Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:19 PM David Barratt wrote: > However, there will have to be a significant number of major changes before > that can be a reality. > Which kind of changes? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

In general I would prefer to keep vulgar language out of the projects, as it doesn't bring anything positive. Research shows that swearing causes stress [1], and there are many ways of showing dissatisfaction without using coarse language. For instance, I would appreciate if there would be more

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

meeting held under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to the > meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed > to reveal who made any comment. It is designed to increase openness of > discussion." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

@Nemo: It could be that the priority change was not seen as aggressive, and probably it was not initially as we have the "be bold" tradition. However, that changes as the issue heats up and becomes an edit war. In this case it didn't get to that point (less than 3 reverts, although the reverts

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:38 AM Stas Malyshev wrote: > Wouldn't it be easy to just log out and read any task (or even use > incognito mode/private browsing in the browser)? It is certainly a small > inconvenience, but I am not sure how it is very important, given a very > simple workaround.

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:26 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Pointing out trollish brehaviour is positive help for self-correction. > What you call "trollish behaviour" is to "provoke others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption". Unless there is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planet Wikimedia using new software "rawdog"

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > The source website is linked from the date header. > I'm aware of that, but in my opinion that is not visible enough. > That's a question for the blog maintainers that you could file at >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planet Wikimedia using new software "rawdog"

Hi Daniel, I like the new design, however I am missing some information about the source of each post. Would it be possible to add the source website to each post? And another more general question I have is, could the Planet be linked from the Wikimedia blog? I feel that it is quite hidden now,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Machine-utilizable Crowdsourced Lexicons

Hi Adam, Thanks for your well-intentioned letter. Do you know about Wikidata and the recent developments to support machine-readable Lexicographical data? I would like to invite you to take a look at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data The system is still at its early

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] New Wikidata accounts can't edit labels?

Hi Daniel, The usual procedure is explained here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Mass_account_creation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Six-account_limit Normally to request a temporary lift of the IP cap, they

Re: [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data

<yastrak...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Micru, thanks, I think Datasets sounds like a good name too! > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:44 PM David Cuenca Tudela <dacu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > > bjor...@wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > > Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available from > > all wikis. > > > > I was momentarily

Re: [Wikitech-l] T43327: Add page views graph(s) to MediaWiki's info action for Wikimedia wikis

I also find that it is quite hidden, wouldn't it be better to show it by default? As it is now there is no hint that the link will open the graph. Cheers, Micru On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > he.wiki has already enabled it by inserting

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] ContentTranslation gets to 2000

Amir, First of all a big thank you as a speaker of Catalan and fervent advocate of minoritary languages. OTOH, I would like to bring awareness to the topic of translation engine. Apertium is no longer supported as a GsoC project, I guess the project will keep alive but it worries me that

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] VisualEditor on Wikipedia now faster with RESTBase

It seems that the Visual Editor age can now be entered fully :) Looking forward to the Wikisource adaptation of Visual Editor! On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:34 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic, many thanks to all involved!! On Mar 20, 2015 1:15 AM, Gabriel Wicke

Re: [Wikitech-l] Now you can submit / claim Engineering Community tasks

Wouldn't be better to have nested projects? GsoC might need a project per year with subprojects for each student to manage their task, is project nesting possible on Phabricator? And what about sister projects? Will each one have a project? Thanks Micru On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Quim Gil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Now you can submit / claim Engineering Community tasks

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Tagging describes Phabricator projects a lot better than nesting. In Phabricator, projects are tags and tags are projects. This means that even if the subproject concept is officially missing today, you can organize your work

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

After reading your blog post, I must agree with this: And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). I wish that in your new environment you find a better environment to grow professionally with less

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

Feedback in a Spanish social news aggregator http://www.meneame.net/story/wikimedia-pone-prueba-prototipo-diseno-wikipedia Some relevant comments: - Brandon is one of the most brilliant persons I ever met, and he brings us the interface of the future Wikipedia - thanks to this I discovered that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not logged in page

matma@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:00:04 +0200, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes while not logged in I try to access my Watchlist and then the Not logged in page appears. It is quite useless since then you have to click again to go to the Log in page

[Wikitech-l] Not logged in page

Sometimes while not logged in I try to access my Watchlist and then the Not logged in page appears. It is quite useless since then you have to click again to go to the Log in page. Wouldn't it be better to just redirect to the log in page instead of showing that dumb Not logged in page? Or

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

I like it and I hope it gets to the point where it can be deployed as beta. And that right panel looks a perfect place for users to place some gadgets of their choice. That would be wonderful! On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I want to suggest

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC review this week: Associated namespaces

Hi Sumana, I hope you are well and getting ready for wikimania? :) There is this rfc on mediawiki that I did everything possible to promote, to gather feedback from 3rd parties, etc. but now it is all done. From this point on I cannot bring it any further. What to do in this cases? Mark it as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I like Visual:, any +1s? +2s? I give it a +0.5 :) I also like Render but its meaning has become too attached to 3d graphics... Anyhow if we have a Visual and a VisualData namespace, they could be associated to each

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: Definitely agree that we needed something like this. There's a lot of confusion about what Wikidata is for, and what is and isn't appropriate for it - both from outsiders and from within the Wikimedia community. I've

[Wikitech-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

Hi, During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them (reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session),

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer, How can I put this open data on Wikidata is a question that I have been asked many times, this page was needed. Thanks for your comment! On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Samuel Klein

[Wikitech-l] Question about the ContentHandler and Extension:Score

As a continuation to the community wish expressed last year to start a musical score transcription project [1], I'm investigating what is needed to make it happen. The biggest hurdle seems to be how to separate content from layout. On the one hand users should be able to define which part to work

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon grid

I hope that you can reserve some interesting topics for people who arrive on Fri night/Sat morning :) Thanks! Micru On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Wikimedia Hackathon participants, please have a look at

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC review this week: Associated namespaces

Hi Sumana, Thanks for moving the RFC forward! I hope some MW experts can join and provide their very necessary advice! Cheers, Micru On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Micru's Associated namespaces RfC is up for discussion this week.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

Hi Eugene, you already can upload scores to Commons and transcribe them on Wikisource as agreed on this RFC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal Thanks, Micru On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eugene Zelenko

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sharing mathematical and music notations across wikis

, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eugene, you already can upload scores to Commons and transcribe them on Wikisource as agreed on this RFC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal My point is to share such transcribes between

[Wikitech-l] Bach redirecting to Bạch (notice the dot under the a)

Hi, When I type bach on the top right en.wp search box, I only have the option to select Bach from the list. This option however takes me to Bạch (with a dot under the a). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%A1ch However when I type the url I'm taken to the right article

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bach redirecting to Bạch (notice the dot under the a)

: It works for me. On Monday, March 17, 2014, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When I type bach on the top right en.wp search box, I only have the option to select Bach from the list. This option however takes me to Bạch (with a dot under the a). https://en.wikipedia.org

[Wikitech-l] New RFC: Associated namespaces (seeking comments proposals)

Hi, I have started drafting a RFC to associate namespaces: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces Comments and proposals are very much appreciated. Cheers, Micru ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] 3d Online Geometry Viewer

Hi Inderpreet, Welcome and thanks for reaching out, there is definitely the need of a 3d viewer for mediawiki and brl-cad could add some of the needed features. Probably you could contact Bryan Davis, since he offered himself as GsoC mentor for such a project:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quality assessment, badges and credit attribution to engage scientists

for sharing. Do you think it would be worthwhile to add OAuth to the list? Cheers, Micru On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/21/2013 08:35 AM, Mark wrote: On 8/16/13 11:48 AM, David Cuenca wrote: A manual system where a group of reviewers assign badges to major

[Wikitech-l] Quality assessment, badges and credit attribution to engage scientists

In Wikidata there is an open bug to implement badges (see email below by Lydia), with the open question if this should be handled by the Mediawiki software itself or in some other way. Template: Link FA and Template:Link GA is the system currently used in all Wikipedias [1] In addition to this,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quality assessment, badges and credit attribution to engage scientists

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad jeb...@gmail.com wrote: We don't use votes... ;) I think Lydia was referring to the votes on the bugzilla bug page, 14 votes so far :) If we forget about the implementation of badges and discuss the contributions; there are no single

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quality assessment, badges and credit attribution to engage scientists

of is dimension reduction and measuring path length, but that too fail for some combos of vandalism/reverts. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:08 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad jeb...@gmail.com wrote: We don't use votes... ;) I

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

Wikimania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=D8pwr-Uizf4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pwr-Uizf4 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:44 -0400 From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.**orgwikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org I think this is going

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Dirk Hünniger date=2013-08-04 time=10:05:35 +0200 Hello, I made a new debian

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaborative machine translation for Wikipedia -- proposed strategy

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: This statement seems rather defeatist to me. Step one of a machine translation effort should be to provide tools to annotate parallel texts in the various wikis, and to edit and maintain their parallelism.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaborative machine translation for Wikipedia -- proposed strategy

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: My main point was just that there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. You assume that machine translation can't work because we don't have enough parallel texts. But, to the extent that machine-aided translation

[Wikitech-l] Collaborative machine translation for Wikipedia -- proposed strategy

After Erik's email about supporting open source machine translation [1], I've been researching options and having talks with several machine translation researchers about what would be the best way to integrate MT into Wikipedia. Unfortunately I couldn't find a single solution that, on its own,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad jeb...@gmail.com wrote: There are good reasons why users want to turn off VE and the most important reason are not what most people in the thread seems to think. Users that have learned to use a crappy direct editing user interface tend to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] gwtoolset : architecture design help

Dan, Great move with the extension, I think it as good way to integrate the GWT into Commons. I would like to make you aware of this proposal to move Commons towards linked data: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info Obviously this move would simplify the work for you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

I'm glad that Tim is bringing some facts and numbers that back up what the community is demanding. To do otherwise will be to play tug-of-war which will lead to an even worse outcome. Besides of enabling the preference, a good approach would be to activate or deactivate that preference depending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestion for solving the disambiguation problem

Good idea, it could also help to know which are the links more used in a disambiguation page to sort them by importance. Micru On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nverve...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting idea... On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Version of the Flow Prototype Released

Nice design! Will it work across projects? Micru On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Those are messages in which the reader has been mentioned. On Jul 14, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi ellydwivedi2...@gmail.com wrote: Some usernames

Re: [Wikitech-l] Centralized Lua modules for Wikisource (OPW mentor needed)

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Oh, I wasn't aware of this wikisource specificity? Is that related to a central djvu repository? No, it is only related to the existence of a central project. However Matt Flaschen says that mediawiki.org could

Re: [Wikitech-l] Centralized Lua modules for Wikisource (OPW mentor needed)

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Interesting, but why make a central code repository only for Wikisource ? There are several reasons for this. - trying to support all projects at once might be too much for a grantee to do in 3 months. - it

[Wikitech-l] Centralized Lua modules for Wikisource (OPW mentor needed)

. This could be the first experiment of having a centralized repository of modules. What do you think of this? Would be anyone available to mentor an Outreach Program for Women project? Thanks, David Cuenca --Micru ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Flow Portal(s)

Hi Brandon, Thanks for the announce and also for the effort of letting the door open for suggestions and feedback. I regard Flow as an excellent tool for centralizing all communications in one spot and I really hope user involvement is as high as this tool would deserve. So far the test page

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Extension:Score] Unable to create a single score from multiple pages

Bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48538 On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, At ca-ws we have started creating musical scores and we have found out that when transcluding two pages into one, it is only possible to generate two

[Wikitech-l] [Extension:Score] Unable to create a single score from multiple pages

Hi, At ca-ws we have started creating musical scores and we have found out that when transcluding two pages into one, it is only possible to generate two independent audio files instead of one with the whole score. Example with two pages

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: next steps

Excellent news! Congratulations to everyone involved! Cheers, David On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Parth Srivastav srivastav.pa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Quim Great news, Congrats to the entire team On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Rahul Maliakkal rahul14...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Quim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Prototyping Wiki Inline Comments

Hi Anthony, Your proposal seems quite suitable to annotate texts in Wikisource, since the text is constant and you will not have problems using the highlighted text as anchor. Another participant has suggested storing the annotation as JSON in a new namespace Annotation:, I think there is a

Re: [Wikitech-l] High-resolution Score images for printing, hi-dpi displays: two possible ways?

Brion, Have you checked if Vexflow renders svg properly on you Macbook/Ubuntu? Maybe you can get some ideas from its code. http://vexflow.com/ Thanks for working on this, David --Micru On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've done a little weekend hacking

Re: [Wikitech-l] Works on annotations

Hi Mathieu, hi James, There is this GsoC proposal that plans to explore the integration of an annotation system in Mediawiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Proposal-Prototyping-inline-comments The idea is to see how well and in which ways the OKFN Annotator could be deployed:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikisource-l] Fwd: Bug 189: Add a music wikimodule resolved/fixed

I have started a page in Meta to discuss the options of either creating a Wikisource version dedicated to musical scores or an independent project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Musical_score_transcription_project_proposal Micru On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:34 AM, John

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189: Add a music wikimodule resolved/fixed

This is really amazing! Specially for Wikisource :-) Is multi-page score transclusion with Extension:Proofread page able to generate a global midi/score file or each page has to be treated as an independent entity? Micru On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:

[Wikitech-l] RFC on possible interproject link interfaces

Dear all, I have started a new RFC with some proposals for the interproject links and you can add more if you want. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Interproject_links_interface It has been a long standing issue and one of the most voted enhancements in Bugzilla

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Google Summer of Code '13] Project Idea - Inspire Me Button

Hi Cheng, As you say there are many recommendation systems, some of them already work or used to work with wikipedia (like StumbleThru) or just to find interesting articles (like reddit.com/r/wikipedia ). In my opinion those systems are better developed externally because if not done right, they

[Wikitech-l] Special:ActiveUsers, where did it go?

Hi there, I'm trying to find the Special:ActiveUsers page that used to show activity statistics. Where did it go? Has it been replaced by something better? Thanks, Micru ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Looking for a GsoC mentor (Wikisource, Djvu)

Hi! I'm looking for a co-mentor for this project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Merge_proofread_text_back_into_Djvu_files There is already someone that would be giving guidance on Tesseract OCR, now I'm looking for a second mentor to advise on Mediawiki