http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/03/cfp-deadline-extended-until-march-…
You (yes you, no matter where you live or who you work/don't work for)
have less than a day to submit a talk about Wikimedia stuff to Open
Source Bridge, a great open source conference. If your talk gets
accepted, tell me, and WMF will partially or fully subsidize your flight
and hotel. Details and ideas:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058791.html
I'll be there (keynote speaker), and Roan, Alolita, RobLa, Trevor,
Ironholds, jorm, and Ward Cunningham have submitted talks. Join us!
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss
wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use
personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not
want to uncover their personal email. Lot of them even have a special
private mail for wikipedia purposes. Although wikimedia has own email
server on wikimedia domain, it's being given to paid staff only, so
question is if it would be worth of having an email service for
volunteers who request it (it should be probably limited to users who
match some criteria) or just a forward service which can help us to
get our personal email hidden (this would not eat space and would be
very cheap). I understand that people from foundation might have
concerns that volunteers with wikimedia.org emails could cause some
troubles or people might be in thought they are employees, so why not
to use some another domain, like wmflabs.org for developers and
wikipedia.org for wikipedians for example (other domains for
respective projects). What do you think?
Since we're still struggling with Git, Gerrit, and figuring out the
new work-flow, Sumana asked me to hold a triage on the the issues
people have filed in Bugzilla and then write this follow-up report.
I used the open blockers on #22596
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=22596) to
guide the triage. Chad wasn't able to be in IRC at the time, but he did
update the etherpad (http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2012-03)
and Bugzilla afterwards.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33773: [TestSwarm] fetcher need git
support
Antoine had filed this bug but had since decided to just use
Jenkins to push new code to testswarm. WONTFIX'd.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34141: Integrate Jenkins with Git
Antoine said that this is (after his current focus on 1.19) his
highest priority and he will be focused on it.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34426: installer: ability to override
LocalSettings.php filename
Antoine made the following note on the bug (which is mostly a
placeholder for himself):
I am going to need this in Jenkins to setup a local fetch out
to be able to use multiple databases backend.
The fix is easy to handle and not that much needed till we
start having tests against MySQL / postgre backends which are
not high priority.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34349: Triage Git conversion issues wiki
pages
Sumana made this -- turning issues noted on the wiki into Bugzilla
issues so that they would be easier to track -- into a TODO for herself
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35144: Autolink to new Gerrit / Git
changesets and SHA-1 commits
Chad has updated bugzilla to support links to "gerrit #XXX".
We'll probably want to update it further to support Gerrit's GIT
ids following RobLa's suggestion:
The Gerrit UI seems to prefix Git ids with a capital "I", even
offering a button for copying the full SHA-1 hash to the
clipboard prefixed with the "I".
I plan to set up a Labs instance of Bugzilla -- which we need to
do to enable puppetizing Bugzilla -- so I'll have a chance to look
at other Git links then.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35145: Make git-review more easy to
install on Windows
Although we have some contributors who use Windows, this isn't a
blocker for them, so we lowered the priority. We do want to make
sure that new contributors are able to use Gerrit, though, so this
will be something we are interested in.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35460: Need commit notes to match SVN
revision numbers for core
Chad writes:
refs/notes/commits has information regarding the original SVN
commit info. This is correct and in place for SVN extensions,
but I messed it up for core. It's not super-high priority, but
I don't know if anyone other than me can do it.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35462: Tell git on gerrit.wikimedia.org
not to generate spurious terminal sequences
Antoine said that Marcin could work on this. Marcin confirmed
that he would try to track this down, so I assigned it to him.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35469: Let LocalisationUpdate fetch from
Git
An update to this script was deployed by operations. When we
checked during the Triage, though, it wasn't working. Roan
tracked this down and commited a fix.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35497: Two-way syncing between Gerrit and GitHub
Since I'm currently working on a way to merge patches from
Bugzilla to Gerrit, I don't think this would be too much trouble
to add once I have that working. Anyone else who wants to
integrate GitHub or Gitorious before I get to it should feel free
to, though.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35429: Setup external git mirrors/clones
Chad said that "It should be pretty easy--gerrit has built-in
replication we can use."
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35508: List of Gerrit users
After some discussion during triage, Sumana clarified this
request:
This request is for us to hack something by generating a user
page based on the Gerrit database, per the instructions in
https://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/msg/c426b6a83400b58ehttp://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35510: Make Gerrit project list more
discoverable and available
We'd like to get the scrape this data from the UI. Chad gives a
pointer in the right direction if anyone wants to tackle this:
Something working from
gerrit.wm.o/r/gerrit/rpc/ProjectAdminService should do.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35455: Change Gerrit database schema to support utf8
Supposedly, this would come out of the box if we used PostgreSQL
or the embedded H2 database backend, we would get this
out-of-the-box.
Chad thinks this is silly and thinks he can change the collation
without an issue. He'll test his theory soon.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35531: Send email notifications of all
MediaWiki commits to mediawiki-cvs list
"Trivial -- someone just has to play with the hooks"
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35532: Include unified diff in gerrit
email notifications
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35533: Include link to unified diff in
gerrit notifications
Chad says an upstream change is required for these two fixes.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35534: Implement a way to group related
commits (allowing a commit to be in multiple groups)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35535: No way to mark merged commits as
needing fixing
Again, Chad says this is an upstream request to allow free-form
tagging.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35537: Commits from the l10n-bot should
be merged immediately (automatically)
Chad's on this--high priority
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/35538: Commits from the l10n-bot
shouldn't create too much spam
We don't know of a clean way around this right now for e-mails yet
(suppress e-mail via hook?), but we can easily skip IRC stuff with
some minor tweaks to the hooks.
Thank you to all participants!
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Mark A. Hershberger
Bugmeister
Wikimedia Foundation
mah(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
I am Aashish Mittal, a final year student from Mumbai University, India. I
aim to take part in GSoC 2012 with Mediawiki and wish to get an early start
in knowing and understanding the software well.
I am relatively new to the organizationg. I have been through the intro
steps <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker> and
the project ideas of this year. I have started working on the code and
submitted a patch for one of the bugs (bug
33545<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33545>)
and am looking into solving more bugs.
I am going through the projects and the attached links. However, I would
request some more details on the following projects:
1. Integration of Mediawiki/Sakai: I have been a GSoC student with Sakai in
2010, so I would like to explore the project more deeper.
2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for
conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a better
technical understanding of this project related to the implementation of
the project. Any appropriate link or some useful guidelines would be great.
Apart from the above two projects, I am interested in a couple of more
projects (Create a way to have “books” for
wikisource/wikibooks<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071>and
Give editors a way to slice
and dice their watchlists with
groups)<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5875>.
I am going through the comments on their bugzilla page.
Kindly provide me with some suggestions or tips which would help me
understand the project and their implementation aspects better. Any help
regarding the same would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Aashish
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Aashish Mittal
Student at University of Mumbai
Gtalk: ashishmittal.mail(a)gmail.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aashishmittal
Oren, check this out. Could you reach out to these researchers and tell
them to subscribe to this list if they haven't already? :-)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21625-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikip…
"New search tool to unlock Wikipedia" - 28 March 2012 by Paul Marks
http://swipe.i-mozart.com/www2012demo/TR_swipe.pdf
"Called Swipe - loosely short for "searching Wikipedia by example" - the
software aims to let users of the online encyclopedia answer complex
questions that most search engines would stumble over....
"The pair wrote Swipe using MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia is based
on, but it draws its answers from DBpedia...
"...Swipe "activates" those Wikipedia info boxes, allowing users to take
the data in them and create a tweaked version, and in doing so calls up
pages that match that altered information....
"Swipe could easily be made available as an option on Wikipedia one day,
says Atzori...."
Just a heads-up.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Significantly slower today from Europe, graphs show a drastic drop at esams
http://is.gd/fKnluM and a raise on pmtpa http://is.gd/sowDb4
Can this be fixed?
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
Hi,
I am Shivansh, pursuing Engineering at BITS Pilani, currently in my 3rd
year.
I am well versed in Web Technologies, that include HTML5, JavaScripts
(jQuery),
CSS; with PHP & MySQL and App Development for Windows Phone 7.
I have worked in my college on several websites with the same knowledge. I
had
also given a talk at the 3rd WikiConference held at Mumbai on "Improving
Wiki UI
using AJAX & jQuery" & presented with 4 ideas/projects with the Wiki
community.
I am interested in developing the Frontend, as I am pretty comfortable in
designing UI using HTML, jQuery (javascripts), CSS & HTML5, particularly
dealing with Gadgets & Extensions.
I have already worked on the MediaWiki Software, & generally play around
with the extensions, but I mostly try to develop on the user common.js .
After a series of discussions & feedback, I made the proposal page -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13#My_Proposal_for_Ideas .
Kindly look at it & let me me know the feasibility of such a project.
Waiting for a reply.
Thank you.
With Regards,
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Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 |
http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shivansh-srivastava/17/a50/b18<mr.shivansh.srivastava(a)gmail.com>
<mr.shivansh.srivastava(a)gmail.com>3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) -
Electronics & Instrumentation
BITS-Pilani.
What's the standard way to reply to a comment someone has made
to one of your commits? Nothing was obvious in the interface, so
I just did a "Review" with a score of 0 (obviously :). Drawbacks
to this way:
* It really shouldn't be giving me the option to +1 my own commit
* I now show up as a reviewer, which is odd
* It calls up a new page, so I cannot see the comment I am replying to
Not a big deal, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)endpoint.com
End Point Corporation
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8
Hi,
I'd like to participate in Google Summer of Code. After thinking about
several options (global preferences, export/import, ...) I took the
subject that I am most excited about and that is a continuation of
what I have been doing as a volunteer, improving Incubator (with an
extension) and language support of MediaWiki.
Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/GSoC , any
feedback is of course welcome. (It's difficult to guess what is too
little or too much.)
As I am not home from 31 March till 6 April, I will have to submit it
now in two days, because I am not sure I will have internet access
during that week.
Thanks
Robin