Hello and welcome to your latest edition of the WMF Weekly Deployment
Highlights!
It's a fairly standard week other than the following:
- Monday: 1.22wmf2 to the usual first places (test, test2,
mediawiki.org)
- Tuesday: re-enable AFTv5 on enwiki
- Wednesday: Migration of master dbs for enwiki, dewiki, and wikidata to
MariaDB
This will move back the Wed MW deploy to later in the day, after this
is done and tested.
As always, full details (and this week we have more details!) are
available here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_April_15th
Best,
Greg
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We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on
the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP
( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia
from University of Georgia, USA.
We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the
same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper
had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from
that paper include:
(1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa
(2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic
(3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance
(4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model
(5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer
(6). Laptop is an example for a super computer
(7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware
Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it
was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without
any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a
payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the
fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia (Chairman
of WORLDCOMP) rich. After that, we received few reminders from
WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded.
We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts
to submit a paper to WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies
have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness.
See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the
conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See
http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers
about WORLDCOMP. If WORLDCOMP is not fake then why did DBLP suddenly stopped
listing the proceedings after?
The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from “scientific”
to “other” (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. See the comments
http://www.mail-archive.com/tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu/msg05168.html
of a respected researcher on this. Better not to have a paper than
having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever!
Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is a money making business,
using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing
out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published
in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo)
who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using
fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences
to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and
threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (see Item 7 in Section 5 of
http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf ).That is, the puppet does all
his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to
get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets.
Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP until 2012) has refused to
provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image
being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. WORLDCOMP’13
will be held at a different resort.
WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013.
The paper submission deadline for WORLDCOMP’13 was March 18 and it was
extended to April 6 and now it is extended to April 20 (it may be extended
again) but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no
conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s
website is just an email address! Prof. Hamid Arabnia expends the deadline
to get more papers (means, more registration fee into his pocket!).
Let us make a direct request to Prof. Hamid arabnia: publish all reviews for
all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference.
Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year)
and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also request
him to look at the Open Challenge at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1
Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop
this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people.
We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities
http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the
keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.
Hello,
On Friday April 12th at 13:00GMT the Wikimedia operations team is going
to add two SSD disks on the gallium server. The downtime is expected to
last up to two hours.
Plan of action:
- server is bought down and disks are added, server restarted (est: 30min)
- Zuul/Jenkins restart (est: up to 45 mins)
The internal reference for this operation is RT #4916.
Side effect:
gallium hosts both Zuul and Jenkins. The two services will thus not be
able to fulfil their duty such as running lint checks and unit tests on
submitted changes. If you really need a change to be merged, you will
have to locally test your change and submit it manually.
Any changes submitted during the maintenance window would need to be
retriggered, the easiest way is to either rebase them or do a tiny edit
to the commit message. That will produce a new patchset that will in
turns triggers tests as usual.
Note:
We choose Friday because of ops availability in the datacenter and the
lack of software deployment on this day. That is also my late day so I
will be around for the next few hours after the maintenance.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
It certainly can be done (and done without need for silverlight) on
smallish categories (to pull numbers out of a hat, things with less than
1000 pages probably would be fine).
I doubt the silverlight control would work with a category that has a
million entries in it (and yes there are categories that big)
-bawolff
On 2013-04-11 11:56 AM, "Small M" <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> One of the demo collections originally shown in pivot was wikipedia
article's sorted by category. Though the collections are no longer up, you
can see videos at:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZuFUZpEZ-A?t=2m30s
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxCvdoXpwM
>
> It was done before (albeit using a dedicated viewer which is now a
silverlight control). So it can be done.
> -Small
>
> ________________________________
> From: Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com>
> To: Small M <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com>; wikitech-l <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category
>
>
> On 2013-04-10 10:25 PM, "Small M" <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort
content based on category? Single category views, especially for large
categories, aren't particularly helpful.
> >
> >
> > Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had?
> >
> > An HTML5 example at:
> > http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/pass2012.htm
> >
> > -Small
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikitech-l mailing list
> > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
> No, there are no current plans for doing this. Interesting idea though.
If I understand you correctly you want a category page where things are
grouped by what other categories a page is a member of.
> I don't think such a thing can be done in an efficient manner for big
categories given the way category membership is currently stored.
> -bawolff
>
>
Hi! I'm Molly White, or GorillaWarfare on the WMF projects. I'm planning to
submit a proposal to the WMF for this summer's Google Summer of Code (and
probably also the Outreach Program for Women) and was hoping to get some
feedback. See my proposal at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare/Proposal.
I would like to improve support for projects (like Wikisource and
Wikibooks) that have content that's structured as a book and not as an
article. I plan to do this by working on the existing BookManager
extension. It's currently unstable and very much in development, so there's
a lot of room for improvement.
Do you have any feedback, concerns, suggestions, etc.? Do you think the
project is feasible for GSoC?
Thanks,
Molly White
Hello,
Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort content based on category? Single category views, especially for large categories, aren't particularly helpful.
Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had?
An HTML5 example at:
http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/pass2012.htm
-Small
RE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54986/
code working live on
http://openid-wiki.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Version
Ready for merge into core.
Can some please merge, thanks.
I invested a lot of efforts to fix (implement) "add git HEAD commit date
to Special:Version for core and extensions"
and deeply wish that I can stop my daily rebasing ..
that it will become part of the core.
Can someone please merge, thanks.
The code fulfilly all requirements, and has now the correct code in
Installer.php for testing the presence of git or git.exe, which is
definitely required to obtain the correct commit date,
which cannot otherwise fetched from the git objects.
Tom
The whole idea is project specific,we are not converting to wav, but since
its the only format that browsers can easily upload in for the time being.
Thanks
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <
hellmann(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> You didn't include the list in your reply.
> What about: http://firefogg.org/ ?
> -- Sebastain
>
> Am 10.04.2013 23:41, schrieb Rahul Maliakkal:
>
> The point is not about efficiency rather the only format that browsers can
> presently capture into. As browsers add support for AAC converting /
> uploads, then we will prefer that.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <
> hellmann(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing
>> time in this feature:
>>
>> WAV
>>
>> WAVEform audio format <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV> (WAV) is a
>> Microsoft <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft> and IBM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> audio
>> file format <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_format> for storing
>> audio on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows>systems for raw audio storage. The WAV format is most commonly used with an
>> uncompressed, lossless storage method (pulse-code modulation) resulting in
>> comparatively large audio files. Today, the WAV audio format is no longer
>> popular being superseded by other more efficient means of audio storage.
>> [19]<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats…>
>>
>>
>> from
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats…
>>
>> So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well.
>>
>> The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge
>> this correctly.
>> Again, is .wav really so popular, that it justifies the effort?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 10.04.2013 19:40, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
>>
>> Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27:
>>
>> As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in
>> .ogg format.
>>
>> In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since
>> its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine
>>
>>
>> Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension"
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc
>>
>> I would like to get the communities feedback on this.
>>
>>
>> Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format?
>>
>> Nemo
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
>> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
>> Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://linguistics.okfn.org ,
>> http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary , http://dbpedia.org
>> Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
>> Research Group: http://aksw.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://linguistics.okfn.org ,
> http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary , http://dbpedia.org
> Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
> Research Group: http://aksw.org
>