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
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.
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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
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Erik Möller
VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
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
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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
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
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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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…
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>
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hello,
A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour will be
happening later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below
for the original announcement, local time, and agenda.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team
will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and also discussing about the availability of
the new version of the Content Translation tool[1][2] and upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time
Thank you.
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/03/announcing-the-second-version-of-the-c…
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation