The SideBarMenu simplifies creating multilevel menues.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SideBarMenu
This is my first development project including mediawiki and has been by
request of a large oil company in Norway; Statoil.
Any feedback of any kind, is appreciated.
-Kim
@ all:
please feel invited to add (*) relevant article pages to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MGG
MGG is one of currently 6 books in our virtual library
MVL https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MVL
@ Sumanah:
when do think is the bot ready to automatically assign a tracking
category of those articles,
which are part of MVL books ? We spoke about this recently.
(*) in "Extension:Collection" style
Sooo.
Here we are again, looking at PHP version bumps. Our current minimum version
is 5.2.3, released in June 2009 (5.2.0 was November 2006).
I'm proposing to at least bump to version 5.3.0 (as the minimal), release
back in June 2006. Though a higher point release would be acceptable if
anyone knows of any blocking bugs that were fixed later in the release
series. Obviously, we want to try and use a version that gives both
developers benefits, without hopefully causing most administrators issues
having to manually update PHP etc.
>From terms of version availability, Ubuntu 10.04 (from April 2010) Lucid LTS
gives PHP Version 5.3.2 [1]. From the Wikimedia Foundations setup this means
we are sufficiently ahead that no extra work would be needed looking to
attempt to backport versions. And with 12.04 not long away (granted, we're
not going to be immediately upgrading), which has 5.3.10 (current stable
release) [2].
>From the developers point of view, we get some extras such as Namespace
support, Late static binding among other useful features. I have already
committed some code to our repo as part of AntiSpoof that now has a 5.3
minimal php version. I know there was support from other developers to make
this version bump.
It would be nice to have this change for the 1.20 release cycle if there are
no major reasons not to.
One step closer to 5.4.0 and buh-bye to register_globals and safe_mode!
Thanks
Sam
[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/php5
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/php5
Hi folks,
Just a quick update on git. All WMF-deployed extensions are currently mirroring
SVN and are available for read-only operations (clone, pull, fetch). We won't be
enabling pushing until the changeover date, but if you're interested
in going ahead
and cloning a particular extension (full list: [0]) so you can get
working on it locally,
that's open for business! All of the extensions are in mediawiki/extensions/*.
Minor note, the meta-repo mediawiki/extensions.git that will contain
the extensions
as submodules has *not* been setup yet. Hope to start poking at that
today or over
the weekend.
Also, mediawiki core is in its final iteration before it begins
mirroring as well. I'd
encourage people to check it out and see what they think--feedback appreciated
before we begin the mirroring process. The repo for that is
test/mediawiki/core.git
Remember, all repos can be cloned via:
`https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/example/repo/path.git`
Or over SSH if you've got a gerrit account via:
`git clone ssh://<user>@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/example/repo/path.git`
Have a great Friday!
-Chad
I just upgraded the extensions I maintain
* RSS (render feeds on a wiki page)
* WikiArticleFeeds (generate RSS feeds from Wiki pages)
* EtherpadLite (you should know that)
* AJAXPoll (a very simple and ultra-responsive poll I like very much...)
with that feature(*).
Please see the code changes (**), if you are interested.
It's easy once you know how.
(*) adding automatically pages which use the extension to a category with a meaningful name
(**) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/wikinaut
I'm interested in displaying a banner similar to the ones found on en.wikipedia.org (and probably *.wikipedia.org) from the Fundraising 2011 campaign. I like the style (thin border, 'close' button) and was wondering where I could find the template for it, or any docs. I hunted around and came up with this page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011 ), but still can't find the templates. Any ideas *core* people?
-User:DanielRenfro
Welcome Lydia! Happy to see you on doing great work for Wiki Data @WMDE.
Best
Alolita
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Alolita Sharma
Wikimedia Foundation
----- Reply message -----
From: "Lydia Pintscher" <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
To: <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:13 am
Hi everyone!
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.
I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.
I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)
For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together
If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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