Gentlemen, where is the Share button?
All other sites have them by now, but on Wikipedia one cannot even find
its definition in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share .
At least on ones account preferences there should be a way to "activate
sharing with the following websites ... " causing a share button to
appear in the navigation menu.
If there is an extension, then wikipedia should install it and not
depend on browser plugins, etc.
OK, I made https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31853
[Sorry if this is not the right mailing list, please let me know about
better places to send thi
Early 2012, Wikimedia Germany e.V. will start the development of a new and
ambitious project that aims to change the Web once again [1]. We are
currently looking for a number of people to help us with realizing this
goal. The team will be based in Berlin, Germany, and the project aims to be
implemented in one year. After completion of the project, we expect many
more interesting software projects inspired by this one, so follow-up
projects might be possible. In all positions it is a plus to understand
Wikipedia and collaborative community processes and communities in general,
to speak English and further languages, and to appreciate the scale of a
project like Wikipedia.
The information can be found on the Web here: http://wmde.org/wikidata-jobs
Applications can be sent to and more information about the position are
available from Denny Vrandecic (denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de).
Applications for the director and manager should be sent in by November 10.
Applications for the other positions should be sent in before December 1.
Feel free to send this information to potentially interested parties.
We are looking for the following positions.
=== Project director ===
The project director has to represent and embody the vision of the project,
ensure that the final goals of the project are met, be able to motivate the
team, express it clearly in communications with the community and external
parties, take the responsibility for communicating with the donors, ensure
the necessary visibility of the project, and be able to help anyone in the
team with anything required. The director has to be fluent in spoken and
written form in both English and German, further languages are useful, be
able to demonstrate their deep understanding of community-driven projects,
feel strong about open data, open source, and their processes, have a
thorough and critical understanding of semantic technologies, and have a
record of successfully lead projects.
=== Project manager ===
The project manager has the task to remove all impediments that are blocking
the team from reaching their goals, to moderate the team and team meetings,
provide administrative support, accompany the development process, ensure
that internal project rules are upheld, and support the team whenever needed
by coaching and mediation. The project manager will pro-actively assist the
project director in their daily work, and also support the project with any
external and internal communication needs and knowledge to manage problem
solving processes. The project manager has to be fluent in spoken and
written form in both English and German, have very strong organizational and
communications skills, a high flexibility, and be able to proactively
support the team in order to keep it on track.
=== Wikimedia community communication ===
The community liaison will support the communication between the Wikidata
team and the Wikimedia communities. The person will collect the feedback of
the communities, present and represent their concerns and ideas, monitor
relevant channels, and answer them if possible, or support the Wikidata team
in their responses. A track record of their involvement with the Wikimedia
communities needs to be presented. We are looking for a person that has
earned the trust of the communities, and that will keep their loyalties not
with the Wikidata team but with the goals of the Wikimedia communities in
general. Further languages beyond English are a strong plus, especially
German due to the location of the project.
=== Quality assurance lead ===
The quality assurance lead will be responsible for unit and integration
tests, organize usability tests, ensure together with the system
administrator to have scalability tests, attack and try to breach the system
security and user privacy, and provide continuous feedback on the quality of
the implementation. We are looking for someone who loves to break things,
and enjoys being right and show others that they are not.
=== System administrator ===
The system administrator has the task to set up and maintain a realistic
development and public testing environment, in close cooperation with the
Wikimedia Foundation that will provide the Wikimedia labs environment. The
system administrator will furthermore ensure that and assist the team with
their technical needs, and manage and maintain any required software
infrastructure. The system administrator will also ensure the operation of
the live project and the seamless transition of the project maintenance and
operation to the Wikimedia Foundation.
=== 6 developers ===
We are looking for six world-class web developers that have a strong sense
for the needs of a project that has to scale to be one of the most visited
sites in the world. The project will be developed in PHP and use JavaScript
extensively. Expertise in one or more of the following topics is welcomed:
internationalization issues, browser interoperability, expressive web user
interfaces, graceful degradation, web API development, very large dataset
management, and scalable and secure web development. The development will be
based on MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, and jQuery. Experience with these is
a strong plus.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Wikidata
As the subject says, the first mirror of our XML dumps is up, hosted at
C3Sl in BRazil. We're really excited about it. Details are listed on
the main index page on our download server
( http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ ) and are reproduced below for everyone's
convenience:
Site: Centro de Computação Científica e Software Livre (C3SL), at the
Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil.
Contents: the 5 most current complete and successful dumps of each
project
Access: HTTP: http://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/
FTP: ftp://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/wikipedia/
rsync: rsync://wikipedia.c3sl.ufpr.br/wikipedia/
A big thank you to the folks there for providing the space and working
with us to make it happen.
Please forward this on to researchers or others who might want to know
about it but aren't on these lists.
Ariel Glenn
Software Developer / Systems Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
ariel(a)wikimedia.org
Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding
Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just
wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have
helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that
we're doing.
This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be.
Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or
it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart
developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new
voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one
at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend
otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play
out.
One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about
the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit
worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this
would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to
the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all
of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will
be.
If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to
raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally.
--g
In order to support viewing deleted files (currently a blocker bug in
SwiftMedia), I'm going to refactor File::getPath() into a new public
function File::getLocalPath(), which will return an instance of a new
class TempLocalPath, which will have two methods: getPath(), and
close(). This class will own a local copy of the file. When it goes
out of scope or its close() method is called (same thing), any
resources held by the class will be freed.
With the upcoming FileBackend class and subclasses, this class will be
a requirement. Since I need it anyway, I may as well do the work now
to create it. File::getPath() will remain as a call, but it will throw
an exception if SwiftMedia is installed. When I get finished, its only
uses will be by extension writers who have chosen not to publish their
code in our SVN.
Hi.
If anyone is bored, a visualization of new users on mediawiki.org might be
interesting. There's been a spike lately due to the coding challenge
CentralNotice banners. The data as of a few minutes ago is linked below.
More dynamic data is available if there's interest.
* By hour: http://p.defau.lt/?eqW_y9FDo2soTxChaNPQjg
* By day: http://p.defau.lt/?OPDlMrJmB3pmPyehuIEdIg
MZMcBride
Hi All,
Please join me in welcoming Amir Aharoni as a Software Developer in
WMF’s Features Engineering team. Amir will be joining Niklas Laxstrom,
Santhosh Thottingal, Siebrand Mazeland and Gerard Meijssen on the
Internationalization / Localization features team to add RTL expertise
to build and improve language support tools and technologies for
reading and editing Wikipedia in all supported languages.
Amir was born in Moscow in 1980 and immigrated to Israel in 1991. He
speaks fluent Russian, Hebrew and English, as well as nearly fluent
Catalan and he can also read a few other languages, including Latin,
Lithuanian, Amharic and Malayalam. He's quite happy and proud about
all his different cultural backgrounds and identities and finds them
quite useful, too. He dreamt about being a linguist, an encyclopedia
and dictionary writer and a programmer since he was five years old.
Really. So, this opportunity makes his earliest childhood dreams come
true at one fell swoop.
Amir has two bookcases full of dictionaries and grammar books of
various languages and he keeps buying at least one dictionary of the
local language of every country he visits, as well as a couple of
fiction books to use the dictionaries with. He also still loves buying
CDs and vinyl records and has very little patience for e-book readers
and digital music players, especially if they have DRM features or
don't support all Unicode scripts. You will rarely catch him not
listening to music; he also plays the piano and can strum a couple of
guitar chords. Amir lived for several years in Haifa, the host of
Wikimania 2011, and now he lives in a village near Jerusalem. He
regularly blogs in Hebrew, English and Russian.
Amir is passionate about Free Software since he first heard about it
in a lecture in 1998. He has edited Wikipedia in several languages
since 2004, but the project about which he is most proud is editing
the heavily cross-referenced version of Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar at
the English Wikisource. He reported many MediaWiki bugs and sent a few
patches. He's a member of the Wikimedia Language committee and a board
member of Wikimedia Israel. He has zero patience for incorrectly
displayed right-to-left strings in any software, but you probably knew
that about him already (if you've met him in person).
Say hello to Amir online. He’s usually available on our favorite irc
channels including #mediawiki
Welcome Amir!
--
Alolita Sharma
Director, Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
What: Android App triage
When: Wednesday, Oct 26, 16:00UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/8h
Where: #wikimedia-dev on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-dev
if you don't have an IRC client
Next Wednesday, I'll be holding a triage on the Android App for our
mobile development team working top-down with the bugs listed on
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-10.
If you've forked the github repo (https://github.com/nitobi/Wikipedia),
downloaded the app, or if you would like to help solve issues with it,
then please join us.
Thanks!
--
Mark A. Hershberger
Bugmeister
Wikimedia Foundation
mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org
717.271.1084