Wikitech-l April 2009

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Weaken DISPLAYTITLE restrictions
by Remember the dot 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

A patch has been sitting at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12998 for a month. Since I do not have commit access despite having requested it two months ago, could a developer please review and commit this patch? -- Remember the dot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot

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Planning to tighten TorBlock settings
by Brion Vibber 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

en.wikipedia.org and others have seen a rash of abuse coming via Tor in the form of account creations with abusive names and such; this is taking up a large chunk of CheckUser and oversighter time and effort, which is apparently not too fun. It looks like the current settings don't generally restrict various actions to a logged-in user when accessing through Tor; is there any objection to tightening this up to restrict edits, account creations, etc via Tor except when the account is explicitly excepted? -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

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404 error page
by Sylvain Brunerie 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi, We had a talk on the french-language Wikipedia a few months ago about the 404 error page displayed to the user when he types an URL like http://fr.wikipedia.org/Anything, instead of typing http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything. The following problems were mentioned: - auto-redirect is bad for accessibility - and localization should be possible It seems to be MediaWiki-independent. The error page on Wikimedia projects is http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/404Handler.phtml. Could it be possible to edit this page on our Wikipedia? Thanks. — Sylvain Brunerie [[w:fr:User:Delhovlyn]]

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Wikimedia Deutschland offering short term contracts
by Daniel Kinzler 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Wikimedia Deutschland is offering contracts for a couple of projects we feel are important. If you are interested in earning some money by helping Wikimedia to improve our Wikis, have a look at these projects: * Evaluate the impact of using flagged revisions on the German Wikipedia - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Evaluate_the_impact_of_u… * Rewrite CatScan, a tool for finding pages in a set of categories recursively, based on various criteria - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan * Store interwiki-links in the database, just like we already store interlanguage-links - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Store_interwiki-links_in… * Improve the Gadgets extension to allow for gadgets to be enabled per default, be restricted to specific user groups, etc - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Improve_the_Gadets_exten… * Implement full support for TIFF files, including multi-page TIFFs, similar to how DjVu is handled - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Implement_full_support_f… If you would like to help with any of the above, please contact me at <daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de> and provide the following information: * Your real name and country of residence * How you plan to go about implementing the desired function * Any experience working with MediaWiki * How many working hours you would spend on it, and how much you ask for it * In what time frame you would be able to do the job This information is also available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers Thanks for helping us make the web a better place! -- daniel

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BSD License question
by Sergey Chernyshev 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

I've made some customizations to OpenID selector code ( http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/) and combined it with MediaWiki OpenID extension, you can see the result here: http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin Iwant to check it in back into the repository, but it uses "New BSD License" and I wonder if it's OK to do so. Otherwise I'll write one from scratch and GPL it. Sergey -- Sergey Chernyshev http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/

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ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to Wikimedia projects
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in Berlin. We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g. Wikipedia) pages: * Wikimedia will set up a database to mirror the OSM data (Planet.osm) * Wikimedia will set up its own rendering infrastructure for rendering tiles & other maps from the OSM data * The existing MediaWiki extensions for displaying OSM data in a MediaWiki article will be improved to work acceptably in production on Wikimedia servers To prototype all this we'll be using new infrastructure provided by Wikimedia Deutschland[2]. Once things have been tested there they'll eventually be deployed on the main Wikimedia sites. After discussion with the Wikimedia operations people (including Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma et al) there seem to be no objections to the above plan as long as: * The maps will work not only for JavaScript enabled browsers but also non-JavaScript enabled ones * The tools involved are improved to be relatively stable & deployable on Wikimedia, e.g. being able to embed more than one slippy map, the internationalization of error messages etc. * The end product (the generated tiles or map files) are cachable so that they can be thrown at the frontend squids, as they're static images this should be easy. The featureset that we're aiming for to be able to deploy this on Wikimedia sites from the view of the user (more can be added later once we've got it working) is: * The ability to embed OSM maps in articles with something like the Simple image extension[3], perhaps automagically turning into a Slippy Map if the browser supports it * A static or slippy map that can be used by geotagged articles[4] so we can have maps without explicit inclusion of a <map> tag. We'll also set up a map toolserver for experimenting with other uses of OpenStreetMap data on Wikimedia. People with relevant projects can get access[5] to this toolserver to try out their ideas for tools that could eventually be integrated on the main Wikimedia sites. This project is seeking help from anyone who's interested who'd like to be a part of making this happen, if you want to be a part of adding free maps to the world's largest encyclopedia please subscribe to this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l And/or read/edit/comment on the relevant wiki coordination pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap#.E2.80.9CMap_Toolserver.E2.80.… 3. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_image_MediaWiki_Extension 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord 5. mailto:osm@wikimedia.de

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A proposal to simplify and improve image markup in Wikipedia
by Håkon Wium Lie 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

I've spent the last few days analyzing Wikipedia's HTML code for images and captions. The current code is quite good, but verbose and it has redundancies. Here is a proposal that describes how to simplify and improve the code: http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/image/ The proposed solution reduces the number of elements from 10 to 6 and the code size is reduced by more than 50%. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome(a)opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome

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Accessibility 101
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Can you please make site notices, The Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009 has been released. Submit your presentations before April 15. not depend on Javascript to be seen. You might also want to have a mandatory session there at Wikimania: Accessibility 101!

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for March 30, 2009 - April 06, 2009 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 168 Bugs ASSIGNED : 16 Bugs REOPENED : 20 Bugs RESOLVED : 88 Total bugs still open: 3527 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 49 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 7 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 17 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 6 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 6 Bugs marked LATER : 3 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 9 AbuseFilter 9 General/Unknown 4 RecentChanges 3 User interface 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 28 Wikimedia 16 MediaWiki extensions 29 mwdumper 1 Cortado 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers brion [AT] wikimedia.org 16 agarrett [AT] wikimedia.org 10 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 7 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 7 mikelifeguard [AT] fastmail.fm 6

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all those sess* files in /tmp
by jidanni＠jidanni.org 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Like yo, do you fellas see what I do on your machines? $ find /tmp -name sess\* 2>&-|wc -l 95853 $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|wc -l 42637 $ find /tmp -name sess\* ! -empty 2>&-|xargs more 2>&-|less /tmp/sess_d4espd7ur01k7rq75f83ff7t45 :::::::::::::: wsUserID|i:3;wsUserName|s:4:"Jini";wsToken|s:32:"... /tmp/sess_rqc4ufi3ev1g8on3novneb9dc7 :::::::::::::: wsUserID|i:2;wsUserName|s:9:"WikiSysop";wsToken|s:32:"...;wsEditToken|s:32:"-... Any better way than "leaving all those candy bar wrappers on the floor"?

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