Wikitech-l February 2012

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Question: Hook:LinkEnd and Title::getNamespace method for internal page ( such as User or User_talk page ) where the target page does not exist
by Thomas Gries 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Hello, today I have a Sunday support question to the linker and hooks experts. I know Hook:LinkEnd and use this almost successfully in an extension to "tag" User and User_talk page with an additional attribute. $wgHooks['LinkEnd'][] = 'wfWikiArticleFeedsAddSignatureMarker'; ... # https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LinkEnd function wfWikiArticleFeedsAddSignatureMarker( $skin, $title, $options, $text, &$attribs, $ret ) { if ( $title->getNamespace() == NS_USER) { $attribs['userpage-link'] = 'true'; } elseif ( $title->getNamespace() == NS_USER_TALK ) { $attribs['usertalkpage-link'] = 'true'; } return true; } This works perfectly as long as the page exists, but fail to add the attribute, if a "redlink" is created because the page does not exist. I suppose that the getNamespace fails in this case, Perhaps a patch in Linker.php is required to set Namespace already if the page is non-existent. Question: ======= How can I add my attribute as shown also for such links which point to a non-existing User or Usertalk page ?

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New committer
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Ashish Dubey (ashishd, User:Dash1291) is author of Extension:Tweetiki and is working on bringing real-time collaborative editing to the visual editor. I just gave him extensions commit access. Welcome, Ashish! (Commit access queue review will be slower this week due to the deployments; my apologies.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Git migration - switchover from Subversion begins March 3rd
by Sumana Harihareswara 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

If you develop MediaWiki core, or work on extensions that the Wikimedia Foundation deploys, you should prepare for your development workflow to switch on the weekend of March 3rd. Instead of Subversion and the Code Review tool at mediawiki.org, we will be using Git and Gerrit. Summary: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/15/wikimedia-engineering-moving-from-sub… Affected projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion#Affected_development_projects If you work on an extension that the Wikimedia Foundation does not use, or on a non-MediaWiki project hosted at svn.wikimedia.org, you have more time to decide. Talk it over with your community and decide whether you would like to move to Git immediately, move to Git sometime over the next several months, or move to another hosting provider sometime before mid-2013. We would like to gradually migrate all projects currently on Wikimedia's Subversion repository so that we can make all of svn.wikimedia.org read-only by the middle of 2013, and thus only have to support one source control infrastructure. New workflow instructions, open issues, docs, etc.: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git Thank you. (Please feel free to forward this to affected communities.) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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ExtensionDistributor on mediawiki.org is down
by Ryan Kaldari 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

If I try to generate a snapshot of any extension on mediawiki.org, I get the error "Unable to contact remote subversion client." For example: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor?extdist_extensio… Ryan Kaldari

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[ux]Language selection on mobile
by Arun Ganesh 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I have documented the proposal for the language selector on mobile that was worked on during the Pune hackathon. The current method of selecting from an unordered list of 250+ languages is not useful or helpful. This may not be the best solution but will definitely help for a vast majority of cases. Do give feedback on the talk page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector_Mobile -- j.mp/ArunGanesh

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Wiki markup vs. html tags
by Alex Brollo 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I'd like to replace usual wiki markup ''...'' and '''...''' for italic and bold with well-formed - even if deprecated - html tags <i>...</i> and <b>...</b>. Is there any serious issue dealing with server load, or safety/compatibility/other? And - generally speaking - is there any project to convert wiki markup into a well-formed one? I presume that there're lots of talks about, I'd like to be simply addessed to the best ones from them. Alex

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 13, 2012 - February 20, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 304 Bugs ASSIGNED : 67 Bugs REOPENED : 36 Bugs RESOLVED : 428 Total bugs still open: 7140 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 325 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 19 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 56 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 12 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 23 Bugs marked LATER : 4 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component Site requests 6 General/Unknown 6 Resource Loader 5 Extension setup 4 Special pages 4 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 42 Wikimedia 29 MediaWiki extensions 30 mwEmbed 1 Security 1 Top 5 Bug Resolvers sam [AT] reedyboy.net 18 hashar [AT] free.fr 12 mah [AT] everybody.org 8 yuvipanda [AT] gmail.com 7 maxsem.wiki [AT] gmail.com 5

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State of 1.19 deploy
by Rob Lanphier 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

...and just for grins, we'll make that "1.19" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:02 AM Subject: State of 1.18 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, Here's where we are. We've got a lot of blockers listed below, though it's probably not as bad as it looks from the bug count. == Blocking stage 2 deployment (commons) == Javascript/Resource Loader Tim did a bunch of work in this general area today. I'm hopeful Roan will have some time to review this work and we can all verify that this cleans up a bunch of issues. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34450 -- Probable Javascript loading issues (navigation and tabbing issues, multiple browsers) http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34409 -- 'mw.user.options' and 'mw.user.tokens' are sometimes empty on 1.19, breaking watchlist, gadgets, etc. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34517 -- Sometimes scripts imported by mw.loader.load on common.js are not executed http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34504 -- [Regression] There should not be a mismatch between html and stylesheet version Logging and permissions Mark and Antoine made a fix to one logging issue, and I puttered around on the larger IRC problem. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34508 -- [Regression] IRC string output for log messages no longer compatible http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34503 -- Users without the autopatrol right are being autopatrolled on simple.wikipedia == Blocking stage 3 deployment (all projects except Wikipedia) == No additional bugs. == Blocking stage 4 deployment (all Wikipedia except enwiki) == http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34104 -- Schema changes for MediaWiki 1.19 deployment to Wikimedia wikis There are some master switches that need to happen on s1, s5 and s6 prior to deploying to enwiki, dewiki, ruwiki, frwiki == Important to figure out, but not blocking == http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34458 -- Editing fails in IE7 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34478 -- Special:MergeAccount&action=submit generates error http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34469 -- (un)watch button broken (only in debug mode now) == Administrivia == http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33994 -- MediaWiki 1.19 pre WMF deployment actions (tracking) == Query for 1.19 deploy blockers == https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_id=91… Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/119triage

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GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects
by Shivansh Srivastava 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi Sir, Kindly find below the abstract of what I want to propose for GSoC '12. Could you please review it & suggest to make it better before mailing it on te Wikitech-I mailing list. Kindly tell me whether I need to be more elaborate & whether they can be taken up as projects under GSoC '12. Since GSoC 2012 has been announced officially, I wanted to give an abstract of what I want to implement and propose a few ideas I have in mind for the same. Kindly consider the ideas below & review the same. I have also mentioned the approx time I might be taking for each idea. I understand there are 16 weeks in which I would have to complete my project(s). So, kindly also inform me what would happen if the time taken by me exceeds & extends after the summer? Would I be allowed to complete the remaining projects afterwards? *Overview- * My main aim is improving the Front end of the Wiki for improved User Interactivity. I have spent some time in understanding the concepts of Gadgets & Extensions. I havent authored any gadgets yet & currently, I implement the javascript in common.js. I would mostly be implementing the following ideas, if allowed, as gadgets. I have been implementing/checking for different upon jQuery/JavaScripts & CSS. I have only been working on the common.js - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13/common.js & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13/common.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13/common.js> css (I am still working on the 4th & 5th extensions there) implementing the abstract I tried to show here at the WikiMedia Conference in Mumbai - https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/ *My ideas/proposals are:-* 1. Page Preview (onmouseover) - A small Dialog box, that could display the Intro para of the hypertext/link in an iframe or related text. (1 week + testing) . I'll need to discuss this more 2. Image Preview (onclick) or (Rollover Effect to provide more description) or (URL description snapshot preview) - A dialog or lightbox, that gives a preview of Image or provides a description for it. It would be useful when its difficult to find the corresponding description for the same in lengthy paragraphs. (4-5 days +1 day testing) 3. jQuery drop menu for login - ( https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/Logi…) - Can be integrated with AJAX for an on the page account validation or creation; without having to go to a different page. ( 4. Lightbox (onclick) - To view a particular image enlarged, embedded audio, videos, flash in a dialog box. (1 week + 2 days testing) 5. News Ticker - I want to implement a News Ticker at the top of every page, which shows the latest headlines, fed from an RSS feed. (1 Week + 1 days testing) 6. OnScreen Keypad/Keyboard - for people who mostly depend on mouse over keyboard, on screen keyboard would be displayed, when clicked on the Search box. (4-5 Days + 2Days testing) 7. Voice Search - I am working on adding a Voice Search through Javascript; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13/common.js -Extension 5). I want to implement it in the Search box directly. 8. HTML5 - Need help in implementing this & ideas for the same. For a start, I want to change hue, saturation, colour, etc of the screen & text dynamically - I am currently working on the javascript. 9. OnMouseOver -Enlarge an image position by position & magnify it X times & show it in an iframe above the mouse pointer. (1 Week) 10. Bookmark & ShareThis - Should be present on all pages. Sharing on common networking sites, tweeting, etc. 11. Accordion - (For paras) - Long paragraphs can be hidden/shown on click to save time, space for scroll. (1 Week) 12. Float Menu - ( https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mockups/ajax-mockups/Floa…) - Would need inputs, as it can be really helpful for long pages (Size >2-2.5 MB) (1 Week) 13. Notified ScrollBar (jQuery) - A scrollbar at the right side of the screen, which will distinctly be divided into minibars, depending on the div id & length of the paragraphs/text. (1.5 Weeks) I could send a modified page to explain it better.  Also, it would be great if there are any more ideas that can be included here to improve User Interactivity. Would I be allowed to take up all these under the name of a single project? Waiting for a reply. With Regards, -- Shivansh Srivastava | +91-955-243-5407 | http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shivansh-srivastava/17/a50/b18<mr.shivansh.srivastava(a)gmail.com> <mr.shivansh.srivastava(a)gmail.com>Secretary, BITS Alumni Affairs Division | Web Expert, Newsletter, BITSAA International 3rd Year Undergraduate | B.E. (Hons.) - Electronics & Instrumentation BITS-Pilani.

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Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons
by Maarten Dammers 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi everyone, Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images categorized on Commons. I documented this at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categori… . I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results were quite promising, so maybe someone else feels like working on this? Would probably be a pretty nice student project or just fun to do. Maarten

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