[Wikitech-l] Re: {REMINDER} Register and Apply for Scholarships for the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon!

Hi Onyinyechi, When will the venue be announced? Looking at hotel options and I don't want to be other side of town. Maarten On 11-12-2023 19:21, Onyinyechi Onifade wrote: Hey Everyone, We hope this message finds you in great spirits and excitement for the upcoming Hackathon!  Time is

[Wikitech-l] Re: Implementing jumbo frames/LACP?

Hi Brian, On 11-02-2022 15:49, Brian King wrote: Hello Wikitech, I’m a new SRE on the Search team. As Ryan and I are in the middle of relocating many large shards on our Elastic cluster, I wanted to ask your thoughts about using jumbo frames and/or LACP for our physical Elastic nodes. We’re

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1st CfP: SEMANTiCS 2021 EU || Sep 6 - 9, 2021 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands

On 25-12-2020 11:32, Max Semenik wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 1:21 PM Sebastian Hellmann > wrote: Apologies for cross-posting Apologies not accepted. Don't know about others on this list, but I'm tired of your spam of conferences very remotely

Re: [Wikitech-l] CI and Code Review

Hi Greg, On 06-07-2020 19:39, Greg Grossmeier wrote: First, apologies for not announcing this last week. A short work week coupled with a new fiscal year delayed this until today. tl;dr: Wikimedia will be moving to a self-hosted (in our datacenter(s)) GitLab Community Edition (CE) installation

[Wikitech-l] Remote hackathon (May 9 - 11, 2020)

Hi everyone, The first weekend of May the Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 in Tirana was supposed to happen. As an alternative, we're organizing a remote hackathon. Please have a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2020/Remote_Hackathon and sign up if you're interested in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Difference between #goal and #epic

Hi Andre, On 17-07-19 21:10, Andre Klapper wrote: On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 14:30 -0400, Kosta Harlan wrote: There’s some info here too https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management ...and there is also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Glossary with lots of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata-tech] wb_terms redesign

Hi Alaa, On 25-04-19 16:38, Alaa Sarhan wrote: > This is really a defective redesign. It reintroduced numeric IDs to be removed by T114902. See also T179928. We should reconsider reintroduce a new table to link unperfixed and perfixed entity ID. The new schema has been optimized as much as

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

Hi Chris, Did you base your new policy on https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecret ? I didn't see any reference to it. You might want to check it out and reference it. Maarten On 06-12-18 20:34, Chris Koerner wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a

[Wikitech-l] status.wikimedia.org?

Hi folks, When I go to https://status.wikimedia.org/ I get the following text: "status.wikimedia.org has been deprecated The page previously known as status.wikimedia.org has been deprecated, more information at T199816 and related subtasks. For user-facing HTTP errors please see frontend

[Wikitech-l] Using OpenStreetMap with Wikipedia account

Hi, I noticed a tweet announcing the possibility using your Wikipedia account to edit OpenStreetMap. See the Wikipedia logo at https://www.openstreetmap.org/login . That's really nice! After a bit of digging I found the registration at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Your speaking schedule at FOSDEM

Op 17-1-2016 om 8:23 schreef Ricordisamoa: Or "Converting talk pages from an unmaintained system to a halted one" :-D Not cool Ricordisamoa. Thanks Matt for putting effort into this. For anyone who will be at FOSDEM: Please add yourself to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E52 (if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Hi Brad, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) schreef op 2-6-2015 om 22:42: As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api-announce] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Hi, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) schreef op 3-6-2015 om 18:43: not an announcement Could you please stop using the announce list for chatter? Probably better to put the announce list on moderation. Maarten ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] New feature: tool edit

Hi Petr, Petr Bena schreef op 11-2-2015 om 7:50: I believe that majority of users will not like to have to ask for some extra permissions in order to use some feature and so they will not ask for them and not use it. Don't break your head over this. 1. We build this tool edit feature (or not).

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

Hi Sumana, Sumana Harihareswara schreef op 12-9-2014 18:09: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I'm sorry to see you leave. I really liked working with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Hi Erik, I understand you reasoning, but you couldn't have communicated and timed this in a worse way. You might be doing the right thing, but because of this ill communication and timing, this will be completely overshadowed. That saddens me. Good luck with the shit storm :-(

[Wikitech-l] What does a hackathon cost?

Hi everyone, Different chapters are looking into organizing next years hackathon. One of the recurring questions is how much it costs to organize such an event. To make it easier to answer this question we published the budget of the Amsterdam hackathon at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you

Hi Bartosz, Sounds good. Bartosz Dziewoński schreef op 28-7-2014 20:53: If you're upgrading a wiki or you're a developer working on master, THIS IS A BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. Your wiki will continue to work, it will just look ugly (no styles). And I assume whatever MediaWiki version this

Re: [Wikitech-l] tool for quickly uploading 10000 images with description

A couple of years ago I uploaded 1,8M images. I prepared batches using the code at http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/labs%2Ftools%2Fmultichill.git/HEAD/bot%2Fgeograph The batches could be imported with an one liner. Hope this helps. Maarten James Montalvo schreef op 7-7-2014 22:32: Care to

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

Hi Sumana, Sumana Harihareswara schreef op 4-1-2014 4:48: Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker School. I'm in catchup mode so I haven't yet resubscribed to most lists, nor quite taken back over Engineering Community Team (Quim Gil is still in charge until

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

Hi Ken, Op 18-10-2013 22:05, Ken Snider schreef: The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility. After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

Op 19-10-2013 12:59, Leslie Carr schreef: Wikitech is our best source of documentation Ouch, time for a little documentation sprint? Something related: While travelling in China I noticed the bad performance of our sites. Would it be a good idea to investigate this (lack of) performance

Re: [Wikitech-l] Weighted random article

Hi Lars, Op 23-8-2013 2:48, Lars Aronsson schreef: The current implementation of [[Special:Random]], however, gives equal weight to every existing article and this is perceived as a problem that needs to be fixed. We talked about this on Wikimania. If you compare our current implementation to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anyone using Apache 2.4 to run MediaWiki?

Hi Mark, Op 25-4-2013 17:28, Mark A. Hershberger schreef: I'm seeing a few reports that people are running into trouble running MediaWiki on Apache 2.4. The reports seem focused on XAMPP, but I tried to run MW against the Apache 2.4 package on Debian and didn't succeed. Granted, I tried only

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon Amsterdam 2013: Registration opened

Hi everyone, Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Wikimedia Hackathon. The Wikimedia Hackathon will be in 2013 from 24-26 May. The registration is now open and also includes the possibility to apply for a travel, accommodation or full scholarship. You can find the form at

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Amsterdam Hackathon 2013

Hi Butch, Op 30-1-2013 7:56, Butch Bustria schreef: Hello, We would like to know how to obtain a travel scholarship to Amsterdam Hackathon 2013. We'll have a scholarship programme. We're working on getting that set up so we can open registration this week. We are confused as Wikimedia events

[Wikitech-l] Save the date: Amsterdam Hackathon 2013 (May 24-26)

Hi everyone, Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Amsterdam Hackathon 2013. The hackathon is an opportunity for all Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write great new features tools. Unlike the previous years (2012, 2011, etc.) this

Re: [Wikitech-l] The ultimate bikeshed: typos in commit messages

Op 15-1-2013 12:44, Jeroen De Dauw schreef: bla IMHO all commit messages should be green. Maarten *hides* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate

Op 8-1-2013 21:46, Manuel Schneider schreef: my suggestion was that we get a subdomain like ssl.wikimania.org pointing to 195.114.98.120 (server of WMCH where the Wikimania Tools are available hosted since 2010). Will you be able to handle the load? I remember some issues in September.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Easy upload of Flickr photos to Commons

Hi Sumana, Op 9-12-2012 17:53, Sumana Harihareswara schreef: I hereby celebrate that we've merged Ankur Anand's (drecodeam's) Flickr integration work into UploadWizard, and that administrators on Commons can now upload photos directly from Flickr. See

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTP Error 504 Gateway timeout when running a robot

Hi strainu, Op 8-12-2012 11:21, Strainu schreef: Hi, I'm running a robot that makes relatively small changes in ~250KB pages. Starting from November, the change is made, but I recieve a 504 error. This does not happen when making the change manually and it did not happen earlier in the year

[Wikitech-l] Amsterdam Hackathon 2013

Hi everyone, Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a good weekend I've set up a straw poll at

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAI-PMH?

Hi Ole, Op 5-10-2012 23:37, Ole Palnatoke Andersen schreef: At #hack4dk today in Copenhagen (http://hack4dk.tumblr.com/program), I heard about OAI-PMH ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesting), a protocol ... used to harvest (or collect) the

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Nederland Hackathon 2012

://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon_2012 Maarten Dammers Wikimedia Nederland ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try the new Wiki Loves Monuments Android App!

Hi John, Op 2 aug 2012 om 08:39 heeft John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\ It hangs when talking to the satellites here in Oz. Probably because OZ isnt part of WLM?.. :( Or because we're still using the Toolserver as a backend in this beta. It would be good to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making language selection sticky

Hi Denny, Op 26-6-2012 18:48, Denny Vrandečić schreef: knip Any comments on this? Did you already take a look at how this was implemented on Commons? Mdale and I hacked up a first version a couple of years ago in Paris and Timo later improved this. Code is now at

[Wikitech-l] 3 million null edits

Hi guys, There must be an alternative for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests#3_million_null_edits right? But what is it? Maarten ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

Yes, good job guys! Now someone just needs to get Wikipedia.org (etc) added to http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/?q=1 :-) On the English Wikipedia someone from Indiana University was the first to do a logged out edit. The first edit (and only) anonymous edit on Commons was by Team

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC: Caterpillar the Category Tool

HI Kalan, You might want to read https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Next_generation_categories Maarten Op 6-4-2012 17:11, Kalan schreef: Hello, I present a proposal for a system that is going to solve the category intersection problem (and, in fact, allow all set-theory

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia and IPv6

Hi guys, Last year I send an email about World IPv6 day [1]. Got some responses, but nothing really happened and we missed. it. This year we have the World IPv6 launch and I hope Wikimedia will participate. I wonder if deploying ipv6 has priority at the Wikimedia Foundation. I put Erik on

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and Python

Op 10-3-2012 20:54, Steven Walling schreef: Sandboxed Python + MediaWiki = PyPedia. PDF: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5548517/PyPedia.pdf Seems interesting. Thoughts? Confusing name. We already have Pywikipedia. Maarten ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons

Hi MZMcBride, Op 20-2-2012 23:24, MZMcBride schreef: Maarten Dammers wrote: Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images categorized on Commons. I documented this at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categorize_ files . I don't think I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

Hi Petr, Op 20-2-2012 11:55, Petr Bena schreef: we have had some discussion with other devs of huggle and I have a question, what is the best location to host wikimedia related projects? www.mediawiki.org . Creating another wiki will just be a lot of extra work. Maarten

[Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons

Hi everyone, Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images categorized on Commons. I documented this at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categorize_files . I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results were quite

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

Op 31-12-2011 11:25, K. Peachey schreef: We currently have a large number of file uploads with no licensing data on MW wiki! And we should really start doing something about it, So the floor is open! What course of action should we take? * Notify all uploaders with unknown copyright files *

Re: [Wikitech-l] Files with unknown copyright status on MediaWiki wiki

Op 31-12-2011 12:59, Maciej Jaros schreef: This is probably because of UploadWizard UploadWizard is not enabled at www.mediawiki.org. I think you're mixing up Mediawiki.org and Commons Maarten ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Access to the Deleted Archives

Hi Katja, Op 11-12-2011 13:32, Katja Müller schreef: Hi there, we are doing information retrieval research on the Wikipedia history. Currently we are thinking about including the archive of Deleted Articles in the analysis. What is the current regulation on access to the Deleted Archive?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image Licenses

Hi Priyank, Op 5-8-2011 21:37, Platonides schreef: priyank bagrecha wrote: Is it possible to get a list of licenses for all the images on wikipedia programmatically? Just the licenses, and a count of how many images have which particular license. Well, more or less. The licenses are noted

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate expired?

Op 27-3-2011 23:18, Roan Kattouw schreef: 2011/3/27 Schneelockeschneelo...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, did the SSL certificate for secure.wikimedia.org expire? It did, yes. Informing our ops department, they should be able to sort this out quickly. Time for someone to implement

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF and IPv6

Wouldn't it be nice to just set up ipv6 a test? Something similar to https://secure.wikimedia.org/ . That way I can just open https://ipv6.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page if I want to browse Wikipedia using ipv6. Maarten Ps. Of course https://secure6.wikimedia.org/ is even better

[Wikitech-l] June 8th 2011, World IPv6 Day

On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour test drive. The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service

Re: [Wikitech-l] New committers

Hi Tim, Op 12-5-2010 11:09, Tim Starling schreef: knip * Amir Sarabadani (amir): pywikipediabot Aka Ladsgroup? How come? I'm wondering because my experience in the past with him wasn't that good. He tried to run bots on Commons and failed. Very hard to communicate with him. I can only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons new file feed

Platonides schreef: Tisza Gergő wrote: Hi, is there a MediaWiki feature or external tool to get a live feed of Commons file uploads? (By live I mean something that can be used to show a realtime slideshow of new images. I vaguely remember someone saying that the WMF office has a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Uploads on small wikis

Roan Kattouw schreef: 2010/3/12 Marcus Buck w...@marcusbuck.org: Additionally why do we always present English as default to unregistered users on Commons? Why don't we observe the accept-language HTTP header? That would be some easy steps to make Commons much more accessible to

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading with the API

Hi Ryan, Ryan Kaldari schreef: Speaking of file uploading, what's the status of uploading through the API? Are all the features at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Uploading_files available through Commons now? Does anyone know which bot libraries, if any, have been updated to use