Wikitech-l November 2014

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Google Code-in 2014: Wikimedia is in!
by Andre Klapper 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Wikimedia is one of the 12 organizations selected to participate in Google Code-in (GCI) 2014! This means that on December 01 we will start having dozens of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tasks to be completed. Read our GCI page with all information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014 This program is a great opportunity to find fresh young contributors willing to complete that little task that has been on your ToDo list for too long. Task areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface. == WE NEED MORE MENTORS BRINGING TASKS! == It's easy: Join GCI as a mentor & bring your little tasks (that would take you 2-3h to complete, or less technical ~30min "beginner task")! You need to describe the tasks for a newcomer, linking to the resources needed to complete them, and cover skill expectations + deliverables. You also need to be ready to answer the questions of a student working on a task (but the clearer your task description is the less questions there should be). See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner For task ideas, check out the list of "easy" Bugzilla tickets: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPEN… == WE NEED MORE MENTORS BRINGING MENTORS! == We need seasoned contributors that have a good knowledge of the relevant technologies, features and people involved in a specific area. While they are also mentors of some tasks in their areas, they also look for more mentors that bring more tasks, and help coordinating with them - last year we had 273 tasks completed in the six weeks of the program. == WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS! == Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it (and who could potentially mentor it and who you have already asked to become a mentor)! Feel free to add an entry to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Google_Code-in#Tasks_searching_for_a_.2… == QUESTIONS? == Please ask and you will help us improving our documentation! Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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automated category creation approach?
by Bill Traynor 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

I'm hoping to gain some insight into how I might accomplish the following. I have an XML file that contain my company's product tree. The file is hierarchical and contains the following structure: <familyhierarchy> <family> <familyid> <name> <parentId> <url> <level> I need to import this file and automatically create Categories and applicable SubCategories in my wiki on a scheduled basis, picking up any changes that may have occurred over time. How would one approach such a task? My first thought is a script (PHP, Python, whatever) run periodically using cron to parse the file and trigger Category/SubCategory creation. Is this even possible? My second thought is to create an extension to parse the file periodically and create the Categories/SubCategories. Any advice as to how to solve this would be appreciated. Thanks Bill

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Welcome our new FOSS OPW interns!
by Quim Gil 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

The GNOME Foundation has announced the list of interns accepted in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch Seven interns will start working on Wikimedia projects with the help of (about) twelve mentors. A big applause and a warm welcome to all of you! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Inte… Neta Livneh and Roxana Necula have been accepted to collaborate on the same project (a new precedent): Wikipedia article translation metrics. Both have a genuine interest in metrics, and the plan is to assign them some extra work in the area of Analytics. Priyanka Jayaswal and Manpreet Kaur will help the PyWikiBot community with two projects: Compat to core migration, and Support to sites in the InterWiki Map, another wiki engine, and XML-RPC. Anke Nowottne will work on a Need-finding research for the Wikipedia Education Project, Ankita Shukla is set to deliver a Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool for VisualEditor, and Christy Okpo is ready to improve the Wikimedia Performance Portal. These teams will start their community bonding period now. The official internship period goes from 9 December to 9 March. Wikimedia is again the organization with more interns in this program, although it is comforting to see that other projects like OpenStack or the Linux Kernel are getting close. A total of 44 participants have been accepted by 16 free software projects. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Revision metadata as a service?
by Erik Moeller 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi folks, there are many projects which have an interest in generating and querying metadata for specific revisions: - community efforts to annotate quality of specific articles - researchers analyzing revision contents (e.g. to derive quality heuristics, perform citation analysis, etc.) - application developers wanting to display/use such metadata We've gotten inquiries e.g. from WikiProjects and researchers over the years. I'm wondering if a lightweight service that satisfies the following requirements might be a good idea: - community-created schemas (similar to the EventLogging schemas on meta) - basic per-user authentication/authorization - basic namespacing (e.g. "WikiProject Medicine:Quality" refers to a specific schema + specific permissions) If such a service existed, community members, researchers and occasionally WMF itself could create their own tools/gadgets that use this service, perhaps with a lightweight global approval process. If this seems like a good idea, I'd be curious about implementation strategies -- are we blocked on something like SOA Auth [1] to implement this as a standalone service? My sense is that you'd want to pull this out of MediaWiki for maximum flexibility and simplicity. Thanks, Erik [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/SOA_Authentication -- Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia Phabricator downtime: 15:00-15:30UTC on Thu, Nov 13
by Andre Klapper 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi, phabricator.wikimedia.org will not be available for approx. 30 minutes starting at 07:00 PST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET tomorrow (Thu 13th). We will backport an upstream major schema change [1] which we really want to have in place before starting with the migration from Bugzilla to Phab on Thu 20th 16:30PST / Fri 21st 00:30UTC / Fri 21st 01:30CET. Sorry for the short inconvenience. andre [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1203 -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Tor relay
by Faidon Liambotis 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi, This is just a quick update that as of late October, WMF is officially hosting a Tor relay: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/DB19E709C9EDB903F75F2E6CA95C84D637B62… This is not an exit node, and it's just a small contribution to the network. Really - anyone can do it: https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/ We want to note that editing via Tor is a whole other matter, and I would refer to previous conversations on this list if you have questions about the current state of things. We also currently have no plans to run an exit node or a hidden service, but we're open to suggestions for additional ways in which WMF can support anonymity and privacy. Sincerely, Faidon

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Status of 1.24.0
by mah＠nichework.com 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

We've put out two release candidates for 1.24.0. This week I'll be releasing a third, so I thought I would point out all the open bugs that have been targeted to 1.24.0. duplicate key in unittest_updatelog http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71087 Specify default language on a per-page basis http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/9360 Special:PageLanguage does not tag page html output correctly http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/72940 Fix "Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query)" http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56269 [[mediawiki:sidebar]] no longer supports entirely numeric headers http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71639 Missing defaults in GUI installer http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/69281 mw.trackSubscribe should prevent infinite recursion http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/67481 Import of Commons partial export fails with error about plurals-mediawiki.xml http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56439 Whoops! The default skin for your wiki ($wgDefaultSkin), vector, is not available right after installation http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70222 Improve JSONContent before releasing 1.24 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70832 BagOStuff should behave consistently with regards to integer values http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60563 Mark. (Wiki Release Team)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
by Gregory Varnum 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? -greg On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote: > I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not > :) > > Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal > opinion :) ) > On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah(a)nichework.com> wrote: > > > Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> writes: > > > > > PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? > > > > I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were > > accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me. > > > > We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible. > > > > Mark. > > > > -- > > Mark A. Hershberger > > NicheWork LLC > > 717-271-1084 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
by Quim Gil 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Great news! Finally a formal group focused in MediaWiki for third parties, within the Wikimedia movement. Autonomous and connected. Now the sky is the limit of the memebers of this group. :) PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote: > Welcome & Congratulations! > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > The Affiliations Committee is pleased to announce the recognition [1] of > > the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group - a user group for "MediaWiki > developers, > > admins, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order > to > > improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside > the > > Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects." > > > > This group shows great promise and potential for helping organize folks > who > > are interested in making MediaWiki even better and give a voice to the > many > > non-WMF users of the software. > > > > So, now we have them joining the family of affiliates. Please, let's give > > them a warm welcome! > > > > More info about the group: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholder%27s_Group > > > > Congratulations! > > -greg aka varnent > > Vice-Chair, Affiliations Committee > > > > 1: > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/MediaWik… > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* > Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia > <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> > Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> > Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo > <http://www.prothom-alo.com> > Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge <http://www.okfn.org> > Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) <http://www.bdosn.org> > Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> > Author & Translator | Global Voice > <http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive> > fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: > nhasive > | www.nhasive.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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RFC meeting today
by Tim Starling 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFCs: * Better PHP profiling <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Better_PHP_profiling> * Ditch crappy API formats <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Ditch_crappy_API_formats> The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.org at the following time: * UTC: Wednesday 22:00 * US PST: Wednesday 14:00 * Europe CET: Wednesday 23:00 * Australia AEDT: Thursday 09:00 -- Tim Starling

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