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Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement
by Mark A. Hershberger 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

On 03/31/2013 10:58 PM, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote: > Should I install git ? No, this is a complete, downloadable version. > Should I install PHP ? Yes, MediaWiki requires at least version 5.3.2 of PHP. > Should I install MathJax ? > Should I install C++? > Suould I install Latex? None of these is needed. > What versions of the software above are required for and compatible with > your version of wiki? Note that this is a release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21.0 -- it is not "my" version of the software as I've done nothing special with this. I am the release manager for MediaWiki and this is a release candidate for a normal release. This may not be absolutely clear since I used my own server for the release instead of download.wikimedia.org. I had the release ready and didn't want to wait for someone to upload it to download.wm.o, so I put it on my own server. The next release candidate will be on download.wm.o. > Does your version of wiki support pictures in PDF and/or EPS format? MediaWiki supports uploading PDF and EPS files with the right configuration. I haven't tried uploading EPS files, but providing thumbnails of these and the PDFs should work. -- http://hexmode.com/ [We are] immortal ... because [we have] a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. -- William Faulker, Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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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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BlueSpice presentation summary ( some very interesting features for the enterprise and not only)
by Maria Miteva 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

*Hi everybody, Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! presented their MediaWiki-based enterprise distribution BlueSpice<http://www.blue-spice.org/>yesterday. Around 6-7 people attended the online meeting, but I believe some of those who were unable to will be interested in the cool features Richard and Markus showed us, so I am sharing a summary below. Please read on :) BlueSpice was developed over the last 6 years. It is installed on top of vanilla MediaWiki and offers a bundle of extensions, some MediaWiki-native and some proprietary to BlueSpice. Customers get assurance of the compatibility of the bundle with given MediaWiki versions as well as a roadmap of future releases. The basic BlueSpice distribution comes for free, while support, training, special packages, etc. are paid for. Hallo Welt! are planning to move to Git in the next few months and open up BlueSpice to the MediaWiki community. The code is currently available for anyone to look at and reuse. However, If you want to submit a patch, you have to email them. This will change soon. Also, documentation in English is limited but they are working on translating all materials/docs/demos in the next several months. BlueSpice offers the following features catering to the enterprise user : WYSIWYG editor - might be replaced by VisualEditor soon but was a major advantage of BlueSpice so far - easy creation of tables - easy upload of photos and files - interface for insertion of magic words - easy insertions of links within the wiki with a drop down menu of articles - still need to use wikicode a little Improved search - advanced options - filter (by namespace, etc.) - suggestions as you type - search file names Advanced administration panel - user management - manage email, rights, passwords - connects to LDAP, allows single signon - extensions management for BlueSpice extensions - list of extensions with status (stable, beta) - automatic testing of extensions - in the next release it will show you when a newer version of an extension exists and what kind of update it is (security, feature) - in the future they hope to have a common repository for BlueSpice and other MediaWiki extensions with the ability to switch extensions on/off and update from the UI - permission manager - assign permissions to users - namespace manager - no need to touch the config files - add, edit properties - merge namespaces - delete namespaces and backup pages in them PDF export - you can organize your contents in a hierarchical navigation menu (like a book with chapters and articles) and you can export a chapter as pdf ( soon openoffice and Word doc as well ) - you export to predefined templates - you get all linked attachments in the pdf as well - excellent for creating up-to-date manuals and technical documentation with a click Improved navigation - status bar on top of article - last updated, by whom, responsible editor - every user has a personal navigation bar depending on his preferences Article feedback - you can assign responsible editors for articles - article review tool - you can ask certain people to review a draft article, define a review period, etc. Statistics - improved statistics with visualization, diagrams, etc. - you can look at history of searchers with counts - RSS feeds Skins - they offer a few skins but want to improve on that SMW + BlueSpice? - theere are several examples that use both and it works without conflicts - there are some conflicts in terms of user experience (Semantic Forms vs BlueSpice editor) but no conflicts - there is no integration between the two yet, even though there is potential for that Release Cycle - once or twice a year - releases - patch releases more often - trying to follow MW release cycle since download rate went up 3 times as they released a version supporting newer MW versions recently Richard and Markus can correct me or add more detail. For technical details, ask Markus Glaser. Mariya *

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RFC Configuration database
by Maria Miteva 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi all, If you look at the quarterly goals<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Mileston…> announced by the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department you can see implementation of the Configuration database<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database>as a goal for the first half of 2013. Configuration should be easier and less fragile with the database replacing .php config files. The database seems particularly interesting for wiki farms. Take a look, share your opinion, and follow its development. P.S. You can learn about other interesting projects going on from the goals page. Regards, Mariya

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Presentation of BlueSpice on Feb 26
by Maria Miteva 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hi everyone, Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser from Hallo Welt! in Germany will present their MediaWiki enterprise distribution BlueSpice<http://www.blue-spice.org/> on Feb 26 at 6PM UTC. The meeting will be held via Netviewer. To participants just follow the link below and you will be prompted to download a client software for the session. *https://get.netviewer.com/meet/join.php?sinr=953388244&sipw=nv64*<https://get.netviewer.com/meet/join.php?sinr=953388244&sipw=nv64> I will send a reminder before the meeting. Mariya

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DB2 users?
by Mark A. Hershberger 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Support for DB2 is in MediaWiki, but it is pretty much unmaintained. Is there anyone on this mailing list who is using it for their MediaWiki installation? It seems like a good candidate to drop from support. -- http://hexmode.com/ There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Release policy
by Maria Miteva 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi all, Forwarding some interesting information about MediaWiki's release cycle for those who might not have seen Mark's email. Mariya ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)everybody.org> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Release policy To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> After the discussion last week, I want to scope out a release policy so that we'll all know what to expect. * A major release will be made every six months. * An LTS release will be made every two years. There will be a one-year overlap in LTS support. For example, 1.19 is supported until May 2015. 1.23 will be released the year before that so that people will have 1.23 available as an LTS to move to and a year to make the transition. * Releases notes will continue to be the basis for seeing what has changed. Because of the nature of a volunteer-driven project, it isn't possible to say with any certainty what *will* happen in the next 6-12 months. * To mitigate the problem of release notes, we will publish a list of new features in the upcoming LTS relative to the last LTS six months before it comes out. This means that about the time when 1.22 comes out, we'll have an announcement for 1.19 users letting them know what changes they can expect in 1.23. * Point releases will be made periodically. Frequency TBD. Every point release will include updated i18n files as well as any bug fixes. No new features will be back-ported to point releases. Thanks, Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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