Hi,
A project I've been working on for the last three months, via a Wikimedia
Individual Engagement Grant, finally had its first release today. It's the
Miga Data Viewer, and it provides a lightweight framework for browsing and
navigating through structured data in CSV file, which can for easily
browsing through, among other things, Wikipedia and Wikidata data. You can
read more about it here:
http://wikiworks.com/blog/2013/07/23/announcing-miga/
...and on the Miga homepage, where the software can also be downloaded:
http://migadv.com
Thanks,
Yaron
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WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
You may be interested in this.
Cristian
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: 2013/7/23
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Job Offer: Technical Position for WLM 2013
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
<wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear WLMers,
We at the Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 international coordination team
are looking forward to hire a contractor to take care of the
maintenance of the infrastructure behind Wiki Loves Monuments, and
everything that is needed to run smoothly the contest. Yes, this will
be a paid contract and we would expect the person to work for us for
three months from August up-to October.
We are looking for a candidate of either gender with the following skills:
Python — at an experienced level;
MySQL —at an experienced level;
PHP — at an experienced level;
CSS/JS/HTML at a basic level;
Be a quick learner: need to learn basic MediaWiki code;
Among the tasks the contractor will need to perform you have: running
“Erfgoedbot” and adding countries to the monuments’ database. They
will need to write PHP–based tools (statistics) using data from a
MySQL database.
The contractor, when selected, will be working for the Wiki Loves
Monuments international coordination team. He will sign a contract
with Wikimedia Nederlands, the fiscal sponsor of the Wiki Loves
Monuments 2013 international project.
If you are interested, please forward your resume and your portfolio
to cristian.consonni(a)wikimedia.it. The deadline to send applications
is 29 July 2013. The Wiki Loves Monuments international team consists
of volunteers and so, it might take time from our side to review your
applications, but we will make sure it doesn’t takes more than a week.
Regards,
Karthik Nadar and Cristian Consonni,
On behalf of the WLM international team.
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WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonumentshttp://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
Afternoon,
Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not been able to get at it
for the past half hour or so.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab
IdeaLab is an incubator for people to share ideas to improve Wikimedia
projects and collaboratively develop them into plans and grant
proposals.
I'm cross-posting to the developer and researcher lists because I
could imagine some of you following this path:
idea for research -> IdeaLab -> learning to use publicly available
data sources -> quick prototyping via User Metrics, replicated
databases in Labs, stats.wikimedia.org, and Limn -> idea for a bigger
project with research & editor engagement implications -> idea
refinement in IdeaLab -> grant proposal
Now is a good time to start so you can get a grant proposal in by the
30 September deadline, requesting up to USD 30,000. More information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-learn
Hope this is helpful!
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
I've been working on a client's website that uses a lot of citations and
runs 1.19. After a bit of profiling over the last few days, the use of
some of Wikipedia's templates stood out. I decided to try and backport
Scribunto to 1.19 to see if that would help.
After writing a couple of shims -- mostly for ContentHandler that 1.19
doesn't have -- I have the Infobox template successfully working. I'll
have time to try others later, but I'm pleased with this small success.
Would anyone mind horribly if I branched Scribunto for 1.19 and
committed my changes there? I'm well aware that future work on
Scribunto will continue without any consideration for 1.19's capabilities.
Mark.
--
http://hexmode.com/
Love alone reveals the true shape of the universe.
-- "Everywhere Present", Stephen Freeman
I just noticed that ContentHandler has understandably deprecated several
hooks.
However, not all the hooks have been updated as deprecated on the mw.o.
Some of their replacements aren't even documented on mw.o.
Worse, there isn't any schedule for how long the legacy hooks are going
to be supported or any HOWTOs for developers interested in making their
extensions work in MW 1.21+..
This is especially frustrating for developers who may have used
ArticleViewCustom (new in 1.19) only to have it be deprecated a year
later in 1.21 for ArticleContentViewCustom.
(If anyone did use this hook in 1.19, they didn't document that use on
mw.o, so we don't know about it and can't warn them about the issues
that may come from this.)
Mark.
--
http://hexmode.com/
Love alone reveals the true shape of the universe.
-- "Everywhere Present", Stephen Freeman
Hi,
I am a technical writer and I have a lot of questions.
Our company has been using MediaWiki for their documentation.
We have a new client that recently bought our products and now needs help in their documentation. Our product documentations are posted in our wiki site. The clients are now requesting that they have copies of our documentation.
I am also proposing that the create/build their wiki site on MediaWiki to have an easy transition with regards to the documentation. Now the process of transferring the documentation will be exporting and importing wikis.
I have found the following articles regarding importing/exporting wikis:
* Help:Export: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Export
* Help:Import: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Import
Can you confirm that these are the articles that i need regarding importing/exporting wikis?
Is it possible to import/export our wikis to a new MediaWiki for the client?
One more thing, we also have some documents in Confluence
(Atlassian Confluence 3.5.3). Is there a way to import/export them to
our MediaWiki page (we call them Docs Wiki)? It also needs to completely
replicate the Confluence page including the codes, images and links.
Hope you can help me on this. I would really appreciate this.
If there is anything else, please let me know.
Thanks!
PS. I am unsure if i should directly name our company and the client. This is regarding the confidentiality clause.
Hi,
I was following this
tutorial<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment>for
deploying an extension on MediaWiki. It asked me to create a
labs/git/gerrit account.
When I opened the
link<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup>,
I entered the following details for
username: anubhavagarwal
email: anubhav914(a)gmail.com
instance shell account name: anubhav
It gave me
"There was either an authentication database error or you are not allowed
to update your external account"
this error. I guess my email might be registered but I have forgotten the
username and password.
Can someone help ?
Cheers,
Anubhav
Anubhav Agarwal| 4rth Year | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee