On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
>> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
>> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
>> and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
>> member.
>
>
> Congratulations, James!
>
> I hope this means the Visual Editor will use the correct spellings of words
> like colour, axe, and aluminium, and will offer to make people tea. :-)
Just as long as it's not almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea...
Also, I am having serious trouble wrapping my mind around James living
outside the UK. Once that happens I'm sure I will have recovered
enough to say "congratulations"!
I do wish someone had been chosen who had some more community experience though.
-Kat
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Stephen Smoogen has opened a bug about the license in CSS Janus. This
needs wider discussion, though, so I'm copying it here.
>From https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36747:
I am the maintainer of the mediawiki package for Fedora EPEL
project. While putting together the package for 1.19 it was found
that the license to maintenance/cssjanus is ASL 2.0 and the license
for mediawiki is GPL+2.0. The GPL 2. and ASL 2. are not "compatible"
to the FSF so I am trying to work out my options and to find out
what the mediawiki's projects rationale for bundling the two items
together.
1) cssjanus has a GPL exception to its ASL license that mediawiki knows of.
2) we need to look at mediawiki being used as GPL 3.0 even though it
is not explicitely licensed that way.
I'll point the bug to the on-list discussion, so please follow up here.
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Hello MediaWiki Developers,
I will be working on improving the watchlist feature in MediaWiki this
summer for GSoC. For the initial scope of my project, I'm aiming to
concurrently add grouping to watchlists, while improving the UI as
recommended in the Visual Watchlist thread (
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/61151
).
This week, I'll begin by testing ways to make the watchlist options box
collapsible/not take up as much space. (So far, I've created one patch that
uses the mw-collapsible class - any better ideas?) I will also begin
modifying RecentChangesLine to provide the # of chars added & removed, not
just the net change amount (this leads up to the keystone feature of the
visual watchlist.) I'm also looking for beta testers for the improved UI,
so please reply back if you are interested.
Thanks,
Aaron Pramana
Hi everyone
This is pretty much a late entry, however let me introduce you to my GSoC
project that I'll be working on this summer with Trevor Parscal as my
mentor. With reference to my initial proposal[1] sent to this list and my
application[2], my project aims at prototyping the initial phase of
realtime collaborative editing feature on Visual Editor.
During the time that I've spent while reading on aspects related to the
project and preparing the proposal, I've been throwing random notes at one
of my user pages[3].
Also, the official coding period starts from next week, but I've started
pushing my project's code to 'realtimeve' branch of VisualEditor[4]. So
far, I've worked on the initial modular structure of the collaboration
server, which is part of the first milestone as documented in my
application. For the coding progress, I'm using one of my user pages to
document the status updates[5].
Apart from VE folks, anyone who is interested in the project, and has some
feedback or suggestions, is welcome to pitch in. I'll make sure that I can
make the most out of your inputs.
Thanks
Links -
[1] -
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-February/058254.html
[2] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dash1291/GSoC_2012_Application
[3] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dash1291/Thoughts
[4] -
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.g…
[5] - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dash1291/GSoC_status
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Hi,
Apologies if this is a wrong forum to ask this doubt.
We have a private installation of Mediawiki at http://wiki.wikimedia.in
Currently we have enabled all pages editable only by email autoconfirmed
users, due to heavy spam attacks.
While having that as a global setting, can we have some pages editable by
all ( even IP users) via some settings.
A practical use for us would we , all pages under
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/
Can anyone help us ?
- Tinu Cherian
Who is supposed to review changes to ZhConversion.php and related
files, such as https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7364/ ?
If jenkins-bot marks it as "Verified", can it be merged similarly to
localization updates?
Or is anybody who knows Chinese supposed to review them?
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hey,
A little over a month ago I noticed that most of the history of the Maps
and Semantic Maps git repos was missing. I asked about this on IRC and
wrote the list, but it seems like it's not going to get fixed without me
doing the work. So I just spend 2 hours figuring out how to do this, and
although what I came up with is not ideal (it has me as comitter for all
the 30 or so changes that happened since the git migration), it fixes the
history issue. Now I have 2 working git repos, but no idea of how to get
this onto gerrit. Everything I tried got rejected, so I put the repos on
github and made the ones on gerrit read-only for now. I'd be very grateful
if someone could replace the stuff on gerrit with these, or better yet,
with a proper fixed version of the repos with full history.
* https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Maps
* https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/SemanticMaps
Cheers
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Last week some people posted some untested answers that did not work.
*Hi All,
Please join me in welcoming Ori Livneh as Software Developer on WMF’s new
Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) engineering team.
Ori grew up in Israel, Canada and the United States. He likes to read
philosophy, linguistics and fiction. He has a son, Noam, who is seven
months old, and may or may not be named after Noam Chomsky, and a wife,
Simona, who was definitely not named after Chomsky. He is a self-taught
programmer and has a weird love/hate relationship with schools and academic
institutions. When he can't fall asleep, he researches macabre topics on
Wikipedia, which is the worst possible way to cope with insomnia. He's
moving to the Bay Area from New York City and would appreciate your
consolations :-). Needless to say, he's very, very excited to join the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Ori is relocating to San Francisco later this month. So say hello to Ori
online. He’s available as @olivneh on our favorite irc channels including
#mediawiki and #wikimedia-dev. And drop by to see him when he’s in SF!
Welcome Ori! Glad to see you onboard.*
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I deleted a test article from huwiki, and this was the result instead of
the usual success message. However, the deletion has been completed.
A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php
after upgrading? See:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Run_the_update_script
Query: DELETE FROM `globalimagelinks` WHERE gil_wiki = 'huwiki' AND
gil_page = '929875'
Function: GlobalUsage::deleteLinksFromPage
Error: 1290 The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it
cannot execute this statement (10.0.6.61)
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