Wikitech-l August 2012

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Extensions form building
by Adm 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

hello, I'd like to do thinks in the better way...then: I have to made an extension similar to BoilerTemplate. Right now I made a special page and I'd like to put in a form to let user choose a teplate. Some questions: 1) Must I use some apis to render the form? 2) How to set the form target? Hidden input tags are a good solution but: how can I have a clean urls ready form? I'm ready to read any tutorial you can suggest me, thanks for your attenction, ADM

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly tarballs?
by Mark A. Hershberger 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Rob Laphier writes: > For testing reasons, I think this would be a great thing to have. ... > Don't read "I think this would be great" to mean that this is a high > priority thing, since I can't promise this won't get stalled behind > other priorities Fair enough. Given that Chad has pointed out the un-cached nature of the gitweb links, though, this sounds like the thing to do. Since it sounds like the WMF is at least willing to provide the infrastructure (Git, Jenkins and Swift), can those of us outside the WMF who want to make this happen work with Chad, Antoine, and Ben to figure out how we can handle the nitty-gritty work that needs to be done? It sounds like some knowledge transfer (which I hope would be minimally invasive) and the already-existing infrastructure would be a all that is required from the WMF to make this happen. The rest (changes for Jenkins) could be done by volunteers. -- http://hexmode.com/ Human evil is not a problem. It is a mystery. It cannot be solved. -- When Atheism Becomes a Religion, Chris Hedges

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Wikimedia engineering July 2012 report
by Guillaume Paumier 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in July 2012 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/July Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/02/engineering-july-2012-report/ -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
by Alolita Sharma 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hi All, Please join me in welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan as outreach coordinator/QA engineer (contractor) in WMF’s Internationalization (i18n) / Localization (L10n) engineering team. As the team’s technical liaison, Srikanth will be actively reaching out and working with our language communities to get feedback on new i18n/L10n features being planned or rolled out to Wikimedia sites. Srikanth hails from Chennai, India. He has been a Wikipedian since 2006 and identifies himself as a wikignome (User:Logicwiki). Srikanth has provided language support for Tamil Wiki projects and loves to file bugs (and occasionally fix them) when he sees languages are not properly supported. Srikanth has recently revived his blogging habit at logic10.tumblr.com. His other interests include cycling, travelling in buses, playing table tennis (aka ping pong). Srikanth is excited to be able to contribute his tiny bit in making a sum of all human knowledge more accessible and helping build a more multilingual web! Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and consonants at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil Srikanth can be reached on email at slakshmanan(a)wikimedia.org or as @srikanthlogic on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Welcome Srikanth! It is great to have you on the i18n engineering team! -Alolita -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation

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Some labs beta cluster milestones
by Chris McMahon 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

As you might know, we have been making significant improvements to the beta cluster in labs[1]. I wanted to point out two developments of the last few days that I think are important milestones. First, the TimedMediaHandler extension that we've been testing in the beta commons wiki for quite some time has moved off of the the beta cluster and is now being installed on test2wiki in preparation for a production deployment. Much work has gone into TMH, and this move would not have been possible without the extensive improvements to beta commons to support TMH development and testing. Second, there is a working, testable version of the new Article Feedback Tool Version 5 on the beta enwiki right now. This is the first major user-facing extension under development to be deployed to the beta cluster. The beta cluster will give us a much more sophisticated test and development environment for such extensions (and their combinations) in the very near future. Versions of Mediawiki core and extensions are deployed to the beta cluster directly from our git repository[2]. This process should be automated in the very near future. An issue with the shared file system GlusterFS has prevented any easy or convenient automated deployment, but our GlusterFS system is being upgraded to the latest version (pretty much any minute now) which should make deployment directly from git much more convenient. Thanks to Antoine Musso, Faidon Liambotis, Jan Gerber, Michael Dale, and Matthias Mullie for all your work and all your help. The labs beta cluster is becoming an important part our software development environment. -Chris [1] http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page for example [2] https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment/Overview#Configure

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