Re: [Wikitech-l] [Product] Winter, v. 0.6

2014-07-15 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Dear Amir, I set up wikitest RTL and added winter to it (but I don't know why the winter doesn't connect to my database, I haven't checked it very carefully to see how that's possible) Anyway the RTL wiki is here: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitest-rtl/w/ and winter framework is accessible by this

[Wikitech-l] User agent policy for bots

2014-07-10 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, As discussions in pywikipedia-l people are not sure whether is necessary to add username of bot operator in user agent or not. In user agent policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-agent_policy it's mentioned that people need to add contacting information, but it's not clear it's about

[Wikitech-l] Pywikibot bug triage

2014-07-03 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, There will be the next round of bug triage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/How_to_triage for pywikibot in July 24th - 27th in #pywikibot channel. We will focus on prioritizing and categorizing bugs listed here.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pywikibot bug triage

2014-07-03 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
And you can add your name in here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140724 Best On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, There will be the next round of bug triage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/How_to_triage

Re: [Wikitech-l] An unhappy resolution on skin naming (was: What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.))

2014-06-01 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
To unsubscribe go here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l On 6/1/14, Sajjad Manal sajjadmana...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. May I please know how to unsubscribe from the mails from Wikimedia?? On 1 Jun 2014 13:14, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: I'm not happy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote: On 5/19/14, 6:39 PM, Dan Garry wrote: On 19 May 2014 19:36, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is necessary Sure, but as I'm not a bot operator, can you explain why and what you use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
of bot tasks that needs to be seen in RC and they weren't abuse On 20 May 2014 07:36, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you legoktm for exampling, Another case that happened in Persian Wikipedia, is creating bot-generated articles by user request this task is too contervisal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
as an outside with no prior knowledge of how this stuff works) On 20 May 2014 14:09, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused. Why wouldn't you just mark a user account as being a bot and simply determine bot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-19 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is necessary but I think the best solution would be having something like flag=1 (optional) and this causes bot edits to be marked as human and for admin (+flooders) edits marked as bot. Implementing the parameter (whether the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team changes

2014-03-17 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Congratulations to both :) Best On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2014 5:00 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community Team[1]. The headlines: * Quim Gil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

2014-03-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I haven't read this topic carefully but I suggest we make a sprint for pywikibot issues (e.g. very important bugs or a bug triage to take care of 200 left uncategorized/unknown importance bug) I have another idea that someone have a presentation about how we can help pywikibot I don't know if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

2014-03-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I'll be there if I can get the visa in time and I love to have a presentation about it but I'm not sure others will like the idea or not Best On 3/6/14, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-06 13:43 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com: I have another idea that someone have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?

2014-03-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I made this topic: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics#How_to_help_pywikibot I'll send a note in pywikipedia-l and discuss about how and who want to present at the Hackathon. Best On 3/6/14, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 03/06/2014 04:04 AM, Amir Ladsgroup

Re: [Wikitech-l] Syrian authorities censored Wikipedia access

2014-02-21 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
a similar research has been done about Iran by university of Pennsylvania http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/fileLibrary/PDFs/CItation_Filtered_Wikipedia_Report_11_5_2013-2.pdf it's really interesting :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/19/14, Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Compressing full-history dumps faster

2014-01-21 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
One of the things I can't understand is why we are extracting summary of pages for Yahoo? Is it our job to do it? the dumps are really huge e.g. forwikidata:http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/20140106/

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Compressing full-history dumps faster

2014-01-21 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 01/21/2014 09:47 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: One of the things I can't understand is why we are extracting summary of pages for Yahoo? Is it our job to do it? the dumps are really huge e.g. forwikidata:http

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
*pronounces, stupid spellchecker On 1/7/14, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Mass file undeletion tools?

2013-12-30 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
You can use PWB, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB you need to run delete.py -undelete Best On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Kunal Mehta joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Happy to see Kunal is joining WMF. Congrats :) Best On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2013 2:09 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Kunal Mehta[1] has

[Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of non-stop spamming. Some mailing lists decided to discard any mails from non-members (that is not good, LGBT mailing has recently decided this but admins were have to do it because of spams and they don't want this) but some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
We can run an analyze on known spams (that we are receiving) and ordinary mails and see what's the best score. Don't need an admin access and wait and see which score is better. i.e. I've admin access in several mailing lists but I don't like to test on them like lab rat Best On 12/14/13,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

2013-12-05 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I disagree with Alex, usually people don't give a damn about new deployments. Just geeks and technical people (poeple who work on templates, bots, etc.) care about these stuff Best On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What about subscribing to this list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipediabot] Using the content of a file as input for articles

2013-12-01 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
you have several options 1-use regex e.g.: import re, codecs site=wikipedia.getSite() f=codecs.open(file.txt,r,utf-8) R=re.compile(\{\{(.+?)\}\}) #or other types of regex for name in R.findall(f.read()): page=wikipedia.Page(site,name) #do whatever you like with the page 2- use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need help of Python developers

2013-11-30 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I think Pywikibot developers ([[mw:PWB]]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB) will help you. As one of the developers of PWB and a bot operator in Wikidata (with more than 8M edits) I think legoktm (another dev and bot operator) and I can help you. Tell me the tasks with more details, I'll do it

[Wikitech-l] Next Bugday: ''Pywikibot'' ''20:00 Thursday, October 24, 2013 - Sunday, October 27 22:00'' UTC

2013-10-17 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: 20:00 Thursday, October 24, 2013 - Sunday, October 27 22:00 UTC[1] in #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC [2] We will be triaging bug reports pywikibot [3]. Pywikibot recently moved its code repository from SVN to Git and its bugtracker from

[Wikitech-l] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

2013-09-25 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello folks! *Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially changed to pywikibot, please update local documentation *Bug tracker of pywikibot is changed from sf.net to bugzilla. Open bugs was imported from there by a bot that legoktm has written [1], So don't file new bugs in sf.net anymore

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

2013-09-25 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
, bugzilla, etc. but It was not official And why all those new nested folders? Just curiosity. Sorry but I can't understand what you are saying L. Il giorno 25/set/2013 17:27, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hello folks! *Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially

[Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles) so we have tons of tons (before writing my engine that was 30K out of 170K) categories without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
a good job. When people appreciate it, good for you. But I fail to see the point. Thanks, GerardM On 22 September 2013 21:54, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Yes It works, Just give me the languages On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Does it work outside Wikipedia too? I'd like to run it on some wikiquotes; seeing what categories exist in a language but not another is very useful to find out what's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories without interwiki

2013-09-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 September 2013 15:54, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Persian Wikipedia is one of the largest wikis based on number of categories but It's not very common that people consider adding interwiki of categories (they think interwiki is just for articles

Re: [Wikitech-l] People with knowledge of English swear words needed :o

2013-09-20 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
About swears in English language, sorry I can't help but I'm very good at Persian :D, We have an abuse filter about Persian swears which is hidden from public

[Wikitech-l] Persian Wikipedia stance on SSL

2013-09-10 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello! I recently closed a huge [[w:fa:ویکی‌پدیا:نظرخواهی برای استفاده از اس‌اس‌ال برای ویکی‌پدیای فارسی|RfC]] about using SSL in Persian Wikipedia which mainly runs by Iranian users. Iran is the number one target in PRISM surveillance program (Further information: https://bit.ly/17N57rx) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Persian Wikipedia stance on SSL

2013-09-10 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
saying this much concern about safety will cause enormous lack of accessibility in Iran Best On 9/10/13, George William Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: and problem of internet access becomes even worse when

Re: [Wikitech-l] List of projects supported by Wikimedia

2013-08-30 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
wrote: On 08/29/2013 03:02 PM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: Hi, Thank you but I think PWB (pywikipedia) is missing http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB Hi, I actually asked around about the PyWikiBot repositories since I wasn't sure what to do about it. PWB is in the fringe area: not a project

Re: [Wikitech-l] List of projects supported by Wikimedia

2013-08-29 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hi, Thank you but I think PWB (pywikipedia) is missing http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB Best On 8/29/13, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, in the context of the tech community metrics KPIs [1]... We need a list of OSS projects developed by the Wikimedia/MediaWiki community and deployed

Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-07 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Same for me. I added a filter but I'm thinking about a better solution... Best On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com wrote: Meanwhile you can fix the filters and add the option do not send to spam folder. I did it for all my wiki filters... 2013/8/6

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