[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi all, (2nd attempt to post 2nd messge, sorry if this is a duplicate.) We've started to document our thinking about page navigation, as part of a project to use mediawiki for hosting longer structured texts (such as books, or teacher professional development materials). You can see an example

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Chat about MLEB

2015-01-06 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hello, (2nd attempt to post, sorry if this is a duplicate.) We're starting to use the translate extension on our wiki ( http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk). Is this the right list to post a question on? My question is: If you are going from one translated page (e.g. base page in en, translated page in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: API Client Libraries: January 6th

2015-01-06 Thread Rachel Farrand
If you missed the talk and would like to view the recording, here is the link: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz__duVeaWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz__duVeaWY* It has been released under a creative commons license. If you have any questions about API Client Libraries please feel free to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-01-06 11:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Getting an extension enabled for Wikibooks or Wikisource is a practically impossible task. Wait, why would that be? I'm pretty sure the criteria for those projects are the same as everywhere else - and may in fact be slightly more lax as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: API Client Libraries: January 6th

2015-01-06 Thread Rachel Farrand
This Tech Talk will be starting in 55 min! On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join us for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* A developer's-eye view of API client libraries: how to choose them, how to make them, how to make them better

[Wikitech-l] VisualEditor design change going live today/tomorrow (was: Tech newsletter (2014, week 52))

2015-01-06 Thread James Forrester
Changing the subject to narrow the subject: On 22 December 2014 at 09:01, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: - A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test?veaction=edit on test wikis. [4]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 12:09 -0500, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: On 15-01-06 11:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Getting an extension enabled for Wikibooks or Wikisource is a practically impossible task. Wait, why would that be? I'm pretty sure the criteria for those projects are the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] S Page debuts as Technical Writer

2015-01-06 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:06 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: It is an honor to announce that S Page[1] has moved from the Collaboration (Flow) team to join the WMF Engineering Community team as a Technical Writer[2]. I hope I've expressed a longer version of my appreciation in a meeting already - the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Special:Book doesn't know about books. I know it's absurd, but Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28448 Because $reason, what you ask is actually being done separately, as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_management . Getting an extension enabled for Wikibooks or Wikisource is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi Nemo, that's very interesting. So Extension:BookManagerv2 doesn't integration with Special:Book? E.g. can books created with Extension:BookManagerv2 be printed to pdf via the new toolchain? Does anybody have experience with Extension:BookManagerv2? Thanks, Bjoern On 6 January 2015 at 16:49,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bjoern, I don't know whether BookManagerv2 is able to feed Collection; I asked a few months ago at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28448#302254 (cc Raylton), you could file the request as separate bug. A comment says «Extension:BookManager, which provides both automatic navigation and