Wikitech-l November 2012

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IDE for wiki-markup
by Yury Katkov 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi everyone! What tools exist to edit templates and other article that are rich with wiki markup? I mean not WYSIWYG editor but something like IDE for markup: 1) good highlighting 2) auto-completion, guessing the template parameters 3) Dealing with curly brackets (at least showing where the closing bracket is) 4) hings and auto-completion for parser functions WikEd [1] is slightly better than the default editor but still... is there something else? [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikEd ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

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Popcorn and editing video in MediaWiki
by Steven Walling 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hey all, Some of you may already know about Popcorn.js (popcornjs.org), Mozilla's project to allow for better editing/remixing of timed media on the Web. So far it has just been the library I linked to above, but today they released a full web app, Popcorn Maker: https://popcorn.webmaker.org/ This really shows off the power of the tool, I think. It also has pretty huge potential for helping Wikimedia and other free educational projects. There is already a wikiHow demo on the site, and adding Wikipedia content is already a dedicated event you can add to video layers. What do people think about potentially integrating this with Wikimedia projects? Steven

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for November 05, 2012 - November 12, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 408 Bugs ASSIGNED : 71 Bugs REOPENED : 53 Bugs RESOLVED : 285 Total bugs still open: 8679 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 159 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 25 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 40 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 28 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 13 Bugs marked LATER : 22 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component WikidataRepo 17 TimedMediaHandler 12 General/Unknown 10 Site requests 9 General/Unknown 7 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 37 Wikimedia 30 MediaWiki extensions 72 Security 1 Wikimedia Labs 2 Top 5 Bug Resolvers jamesin.hongkong.1 [AT] gmail.com 24 denny.vrandecic [AT] wikimedia.de 24 aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 15 federicoleva [AT] tiscali.it 13 sam [AT] reedyboy.net 12

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Level to which Wikimedia wikis care about data integrity
by MZMcBride 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi. Is there a policy or guideline about the level to which Wikimedia wikis care about data integrity? There are a few specific cases I'm talking about: * edits or other logged actions with a wrong timestamp; * incomplete user renames (contributions split between two accounts); * weird entries in various *links tables (categorylinks, pagelinks, etc.); * weird entries in various non-links tables (page, user, etc.); and * revisions with weird user_id (page import bug, I think?). This has come up in the context of some old Bugzilla bugs about edits with the wrong timestamp. There's been some recent activity to mark at least some of these old bugs as "wontfix". And perhaps this makes sense, given that some of them are very old and it may be quite likely that nobody will ever go back and tweak the old revision timestamps. But I'm left wondering if there's anything concrete in this area to guide the other Bugzilla bugs, such as the bugs about botched user renames or *links tables having orphaned or invalid entries. And to some degree, there's a human component too, I suppose. An edit with a bad timestamp isn't a big deal; breaking a user's account simply because they have a lot of edits is a much bigger deal. So there's some level of triaging to be done. I see a lot of these issues as falling under general "database integrity". Is there a page on MediaWiki.org or Meta-Wiki that discusses this particular issue? I believe <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16660> ("Database table cleanup (tracking)") is the relevant tracking bug for most of what I'm describing. MZMcBride

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Duplicate API files
by OQ 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

So I'm trying to figure out if there's some logic behind the similarly named files in the API includes: includes/api/ApiQueryAllimages.php includes/api/ApiQueryAllImages.php includes/api/ApiQueryAllmessages.php includes/api/ApiQueryAllMessages.php includes/api/ApiQueryAllpages.php includes/api/ApiQueryAllPages.php The capitalized versions dont exist before: commit 720c1b7be0d881f782e227ac7a2b86eab996fff3 Author: Petr Onderka <gsvick(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed Apr 11 17:10:22 2012 +0200 Corrected capitalization in the file and class names of API modules Change-Id: I8f317e458ee0f8706434e43a7890cda530595e64 And the non-capitalized versions haven't been edited after. So there's this broken git history.

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Wikidata review status
by Denny Vrandečić 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi all, we have here a number of bugfixes and testfixes and other stuff where some reviewing input would be very appreciated. == Bugfixes == * There was some vanishing content <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41352> , and a temporary fix for it. Here is a proper fix for the problem, reverting the temp and doing proper merge: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/29981/> * Revision sometimes had errors <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41244> , here is a fix for that: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30624/> * Use ContentHandler together with OAI. There are two changesets that have been both reviewed by Brion and accepted, but they have not been validated. We can go ahead and validate ourselves, but I guess that is bad practice. So if someone can validate these two changesets, it would be awesome: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30722/> and <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30724/> == Better tests == * EditPages does not have enough tests! We have a changeset that does not solve that issue, but it improves it: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/29973/> * Some core test was assuming wikitext in main namespace, which is corrected here <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/28014/> == Refactoring == * New hook to let extensions override the ContentHandler model <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/28199/> * Use the new hook <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/28201/> == Puppet and Vagrant setup == * We are working on polishing the Puppet script for Wikidata: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30593/> (this will also lead directly to the Vagrant setup) == Ongoing discussions == * How will the data from Wikidata get to the Wikipedias? ** <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/309727> -- seems to be the most current place ** <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation> - a bit out of date ** <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation> * ULS and caching do not go well together currently, and both are used on Wikidata. Can you help us? ** <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41451> (most of the discussion seems here) ** <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/310807> ** <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/32030/> We invite input, comments, merges, and chocolate. Cheers, Denny -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Gerrit Atom feeds
by Ori Livneh 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

I built a simple Atom service for Gerrit, available at: http://schmerrit.wmflabs.org/gerrit/changes/<repository>.atom For example, here's the feed for mediawiki/core: http://schmerrit.wmflabs.org/gerrit/changes/mediawiki/core.atom Is this useful for people? It scratches a personal itch I've had, but I'll only put in the trouble to make it robust and reliable if someone other than me finds it useful -- so please let me know if you do. Right now there's no caching at all -- all the content is generated dynamically by making calls against Gerrit's API. So go easy on it. Ori

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Circumvention Tech Summit in Tunis, Tunisia, Nov. 26-28
by Sumana Harihareswara 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

OpenITP and the Information Security Coalition (ISC)] will be hosting the second annual Circumvention Tech Summit from November 26-28 in Tunis, Tunisia. http://openitp.org/?q=cts_tunis_nov_2012 If you want to attend to help people get around internet censorship & surveillance in reading and editing Wikimedia content, Wikimedia Foundation may be able to reimburse your travel expenses: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Open Tech Chat in an hour - Thursday, November 8 at 12:30pm PST (20:30 UTC)
by Rob Lanphier 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi everyone! I'm really sorry for the late notice on this. I could have sworn I sent this on Thursday. We would like to once again have our Open Tech Chat this Thursday, November 8 at 12:30pm PST (20:30 UTC). This week, we have a guest: Nils Adermann, development lead for phpBB and a primary contributor on Composer[1], a dependency management library we've discussed before on wikitech-l[2]. Assuming his hotel wifi holds up (he's at a conference this week), Nils will be available to discuss Composer at this week’s tech chat. If there are other topics you’d like for us to talk about, please add them to the list: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-11-08> Details about Google Hangouts and IRC channels and such are at the URL above. Looking forward to seeing you there! Rob p.s. In case you were wondering why this isn't coming from Erik, we're going to be rotating the emcee duty around, and this week, it's my turn. [1] Composer: <http://getcomposer.org/> [2] Discussion about Composer on wikitech-l: <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/307466>

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Collaborative code-editing tools (long-distance pair programming)
by Sumana Harihareswara 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

When you want to pair program with someone far away, what do you use? I just read about Collide: https://lwn.net/Articles/521647/ https://code.google.com/p/collide/ Collide has "line numbering, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and real-time file tree manipulation" but the syntax highlighter doesn't support PHP yet, just JavaScript, Python, CSS, and HTML. Do any of you use Cloud9, Brackets, emacs + xhost, or some other tool/service? Do you recommend them? http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/ is all very well and good but it doesn't support syntax highlighting. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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