Wikitech-l April 2013

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Moodle & Wikiversity - new Moodle plugin interfaces with MediaWiki
by Sumana Harihareswara 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter/April_2013/… "Moodle is a free and open source learning management system (LMS). James Neill has made some valuable contributions about how Moodle can be used in conjunction with Wikiversity as a platform for open education. To minimise the need for exporting/importing content from one learning management system (LMS) class site to another and then to another institution Wikiversity may be used as an open educational content repository. A moodle-plugin has been developed by Jan Luca (German Wikiversity) to include content into Moodle hosted on Wikiversity by using a simple tag: [Include-WV]<URL>[/Include-WV]. The plug-in can be tested on http://sandbox.wikiversity.wmflabs.org/moodle. For further information contact Jan Luca or Wvk. This move is part of an initiative to restart German Wikiversity that seeks to invite new contributors to the project." Thanks for working on this, Jan Luca and Wyk! I see the code is at https://github.com/JanLuca/Moodle_Wikiversity_plugin . Are you looking for help of any sort -- design, testing, localisation, etc.? -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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New labs project request -- Wikivoyage
by roger＠rogerchrisman.com 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi, Could someone with approval authority please process this new labs project request: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Project_Request/Wikivoyage Thank you, Roger

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MediaWiki for 3rd parties: two useful projects
by Yury Katkov 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi everyone! So we've had some discussions that are summarized here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion/Summary In this letter I want to point out to two projects that haven't been organized by Wikimedias, but are still very useful for the people who think about MW as of open source product: 1) http://www.mwusers.com - MediaWiki forum. Many people prefer forums to mailing lists and wikipages like Support desk. Moreover, MWusers is now a good Q&A database. 2) http://wikiapiary.com A wiki with various statistics about MediaWiki installations and statistics about extensions. I see the huge potential in this project although it's only several months old. Template:Extension on mediawiki.org have finally turned to something useful when the link to wikiapiary had been added there. If WMF/Wikimedias interested in promoting MediaWiki not as WMF project but as a piece of open source software, it can be beneficial to help those projects with information support (i.e links from MediaWiki.org), funding and cooperation. ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

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Article on API Characteristics
by Tyler Romeo 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Found this interesting articles on designing an API for what it's worth. Thought some people my find it interesting. http://mathieu.fenniak.net/the-api-checklist/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com

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1.21.0rc3 -- more bug fixes and testing
by Mark A. Hershberger 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Download links at the end of this email. Note that I've include a "core-only" tarball this week as well. Since last week, the following fixes were included in the tarball: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58418/ backport changes in Collation from master * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58462/ Cleared ResourceLoader blob store after update.php finishes. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59102/ PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isLocal() on non-object in Title.php * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59265/ Combine JavaScript and JSON encoding logic * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59328/ Fix pretty JSON when strings end with backslashes * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59329/ FormatJson: microoptimizations for UTF8_OK mode Fixes in queue: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59369/ Disable $wgContentHandlerUseDB during upgrade where fields don't exist. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59375/ Sanitize $limitReport before outputting * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59376/ Disable external entities in XMLReader * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59377/ Disable external entities in Import And, finally, if you want to pitch in, it isn't too late. Here is a list of bugs I'd like to get fixed before the final release: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,4… <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,4…> * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44294 MWException error - Error: invalid magic word 'speciale' * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44568 bin/ulimit5.sh isn't UNIX compliant * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44907 ResourceLoader: Invalid argument supplied for foreach * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46401 [Regression] mw.loader: Code should execute after styles being loaded (wait for async cssText buffering) * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802 Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly textbox on status page Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ******************************************************************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.patch.gz <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz> Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc3.patch… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch…> GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz.sig <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz.sig> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc3.tar.g… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz.sig> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.patch.gz.s… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz.s…> http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc3.patch… <http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch…> Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html

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Looking for a GsoC mentor (Wikisource, Djvu)
by David Cuenca 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi! I'm looking for a co-mentor for this project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Merge_… There is already someone that would be giving guidance on Tesseract OCR, now I'm looking for a second mentor to advise on Mediawiki issues. A student has shown interest in this project already. Anyone up to mentoring? :-) David --User.Micru

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for April 08, 2013 - April 15, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 50 Reports changed/set to NEW : 440 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 71 Reports changed/set to REOPENED : 45 Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 286 Reports changed/set to VERIFIED : 16 Total reports still open: 9989 Reports created this week: 228 Resolutions for the week: Reports marked FIXED : 192 Reports marked DUPLICATE : 25 Reports marked INVALID : 21 Reports marked WORKSFORME: 26 Reports marked WONTFIX : 38 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics Created reports per component Translate 32 Echo 15 WikidataRepo 15 Continuous integration 9 Semantic MediaWiki 9 Created reports per product MediaWiki 37 Wikimedia 40 MediaWiki extensions 120 Security 8 Tools 1 Top 5 bug report closers aklapper [AT] wikimedia.org 22 innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 19 s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl 14 federicoleva [AT] tiscali.it 10 bjorsch [AT] wikimedia.org 10

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Jenkins builds stopped
by Antoine Musso 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello, I had to stop our continuous integration system a few minutes ago. A nasty issue is causing the jobs to pill up and getting VERY slow to process. The result is that no jobs are triggered and nothing is reported back in Gerrit. I am deploying a change as I write this email. Sorry for the inconvenience, I will keep you updated. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Mobile testers: visit 3 pages
by Quim Gil 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Help testing our last UI performance improvements. All mobile devices are welcome! Help improving the experience of the next zillion of mobile Wikipedia users by visiting 3 pages. Check the details at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/DeviceType_Changes -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Tech Talk: 3 tech projects receiving Wikimedia grants
by Quim Gil 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

You are invited to attend this online session: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 19:30 UTC (12:30 PDT), 60 minutes Video streaming and IRC details at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-04-18 A first round of Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grants has been completed and there were 3 technical projects selected. Let's know about them, presented by their own promoters: * The Wikipedia Adventure, by Ocaasi. * MediaWiki data browser, by Yaron Koren. * Replay Edits, by Jeph Paul. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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