Mediawiki-enterprise March 2013

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New Developments. Let's talk about it
by Richard Heigl 14 May '13

14 May '13

Dear all, this afternoon I was reading about the coming Flow extension. That's really great work. And I can't wait to work with it. And there are so many other interesting projects: Visual Editor, Parsoid, Athena skin, Echo, Lua, Wiki Data and so on. Despite of that MediaWiki you can see at Google Trends, that MediaWiki is still loosing attention. And in my opinion people just don't know, that MediaWiki is catching up. And they don't know, that it needs help. But this is important for all of us, that developers see, that MediaWiki is no longer a software of the "zero" years. So I suggest to publish more blog articles and social media posts about this new developments and if somebody has something nice to read, to discuss or to share gives a hint, so that the others can spread the news in their community. Best regards, Richard Dr. Richard Heigl Strategieberatung Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH __________________________________ Residenzstraße 2 93047 Regensburg Tel. +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80-193 Fax +49 (0) 941 - 66 0 80-189 www.hallowelt.biz heigl(a)hallowelt.biz Sitz: Regensburg Amtsgericht: Regensburg Handelsregister: HRB 10467 E.USt.Nr.: DE 253050833 Geschäftsführer: Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Dr. Richard Heigl, Radovan Kubani

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MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement
by Mark A. Hershberger 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

I've just finished preparing the first release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 and I'd like your help testing it before the final release. Please download the release candidate and test it. If you find any bugs please report them on Bugzilla[1] and make sure I am added as a CC so that we can fix any show-stoppers before the final release. Finally, if you could also look over https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21, I'll be using an edited version of that to make the final announcement. If you spot problems or areas that could use clarification, your help in improving it would be appreciated. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki&cc=mah@every… Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc1.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz.sig http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.patch.gz.sig http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc1.patch.gz.s… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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Setting up a MediaWiki installation in 1 big step - and livestream for SMWCon
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

I'm at SMWCon right now http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013 and Mike Cariaso is right now presenting his work on "Automating SMW install and data loading." http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2013/Automating_SMW_instal… I bet a lot of the administrators on mediawiki-l and mediawiki-enterprise would be interested in reusing his work to automate their MediaWiki installation work. I think you'll be interested in this and in some other SMWCon presentations today -- you can watch live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/13510010 and read Cariaso's slides at https://tinyurl.com/smw-nyc2013 (also https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L-DC4VWtjokLvfip2oQ4k7u3lwdBbXI-1WB… ). -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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how do you store and modify your platform code?
by Yury Katkov 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hi guys! We have about 30 extensions in our platform and we really try hard not to modify MediaWiki and the extensions that weren't made by us. Unfortunately sometimes we have to modify them and even more regretfully we don't send the patches to vendors immediately. The result is obvious and sad - the vendors continue to develop their extensions and at one inevitable moment we have to deal with upgrading and merging. :-( We're using git to store all the code and it doesn't allow the nested .git directories to be presented in the same project. How do you deal with that? Do you use git submodules, separate repositories for the patched extensions or some fancy policy and documentation? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

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Submit a talk to Open Source Bridge by Mar 23rd, get WMF subsidy
by Sumana Harihareswara 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

This year, consider speaking at Open Source Bridge <http://opensourcebridge.org/> in Portland, Oregon, USA, June 18-21. OSB is tech talks & hack sessions with hands-on technologists we want, for Foundation staff recruiting and for volunteer recruiting and collaboration. Good talks, clueful people, great food. :-) If you submit a talk and it gets accepted, you can request subsidy from Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support> for your travel and hotel. Call for talks: <http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/03/were-extending-our-call-for-propos…> They especially encourage inexperienced speakers. We already have proposals from or featuring Brandon Harris, Andre Klapper, Trevor & Roan, me, Priyanka Nag, Quim Gil, Alolita Sharma, and Noopur Raval. Please forward. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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