Hello,
I am seeing more and more project on growing the commons media
collection which raised the question (in my head, that's where) about
its backup. Checking meta kindly redirected me to
https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Backup_procedures
which kind of trying to describe the backup methods, but I have a
strange feeling that the page isn't very well maintained.
Even if it is, the entry on image backups is highly nonspecific and
contains a big warning about being seriously out of date.
Now, would some kind soul either update it up to reality, or kindly
point me to the actual description, or describe it and give me the
right to update it. :-) Or any other way which results in:
a) me knowing what's the current state of art, and
b) a page where everyone can do the same.
Since images cannot be retrieved - AFAIR - the question of their
backup is even more important than the database, which can be (and
does indeed) backed up to the whole human race.
Thanks,
grin
In http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040652.html
>>>>> "BV" == Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
BV> jidanni(a)jidanni.org wrote:
>> Can the gmane administrators have permission to turn email address
>> encryption (e.g., as seen in
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/40…
>> ) off?
BV> I don't particularly care if they do or don't (whoever they are). Go
BV> wild. :)
BV> -- brion
Ok, Gmane adminstrators, please turn off address encryption for
gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.*
gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.*
Thanks.
Can the gmane administrators have permission to turn email address
encryption (e.g., as seen in
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/40…
) off?
In http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/12058
>>>>> "j" == jidanni <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> writes:
>>>>> "WS" == Wolfgang Schnerring <wosc+gmane(a)wosc.de> writes:
WS> * jidanni(a)jidanni.org [2008-11-28 05:24]:
>>> If you look in e.g.,
>>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2008-November.txt.gz
>>> you'll see they also use weak encryption ("at"). Therefore could you
>>> also turn off the encryption of
>>> gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.*
>>> gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.*
WS> updated.
j> gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
j> gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
j> and maybe others are still encrypted. Please turn encryption off.
In http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/12062
>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi(a)gnus.org> writes:
LMI> jidanni(a)jidanni.org writes:
>> gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
>> gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
>> and maybe others are still encrypted. Please turn encryption off.
LMI> No, don't. Just because there are non-encrypted archives out there
LMI> doesn't mean that Gmane's messages should be non-encrypted. This is up
LMI> to the list admin to decide, and if a list has started out as encrypted,
LMI> only a request from the list admin should result in encryption being
LMI> switched off.
Hi!
There are many signs of miscommunications between technical side of
WMF operations and outside worlds (users, administrators, external
projects): periodical rattling on Planet Wikimedia, frustrations on
TranslateWiki, almost impermanently growing number of bug reports in
Bugzilla.
Typical example may include:
1) There is approved project X which still not created for Y days
2) Why new translations are not propagated to project X
3) Bug reports with opened years ago with several duplications
Definitely technical stuff members are limited resource. And even
trivial fixes or problems may took much more time then expected. Code
changes reviewing require efforts. But outside world don't know what
is going on and could only make uneducated guesses and in best case
scenario perceive technical stuff as black box
I think will be good idea to introduce some kind of technical stuff
reporting and future planning (may be located on WMF site). It'll
provide approximate answer for question 1; explain clearly situation
with 2 (like "rXYZ introduced database scheme changes, currently
updating WMF servers"). This will also highlight and communicate
priorities to general public.
This is not about control over developers but about development
process transparency, which I believe, will improve understanding and
appreciation of job done from outside. Think how CodeReview improve
transparency of MediaWiki code base maintaining.
Also development road map for next quarter/year may be considered.
Possible solution for problem 3:
* WMF may consider to allocate some part of development budget to
outside developers. It may be in form of bug fixing bounties, gifts or
sponsoring travel/accommodation for participation in
Wikimania/MediaWiki developers conference.
* Advertisement of "Google Summer of Code" jobs on WMF projects.
Eugene.
PS
Disclaimers: I write weekly reports on work and don't think is most
interesting part of it. I don't believe that reports are best
reflection of working process.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 9-Dec-1968 NLS
demo[1], we take pleasure in announcing the release of the Purple
MediaWiki (PMWX) Extension into beta today (9-Dec-2008) as free
and open source software (under the GNU GPL v2 license.)
"Purple Numbers" have their root in the NLS system. They allow
web content to be addressed at a fine granular level (for example
you can point people to a particular paragraph in a web document,
rather than just to a web page) and open up possibilities of
improved navigation, communication, reference, search, semantics
and knowledge support. PMWX enables "Purple Numbers" in MediaWiki
and Semantic MediaWiki implementations, and provides that
fine-grained addressability to wiki contents.
Please refer to details about the Purple MediaWiki (PMWX)
Extension and this release at:
o the PMWX project homepage: http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX
o the PMWX Release Notes:
http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX_Release_Notes
o the MediaWiki extensions catalog:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purple_MediaWiki
We invite you to install, try and make use of PMWX, and would
love to get your feedback!
Best regards. =ppy
for the key members of the PMWX project team
who have contributed to this release,
Northeastern University - CCIS Dept.
Ken Baclawski
Viral Gupta
Tejas Parikh
CIM Engineering, Inc. ("CIM3")
Jonathan Cheyer
Peter P. Yim
P.S.
[1] the oNLineSystem demo made by Doug Engelbart and his
team, which exposed the world to the possibility of mouse,
windows, hypertext, distributed collaboration ... more widely
know as the "Mother of All Demos" - see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos &
http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html
[2] we will be making a presentation on PMWX as part of the
SemanticWiki mini-series session-3 panel on the Ontolog Forum. Do
join us at that virtual event if you can. Refer to details at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_12_11
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Thanks n Regards
Viral Gupta
When a man knows what he wants, the world steps aside to make way for him.
How does one change the page title template used for main page?
I saw that the latest version of mediawiki release notes mentioned a
property called 'Mediawiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage', however editing
that alone doesn't seem to do the trick.
I'd prefer not to hack the template class/files if possible.
thanks,
-P-
New user accounts on Wikimedia Commons automatically get a
greeting from [[User:Wikimedia Commons Welcome]]. However, this
greeting is in English and not all users speak English. At the
top of the message there is a list of links to translations in
other languages, but I think there is a better way.
Since most new user accounts on Commons (about two thirds) are
created by SUL, and arrive through a link that specifies the
uselang= parameter, wouldn't it be very easy to set the user
preference for user interface language from the uselang parameter
when the account is created by SUL?
The greeting template (and other templates, such as deletion
requests) could then access the user's interface language setting
through a {{USELANG}} magic word, and present the corresponding
translation.
This way, new Swedish speaking users (who typically arrive from
the Swedish Wikipedia, one that doesn't allow local uploads) could
be guided to the Swedish language village pump and find a
community there.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se