Wikitech-l November 2013

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Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer
by Jeroen De Dauw 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Hey all, Several MediaWiki extensions, such as Maps and Semantic MediaWiki, are now installable via Composer. Lately I've been getting quite a few questions from developers on how to have their extensions support this awesome dependency manager, and decided to write down the most important points that are not obviously evident in the Composer documentation down. http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2013/11/24/introduction-to-composer-for-mediawiki… Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 --

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Architecture RFC review meeting, Nov 6
by Quim Gil 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

It is confirmed: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2013-11-06 Architecture Requests for Comments review meeting Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131106T22 #wikimedia-meetbot IRC The meeting is open to anybody. Still, it is useful to sign up in advance at the wiki page. RFCs scheduled: TitleValue https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue Configuration database https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database Allow styling in templates https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templa… Password requirements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Password_requirements -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Facebook Open Academy
by Tyler Romeo 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

MediaWiki participates in a number of student competitions and programs as an open source mentor (such as GSoC, Code-In, etc.). Today I ran into another one: Facebook's Open Academy Program. https://www.facebook.com/OpenAcademyProgram I'm not sure how we would get involved in this program, but I'm sure people would agree it might be a good thing to become a mentor organization and have students contribute to MediaWiki as part of a college credit program. Any thoughts? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

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Call for participation: Wikis devroom at FOSDEM
by Quim Gil 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Spread the news! https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-October/000000.html Wikis devroom - FOSDEM, Brussels, 1 & 2 February 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN SHORT We accept proposals for wiki related submissions. The formats accepted are 25min sessions or 5min lighting sessions. All proposals must be submitted via https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/ Deadline: 30 November 2013 Questions? Feedback? Willing to help? https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/wikis-devroom BACKGROUND Wikis are essential tools for online collaboration, open knowledge and free software. They are everywhere: from the mainstream Wikipedia to a myriad of public, academic and corporate knowledge bases and personal sites. And most of them are open source software. Wikis became popular thanks to the edit button allowing users to create and modify text-based web pages easily. Over the years wikis have become more powerful, handling more content types, allowing better look & feel, championing localization and integrating (sometimes) with other tools. The development continues, with hundreds of professional and volunteer contributors specializing in this area. There are also challenges: the competition from (mainly proprietary and corporate) social media and online office tools, keeping up with UX expectations from users, editors and sysadmins, compatibility across different wiki engines and other publishing tools, collaboration between wiki projects... SCOPE Wikis devroom is a place to showcase and discuss * new features, especially exploring areas beyond plain text editing * compatibility and integration with other tools and services * lessons learned from deployments, surveys, research... * cross-project collaboration We want to focus on sessions for a technical audience including savvy editors. Basic introductions for end users and long tutorials are out of scope. FORMAT One day, one room. Most of the schedule will be filled with sessions of about 25 minutes that have gone through a call for participation. We will have a WikiWiki Hour of lightning presentations (5 minutes each). We will organize a panel session with representation of key wiki projects - the specific topic to be decided as we confirm the participants. ORGANIZATION Quim Gil (MediaWiki), Vincent Massol (XWiki) and Jean-Marc Libs (Tiki).

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New collapsible elements behavior or more option for mw-collapsible
by Erick Guan 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

Since MediaWiki 1.23/wmf3 has been deployed to all Wikimedia sites, the old script in zhwiki didn't work any more. The zhwiki's collapsible behavior makes the whole header bar clickable and shows a helpful text indicating the collapse state. Thus, the Navbox and many templates can be easily expand by click the hotspot(header bar) instead of finding the "show/hide" link to click. What do you think of making this behavior as default? And now, because we want to make use of upstream jQuery.makecollapsible but not break the local collapsible behavior, I think the best way to fix this is adding some configs for jQuery.makecollapsible. Last, I'd like to see Extension:Scribunto's global module.. Therefore we can unify some common templates globally for unified user experience. -- Regards, Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears)

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Need help of Python developers
by Alex Peek 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

We are looking for a python developer to create bots for uploading economic statistics into Wikidata. Economic data is usually from non-controversial sources such as the World Bank, IMF and other government sources. Statistics include GDP, GDP by industry, employment by industry, government budgets, inflation, etc. The python developer who builds the bots will be paid as part of this newly proposed IEG: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Global_Economic_Map If you have the python skill and want to be apart of this project, you can just send me a message here. Thanks in advance for your help, Alex

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How can I retrieve patrol token for specific revision
by Petr Bena 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

Hi, This manual https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Patrol say that I can retrieve patrol token from recent changes. But if I am not using recent changes to retrieve a list of edits and I want to mark certain edit as patrolled, how would I retrieve a patrol token for such a page?

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can i mod the [~~~~~]magic word's data style?
by Sen 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

i know it's depend the mediawiki language,but can i change it by my own?i use chinese mediawiki,but i wana the mediawiki signature time format use english. sorry again,if this question should not ask in this maillist,plz let me know i should send which maillist...i very know to the maillist,and my english is pretty bad too.

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Can we see mw 1.22 today?
by Sen Slybe 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

It's very excited to upgrade for the new version,so I can final have a try for the visual editor... Is here not suppose ask this kind question ,I sorry if that's so.I just really like mediawikii and WANA thx for you hard work Regrades Sen From SLboat(http://see.sl088.com)

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slboat_ominobox_to_see - a chrome extension for mediawiki search edit and discovery
by Sen 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

i had make this small tool long time ago,and i use it every day,for me it's very useful,but i nver know how to share it to more people or may more people will like it, in china,there are very few people to use mediawiki to build a site. and i put it at:https://github.com/SLboat/SLboat-omnibox-to-see anyway, use this can driect seach the mediawiki content by start type the "@" will start all it's work

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