Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento MediaWiki Extension at the W3C

[Andre Klapper]

On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 11:57 -0600, Shawn Jones wrote:
> We appreciate the help received from this list during the development of
> the Memento MediaWiki Extension [1].
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento

Interesting, hadn't heard of that.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento#Usage states that the
"best way to experience this extension is by installing Memento Time
Travel for the Chrome browser."
Is the source code of the Chrome extension available? (I didn't spot in
on https://github.com/mementoweb ). Also, under which license is it?

Cheers,
andre
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Memento MediaWiki Extension at the W3C

[Rob Lanphier]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Shawn Jones  wrote:
> Considering the consensus from the RFC was to start a pilot of Memento on
> English Wikipedia, how do we start that process again?


Hi Shawn,

Thanks for your previous email, with all of the links.

Several of us investigated this in 2013, and we responded back in 2013
when we declined this in Bugzilla in 2013:


As I recall, older versions of this never fully addressed the caching
and infrastructure implications of using HTTP headers.  Am I
remembering that correctly?  Is there something different about
current versions?

Rob

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[Wikitech-l] Memento MediaWiki Extension at the W3C

[Shawn Jones]

Greetings,

We appreciate the help received from this list during the development of
the Memento MediaWiki Extension [1].

We have recently completed work with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to
bring Memento TimeTravel [2] capabilities to both their wiki and all W3C
specifications - such as those for HTML and CSS [3, 4]. Their wiki runs the
Memento MediaWiki Extension.

In 2012, we began a dialog about bringing Memento to Wikipedia [5], which
resulted in a decision to conduct a pilot on English Wikipedia, but that
effort stalled. The biggest concern at the time was the maturity of the PHP
code in our extension. This has since been addressed, with thanks to many
on this list. We also conducted performance testing during development to
ensure minimal impact to MediaWiki installations [6]. Code for the current
version of the extension, 2.1.4, is located in gerrit [7].

Considering the consensus from the RFC was to start a pilot of Memento on
English Wikipedia, how do we start that process again?

Thanks in advance,

Shawn M. Jones

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089
[3] https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/memento-at-the-w3c/
[4] http://blog.dshr.org/2016/09/memento-at-w3c.html
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Memento
[6] http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3876
[7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawik
i/extensions/Memento

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Beta Cluster maintenance window (correction: 9/13) 1500-1700 UTC

[Dan Duvall]

Hi all,

The previous announcement stated the window for Tuesday 9/15, which is not
a thing. Our migration will be done tomorrow, Tuesday 9/13 1500-1700. Sorry
for the confusion.

Dan

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Dan Duvall  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We'll be migrating all Beta Cluster databases to new Debian jessie based
> instances next Tuesday, September 15, from 1500-1700 UTC. All Beta Cluster
> wikis will be in read-only mode during the migration.
>
> Please contact someone from WMF Release Engineering (#wikimedia-releng on
> freenode IRC) if you have any questions or concerns regarding this
> maintenance operation, or refer to the Phabricator task (T138778).
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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[Wikitech-l] Maintainers needed for Grrrit-wm

[Yuvi Panda]

Hello!

Grrrit-wm[1] is an IRC bot that reports gerrit activiy to IRC. I've
been maintaining it for a few years now, but I no longer have the
bandwidth to do this. I'm going to remove myself as maintainer
shortly. It already has a bunch of people as maintainers on tool labs,
and anyone with +2 on mediawiki core can merge changes in it.
Hopefully that's all good enough :)

Thanks for all the fish!

[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grrrit-wm

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] Weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-05

[Deborah Tankersley]

Thanks to Eran for pointing this out and thanks to David for doing it! :)

I've moved the ticket  to our
current work board and into the 'needs review' column.

Cheers,

Deb



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IRC: debt
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:18 AM, David Causse  wrote:

> Thanks Eran,
>
> I completely forgot to mention this feature in the status update.
>
> I hope to be able to build a test index very soon so we can start
> evaluating this new feature.
> David.
>
>
> Le 10/09/2016 à 11:23, Eran Rosenthal a écrit :
>
> Thanks Deborah for the update.
>
> Just to mention another interesting feature (implemented but yet
> evaluated/activated) - dcausse have implemented ability to show search
> results also based on the DEFAULTSORT. (T134978
> )
> E.g when you search for Putin (and not Vladimir Putin) you will get
> suggestion for Vladimir Putin (even if there is no redirect from Putin), as
> its defaultsort is Putin, Vladimir.
> This feature may have high impact once (and if) it is activated.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Deborah Tankersley <
> dtankers...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is the week's update from the Discovery department - enjoy the read
>> and your weekend!
>>
>> == Discussions ==
>> * Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language identification for
>> the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not
>> great. The small proportions of queries in the Romance languages and in
>> German led to many more false positives than true positives and so they had
>> to be excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help. [1]
>> * We could use help translating (via translatewiki) the relevant "showing
>> results from" messages into Dutch. We'll need English, Chinese, Arabic,
>> Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Russian translations. [2]
>> * The Analysis team had a discussion on how to use better wording for
>> phrases like "users were 1.07 times more likely to do X" and decided on
>> using phrases similar to "we can expect 2-9 more sessions to click on a
>> search result when they have the new feature" [3]
>> * The Search team wrapped up research into the ElasticSearch
>> instabilities on the eqiad search cluster that occurred on Aug 6, 2016;
>> nothing conclusive was found. [4]
>>
>>
>> == Events and News ==
>>
>> === Interactive ===
>> *  has been enabled on all wikis (announced via email to
>> wikitech-l) [5]
>> * Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps [6]
>>
>> === Search ===
>> * Turned off BM25 A/B test, awaiting analysis [7]
>> * Pushed into production a change that implemented ascii-folding for
>> French [8]
>> * Improved balance of nodes across rows for ElasticSearch eqiad cluster
>> [9]
>>
>> === Portal ===
>> * Currently blocked on this check-in to gerrit [10]
>>
>>
>> == Other Noteworthy Stuff' ==
>> * Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard allocation". This
>> means that we can theoretically lose one row of servers in our datacenter
>> and still serve search traffic. [11]
>> * The Search team sent out a request for comment article that was posted
>> to various Village Pumps asking for it to be translated. [12]
>> ** This was in reference to the cross-wiki search results new
>> functionality and design articles on MediaWiki. [13], [14]
>>
>>
>> == Did you know? ==
>> * A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually four
>> distinct species, rather than one (article and BBC report). [15], [16]
>> ** Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes have
>> already been updated! [17], [18]
>>
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/T
>> extCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki
>> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354
>> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187
>> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506
>> [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-Se
>> ptember/086490.html
>> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartograph
>> er#GeoShapes_external_data
>> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588
>> [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429
>> [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685
>> [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/
>> [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571
>> [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)/
>> translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results
>> [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
>> [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result
>> _Improvements/Design
>> [15] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30787-4
>> [16] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37311716
>> [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
>> [18] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> The full update, and archive 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

[Sumit Asthana]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <
> lucie.kaf...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I got asked by a friend whether there are any projects in Outreachy in
> > general and if any projects could be pitched to Wikimedia in particular,
> > that are focused on UX or if it's limited to software development.
> >
>
> Pitching projects is good, although the usual bottlenecks are community
> consensus and availability of mentors. Non-coding technical projects are
> fine in Outreachy (not in GSoC).
>
Yes, a current pending UI/Design task would be perfectly fine and indeed
good as it'll add some variation to the type of internship projects.

>
> For what is worth, there is an ongoing conversation that fits this idea at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598 (Create a CAPTCHA that is also a
> useful micro edit)
>
Also T143593  looks similar, as
it involves design, possibly.

>
>
> > Thanks for the organization of this awesome program!
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sumit Asthana <
> asthana.sumi...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Wikimedians,
> > >
> > > Gnome's Outreachy-13  is round the
> > > corner
> > > and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season (
> > Dec
> > > 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*.
> > >
> > > Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on
> > > projects and show their interest!
> > >
> > > Our Outreachy-13 board
> > >  till now has
> > only
> > > three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects
> > >  board
> > > waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist*
> > > showing the community consensus.
> > > The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are:
> > >
> > >1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a
> file
> > -
> > >T120748 
> > >2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location
> -
> > >T120437 
> > >3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781
> > >
> > >
> > > Some others which look interesting:
> > >
> > >1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454
> > >
> > >2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598
> > >
> > >3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of
> > any
> > >wikiproject etc. - T56184  >
> > >4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235
> > >
> > >5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807
> > >
> > >
> > > Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you
> could
> > > mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do
> > the
> > > rest.
> > >
> > > Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting
> feature
> > > waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll
> make
> > > sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take
> 2-3
> > > weeks for an experienced developer to finish.
> > >
> > > Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that
> > we
> > > can welcome new members into our community :)
> > >
> > > -Thanks and Regards,
> > > -Sumit,
> > > B.Tech Final Year,
> > > Dept. of CSE,
> > > IIT Patna
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> >
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> > [[User:Frimelle]]
> > Software Development
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de
> >
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> > the sum of all knowledge.
> > That‘s our commitment.
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> > unter der Nummer 23855 B.
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> 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

[Quim Gil]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <
lucie.kaf...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I got asked by a friend whether there are any projects in Outreachy in
> general and if any projects could be pitched to Wikimedia in particular,
> that are focused on UX or if it's limited to software development.
>

Pitching projects is good, although the usual bottlenecks are community
consensus and availability of mentors. Non-coding technical projects are
fine in Outreachy (not in GSoC).

For what is worth, there is an ongoing conversation that fits this idea at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598 (Create a CAPTCHA that is also a
useful micro edit)


> Thanks for the organization of this awesome program!
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sumit Asthana 
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Wikimedians,
> >
> > Gnome's Outreachy-13  is round the
> > corner
> > and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season (
> Dec
> > 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*.
> >
> > Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on
> > projects and show their interest!
> >
> > Our Outreachy-13 board
> >  till now has
> only
> > three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects
> >  board
> > waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist*
> > showing the community consensus.
> > The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are:
> >
> >1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a file
> -
> >T120748 
> >2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location -
> >T120437 
> >3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781
> >
> >
> > Some others which look interesting:
> >
> >1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454
> >
> >2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598
> >
> >3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of
> any
> >wikiproject etc. - T56184 
> >4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235
> >
> >5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807
> >
> >
> > Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you could
> > mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do
> the
> > rest.
> >
> > Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting feature
> > waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll make
> > sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take 2-3
> > weeks for an experienced developer to finish.
> >
> > Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that
> we
> > can welcome new members into our community :)
> >
> > -Thanks and Regards,
> > -Sumit,
> > B.Tech Final Year,
> > Dept. of CSE,
> > IIT Patna
> > ___
> > Wikitech-l mailing list
> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
>
>
>
>
> --
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> [[User:Frimelle]]
> Software Development
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge.
> That‘s our commitment.
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> unter der Nummer 23855 B.
> Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
> Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

[Lucie-Aimée Kaffee]

Hey,

I got asked by a friend whether there are any projects in Outreachy in
general and if any projects could be pitched to Wikimedia in particular,
that are focused on UX or if it's limited to software development.

Thanks for the organization of this awesome program!

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Sumit Asthana 
wrote:

> Hello Wikimedians,
>
> Gnome's Outreachy-13  is round the
> corner
> and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season ( Dec
> 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*.
>
> Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on
> projects and show their interest!
>
> Our Outreachy-13 board
>  till now has only
> three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects
>  board
> waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist*
> showing the community consensus.
> The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are:
>
>1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a file -
>T120748 
>2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location -
>T120437 
>3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781
>
>
> Some others which look interesting:
>
>1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454
>
>2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598
>
>3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of any
>wikiproject etc. - T56184 
>4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235
>
>5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807
>
>
> Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you could
> mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do the
> rest.
>
> Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting feature
> waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll make
> sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take 2-3
> weeks for an experienced developer to finish.
>
> Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that we
> can welcome new members into our community :)
>
> -Thanks and Regards,
> -Sumit,
> B.Tech Final Year,
> Dept. of CSE,
> IIT Patna
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Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
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That‘s our commitment.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Allowing users to change contentmodels of pages

[Legoktm]

Hi,

A few more blockers were identified (and some resolved!) so I'm going to
postpone this until at least Thursday (2016-09-15).

Thanks,
-- Legoktm

On 09/07/2016 12:24 PM, Legoktm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday (2016-09-12), I plan on deploying a change that allows most
> users to change the "content model" of a page[1] (the "editcontentmodel"
> user right). This functionality has been available to administrators for
> a few months now. The permission is similar conceptually to "move", so
> it is being granted to all groups that have the "move" permission (and
> taken away from those that don't have "move"). Specifics can be seen in
> the Gerrit change[2].
> 
> This functionality is mostly technical, and documentation can be found
> at . Currently,
> the main usecase is to allow any user to create a MassMessage target
> list[3], but others are planned in the future.
> 
> If you find documentation missing, or want to change your wiki's
> configuration, or have questions in general, feel free to respond via
> email, or file a task in the MediaWiki-ContentHandler project and CC me.
> 
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85847
> [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309066
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92795
> 
> Thanks!
> -- Legoktm
> 

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] Weekly update for the week starting 2016-09-05

[David Causse]

Thanks Eran,

I completely forgot to mention this feature in the status update.

I hope to be able to build a test index very soon so we can start 
evaluating this new feature.


David.

Le 10/09/2016 à 11:23, Eran Rosenthal a écrit :

Thanks Deborah for the update.

Just to mention another interesting feature (implemented but yet 
evaluated/activated) - dcausse have implemented ability to show search 
results also based on the DEFAULTSORT. (T134978 
)
E.g when you search for Putin (and not Vladimir Putin) you will get 
suggestion for Vladimir Putin (even if there is no redirect from 
Putin), as its defaultsort is Putin, Vladimir.

This feature may have high impact once (and if) it is activated.


On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Deborah Tankersley 
> wrote:


Hello,

Here is the week's update from the Discovery department - enjoy
the read and your weekend!

== Discussions ==
* Trey completed the analysis for optimizing language
identification for the Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki). The results were
good (F0.5 = 82.3%) but not great. The small proportions of
queries in the Romance languages and in German led to many more
false positives than true positives and so they had to be
excluded. Future work on improving confidence may help. [1]
* We could use help translating (via translatewiki) the relevant
"showing results from" messages into Dutch. We'll need English,
Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Russian
translations. [2]
* The Analysis team had a discussion on how to use better wording
for phrases like "users were 1.07 times more likely to do X" and
decided on using phrases similar to "we can expect 2-9 more
sessions to click on a search result when they have the new
feature" [3]
* The Search team wrapped up research into the ElasticSearch
instabilities on the eqiad search cluster that occurred on Aug 6,
2016; nothing conclusive was found. [4]


== Events and News ==

=== Interactive ===
*  has been enabled on all wikis (announced via email to
wikitech-l) [5]
* Geoshapes data service is now integrated into all maps [6]

=== Search ===
* Turned off BM25 A/B test, awaiting analysis [7]
* Pushed into production a change that implemented ascii-folding
for French [8]
* Improved balance of nodes across rows for ElasticSearch eqiad
cluster [9]

=== Portal ===
* Currently blocked on this check-in to gerrit [10]


== Other Noteworthy Stuff' ==
* Our elasticsearch clusters now have "row aware shard
allocation". This means that we can theoretically lose one row of
servers in our datacenter and still serve search traffic. [11]
* The Search team sent out a request for comment article that was
posted to various Village Pumps asking for it to be translated. [12]
** This was in reference to the cross-wiki search results new
functionality and design articles on MediaWiki. [13], [14]


== Did you know? ==
* A study came out yesterday showing that giraffes are actually
four distinct species, rather than one (article and BBC report).
[15], [16]
** Of course, the English and German Wikipedia pages on giraffes
have already been updated! [17], [18]


[1]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization_for_plwiki_arwiki_zhwiki_and_nlwiki


[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143354

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140187

[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142506

[5]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086490.html


[6]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer#GeoShapes_external_data


[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143588

[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429

[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143685

[10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306241/

[11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143571

[12]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)/translation_request_for_cross-wiki_search_results

[Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

[Sumit Asthana]

Hello Wikimedians,

Gnome's Outreachy-13  is round the corner
and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season ( Dec
6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct - 17*.

Its interesting to see that candidates have already started to ping on
projects and show their interest!

Our Outreachy-13 board
 till now has only
three projects. A lot of projects are sitting in possible-tech-projects
 board
waiting to be mentored. Many of them are tagged as *community-wishlist*
showing the community consensus.
The *community wishlist* items which could use some love are:

   1. Make Special:Listfiles show the quantity of globalusage for a file -
   T120748 
   2. Category suggestions based on filename, description and location -
   T120437 
   3. Create a Timer based reminder for workflows - T88781
   

Some others which look interesting:

   1. Dark archive for Commons - T120454
   
   2. Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit - T87598
   
   3. Fix TreeViews to provide pageviews statistics for all articles of any
   wikiproject etc. - T56184 
   4. Stash unsaved drafts of articles - T89235
   
   5. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files - T59807
   

Its a gentle request to please go through the projects, and if you could
mentor any of those, add yourself to the task as a mentor, and we'll do the
rest.

Also, if you have a lingering task to finish or a new interesting feature
waiting to get implemented, add *possbile-tech-projects*, and we'll make
sure to feature it. The only scope requirement is that it should take 2-3
weeks for an experienced developer to finish.

Please come forward to mentor some of the enthusiastic students so that we
can welcome new members into our community :)

-Thanks and Regards,
-Sumit,
B.Tech Final Year,
Dept. of CSE,
IIT Patna
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