Wikitech-l April 2012

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Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
by Sumana Harihareswara 04 May '12

04 May '12

Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons
by emijrp 02 May '12

02 May '12

2012/4/24 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> > Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress? > > I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand > the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with > categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts > on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome. > > SJ > > You can upload them to Internet Archive, if Wikipedia has temporal issues with videos. When the problems are fixed, we can move them from Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons. -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/

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exporting from LibreOffice to MediaWiki
by Amir E. Aharoni 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi, One of LibreOffice killer features is exporting documents in MediaWiki format. It's not perfect, but it's nevertheless very useful for converting papers written by academics and their students to Wikipedia articles. Unfortunately, it's broken in the latest LibreOffice releases: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46509 Is there, by any chance, anybody here who is familiar with the world of LibreOffice development that can help get it fixed? -- 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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Re: [Wikitech-l] everything Etherpad - general status, where are we going, questions
by Thomas Gries 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

My "cherry-picking" answers are inline: > >> == embedding in mw or not / can we look at both? == >> >> And we do want embedding, right? And the MW extension would require >> -lite, or wouldn't it? >> >> Can we setup 2 labs instances, one with classic and one with -lite and >> a mediawiki instance, so users can already >> see how embedded pads feel and then vote for having them. (and/or also >> which etherpad version) >> > Again, no embedding. Let's ignore this exists. It's great that Thomas > wrote this for MediaWiki, but it's not a production-level solution. I am interested to know why do you think my work is not production-level ? The only thing to improve is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36319 . Perhaps I/we can fix this at or until the hackathon. >> Anyone started with these already? Do we have packages? For both? Are >> they on external repos? (on labs we can include 3rd party, in prod. we >> can't). >> (can help with puppet code to add repos and keys) >> >> What about the extension review? Can bump? Remaining issues? >> >> == Bug tracking == >> >> BZ - Migrate to etherpad-lite >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34953 >> >> RT - umbrella ticket for all things Etherpad >> http://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2018 >> >> 1180: (Nobody) Update etherpad and do some configuration [open] >> 1247: (Nobody) Etherpad connection failures [new] >> 1270: (Nobody) https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ points to the blog [open] >> 1673: (Nobody) install etherpad search [stalled] >> 1690: (Nobody) etherpad reports all logged in users as IP 127.0.0.1 [open] >> 1720: (Nobody) Etherpad improvement - install etherpadlite [open] >> 2536: (Nobody) Please upgrade Etherpad server, preserving all old >> Etherpads and URLs [new] >> 2555: (dzahn) Please update Etherpad default text [resolved] >> 2751: (Nobody) HTTPS on etherpad is broken [new] >> >> These open more questions: >> >> - Does etherpad-lite have search? No. As it uses changesets, one can currently not search. >> - Are we hoping for/expecting less connection failures? (re: >> connection analysis). EtherpadLite (EPL) works well. What is neither working in EP nor in EPL but I proposed that already in https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/issues/190 is "Ultra feature request: make etherpad-lite offline-capable (HTML5)" >> - The 127.0.0.1 issue is due to setup in production, we'd have to >> check again and do not have an easy solution so far. >> - Can we preserve all old etherpads and URLs when switching to -lite ? >> when upgrading ? Would be possible. Urls are looking the same, http://server/p/padname > >> Would it help if i copied the content of these tickets to public >> Bugzilla as well? Bugzilla has already two components where the aspects could perhaps be filed as "enhancement": i) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Et… ii) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… Tom (Wikinaut)

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getting the URL of a sister project
by Amir E. Aharoni 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi, Is there a function that looks something like getUrl( 'ruwiki' ); and returns 'https://ru.wikipedia.org'? WikiMap.php is supposed to have such functions, but it gives me strange results on my local test wiki. Of course, it's possible that I screwed something up in my CentralAuth configuration. -- 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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Development request for ORBIT
by Bjoern Hassler 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi all, I hope this is the right mailing list for this enquiry - apologies if not! We're using mediawiki to run our ORBIT project site, see http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk The ORBIT project is an Open Educational Resources project, to support interactive pedagogy in maths / science / ICT teaching. We've got some funding available to make some tweaks to the codebase / extensions, mainly to do with the appearance and usability of the wiki, see http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/Blog/20120427_Mediawiki_tweaks Resulting code would be Open Source. What's the best way of going about this? If there are people willing to do the work, we could hire them. Or if different people can do different bits, we could put out a bounty? Any thoughts and offers for help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks, Bjoern http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk

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OAuth
by Petr Bena 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi, it's been almost 4 years since we came with the idea of implementing an OAuth to mediawiki. I think it's time to start. Question now is if it should be a part of core or extension for mediawiki. I myself would rather make it as extension, since there is probably no use for most of installations, except for large wikis. Quote: OAuth provides a standard protocol to negotiate secure access tokens and to provide third-party tools (web or client) with granular access to private resources. This protocol does not reveal usernames or passwords to the third-party tool. Offering OAuth based authorization on Mediawiki wiki's will increase the reusability of its data and spur the creation of an ecosystem of app's around Mediawiki. Is there anyone who is willing to help with this? If there is no one interested in this, or no comments, I would start a new extension called OAuth, which only purpose would be to enable this feature in mediawiki.

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Cutting MediaWiki loose from wikitext
by Daniel Kinzler 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi all. I have a bold proposal (read: evil plan). To put it briefly: I want to remove the assumption that MediaWiki pages contain always wikitext. Instead, I propose a pluggable handler system for different types of content, similar to what we have for file uploads. So, I propose to associate a "content model" identifier with each page, and have handlers for each model that provide serialization, rendering, an editor, etc. The background is that the Wikidata project needs a way to store structured data (JSON) on wiki pages instead of wikitext. Having a pluggable system would solve that problem along with several others, like doing away with the special cases for JS/CSS, the ability to maintain categories etc separate from body text, manage Gadgets sanely on a wiki page, or several other things (see the link below). I have described my plans in more detail on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/ContentHandler A very rough prototype is in a dev branch here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/Wikidata/phase3/ Please let me know what you think (here on the list, preferably, not on the talk page there, at least for now). Note that we *definitely* need this ability for Wikidata. We could do it differently, but I think this would be the cleanest solution, and would have a lot of mid- and long term benefits, even if it's a short term pain. I'm presenting my plan here to find out if I'm on the right track, and whether it is feasible to put this on the road map for 1.20. It would be my (and the Wikidata team's) priority to implement this and see it through before Wikimania. I'm convinced we have the manpower to get it done. Cheers, Daniel

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 23, 2012 - April 30, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 290 Bugs ASSIGNED : 13 Bugs REOPENED : 29 Bugs RESOLVED : 106 Total bugs still open: 7661 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 79 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 11 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 5 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 4 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 6 Bugs marked LATER : 1 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New Bugs Per Component wikistats 10 Translate 8 ArticleFeedbackv5 7 Git/Gerrit 7 Site requests 5 New Bugs Per Product MediaWiki 32 Wikimedia 22 MediaWiki extensions 52 Datasets 2 Wikimedia Labs 16 Top 5 Bug Resolvers mah [AT] everybody.org 12 jrobson [AT] wikimedia.org 12 maxsem.wiki [AT] gmail.com 8 beau [AT] adres.pl 6 umherirrender_de.wp [AT] web.de 5

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enwiki enotifs come now with a deep link for "unwatching"
by Thomas Gries 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

I just wanted to make you aware that enotifs on enwiki (like on dewiki) are now sent with a further "convenience link" in the footer. The link allows mail recipients to easily "unwatch" the page by following the link (if not yet done, users must log in). see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36331

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