Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Gergő Tisza!

2013-10-17 Thread Oren Bochman
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%90in Gergő's name. :-) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren Bochman Mobile +972 54 4320067 skype id: orenbochman e-mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tag cloud

2013-03-03 Thread Oren Bochman
pumps, noticeboards and archives of these. -- Bináris ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren Bochman Mobile +972 54 4320067 skype id: orenbochman e-mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Indexing non-text content in LuceneSearch

2013-03-08 Thread oren bochman
-Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:59 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Indexing non-text content in LuceneSearch On Thu, Mar 7, 2013

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

2013-04-29 Thread oren bochman
Interesting proposal. I would imagine that this does not impact most page-views since Js files are cached. It might be better to fix this bug by a tighter integration of the JavaScript with the Resource loader to lazy load the required elements as needed In such a case the solution would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separation of Concerns

2013-06-04 Thread oren bochman
? Also there unit test for the respective MW extensions ? 10x Oren Bochman Sent from my iPhone On Jun 4, 2013, at 5:43, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: We are trying to finish the items in scope (SUL rework

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advance notice: I'm taking a sabbatical October-December

2013-08-31 Thread Oren Bochman
Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren Bochman Mobile +972 54 4320067 skype id: orenbochman e-mail: oren.boch

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 - Text Processing and Data Mining

2012-04-02 Thread Oren Bochman
. However since there is an Existing bot, undergoing upgrades we would have to check with its small dev team what it currently doing And it would be subject to community oversight. Yours Sincerely, Oren Bochman MediaWiki Search Developer

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012: Proposal-Wikipedia Corpus Tools

2012-04-04 Thread Oren Bochman
for one of the project ideas - Wikipedia Corpus Tools. [Mentor : Oren Bochman] I would sincerely appreciate if you could kindly go through it and suggest corrections/additions so that I can settle with a coherent proposal. Link to my proposal : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012

2012-04-05 Thread Oren Bochman
Hi we are running out of time Thanks for your interest in out project at Wikimedia The GSOC proposals should be mostly specified by the student – Those of you who have not done so should draft proposals and place them in at www.mediawiki.org in your user space, then post a link here, or email me

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC 2012 : Lucene Automatic Query Expansion From Wikipedia Text

2012-04-06 Thread Oren Bochman
@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Hi again -- Oren Bochman Office tel. 061 4921492 Mobile +36 30 866 6706 skype id: orenbochman e-mail: o...@romai-horizon.com site http://www.riverport.hu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Unified login vs. unified settings

2012-04-16 Thread Oren Bochman
I'd love it too - but I noticed that different wikis have quite different settings due to different gadgets and extensions being available. So a good solution would have to be smart enough to accommodate this. Oren Bochman -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Engineering Community Group, headed by Sumana Harihareswara

2012-04-25 Thread Oren Bochman
Great news. Congratulations Sumana !! I think that this is greatly deserved -- I'd be glad that you will be having an even greater impact bringing in more people into our ecosystem. Oren Bochman Lead of Search Operation Manager E-mail: o...@romai-horizon.com Mobil: +36 30 866 6706 Római

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] MathJax comes to Wikipedia

2012-05-03 Thread Oren Bochman
___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren Bochman Office tel. 061 4921492 Mobile +36 30 866 6706 skype id: orenbochman e-mail: o...@romai-horizon.com site http://www.riverport.hu

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] XML dumps/Media mirrors update

2012-06-05 Thread Oren Bochman
Any chance that these archived can be served via bittorent - so that even partial downloaders can become servers - leveraging p2p to reduce overall bandwidth load on the servers and increase download times? -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] XML dumps/Media mirrors update

2012-06-06 Thread Oren Bochman
with it in the context of say a labs, if it would be integrated into the dump release process. Thanks for the great job with the dumps! Oren Bochman On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is a place where volunteers can step in and make it happen without

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Peter Youngmeister joins Wikimedia as Technical Operations Engineer

2012-07-17 Thread Oren Bochman
Great news I'd also like to congratulate Peter I was very impressed with his work on puputizing the search configuration and look forward to working with him on new projects -- Oren Bochman Office tel. 061 4921492 Mobile +36 30 866 6706 skype id: orenbochman

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a centralized access point for propriety databases/resources

2012-07-25 Thread Oren Bochman
. Oren Bochman -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ocaasi Ocaasi Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 6:22 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Creating a centralized access point

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a centralized access point for propriety databases/resources

2012-07-25 Thread Oren Bochman
to work with a large database aggregators (which solves the tech issues) and the rest is implemented by operations staff of a university. Oren Bochman -Original Message- From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches

2012-07-25 Thread Oren Bochman
Hi The wikipedia's captcha is a great opportunity for getting '''useful'' work done by humans. This is now called a [[game with a purpose]]. I think we can ideally use it to help: * ocr wikisource text like recaptcha does * translate articles fragments using geo-location of editors.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit evaluation: where we stand

2012-08-16 Thread Oren Bochman
community who have created hundreds of extensions and documented them. I say we just get consensus on the Priority Queue of outstanding Gerrit issues and start fix them until it rocks. Oren Bochman Lead of Search ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] [testing] TitleBlacklist now tested under Jenkins

2012-08-30 Thread Oren Bochman
core + the extension deployed on the wmf and another one for a Semantic MediaWiki setup. -- Antoine hashar Musso ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oren

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Foundation (was Re: CentralAuth API access)

2012-09-03 Thread Oren Bochman
. 5. The one point I do agree with is that features the community asks for should be given due proirity and this process should be more transparent. Oren Bochman On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Mr. Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: I'll post more on the RFC, but I wonder

Re: [Wikitech-l] a slightly weird search result in the Italian Wikipedia

2012-09-17 Thread Oren Bochman
The algorithm used to rank search results uses ... a variant of page rank so the reasons may lay off the actual page. - Oren Bochman On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Autopratica is actually not a valid word: or rather, it's a neologism from a new