Wikitech-l February 2013

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Fwd: New Commons beta app for Android
by Quim Gil 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

fyi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New Commons beta app for Android Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:22:50 -0800 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Android users can now download the new Commons app (beta) available at Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons This is the first actual picture uploaded by a real user: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_walking_at_the_Nairobi_Nationa… Nice to see that this first contributor is a Wikipedia editor from Kenya: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stephenwanjau -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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LQT and MediaWiki
by Mark A. Hershberger 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

The topic of "What is going on with Liquid Threads?" has popped up again[0]. I've said that I think it should be considered to be in maintenance mode. My reasoning: * It isn't under active development, but * It gets quite a workout on the MW.o Support Desk (and other places on WMF sites) I'm fairly confident that, as a result of it being used in such a public way, we'll be able to find someone to fix problems or at least have the motivation to fix any problems that come up ourselves. That is, I think it is safe to say LQT will remain usable in its current state on any coming MW versions for the foreseeable future. Of course, if someone wanted to start driving new development on it, that would be great. Right now, though, all I'm looking for is a confirmation that it will remain usable. I imagine one of the first things that we would need to do is include it in some testing plans. [0] http://hexm.de/p9 -- http://hexmode.com/ There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

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Hello, and the short term plans
by Marc A. Pelletier 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

<futurama>Good news, everyone!</futurama> As many of you know, I officially started my duties today as the WMF Operations Engineer attached to the Tool Labs. I intend to make a point of informing all of you of recent news, what I'm working on, and where I'm headed at regular intervals (probably weekly). First, a bit of news: I have had confirmation this weekend that the DB replication made available to Tool Labs users will, in fact, allow the creation of databases alongside the project ones. This means that one of the use cases that seemed the most troublesome in the transition (joins between the WMF databases and tool-specific ones) will be fully supported. We are making good strides in documenting the *impressive* inventory of tools that run on toolserver and their requirements (thanks, Silke!). The list-in-progress can be found at [1]. If you see missing or incorrect information, please feel free to adjust it -- the more precisely we know the requirements, the faster we can see about meeting them. I've started documenting my preleminary design for the shiny new Tool Labs infrastructure at [2]. This is a living document, and will see a great deal of revision before it's over (and will serve as the seed for the documentation). I will shortly create a new Labs project where that architecture is deployed in preproduction so we can shake out the kinks. The existing projects, "bots" and "webtools" will be left active for the forseeable future until (a) the new architecture has proven itself and (b) every user has sucessfuly moved their tools to it. I'm planning on having the new project be fully operational for new tools by the time the Amsterdam Hackathon takes place at the end of May at the very least. For the next week, I'll be mostly in information-gathering mode, as well as refining the design and requirements of the Tool Labs. Feel free to poke me for information (or /with/ information) by email or on IRC (where I am user 'Coren' and idle on #wikimedia-labs and #wikimedia-toolserve at the very least) -- Marc A. Pelletier [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Toolserver/List_of_Tools [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Design

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Wikipedia + Commons image upload testing week
by Quim Gil 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Starting in less than an hour. Join us! All you need is a mobile device. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Join mediawiki for GSOC 2013
by Thomas PT 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi! For rendering of x3d files there is x3dom that is the "official" library of the web3D consortium. It provides two backends: one using webGL and a fallback using Flash. http://www.x3dom.org . This library looks pretty easy to integrate with MediaWiki. Tpt Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> a écrit : On 2013-02-24 5:21 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2013-02-24 4:22 PM, "Malintha Adikari" <malintha.adikari(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of > > Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am interesting > > about these projects > > > > Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki > > Could you please provide more detail about these projects. > > > > > > Thanks & regards, > > Malintha Adikari > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > If its helpful in deciding - x3d would probably be much more useful (particularly to Wikimedia, but even generally to third parties). However it would also be more difficult and also represents quite a bit more work. > > -bawolff Sorry I realized that wasnt actually answering your question. What type of information were you looking for? For the x3d one - you would probably be doing two main things. First you would need to write a filter that validates the file, and more importantly strips any dangerous elements ( im not familar with x3d format, but for example if user can also supply arbitrary macro scripts we would want to filter that out probably, etc). Second step would probably be to include some way of displaying the 3d models inline in articles (maybe some webgl js library exists that could be integrated in mediawiki, you would have to do some research there) Its possible a gsoc project could be scoped to be just the first step, or both steps depending on how much work that is. For background research you may want to check out extensions that do the same thing but for different formats, e.g. OggHandler (which isn't used anymore but a lot simpler than its replacement), and PagedTiffHandler. Emw has also started work on displaying 3d models of chemicals which sounds related (not sure how related it actually is) I hope that was helpful. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 18, 2013 - February 25, 2013 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 402 Bugs ASSIGNED : 101 Bugs REOPENED : 43 Bugs RESOLVED : 181 Total bugs still open: 9231 Resolutions for the week: Bugs marked FIXED : 134 Bugs marked REMIND : 0 Bugs marked INVALID : 19 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 17 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 18 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 16 Bugs marked LATER : 0 Bugs marked MOVED : 0 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics New bugs per component WikidataRepo 27 Special pages 4 AbuseFilter 4 Interface 4 Semantic MediaWiki 4 New bugs per product MediaWiki 23 Wikimedia 15 MediaWiki extensions 66 Security 1 Tools 2 Top 5 bug report closers krenair [AT] gmail.com 27 federicoleva [AT] tiscali.it 10 hashar [AT] free.fr 8 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 7 aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 7

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Join mediawiki for GSOC 2013
by Malintha Adikari 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi, I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join MediaWiki for GSOC 2013. I am interesting about these projects Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command lineAdd support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki Could you please provide more detail about these projects. Thanks & regards, Malintha Adikari

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Self-signed cert on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/
by maiki 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Tested in Firefox and Chromium: > wikitech.wikimedia.org uses an invalid security certificate. > > The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed. > > (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer) FYI, nameless person who fixes that. ^_^ maiki

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Caching Discussion: Dealing with old (deleted) wmf branches
by Greg Grossmeier 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello all, Background and longer/more detailed discussion on this issue is in bug 44570: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44570 Summary: As we delete old -wmfX branches there appears to be cached pages that reference old branch URLs, eg: https://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf1/skins/common/images/poweredby_me… (that 404s because 1.21wmf1 is long gone) If you want to see my bad ASCII art representation of our current caching layers, see this page: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Caching_overview So possible ways forward ======================== option 1: * reduce parsercache timeout to size of deployment window (~28 days) [0] * Tim may have knowledge why that shouldn't happen [1] option 2: * change away from version numbers in URLs [2] ** maybe use slots or something else ** skins? option 3: * status quo What do you think? Greg [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44570#c14 [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44570#c12 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44570#c15 -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | [[User:Greg G (WMF)]] A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Amsterdam Hackathon 2013
by Maarten Dammers 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hi everyone, Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a good weekend I've set up a straw poll at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Straw_Poll . Please fill it out so we can finalize the date! Thank you, Maarten Wikimedia Nederland Ps. Please forward to any relevant lists I might have missed.

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