (which they effectively are, even though we currently don't embed the images on the page). These entries would show in imagelinks only after the item was edited again, so the grows would