Hi all,
Freenode IRC is experiencing some issues again, as it was a day ago. I came
to know about some servers on #freenode and they seem to be working fine. I
could remain connected while everyone else got disconnected.
You can add the following servers for Freenode to the list:
1. kornbluth.freenode.net/6667
2. leguin.freenode.net/6667
3. card.freenode.net/6667
Hope that gets you back into the chatroom. :)
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User:BPositive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BPositive>
Dear all,
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Like with all other development, I find a need in more documentation of the plans and of the currently active things.
For example, VisualEditor has nothing to help me comprehend its code-base than the source code itself; it had only been a jamesf's line at a meeting which made me aware of the fact that the cologne blue and modern skins are now only supported by community.
Now there are some really cool beta features that only work with the vector skin. To only resource to help me is the source code. There is no UML diagram, no docs explaining which part of code does what.
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Another idea is an answer to WHY you are working on the media viewer. It is a nice experience but...
...there is a lot of pages which would make use of a do-it-without-page-reload approach, such as log-in page, edit page, history page.
...there also is a need of all sister projects in wizard tools and widgets. Currently adding an article to Wiktionary is a royal pain and I could not figure out how to add an idiom with translation, without pulling hair and spending time to find another existing Wiktionary entry which is (1) a verb, (2) an idiom, and (3) has a translation. There also are gadgets for the so-called "interactive template" use-case [1] where each developer reinvents wheel a lot and the gadgets share no code but they should.
...everything the WMF works on should have long-term impact after WMF stops working on the darn thing. The impact should be cross project.
... With this in mind I would personally encourage heavy collaboration of all teams to build a framework which lets people script the MediaWiki software including media viewer screen, log-in screens, article creation screens / wizard, an interactive thingie for working with templates [1] (taking an {{unblock}} request for example without having to memorize the template syntax).
This may need help from VisualEditor and Parsoid people; from Flow people who had spread the 'custom workflows' rumour; and YOUR help to understand that moving an interactive thingie logic from an extension onto a wiki benefits everyone, even if it makes codereview-worthy bits harder to spot (recall some people saying that none of UploadWizard's logic can sit on-wiki because of that [2])
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/Templates/Interactive
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_…
Gryllida.
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 20:25, Gergo Tisza wrote:
> Hi all,
>
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Hello list,
there is a scheduled maintenance release of MediaWiki on Thursday, 27th of
February. I would like to take the opportunity to point you to the list of
known issues [1]. Maybe we can get a few of those fixed until mid of the week?
Best,
Markus
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Known_issues
I've taken the liberty of enabling[1] lower-resolution .ogv video
transcodes, at 360p and 160p in addition to the 480p we already generated.
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61690
These will be useful for older or slower or mobile machines which need to
use non-native software decoding fallbacks (such as the existing Java
applet, or the JavaScript or Flash alternatives I'm working on in research
time) and may not be able to decode a full 480p file made from an SD or HD
video original.
Files should gradually populate at the smaller sizes as they get referenced
and the new sizes are automatically added to the transcoding queue.
Please give a shout if there's any problems.
-- brion
Hello community,
tl;dr:
I'd love to see if there's anyone in the community that can help me take
charge of ExtensionStatus development, or take it over completely.
Longer version:
About 9 months ago, just before I started Google Summer of Code 2013, I
developed "ExtensionStatus", which checks the current status of all
extensions that are installed in the given wiki and compares them with
either their git branch info (if git is available) or scrapes data from the
gerrit website. It gives sysadmins an at-a-glance dashboard so they can see
what needs upgrading.
There was a bit of interest, so I went on and started some testing, which
seemed to go well for a while.
But then I started GSoC and the project I worked on kept me quite busy.
After the summer I went back to full-time grad school and a part-time job,
both of which took me away from working on developing the extension any
further than its extremely experimental state.
In the last couple of days I started seeing a renewed interest in the
extension, and I think it could be worth a second visit. I'd love to
continue working on it, but with grad school and work, my time is really
limited and I don't think I can take it on alone.
Considering all of that, I thought I'd officially "unlick the cookie" and
see if there is interest from the community to take it on either fully or
partially.
Here's the github repo:
https://github.com/mooeypoo/MediaWiki-ExtensionStatus
And here's the extension page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtensionStatus
There's also an empty gerrit repo that is awaiting setup:
https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FExtensionStatus
(I didn't really have much experience with gerrit back then to set it up
properly - and now I am not sure I'd have the time to develop, review, and
approve code on my own.)
So, does anyone want to join in and help revisit the code?
Cheers,
Moriel
(aka mooeypoo)
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I'd need internetarchive python package into Labs:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/internetarchive , a python bot for Internet
Archive. I cant't find how to ask for installing it into Labs. Can you help
me?
It's an interesting package - it can be implemented into a pywikibot and
manage both mediawiki pages and Internet Archive items both reading and
editing metadata and uploading new items/pages. I've been encouraged to go
on by Tpt.
Alex brollo
We bumped the releases back to make them more awesome (and include login &
basic editing features in the first big release). Few more weeks. :)
-- brion
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>
>> == Friday ==
>>
>> New versions of the iOS and Android applications will be submitted to
>> their respective markets.
>>
>>
> I don't think that's happening?
>
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Hi,
I need help with an uploaded file on Commons which is broken:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspary,_Daniel_%28de%29.webm
This file was - among many others - uploaded to Commons using the
Commonist. Now as you see the wikitext is completely missing and there
is no way to add it. The wikitext revision seems to be missing,
rendering the database broken.
* the history is empty
* trying to edit the page results in an edit conflict which is not
resolvable (trying to overwrite just triggers the next edit conflict)
Can someone please have a look at the database and fix this issue?
Thanks,
Manuel
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Hi,
Does Wikipedia have any exit or click-through stats, like what links
are the visitors following from an article? If yes, are those public?
Thanks,
Strainu