A user who depends on a screen reader has recently found Wiktionary to
be less useful than it was in the past.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Site_accessibili…
I've contacted one administrator, but perhaps someone on wikitech-l can
help the user or help figure out the cause of the problem.
Mark.
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i'm trying to set-up TemplateData in a local wiki using the
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork/doc from commons.
i have imported the template using Special:Export and Special:Import,
however, the page gives a Syntax error in JSON message without any
further info on what may be wrong.
a test template in the local wiki with a <templatedata> section works
without issue.
i've looked in the Template:Artwork/doc and see no <templatedata>
section. on commons it works, but in my local wiki it does not. any
ideas on what set-up i may be missing?
tia,
dan
There is now a new 'teampractices' mailing list to publicly discuss team
practices and processes in Wikimedia organizations (WMF, WMDE, etc), with a
focus on software engineering practices and methods, such as agile
methodologies.
If you are at all interested in discussing such things - including best
practices, looking for support for coping with some obstacle, are
agile-curious you should sign up:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
The idea for this list was born during a scrummaster meetup at Wikimania
2013 while trying to figure out ways we can better support one another in
managing our team processes, and was further reinforced at the 'Team
Practices' workshop during Tech Days 2013 as a means to continue
collaboratively shaping best practices amongst our teams.
So, hop on board and help us continue to discover better ways to get stuff
done!
PS I've sent this to the wmf staff list and wikitech-l. If there's anywhere
else you feel this is appropriate to post, of course please do so :)
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Arthur Richards
Software Engineer, Mobile
[[User:Awjrichards]]
IRC: awjr
+1-415-839-6885 x6687
Hi,
I know these e-mail are becoming quite boring :-) but we are still
looking for some devs who can help us reincarnate huggle project.
Huggle is an antivandalism high-speed utility that allows wikipedians
to mass review huge number of articles in a short time.
We are working on huggle 3 for much longer than we should have, and
now we used our patented technology called
"lets-write-it-from-scratch-once-again" ™
So, we are kind of writing huggle 3 LX from scratch again. This time
it's gonna be different though.
After careful consideration of what best possible programming language
could be (please don't bring this topic on again, it's not funny,
especially for pythonists, shush pls) I decided to step back to C++
which original huggle 3 was written in, but this time using QT
framework instead of wxWidgets. This has several cons and also some
pros :-)
== Cons ==
- It will have about 10% of original features (without plugins)
- It will take some more time to finish it, because we have to start again
== Pros ==
- It will be natively cross-platform
- It will be faster than huggle 2
- QT has nice IDE which allow us to sketch the interface pretty
quickly and easily (unlike wx)
- It comes with a nice browser based on WebKit which is improvement,
given that current huggle is IE based
- It would eventually run even on tablets (or mobile phones - why the
heck people requested that?)
So, despite this is (I think) 4th time we are starting to write huggle
3 from scratch, it's hopefully last attempt. Also, please note the
"QT-LX" in name. LX means "light extendable" which means that huggle 3
is supposed to be very lightweight (just basic functions to provide
review-revert technologies) + set of api's and hooks so that it can be
easily extended with loadable plugins (we might even implement python
interpretor for pythonist so that it would be even easier to make
plugins for it). That will make sure it won't take too long for us to
finish it, and it also make it possible for huggle 3 to have most of
the original features as well in future (through the plugins).
TL/DR:
Are you a c++ programmer? WE NEED YOU! If you know something about
c++, open https://github.com/huggle/huggle/tree/master/huggleQT/ fork,
work and push please.
If you mean it more seriously, join #huggle on freenode as well, and
join huggle mailing list.
Thank you
I am trying to implement oauth login to latest huggle, however I am
confused about several things:
1) How do I obtain the data which are normally provided in a callback URL?
2) What is consumer key and secret? Can these values be shown to
end-users? Do these values need to be known by application itself? If
consumer secret is supposed to be known by application but not the
user, how am I going to achieve that, given that user would have
access to binary files which would contain it?
Thanks
The current round of Google Summer of Code & FLOSS Outreach Program for
Women is about to end, and it's time to start a new cycle of mentored
projects in Wikimedia tech.
Check and contribute to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
if you are
* a Wikimedia project awaiting a specific software feature
* an organization with budget for tech activities looking for a short
term goal
* a tech contributor with a cool idea for Wikimedia projects or
MediaWiki in general
Even if software development is a prominent activity, we also encourage
proposals focusing on other technical areas: quality assurance, design,
sysadmin, promotion...
Post your proposal soon, edit it often. By submitting a proposal to the
Possible Projects page you get attention and help from the tech
community in the form of reality checks and contacts with possible
mentors, interested projects and funding sources. 21 projects were
selected in our last round, finishing now:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
We keep searching for more opportunities to channels these projects,
both within the Wikimedia movement (Individual Engagement Grants,
chapters...) and out there (internship programs encouraging free
software and diversity in tech).
We want to hear your feedback! Use the discussion page or reply here.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil