Wikitech-l June 2013

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Speaker on MediaWiki wanted
by Mark A. Hershberger 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

This message was posted on the Support Desk and I thought it would be better to post it on wikitech-l. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Request_for_One-… I am one of the managers of a professional communication conference. We have had attendees request that a rep from MediaWiki so a short presentation on MediaWiki--what it can do and why it would be helpful for teachers of professional communication in universities. Would someone please contact me so that I can further detail this opportunity? Thank you. Pam Estes Brewer brewerpse(a)gmail.com Please follow up with Ms. Brewer. -- http://hexmode.com/ Love alone reveals the true shape of the universe. -- "Everywhere Present", Stephen Freeman

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Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library
by Ori Livneh 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

A nice post about using Semantic MediaWiki as an Enterprise Architecture Repository (or EAR) at the Danish National Library: < http://www.josefassad.com/enterprise_architecture_repository_with_semantic_… > The author is currently on #mediawiki (as Josef-ddb). He seems to think that EAR is a niche currently populated by overpriced and underpowered commercial behemoths, and that SMW could be competitive in this domain, but that people might need a bit of help to make the connection between EAR requirements and SMW capabilities. --- Ori Livneh ori(a)wikimedia.org

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cleaning up wikitech.wikimedia.org (again)
by Ariel T. Glenn 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

For folks that edit on Wikitech, note that obsolete docs can now be moved to their own namespace, "Obsolete", where we'll be able to dig them up if we ever want them but they won't clutter up the search results etc. Please feel free to start populating the new namespace with all that cruft you were never quite ready to delete. Ariel

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile
by Arthur Richards 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

+wikitech-l This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming multimedia team to work on. As Yuvi pointed out (off the wikitech-l list): "There are also unresolved codec issues with playing videos (no H264 support), so even if we do enable video playback it'll not be available everywhere, and even in places where it is it is going to be a biggish battery sink (no hardware decoding support). Would want to consider that before enabling it fully." I envision the mobile team helping to support this, but folks who focus on multimedia-related stuff would probably be the best candidates for digging into this and figuring out how we can best move forward. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to see videos working on mobile > > Yet there seems to be two issues here. > 1) Cleaning up MobileFrontend code > We are stripping the ogg_player by parsing and cleaning up the HTML > We could probably do this in css/javascript instead. > > 2) Making videos work on mobile where supported > If we were to explore enabling videos on mobile we would have to look > at the ogg player javascript code associated with it and get it > working on mobile or create our own code that knows how to read it. > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler > > I'm also concerned about the size of the javascript module and since > it is not needed by every page I would argue that it should only be > loaded when the video is clicked (the existing extension may do this > or not I'm not clear): > > https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FOggHandler/895f74e6… > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not > > ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And > > stripped very crudely, by removing just #ogg_player_1 and > > #ogg_player_2 so that only first two videos on a page were removed. > > What are your opinions - shoudld we continue doing this? > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > -- > Jon Robson > http://jonrobson.me.uk > @rakugojon > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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Removal of Bugzilla admins
by Alex Monk 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

I've just found out that WMF's Bugmeister Andre Klapper removed "nearly everyone"'s Bugzilla adminship (and people with root access on the servers now have access to a file which contains login details for an 'emergency admin' account). So I have some questions: * Who was removed? * Who still has access? ** Is the list on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators still up to date? Also please ban the account of the user who created https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50029 Alex Monk

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WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th
by Greg Grossmeier 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Welcome to the latest edition of the weekly deployment highlights! The full schedule for next week is at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_June_17th = Monday = * MediaWiki 1.22wmf7 will go out to all non-Wikipedia project sites (eg: Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) = Tuesday = * ULS (Universal Language Selector) will be enabled on the following wikis: ** Portuguese (pt), Chinese (zh), Vietnamese (vi), Ukrainian (uk), Catalan (ca), Waray-Waray (war), Norwegian (Bokmål) (no), Cebuano (ceb), Finnish (fi), Persian (fa) * On Tuesday VisualEditor team will enable an A/B test, where half of new accounts created on English Wikipedia will get VisualEditor enabled by default. This is to test performance and features before the larger rollout in July. = Thursday = * MediaWiki 1.22wmf7 will go out to all Wikipedias * MediaWiki 1.22wmf8 will go out to test/test2/mediawiki If you have any questions, please do let me know! Have a good weekend, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Call for Comments: Wikipedia Zero Architecture Enhancements
by Adam Baso 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

I posted a message on 10-June-2013 and Yuri followed up with one last week. But in case anyone missed it, a Wikipedia Zero RFC for use of Edge Side Includes (ESI) and, where appropriate, JavaScript is posted at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Zero_Architecture#Cache… . We'd like to wrap up comments within the next few days. Thanks! -Adam

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Request for comment on the book management extension (GSoC)
by Gorilla Warfare 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hello! I'm working on the "Improve support for book structures" Google Summer of Code project (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_management) and have just created a request for comment on the extension and its design (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Book_management). I would really appreciate any feedback you have on any aspect of it. Yours, Molly White (GorillaWarfare)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile
by Arthur Richards 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

+wikitech-l On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not >> ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And >> stripped very crudely, by removing just #ogg_player_1 and >> #ogg_player_2 so that only first two videos on a page were removed. >> What are your opinions - shoudld we continue doing this? >> > > So, here's the thing -- we've dropped OggHandler and switched to > TimedMediaHandler which outputs its markup differently -- the new system is > not stripped by MobileFrontend! > > Videos used in the wikis today actually output a <video> element pointing > by default to a WebM source. These *actually work* in Chrome and Firefox > on Android... but iOS and other non-Android systems will generally not have > WebM support and will show a "broken video" placeholder. > > We're still kinda talking internally about license issues for H.264 > support... whee > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687

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