Wikitech-l June 2010

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'latest' wikipedia dumps?
by Eric Sun 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I noticed that on the "latest" enwiki dumps page, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ the latest pages-articles.xml.bz2 is dated 2010-Mar-16. However, there's a pages-articles.xml.bz2 on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100514/ dated 2010-May-19. Is there a reason why the 'latest' dumps haven't updated to the 2010-05-19 version? Is this 2010-05-19 version safe to use? Thanks, Eric

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Unified login on some of the newer WMF sites (usability, outreach, strategy)
by Bence Damokos 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, It might just be my browser's strange cookie handling, but it seems to me that a number of "WMF programme" wikis don't log me in automatically, nowadays. Is it possible to enable automatic login on some of the special project wikis that have been set up lately? (E.g., strategy wiki and the others that are under the single user account system but where login is not automatic.) Thanks, Bence

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Mailman archives not being updated
by Mike.lifeguard 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It seems Fred stopped the archive updates: 03:57 Fred: shutting down mailman on list for a few minutes while exim and spamd catch up ...but I don't see a note that it was restarted, and new emails are not appearing in the archives. Can this be turned back on? - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwKh3EACgkQst0AR/DaKHuqKwCglzExwdTRkke6CPtqok7NzO86 wfMAoJ6hkQf5OG0bberw/HTjghTIWe/p =G2UY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠isidore.wikimedia.org 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 31, 2010 - June 07, 2010 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 120 Bugs ASSIGNED : 3 Bugs REOPENED : 6 Bugs RESOLVED : 64 Total bugs still open: 4499 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 45 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 6 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 6 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 4 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 2 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component UsabilityInitiative 5 Page editing 5 Semantic MediaWiki 4 SemanticForms 3 Revision deletion 3 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 29 Wikimedia 4 MediaWiki extensions 28 Top 5 Bug Resolvers jeluf [AT] gmx.de 15 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 13 alex.emsenhuber [AT] bluewin.ch 4 dale [AT] ucsc.edu 4 hartman [AT] videolan.org 3

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2
by David Gerard 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

On 2 June 2010 19:50, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote on foundation-l: > In my opinion, the world is not best served by hyper-optimizing for > the most frequent and shallow interests of the largest majorities. I > think that extreme inclusiveness of all kinds of interests, often at a > small expense to the most common cases was previously a core design > value for the site, but that doesn't really seem to be the case > anymore... just like the main site is still unbrowsable on blackberry > (formally some 14 million page views per day, for those playing the > numbers game) or PS3. Just a query - how's getting graceful degradation for BlackBerry and PS3 users going? I've had people asking me about the BlackBerry one casually ... is there any schedule on this, does it have any priority? - d.

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Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion
by Peter17 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello to all! I'm a French student and I am participating the Google Summer of Code this year on Mediawiki! My mentor is Roan Kattouw (Catrope) and my subject is "Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion". You can see my application page here: [1]. I have already discussed with my mentor and we have prepared together a draft about my project: [2]. It sums up the current situation and includes some proposals. It is now open for comments, so, could you please read it and let me know about your remarks and suggestions, on this list and/or on the talk page? Thanks in advance [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17/GSoc_2010 [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17/Reasonably_efficient_interwiki_t… -- Peter Potrowl http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Peter17

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Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) launch on June 14 (PDT)
by Rob Lanphier 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi everyone, Below is William's update on the Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) trial launch on en.wikipedia.org on June 14. As we'll continue to stress: this is a trial, and as such, still has a few rough edges, but we feel we're ready to press forward and commit to iterative improvement after the launch. There are a number of things that we'd love help making sure are good for launch: * Making sure that the latest version of the FlaggedRevs extension will still work for all other sites. Here's a list of the sites that its enabled on: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/flaggedrevs.dblist ...along with a list of current configurations: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=flaggedrevs.php A full test pass with all of the different configurations isn't going to be possible, so some help with testing the different configurations would be wonderful. We'll have a fast fallback plan in place should we accidentally break the other wikis, but obviously it'd be better to get it right the first time. * Test the English test site: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page * Test the German test site: http://de.labs.wikimedia.org/ * Help with documentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes * Lots of other stuff I haven't thought of. Let me know if you'd like to help and just want some pointers on where to jump in. Thanks! Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:57 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) update for June 3 To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> As requested, here's the weekly Pending Changes update. The big news is that we have picked a date for releasing the new version of Flagged Revisions and launching the trial of Pending Changes on the English Wikipedia: June 14. I'd like to stress that this will be a trial. The goal is to learn, which means that things will not be perfect at launch. There are many areas where we hope to verify our current work and see what improvements can be made: * the technical underpinnings * the interface and language as experienced by * our readers * casual editors * serious editors * reviewers * admins * which articles should be covered * how best to use Pending Changes We think we have something that is workable as is, and have notions for possible improvements down the road. To know what improvements are the right ones, we'll need real use and community feedback. We intend to respond speedily to community concerns and lessons learned from actual use. To that end we aim to keep to the same weekly release schedule that we've been using on labs these last few months. More mundanely, the work completed this week includes ops documentation, the completion of the terminology work, and some interface improvements. We've also had some vigorous testing done by the folks at Calcey, who discovered a few bugs for us. If you'd like to see the current condition of things, you can try it out here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and Backlog: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157 We expect to release to labs again next week, after which we intend to go live on the English Wikipedia. William _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion
by Happy-melon 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Dmitriy Sintsov" <questpc(a)rambler.ru> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 11:35 AM To: "Happy-melon" <happy-melon(a)live.com> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion > * Happy-melon <happy-melon(a)live.com> [Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:10:04 +0100]: >> >> MW 2.0? :-D >> > Not really. These are pretty simple things, comparing to Parser and some > another classes. MediaWiki class isn't that complex. > >> You wouldn't need to remove the globals, at least immediately; you'd >> retain >> them as aliases for the relevant variables of the 'main' wiki; > assuming >> that >> it makes sense to define one primary wiki, which it usually does. >> > That might introduce glitches where one variable in "global / member > pair" has it's value modified, while another isn't. Or, maybe the > references (&$) will help. > Dmitriy > s/aliases/references, yes. --HM

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a wysiwyg editor for wikipedia?
by William Le Ferrand 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Dear all, I've started to develop a simple wysiwyg editor that could be useful to wikipedia. Basically the editor gets the wiki code from wikipedai and builds the html on client side. Then you can edit the html code as you can imagine and when you are done another script converts the html back to wiki code. There is a simple demo here : http://www.corefarm.com:8080/wysiwyg?article=Open_innovation . You can try other pages from http://www.corefarm.com:8080/ (type the article name). It's far from being really usable now but do you think that such a tool would be useful ? The global structure is ok, most of the buttons are working (even if there are no special images to figure out what they actually do); it's just a matter of filling the gaps and support all the wikipedia syntax. You comments are welcomed! All the best, William

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[GSoC] Extension management platform
by Jeroen De Dauw 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hey all, As a lot of you already know, I'm again doing a Google Summer of Code project for the WMF this year. The goal of this *awesome* project is to create a set user friendly administration interfaces via which administrators can manage the configuration of their wiki and extensions as well as manage extension installation and updating. The user experience should be as *awesome* as the Wordpress one, or even better. After doing research in existing code and talking to the relevant people, I created a little roadmap [0] of how I plan to proceed with my project. Any feedback and comments on this would be very much appreciated (esp the critic ones :). It'd be to bad to reinvent things already achieved by people, simply by me not knowing about it! I hope to start with the actual coding by this weekend, and will update the roadmap, and the docs page itself [1], as well as my blog [2], as I make progress. [0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Management_Platform/Roadmap [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Management_Platform [2] http://blog.bn2vs.com/tag/extension-management/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw * http://blog.bn2vs.com * http://wiki.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65! --

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