MediaWiki-l March 2017

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by martin knaup 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hi. For a personal project I installed a fresh wiki without any extensions. I read a lot manual pages but it really hard to find help - e g community forum - when something doesn't work as described. So I hope to find some help here. At the moment I have two problems. I start with one. I upload an image and add a Infobox / Summary. Code is: == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information | description=DB 798 729 und Klv 53 0749 in Bahnhof Ringelstein. | date=2014-5-23 | author=Klaus Brockmeier | source=Flickr }} But when I save the changes I see only a Link "Template:Information" for an unwritten page. What do I wrong? Thanks, Martin

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Understanding the generation of thumbs ...
by [[kgh]] 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Heiya, I would like to understand a bit better how thumbs are generated by MediaWiki with the help of ImageMagick. Basically what I want to achieve is that only 4 thumbs are generated per uploaded file. I figured that "$wgThumbLimits" [0] is the setting to control this so I set: $wgThumbLimits = array( 180, 200, 250, 300 ); I assumed that if the user can only select one of the given sizes I would MediaWiki would only generate thumbs in the sizes defined with the setting. What I however got is thumbs in up to 12 sizes ranging from 120px to 2880px depending on the size of the file uploaded. So this setting is not the one and I did not really find a setting allowing me to control thumb generation. I am kinda lost in thumbs now so any hint will be appreciated ... Cheers Karsten [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgThumbLimits

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Wikimedia Foundation seeks Product Manager for MediaWiki
by Chris Koerner 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hello all, I don't think anyone has shared this news and I'm personally very excited for this new role. The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Product Manger for MediaWiki. Maybe you've heard of it? :) Seriously though, this is a pretty unique opportunity and I hope folks who are interested will consider applying. There's more information about the position at the following link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/613548?gh_src=1u385n1#.WLl6V4hi… Yours, Chris K. ''Sent in my volunteer capacity, but I disclose I work for the WMF''

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Error saving translation: Unknown , error: "TPT-unknown-page"
by Raül Presseguer 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hello, We have an error unresolved, which is very important for us. The issue is that we have different wikis destined for NGOs, associations and Foundations. Wikis were made in Spanish at first. Now we need to translate into Catalan and this is where we have problems. The wikis are on version 1.26.4 because of the PHP server version. We installed the correct packages of Universal Language Selector and Translate. It's all set up, in the wiki is everything right but when we go to translate we see the error: Error saving translation: Unknown error: "TPT-unknown-page" I have seen several pages talking about this error and obviously the wiki page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue and we think is probably a matter of running the runjobs but we spent two last weeks trying to fix it and we will not have a result. Server where we host the wiki has a routine cron server running the /maintenance/runjobs.php every 5 minutes, but even then there is no way to leave the error. You know what could happen? It's very important for us to translate these wikis into Catalan, but we can't fix this error, and we don't know where to find a good solution. Thank you very much -- Raül Presseguer Telf: +34 646 693 446 https://www.linkedin.com/in/raulpresseguer

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Call for candidates to form the first Code of Conduct Committee
by Quim Gil 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear Wikimedia technical community members, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct The review of the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces has been completed and now it is time to bootstrap its first committee. The Technical Collaboration team is looking for five candidates to form the Committee plus five additional auxiliary members. One of them could be you or someone you know! You can propose yourself as a candidate and you can recommend others *privately* at techconductcandidates AT wikimedia DOT org We want to form a very diverse list of candidates reflecting the variety of people, activities, and spaces in the Wikimedia technical community. We are also open to other candidates with experience in the field. Diversity in the Committee is also a way to promote fairness and independence in their decisions. This means that no matter who you are, where you come from, what you work on, or for how long, you are a potential good member of this Committee. The main requirements to join the Committee are a will to foster an open and welcoming community and a commitment to making participation in Wikimedia technical projects a respectful and harassment-free experience for everyone. The committee will handle reports of unacceptable behavior, will analyze the cases, and will resolve on them according to the Code of Conduct. The Committee will also handle proposals to amend the Code of Conduct for the purpose of increasing its efficiency. The term of this first Committee will be one year. Once we have a list of 5 + 5 candidates, we will announce it here for review. You can learn more about the Committee and its selection process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee and you can ask questions in the related Talk page (preferred) or here. You can also track the progress of this bootstrapping process at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Bootstrapping_the_Code_… PS: We have many technical spaces and reaching to all people potentially interested is hard! Please help spreading this call. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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EMWCon 2017 Live Streaming
by Chris Koerner 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Greetings, A final invitation to participate in EMWCon for remote folks. If you would like to watch the event live you can do so at the link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jad7owAql1E IRC chat will be in the #enterprise-mediawiki channel on freenode. Yours, Chris Koerner

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{{Coord}} Persistent Error
by LCJones 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Folks, Wondering if anyone might know how or why this error happens and what I might do to alleviate it. This code: {{coord|36|52|46.92|N|83|17|30.12|W|}} produces the following output in a page along with the associated Fatal Error message. 36°52′46.92″N 83°17′30.12″W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. I have ParsingFunctions installed, Template:Coordinate and Extension:GeoData. Regardless whether using decimal degrees or degrees minute/seconds the error persists. I am running MediaWiki 1.29.0-wmf.14 (ec6907e) PHP 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 (apache2handler) MariaDB 10.1.20-MariaDB-1~xenial ICU 55.1 LuaSandbox 2.0.13-alpha Lua 5.1.5 However this error, I believe, has been prevalent since 1.27. Thanks for you time and thoughts. Chap.

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Semediawiki-user] Multiple Languages MW
by [[kgh]] 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Heiya Antoine, this is not really a Semantic MediaWiki specific question, thus I am also forwarding this to the general MediaWiki list to broaden the audience and attention for your question. Personally I do not like auto translated content and rather have no translation than an automated one. However having this if you push massive amounts of pages and at the same time providing an approximate idea about its contents is all about could indeed be a solution. A matter of taste and objective. So if you think 1 or 2 is ideal for you you will most probably have to look for a new maintainer or ask the old one to fluff things. More or less a matter of money and/or goodwill. Suggestions 3 to 5 are basically the same. Just depending if you want to install pre-bundled software or not. Here you need people to do the work. Cheers Karsten Am 03.03.2017 um 21:01 schrieb Antoine McGrath: > I'd like to translate MW pages into various languages (Spanish in > particular). > I am pushing (climate change related) legislative updates to hundreds of > articles where the information is presented with human generated content. > As a result human translation of these articles is not what I am looking > for. Do you have any suggestions on www.ClimatePolitics.info can be best > presented in multiple languages? > > I've identified the following as related potentials, but am uncertain as to > whether I should invest in attempting to make 1 or 2 to compatibility with > MW 1.27 (climatecongress.info/wiki/Special:Version) or if I should focus on > 3:4:5:6 or another alternative. > > 1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*Extension:Live_Translate* > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Live_Translate> > (Unstable: Looks to be ideal, but no longer functioning. A 2013 auto > translator) > 2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*Extension:Google_Translator* > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Translator> > (Unstable: Looks to be ideal, but no longer functioning. A 2014 auto > translator) > 3) https://github.com/wikimedia/*mediawiki-extensions-Translate* > <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate> > (Stable: An extensive human powered translation aid.) > 4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector * > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector> > (Stable: Seems to emphasize access to diverse character sets.) > 5) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/*MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle* > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle> > (Stable: Seems to be primarily for human translations) > 6) Activate google translation via *javascript in the category templates * > 7) Other? > > If you have any suggestions on which one(s) to focus on please let me know. > -Antoine > CRSReports.com <http://www.crsreports.com/> Twitter > <https://twitter.com/AGreenDCBike> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Semediawiki-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user >

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Change property type on Wikibase Wiki
by Jean-Baptiste Pressac 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hello, Is it possible to modify the type of a property declared with Wikibase ? Thanks, -- Jean-Baptiste Pressac Traitement et analyse de bases de données Production et diffusion de corpus numériques Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique Unité mixte de service (UMS) 3554 20 rue Duquesne CS 93837 29238 Brest cedex 3 tel : +33 (0)2 98 01 68 95 fax : +33 (0)2 98 01 63 93

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Page Forms creating pages in a different namespace
by Phil Legault 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

I have created a form and template to create pages in another namespace. When the page is first created there is no edit selection or edit page selection under page tools. I run the runJobs.php and the edit page selection appears but no edit still. Regular pages in the namespace are fine. Enable error reporting and nothing shows MediaWiki 1.28.0 Page Forms 4.0.2 (fefd6a0) Has anyone run into this issue? Thanks, Phil

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