Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Henning Schlottmann  wrote:

> Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of
> looking for
>
> a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved.
> b) alternative sources for the same fact.
>

An automated process can't reliably do either of those, while having the
archive link available will make it easier for human editors to do both of
those since they'll have the actual content of the dead link available
rather than just what information is preserved in the citation (URL, title,
author, maybe a short quotation).
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[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.1 released

[Legoktm]

Hello!

MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.1 is now available for use in your MediaWiki
extensions and other projects. This release shouldn't contain any
changes in the ruleset or sniffs, so upgrading should be trivial.

Here are the notable changes since the last release (0.5.0):

* Avoid in_array for performance reasons (Thiemo Mättig)
* Remove dead code from SpaceBeforeSingleLineCommentSniff (Thiemo Mättig)
* Revert "CharacterBeforePHPOpeningTagSniff: Support T_HASHBANG for HHVM
>=3.5,<3.7" (Legoktm)
* Simplify existing regular expressions (Thiemo Mättig)
* Update squizlabs/php_codesniffer to 2.5.0 (Paladox)

Special thanks to Thiemo Mättig looking into the performance of PHPCS
and Paladox for following the upstream changelog.

-- Legoktm


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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

[Danny Horn]

Henning,

If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve
automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human
contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead
links than people willing to replace them.

On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external
links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are just
the pages where somebody's added the Dead link template. There are a lot of
missing references -- not just on English WP, but on all the projects --
and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again.

For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that
information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we can
collect when a new link is added to the page. But I think finding
alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard to
scale.

Danny
PM, Community Tech

[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links



On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann 
wrote:

> On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote:
>
> > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine  (111 support votes)
>
> I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the
> quality of Wikipedia.
>
> Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of
> looking for
>
> a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved.
> b) alternative sources for the same fact.
>
> Ciao Henning
>
>
>
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[Wikitech-l] Project deleted?

[Fako Berkers]

Hi,

I had a project running named algo-news. I can still login and "become" 
algo-news, but all my files seem to have disappeared. There was a Python 
app in ~/www/python/src/ as suggested by the docs, but not any more. Any 
idea what happend? And how can I prevent this in the future?


Best, Fako

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Project deleted?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Fako Berkers  wrote:

> I had a project running named algo-news. I can still login
> and "become" algo-news, but all my files seem to have
> disappeared. There was a Python app in ~/www/python/src/ as
> suggested by the docs, but not any more. Any idea what
> happend? And how can I prevent this in the future?

Please use the labs-l mailing list
(https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l) for
questions regarding Labs or Tools.

There are no user-accessible backups
(cf. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs#Backups);
please file a Phabricator task or ask in #wikimedia-labs if
there is a snapshot containing your files.

I personally (try to) guard against inadvertent deletions by
putting everything (except passwords) in a Git repository
that is hosted on another machine.  That way in the worst
case I only lose uncommitted changes, and as I was actively
working on those I should have a fairly good memory of them.

Tim


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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon Jerusalem 2016: registration is now open!

[Rachel Farrand]

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From: Chen Davidi 
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:02 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikimedia Hackathon Jerusalem 2016:
registration is now open!
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Hi everyone,

I'm thrilled to tell you all that the registration for Wikimedia Hackathon
2016 is now open!

The Hackathon will be held in Jerusalem, between March 31st to April 3rd,
2016, by Wikimedia Israel.

Scholarship applications are open until January 22nd.


You know the drill!

Registration here -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17WFRHTCX5_dnCD5hFk1gHEQUz6pTrKp85QsX01rJGa4/viewform

More info and updates on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016

If you have any questions, please contact us at
hackathon2...@wikimedia.org.il

Hope to see you all in Jerusalem!


Chen Davidi-Almog,

Activity & Resources Coordinator.
Wikimedia Israel
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