Hi everyone!
How do you test Vector-compatible skins? I mean there are a lot of css
classes that embedded in the Vector and in the extensions so I guess
some data for tests should exist somewhere.
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote
Max Semenick prepared a patchset that would make it possible to keep
Mediawiki:Common.css and friend in sync between enwiki in production, and
enwiki on betalabs, but it needs review and merge:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/68309/
One of the big challenges in deploying MobileFrontend changes to production
is the unexpected ways Mediawiki:Common.css and friends will affect our
changes. In general, the mobile web team has been trying to get betalabs to
a state that mimics production closely enough that we can reliably test our
changes there for all the weird things that can happen in the production
environment - before pushing our changes to production. As such, it would
be enormously helpful if we had a way to keep Mediawiki:Common.css and
friends in sync between enwiki in production and enwiki on betalabs.
So, can someone please take a look? It would be enormously helpful for us
to get this in place as soon as possible.
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Arthur Richards
Software Engineer, Mobile
[[User:Awjrichards]]
IRC: awjr
+1-415-839-6885 x6687
Hi Yury,
some time ago you proposed a SMW webinar for developers [1], which I find is a really great idea! But it seems no date has been set yet. As there are a number of interested participants, I think we’re ready to take this one step further J and find a time slot. Shall we use the talk page?
Best,
Markus
(mglaser)
[1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/1st_SMW_webinar_for_developers
Hi all,
I'd like to announce a recently created tool that might help the Wikimedia
technical community find stuff more easily. Sometimes relevant information
is buried in IRC chat logs, messages in any of several mailing lists, pages
in mediawiki.org, commit messages, etc. This tool (essentially a custom
google search engine that filters results to a few relevant URL patterns)
is aimed at relieving this problem. Test it here: http://hexm.de/mw-search
The motivation for the tool came from a post by Niklas [1], specifically
the section "Coping with the proliferation of tools within your community".
In the comments section, Nemo announced his initiative to create a custom
google search to fit at least some of the requirements presented in that
section, and I've offered to help him tweak it further. The URL list is
still incomplete and can be customized by editing the page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_search (syncing with the
actual engine still will have to happen by hand, but should be quick).
Besides feedback on whether the engine works as you'd expect, I would like
to start some discussion about the ability for Google's bots to crawl some
of the resources that are currently included in the URL filters, but return
no results. For example, the IRC logs at bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/.
Some workarounds are used (e.g. using github for code search since gitweb
isn't crawlable) but that isn't possible for all resources. What can we do
to improve the situation?
--Waldir
1.
http://laxstrom.name/blag/2013/02/11/fosdem-talk-reflections-23-docs-code-a…
Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2013 - the 8th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference:
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
* Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
* Conference wikipage: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business
representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2013 will be supported by the Open Semantic Data
Association e. V. [1]. Our platinum sponsor will be WikiVote ltd,
Russia [2].
Following the success of recent SMWCons, we will have one tutorial day
and two conference days.
Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already
informally register on the wikipage, although a firm registration will
later be needed.
Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in
the conference please go to the conference wikipage and add your talk
there. To create an attractive program for the conference, we will
later ask you to give further information about your proposals.
Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and will
be made available for others after the conference.
==Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics==
===Applications of semantic wikis===
* Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence
* Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management
* Exchange on business models with semantic wikis
* Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or
their extensions
* Semantic wikis in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-government
* Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people
* Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web
* Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis
===Development of semantic wikis===
* Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms
* Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies
* Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic MediaWiki
* Improving user experience in a semantic wiki
* Speeding up semantic wikis
* Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other
applications and mashups
* Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules, formulas etc.
* Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis
* Multilingual semantic wikis
If you have questions you can contact me (Yury Katkov, Program Chair),
Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair)
per e-mail (Cc).
Hope to see you in Berlin
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] http://www.opensemanticdata.org/
[2] http://wikivote.ru
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CirrusSearch
>
This made me realize I have a poor sense of the features in search, so I
read the documentation.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Searching is bare-bones, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching disagrees. Perhaps the former
describes the default MediaWiki search features, while WMF has enabled more
and different features on its wikis (such as intitle: and incategory:
searches).
* mw help doesn't mention the * suffix to search for partial matches, or
the ~ prefix. Both work on my unmodified local wiki.
* enwiki says "Hello dolly" in quotes gives different results, mw directly
contradicts this. Even on my local wiki, quotes make a difference.
* enwiki disagrees with itself what a dash in front of a word does.
I fixed mw search's explanation of the two-button search box (no longer the
default) but I don't know the details on the above.
--
=S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments
See the full Roadmap at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap
And the diff for this last update:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Roadmap&diff=711356&oldid=711338
Highlights:
= Search =
* With the new search engineer on board, Nik, working with Chad on
search the current plan for rolling out the Solr-backed search engine
is thus:
** June: prototype in Labs
** July: deployed to test2.wikipedia
** Aug: deployed to mediawiki.org
** Oct: deployed to English Wikipedia
** Dec: deployed to all wikis
= Performance =
* With other performance options still on the table, we are looking
closely at HipHop and hope to have the ability to use it by August of
this year.
** See also:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Site_performance_and_architecture
= Authentication Systems =
* Complete CentralAuth/SUL revamp in June
* In July do OAuth deployment, OpenID development, and limited OpenID
provider deployment for use in Labs
Best,
Greg
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