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Of you have any questions, just ask me!
Hello,
We will upgrade the PHPUnit version being used to run tests on the
Wikimedia Jenkins.
Bryan Davis proposed a change to upgrade it from 3.7.28 to 3.7.37:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164683
The new version pass tests on mediawiki/core master and supported
release branches so we should be fine.
I will deploy the version bump tomorrow morning (europe) or Oct 16th ~
8am UTC.
mediawiki/core will be fine but there is a slight change that some
extension might complain. I will trigger builds for the most busiest
repositories (wikidata, echo, mobilefrontend and so on), but I don't
expect any failure.
If something is terribly broken, I will just revert. If there is just a
few glitches, I guess developers will need to adjust their code.
cheers,
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
Bumping Tim's mail from last week, in case anyone is interested:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFCs:
* Removing bad database abstractions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_bad_database_a…>
This is about removing support for PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle.
* Allow styling in templates
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templa…>
The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on
irc.freenode.org at the following time:
* UTC: Wednesday 21:00
* US PDT: Wednesday 14:00
* Europe CEST: Wednesday 23:00
* Australia AEDT: Thursday 08:00
-- Tim Starling
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Hello,
A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour is happening in
a few hours (1700 UTC) on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the
original announcement, including local time and agenda.
The original mail was inadvertently not sent to Wikimedia-l. My apologies
for that.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on October 15, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
Please join us for the next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, and
upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated on October 14 this year.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (born in the year 1815) was a
mathematician and computer programmer who worked on Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine. She foresaw how computers could evolve into devices that
perform tasks more sophisticated than simple calculations. She is
controversially credited with authoring the world's first computer
program, and certainly worked extensively with Babbage. [1]
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women's contributions to science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.
Wikimedia Commons, English Wikipedia, and Persian Wikipedia have designated
a watercolor portrait of Lovelace as a featured picture. [2]
Happy Ada Lovelace Day,
Pine
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
[2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg
Here's a quick first draft of a mobile article preview gadget:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/mobile-sidebar.js
This shows the currently viewed page on the mobile view in an <iframe>
sidebar, and captures link navigation within the iframe to navigate on the
desktop window as well.
To enable add to your ~/common.js:
mw.loader.load('
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Brion_VIBBER/m…'
);
Todo:
* add an on/off switch
* fix width to adjust for scroll bar if visible
* make a couple common sizes selectable instead of just 320x480?
* figure out how to apply this to edit previews? (is this even feasible
without API changes?)
* fix edge cases with the navigation detection
* pretty it up
* enable as a gadget on some major sites
-- brion
Hello everyone,
I've been a Tor user for many years and I frequently make use of anonymising
proxies services. Recently (yesterday), I set up my first Tor relay.[1] This
has once again gotten the use of Tor and other anonymising services with
Wikipedia on my mind again.
In a recent article on the Tor blog,[2] Wikipedia is actually called out a
number of times for being unfriendly to Tor, and I think they make a good point.
"[H]ow can we quantify the loss to Wikipedia, and to society at large, from
turning away anonymous contributors? Wikipedians say 'we have to blacklist all
these IP addresses because of trolls' and 'Wikipedia is rotting because nobody
wants to edit it anymore' in the same breath, and we believe these points
are related."
There must be a way that we can allow users to work from Tor. My understanding
of why we block Tor categorically is that it is very hard to block individual
Tor users. Perhaps we could allow Tor users to only edit pages if they make
an account? That would allow us to at least block those accounts, which
increases the cost of being problematic on Wikipedia a bit.
Or to take from the blog post, perhaps Tor users could be issued a certificate
that they could use to prove their identity from one session to another. New
Tor users would need to prove they are the same person as someone we already
trust or their edits would be put in some sort of review queue.
Or combine the two and new accounts made from Tor connections would need to have
their edits reviewed, or perhaps just wouldn't get autopatrolled status as
quickly (if ever).
There has got to be a better solution to the problem than just blocking all Tor
users completely.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
[1]:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/6413D947D15B81B423D65D76DA3F2BFEF76BE…
[2]:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept…
ymous-users
I am trying to work on this work to apply for FOSS opw. I have gone
through the comments and understood the code regarding this bug. But I
am not getting what is the bug in the code? What are the requirements?
I want to see the bug in action. So please guide me so that I can
proceed further.
--
Alisha Jain
blog - jainalisha14.wordpress.com
"Your Failure does not define you, but your determination does."
