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

2013-06-03 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-06-02 16:38, David Cuenca a écrit : 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

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

2013-06-03 Thread David Cuenca
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)

2013-06-03 Thread Merlijn van Deen
On 31 May 2013 17:19, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure that the 'syncing' can be accomplished by a simple bot, and it might even already exist(?). Will be happy to help write the bot if it doesn't exist yet. Kasper Souren contributed replicate_wiki.py to pywikipedia at the

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

2013-06-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/03/2013 10:05 AM, David Cuenca wrote: On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: mediawiki.org is a better central location for code. Could associated templates be stored there as well? Maybe, but Wikisource.org or the local wikis is probably

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

2013-06-02 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le vendredi 31 mai 2013 à 11:15 -0400, David Cuenca a écrit : Hi all, After a talk with Brad Jorsch during the Hackathon (thanks again Brad for your patience), it became clear to me that Lua modules can be localized either by using system messages or by getting the project language code

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

2013-06-02 Thread Paul Selitskas
Yeah, let's make them configurable so people can set the scope of projects (all wikis, specific families, etc... languages?). On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Le vendredi 31 mai 2013 à 11:15 -0400, David Cuenca a écrit : Hi all, After a

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

2013-06-02 Thread David Cuenca
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

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

2013-06-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/02/2013 10:38 AM, David Cuenca wrote: - wikisource has a central location that can be used for this purpose, other projects don't have it specifically. It could be meta, but that should be discussed mediawiki.org is a better central location for code. Matt Flaschen

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

2013-05-31 Thread David Cuenca
Hi all, After a talk with Brad Jorsch during the Hackathon (thanks again Brad for your patience), it became clear to me that Lua modules can be localized either by using system messages or by getting the project language code (mw.getContentLanguage().getCode()) and then switching the message.

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

2013-05-31 Thread Yuvi Panda
I'm pretty sure that the 'syncing' can be accomplished by a simple bot, and it might even already exist(?). Will be happy to help write the bot if it doesn't exist yet. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

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

2013-05-31 Thread Paul Selitskas
It's the worst case scenario. Bot syncing is a bad practice (and it was such since the beginning of times). Since we have banners (CentralNotice) and interwiki links (Wikidata) centralized, perhaps we should move forward and start centralizing on-wiki development efforts. There are also global

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

2013-05-31 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.com wrote: It's the worst case scenario. Bot syncing is a bad practice (and it was such since the beginning of times). Since we have banners (CentralNotice) and interwiki links (Wikidata) centralized, perhaps we should move

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

2013-05-31 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Yuvi Panda date=2013-05-31 time=22:04:09 +0530 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Paul Selitskas p.selits...@gmail.com wrote: It's the worst case scenario. Bot syncing is a bad practice (and it was such since the beginning of times). Since we have banners (CentralNotice) and

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

2013-05-31 Thread Quim Gil
As for the OPW part... On 05/31/2013 08:15 AM, David Cuenca wrote: What do you think of this? Would be anyone available to mentor an Outreach Program for Women project? Round 6 is now running and the next one will start by the end of the year. Listing this project idea at

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

2013-05-31 Thread Helder .
See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_bits_and_pieces Helder On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Yuvi Panda date=2013-05-31 time=22:04:09 +0530 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Paul Selitskas