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Problem with saving edits
by James Heilman 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

I have been having problems saving some edits the last week or so. This is not associated with an edit conflict. Wondering if anyone else has experience this problem? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Article revision numbers
by Adam Wight 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello comrades, I've run into a challenge too interesting to keep to myself ;) My immediate goal is to prototype an "offline" wikipedia, similar to Kiwix, which allows the end-user to make edits and synchronize them back to a central repository like enwiki. The catch is, how to insert these changes without edit conflicts? With linear revision numbering, I can't imagine a natural representation of the data, only some kind of ad-hoc sandbox solution. Extending the article revision numbering to represent a branching history would be the natural way to handle optimistic replication. Non-linear revisioning might also facilitate simpler models for page protection, and would allow the formation of multiple, independent consensuses. -Adam Wight

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suggestion: replace CAPTCHA with better approaches
by matanya 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

As for the last few month the spam rate stewards deal with is raising. I suggest we implement a new mechanism: Instead of giving the user a CAPTCHA to solve, give him a image from commons and ask him to add a brief description in his own language. We can give him two images, one with known description, and the other with unknown, after enough users translate the unknown in the same why, we can use it as a verified translation. We base on the known image description to allow the user to create the account. Is it possible to embed a file from commons in the login page? is it possible to parse the entered text and store it? benefits: A) it would be harder for bots to create automated accounts. B) We will get translations to many languages with little effort from the users signing up. What do you think?

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Category Internacionalization.
by Mauricio Etchevest 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hi ! I'm working on a extension for Media Wiki. And I need to detect when a categorization is made on an article. So I search for the annotation with the keyword "category" but, then I need to detect categorizations in other languages.How can I get the translation of the keyword "category" ? Wich is the best way to add/remove an article from a Category ? Thanks!

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Creating a centralized access point for propriety databases/resources
by Ocaasi Ocaasi 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hi Folks! The problem: Many proprietary research databases have donated free access to select Wikipedia editors (Credo Reference, HighBeam Research, JSTOR). Managing separate account distribution for each service doesn't scale well. The idea: Centralize access to these separate resources behind a single secure (firewalled) gateway, to which accounts would be given to a limited number of approved users. After logging in to this single gateway, users would be able to enter any of the multiple participating research databases without needing to log in to each one separately. The question: What are the basic technical specifications for setting up such a system. What are open source options, ideally? What language would be ideal? What is required to host such a system? Can you suggest a sketch of the basic steps necessary to implement such an idea? Any advice, from basics to details would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! Ocaasi http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi

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ANN: Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprise (MLODE) Leipzig, September 23-24-25, 2012
by Sebastian Hellmann 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

*Save the date: Leipzig, Germany 23-24-25 September 2012 http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode Co-located with the Leipziger Semantic Web Day: http://aksw.org/lswt ====== Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises ====== MLODE will bring together developers, data producers, academia and enterprises and connect people, communities, data and industrial use cases. The workshop will be very interactive and you are expected to help us achieve common goals: * bootstrap and build a Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud (LLOD): http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/ * establish best practices for multilingual linked open data * create incentives for businesses and lower the barrier for participation in LOD for natural language processing and internationalisation and localisation enterprises. We are expecting intensive participation by members of the following communities (these are teasers, see the **detailed descriptions for each community** further below): * DBpedia ( http://dbpedia.org <about:blank>): DBpedia International now has over 10 language-specific chapters (such as http://el.dbpedia.org <http://el.dbpedia.org/>). At the MLODE workshop there will be a DBpedia Developers meetup. We will discuss the “Future of DBpedia” and create a common Road Map. If you want to get more involved in DBpedia, the workshop will be a good opportunity to meet the team. * Working Group for Open Data in Linguistics (OWLG, http://linguistics.okfn.org <http://linguistics.okfn.org/%29>): Now is the time to get your data into the LLOD cloud! We have created a development team that will convert your data to RDF and help establish links: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/. Please submit your data sets soon! (Furthermore we will have a legal session to discuss licensing issues.) * Multilingual Web ( http://www.multilingualweb.eu <http://www.multilingualweb.eu/>): Free, open data and lexica; we will have a session discussing best practices for multilingual linked open data (http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod) and compatability with the RDF world with ITS 2.0. * Apache Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/): Enterprises will have the chance to present their use cases during lightning talks and we will have a Apache Stanbol Booth and an install fest to show hands-on how combined usage of public and closed data can be achieved and what benefits firms can gain from using these rapidly increasing data pools. * Ontolex W3C Community Group ( http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/): Monnet Challenge will provide a data bounty for developers who convert data sets using lemon. * Also: NLP2RDF (http://nlp2rdf.org <http://nlp2rdf.org/>) - the NIF project, DBpedia Spotlight (http://spotlight.dbpedia.org <http://spotlight.dbpedia.org/>), Wiktionary2RDF (http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary) How you can contribute: * Contact us if you are an enterprise and want to prepare a small presentation/lightning talk about your business use cases (using LOD) or problems you have (please see below for details) * Contact us if you want to give a short presentation on a relevant topic * We are looking for a sponsor for a DBpedia Booth * Submit your data sets for the LLOD: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/ * Become a sponsor of the workshop: http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/funding?&#sponsorship * Or donate money and help the individual communities: http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/Funding DBpedia is a good example of a freely available and open data set that was generated by crowd-sourcing and academia, but it has provided an immense value to businesses and industry. We want to build on and continue this success for the areas of natural language processing enterprises and the internationalisation and localisation industries. The goal of the workshop is to bootstrap a Multilingual Linked Open Data cloud by bringing together many different linked open data sets and by creating synergy among different research and business communities. This workshop is aimed at researchers and industry and commercial consumers of data produced by research. We hope for mutual benefits between (potentially non-commercial) data providers and enterprises: Open-source and open-licences for software have shown that they can be successful in a commercial environment. How can we transfer these models to Multilingual Linked Open Data? And how can the transformation of currently monolingual Linked Open Data sources into a Multilingual Web of Open Data spur cross-linguistic research, and commercial applications in internationalisation and localisation enterprises? ===== Sponsors ===== We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting the workshop: * The **Working MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group** - http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/ * The **Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) EU Research Project** - http://www.iks-project.eu/ * The **Monnet Project** - http://www.monnet-project.eu/ ===== Monnet Challenge ===== The Monnet Project (http://www.monnet-project.eu/) is offering the following bounties for the conversion of existing linguistic resources into linked data, in particular focussing on the **lemon format** (http://www.monnet-project.eu/lemon) . **Bounties are 600, 400, 200, 100, 50 Euros** . The selection of winners will be done by a committee of Ontolex community members. Core criteria: * Number of triples (relative to other submissions). Emphasis is of course on number of triples containing a URI from //lemon// . * Expressiveness and quality of lemon used (How many properties and classes of //lemon// are you using? Are you using them correctly?) * Impact (Is the data set you converted important and central to our cause? We also rate data sets for less-spoken languages higher, because of the rarity effect.) Additional criteria: * Note that you can convert and submit more than one data set. You will be rated for the combined data you converted (so each person can only make one submission). * You will be given extra points if you publish converted data early and other people build upon your work (e.g. fix errors). * All submissions will be considered for inclusion in the data post-proceedings. Detailed information on how to submit can be found on the Monnet Challenge page: http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/monnet-challenge Submission will end 10 days before the workshop. The deadline therefore is **September 13th, 2012** ===== Planned Sessions ===== Each session will have an etherpad http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/etherpadso that you can already participate in advance. ==== Submit your data today ==== In preparation, from now until September 23rd, we will: * Collect data sets relevant to the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud http://code.google.com/p/mlode/ * Provide conversion services and data 'bounties' to convert as much data as possible to RDF before the workshop * Help debugging and hosting your Linked Data We are interested in data that is linguistic in nature, such as corpora and lexica, as well as data that might be used to improve Natural Language Processing methods such as large governmental parallel corpora or entity linking engines. ==== Sun 23th: Community Get Together ==== Community Get Together - no program, just social activities, e.g. barbecue, beach volleyball. Time and place will be announced soon. ==== 24th: Code-Sprint-a-Thon ==== Code-Sprint-a-Thon (hands-on workshop) with data providers, visionaries and developers from all communities. The focus of the Code-Sprint-a-Thon will be on gathering the requirements and use cases from attendees and then developers will start to initiate these ideas with the collected data sets, e.g. interesting cross-data set queries, visualisations, data mash-ups. The result will be more Multilingual Linked Open Data, more links, more tools and more applications. === DBpedia === Many DBpedia developers will be available during this workshop so that you can ask them questions directly. Bring your laptop and they will show you how to download and query DBpedia. === Apache Stanbol === Developers from Apache Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/) will be at the Apache Stanbol booth and they will have an install fest to show hands-on how combined usage of public and closed data can be achieved and what benefits firms can gain from using the rapidly increasing data pools. ==== 25th: Announcements ==== * State of the Linguistic LOD Cloud ( http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/) * NIF 2.0 (http://wiki.nlp2rdf.org/) * Presentation of the results of the Code-Sprint-a-Thon * Announcement of the Monnet Challenge Winners ====25th: Lightning Talks: Use Cases by Enterprises ==== We are looking for companies to present their use cases and/or products that are relevant to the topics of the MLODE workshop. Please contact us if your enterprise would like to present on a topic from this (non-exhaustive) list: * Use cases based on Linked Data (either open or closed) * Solutions that are built with data from the LOD cloud * Problems that constitute barriers for economic exploitation of LOD * Ideas of what could be built with Linguistic/Multilingual LOD We aim to address questions like: * How can we unlock the data created by research and open communities for enterprises? * What is missing? * How can we build bridges? Submission ends on September 13th, which is one week before the workshop. Presentations will be around 3-5 minutes. ====25th: Session on Best Practices for Multilingual Linked Open Data ==== Please have a look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod <http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod?> <http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod?> ====25th: Session on Legal Issues ==== Erik Ketzan (http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikketzan) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikketzan%29>will present the Clarin Legal Helpdesk and talk about current problems regarding database licences. Please have a look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/legal-session ==== 25th: Session on DBpedia Roadmap ==== Please have a look at the etherpad: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/DBpedia-roadmap ==== Data post proceedings ==== This workshop will publish a data post proceedings. As this is a new concept, the rules for submission are not yet fixed. We will collect ideas here: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/data-post-proceedings During the discussion at the conference, we will pin down the details. ===== Participating Communities ===== ==== Multilingual Web ==== MLODE Contact: Dominic Jones ( https://www.scss.tcd.ie/dominic.jones/) Many ideas were generated into the best-practice use of Multilingual LOD at the W3C sponsored "Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements" workshop held in Dublin, Ireland, June 2012 (http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-program). One of the aims of MLODE workshop is to continue discussion around the best-practices for application of LOD in the Multilingual Web and the transformation of currently monolingual LOD resources into multiple languages, for example a multi-lingual DBpedia. Topics for discussion and talking points will be carried over from the Dublin workshop and discussed during the MLODE workshop but new ideas or suggestions are of course welcome and requested. We will have a session discussing best practices for multilingual linked open data and compatibility of the RDF world with ITS 2.0. You can already participate in the discussion: http://mlode.okfnpad.org/best-practices-multilingual-lod ==== DBpedia ==== MLODE Contact: Dimitris Kontokostas DBpedia ( http://dbpedia.org <about:blank>): DBpedia International now has over 10 language-specific chapters (such as http://el.dbpedia.org <http://el.dbpedia.org/>) . At the workshop there will be a DBpedia Developers meetup, we will discuss the “Future of DBpedia” and create a common Road Map. If you want to get more involved in DBpedia, the workshop will be a good opportunity to meet the team. ==== OWLG ==== MLODE Contact: Richard Littauer Working Group for Open Data in Linguistics (OWLG, http://linguistics.okfn.org <http://linguistics.okfn.org/%29>): Now is the time to get your data into the LLOD cloud! We have created a development team that will convert your data to RDF and help establish links: http://code.google.com/p/mlode/. Please submit your data sets! (Furthermore we will have a legal session to discuss licensing issues.) ==== Ontolex ==== MLODE Contact: John McCrae Ontolex W3C Community Group ( http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/): Monnet Challenge will provide a data bounty for developers who convert data sets using lemon ==== Apache Stanbol ==== MLODE Contact: John Pereira Apache Stanbol ( http://incubator.apache.org/stanbol/): Enterprises will have the chance to present their use cases during lightning talks and we will have a Apache Stanbol Booth and an install fest to show hands-on how combined usage of public and closed data can be achieved and what benefits firms can gain from using the rapidly increasing data pools. ==== NLP2RDF ==== NLP2RDF (http://nlp2rdf.org <http://nlp2rdf.org/>): the NIF project will announce the new NIF 2.0 Specification at the conference. Discussion is currently going on at the Wiki (http://wiki.nlp2rdf.org) <http://wiki.nlp2rdf.org/wiki/Main_Page%29>and the mailing list http://lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/nlp2rdf ==== Other Communities ==== * DBpedia Spotlight (http://spotlight.dbpedia.org <http://spotlight.dbpedia.org/>) * Wiktionary2RDF (http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary) ===== Program ===== Most of the session are already quite clear (see above), just the detailed time plan is still missing ===== Contact ===== For any inquiries regarding the workshop, you can reach the //whole// MLODE committee at //mlode2012 [at] lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de//. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please contact the workshop organizers (Sebastian Hellmann and Steven Moran) through //mlode2012-sponsor [at] lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de// . Some financial aid may be available (travel cost or conference fee), please contact Steven Moran //mlode2012-sponsor [at] lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de// . ==== MLODE Committee ==== Chairs: * Sebastian Hellmann, University of Leipzig * Steven Moran, University of Munich Student Chairs: * Martin Brümmer, University of Leipzig * Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig Community Committee: * Richard Littauer, Saarland University * Dominic Jones, Trinity College * John McCrae, Bielefeld University * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo * John Peirera, Apache Stanbol * Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig ==== Venue ==== MLODE is part of the SABRE Multiconference, which is located at the Faculty of Economics and Management Scienc in the center of Leipzig: http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/en/kontakt.html#c16824 **MLODE is part of the SABRE Multiconference, which is located at the Faculty of Economics and Management Scienc in the center of Leipzig: http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/en/kontakt.html#c16824* * * -- Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Events: * http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode (Leipzig, Sept. 23-24-25, 2012) * http://wole2012.eurecom.fr (*Deadline: July 31st 2012*) Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org

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[Wikimedia-l] Questions about browser geolocalization improvement proposal
by Cristian Consonni 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi all, I have started a thread on Wikimedia-l mailing lst[1a][1b] about a proposal for improvement[2] of the current geolocation system used by Geonotice[3]. In the following e-mail we had some question about how the geolocalization from browser works. In particular, with the geolocalization via browser one can obtain the information of who received a geotargeted message or not? Is possible or not store the data about geolocalization? Summing up, we are wondering if this system respects the privacy of users. Can you help us answer those concerns? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com> Date: 2012/7/25 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geolocalization improvement proposal To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 2012/7/24 <Birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>: > On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2012/7/24 <Birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>: >>> The main question is whether the benefit from being able to connect people with local events is worth the risk of collecting more personalized of their data than we are accustomed to handling. >> >> I could be wrong but I don't think we would "handle more data" than >> what we are doing now. We are not going to use that data and as far as >> I know that data "dies" in the moment the system has output the >> message. > > Maybe this is the area that needs more study. And I am probably the wrong person to try and even formulate technical questions, but is there a way to make use of this data without storing it? Without even knowing who recieved what personalized messages, unless, of course,they choose to respond? Thanks in advance, Cristian [1a] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121236.html [1b] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121281.html [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geonotice [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice

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Could not connect to SOLR Server yet?
by wangfeng wangfeng 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi , I have build mediawiki with EnhancedRetrieval. When I search a existing item , it worked well. But when I search a non existing one , it reported this: ********************************************************************************** *Could not connect to SOLR Server yet. Faceted Search will not work yet. Expecting to find SOLR Server at http://192.168.160.56/extensions/EnhancedRetrieval/includes/FacetedSearch/s…. Possibly your firewall is blocking the SOLR * * ********************************************************************************** * I guess it should report something like "Sorry , no documents match "THE STRING" ...". So where is my problem? Thanks.

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developing skin
by Adm 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hello, I have allready programmed mediawiki extensions but no skins. I have 2 issues: 1) In the extension I can made a file ext.i18n.php and then use: $wgExtensionMessagesFiles['ext'] = dirname( __FILE__ ) . 'ext.i18n.php'; wfMsg('something'); With skins it doesn't work. Can you help me? 2) How to get the full url of a skin image? thanks all! regards, ADM

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Automatic mobile redirection enabled for *.wikimedia.org sites hosted on the cluster (except for commons)
by Arthur Richards 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Around 21:30UTC automatic redirection to the mobile version of *. wikimedia.org sites hosted on the cluster (except for commons) was enabled with the deployment of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16000/. This is part of the ongoing effort by the mobile team to provide automatic redirection for mobile devices to the mobile version of all of our sites. For more information about the project and the timeline for enabling automatic redirection to the remaining projects, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_default_for_sibling_projects. Please let us know if you see any issues. As always, feel free to join us on IRC in #wikimedia-mobile. -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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