Who is coming? I plan to go.
Maarten
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Registration Open!
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:31:37 -0800
From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
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On behalf of Wikimedia Czech Republic and the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Relations team we are please to announce that registration for
the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Register_and_Attend>
is now open for both scholarships and regular attendees!
The hackathon will be held at the Czech National Library of Technology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Library_of_Technology> in
Prague, CZ between 17-19 May 2019.
We have identified three focus areas
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Program> for the
event which we will continue to refine and clarify over the next months. We
welcome your suggestions and collaboration on additional focus areas or
larger projects and as usual welcome participants who plan to work on or
learn about any project that they like related to any area of Wikimedia
Technology.
If you have any questions or comments please contact:
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<hackathon(a)wikimedia.cz>*
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developments on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 on Mediawiki
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Alaa Sarhan, 25/04/19 17:38:
> Full migration is not possible unfortunately due to the current capacity
> of database master node.
Can you clarify whether it would also be too much load to write both to
the new table and the old wb_terms table for a transition period
(controlled by a configuration setting)?
(I'm not advocating for it, just asking because we did something of the
sort in the past for other transitions.)
Federico
FYI, we have https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219891 for this.
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Subject: [Wikidata-tech] [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON
outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:23:37 +0200
From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
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<wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
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<wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
This change is relevant for everyone *using APIs, JSON output and dumps
in their tools or gadgets*.
Currently, when an object is empty (for example descriptions and
aliases), it is rendered as an empty array |[]| in JSON. (Example
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q24075199.json>) We
want to serialized it as an empty object |{}| instead. This change will
ease the deserialization process and bring more consistency in our code
as some other places already use JSON objects instead of arrays.
The impact of this change will be in JSON outputs (Special:EntityData)
and JSON dumps, as well as the output of wbgetentities, wbgetclaims and
editing APIs.
If you’re maintaining tools that use Special:EntityData, you may want to
check your code to make sure that it reflects this change, e.g. items
with no labels, descriptions, aliases or sitelinks are properly
deserialized by your tool.
You can already *test your code* against our test system on
beta.wikidata.org <http://beta.wikidata.org>, for example on this item
<https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q521829.json>.
According to our stable interface policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy>, the
change will be enabled four weeks after this announcement, on April 30th.
In the meantime, if you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a
comment in this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138104>.
Thanks for your attention,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de>
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.