WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first ever "Extension Page Review Drive" - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Projects/Page_…
Several extension pages are long overdue for review. Many are lacking the appropriate tags, both header and within the extensions, which cause confusion for other developers and sysadmins. In addition to time wasted on bad installations, there is also time wasted by other developers providing tech support to these bad installations. This will also help with future drives reviewing actual code of extensions (although you're welcome to do thorough code review during this drive if you'd like) and moving extensions based in wikicode to the code repository.
The goal is to review as many of the pages as possible during the 1st quarter of this calendar year (so by March 31st). We've just officially started this and already 1% done. :)
During this drive, all extension pages are marked with an additional category. These will be removed once the drive is completed. Page drive specific template modifications and wikicode will also be removed upon the page drive's completion.
Any interested participants are welcome to sign on as a participant on: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Projects/Page_…
Feel free to email me with any questions or feedback. :)
-greg aka varnent
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Gregory Varnum
Lead, Aequalitas Project
Lead Administrator, WikiQueer
Founding Principal, VarnEnt
@GregVarnum
fb.com/GregVarnum
What: 1.19 bug triage
When: Friday, February, 21:00UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/g5
Where: #wikimedia-dev on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-dev
if you don't have an IRC client
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/119triage
With the deploy to all the Wikipedias, more bugs were uncovered. We want
to make sure these are all addressed and get and the upcoming tarball
release out.
If you want to help, join us on IRC at the time above in #wikimedia-dev.
--
Mark A. Hershberger
Bugmeister
Wikimedia Foundation
mah(a)wikimedia.org
I'm interested in participating in MedaWiki gsoc 2012.
Is this the correct thread to post regarding MedaiWiki gsoc 2012.
Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Student Member IEEE
Hi,
with regard to bug #24607, I wanted to enable external Stor-
age on my local PostgreSQL-backed wiki. The documentation
at
<URI:http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalServers>
reads:
| An array of external MySQL servers.
| e.g.
| $wgExternalServers = array( 'cluster1' => array( 'srv28', 'srv29', 'srv30' ) );
but executing maintenance/storage/compressOld.php with that
configuration yields:
| [...]
| PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/w/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php on line 68
| PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/w/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php on line 68
| You must update your load-balancing configuration. See DefaultSettings.php entry for $wgDBservers.
| Backtrace:
| #0 /var/www/html/w/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php(571): LoadBalancer->reallyOpenConnection('0rv28', false)
^
| #1 /var/www/html/w/includes/db/LoadBalancer.php(492): LoadBalancer->openConnection(0, false)
| #2 /var/www/html/w/includes/ExternalStoreDB.php(56): LoadBalancer->getConnection(-2, Array, false)
| #3 /var/www/html/w/includes/ExternalStoreDB.php(150): ExternalStoreDB->getMaster('cluster1')
| #4 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/storage/compressOld.php(347): ExternalStoreDB->store('cluster1', 'O:27:"Concatena...')
| #5 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/storage/compressOld.php(94): CompressOld->compressWithConcat(0, 20, '', '', 'cluster1', false)
| #6 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(105): CompressOld->execute()
| #7 /var/www/html/w/maintenance/storage/compressOld.php(408): require_once('/var/www/html/w...')
| #8 {main}
and a look at the code and wmf-deployment's addwiki.php and
renamewiki.php seems to indicate that the structure is a bit
more complex. Could someone update the documentation,
please?
TIA,
Tim
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team.
Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor.
She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look,
feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a
critical need of the mobile team which has grown steadily over the
last couple of months in development capacity but has not grown enough
in design capacity. With the addition of Lindsey we'll have some keen
eyes on such key projects as our new navigational system, image
uploads, and numerous future projects.
Lindsey joins us as a mobile designer from Dallas, Texas who's
recently moved to the bay area with her husband and 2 border collies.
She's worked for Semaphore Mobile on a range of client applications
from restaurant review service Zagat to custom remote control
interfaces for Traxxas cars[1]. Her educational background is in
Software Engineering but she found her passion to be in UI/UX.
Welcome Lindsey!
[1] http://lsmith.me/projects
--tomasz
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Just a reminder that we're deploying MediaWiki 1.19 to most Wikipedias
> in a few hours (including enwiki), starting at 23:00 UTC (3pm PST).
This work is mostly done. The biggest known problem we have is with
language variants on the Chinese language wikis. See:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/34832
We're going to give the original developer some time to respond on
this issue before taking action. For now, several zh* wikis are on
1.18
We're also keeping an eye on site performance. There's been a slight
regression in our parser cache hit rate:
http://bit.ly/w6Gy9t
The new diff colors have been temporarily reverted. Trevor and Timo
plan to spend some time looking into the subject. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/112750
Saper and Aaron have spent some time cleaning up areas where CheckUser
briefly stopped working properly:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34838
Mostly unrelated to 1.19 (mainly correlated), we've rolled back the
Swift thumbnail deployment to correct many broken images. We'll be
bringing Swift back online in the coming days after we've purged all
of the broken images we know of from the system.
It'd be good to have more eyes on the recent bug list:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=%5BBug%20creation%5D&que…
Thanks everyone for your help in making this deployment as smooth as possible!
Rob
Hi all,
Would having opengrok[1] setup for Mediawiki code be useful tool?
I haven't used ViewVC much, so not sure if opengrok doesn't do something
that ViewVC does, but in general have found opengrok to be much useful for
grokking across the code base quickly. If you haven't used it / want to
try, check it out in action[2]
[1] http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opengrok/
[2] http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/
--
Regards
Srikanth.L
Ben, what's the update?
And James writes:
> I have a number of partners who are interested in the possibility of
> running software on there websites that would if a user choses upload
> images to both their own website and Wikimedia Commons. Some of the
> partners include: the University of British Columbia, Medpix
> http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/medpix.html?mode=default, ECGpedia
> http://en.ecgpedia.org/
>
> I potentially have funding in the range of 20 thousand dollars from the
> place I teach and the support of a number of colleagues. Wikimedia Canada
> is looking at hiring a programmer for this work. I am wondering if people
> here would be interested? Or at least would be willing to
> provide guidance as I know very little about programming.
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
> President Wikimedia Canada
>
> James
jmh649(a)gmail.com
On 11/30/2011 12:52 PM, Ben Lobaugh (CompuCom Systems Inc) wrote:
> I am talking with a contractor about completing the work right now. Waiting on a quote for the work which he said will probably get to me today. Hopefully after that it will be just a couple weeks until it is usable.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sumana Harihareswara [mailto:sumanah@wikimedia.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:47 AM
> To: Wikimedia developers
> Cc: Ben Lobaugh (CompuCom Systems Inc)
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] A program to simultaneously upload images to two websites (Wikimedia Commons being one)
>
> Ben, can you provide any update on this?
>
> And James, did you find anyone to help you with this endeavor?
