Wikitech-l November 2012

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Deleting tags
by Chad 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi all, Early today, Nikerabbit noticed he couldn't delete a tag on a project he's owner of. This was a problem, so I've fixed it for everyone. If you're the owner of a project, you can now delete tags from the command line as expected. `git push origin :refs/tags/mytag` There's no way in the Gerrit UI to delete a tag, but this is the standard Git way to do it. -Chad

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Thanksgiving - many staffers away tomorrow & Friday
by Sumana Harihareswara 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Because of US Thanksgiving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving , many Wikimedia Foundation staffers in the US will be unavailable tomorrow and Friday November 22 & 23. If you have an emergency, I believe #wikimedia-tech will be responsive, just as it is on weekends. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?
by Arthur Richards 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

I'm helping to organize an 'intro to FLOSS' orientation module for new hires at the WMF with Tomasz Finc, and we're curious to know what all the projects are that the we collaborate with/contribute to. Just from my own experience working at the WMF, I know of a handful like Drupal, CiviCRM, Phonegap, Varnish, jQuery, Squid, Open Stack... but I'm very curious to know the others. Thanks! -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!
by Tomasz Finc 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of proteins. Before that he created a system for sending bulk SMS messages for a Polish company. Juliusz is a proponent of open source and agile methodologies and apart from a few projects of his own [1] he contributes to open source software he uses. He has just moved to San Francisco and earlier lived in Virginia, Spain and Poland. The team would like to welcome him and wish him success. [1] - https://github.com/jgonera --tomasz

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Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary
by Guillaume Paumier 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi, The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and barriers to comprehension and involvement. The recent thread on this list about "What is Product?" is an example of this, as are initialisms that have long been known to be a barrier for Wikipedia newcomers. A way to bridge people and communities with different vocabularies is to write and maintain a glossary that explains jargon in plain English terms. We've been lacking a good and up-to-date glossary for Wikimedia "stuff" (Foundation, chapter, movement, technology, etc.). Therefore, I've started to clean up and expand the outdated Glossary on meta, but it's a lot of work, and I don't have all the answers myself either. I'll continue to work on it, but I'd love to get some help on this and to make it a collaborative effort. If you have a few minutes to spare, please consider helping your (current and future) fellow Wikimedians by writing a few definitions if there are terms that you can explain in plain English. Additions of new terms are much welcome as well: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glossary Some caveats: * As part of my work, I'm mostly interested in a glossary from a technical perspective, so the list currently has a technical bias. I'm hoping that by sending this message to a wider audience, people from the whole movement will contribute to the glossary and balance it out. * Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom), so boldly edit/remove obsolete content. Thank you, -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

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GSoC Project Update (ConventionExtension)
by akshay chugh 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hello everyone, This is one of my major updates regarding my GSoC project (named ConventionExtension), which I have been working on for about three months now. This project has come a long way and it has reached a point where a lot about it can be shared with others. Since I don't post that often in this list I would like to make this post a long one, and talk about the status of my extension and where its headed in the coming weeks. Some of the features which were part of my timeline for GSoC but were not completed are put under the section "Things yet to be done" along with the other features that I would be working on in the upcoming weeks. *1. Completed Features* * * 1. Dashboard Page (more features are likely to be added depending upon the feedback I gather from the people who have set up conferences on their wiki in the past) 2. Author Registration Page 3. Conference Setup Page 4. Backend (DB) for storing the conference details 5. The basic architecture of the extension: 5.a) Model classes - encapsulating the basic objects required for this extension 5.b) Api Module -- for interacting with ajax calls from the client 5.c) Util classes 5.d) Templates -- classes exending QuickTemplate class, providing a basic layout for Dashboard and Author Register pages 5.e) UI classes - classes extending SpecialPage class (Dashboard, AuthorRegister and ConferenceSetup pages) 5.f) JS + CSS resource modules 6. Parser tags, Magic Words (Variables) and a parser function parser tags --> <conference>, <page>, <account>, <registration>,<passport>,<author>,<submission>,<event>,<organizer> and <location> variables --> {{CONFERENCENAME}}, {{CONFERENCEVENUE}}, {{CONFERENCECITY}}, {{CONFERENCEPLACE}}, {{CONFERENCECOUNTRY}}, {{CONFERENCECAPACITY}}, {{CONFERENCEDESCRIPTION}} parser function --> {{#cvext-page-link}} 7. Sidebar modification (added some new portals for the conference) 8. Schedule Template System - which automates the process of creating a schedule for the conference, as new locations and events are added to the system. 9. Content Pages - these are the default set of pages that are created for the conference by the extension (Note : these are just like any other wiki pages whose content can be modified using the wiki interface) *2. Things yet to be done !* * * 1. *DB rollback implementation in most of my model classes 2. *Account Setup Page (for registration of users) 3. *Modification of User pages for displaying content related to the conference 3. Organizer management module (most part of it is already implemented in the basic architecture, just some additions needed regarding the permissions and rights for this group) 4. Payment Gateway 5. Support for languages other than English 6. Some more parser functions and variables which would help in editing the content pages of the conference * - These features were not completed during the GSoC period. I really enjoyed my experience of working with such a vibrant community over this summer, especially thankful to all the people who helped me out in the IRC channel may it be regarding the setting up of labs, or helping me out with the localisation issues, or even suggesting me come up with a better feature than what I had already implemented. Other community fellows who reviewed my big chunks of code, many issues which I very easily missed were pointed out with a proper explanation of what needs to be done, have helped me a great deal in improving it. And finally I would like to thank Sumana and Greg for managing this program so well, and my mentor Jure Kajzer for his unmatched support and guidance throughout the summer. Some important links: Proposal Page - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Chughakshay16/GSOCProposal(2012) Gerrit changesets - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/ConventionExtension,n,z Extension Page - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConventionExtension Suggestions are always welcome ! -- Thanks, Akshay Chugh skype- chughakshay16 irc - chughakshay16(#mediawiki) [[User:Chughakshay16]] on mediawiki.org

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Selection process in mentorship programs
by Quim Gil 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi, I have drafted a selection process for mentorship programs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs Your feedback is welcome. This process will be applied immediately to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women where we are getting potential candidates as we speak and we will need to select participants between Dec 3 - Dec 11. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: [Engineering] Report from Gerrit User Summit + Hackathon
by Quim Gil 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Engineering] Report from Gerrit User Summit + Hackathon Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:55:00 -0500 From: Chad Horohoe <chorohoe(a)wikimedia.org> To: Development and Operations engineers (WMF only) <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, Last week, I attended the Fall Gerrit Hackathon and User Summit. All in all, it was a productive week, and I'd like to share some of the highlights with you all: - I fixed the "inherit external groups" issue that was introduced in 2.5 (and remains broken in master). It's pending review, but the solution was agreed upon by myself and the other affected parties[0]. - I re-skinned Gerrit similar to our light white/grey theme. This means the default will no longer be puke green/yellow[1]. - I fixed GWT to no longer obfuscate CSS classes, so any customizations we make will remain stable between releases and builds[2]. - Lots of aspects of the JSON-RPC API were turned to the new public RESTful API, making the API in master much more feature-complete. - Dashboards can now be defined in refs/meta/config on a per- project basis (and can be saved). They are all linked from the project info pages. -Topics can be edited from the UI[3] after committing (but before merging, for cleanup), and the same is in progress for branches and commit messages. - Also in progress: carrying over approvals on trivial (whitespace- only) rebases. Making it possible to exclude unchanged (other than whitespace) files on a diff, easier for verifying rebases. - Discussion began on: supporting README.md files for projects that have them, how to properly "request" new projects and branches (no code, but a very good outline[4]). Gerrit now has a mascot: Diffy the Kung-Fu Review Cuckoo[5]. A very very cool presentation was given on some improvements that were done to JGit (making their way into upstream currently). If you like Git internals stuff, this is for you[6]. There's way too many nice things going on since 2.5 was cut, so when we get the LDAP issue fixed I'll be deploying stable-2.6 + our LDAP fix (so we're skipping 2.5). Hoping this can happen in the next 2-3 weeks at the latest. -Chad [0] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/39140/ [1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/39376/ [2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/39251/ [3] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/q/status:merged+project:gerrit+bra… [4] https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1433#c5 [5] https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ [6] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t2qzSO4z5MbrN21Cz4RrLWz9IZ5ylJNwQas…

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!
by Arthur Richards 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Welcome Juliusz, very excited to have you on board :D On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Steph Thommen <sthommen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > Many congratulations and welcome Julius! > > > On 20 November 2012 05:20, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> On 11/19/2012 04:59 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: >> > I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a >> > Software Developer (Mobile team) today. >> > >> > Juliusz has worked at the University of Virginia, developing software >> > for a laboratory that studies the macromolecular structure of >> > proteins. Before that he created a system for sending bulk SMS >> > messages for a Polish company. Juliusz is a proponent of open source >> > and agile methodologies and apart from a few projects of his own [1] >> > he contributes to open source software he uses. He has just moved to >> > San Francisco and earlier lived in Virginia, Spain and Poland. >> > >> > The team would like to welcome him and wish him success. >> > >> > [1] - https://github.com/jgonera >> > >> > --tomasz >> >> Congrats and welcome, Juliusz. We are strange but friendly folk and we >> hope you enjoy becoming part of our community. :-) >> >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Engineering Community Manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wmfall mailing list >> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> > > > > -- > Steph Thommen > Recruitment Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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editing channels - "How was this edit made?"
by Amir E. Aharoni 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi, In the Bangalore DevCamp I spoke a bit with Brion about a way to measure various ways of editing MediaWiki pages. The original idea was to measure how much the mobile editing, when it becomes widely available, is actually used. A simplistic solution would be add a boolean "rev_mobile" field to the revision table, but this can apply to a lot of other things, for example: * Visual Editor vs. the current wiki-syntax editor * A usual browser vs. AutoWikiBrowser vs. direct API calls * bots vs. non-bots * for file uploads, Special:Upload vs. Special:UploadWizard Things get even more complicated, because several such flags may apply at once: for example, I can imagine a human editor using a mobile editing interface with a bot flag, because he makes a lot of tiny edits and the community doesn't want them to appear in RecentChanges. And of course, there may be privacy and performance implications, too. Nevertheless, some kind of metrics of the various contributions channels would be useful. Any more ideas? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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