Hi all,
Wikimedia is at 1.20/wmf10 now. That means that it has been working
with 1.20 alpha for the past 20 weeks. Isn't is about time we start
preparing something usable called 1.20, 2.0, or whatever, for the
outside world, too? Previous experiences tell us that getting
something release ready takes at least 6 weeks, so we we'd want to
have a stable release by end of October, we'll have to starting doing
something very soon.
Cheers!
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
Earlier today, I was trying to send a link to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LOC_Main_Reading_Room_Highsmith.jpg
. I clicked on "use this file", but instead of the file link there was
some javascript function. I tried to log a bug, but this seems to
reproduce only sometimes and I can't find reliable steps.
Has anyone else seen this?
Strainu
There's a hackathon in Helsinki this month -- if you go and do
interesting Wikimedia-related things, please report back!
best,
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Festival - September 17th ? 22nd
2012, Helsinki (Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 101, Issue 60)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:44:54 -0400
From: Mayo Fuster Morell <lalilaroja(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello! Here the last update of the Open Knowledge Festival (Sept. 17th ?
22nd 2012, Helsinki) in case it did not arrive to some people in this list
and/or to ask please to help to spread it. Cheers! Mayo
OPEN KNOWLEDGE FESTIVAL (September 17th ? 22nd, Helsinki) The event of the
year to build a free and open movement/society http://okfn.org/
New to OKFestival? We are delighted to invite you to this year?s event in
Helsinki, Finland ? a series of hands-on workshops, talks, hackathons,
meetings and sprints organised by a wide range of open knowledge
communities around the globe. OKFestival 2012 combines the themes of our
annual Open Government Data Camp (OGDCamp) (
http://okfestival.org/open-government-data-camp/) and Open Knowledge
Conference (OKCon) (http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-conference/) into
a week of action and inspiration organised by the Open Knowledge
Foundation, the Finnish Institute in London, Aalto Media Factory along with
hundreds of Guest Programme Planners. With over 400 tickets already
reserved by participants from more than 40 nations, OKFestival is the one
of the world?s largest open knowledge events to date ? and we want you to
join us.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING
The 2012 theme of OKFestival is Open Knowledge in Action, looking at the
value that can be generated by opening up knowledge, the ecosystems of
organisations that can benefit from this, and the impacts that transparency
can have in our societies.
This year?s schedule (http://okfestival.org/schedule/) is diverse, with
over 13 guest-planned Topic Streams:
* Open Democracy and Citizen Movements
http://okfestival.org/open-democracy-and-citizen-movements/
* Transparency and Accountability
http://okfestival.org/transparency-and-accountability/
* Open Cities http://okfestival.org/opencities/
* Open Design, Hardware, Manufacturing and Making
http://okfestival.org/open-design/
* Open Cultural Heritage http://okfestival.org/open-cultural-heritage/
* Open Development http://okfestival.org/open-development/
* Open Research and Education
http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/
* Open Geodata http://okfestival.org/open-geodata/
* Open Source Software http://okfestival.org/open-source-software/
* Data Journalism and Data Visualization
http://okfestival.org/data-journalism-and-visualisation/
* Gender and Diversity in Openness
http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/
* Business and Open Data http://okfestival.org/business-and-data/
* Open Knowledge and Sustainability
http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-and-sustainability/
Program includes:
* A series of hackathons and coding jams including a Green Hackathon with
CESC, a hackathon wherethe cultural heritage stream teams up with open
science, and an introductory coding jam with RailsGirls Finland.
* A variety of participatory sessions from hands-on open hardware workshops
in Finland?s first FABlab to the world?s first Art of Open Data Cooking
workshop to sessions on the School of Data.
* A set of in-depth meetings on different topics related to openness, from
developer meetups about Open Source software with Finland?s OpenMind
conference, to sessions on the Open Government Partnershipand a new EU
Citizens? Initiative, to a live broadcast between innovation hubs in
Finland and Africa.
* An increasingly-imminent list of Featured Speakers from the Gapminder
Foundation?s Hans Rosling to Member of European Parliament Anneli
J??tteenm?ki to the World Bank?s Carlos Rossel to the Free Software
Foundation?s Karsten Gerloff to Climate Change Capital?s James Cameron.
DATES & ACCOMMODATION
OKFestival 2012 runs from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd of September. We
offer both day and week tickets, with week tickets covering all three of
OKFestival?s action-packed Core Conference Days (
http://okfestival.org/schedule/) from Tuesday 18th September to Thursday
20th September. A variety of Satellite Events (
http://okfestival.org/schedule/) are also running before and after the
event, with a summary and debrief day on Friday 21st September. From
Couchsurfing with Finnish locals (
http://www.couchsurfing.org/activity/view/5IO0U5) to hotels in downtown
Helsinki, there are many affordable travel and accommodation options (
http://okfestival.org/accommodation/) available to make your stay in
Finland a great one.
REGISTER TODAY
Tickets are available online (
http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/) - reserve yours now to
join the largest open knowledge crowd of the year in Finland. Tickets are
selling fast and our list of confirmed festival attendees (
http://okfestival.org/festival-attendees/) continues to grow, with
participants from Jyv?skyl? to Guyana.
GET IN TOUCH
Have questions for our Topic Stream planners or the Core Organising Team?
Want to get involved by proposing a satellite or evening event? Feel free
to contact our Guest Programme Planners via email (
http://okfestival.org/contact/) and get involvedon Twitter (
http://twitter.com/okfestival), on our Facebook group (
https://www.facebook.com/OpenKnowledgeFestival) and on the public Flickr
Pool (http://www.flickr.com/groups/okfest/pool/). We look forward to
meeting you in Helsinki this autumn!
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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University.
Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University
of Barcelona.
Ph.D European University Institute
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Hello,
[Bug 36597] is about switching PDF thumbnails from jpeg to PNG. The
change to PdfHandler extension is really straightforward:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/6802/
It feels like PNG is more suitable, but would like some other people
input before merging this change in.
[Bug 36597]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36597
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Antoine "hashar" Musso
Hi everybody,
Sumana suggested I should post to this list so you guys can help me.
A few years back I saw a need in easy widget creation and too many
extensions that just did that, but were not so well maintained and had a
bunch of XSS holes in them and so on, that's when I came up with idea of
Widgets extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widgets
Since individual widgets were just wiki pages, I created a standalone wiki
where everybody can post their widgets (in special "Widget" namespace)
which will be available to everyone after basic security review (it
integrates with Flagged Revisions if it's installed):
http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/
There are plenty of widgets there and quite a few people use the extension
and the widgets on their wikis.
That being said, I moved on to other kind of work and would be happy to
give MediaWikiWidgets.org back to community instead of slowly killing it by
inactivity.
It would be great if Wikimedia Foundation could take this project over and
host it either as standalone site or as part of mediawiki.org - I'll be
happy to assist in moving the catalog and would probably still be curious
enough to contribute a widget or two once in a while.
Best,
Sergey
Hey,
For some reason DatabseBase::select is returning false sometimes when it
encounters a database error rather then throwing an error as you'd expect
since it's documented to always return a ResultWrapper. I ran into this
issue several times as getting the rather obscure error "expected
ResultWrapper, got boolean" in random places using this result. Calling
lastError on the DatabaseBase object clearly shows there in fact was an SQL
error.
I have all SQL debug settings I'm aware off on:
$wgShowSQLErrors = true;
$wgShowDBErrorBacktrace = true;
$wgDebugDumpSql = true;
Plus the usual bunch of dev settings.
So this smells like a regression to me, or something that always was broken
but not noticed due to people not using type hinting. Anyone an idea where
this is coming from? I had a look but it's not clear to me.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Hi everyone,
Started poking on parser tests lately and found myself riddled after a
while.
It seems like when running parser test files with phpunit.php they follow
different rules as when running them with parserTests.php.
If I observed this correctly, phpunit.php collects all articles to be
created with "!!article", creates them, and then it runs tests. With
parserTests.php on the other hand everything is executed in the order it is
defined. In some tests it can be important whether a article already exists
or not.
There might be other behavioral differences here as well. The whole thing
seems incredibly odd to me since there is also some redundant code and the
initial globals set up in ParserTest::setupGlobals() are slightly different
from globals set up in NewParserTest::setupGlobals().
If there is no good reason against this, both classes, ParserTest and
NewParserTest should be reduced to one, or at least one base
class/interface. The goal should be that when running phpunit.php parser
tests behave exactly like running parserTests.php
Already created a bug report for this as well, it just didn't get any
attention so far, so I try it here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39473
I would very much appreciate if anyone could explain to me why there are
both of these files and why we maintain (more or less) a whole bunch of
redundant code for those tests.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Software Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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