The WebRTC IETF working group will be making a codec selection decision
(VP8 vs H.264) today -- the meeting is open to participation via XMPP chat
(Google Talk appears to work) and there will also be a live audio stream
from the in-person room.
(WebRTC is the peer-to-peer media connection infrastructure for HTML5 which
will in future enable things like Google Hangout video chats using only
open standards. This has obvious potential benefits to us, so we may have
an interest in how this turns out.)
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/agenda?item=agenda-88-rtcweb.html
Meeting will start in about 15 minutes (21:00 UTC) and will run about two
hours.
-- brion
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office
hour on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 between 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. (See below for timezone conversion and other details.)
We will be talking about some of our recent and upcoming projects and then
taking questions for the remaining time.
We also look forward to hear about anything that needs our attention.
Questions and other concerns can also be sent to me directly before the
event. See you there!
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: November 13, 2013 (Wednesday). 1500-1600 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131113T1500
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Shawn,
I'm currently working on the Memento Extension for Mediawiki, as announced
> earlier today by Herbert Van de Sompel.
>
This is very exciting! Coincidentally, at last week's SMWCon (the Semantic
MediaWiki conference) in Berlin I gave a presentation to argue that we need
some sort of 'time travelling' feature (slides are available at
http://slidesha.re/1iIf3F9). One of the other participants also pointed out
the Memento protocol.
Are you familiar with Semantic MediaWiki (http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/)
as an extension to MediaWiki? I'm curious what it would take to let SMW
play nice together with Memento.
Kind regards,
Remco de Boer
Currently, Visual Editor is trashing badly every article that is edited on
French Wiki: every accented character is replaced by strange characters all
over the article.
Could you please stop immediately VE ?
How can such a mess make its way into production ? Is there no real tests
before ?
Nico
Hi, I have been researching how to implement m.wikipedia.org landing page.
It should show the same output as en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Zero page,
except that it should be localized based on the carrier's default language.
Possible solutions:
* <VirtualHost> - map to docroot that contains the same mediawiki as
en.m.wikipedia.org. There should be a Rewrite rule that allows only ^/$ ->
wiki/Special:Zero; but all other paths will return 404.
* Magic hack - something similar to extract2.php that will first load zero
configuration, configure the language to use, then somehow execute the
whole mediawiki rendering for the special page, and lastly output the
rendered content.
Also, it might be needed to set proper MW_LANG before loading, but that
means some other code need to access memcached and make API call
I think #1 is better, please advise on how to switch the language and if we
should put up any defenses (like removing headers, rejecting non-GET
requests, etc).
Thanks.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Generally I agree that #1 is the way to go -- extract2.php is a nasty hack
> and I'd hate for us to have to replicate it. :D
>
> re: changing the language.... something within Zero extension should be
> able to do that if you just need to change the _display_ language. If you
> have to target it to a specific wiki.... I'd recommend doing that in the
> rewrite rules if possible. But that don't sound easy to do. ;)
>
> -- brion
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Brion,
>>
>> I was thinking of how to do the new landing page better.
>>
>> Needed: m.wikipedia.org should show the same output as
>> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Zero page, except that it should be
>> localized based on the carrier's default language.
>>
>> Possible solutions:
>>
>> * <VirtualHost> - map to docroot that contains the same mediawiki as
>> en.m.wikipedia.org. There should be a Rewrite rule that allows only ^/$
>> -> wiki/Special:Zero; but all other paths will return 404. Also, I need
>> some "magic" code that dynamically changes the current language based on
>> the carrier's configuration.
>>
>> * Magic hack - something similar to extract2.php that will first load
>> zero configuration, configure the language to use, then somehow execute the
>> whole mediawiki rendering for the special page, and lastly output the
>> rendered content.
>>
>> I think #1 is better, please advise on how to switch the language and if
>> we should put up any defenses (like removing headers, rejecting non-GET
>> requests, etc).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>
Hi all,
We're pleased to announce Beta Features [1], a new program that lets you
test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are
released for everyone.
Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview
upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special
preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features
on a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner.
Beta Features is ready for testing now on MediaWiki.org [2]. This Thursday,
we plan to also deploy it on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki. Based on
test results, we aim to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.
Here are the first features you can test this week:
* Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen [3]
* VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages [4]
* Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming soon) [5]
Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in on
MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'.
Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then
click 'Save'. Learn more on the BetaFeatures page. [1]
After you've tested Beta Features, please let us know what you think on our
discussion page [6] -- or report any bugs on Bugzilla [7]. For technical
documentation, visit the BetaFeatures extension page. [8]. You're also
welcome to join our IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 10:30am
PST, 18:30 UTC. [9]
Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia
and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, we will be adding
new features to this experimental program every few weeks.
For now, we'd like to thank some key team members who made this project
possible: Ed Sanders, Jon Robson, Gergő Tisza, May Galloway, Vibha Bamba,
Aaron Schulz, Brion Vibber, Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, Greg Grossmeier,
Keegan Peterzell, Quim Gil, Guillaume Paumier, Erik Moeller, Rob Lanphier,
Howie Fung and Tomasz Finc, to name but a few. We're also very grateful
to all the community and other team members who helped create this system —
and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future. :)
Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think!
Fabrice, James, Mark and Jared
Wikimedia Engineering and Product Group
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
[7] http://wmbug.com/new?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=BetaFeatures
[8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BetaFeatures
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
> From: Brian Wolff<bawolff(a)gmail.com>
> On 2013-11-04 11:04 AM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)"<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>> >
>> >On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Brian Wolff<bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >I haven't looked at your code, so not sure about the context - but: In
>>> > >general a hook returns true to denote no futher processing should take
>>> > >place.
>> >
>> >If we're talking about wfRunHooks hooks, the usual case is that they
>> >return*false* to indicate no further processing, and true means to
>> >*continue* processing.
>> >
> D'oh. You are of course correct. Sorry for the mistake.
>
> As an aside, perhaps we should introduce constants for this. Its easy to
> mix up the two values.
>
> -bawolff
+1 - great idea!