Wikitech-l January 2013

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Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Extension Bundles and Template Bundles
by Mark A. Hershberger 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff that > people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite come to > mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others. This was part of my reasoning behind bundling some core extensions with MediaWiki. ParserFunctions is already included, but I was going to bundle the following extensions in 1.21: * Cite * InputBox * LocalisationUpdate * SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi As far as template bundles, I think this would be better served with an extension like LocalisationUpdate that could fetch a new copy of the desired templates from your chosen Wikipedia. Another area that could benefit most non-WMF wikis is a way to import some documentation for how to *use* a wiki. -- http://hexmode.com/ Language will always shift from day to day. It is the wind blowing through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np

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Proposal: MediaWiki Group San Francisco
by Quim Gil 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Hi, following the process for requesting the creation of a MediaWiki group, here is a proposal for MediaWiki Group San Francisco http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/San_Francisco Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki page. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Fwd: Yuvi Panda returns to the Mobile Team
by Sumana Harihareswara 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Welcome back to Wikimedia Foundaion, Yuvi! :-) -Sumana -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Yuvi Panda returns to the Mobile Team Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:33:38 -0800 From: Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> I'm very happy to announce that Yuvi Panda has rejoined the mobile department as a software developer. He'll be working directly with Brion Vibber within the newly created apps team. More info about the team will go out in the next weeks. For those of you that have not worked with Yuvi before he's been responsible in some part for: * Wiki Loves Monuments Android App * Signpost Android App * Wikipedia iOS/Android App * Multiple language tools * Numerous self run hackathons * ... and so much more For the next six months Yuvi will be working with us remotely from India while he finishes up his degree. Upon completion of his studies and his visa being accepted he will move and work with us full time in SF. The team is very excited to be working with him again. Pleases join me in re-welcoming Yuvi to the mobile team! --tomasz

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wikiCodeEditor - Code Editor for MediaWiki CSS and JavaScript pages
by Sibi Prabakaran 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Hello everyone! We have developed a Code Editor for Mediawiki CSS and JavaScript pages as part of IIT Hackathon which was mentored by Yuvi Panda. Basic description about the project along with snapshots can be found in this page: https://github.com/psibi/wikiCodeEditor#readme Any suggestions/improvements are welcome :) Regards, Sibi

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for January 07, 2013 - January 14, 2013 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 431 Bugs ASSIGNED : 137 Bugs REOPENED : 31 Bugs RESOLVED : 242 Total bugs still open: 9092 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 189 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 15 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 17 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 20 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 2 Bugs marked LATER : 0 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New bugs per component WikidataRepo 16 EducationProgram 13 General/Unknown 9 Echo 6 Categories 5 New bugs per product MediaWiki 27 Wikimedia 22 MediaWiki extensions 77 Tools 2 Wikimedia Labs 5 Top 5 bug report closers jeroen_dedauw [AT] yahoo.com 38 hashar [AT] free.fr 21 sam [AT] reedyboy.net 11 ori [AT] wikimedia.org 9 krinklemail [AT] gmail.com 7

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ContentHandler examples?
by Mark A. Hershberger 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

The more I look at ContentHandler, the more it seems like a major new feature for MW. Are there any examples of this in use on Labs? Is there more information on how to use and extend it for things like WorkingWiki? There is some talk of how the Gadgets extension may be changed by the use of ContentHandler. Has any work been done on that yet? Do gadget authors on-wiki need to know about these changes? I like what I'm seeing in ContentHandler, but I'm a little afraid that this will be like the introduction of ResourceLoader -- there is a lot of promise here and new capability, but it sounds very disruptive to current Gadget users (to give one example). How can we begin to prepare third party users of MW for these changes now? -- http://hexmode.com/ Language will always shift from day to day. It is the wind blowing through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler
by Lee Worden 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

> From: "Mark A. Hershberger"<mah(a)everybody.org> > To: Wikimedia developers<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler > Message-ID:<50F16DC2.70007(a)everybody.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 01/12/2013 08:00 AM, Lee Worden wrote: >> >Do you know that the WorkingWiki extension pretty much already does this? > I was not aware of this extension. > > If I am understanding the example at > http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/Greenhouse_paper > correctly, it looks like it uses the <source-file> tag to make it so > that parts of the page are handled by LaTeXML. Yes, that's what's happening there. On other pages we store R source code, makefiles, and whatever else people want to store. > Just from looking overhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ContentHandler > there seems to be a lot of cross over between what the WorkingWiki > extension does and what ContentHandler enables. Having ContentHandler > in core may mean that you can reduce the amount of code in the > WorkingWiki extension. Yes, I think ContentHandler does some of what WW does, and I'll be happy to integrate with it. I don't think we'll want to abandon the source-file tag, though, because on pages like http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/math/index.php/Nomogram and http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Selection_Gradients/Ma…, it's good to be able to intertwine source code with the rest of the page's wikitext. Also, in a multi-file project, for instance a simple LaTeX project with a .tex file and a .bib file, it's useful to put the files on a single page so you can edit and preview them for a while before saving. LW

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Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples?
by Lee Worden 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

From: Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler examples? > After working with the API for a while I had a head-explodes moment when I realized >that MediaWiki is now a generic framework for collaboratively fashioning and editing >content objects, and that it provides a generic implementation of a creative workflow >based on the concepts of versioning, diffing, etc. I think it's a fucking amazing >model for the web and I hope MediaWiki's code and community is nimble enough to fully >realize it. I agree. Wikis can do lots more than create documents, and we've only started down that road. ContentHandler is a step in this direction, and our project is as well. I'd love to have conversations about all this. I'm based in the Bay Area, by the way, even though our project is based in Canada. Lee Worden

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Release Notes and ContentHandler
by Mark A. Hershberger 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

As you may have guessed, I've been working on the release notes for 1.21. Please look over them and improve them if you can. In the process, I came across the ContentHandler blurb. I don't recall this being discussed on-list, but, from looking at the documentation for it, it looks pretty awesome. I've used some of my editorial powers to say, in the release notes: Extension developers are expected to create additional types in the future. These might support LaTeX or other forms of markup. Is this correct? It sounds like a really big thing, if it is. -- http://hexmode.com/ Language will always shift from day to day. It is the wind blowing through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler
by Lee Worden 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Hi Mark, Do you know that the WorkingWiki extension pretty much already does this? http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projects/index.php/WorkingWiki I haven't looked into the ContentHandler features in any detail, but I don't imagine it'll be hard to handle source files stored on pages with special content types along with the other ways of storing source files that we already support. And yes, I'm sure I'll do it at some point. Lee Worden > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:19:57 -0500 > From: "Mark A. Hershberger"<mah(a)everybody.org> > To: Wikimedia developers<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Release Notes and ContentHandler > Message-ID:<50F0BA3D.6060102(a)everybody.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > As you may have guessed, I've been working on the release notes for > 1.21. Please look over them and improve them if you can. > > In the process, I came across the ContentHandler blurb. I don't recall > this being discussed on-list, but, from looking at the documentation for > it, it looks pretty awesome. I've used some of my editorial powers to > say, in the release notes: > > Extension developers are expected to create additional types in the > future. These might support LaTeX or other forms of markup. > > Is this correct? It sounds like a really big thing, if it is. > > -- http://hexmode.com/ Language will always shift from day to day. It is > the wind blowing through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np

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