What is going on with mwlib.rl? Their read-only repo seems to have stopped
working, but read-write repo seems to still work, although there hasn't been
anything except translation updates for quite some time. If this software is
no longer being used to the point that the broken repo is not noticed or
fixed, it probably doesn't make any sense to translate it either.
-Niklas
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Niklas Laxström
I whipped up a few prelim notes on a possible git repository layout for
MediaWiki core and extensions, splitting out from SVN:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversion/Splitting_tests
I've run this past Siebrand to make sure that it should work for the
localization batch commits, and he seems to think it sounds sane.
You can check out extensions as separate repositories directly into
subfolders within core's 'extensions' dir for a ready-to-run system. But,
you *do* need to do either manually or scripted iteration over them to pull
updates or commit across repos. Git's submodules might be a useful way to
help automate checkouts, but they introduce their own complications for
maintenance.
There's a shell script on that page to make a sample checkout not including
any history -- just exporting latest code to make sure the layout makes
sense. Real conversion will probably want to include version history and
release branches/tags for both core and extensions.
Note that there's lots of other stuff in the MediaWiki subversion repo that
will want to be split out as well -- but for now our lives are simplified by
only worrying about MediaWiki and maintained extensions. ;)
Please do feel free to comment or ask questions -- things are malleable and
feedback will be *very* helpful in finalizing plans and building
documentation.
-- brion
All,
Technical Operations department is pleased to announce another new fabulous
staff member to its team. Please join us to welcome Leslie Carr , our
Network Operations Engineer, starting today, 10/10/11. She is based in San
Francisco office.
Leslie comes with deep and rich experience in Network Operations, ranging
from building and scaling a rapidly expanding high capacity global network
with several large data-centres to designing and migrating systems &
networks from legacy setup to new state of the art infrastructure.
Prior to joining us, Leslie was with Twitter, where she was responsible for
implementation of a major data-centre and network migration. Before that,
she worked at Craiglist as the main network architect who redesigned and
scaled their network infrastructure. Leslie has also worked for Google,
where she created, designed and deployed redundant and scalable network for
their various data-centres.
Leslie has two pet cats and is an avid bike enthusiast , who bikes annually
from SF to LA, for AIDS LifeCycle.
Please join me in welcoming Leslie Carr to WMF and do drop by to say hi to
her. You will not miss her (hint - look out for a reddish pink & blue
hair!).
Thanks,
CT Woo
If you're interested in Wikimedia's infrastructure, or in making it
easier to develop MediaWiki and extensions, gadgets, and tools, please
come to the Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
We're getting together a wide variety of contributors -- including
tool, extension, and gadget writers -- to participate, give feedback,
test, and hack together.
At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers
will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support,
authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and
general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the
Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs
and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia
with awesomeness.
The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute.
If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011,
we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon#Attendees
(And please spread the word!)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
P.S. If the only way that you can come to this event is with financial
assistance, please let me know. I can't promise anything but I can at
least put in the request. (If you've already emailed me about that, no
need to repeat.)
On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
not the same.
This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the screen every 10 or
so seconds. One might be reading many screenfulls below, but still the
page jerks up and down. I've never seen anything like that in the
history of WWW.
You might want to have a look at it, or forward my message to those who
are to blame.
Here's some stuff from 'view source' from nearby where the cause is.
document.writeln('<table width="100%" id="mw-dismissable-notice"><tr><td width="80%">'+siteNoticeValue+'</td>');
document.writeln('<td width="20%" align="right">[<a href="javascript:dismissNotice();">'+msgClose+'</a>]</td></tr></table>');
}
/* ]]> */
</script><table style="display: none;" id="mw-dismissable-notice" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="80%"><div id="localNotice"></div></td>
<td width="20%" align="right">[<a href="javascript:dismissNotice();">關閉</a>]</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table id="asn-dismissable-notice" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><div style="display: block;" id="advancedSiteNotices">請參與<b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E5%90%84%E4%B8%BB%E9%A1%8C%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81%E6%A0%BC%E5%BC%8F%E7%9A%84%E6%A8%99%E6%BA%96" title="Wikipedia:投票/各主題作品格式的標準">各主題作品格式的標準</a></b>的表決。</div></td><td>[<a href="#">關閉</a>]</td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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Support for 3D-rendered molecules on Wikipedia has been on the
wishlist since ... forever. This was never done due to security
concerns, IIRC.
I just found this site : http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/#Penicillin
3D molecule rendering completely in JavaScript using canvas. Since it
only runs in the user's browser, Wikipedia servers are not at risk;
we'd probably have to check the code for potential XSS problems etc.,
and add a wrapper with a fallback to our normal PNG for non-JavaScript
browsers and, yes, old IE. But so what.
Any takers? Or should I give it a go?
Magnus
Just so everyone knows: this week, lots of Wikimedia Foundation staffers
& contractors are getting together in San Francisco for an all-hands
meeting, and then some of those people are also going to New Orleans for
the hackathon <http://mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon>. So fewer ops
and development folks will be available for quick IRC and email
responses this week & this coming weekend. Stuff should be back to
normal-ish next week.
(For those of you going to New Orleans: looking forward to seeing you!)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Greetings all,
Been some things floating around about this already, but I'm proud to announce Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011
MediaWiki developers are going to meet in Brighton on the South East coast of the United Kingdom to hack anything to do with Wikimedia projects (mediawiki, toolserver, pywikipedia and various other things.) I've been putting this together for a while, with a lot of help from Roan, Reedy, Sumana and various others, and the date has now been confirmed for the 19th and 20th of November 2011 (unfortunatly, it clashes with WikiConference India). If you're intending to come, please add your name here, just so we can start getting an idea of how many people are coming:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011#Attendees
I'll be adding more details as they become available, as well as a registration form.
-- Lewis Cawte