I had a look at Ukrainian captchas. Fine and funny, I'm eager to know what
is the source for the words :)
Nota bene:
* usage of proper nouns may cause difficulties;
* letters Л and П in cyrillic look very simmilar
*Vira Motorko*
Help save natural resources - please think twice before printing this
e-mail or any attachments.
Hello all,
We have a short downtime planned for the Wikimedia IRC server coming in
a couple weeks. This is irc.wikimedia.org, aka the IRC server that some
bots follow as a recent changes feed.
Why: We're moving the Wikimedia IRC service from the Tampa, FL
datacenter to the Ashburn, VA datacenter. The new server is already in
place and running. The downtime will just be people (bots) being kicked
from the old server and reconnecting to the new one.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_26th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* No planned deploys
** US Holiday (Memorial Day)
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf6: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf6>
* Flow enabled on <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cite-from-id>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf6 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf7 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* MediaViewer
** Will be enabled on by default on all Wikisources
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline>
== Friday ==
* WMF Labs downtime (~10 minutes) aiming to start at 18:00 UTC
** Addition of another bound network port to the NSF server
** Check the Wikimedia Labs mailing list for any updates as the date
approaches: <labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
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| Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
| identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
Hello
This is a reminder that the Language Engineering IRC office hour is
happening later today at 1700UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for
the original announcement and local time.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday)
at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next
monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was
traveling.
In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which
has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content
Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the
session.
Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office
hour.
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next
monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was
traveling.
In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which
has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content
Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the
session.
Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour.
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
and Deployment update.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_19th>
A quick list of notable items...
== Monday ==
* Enable CirrusSearch as primary search backend on zh-yue wikipedia.
** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>
* Enable anonymous editor acquisition experiment in GettingStarted on
enwiki, dewiki, frwiki, itwiki and test wikis.
== Tuesday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group1 to 1.24wmf5: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource,
Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5>
* Enable Flow at mw:Talk:Wikibase/Beta Features/Other projects sidebar,
mw:Talk:Design, and mw:Talk:Phabricator/Help
** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>
== Wednesday ==
* Swapping GeoData to use Elasticsearch as its backend everywhere.
** <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData>
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki deploy
** group2 to 1.24wmf4 (all Wikipedias)
** group0 to 1.24wmf5 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki)
* MediaViewer
** English, German, Italian and Russian Wikipedias, and all Wikisources, in
stages.
** <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
>
Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome,
Greg
Hi all,
I just wanted folks to get a heads up that starting next week, we'll be A/B
testing new calls to register, directed at anonymous editors. These tests
will be for at least one week on English, German, French, and Italian
Wikipedias.
I'm not sure it merits Tech News, since the delivery of the new UI is
randomized and registered users will of course not see anything change. If
you want to learn more about the project, there's a blog post with
background and links at:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hi,
During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions
about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly
Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them
(reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session), I
have felt convenient to centralize the discussion about potential
requirements, needs, and how to approach this new changing landscape that
didn't exist a few years ago.
You will find more details here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_…
Your comments, thoughts and ideas are appreciated!
Cheers,
Micru