Wikitech-l May 2013

wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

158 participants
193 discussions

Issue with: en.m.wikipedia.org
by Martin Butler 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place, but I (and I expect lots of others!) can't use en.m.wikipedia.org via Opera Mini. This is because the GO button next to the search box has disappeared. This email and any attachments to it may contain information which is confidential, legally privileged, subject to the Official Secrets Act, or otherwise not disclosable by law, and is protected by copyright. It is intended only for the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient you must delete this email immediately and not use, distribute, copy, disclose or take any action in reliance on this email or its contents. If you have received this email in error please notify us by return email immediately. Airwave Solutions Limited is a company registered in England and Wales having company number 03985643. Registered Office: Airwave Solutions Ltd, Charter Court, 50 Windsor Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2EJ.

3 2

Deployment Highlights - Week of May 6th
by Greg Grossmeier 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Deployment Highlights email. The full calendar for next week lives at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_May_6th For the week of May 6th we have the following interesting deployments: == Monday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 to English Wikipedia * Wikidata updates to English Wikipedia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl… == Tuesday == * Internationalization team: ** Run refresh-translatable-pages.php for remaining WMF wikis using Translate extension (mediawiki and meta were done last week). ** Enable ULS for anonymous users without language selection. This brings web fonts and input methods to anonymous users on wikis which have ULS (meta, mediawiki, wikidata and couple of others). Tehnically: $wgULSEnableAnon is replaced with $wgULSAnonCanChangeLanguage. == Wednesday == * MediaWiki 1.22wmf3 to the rest of the 'pedias. == Thursday == * Normal Editor Engagement and Editor Engagement Experiments deploy windows. == Friday == * NO DEPLOYS! ;-) == All week == * Lightning Deploys! ** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_deployments Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

1 0

MathJax opt-in for all visitors
by Peter Krautzberger 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi, Here's an idea somebody suggested to me. I would like to propose a way for any visitor to opt-in to MathJax on the fly. (Oh, maybe I should add a disclaimer: I work for MathJax.) This would be simply a button on pages with math that would switch MathJax on (and possibly off via a cookie). I believe this has some advantages. * All users can get better math rendering but are not forced to have it * Wikipedia would become accessible to all math-capable screen readers (I've heard complaints that user registration is not not very accessible). * Users get to vote with their feet -- usage data could indicate if MathJax rendering quality is worth it. I think this idea would be relatively simple to implement. Since the math images already contain their own TeX code as alt-text, MathJax can replace the images on the fly. Excuse my poor javascript skill, but something like the following $('img.tex').wrap('<span class="MathJax_Preview" />'); // this will allow MathJax to replace the images with its rendering on the fly $('.MathJax_Preview').after(function() { tex = $(this).find('img').attr("alt"); //grab the TeX code return " <script type='math/tex'>" + tex + "</script>" ; //add the script behind the MathJax_preview TODO handle display style }); $.getScript(' https://c328740.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/mathjax/2.1-latest/MathJax.js?config=Te…'); //run MathJax should be an approximation. Of course, this should really use Wikipedia's MathJax configuration file. A real solution also should handle displaystyle math -- I couldn't figure out how Wikipedia handles this in the images but the MathJax side would simply need <script type="math/tex; mode=display">. I'd be very interested to hear what people think. Best regards, Peter.

6 7

Google Summer of Code 2013 applications are closed
by Sumana Harihareswara 03 May '13

03 May '13

We are no longer accepting applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. We are always accepting new volunteer contributors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

1 0

GSoC 2013 Proposal for Entity Suggester
by Nilesh Chakraborty 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello, I have drafted my proposal under my user page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nilesh.c/Entity_Suggester Please have a look at it and let me know if I can make any changes to make it better in any way. :-) Cheers, Nilesh -- A quest eternal, a life so small! So don't just play the guitar, build one. You can also email me at contact(a)nileshc.com or visit my website<http://www.nileshc.com/>

3 5

Proposal for Inline commenting , summer of code project.
by Sastry aditya 03 May '13

03 May '13

Name and contact information *Name: AV Aditya Sastry* *Email:ganeshaditya1@gmail.com* *IRC or IM networks/handle(s): **ganeshaditya1(a)gmail.com* *Location:Vishakhapatanam, Andhra Pradesh* *Typical working hours: 2:00 PM to 12:30AM* Synopsis Every MediaWiki article has a talk page. But the discussions here are very generic in nature and are concerned with the whole article rather than a part of it. With Inline commenting, user could select a line of an article and write a comment for it, which could be viewed by other users and they can respond to the comment as well. This greatly helps engage the readers as well the editors in discussions about the articles and thus help make them better and accurate. The project itself can be divided into two parts. 1) User Interface. 2) Database classes. Every article being displayed will have a tab in the top right corner linking it to this extension. Here the user can view the comments for the article as well as make comments. When the user clicks on the tab, the name of the article is communicated to the extension which is used to retrieve the comments from the database. Each comment is indexed with three entities the page name, starting and ending index and these are used to retrieve the associated comments from the database and display them. Displaying them is done using AJAX and JQuery. In the mockup I have provided I haven't used these two technologies as I was constrained by time. Deliverables 1) Special page to view comments as well as make them 2) Database classes. 3) Sanitizer classes needed to sanitize the comments posted. 4) Parser functions(A special magic word will be created as {{Page title, Start index, ending index}} which will be converted to a link by this parsing function.) 5) AJAX, JQuery and any necessary JS functions to implement this functionality. Time frame: 1. pre 16th: Learning about JQuery specifically this functionality http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_slide_down and about the database classes helper functions(will be consulting my mentor for the databases part). 2. 16th to 23rd june: Developing the Database classes and unit testing. 3. 23rd june to 30th june: Working with the sanitizer classes to implement any additional functionalities needed to secure Database access and unit testing it. 4. 30th june to 7th july: Developing the parser functions and unit testing. 5. 7th july to 20th july: Smoke testing with these three components put together. 6. 20th july to 31st july: Developing the User interface using JQuery, AJAX and JS as well as writting the necessary CSS. 7. 31st july to 10th august: putting everything together and smoke testing it. 8. 10th august to 20th august: Beta testing and using the feedback to make modifications 9. 20th august to 16th September: Documenting the whole extension. About you I have been using Wikipedia since my 10th class. I owe my life to Wikipedia cause anything I have accomplished academically its owing to Wikipedia. I have only contributed to my university's Wikipage once. But mostly I have been a consumer. How ever I feel ashamed in confessing that until I started working on MediaWiki I didn't know about the talk page and even when I came to know about it, I noticed that the talk pages of few articles that I frequently read are congested with discussions about the whole article rather than a sub part of it that I am concerned with. Hence I had to read the whole discussion to comprehend the context to be able to contribute to these discussions. I am sure other Wikipedia readers might have felt the same about it to. Participation I am a workaholic. I can't focus on anything else when I have some work pending. So I will be spending all my free time on this project and it is my first priority. I will be communicating my progress on weekly basis and I plan on putting my extension in a github and I would be committing to it regularly on daily basis so that my mentor could track my progress. Till the end of this month I wouldn't be available on IRC as am changing my ISP(My current ISP strangely blocks IRC, SSH, FTP and it is because of him that my bugfixes were so horrible initially). However I am still accessible on email, gmail, facebook and on phone if deemed necessary. Once I finish switching my ISP I will be available in Freenode. Past open source experience I have fixed three bugs in MediaWiki. Here's my github account https://github.com/ganeshaditya1. Here I am posting the gerrit links as they are shorter than the bug links in buzilla, these three have been merged, the insert http links is not working. - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59822/ - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59395/ (This was my first bugfix to an opensource project and my first time with git and I had a pathetically slow (3kbps 2G internet connection), so I made a lot of mistakes and occasionally I admit loosing my cool too. - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59393/ Bug fix stuck in a limbo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59390/ I submitted a fix to this but it was decided by chad that the bug is not necessary to fix. so it was abandoned. Any other info I have first prepared this mockup: http://adityasastry.in.cp-2.webhostbox.net/index.php?title=Special:BlankPage With both the views for viewing the comments as well submitting the comments implemented as movable popup's (Movable part is not yet implemented) Then I saw that the postings in the bugzilla bug page and noticed that people are looking for something that looks like CO-ment. So I came up with this mockup: http://adityasastry.in.cp-2.webhostbox.net/index.php?title=Special:Inline#<http://adityasastry.in.cp-2.webhostbox.net/index.php?title=Special:Inline> In this the comments are displayed in-line with the article. Instead of being displayed in the margin. I wouldn't mind putting it in the margin but as it was already pointed out margin space is way too small and the comments would look congested. I personally prefer my first mockup as it doesn't effect the original wikipedia UI and doesn't harm the readability however I am open to suggestions and I keep an open mind when it comes to UI Design. Regards, Aditya

2 1

Project proposal for GSOC
by siddharth patel 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi, I understand that it seems that i'm bit late to apply for a project, however i want to assure you that i'm very interested and motivated to build it. In my application i gave a brief report about building a knowledge/educational website. what do you think about it? is it a cool idea? Regards Siddharth Patel

2 1

GSoC/OPW Proposal Updates: VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin
by Jiabao Wu 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hey all, I have made a big change to my proposal in accordance to community's responses. I'd like to invite feedback on this new proposal, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jiabao_wu/GSoC_2013_Application I know the VisualEditor team and everyone else are all very busy as its almost closing in to the final submission date, but comments still would be great, either before or after that deadline. A short summary of my approach to VisualEditor Mathematical Equation Plugin > step 1: make a node handler in visual editor to allow user to type in LaTex > code in a box and display it underneath in real time, which is similar to > Aloha Editor suggested by Peter. > step 2: update the GUI to have symbols and function buttons, which allow user > to click the buttons and insert the latex code of the symbol or function in > the editing box > step 3: allow users with latex experience to edit math in VisualEditor like > in Google Docs (this has been moved to optional currently, but still very > likely to be able to make it.) Those changes are applied to my synopsis, deliverables, and timeline. Thanks! jiabao

4 6

[GSoC 2013] Mobilize Wikidata project proposal
by Pragun Bhutani 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello, I've completed my proposal for my project aimed at Mobilizing Wikidata. I'd really appreciate any and all feedback from the community. Nitpicking is welcome. :) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Proposal Best regards, Pragun Bhutani

1 0

[GSOC Proposal] Incremental data dumps - Shaohong
by Shao Hong 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi all, I have just updated my proposal for "Incremental data dumps" and you can view it at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shaohong and please feel free to give me comments or suggestion! Thanks! Shao Hong shaohong86(a)gmail.com "Respect needs to be earned, but honour is an attitude of the heart. Not everyone will earn your respect, but everyone deserves to be shown honour." - Anonymous

1 0

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

Wikitech-l May 2013