A new wiki page is born:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects
Please help listing the right projects, adding their contacts and links.
The idea is to get a clear picture of the upstream projects we rely on, and
also of the people in our community that know best about them.
The page has three sections that correspond to different types of upstream:
* projects we develop that we want others to use and contribute to (e.g.
MediaWiki)
* projects others develop and we embed in our architecture (e.g.
Elasticsearch)
* projects others develop and we embed in our processes (e.g. Jenkins)
These projects define our location in the free software map. The health of
our projects depends on their own health, and also on the health of our
common links.
Currently we rely in the knowledge and contacts of official and unofficial
maintainers of these tools, who are frequently members of these upstream
communities by their own initiative. If you are one of them, you probably
see the usefulness of documenting these links.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi all,
I am Umang Sharma from IIITH (International Institute of Information
Technology - Hyderabad), India and am interested in working for one the
projects proposed by the community i.e. "New media types supported in
Commons" as a GSOC candidate. I have drafted a proposal for the same.
This project has been a long standing community request and it would be
great if I were given the opportunity to work on this and make some
progress. I have planned a basic outline on how to approach the problem. I
have decided to provide a solution for either x3d or collada file
formats(required for representing computer graphics). I will work on the
other if time is there during my project. However, I would like feedback on
which file format is more in demand currently. Also, if anyone has any
recommendations for efficient raster image generations do tell. Please go
through my proposal and tell me how can I improve it and make it up to the
expectations of the community.
Link : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Umang13/Gsoc14
Regards,
Umang
Hie,
I am Aditya Chaturvedi
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/>from Indian Institute
of Information Technology Allahabad, India and I am
interested in working for the project "catalogue for mediawiki extensions"
as a Gsoc candidate and I have drafted a proposal for the project.
The purpose of this project is to address the problem that mediawiki has
over 2000 extensions and there exists no proper catalog to manage the
information and make it easily available for wiki user's. My proposal
focuses on taking the few beginning steps that will help Mediawiki to
achieve a fully functional catalogue in the future. It majorly involves
working on a Rating system and Data syndication to MW.org.
Please read through my proposal and share your thoughts on this on the Talk
page so that I can improve it further and make it up to the community's
expectation.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
Proposal Link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014
Talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014
Profile: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/
Cheers,
Aditya.
Hi,
I am Rahul Mishra,final year undergraduate and pursuing my B-Tech form
Netaji Subhash Engineering College having majors Computer Sciences &
Engineering.
I am very much interested in the project of "A system for reviewing
funding requests"[1] and proposed a draft titled "A system for reviewing
funding requests"[2].
Please review my draft and please give your valuable advise, so that i
can further improve my proposal
[1]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014#A_system_for_re…
[2]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/A_System_for_reviewing_Funding_Requests
Thank you,
Rahul Mishra,
Hi, just a heads up we have some new Beta Features rolling out soon, and
just launched a beta feature recently.
Just launched was the Compact Language list[1]. This is the first version
and shows exciting possibilities. Please test it out and give feedback.
Soon to launch beta features include, Hovercards[2], Compact Personal
Bar[3], and Winter(fixed header)[4]. The "Flow" part of this announcement
is the clarification that future Beta features talk pages will be Flow
enabled from day 1[5]. When a Beta feature publicly launches (goes from
labs server to mediawiki.org and then other Foundation wikis), or when an
existing Beta Feature recives a major update, e.g. Nearby[6], the talk page
will be Flow-enabled and any existing talk page content will be archived
and linked from the Flow board header.
We hope this allows for easier discussion about Beta Features, as well as
additional small scale conversations which the Flow team can use in order
to validate, test, and study the use of Flow to make sure it is on track,
and they are making the right product and design decisions.
I'm very excited about these upcoming Beta Features, and how they enable us
to get richer feedback from people when it comes to upcoming features,
tests and experiments though the Beta Features framework.
* [1] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlang…>*
*[2] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards>*
*[3] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar>*
*[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter> *
*[5] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Rollout
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Rollout>*
* [6] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages>*
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
Hello all,
I'm Tina Johnson, a Computer Science undergraduate from Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham, India. I have been contributing to mediawiki since last year.
For GSoC, I'm interested in working on the project,* MassMessage page input
list improvements*.
This project is aimed at improving the MassMessage frontend and backend by
implementing ContentHandlers, JSON, JS, etc. Basically this project would
alter the way target lists are created (JSON page lists instead of wikitext
page list) and also brings a lot of changes to UI of MassMessage. Kunal
Mehta has agreed to mentor this project.
*My proposal* :https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tinaj1234/MassMessage
MW user page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tinaj1234
Please review my proposal so that I can make it better.
Regard,
Tina
This is Shikha Shree, a B.Tech undergraduate in Electronics and
instrumentation discipline. I have participated in
FOSS Outreach Program For Women Round 8 - Mediawiki
I have submitted my proposal on Wikidata Outreach under the mentorship of
Lydia Pintscher.
A draft of my proposal can be found at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shrees1234/GSoC_2014_proposal
And my entire proposal can be found at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Outreach
I know I am quite late to apply. But comments and direct email suggestions
are highly welcome.
Cheers,
Shikha
Hello,
Is there an easy known way to find all HTML elements with an attribute that
appear in the text of a given wiki after it's parsed?
Here's an example of something that I need:Find all elements that have the
HTML lang attribute, with any value. This would be useful for me for
collecting information about the multilingualism of Wikipedia - which
foreign languages do we incorporate in pages, how often we do it, for which
of them we may have various fonts problems, etc. This, again, must be
checked after the page is parsed - this attribute is very often inserted by
templates.
Of course, this would rely on the editors actually using this attribute,
but this is fairly common, at least in the English Wikipedia. (Among other
things we could compare its usage between projects.)
I could do this by analyzing a dump, but I've got a hunch that something
like this was already with the research that was done for Parsoid. Does
anybody know?
Thanks!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore