Wikitech-l March 2010

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Xmldatadumps-admin-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
by Tomasz Finc 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Kevin Webb wrote: > I just managed to finish decompression. That took about 54 hours on an > EC2 2.5x unit CPU. The final data size is 5469GB. > > As the process just finished I haven't been able to check the > integrity of the XML, however, the bzip stream itself appears to be > good. > > As was mentioned previously, it would be great if you could compress > future archives using pbzib to allow for parallel decompression. As I > understand it, the pbzip files are reverse compatible with all > existing bzip2 utilities. Looks like the trade off is slightly larger files due to pbzip2's algorithm for individual chunking. We'd have to change the buildFilters function in http://tinyurl.com/yjun6n5 and install the new binary. Ubuntu already has it in 8.04 LTS making it easy. Any takers for the change? I'd also like to gauge everyones opinion on moving away from the large file sizes of bz2 and going exclusively 7z. We'd save a huge amount of space doing it at a slightly larger cost during compression. Decompression of 7z these days is wicked fast. let know --tomasz

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Help with addition of a contacts database
by Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi everyone I've been asked to add a contacts database to a mediawiki site so that users can search for contacts. It will be a simple database. I have no idea how to start this. Do i just create a contacts database on the mysql server? And then add a search box? I'm very new to MediaWiki but enjoying every minute of using it. Thanks Mak.

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GSoc'10 Idea proposal
by Shubhendra Singh 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Hello Everyone, I was going through GSoc ideas for 2010 on Wikimedia and I am really interested in Maps idea ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC#Services_and_other_outside_technology). I am writing this mail to show my interest in this project idea. I have worked with maps earlier also and also I was one of the members of Forum Nokia Developer Advisory Council for Nokia Maps Player. The Forum Nokia Developer Advisory Council is a way to engage distinguished developers early on in the development of Nokia products and materials. It enables selected developers to incorporate their insights and feedback into materials and products before they are released publicly. I have adequate experience on working towards software development and currently doing my master's at Arizona State university in computer science department. I was especially interested in mapping of tourist places to maps. What I mean is that lets say there is a sentence "Eiffel tower is in Paris", when you bring your mouse on Eiffel tower text written in this sentence, a map pops up which displays Eiffel tower in Paris, the focus of map on Eiffel tower. This will be interesting as then user wouldn't need to browse away from page just to look up a map where she/he can find Eiffel tower location in Paris. If this project idea seems good, I can surely work towards it. At the moment I am looking for someone who can mentor me regarding this project. Hoping to hear some positive reply. Regards, Shubhendra Singh

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New committers
by Roan Kattouw 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

bhagya - QA engineer for Calcey Technologies, will be committing Selenium tests to /trunk/testing/selenium janesh - same Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Only one week left to register for the Developers' Workshop in April!
by Daniel Kinzler 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi all! This is a quick reminder that registration for the Wikimedia Developers' Workshop (in Berlin, April 14-16) will end on Sunday, March 21. Most places are already take, but we have room for 16 more people to attend. So, if you want to come, sign up now at <http://www.amiando.com/WMCON10DEV.html>! More information about the workshop is available at <http://tinyurl.com/wmdev10>. -- Daniel Kinzler

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Commons new file feed
by Tisza Gergő 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hi, is there a MediaWiki feature or external tool to get a live feed of Commons file uploads? (By live I mean something that can be used to show a realtime slideshow of new images. I vaguely remember someone saying that the WMF office has a screen with such a slideshow.) If there is no such thing, what would be the best starting point to write one? #commons.wikimedia(a)irc.wikimedia.org? thanks Gergő

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation
by jeroen De Dauw 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

>> Perhaps a separate IRC channel for the GSOC students/mentors (#wikimedia-gsoc?) (and who ever else wants to hangout in there) so that it doesn't get flooded with random questions and such and wouldn't be as hectic (or scary) for the newer irc users. > That would be worse, splitting what knowledge/time is available into disparate segments is not great. I agree that a seperate IRC channel is probably not a good idea. (There are enough mw channels already, and in most of them people give really great support, and there is no reason to cut the students off the main community.) However, a mailing list for the people involved with GSoC would be a great tool. Last year I did not really know who the other students and mentors where, and even although I did considerable effort in finding out, there was no place that had their contact info, or where we could have a discussion. A mailing list would go a long way in solving that. Last year I created a google group for this purpose about half way through the project, but this didn't take off. I suspect it's critical to have this sort of infrastructure in place before the projects start, and to give all students a poke towards it. This would also help detecting problems, both on student and mentor side, that would remain hidden if there is only communication between the students and their mentors. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * Wiki: wiki.bn2vs.com * Blog: blog.bn2vs.com * Skype: rts.bn.vs -- Don't panic. Don't be evil.70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65!

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MediaWiki 1.16.0beta1 now available
by Tim Starling 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The first beta release of the 1.16 branch is now available for download. Please try it and tell us if it works for you. This beta release is not recommended for use in a production environment. Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest: * Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden, since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients. * It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser. * The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now have a useful help page when you run them with --help. * AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts. You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings.php instead. * The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically affect all users who have not chosen a different preference. * Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it now has an efficient full-text search. * The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked, instead of just granted. * A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled. By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count, or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki, set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance further. Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_16_0beta1/phase3/RELEA… ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta1.tar.gz GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta1.tar.gz.s… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkua4+gACgkQgkA+Wfn4zXmEegCfaZ153qv8zNiQk18JNwiTfi3w NZcAni7Yf8v/lQcctKGya4JH4ow4hAFb =JK00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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? user status history
by Farkas, Illes 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Dear All, Many thanks for all your work with Wikipedia, we use it daily for various tasks and in our research on Wikipedia. ("we" = a subset of a research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) I just managed to wget the history dump enwiki-20100130-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 a week ago, and I would like to combine this with status information about users. Do you happen to know if the status (admin, steward, bot, etc.) of all users has been logged for enwiki? In what way would this be available for download and for non-profit basic research? Thanks, Illes -- http://hal.elte.hu/fij

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Google Summer of Code and Wikimedia Foundation
by Danese Cooper 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Good afternoon Wikimedians, The deadline for application from Open Source Projects to Google Summer of Code 2010 is looming (in about 48 hours), and I'm coordinating the formal Wikimedia Foundation entry. There has already been some excellent discussion on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 but *we definitely need more mentors*. I've asked volunteer Rob Lanphier ([[user:RobLa]], IRC: robla) to help me wrangle the conversation over the next 36 hours or so on *#wikimedia-tech* to flush out folks who were thinking about mentoring as well as additional project ideas...starting immediately. Friday we'll finalize the application and submit. Towards the Fun, Danese Cooper CTO, Wikimedia Foundation

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