Wikitech-l May 2011

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@font-face support for less-used scripts and maths
by Neil Harris 23 May '11

23 May '11

Some of the less common languages on Wikipedia use scripts which are not supported by default on most operating systems. In many cases, these scripts may be unavailable even to native speakers of that language. The same applies to mathematical fonts. For example, the following languages seem to use scripts currently not supported by the fonts installed by default on a MacBook running MacOS 10.6.7: bn, bpy, kn, ml, te, am, arc, dv, km, my, si, bug, got, lo, or, as, cu, ti Other operating systems may have even fewer scripts supported. However, all of these scripts appear to have Free font support, as shown by their all being rendered on my Linux box, after having installed a variety of Free Software fonts that are part of the Debian distribution [see note below]. As far as I can see, none of these appear to have significant font-shaping issues, with only the occasional glitch in some languages such as Oriya. This means that, on modern browsers with both @font-face and UTF-8 support, we should now be in a position to support all of these scripts, even if they are not supported by the user's installed fonts, by adding @font-face declarations for Free Software fonts supporting these scripts, and hosting these fonts on WMF servers. In addition, doing this for mathematical fonts would have immediate utility for all language versions of Wikipedia. Would anyone be interested in helping support this? -- Neil Note: the non-mathematical Debian font packages currently installed on my Linux box are as follows: ttf-alee ttf-arabeyes ttf-arhangai ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-bengali-fonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-dustin ttf-dzongkha ttf-farsiweb ttf-freefont ttf-gentium ttf-gujarati-fonts ttf-indic-fonts ttf-junicode ttf-kacst ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-khmeros ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-lao ttf-liberation ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-mph-2b-damase ttf-opensymbol ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-paktype ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sil-abyssinica ttf-sil-charis ttf-sil-doulos ttf-sil-gentium ttf-sil-padauk ttf-sjfonts ttf-tamil-fonts ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-thryomanes ttf-tmuni ttf-unfonts-core ttf-unifont ttf-uralic

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cruise control is back!
by Ashar Voultoiz 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hello, During the Hackaton, hexmode gave me access to the Cruise Control server. I have fixed the build configuration to exclude long tests, it seems to be running again correctly: http://ci.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/cruisecontrol/ I think the IRC notifications are still broken. -- Ashar Voultoiz

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 23 May '11

23 May '11

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for May 16, 2011 - May 23, 2011 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 168 Bugs ASSIGNED : 21 Bugs REOPENED : 30 Bugs RESOLVED : 126 Total bugs still open: 5763 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 91 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 6 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 12 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 5 Bugs marked LATER : 6 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 7 Page rendering 4 SSL related 3 UploadWizard 2 Bugzilla 2 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 15 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 15 Wikipedia Mobile 2 mwEmbed 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers sam [AT] reedyboy.net 23 krinklemail [AT] gmail.com 20 mah [AT] everybody.org 8 bawolff+wn [AT] gmail.com 6 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 5

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Referent list of wikis?
by Milos Rancic 22 May '11

22 May '11

Do we have a referent list of wikis? Although it would be good to have the list of *all* Wikimedia wikis, just the list of content projects wikis would be fine. The page Complete list of Wikimedia projects [1] is not referent at all. It's not about the fact that it is on wiki, but exactly because of possibility that anyone can add whatever he or she thinks that it should be added. Just because of three letters code conflict between Swiss German and Albanian (als), I've realized that somebody listed Swiss German to have Wikinews edition (it is, actually, news portal at Wikipedia) and nobody bothered to remove it. If someone knows the right place where to find the referent list of wikis, please let me know. If such list doesn't exist, and if someone from tech staff could do something like "echo 'show databases' | mysql ...| grep "^wiki" > <some_public_file>" or so every 7 days (cron would be helpful) and give to me the location of that file, I could do the rest. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_projects

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Persistent lock wait timeout
by Edward Z. Yang 22 May '11

22 May '11

Hello all, It's been a while since I've been by to mediawiki.org, and I find it quite interesting to find that I have 2,124 new messages! Wow! Unfortunately, I can't read them, because... ---- A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "User::invalidateCache". Database returned error "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.49)". ---- Just thought I'd let you know. This is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:NewMessages ; you can probably check your query logs. Cheers, Edward

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Getlets: Transcluding a file (for example, a README file on SVN) on a page (for example: MediaWiki:Extension) page
by Thomas Gries 21 May '11

21 May '11

Hello, is there way similar to my Wikimania 2005 proposal of "Getlets" [1][2] - to transclude text content of a file denoted by a (if possible to limit: trusted) URL - if possible, after sanitizing the content of the file on MediaWiki pages ? Purpose: To avoid duplication of content, especially for documentation of extensions, I wish to transclude a README file from our SVN on a Mediawiki extension page or subpage such as http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID . What's your opinion ? Is is already possible ? Tom [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-TG3 [2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Wikimania05_Workshop_TG3… seq.

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Request for comments (GSoC project)
by Salvatore Ingala 21 May '11

21 May '11

Hi all! I will soon start the official coding phase for my GSoC project, which in a nutshell is about making gadgets customizable. The project scope is slightly different from my original proposal (which was not gadget-centric and didn't take into account current plans to improve/rewrite the gadgets system). I've put some notes on etherpad here: http://eiximenis.wikimedia.org/uZsCqTmgIr (ResourceLoader2 plans are relevant, too: http://eiximenis.wikimedia.org/RL2). Any feedback is welcome, both from devs and from current or potential gadget writers. Thank you, Salvatore Ingala (aka ^Spider^)

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GLAMCamp NYC this weekend: hacking on metadata tool for Wikimedia Commons
by Sumana Harihareswara 20 May '11

20 May '11

Developers at this weekend's GLAMCamp NYC http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_NYC are developing a data-munging tool, based on pywikipediabot, to aid in mass uploads. They'll be hacking on it in sprints this weekend, starting 11am-12:30pm NYC time tomorrow, Saturday the 21st. Join them in person, or in #glamwiki on Freenode. See notes from today's preliminary session: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampNYC-ut Summary, I believe by Maarten Zeinstra: > There is a Python library (pywikipediabot) where many of Maarten's > bots are derived from[1]. The desired outcome of this session is that > we're turning ita library that functions as a black box for uploading > data to Wikimedia Commons. This library will have one external > function "put(metadata, configuration). It also needs to include a > function to check for duplicates. > > configuration wll be a dictionary that holds the following keys: > - configurationTemplate, holds URL to configuration template > - configurationTitleTemplate, holds configuration of Title Template > - sourceKey, holds the key of the metadata dict that indicate the url > of the source > > An extra module will be written to ingest different formats and offer > its metadata as dictionary in key-value format (metadata in put(); ). > This module can be GUI-ed. Written as a base class with can be > subclassed or extended, to enable different standards. > > > [1] > https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/multichill/bot/Europeana/Europeana_up… The Etherpad also describes the work they're going to do: > We are going to make 3 modules > > 1. Upload module > MaartenD is going to make a function > put(metadata, configuration); > with metadata as a dict (python for associative array) > add duplicate checker > > 2. Conversion module / interface module > Make a metadata conversion module that ingests CVSs/OAI-PMH and > converts to internal dict format add a GUI that create the 2 dicts > necessary (metadata, configuration) > > 3. Develop a configuration standard as an array of keys for a dict. > > draft of standard: > configurationTemplate: holds template url > ConfigurationTitleTemplate Hope this is a productive weekend and we come out of it with something useful! Sumana Harihareswara Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator

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Wikispaces Not Interwikis
by John McClure 20 May '11

20 May '11

I wrote this today to Thomas, author of Halo ACL... Hi Thomas, MW today provides the capability to define one interwiki descriptor which points to the local wiki - I want to build on that with my aim to avoid the technical and administrative hassles of extensions like Distributed Semantic Wiki which shares common information across physical wikis. There's another way though to share common information, across not physical wikis but logical wikis, that is based on interwiki descriptors. Consider the fully qualified pagename a:b:c (a=wikispace, b=ns, c=pgnm). This page can only be accessed when its name is fully qualified. I want to attach an ACL to all pages in the "a" wikispace. Wikis have one physical database today managing "b" logical databases. I want a*b logical databases, and to attach ACLs to a:b wikispace-qualified namespaces. This would likely eliminate the headache of federating wikis within an organization, while preserving access to common information resources held as unqualified pages in the wiki. Replication schemes like DSW would be more integrated with the MW base software if the base software was aware that a:b:c pages MIGHT exist in the local wiki, accessing the federated wiki only when the page could not be resolved in the local wiki. You ask about brittle Category ACLs. If the category is (inadvertently) deleted, removed from a page, mistyped or redirected, I'd imagine there'd be a problem to be resolved by someone (else). And I wonder how receptive folks are to using the Category namespace both for a folksonomy & for the database of security tags. And I wonder about maintaining schemes that categorize security categories... All messy. But my point is not to bash Category ACLs. They play an important role for managing page security within a namespace. I dislike their use across namespaces however so I believe another approach is worthwhile to explore. Wikispace ACLs make little sense today, I agree, but they would if my proposal to orient interwikis descriptors as wikispace descriptors is acceptable to the MW community; indeed my proposal rests on attaching ACLs to wikispaces (and to namespaces within wikispaces) - whether it's a Halo ACL or a MW ACL, I can't say I care too much. I'm just hoping to start the conversation among you. Best regards, John

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Output as ePub or Mobi?
by Billinghurst 19 May '11

19 May '11

Is there anyone working on the output of work as EPUB or MOBI for the Mediawiki product? It is something that would sit well for the output of works from Wikisource. That technical side is well beyond me, so I thought it would be good to know if anyone is working on that avenue for output. Thanks. Regards Andrew

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