The topic of "What is going on with Liquid Threads?" has popped up
again[0]. I've said that I think it should be considered to be in
maintenance mode. My reasoning:
* It isn't under active development, but
* It gets quite a workout on the MW.o Support Desk (and other places on
WMF sites)
I'm fairly confident that, as a result of it being used in such a public
way, we'll be able to find someone to fix problems or at least have the
motivation to fix any problems that come up ourselves.
That is, I think it is safe to say LQT will remain usable in its current
state on any coming MW versions for the foreseeable future.
Of course, if someone wanted to start driving new development on it,
that would be great.
Right now, though, all I'm looking for is a confirmation that it will
remain usable. I imagine one of the first things that we would need to
do is include it in some testing plans.
[0] http://hexm.de/p9
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<futurama>Good news, everyone!</futurama>
As many of you know, I officially started my duties today as the WMF
Operations Engineer attached to the Tool Labs. I intend to make a point
of informing all of you of recent news, what I'm working on, and where
I'm headed at regular intervals (probably weekly).
First, a bit of news: I have had confirmation this weekend that the DB
replication made available to Tool Labs users will, in fact, allow the
creation of databases alongside the project ones. This means that one
of the use cases that seemed the most troublesome in the transition
(joins between the WMF databases and tool-specific ones) will be fully
supported.
We are making good strides in documenting the *impressive* inventory of
tools that run on toolserver and their requirements (thanks, Silke!).
The list-in-progress can be found at [1]. If you see missing or
incorrect information, please feel free to adjust it -- the more
precisely we know the requirements, the faster we can see about meeting
them.
I've started documenting my preleminary design for the shiny new Tool
Labs infrastructure at [2]. This is a living document, and will see a
great deal of revision before it's over (and will serve as the seed for
the documentation). I will shortly create a new Labs project where that
architecture is deployed in preproduction so we can shake out the
kinks. The existing projects, "bots" and "webtools" will be left active
for the forseeable future until (a) the new architecture has proven
itself and (b) every user has sucessfuly moved their tools to it.
I'm planning on having the new project be fully operational for new
tools by the time the Amsterdam Hackathon takes place at the end of May
at the very least.
For the next week, I'll be mostly in information-gathering mode, as well
as refining the design and requirements of the Tool Labs. Feel free to
poke me for information (or /with/ information) by email or on IRC
(where I am user 'Coren' and idle on #wikimedia-labs and
#wikimedia-toolserve at the very least)
-- Marc A. Pelletier
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Design
Hi!
For rendering of x3d files there is x3dom that is the "official" library of the web3D consortium. It provides two backends: one using webGL and a fallback using Flash. http://www.x3dom.org . This library looks pretty easy to integrate with MediaWiki.
Tpt
Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
On 2013-02-24 5:21 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2013-02-24 4:22 PM, "Malintha Adikari" <malintha.adikari(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of
> > Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am
interesting
> > about these projects
> >
> > Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command
lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
> > Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
> >
> >
> > Thanks & regards,
> > Malintha Adikari
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>
> If its helpful in deciding - x3d would probably be much more useful
(particularly to Wikimedia, but even generally to third parties). However
it would also be more difficult and also represents quite a bit more work.
>
> -bawolff
Sorry I realized that wasnt actually answering your question. What type of
information were you looking for?
For the x3d one - you would probably be doing two main things. First you
would need to write a filter that validates the file, and more importantly
strips any dangerous elements ( im not familar with x3d format, but for
example if user can also supply arbitrary macro scripts we would want to
filter that out probably, etc).
Second step would probably be to include some way of displaying the 3d
models inline in articles (maybe some webgl js library exists that could be
integrated in mediawiki, you would have to do some research there)
Its possible a gsoc project could be scoped to be just the first step, or
both steps depending on how much work that is.
For background research you may want to check out extensions that do the
same thing but for different formats, e.g. OggHandler (which isn't used
anymore but a lot simpler than its replacement), and PagedTiffHandler.
Emw has also started work on displaying 3d models of chemicals which sounds
related (not sure how related it actually is)
I hope that was helpful. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions.
-bawolff
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Hi,
I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of
Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am interesting
about these projects
Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
Could you please provide more detail about these projects.
Thanks & regards,
Malintha Adikari
Tested in Firefox and Chromium:
> wikitech.wikimedia.org uses an invalid security certificate.
>
> The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
>
> (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)
FYI, nameless person who fixes that. ^_^
maiki
Hi everyone,
Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but
in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a
preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a
good weekend I've set up a straw poll at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll .
Please fill it out so we can finalize the date!
Thank you,
Maarten
Wikimedia Nederland
Ps. Please forward to any relevant lists I might have missed.
Thanks a lot Quim Gil :-) I want to fix bugs and looking for what can I do.
I will check links and I am going to start fix bug.
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