Lately someone deleted 70 pages from the middle of several thousand page
Russian encyclopedia used by Wikisource. Everything was done by the
book: since the uploader forgot to add a license and did not fixed the
issue when notified. However deletion was done without checking the
licenses in the other pages from the book. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lozman#Copyright_status:_Fi
le:.D0.A0.D1.83.D1.81.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9_.D1.8D.D0.BD.D1.86.D0.B8.D
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<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lozman#Copyright_status:_F
ile:.D0.A0.D1.83.D1.81.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9_.D1.8D.D0.BD.D1.86.D0.B8.
D0.BA.D0.BB.D0.BE.D0.BF.D0.B5.D0.B4.D0.B8.D1.87.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.
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5.D0.B7.D0.B8.D0.BD.> .
I am ready to undelete the pages, but run into the problem that
apparently there is no mass undeletion tool for cases like that. Is
there a faster method than doing it by hand?
Jarek T.
(user:jarekt <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt> )
Hello,
As many of you might be aware, etherpad.wikimedia.org has been
migrated a couple of months ago from the old and no longer supported
etherpad software to the new, actively supported, etherpad-lite
software. The move also involved the migration of pads from the old
software to the new, a process which was quite successful, albeit not
without glitches. Since then the old installation has been kept around
under http://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org in a read-only state in order
to facilitate people to access pads that, for whatever reason, may not
have made it to the new installation unscathed (or at all). This
service will be discontinued and taken offline on Monday, 30 December
2013. That grants 30+ days to people to copy out any necessary pads.
With that in mind, the operations team would like to remind everyone
that etherpad.wikimedia.org was never intended to be a permanent
storage for pads. Preservation of a pad is up to the people interested
in preserving that pad in another format.
Regards,
--
Alexandros Kosiaris <akosiaris(a)wikimedia.org>
Heya,
We are making good progress with creating clusters to group RFC for the
upcoming Architectural Summit. Some clusters are still too big, in
particular the following clusters can/should be split in smaller clusters
of 3-4 RFC's each.
* General Mediawiki Functionality
* Backend code modularity frameworks
* Installation
* SOA
* UI/UX: styling
Please have a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_clusters and
help us finalize the clustering!
Thanks!
Best,
D
Hi everyone,
It would be extremely useful to have summaries for all RFC clusters[1]
similar to the one I provided yesterday[2] for HTML templating. No,
I'm not volunteering :-)
As Diederik mentioned, we're going to have to figure out some way of
prioritizing all of the RFC clusters in advance of the Architecture
Summit. One way I believe we should gauge interest in these things is
by whether or not someone has taken the time to write the summary, and
what level of on-list response that summary gets. It's certainly not
the sole means or even most important, but it's indicative of whether
or not sufficient effort has been put into the online conversation.
In general, the Architecture Summit is not meant as a replacement for
mailing list conversation. It's meant as a means of accelerating
conversations that are already happening on list, but need more than
email conversation to push them more quickly to resolution.
Therefore, it makes sense to prioritize the RFC clusters that are
being talked about.
Guidelines for writing these: be fair and reasonably generous to the
authors of the RFCs. We're not shooting for encyclopedic NPOV, so
it's ok and perhaps even helpful to state what you believe the various
viewpoints are.
It may also be the case that we got the organization wrong, and that a
cluster of RFCs don't actually belong together as a cluster. If
that's the case, it would be good to highlight as part of going
through these.
Anyone willing to help out with writing summaries?
Rob
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/RFC_Clusters
[2] "RFC cluster summary: HTML templating":
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/74544
Hi, some FOSDEM news:
The Wikis devroom accepted sessions have been announced:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-December/000015.html
(also pasted below)
Erik Moeller has also been accepted as speaker of a main track session:
The Wikipedia Stack
https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/the_wikipedia_stack/
Finally, Dimitar Parvanov from communicated that the Wikimedia stand has
been accepted!
I will update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM soon. Can
someone start a list of participants, please?
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Initial list of accepted sessions
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:48:53 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: wikis-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org
Hi, we have a you have the list of sessions accepted for the Wikis
devroom at FOSDEM.
Speakers must confirm their participation and polish the descriptions of
the sessions. In some cases we will contact the speakers to fine tune
the topic or the time available for their session. We will schedule the
sessions as they are confirmed. All in a very wiki fashion, only on a
tool (FOSDEM's Pentabarf) that we don't control quite yet.
We will also start a discussion in this list to organize a panel
session. Your feedback about this panel and your ideas to improve the
schedule are welcome.
SESSIONS
* A comparison between MediaWiki, TWiki and XWiki communities
Using metrics to measure communities
* A web development runtime platform based on the wiki paradigm
* Addressing the long tail of applications
* Counting (on) views — Page views on Wikipedia
* Coverage for basic language support components -- A Dashboard view
* Crowdsourced translation using MediaWiki
* Developing the XWiki software
* Force Multiplication
Victory through external tool writing
* Hatta Wiki
A Mercurial-based wiki engine
* show.tiki.org project: facilitate bug reporting and solving
The new Tiki infrastructure for facilitating bug reporting and solving
* Useful and Necessary Mediawiki Gadgets
* VisualEditor
Wikipedia's new editing system for wikis and for the web
* Wikidata
What we learned in its first 2 years and what is in store for the future
--
Quim Gil - Vincent Massol - Jean-Marc Libs
Hey,
I’m happy to announce the 0.6 release of Wikibase DataModel. This is the
first real release of this component. The awesome thing about this release
is that it finally makes the component ready for third party usage.
You can find a short description of Wikibase DataModel, some history and
highlights for this release at
http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2013/12/23/wikibase-datamodel-released/
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3
--
Hey,
In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only
contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and
only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule
against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a
definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a
similar rule be added there. Thoughts?
(I'm now half expecting someone to claim this mail is a troll. Perhaps we
ought to make a contest out of making the accusation first, at least then
it will have general amusement value :D)
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3
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