Hi all,
Danese Cooper, the "open source diva", and Wikimedia's very own Chief
Technology Officer, will be our guest at office hours on Wednesday, 22
September at 23:00UTC (16:00 Pacific, 19:00 Eastern, 01:00 Thursday
CET). This is a great opportunity to spend time with Danese and talk
about her exciting plans for the future of Wikimedia's technological
infrastructure.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-office). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
As always, the chat will be logged and put on meta for those who are
unable to join.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Philippe
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Head of Reader Relations
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Dear all,
I am planning to modify the <pages> tag, so that content from pages marked as "empty" (quality0) will either not be transcluded at all, or will be transcluded without page number, and without appending a newline character.
The main reason for this change is to improve the support for multilingual books. Currently, the <pages> tag creates an empty paragraph for each empty page that is in its list ; this means that pages with text in other languages, typically rendered with {{iwpage}}, do have a side effect.
This side effect can be observed here :
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Satire_1_(Horace,_Raoul)
In this example, pages in latin generate an empty paragraph, which is visible in the transclusion ; the line spacing is too large on each page break.
Before I proceed with this change, I would like to know if it could have unexpected consequences. Please let me know if you know texts or wikis that use quality0 in an unintended way (besides de.ws).
Thomas
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Hi all,
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will
be having office hours this Thursday (September 16) at 17:00 UTC
(10:00 PT, 13:00 ET, 19:00 CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
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Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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Dear wikilibrarians,
during Wikimania I had the opportunity to speak with some developers who
told me that,
if in these years there has been an hard work on MediaWiki search engine
(especially for optimizing it for Wikipedia and other projects),
Wikisource as a project has always been omitted.
As far as I can tell, the search engine in Wikisource fails to understand
clearly that Index: and Page: are *fundamental* namespaces,
and (at least in it.s, where we have an Author: namespace) it fails often in
finding authors as well.
I would like to ask you if some hacks or measures has been taken in your
project,
or if there is a solution we could ask together directly to the
developers.
Aubrey