TMH = Timed Media Handler. Sorry, I forgot not everyone is in the same MW Dev circles...
-- Lewis Cawte On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 16:30 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > So I'm not quite sure what TMH is Lewis, but I think that we will get Tom > Morton to do the installs of the extensions, because he's already been > working on the website. > > Perhaps other Wikimedians could suggest what extensions Tom should > install? The two i mentioned were the Timed Media Handler and Template > Styles. I'm sure there are others that would be useful though. > > John Lubbock > > Communications Coordinator > > Wikimedia UK > > +44 (0) 203 372 0767 > > > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, > Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. > > Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open > knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our > work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting > Wikimedia UK? Donate here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>. > > The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate > Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent > non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility > for its contents.* > > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 14:21, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> I'd get the contractors to install TMH - while the install itself is >> relatively simple, configuring it so the Transcode jobs don't kill all the >> other services is probably something best left to the people with an >> understanding of all the chapters infrastructure. >> >> Looking at the server list, I'd be hesitant to dive straight in it - >> which is coming from someone who's been running a commercial wiki farm for >> a number of years. >> >> Things like Template Styles are a lot easier... >> >> -- Lewis Cawte >> >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 14:14 Thomas Morton, <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> There might be some plugins missing post update; a lot of the plugins >>> dont worl with the new version. >>> >>> If you get a list together I can look to get them reinstalled. >>> >>> >>> T >>> >>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 12:05 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> We don't have any technologists on staff. We contract work to someone, >>>> but I believe they are pretty fully occupied with some back end issues at >>>> the moment. >>>> >>>> John Lubbock >>>> >>>> Communications Coordinator >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK >>>> >>>> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England >>>> and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1, >>>> Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ. >>>> >>>> Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open >>>> knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our >>>> work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting >>>> Wikimedia UK? Donate here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>. >>>> >>>> The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate >>>> Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent >>>> non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility >>>> for its contents.* >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 11:56, Lewis Cawte <lewisca...@googlemail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> In place of a more useful researched answer (as I'm in a lecture) but >>>>> does the chapter not employ/contract people to manage the websites and IT? >>>>> >>>>> I'm a bit out of touch with chapter things these days, but I'm sure >>>>> this was a thing that the contractors used to handle for staff? >>>>> >>>>> -- Lewis Cawte >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 11:35 John Lubbock, <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, this is an email to ask for help and advice on improving the >>>>>> Wikimedia UK websiite. Speaking to RexX recently at an event, I was >>>>>> discussing some of the issues we are having with the UK website recently >>>>>> as >>>>>> a result of it not being updated much. Some other chapters have recently >>>>>> gone down the path of moving away from MediaWiki to make their sites more >>>>>> user friendly, but I don't think we want to do that and I feel sure that >>>>>> with a bit of effort we could make our MediaWiki site look a lot nicer. >>>>>> >>>>>> If you look at the Special:Version >>>>>> <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Special:Version> page on the WMUK >>>>>> site, you can see all the extensions that are installed currently. It >>>>>> appears we are lacking many that would be useful, and not being a huge >>>>>> MediaWiki person I wonder if anybody could lend a hand with helping to >>>>>> install some. In particular, we cannot display video on the site, because >>>>>> there is no Timed Media Handler extension. We probably also need Template >>>>>> Styles for reactive tables, and there's probably more that would be >>>>>> useful. >>>>>> I would really appreciate if anybody could offer help in installing these >>>>>> and/or advising what other extensions we should install. >>>>>> >>>>>> The website really needs quite a lot of work, but one thing I would >>>>>> really like to be able to do is to automate scraping the image and lead >>>>>> paragraph off blog posts and having it go onto the WMUK main Wiki page. >>>>>> At >>>>>> the moment this needs to be done manually and this is quite annoying. The >>>>>> same goes for the events list on the main Wiki page, which constantly has >>>>>> to be updated and duplicated from the Events page. Again, if anybody >>>>>> knows >>>>>> how this could be achieved, we would be very grateful. >>>>>> >>>>>> One idea I'd like to suggest for doing this is to have a WMUK one day >>>>>> workshop with anybody who is interested to meet up and work with us on >>>>>> improving the site. I would be happy to organise this and arrange it if >>>>>> people would like to attend help us improve the site. If you would be >>>>>> willing to willing to come to London for this kind of event, please let >>>>>> me >>>>>> know so I can get an idea of how many people might come and help out. >>>>>> >>>>>> I hope that Wikimedia UK can also be here to support your Wikimedia >>>>>> work and projects, so please bear in mind that there are always small >>>>>> grants available for expenses to cover members' projects, so please let >>>>>> us >>>>>> know what interesting things you have been doing and if there is any way >>>>>> we >>>>>> can support you. >>>>>> >>>>>> All the best, >>>>>> >>>>>> John Lubbock >>>>>> >>>>>> Communications Coordinator >>>>>> >>>>>> Wikimedia UK >>>>>> >>>>>> +44 (0) 203 372 0767 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England >>>>>> and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. 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