Wikitech-l April 2013

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OpenID: Mozilla bridges their PERSONA with OpenID and OAuth
by Thomas Gries 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

For those being interested: "Mozilla Persona is an open authentication system that lets you implement sign-in on your site in an afternoon. Today, Persona Beta 2 was released, including a feature called "Identity Bridging" that lets hundreds of millions of users sign into sites supporting Persona with no new username and no new password. The announcement video gives you a good overview of the Beta 2 release.." See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/persona-beta-2-launch/ and our https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34565 and our https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

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Bugs in 1.21rc2
by Mark A. Hershberger 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Yesterday, I made the RC2 release and listed only one known bug in the release. I decided to look through bugzilla for other as-yet-unaddressed bugs. I'd like to get these fixed before the tarball release May 15th. Please feel free to take them on so that we can get them fixed. * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802 Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly textbox on status page * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46401 [Regression] mw.loader: Code should execute after styles being loaded (wait for async cssText buffering) * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44907 ResourceLoader: Invalid argument supplied for foreach * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44568 bin/ulimit5.sh isn't UNIX compliant * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44524 update.php should invalidate ResourceLoader message cache * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release Ideally, all of these would be fixed before Quim Gil's release testing next week, but if we can't achieve that, it would be good to at least have them looked at. Thanks! -- http://hexmode.com/ It is not the case that simple clear questions have simple clear answers, not even in the world of pure ideas, and much less so in the messy real world of everyday life. -- Gregory Chaitin, "Paradoxes of Randomness"

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Deployment highlights - week of April 8th
by Greg Grossmeier 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello and welcome to your weekly deployment highlights email. Here are some interesting and/or important deployments scheduled for next week: == Wikidata == * Wikidata to English Wikipedia on Monday * Pending all OK on ENWP, Wikidata on all Wikipedias on Wednesday == i10n == * Updates to the Translate Solr schema on Tuesday (at 08:00 UTC) == Lightning Deploys! == * M-Th at 23:00 UTC (4pm Pacific) for 30 minutes ** Let me know if you plan on using one! ** And please do record what you did on the Deployments wiki, eg https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&diff=65268&old… (thanks Brad!) ** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_deployments#Process As always, the full calendar can be found here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments If you have any other expected deployments that are noteworthy, please reply here. Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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[Language Engineering] Reminder: Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT
by Runa Bhattacharjee 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

* Hello, * * * * This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour today, i.e. 10th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office (Freenode). The agenda can be found in the section below. * * * * Thanks * * Runa * * * * Agenda: * * 1. Introductions 2. Translate UX - Deployment and other news 3. Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language communities 4. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release 5. Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. * ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM Subject: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT To: mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org * Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the team’s monthly office hour on April 10, 2013. We have some exciting updates about our ongoing projects, some of which have also been shared in our recent blog posts[2]. During this session we would like to walk through some of them. The team would also like to introduce a new outreach program which was mentioned in the last office hour held on 13th March 2013 [3]. Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below. See you all at the IRC office hour! regards Runa Event Details: ========== Date: 2013-04-10 (Wednesday) Time: 1700 UTC, 1000 PDT IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Translate UX - Deployment and other news 3. Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language communities 4. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release 5. Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-lo… [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-03-13 * -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Proposal: Wikitech contributors
by Quim Gil 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

I have been drafting a proposal to attract new contributors, help them settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many of these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as well and we are just used to them. The proposal has evolved into a deeper restructuring of our community spaces. We're still drafting it, but a round of wider feedback is welcome before opening the official RFC at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors In summary: * wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our open source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an ontology of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully Gerrit. * Semantic user profiles would identify interests, project membership and preferences so users could get notifications about specific topics. * Nodes would automatically structure links to the key information about a specific topic: wiki pages, events, news, projects, bug reports, Gerrit changesets, related contributors, and people interested. * All project teams, whoever is in them, would have a standard way to report goals, members, tasks and updates. The proposal includes a draft plan for a first iteration, including contracting out some software development and redesigning part of wikitech and mediawiki.org. Your feedback is welcome at the discussion page. I will be consolidating there any feedback received here or through other channels. The official RFC should follow pretty soon, maybe next week. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Wikimedia Iconathon Remote Participation
by Waldir Pimenta 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

> > On 09/04/13 04:19, Steven Walling wrote: > > On Monday, April 8, 2013, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > >> Apart from that, where were the results posted? All I found were >> pictures from the event, spread across several categories. I've collected >> them on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iconathon_2013 and >> cleaned up the other categories they were polluting (e.g. Category:I !!). I >> would expect the results to be uploaded to >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Noun_Project but so far I >> haven't seen any new icons there. Is this coming soon? >> > > Waldir, the event just happened two days ago, and yesterday was a > Sunday. Please show a little patience. > > The main activity during the event was design work and critique that did > not yet involve making permanent digital assets. The core part of this was > not making simple black and white SVGs of icons, but churning out as many > ideas for representing concepts as possible, which we did collaboratively > in groups on paper. Then we sorted and assessed these ideas with lots of > back and forth between designers, Wikimedians present, etc. > > Now that the idea phase is over and it's time to move toward execution, > Vibha and others who ran this will be posting more updates this week. All > relevant materials will of course be available for use on Commons. > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think the point Waldir was making was about a lack of information > preceding the event, not so much the follow up. > Thanks, that was indeed my main concern. I was a little frustrated as I would like to have at least watched parts of the event, and even accepted that it wouldn't be possible due to the nature of the event, only to be informed, after the fact (I didn't read wikitech-l in the hours prior to the event) that some sort of remote participation was actually possible. This led me to vent out a little more than I should in my message, and I apologize for that (also, I didn't mean to imply that making black and white icons is a simple matter and should be done quickly; sorry if that was the impression I passed). Nevertheless, my concern still stands: although several event pages were created (more than should have been, imo, but that's another issue), none of them made any reference to either remote participation, or how non-participants could expect to know about the outcomes.

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for March 25, 2013 - April 01, 2013 Status changes this week Reports changed/set to UNCONFIRMED: 33 Reports changed/set to NEW : 586 Reports changed/set to ASSIGNED : 75 Reports changed/set to REOPENED : 91 Reports changed/set to RESOLVED : 283 Reports changed/set to VERIFIED : 29 Total reports still open: 9925 Reports created this week: 224 Resolutions for the week: Reports marked FIXED : 206 Reports marked DUPLICATE : 27 Reports marked INVALID : 31 Reports marked WORKSFORME: 19 Reports marked WONTFIX : 32 Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics Created reports per component WikidataRepo 24 Echo 19 Translate 19 Site requests 8 General 8 Created reports per product MediaWiki 41 Wikimedia 32 MediaWiki extensions 123 Security 1 Tools 3 Top 5 bug report closers mmullie [AT] wikimedia.org 22 odder.wiki [AT] gmail.com 12 s.mazeland [AT] xs4all.nl 11 hashar [AT] free.fr 10 federicoleva [AT] tiscali.it 9

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Ideating on GSOC project : Mobilize Wikidata
by Pragun Bhutani 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, I plan to propose a GSOC project through Wikimedia this year, based around the idea of mobilizing Wikidata. I'd like to share my understanding of the problem and gain some feedback on that, as well as some more input from the community. * * *Problem at hand:* * * Unlike Wikipedia, which displays information as mainly text, WIkidata presents information in the form of a grid of divs. While the MobileFrontend extension prints a mobile friendly version of Wikipedia, there needs to be a separate extension for Wikidata. This extension needs to be tailored to print these grids instead of text and lay them out in a way that's suitable for a mobile device. Additionally, the design should allow the addition of/should include 'edit' functionality tailored to suit a mobile device. - Has there been any previous work done on this front that I could refer to? I look forward to receiving your feedback. Thanks, Pragun Bhutani

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Fwd: Advice Needed
by Rahul Maliakkal 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, I am actually in big dilemma,my GSOC project implements audio recording by HTML5 using a method getuserMedia().Right Now no browser perfectly supports it so audio recording itself is an issue. I have read articles about this and its the NEXT BIG FIX for many browsers .The extension will take atleast 6-7 months to get deployed and by that time there is avery good chance that browsers become compatible . The Advantage is that as soon as the Web Recording will be compatible on all browsers our community will have "Pronunciation Recording Tool" ready by then. So what should i do?Do i continue working on it as my Gsoc Project? Please Help Rahul(Rahul_21 on irc)

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Jenkins tests 'LOST'?
by Matthew Walker 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Does anyone know what this means: mwext-CentralNotice-merge : LOST ... or why I'm getting: "Please wait while Jenkins is getting ready to work Your browser will reload automatically when Jenkins is ready." from https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/ ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team

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Wikitech-l April 2013