MediaWiki-India January 2013

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Mediawiki
by Arun Ramarathnam 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Dear all, It is great to have this new list. To introduce myself, I have been a wikipedia contributor for a few years and recently started dabbling with Mediawiki. I have been trying to put together a mediawiki based site for a specific purpose. That's when I discovered that the many things we take for granted on Wikipedia don't come out of the box in a new media wiki installation and need to be added. For example: - Templates (especially infobox, which we are so used to on WP, havent figured how to add these) - Having to install Extension cite (for references) and not being out of the box was a surprise. - Addition to addon like Wikilove and WikiEditor. - Extensions I had not heard of like Parser, Validator seem essential - Extensions to manage spam need to be installed additionally Also I had a few other struggles: There are so many extensions but still difficult to choose. Wish they were organised better. Also Many don't have links to examples where they are deployed, that would a be very helpful. Help doesn't get installed for a new mediawiki and needs to be copied for from mediawiki.org Also the user manual has so much detail, that it would scare off a new user. I have grouped the help into 4 sets - reader, editor, experienced, advanced editor and admin on my instance to make it easy for new users. Thought of sharing my experience and seeks any inputs or advise from the more experience folks on the list (Apologies if I am wrong in any of the above). I found SMW very exciting in terms of capability and impact it could create. I would be keen to connect with folks who are familiar with SMW. Some suggestions for projects that could be considered: Base template kit to import for new wikis Create more add on bundles like the Semantic Bundle. Great to be on this list. regards Arun

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application
by Harsh Kothari 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Simon Shek <simon.shek(a)wikimedia.hk> Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:33 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong are being accept. The application window is one month (through 22 February). Wikimania 2013 scholarship is an award given to an individual to enable them to attend Wikimania in Hong Kong from 7-11 August, 2013. Both types of scholarships will be available this year. Partial scholarships will cover travel expenses to Wikimania, capped at 50% of the estimated air fare from your nearest international airport according to [[wm2013:Getting to Hong Kong]]. Full scholarships will cover round-trip travel, dorms accommodations as arranged by the Wikimania Team, and registration for Wikimania 2013. Applicants will be rated on the following four dimensions: 1. Activity within Wikimedia (on-wiki and off-wiki) - 50% 2. Activity outside of Wikimedia and other free knowledge/software projects - 15% 3. Interest in Wikimania and the Wikimedia movement - 25% 4. Fluency of English language - 10% To learn more about Wikimania 2013 scholarships, please visit https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form here: https://scholarship.wikimedia.hk If you have any question, email us at wikimania-shcolarship(a)wikimedia.org . Good luck! Simon Shek Community coordinator - Wikimania 2013 / Wikimedia Hong Kong wikimedia.hk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Harsh Kothari Engineering Trainee, Physical Research Laboratory. Follow Me : harshkothari410 <https://twitter.com/harshkothari410/>

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
by Harsh Kothari 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

FYI --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. Begin forwarded message: > From: Ct Woo <ctwoo(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] More Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13 > Date: 20 January 2013 12:27:28 AM GMT+05:30 > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Engineering <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > All, > > We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming > Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and > insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then. > > During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00 > UTC to 01:00 UTC hours / 9am to 5pm PST), there would be times (lasting > about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to "read-only" mode, to > facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another. > While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be > created, edited or uploaded. > > We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to > minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures, > mitigating known risks, and performing tests to identify issues prior to > deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize > not all operational impact is predictable. Some users could experience > intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately. > > You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> > (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the > #wikimedia-operations channel. > > Thanks, > CT Woo > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ct Woo <ctwoo(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM > Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date > is week of 1/22/13 > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and > Operations Engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > All, > > The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining tasks to > ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big switchover > day. > > Per my last update,<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html> > with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled the *week > of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to block a > 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those > periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will be > intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages. You > can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the #wikimedia-operations > channel. > > The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we will > make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send out > then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes are > captured on this wikitech > page<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switc…> > . > > *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that week, > allowing only emergency and critical ones only.* > > Thanks. > > CT Woo > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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shortcut keys script
by tarun bansal 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

the following script was created at Hackfest, IITM with the help of mentor Yuvi Panda. It enables custom shortcut keys. You can set your own key-selector id mapping in the keymap.js file. importScript('User:Tarun365/shortcuts.js'); -- Tarun Bansal Computer Science and Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology,Vellore

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GNUnify Pune 2013
by Harsh Kothari 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi All This is page for coordination of GNUnify event. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/GNUnify Thanks Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.

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Typing in Indic Languages from mobile phones made Easy!
by Subhashish Panigrahi 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi all, This is a post which I mailed to the India community during the release of the Indic typing tool. I feel it is also relevant for this list. So, sending it again ;-) Recently YuviPanda visited us during his vacation along with John and Rob from WMF. Yuvi spent a week with us and I got a chance to explain how problematic it is for a mobile user to type in Indic languages though most smartphones have sound font support and rendering. I explained him what an end user would like to have (A simple interface and easy navigation, options to switch typing schemes/languages (Indic ↔ English) and readable Indic font size). Based on the jQuery.ime for Indic languages Yuvi created a prototype (http://goo.gl/jH3TO). In rounds of testing and bug fixing finally it is here: http://yuvi.in/indic -typing/index.html Right now it works online for most smartphones having Indic and rendering support. Someone can use it online from the same link above. The offline version works fro iPhone and Yuvi is working on fixing bugs for Android. The offline app will soon be available for Android. Once it works perfectly with Android it will be made available for free in Android market. We are still to test this for Symbian, Blackberry and Windows, 3 other market leaders. Please test and give us feedback and report bugs on Meta<http://goo.gl/sBiaF> (http://goo.gl/sBiaF). I am still in the pipeline to persuade to add a feature for searching on Indic wikipedias from this app. Please join me clapping for Yuvi for this amazing tool and persuading him for adding the search option for Indicwikipedias which will enable a user to search in a respective language wikipedia by typing a particular word in this tool! *Quick links:* *-> Link to the tool:* http://bitly.com/indictyping *-> Tutorial to use it online and offline (For iPhone):* http://goo.gl/HdVJW *-> Quick links:* - Source code: https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool - Test the app and report the bugs directly on GitHub<https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool/issues> or on Meta <http://goo.gl/sBiaF>. - App credits: YuviPanda <http://yuvi.in/>, Subhashish Panigrahi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish> , Santhosh Thottingal<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santhosh.thottingal> ->* Blog post about the tool<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles> *: (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic -languages-from-mobiles) -- Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society, New Delhi @psubhashish

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Fwd: Introducing mediawiki-india mailing list
by Yuvi Panda 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Forwarding to mediawiki-l ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM Subject: Introducing mediawiki-india mailing list To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone! As part of growing a sustainable technical community around MediaWiki in India, a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe to it at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india This is the first geographical MediaWiki list (rationale[1]) - and hence we're still experimenting with the scope. If topics being discussed on mediawiki-india would benefit from wider exposure, I'm sure they'll 'bubble up' to wikitech-l or mediawiki-l. I also think that a lot of talk about events that happen locally. It would also serve as a central mailing list for the new city-wide MediaWiki groups that form in India. But honestly, I've no idea how this is going to be used :) So [[WP:BOLD]] and go wild :) Looking forward to having more Mediawiki hackers from India! [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups#Local_vs_regional -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Central place to keep an account of the work we are doing
by Pratik Lahoti 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi all, I have created a page[1] where we can keep an account of the work we are doing around gadgets and their porting on various Indic language Wikipedia's. It is just a draft. Feel free to change it and add more gadgets. Cheers! [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive/gadgets -- Warm Regards, *Pratik Lahoti* User:BPositive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive> *Speak less, work more....*

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Code editor gadget for Wiki
by Sivabalan Thirunavukkarasu 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi all, I have developed a code editor gadget to replace the existing text editor when users edit JS/CSS files. Have a go at it and let me know of any feedback that you might have. Code editor can be enabled by adding the below to common.js: importScript('User:Sivabalan.t/wikiCodeEditor/code-editor.js'); Please add issues here : https://github.com/sivabalan/wikiCodeEditor/issues Thanks, Siva

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new edit counter created
by tarun bansal 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi, i have created a script to display number of edits made by a user next to the username at top right. Please Import if you need it importScript('User:Tarun365/showedit.js'); Thank you

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