>
> Hi.
>>
>> Guys, I am the responsible for an educational non-profit organization in
>> Brazil, and we are looking for help in a project we have.
>>
>> We are looking for ways to translate content
>> from universities all around the world to portuguese, spanish and
>> english - in a social manner, meaning, by users themselves.
>>
>> We would like to use wikimedia
>> and wikiversity as a platform, and then we can act as "push-actors" and
>> funding supporters
>> for the spanish and portuguese areas, where we can achieve more
>> penetration.
>>
>> Does anyone believe it could help us to do that? We are all volunteers and
>> our only goal is to spread out knowledge in a democratic way.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eros
>>
>
>
Hi,
Drs. Jeffrey Carver, Rosanna Guadagno, Debra McCallum, and Mr. Amiangshu
Bosu, University of Alabama, and Dr. Lorin Hochstein, University of
Southern California, are conducting a survey of open-source software
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accomplish their tasks. You must be at least 19 years of age to complete the
survey. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
If you are actively participating as a developer, please consider completing
our survey.
Here is the link to the survey: http://goo.gl/HQnux
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Referrring to mediawiki and lqt trunk versions and
extensions/LiquidThreads/api/ApiThreadAction.php
can someone please tell me why all the
$this->dieUsage() calls
do nothing in extensions/LiquidThreads/api/ApiThreadAction.php ?
Did they ever work before ?
What has been changed?
Did I overlook something?
being puzzled... and need your help
Hi,
in a recent discussion[0] on foundation-l about the increasing use of
CentralNotice as a way of informing users, Erik proposed to have a
"Community Broadcast Tool" (CBT), which would allow users to better
control which information they receive.[1] Basically, the idea is to use
tags/streams/categories like "fundraising", "community events",
"strategic updates", etc. which users can individually Opt-Out to for
all Wikimedia projects. The goal is to write an extension with those
capabilities and get it up and running on Wikimedia. It might feature a
completely new way of informing users or build on the existing extension
CentralNotice and use banners.
Since the Wikimedia Foundation currently isn't working on such a
tool[2], I'm evaluating whether Wikimedia Germany could fund development
of a CBT via its community project budget[3]. I'm drafting a
corresponding proposal right now. A recent survey on German Wikipedia
found that a vast majority of users find the current use of banners
bothersome and support the development of a technical tool to solve this
problem.
However, there are still some very basic technical / organizational / HR
questions open:
0. Is there already a similar tool available or in development?
1. How much work will it be to develop such an extension? (Translate:
How much will this cost? ;)) Need only a very rough estimate at this point.
2. Development by a (small/large?) team or an individual?
3. Contractor vs. hiring staff? (Since it's mostly non-recurring work, I
favor hiring a contractor. But once the software has been written, it
has to be maintained by someone, so that's an issue)
This project proposal is at a very early stage, so please excuse its
unsophisticatedness.
If you have any questions, answers to my questions, comments or want to
join me in my effort to make banners not suck for the community, please
go ahead! :)
Kind regards,
Tobias
User:Church of emacs
[0]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-May/thread.html#65558
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-May/065648.html
[2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-May/065801.html
[3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Projektbudget –
sorry, only in German. Basically, it's 200k€ set aside for large
community projects (>5k€ each). There is also a budget for <5k€ projects.
Creating an offline version of a wiki project is a hard work. Keep up the
good work! Congratulations! : )
P.D.: downloading...
2011/6/11 Jyothis E <jyothis.e(a)gmail.com>
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
> project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th
> annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital
> collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline
> use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in
> Kerala
> does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this
> will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
>
> Contents:
>
> Selected Poems by
> * Kumaranasan
> * Cherusseri
> * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
> * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
> * Irayimman Thampi
> * Ramapurathu Warrier
>
> Malayalam Grammer
> * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma
>
> Legends/Folklore
> * Aithihyamala
>
> Novels
> * Indulekha
>
> Religious
> * Bhagavad Gita
> * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
> * Harinama Keerthanam
> * Geetha Govindam
> * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
> * Quran
> * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
> * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions
>
> Native Art Form
> * Parichamuttukali pattukal
>
> Philosophy (Political)
> * Communist Manifesto
> * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
>
> The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants,
> birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for
> download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website -
> http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical
> challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog
> post<
> http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/
> >about
> it.
>
> We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions
> are welcome.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Malayalam Wikimedia Community.
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
Jyothis E, 11/06/2011 19:01:
> With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
> project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the
> 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest
> digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD
> for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the
> households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always
> on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an
> offline content.
Very nice!
What software did you use?
And how are you going to distribute it?
Nemo
I'm interested in uploading these CDs ISOs to Internet Archive. Are you OK
with this? Your server is a bit slow, so, you will have a mirror an a bit
faster.
2011/6/11 Jyothis E <jyothis.e(a)gmail.com>
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
> project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th
> annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital
> collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline
> use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in
> Kerala
> does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this
> will enable them to access these books as an offline content.
>
> Contents:
>
> Selected Poems by
> * Kumaranasan
> * Cherusseri
> * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
> * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
> * Irayimman Thampi
> * Ramapurathu Warrier
>
> Malayalam Grammer
> * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma
>
> Legends/Folklore
> * Aithihyamala
>
> Novels
> * Indulekha
>
> Religious
> * Bhagavad Gita
> * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
> * Harinama Keerthanam
> * Geetha Govindam
> * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
> * Quran
> * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
> * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions
>
> Native Art Form
> * Parichamuttukali pattukal
>
> Philosophy (Political)
> * Communist Manifesto
> * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)
>
> The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants,
> birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for
> download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website -
> http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical
> challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog
> post<
> http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/
> >about
> it.
>
> We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions
> are welcome.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Malayalam Wikimedia Community.
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
Hi everyone,
This is Ahmed, I work for Ubuntu helping the cloud community. Ubuntu has
been working on some hot technology, that aims to be "apt-get for the
cloud"! Basically Install and manage large scale cloud deployments of
web applications (and others) with the equivalent ease of "apt-get
install". The reason I'm posting this here, is because the very first
use-case for this technology (called Ensemble) has been MediaWiki (yaay)!
To get a feel for Ensemble, here is how you'd deploy a 4 machine
Mediawiki installation
DB -> MediaWiki -> memcached -> HAproxy Loadbalancer
----->8---------
# Deploy machines
ensemble deploy mysql wiki-db
ensemble deploy mediawiki demo-wiki
ensemble deploy memcached wiki-cache
ensemble deploy haproxy wiki-balancer
# Connect them together!
ensemble add-relation wiki-db demo-wiki:db
ensemble add-relation wiki-cache demo-wiki
ensemble add-relation wiki-balancer:reverseproxy demo-wiki:website
----->8---------
Slashdotted? Want to scale out? You'd need something like
ensemble add-unit wiki-cache
ensemble add-unit demo-wiki
Yes, it's that easy! Ensemble takes care of informing MW about the new
memcached server just spun up, and informing HAproxy about the new
MW...etc! You can view the formula code that does all the magic at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ensemble-composers/principia/oneiric/mediawiki…
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eensemble-composers/principia/oneiric/mediawi…>
The reason I am contacting you guys, is that you're the MediaWiki
experts. I am very interested to get feedback from you on what you think
of Ensemble today, what you think it should do tomorrow, and most
importantly to help improve the MW formula
The main project page is: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/
Ensemble documentation: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs
Development resources (source code, bugs, etc) are available in
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ensemble
To connect to the Ensemble community, You can subscribe to the mailing
list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ensemble
And there's also an active IRC channel: #ubuntu-ensemble @ Freenode
If you reply here, I'll try answer questions, but it's better to post
Ensemble feedback directly on Ensemble channels (since that's where the
devs and formula writers are). In the mean time, if there's any
questions or thoughts grab me (kim0 on freenode) right away.
I'd love to see more collaboration between the MW community and the
Ensemble community to make MW a dream to install/run/manage/scale on the
cloud. I am willing to help in any way possible to make this happen.
Interested? What next steps do you think we should take?
Cheers