<quote name="Sumana Harihareswara" date="2013-08-23" time="16:16:21 -0400">
> Thanks to Mark Holmquist for maintaining http://etherpad.wmflabs.org for
> the past long while. It is going down in 2 weeks, so please retrieve
> your text.
>
> I recommend that you:
>
> * go into your browser history
> * search it for etherpad.wmflabs.org
> * go to each of those pads and copy-and-paste the content someplace,
> preferably on a public wiki, even if it's just in your userspace
> * replace the content of the Etherpad with a link to the wiki page
> you've moved the text to
Has anyone made an automatic etherpad -> wiki script yet? I'd love to
have a list of etherpad urls in some txt file I maintain of important
pads/pads I want sync'd on a wiki page for public consumption. I guess
the text file might need to have the relationship of pad to wikipage.
My duckduckgo searching wasn't successful.
Greg
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Hello!
Here is your deployment highlights email for next week!
The full schedule can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_26th
== Monday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf14 will roll out to the second group of wikis:
All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks,
Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites)
Information about MediaWiki 1.22wmf14:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14
* At the same time, Wikidata Phase 2 will be enabled on WikiVoyage.
== Tuesday ==
* The Mobile team will be enabling Notifications on mobile sites for all
Echo-enabled projects.
== Wednesday ==
* The much anticipated new search backend will be deployed to
mediawiki.org.
* SecureLogin for all wikis. The full (including technical) details are
available here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Login_security
The official 'plan of record' for what will be happening can be seen
in RobLa's email here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071441.html
== Thursday ==
* MediaWiki 1.22wmf14 will be rolled out to all Wikipedias.
* CodeEditor support will be enabled for all JS and CSS on all wikis
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Greg
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Hi,
shameless plug to remind you of my regular blogging on Bugzilla use:
If you deal a lot with Wikimedia Bugzilla and if you deal with a lot of
bug reports with varying quality (for example because you triage bug
reports), I recommend to take a look at my latest blogpost covering
Greasemonkey scripts to save some time:
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2013/08/23/bugzillatips-triage-helpertools-…
Comments, testing, feedback, patches, unicorns welcome.
Cheers & enjoy the weekend!
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi,
It would be great if a few pairs of eyes could take a look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2013/34 before I send it to
translators, to check that I haven't missed anything super-important
or misunderstood what the commits are about.
The tech newsletter is aimed at non-expert Wikimedians whose knowledge
of English may be limited, so the language may seem vague or naive to
developers. If you see factual errors, please correct them (or let me
know directly), but please keep the language simple :)
Many thanks for your help.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting a bug triage
session on Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT) for
some of the bugs that exist in languages written from Right-to-Left
(RTL). During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad
linked below to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but
please feel free to add more bugs (or file new ones!), and comments
about what you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can
send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please
see below for the event details.
Thank you.
regards
Runa
=== Event Details ===
# What: Bug triage session for RTL language bugs
# Date: August 28, 2013 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130828T1700
)
# IRC Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
# Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-i18n-2013-08
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
I noticed some pages we crawled containing error message like this;
<div id="mw-content-text" lang="zh-CN" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><p
class="error">Failed to render property P373:
Wikibase\LanguageWithConversion::factory: given languages do not have the
same parent language</p>
But when I open the url in browser, there is no such message. And using
index.php can also get normal content without error messages.
Here are examples you can retry:
bad
$ wget 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Google'
good
$ wget 'http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google'
Looks like something is wrong on Wikipedia side, anything need to fix?
Thanks
--
Jiang BIAN
This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this
communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please
erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to
the wrong person. Thanks.
Forwarding to the Wikidata tech list in case this makes a future
Wiktionary collaboration easier.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0
released as open source software (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 96, Issue 22)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:20:56 +0000
From: Judith Eckle-Kohler <eckle-kohler(a)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Apologies for X-posting]
We are pleased to announce the release of the Java-based Wiktionary
Library (JWKTL) 1.0.0 - an application programming interface for Wiktionary.
Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/jwktl/
== Overview ==
JWKTL (Java-based Wiktionary Library) is an application programming
interface for the free multilingual online dictionary Wiktionary
(http://www.wiktionary.org). JWKTL enables efficient and structured
access to the information encoded in the English, the German, and the
Russian Wiktionary language editions, including sense definitions, part
of speech tags, etymology, example sentences, translations, semantic
relations, and many other lexical information types. The Russian JWKTL
parser is based on Wikokit (http://code.google.com/p/wikokit/).
Prior to being available as open source software, JWKTL has been a
research project at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The following people have
mainly contributed to this project: Yevgen Chebotar, Iryna Gurevych,
Christian M. Meyer, Christof Müller, Lizhen Qu, Torsten Zesch.
== Publications ==
A detailed description of Wiktionary and JWKTL is available in our
scientific articles:
* Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych: Wiktionary: A new rival for
expert-built lexicons? Exploring the possibilities of collaborative
lexicography, Chapter 13 in S. Granger & M. Paquot (Eds.): Electronic
Lexicography, pp. 259291, Oxford: Oxford University Press, November
2012.
(http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…)
* Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych: OntoWiktionary Constructing
an Ontology from the Collaborative Online Dictionary Wiktionary, chapter
6 in M. T. Pazienza and A. Stellato (Eds.): Semi-Automatic Ontology
Development: Processes and Resources, pp. 131161, Hershey, PA: IGI
Global, February 2012.
(http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…)
* Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller, and Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical
Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary, in: Proceedings of the
6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC), pp. 16461652, May 2008. Marrakech, Morocco.
(http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/publications/details/?no_cache=1&tx_bibtex_p…)
== License and Availability ==
The latest version of JWKTL is available via Maven Central. If you use
Maven as your build tool, then you can add JWKTL as a dependency in your
pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>de.tudarmstadt.ukp.jwktl</groupId>
<artifactId>jwktl</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
JWKTL is available as open source software under the Apache License 2.0
(ASL). The software thus comes "as is" without any warranty (see license
text for more details). JWKTL makes use of Berkeley DB Java Edition
5.0.73 (Sleepycat License), Apache Ant 1.7.1 (ASL), Xerces 2.9.1 (ASL),
JUnit 4.10 (CPL).
Some classes have been taken from the Wikokit project (available under
multiple licenses, redistributed under the ASL license). See NOTICE.txt
for further details.
== Contact ==
Please direct any questions or suggestions to
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jwktl-users
Group E-Mail: jwktl-users(a)googlegroups.com
Best wishes,
Christian M. Meyer
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Christian M. Meyer, M.Sc.
Doctoral Researcher
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP Lab)
FB 20 Computer Science Department
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone [+49] (0)6151 16-5386, fax -5455, room S2/02/B113
meyer(a)ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de<http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de>
Web Research at TU Darmstadt (WeRC)
www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de<http://www.werc.tu-darmstadt.de>
I sent this to the Editor Engagement list but maybe here there is more
people interested.
On 08/20/2013 06:39 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> Upon account creation or in your user profile: "Send me important email
> updates"
>
> You have seen this feature in many collaborative sites, but not in
> Wikimedia sites. Unless I'm missing something, this common feature
> doesn't seem to be available in MediaWiki core or through extensions.
> Users can get notifications based on activity on wiki pages and they can
> also get emails from another users, but is there a way for an admin to
> send an update or a newsletter via email to all users that ticked the box?
>
> While new users will be hardly used to watchlists or user talk pages,
> and while it will be difficult for them to find the Wikimedia blog, The
> Signpost, etc... all of them have email and a nice % would be happy to
> receive emails from time to time with interesting information. Has this
> option been discussed?
>
> PS: as a mediawiki.org admin I wish we had something like this to engage
> new and old contributors.
After a bit of investigation:
- Indeed, there seems to be no extension doing this.
- Translatewiki.net does have a newsletter and users can opt-in/out from
their preferences, but according to Siebrand it is a very hackish/adhoc
approach involving manual SQL queries and Mailman.
- According to Kaldari, the basic implementation as an extension should
be pretty simple, not even requiring Echo. The building blocks are
already provided by plain MediaWiki.
As I see it, this could have two levels of implementation:
1. Just one site-wide notification from admins that users can opt-in
from their preferences.
2. Possibility for a determinate user group to add more topics (e.g. New
release announcements, Activities for contributors...) and allow people
to subscribe to them.
Do you see interesting for mediawiki.org and/or wikitech.wikimedia.org?
For any other Wikimedia sites? For your own MediaWiki? I can't develop
this but I would be happy to volunteer as PM & tester (here and/or in
my personal pet project).
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Dear semantic wiki users and developers,
We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th
Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open [2]!
Important facts reminder:
------------------------------
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
* Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
* Conference wiki page: 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 and researchers.
We welcome new contributions from you:
------------------------------
* We encourage contributions about applications and development of
semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]
* Please propose regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks
on the conference website. We will provide feedback to you and do our
best to consider your proposal in the conference program
* Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and
made available for others after the conference.
* If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description
News on participation, tutorials and keynote:
------------------------------
* You can now officially register for the conference [2] and benefit
from early bird fees until September 14, 2013
* The tutorial program has been announced and available [3]. This year
we have two tutorial tracks:
** The beginner's tutorials are focused on business applications of
semantic wikis
** The developer's tutorials will help you to become Semantic
MediaWiki programmer: contributing to core and and writing extensions
for your specific needs
* Professor Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California [4]
will give a keynote on scientific data curation
Organizers and sponsors
------------------------------
* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. [5] has become the official organiser of
SMWCon Fall 2013
* Thanks to our sponsors WikiVote [6] (platinum) and ArchiXL [7]
(gold) fees for this SMWCon remain low
If you have questions you can contact Yury Katkov (Program Chair),
Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair)
per e-mail (Cc).
We will be happy to see you in Berlin!
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon Fall 2013/Announcement>
[2] <http://de.amiando.com/PVADAOV.html>
[3] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013#Program>
[4] <http://www.isi.edu/~gil/>
[5] <https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite>
[6] <http://wikivote.ru/>
[7] <http://www.archixl.nl/>