Hi,
Starting from a very different problem, I found myself asking a very
strange question: How will the Visual Editor interact with Wikidata?
Namely, let's say that somebody is editing the article about Romania
in the visual editor. The article contains an infobox with all the
data brought from Wikidata. The user will edit one of those fields
(say, the president's name). Will that change automatically be
reflected back to Wikidata? If not, will it be even possible to edit
those fields? If the change is pushed to Wikidata, how are conflicts
handled (2 users editing the president's name on different wikis
during a very crowded period when changes take a while to replicate
and one of them makes a mistake)?
I seem to remember that wikidata edit-in-place is planned for phase
II, but I always assumed this would happen using some kind of popup
window, which kindof beats the purpose of a visual editor.
Thanks,
Strainu
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Date: Thursday 2013-01-17
Time: 10:00 UTC - 11:00 UTC
What: Knowledge transfer Solr in Translate
Where: Google Hangout (*send me a mail for an invitation*)
Seats left: 5 (first come, first served, I'll overbook by 2)
Over the past few months, we have started integrating MediaWiki's Translate
extension tighter with Apache Solr for translation memory and translation
search features. This session is primarily meant to transfer knowledge
about the use of Solr in Translate to other members of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team. As we're doing it anyway, we thought we might as
well invite more people that have and interest in the technology.
Cheers!
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Over the past week or so, I've found the review bot[1] created by Merlijn
extremely helpful. It automatically adds me as reviewer to all patch sets
that make changes to a file with "i18n" or "Messages" in the path. I try to
review within 12 hours, but as I need to sleep, spend time with the family,
eat and work on other stuff also, that sometimes doesn't happen. I'm also
subscribed to the mailing list mediawiki-commits, which is a stream for
*all* changes that come through Gerrit. Very high volume (200-400 e-mails a
day), but very useful for the type of work I do. Hard to keep up with, too.
Reviewer bot has malfunctioned a few times over the past few days. In those
cases I was not added as a reviewer. Apologies if I failed to review your
patch set. If you want to ensure that I have a look at it, please add
"siebrand" to the reviewers of your patch set. Sometimes I'm able to also
review patch sets other than i18n/L10n related, but because if a high
workload, I sometimes decline requests for review that are outside of my
direct scope. I hope you understand.
Other users that can review your i18n related patch sets are Amir Aharoni,
Niklas Laxström and Santhosh Thottingal. Feel free to send me a mail if you
think your patch set should have gotten an i18n review already, but didn't.
Rock on!
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Reviewers
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Hello extension developers, extension users, and people who hate NFS:
I'm finishing up rewriting ExtensionDistributor[0] so it'll be more reliable
and not rely on NFS. In the process of doing this, I've changed how
it fetches the archives. Instead of cloning all of the repositories and
generating the archives on-disk, we'll now utilize the Github API to
generate archives for us (this is configurable, if we decide that Github
isn't going to work for some reason). I think this is really cool because
it supports both tags *and* branches.
Now, since the big move to Git, ExtensionDistributor hasn't really
worked for branches other than master. When we deploy the new
version, I'm thinking we configure $wgExtDistBranches as follows:
$wgExtDistBranches = array(
'master',
'SNAPSHOT-for-1.21',
'SHAPSHOT-for-1.20',
...
);
We can go ahead and create tags for the existing released versions
to approximate snapshots of each extension as of the corresponding
MediaWiki release. Extension authors can update the tag (or maybe
use a branch, if they want) using the same name that we have
configured.
I'm willing to bikeshed (a little) on the "SNAPSHOT-for-1.21" tag
names, but I was looking for something that would be unlikely to
conflict with people's existing tags/branches, and clear that it's a
snapshot in most instances.
I don't have an exact date picked for deployment yet, but it'd be
nice to have the snapshot tag names sorted out before we do.
-Chad
[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/37478/
Hi,
Even before joining the WMF I have heard about the "opportunities for
sysadmins to contribute", the possibility to get involved in Wikipedia
that way, how great https://labs.wikimedia.org/ is for this purpose and
the inevitable mention to Puppet at some point.
While improving http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute I
couldn't find (m)any details about how a volunteer sysadmin could enter
this path and make progress until, say, becoming a Wikimedia sysadmin
wearing a 'got [Wikimedia logo] root' shirt.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub seems to be the closest
landing page for a sysadmin volunteer, but that page needs love and
there is little to be found there for wannabe contributors.
I can put some time sorting out this, but I need help from the people in
the know. We could start defining the first step that a potential
sysadmin volunteer could make in order to become a helpful contributor.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
FYI :)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Announcing Patrick Reilly as Site Performance Engineer and
Senior Technical Advisor
To: Staff All <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
it's my pleasure to announce the promotion of Patrick Reilly to the
role of Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor.
It's been planned for a long time for Patrick to focus on site
performance as his next step after his role on the mobile team. On the
mobile team, he was responsible for building out the initial
MobileFrontend extension, and has been the team's tech lead
since then, succeeded in this role by Brion Vibber.
I've decided to also designate Patrick as Senior Technical Advisor.
Patrick has been invaluable in the last few weeks in supporting hiring
processes, cross-team coordination, and technical evaluations. I
will continue to rely on Patrick's expertise and network to support
technical coordination across the department. This is one of the near
term improvements to increase my bandwidth and capacity as well.
Patrick will report to me. For performance and architecture projects,
he'll work directly with engineers working in those areas (Tim, Asher,
Aaron, Ori, etc.). I've posted the job description for this role here for
reference:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Site_Performance_Engineer…
Please join me in congratulating Patrick.
All best,
Erik
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We're still a few months from a release of 1.21, but I'd like to start
thinking about what we can tell the users of MediaWiki about it.
In that vein, what changes or features have you been working on? I'll
spend some time looking over the commit messages, but often those don't
give the sort of "big picture" that end users of MW could benefit from.
If you would rather update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21
yourself, feel free. Otherwise, I'll try to update that page with user
visible changes and improvements that third party users of MW could
benefit from.
In a side note: I'm not very good with visual presentation. If anyone
wants to take on that bit of the release notes, watch the page and chime
in where you think you can help.
Mark.
--
http://hexmode.com/
Language will always shift from day to day. It is the wind blowing
through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
To: maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).
To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.
WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate