[Wikitech-l] Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Dear community, this week we enabled  support on all Wikipedia and
sister projects.  This means that now an article can have a link to a map,
and that map may contain highlighted regions and popups with information.
[1],[3]

Our next step is to add an informational sidebar to the map, similar to
what is being shown on the "geohack" page (map link in the upper right
corner of most location articles).  Check out proposed screenshots [2]

We now also have a geoshapes service. So if Open Street Maps community has
defined a region and assigned it a Wikidata ID, you can draw it on the map
with that ID. Or you can use Wikidata Query Service (via SPARQL language),
to query for those IDs and draw them on the map, coloring them and adding
popup information. [3] Geoshapes can also be used for the graphs. [4]


[1] Maps docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer
[2] sidebar prototype: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131907#2616275
[3] US Governors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/maplink#/maplink/0
[4] Graph geoshapes
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Country_with_regions_and_capitals
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

[MZMcBride]

Quim Gil wrote:
>Hi, this is a request from the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer
>Summit 2016 (San Francisco, January 9-11).

I think you mean 2017, otherwise the listed dates don't make sense.

Who specifically are the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017?

I have a question for the organizers: will the summit be open to anyone or
will it be invitation-only as it has been in past years? Who decides this?

Regarding main topics, I think we should make it easier to log in to
Wikimedia wikis and control your identity when on-wiki. Specifically,
supporting login via e-mail address, case-insensitive login, and a
user-configurable "display name" field that's shown in page histories, on
user pages, etc.

I'm interested in volunteering to provide feedback about the upcoming
summit. I've attended one or two summits in the past and I have thoughts.

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

[Demetrio Garcia]

DO NOT WRITE ME
THAK¨¨s

El jue, 8/9/16, Rob Lanphier  escribió:

 Asunto: Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?
 Para: "Wikimedia developers" 
 Fecha: jueves, 8 de septiembre, 2016 13:57
 
 On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at
 7:53 AM, Nuria Ruiz 
 wrote:
 >
 > Seems that
 defining what areas we want to cover in the summit is
 > a prerequisite  to do what Brion was
 asking for in the initial e-mail, to
 >
 open the summit beyond WMF.
 >
 >
 Good point.  Let's
 say that we had to pick only one of these questions to
 answer at WikiDev17.  Which would you
 choose?
 * how do we make manipulating the
 information on our websites easier and
 more
 useful? (both for humans and computers)
 *
 how can we better distribute the information on our
 websites?
 * how can we help our software
 development community be more inclusive and
 productive (and attract many more people)?
 * how can we improve the quality of our
 software, and pay down the
 technical debt
 we've accumulated over the years?
 * how
 can we make our websites better learning environments?
 * how can we make our websites better support
 languages other than English
 (and character
 sets other than Latin)?
 
 Rob
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

[Rob Lanphier]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Nuria Ruiz  wrote:
>
> Seems that defining what areas we want to cover in the summit is
> a prerequisite  to do what Brion was asking for in the initial e-mail, to
> open the summit beyond WMF.
>
>
Good point.  Let's say that we had to pick only one of these questions to
answer at WikiDev17.  Which would you choose?
* how do we make manipulating the information on our websites easier and
more useful? (both for humans and computers)
* how can we better distribute the information on our websites?
* how can we help our software development community be more inclusive and
productive (and attract many more people)?
* how can we improve the quality of our software, and pay down the
technical debt we've accumulated over the years?
* how can we make our websites better learning environments?
* how can we make our websites better support languages other than English
(and character sets other than Latin)?

Rob
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

[Bill Morrisson]

Hello,

I would love to volunteer, is there any particular task to do??

On Sep 8, 2016 11:08 AM, "Quim Gil"  wrote:

> Hi, this is a request from the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
> 2016 (San Francisco, January 9-11).
>
> We are looking for candidates to become main topics of the next Summit.
> Ideally complex topics with a high user impact (direct or indirect) and
> ramifications in multiple technical areas. Deciding a few main topics
> beforehand will help us inviting the people needing to be involved,
> especially non-WMF contributors requiring travel sponsorship.
>
> We are also looking for volunteers who want to get involved in the
> organization of the Summit, or want to provide feedback to improve our
> plans.
>
> If you have proposals for main topics and/or want to volunteer, please
> reply.
>
> Context: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017 &
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-
> September/086476.html
>
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> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

[Nuria Ruiz]

>The organizers of the Summit propose to have a few main topics defined
>beforehand, so we can invite the people beyond the usual Summit
>participants that should be involved in these discussions.

>We don't have any opinion about which topics should be selected. However,
>we believe that it is important to choose complex topics with a high user
>impact (direct or indirect) and ramifications in multiple technical areas.
>The Summit with its +200 participants provides a great framework to push
>these topics.

I think this idea is inline with how most tech conferences work. In order
for the summit to be successful we
should know what type of event we are creating (purely technical, a venue
to explore user requests, a venue to influence
product roadmap, just "get in touch"... whatever)

Seems that defining what areas we want to cover in the summit is
a prerequisite  to do what Brion was asking for in the initial e-mail, to
open the summit beyond WMF.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Rob Lanphier  wrote:
>
> > It's hard for me to read this as anything but "WMF Product selects the
> > topics, and then 'listens' for objections on wikitech-l".
>
>
> Since this is not even remotely what I am trying to say, let me try again,
> while I keep iterating on the proposal:
>
> The organizers of the Summit propose to have a few main topics defined
> beforehand, so we can invite the people beyond the usual Summit
> participants that should be involved in these discussions.
>
> We don't have any opinion about which topics should be selected. However,
> we believe that it is important to choose complex topics with a high user
> impact (direct or indirect) and ramifications in multiple technical areas.
> The Summit with its +200 participants provides a great framework to push
> these topics.
>
> We don't have any opinion about who decides these topics and how. However,
> we need good enough answers and fast, so we can start organizing the
> participation and the program. There will be time to fine tune things as we
> go, and there will be enough space for all the topics not selected
> beforehand, in the unconference part of the Summit.
>
> We believe that by having the right people focusing on a few main topics
> before and during the Summit, the outcome of the event will have a clearer
> impact in the strategy and goals that ultimately drive where we put a lot
> of our attention and resources.
>
> Is your sense that the
> > correct direction for us is for someone to provide more top-down
> > direction instead of wikitech-l conversation?
> >
>
> My sense is that we need to open registration, call for participation, and
> call for travel sponsorship requests as soon as possible. This list, the
> Architecture committee, the WMF Technology management team, and the WMF
> Product management team are aware of this situation and our request to
> define main topics. I will be checking with all these sources with the goal
> of having a good enough answer that allows us to move forward with the
> Summit organization.
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code

[Andre Klapper]

Hi,

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:13 +0700, Arif Hidayat wrote:
> I am Arif Hidayat from UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Pekanbaru. I've learn
> about cms. I so interest about developing cms especially mediawiki.
> My favorite programming language is php but I can use java programming and
> other component of website like css and js.
> I hope can submit my google summer of code proposal to mediawiki project.
> Thanks

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an
impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info
on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.

About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to
find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git,
how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication,
and best places where to ask any questions you might have.

Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!

Looking forward to your contributions! :)

andre

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Taufik,

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:29 +0700, Taufik Hidayat wrote:
> I'd love to do submit proposal for google summer of code 2017 in wikimedia
> foundation about "Automatic Summarization of Articles" i found on this link
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127038.
> i hope you can share advice or what should i do or prepare, and which
> idea(s) that's a good fit for my skills. thank you very much in advance.

Please check out my reply to a similar request on this mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086482.html

Thanks,
andre
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Re: [Wikitech-l] google summer of code

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Harisandy,

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:31 +0700, Mhs TEKNIK INFORMATIKA Harisandy
wrote:
> I harisandy . student uin Suska Riau
> I am a programmer at PT . Sela Express Tour , I have the ability in the
> field of java desktop and CodeIgniter PHP framework , Yii , laravel .
> Here I am interested in several projects in the offer google , I hope
> google can respond to my request . thank you

Please check out my reply to a similar request on this mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086482.html

Thanks,
andre
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[Andre Klapper]

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 22:39 +0530, MAYANK JINDAL wrote:
>  My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student
> currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I
> want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
> I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and
> Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial
> Intelligence.*
> I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

Regarding machine learning,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
might be interesting?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service
lists mailing list and IRC channel contact information.

We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an
impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info
on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.

About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to
find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git,
how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication,
and best places where to ask any questions you might have.

Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!

Looking forward to your contributions! :)

andre
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[Wikitech-l] Looking for WikiDev Summit main topics and volunteers

[Quim Gil]

Hi, this is a request from the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
2016 (San Francisco, January 9-11).

We are looking for candidates to become main topics of the next Summit.
Ideally complex topics with a high user impact (direct or indirect) and
ramifications in multiple technical areas. Deciding a few main topics
beforehand will help us inviting the people needing to be involved,
especially non-WMF contributors requiring travel sponsorship.

We are also looking for volunteers who want to get involved in the
organization of the Summit, or want to provide feedback to improve our
plans.

If you have proposals for main topics and/or want to volunteer, please
reply.

Context: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017 &
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086476.html

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Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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[Wikitech-l] google summer of code

[Mhs TEKNIK INFORMATIKA Harisandy]

I harisandy . student uin Suska Riau
I am a programmer at PT . Sela Express Tour , I have the ability in the
field of java desktop and CodeIgniter PHP framework , Yii , laravel .
Here I am interested in several projects in the offer google , I hope
google can respond to my request . thank you
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[Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Taufik Hidayat]

Dear wikimedia,
I am taufik hidayat bacelor student from state islamic university sultan
syarif kasim of riau, indonesia. i'm currently studying computer and
science, especially text processing. My profile is at
orcid.org/-0002-4524-1882.

I'd love to do submit proposal for google summer of code 2017 in wikimedia
foundation about "Automatic Summarization of Articles" i found on this link
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127038.

My skills are PHP, Java, NodeJS, SQL Database such as MariaDB and Postgre
SQL. I also know about HTML 5, CSS and Javascript.

i hope you can share advice or what should i do or prepare, and which
idea(s) that's a good fit for my skills. thank you very much in advance.

best regards,
Taufik Hidayat
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[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code

[Arif Hidayat]

I am Arif Hidayat from UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Pekanbaru. I've learn
about cms. I so interest about developing cms especially mediawiki.
My favorite programming language is php but I can use java programming and
other component of website like css and js.
I hope can submit my google summer of code proposal to mediawiki project.
Thanks
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