Hi, we have the final results of our Summer internship programs:
GSoC: 18 pass - 2 pending
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013
OPW: 1 pass - 0 pending
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_6
First of all: THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL INTERNS AND MENTORS FOR YOUR
HARD WORK.
I can't describe how happy I am about the whole Summer.
And how good it feels to read posts like these:
http://moriel.smarterthanthat.com/tips/google-summer-of-code-2013-summary/http://bleededge.blogspot.com/2013/09/wrap-up-of-my-outreach-program-for.ht…
Please share your wrap-up reports here, and link them from the wiki page
tables.
Now, the smaller prints.
There is a lot of analysis to be done and we will share more in the
following weeks. Not all the PASS project were flawless and not all
delivered everything as planned initially. But a pass is a pass, and
everybody worked hard and learned aplenty to get them.
We are giving a chance to the pending projects to reach completion. They
also worked hard, passing the mid term evaluation and delivering solid
code. But then something went irreparably wrong and... Any help pushing
the current work until the end is more than welcome.
We have new lessons learned (both from pass and pending projects) that
we will compile and share soon.
... and now starts another fascinating phase: encouraging these 21
interns to stay with us, becoming regular contributors and, eventually,
future mentors for new generations of interns. Everybody can help to
achieve this. A good start: congratulate in a response to their reports,
user pages, FIXED bug reports...
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Are you developing tools to circumvent censorship and surveillance on
the Internet?
If so, have a look at OenITP's Fall 2013 Call for Grant Proposals:
https://openitp.org/grants/fall-2013-call-for-proposals.html
Application deadline: Nov 1, 2013.
(via Sumana)
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Quim
Hola,
if you have found yourself clicking the "History" link in Bugzilla
tickets way too often (to check who has set the Priority, or who has
changed the assignee and when), Bugzilla now has an opt-in to display
such metadata changes inline, between the comments of the bug report.
You can enable this by going to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=settings
and setting "When viewing a bug, show all bug activity" to "On".
Cheers,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
At 20:11 01/10/2013, Brion Vibber wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Question for the group:
>
>Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be
>useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time,
>expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation?
>
>If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and use)
>do to make this happen?
Brion,
I am a lead user, i.e. not a competent nor professionnal developper,
but someone with a need that he intends to address himself if there
is no other way (I did it several times including once a distributed
real time multimachine OS based on QNX, a 3.000 sites experimentation, etc.).
I observe that most of my current needs would be solved through what
I name "intellipages", i.e. intelligent standalone (single page wiki)
or grouped (billion page wiki) pages plus a content centered
accessing solution (can be a DDDS or semantic access). My needs are
compacity, ubiquity, versatility, mobility, access security, backup,
simplicity, replication, etc. I am not interested in wiki softwares:
I am interested in what can be updated on a wiki page. I currently
run more than 30 personnal working specialized [media]wikis (not big
ones, often created in a few minutes and updated as time goes). I
have queries from many people who would like to work the same. I have
projects for many of them. With extensions.
My plan (I am beginning, so may be I will discover this cannot work)
is to start from an existing wiki softaculous configuration on my
windows machine and a copy of the same on my linux hosting company.
As I did not find an A to Z architectural description manual, my
target is to discover it by reverse engineering of the programs and
databases relations. The target is to understand how to split the
whole thing in two parts: a wiki craddle (software
programs/protocols) and wiki containers (data, metadata, syllodata) I
can (plural) dock, plug and play in the craddle. In the process I
will probably need to document an interwiki protocol to suppervise
the whole thing and the parallel/remote
replication/backup/local-global-updating.
The cradre is what is to be updated by developpers. The content is
what is to be updated, replicated and backuped by users. The
cradle/container development ballance to be advised by architects.
The probable value added services by (paid/non-profit) operators.
Hope this possibly crazy input might help.
jfc
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Hey,
I have a big pile of commits that I have been added as reviewer on Gerrit,
most of which I really do not care about. As a result, the entirely list
becomes pretty useless and is just being a big waste of screen space. I
could go through all those commits one by one and remove myself from them,
though that is rather tedious. Is there a way to remove such commits
quickly from my review list by just clicking them in the list, or doing a
"select, select, select, remove selected" thing?
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3
--
Hey,
I am happy to announce the immediate release of SubPageList 1.0.
This release packs a ton of improvements over the last one, which was
almost two years ago. Particular attention has been paid to making the
extension more maintainable, solid and flexible. The documentation has also
been updated and now includes descriptions for all supported parameters.
Installation and usage instructions can be found via the README:
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SubPageList/blob/master/R…
Enjoy!
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3
--
UI PROBLEM
One of the things that irritates me about long tables is the headings scroll off
the top of the screen leaving untitled columns.
JAVASCRIPT SOLUTION
So I've written a jQuery plug-in to freeze the <THEAD> part if it is about to be
scrolled off the top of the screen. It floats above the base z-index. There is
a demonstration/download here:
http://vulpeculox.net/misc/jsjq/headHolder/index.htm
IMPLEMENTING
I've done the grunt work and have no idea how to go about getting it through the
implementation process. (No time and no inclination for learning all that stuff
for a single tiny project.) So if there's anyone who thinks it is worthwhile
then it's all yours.
--
Peter Fox