Wikitech-l December 2009

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AUTO: Naresh Kumar Nayyar is out of the office

by Naresh.Kumar.Nayyar＠us.elster.com

I am out of the office until 12/29/2009. Hi, I am on vacation till 12/29/09. For any queries please contact Vinod Gundelli / Sean M Scoggins. Thanks Naresh Nayyar Note: This is an automated response to your message "[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report" sent on 12/27/2009 10:00:02 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

14 years, 3 months

Bugzilla Weekly Report

by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 21, 2009 - December 28, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 66 Bugs ASSIGNED : 6 Bugs REOPENED : 4 Bugs RESOLVED : 77 Total bugs still open: 4167 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 60 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 5 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 9 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 1 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 3 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component LiquidThreads 6 Semantic MediaWiki 2 general 2 API 2 Video player 1 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 7 Wikimedia 4 MediaWiki extensions 13 mwdumper 2 mwEmbed 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 36 yaron57 [AT] gmail.com 7 markus [AT] semantic-mediawiki.org 6 dale [AT] ucsc.edu 4 umherirrender_de.wp [AT] web.de 4

14 years, 3 months

Bugzilla Weekly Report

by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 14, 2009 - December 21, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 119 Bugs ASSIGNED : 4 Bugs REOPENED : 10 Bugs RESOLVED : 78 Total bugs still open: 4193 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 48 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 5 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 11 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 4 Bugs marked LATER : 2 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Semantic MediaWiki 9 LiquidThreads 6 Firefogg 5 server 3 Video player 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 9 Wikimedia 4 MediaWiki extensions 25 Cortado 1 Wikipedia Mobile 3 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 30 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 10 agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 7 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 5 mrzmanwiki [AT] gmail.com 4

14 years, 4 months

Visualization of Wikipedia content

by Lars Aronsson

What ideas have been tried or suggested in using visualization as an aid in Wikipedia? For example, could the articles of a category be summarized as an image that would provide new insights to the user, either encyclopedia reader or writer? When scanned books are proofread in Project Runeberg (runeberg.org, a website similar to Wikisource), a horizontal bar graph is used to indicate which pages have been proofread or not, with one pixel for each page of the book (so 500 pixels wide for a 500 page book), with green pixels for proofread pages and red pixels for not yet proofread pages. Here is an example of a partially proofread 2 volume work, at the bottom, http://runeberg.org/bokogbib/ Could something similar be useful in Wikipedia? Perhaps for overview of maintenance categories? Are there any tools at the toolserver that do such things? Has that been tried? The various (humorous) Size-of-Wikipedia pictures come to mind, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_broken_dow… http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Size_of_Wikipedia_broken_down.svg -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

14 years, 4 months

LiquidThreads almost ready for deployment

by Andrew Garrett

Hi all, With the Foundation's support, I've spent the last few months churning away at LiquidThreads [1], a new discussion system that is proposed for use on Wikimedia projects. Essentially, it's an attempt to marry the radical openness of the wiki paradigm with the usability and practicality of a forum-like system. As the name implies, LiquidThreads is designed to allow any user to easily refactor discussions while maintaining edit history, to edit other users' comments, and to collaborate on a summary of an ongoing discussion. LiquidThreads also brings many standard communication features lacking from wiki discussion pages, such as watching and protecting individual discussion threads, RSS feeds of comments in a discussion or on a discussion page. In the world of online communication, its approach is entirely unique. LiquidThreads has been in alpha testing on Wikimedia Labs [2] for several months, and, more recently, it's been used in a production context on the strategy wiki, where it has been quite well-received. It's been easy to run these smaller trials, as the extension allows the activation and deactivation of LiquidThreads discussions on individual pages with a simple parser function. While there are still some issues remaining before wider trials, I believe I can resolve most of them quite quickly (within a few weeks when my vacation finishes at the end of next month), and I'd like to get the ball rolling in proposing small-scale trials on some of the larger wikis, so that a full discussion can be had, and so that adjustments can be made on the basis of ongoing feedback. I'd especially like to see LiquidThreads used on some of the higher-traffic discussion pages on English Wikipedia (such as the technical village pump), and progressive rollout on some of our mid to large sized wikis. So, I'd like to encourage you to have a play with LiquidThreads, either on the strategy wiki or on the test site (which generally runs a newer version). Tell me what you like about it, and (far more importantly) what improvements you think it needs before we can expand our trials to wider parts of the Wikimedia Universe, and perhaps move towards a full rollout of this very exciting technology. I should give the following caveats about LiquidThreads as it stands. These are all issues that I intend to address before any trial expansion occurs. * Presently the system is somewhat vulnerable to abuse. I intend to make changes to the way signatures work, and improve tracking and listing of thread actions by specific users. * While LiquidThreads allows for thread summaries and discussion headers, the system does not currently have support for collaboratively-edited posts which are unsigned or signed by a group of people. These are a key piece of any decision-making framework, and I intend to make adjustments to make this possible. * There is no support for embedding LiquidThreads discussion pages on other pages. * There are plenty of minor interface issues which I intend to clean up. Feedback is best directed to the dedicated Feedback page [3], or, alternatively, to bugzilla [4] (although before filing a bug, you should check the list of existing LiquidThreads bugs [5]). [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads [2] http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org [3] http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&c… -- Andrew Garrett agarrett(a)wikimedia.org http://werdn.us

14 years, 4 months

Announcement: Priyanka Dhanda joins Wikimedia

by Erik Moeller

Hello all, I'm very pleased to welcome Priyanka Dhanda to the Wikimedia Foundation as Code Maintenance Engineer. Priyanka joins us from SourceForge Inc., where she worked since 2002 as a software developer and also was involved in operations, working on most pieces of the infrastructure, and integrating third party software with the SourceForge platform (including MediaWiki). Priyanka holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pondicherry Engineering College in India. She is starting today and will work in the San Francisco office. Priyanka will be a key interface between software developers and the operations team, helping us to catch up with our code and bug review backlog, to mentor new developers, to push projects to completion, and to improve testing and automation. Please don't swamp her immediately with requests as she'll need some time to get more deeply oriented in the MediaWiki codebase. :-) You'll be seeing her in the IRC channels, on SVN, Code Review, BugZilla, wikitech-l, and so forth. Please join me in welcoming Priyanka to the Wikimedia team! :-) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

14 years, 4 months

restricting read/write rights inside a company local area network mediawiki

by Raffaele Recalcati

Hi all, I have to restrict, in my corporate lan networtk, the rights. I have mediawiki 1.13.2 and, by now, I can't upgrade it. I don't need a hacker proof system to handle user rights, but something easy to install and use. group1 (user1+user2+ .. +userk) read and write on all mediawiki group2 ( user(k+1) .. userN ) read and write on a subset of documents inside the same mediawiki. namespace is the right tecnology? any suggestion? Thx -- www.opensurf.it

14 years, 4 months

Failed to Download any pages-articles.xml.bz2 file

by Rob Giberson

Guess this problem might be asked several (many) times before...but I tried to download the pages-articles.xml.bz2 file which is approximately 5.xGB. However, all versions I tried failed at about 1.5GB. I noticed someone posted a Python code online as a workaround, but it did not work for me. My machine is Windows Server 2008 64 bit. Any idea how to get this huge file? Appreciated. Rob

14 years, 4 months

how to add custom details in all sidebar (skins)

by Prince Gerald Albert - ERS, HCL Tech

I'm creating a plugin for mediawiki and would like to display details in all plugins. To my understanding I need to write details in all the skins or is there a way I can write in one place and each skin renders and displays. I understand for each skin the design would be different and little tweak required. Can you please suggest the best way to do it or some reference articles which will help? Thanks in advance Prince Gerald DISCLAIMER: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. It shall not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of the author of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any mail and attachments please check them for viruses and defect. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

14 years, 4 months

Bugzilla Weekly Report

by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for December 07, 2009 - December 14, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 90 Bugs ASSIGNED : 2 Bugs REOPENED : 7 Bugs RESOLVED : 73 Total bugs still open: 4191 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 54 Bugs marked REMIND : 1 Bugs marked INVALID : 8 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 2 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 5 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 1 Bugs marked LATER : 2 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Translate 6 SemanticForms 4 Internationalization 3 Special pages 3 server 2 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 18 Wikimedia 6 MediaWiki extensions 25 Wikipedia Mobile 3 Top 5 Bug Resolvers roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 38 agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 10 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 7 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 5 JSchulz_4587 [AT] msn.com 2

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