Wikitech-l March 2014

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Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
by Aalekh Nigam 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hello, First of all sorry for inappropriate way of presenting the content it appears that there was problem with my email web interface , As advised by community members I once again present my ideas regarding Multilingual, usable and effective captchas at my proposal page for GSOC-2014 given here : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN/GSoC_proposal_2014 I therefore request all members to please go through the proposal and give your viewpoint/advice regarding the content of the proposal. Thank You Aalekh Nigam "aalekhN" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN

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Usability testing
by Steven Walling 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts? To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> (Veering off topic: So what does WMF use for a usability lab, anyway?) ...not sure what Kaldari did. In this case, he may have simply sat down with the UX designers and done a test in person. We do not have a usability testing lab on-site in San Francisco, and typically prefer to do remote usability tests. Either we do this "manually" via sending out a survey,[1] and then running a Google Hangout which we record for later. This is good since it is guided by the person who wrote the test script, so they can adapt to what the user is doing/failing to do. It takes a lot more leg work though. More often, we write a testing script and use usertesting.com, which is more automated remote testing and is $35/test (this is really cheap since the going US rate for an in-person test is something like a $50 Amazon gift card). The service uses people from all over the English-speaking world who have a variety of levels of technical expertise, and the tests are recorded for viewing after they're completed.[2] The UX team is actually in the process of hiring a UX researcher, so expect to hear more about this kind of qualitative research soon. Steven 1. We recently did this kind of recruitment and testing for article drafts work. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace/Usability_testing and the /Results subpage 2. This kind of testing is something we used during the account creation redesign https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/User_testing _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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OutreachProgramForWomen Aspirant
by Nitika Verma 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hey, This is Nitika from India. I am comfortable with c/c++ , Php, Javascript,HTML and MySql. In the projects listed on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8 I am very interested in the project "Book Management in Wikibooks/WikiSource" (mentor : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raylton_P._Sousa) Can please someone guide me how to go about this project? Cheers, Nitika

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Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
by Aalekh Nigam 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hello,First of all sorry for inappropriate way of presenting the content , As advised by community members I present my ideas regarding Multilingual, usable and effective captchas at my proposal page for GSOC-2014 given here : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN/GSoC_proposal_2014 I therefore request all members to please go through the proposal and give your viewpoint/advice regarding the content of the proposal. Thank YouAalekh Nigam"aalekhN"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN

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ogv.js - JavaScript video decoding proof of concept
by Brion Vibber 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

TL;DR SUMMARY: check out this short, silent, black & white video: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ -- anybody interested in a side project on in-browser audio/video decoding fallback? One of my pet peeves is that we don't have audio/video playback on many systems, including default Windows and Mac desktops and non-Android mobile devices, which don't ship with Theora or WebM video decoding. The technically simplest way to handle this is to transcode videos into H.264 (.mp4 files) which is well supported by the troublesome browsers. Unfortunately there are concerns about the patent licensing, which has held us up from deploying any H.264 output options though all the software is ready to go... While I still hope we'll get that resolved eventually, there is an alternative -- client-side software decoding. We have used the 'Cortado <http://www.theora.org/cortado/>' Java applet to do fallback software decoding in the browser for a few years, but Java applets are aggressively being deprecated on today's web: * no Java applets at all on major mobile browsers * Java usually requires a manual install on desktop * Java applets disabled by default for security on major desktop browsers Luckily, JavaScript engines have gotten *really fast* in the last few years, and performance is getting well in line with what Java applets can do. As an experiment, I've built Xiph's ogg, vorbis, and theora C libraries cross-compiled to JavaScript using emscripten<https://github.com/kripken/emscripten>and written a wrapper that decodes Theora video from an .ogv stream and draws the frames into a <canvas> element: * demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ * code: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js * blog & some details: https://brionv.com/log/2013/10/06/ogv-js-proof-of-concept/ It's just a proof of concept -- the colorspace conversion is incomplete so it's grayscale, there's no audio or proper framerate sync, and it doesn't really stream data properly. But I'm pleased it works so far! (Currently it breaks in IE, but I think I can fix that at least for 10/11, possibly for 9. Probably not for 6/7/8.) Performance on iOS devices isn't great, but is better with lower resolution files :) On desktop it's screaming fast for moderate resolutions, and could probably supplement or replace Cortado with further development. Is anyone interested in helping out or picking up the project to move it towards proper playback? If not, it'll be one of my weekend "fun" projects I occasionally tinker with off the clock. :) -- brion

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Zürich Hackathon, hacking on what?
by Quim Gil 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear Hackathon attendees, 101 people have filled the registration form of the Wikimedia Hackathon, hurray! This data point two months before the event plus the efficiency of Wikimedia CH allow us to say that participation and logistics are on track. Now, what about the content? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics If we are calling this event a Hackathon, the activities driving the schedule must be projects to hack about. If I understood correctly the proposals listed so far, we seem to have only one hacking sprint. We need more! All the better if these activities have a goal defined, a coordinator, and a URL to document the work before, during, and after the event. A hint about the preferred duration of your activity is also welcome, as it will help shaping the schedule.Many proposals already have some of these elements. Signing up for the activities you plan to attend will also help everybody defining a better schedule and preparing better sessions. Thank you! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Tutorial to edit Help Pages
by Anjali Sharma 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I wish to edit the documentation of Wikidata help pages. For that need to learn some advanced editing options like creating anchors for topics in a page. Where can I find a possible help ???

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open positions at WMF
by Sumana Harihareswara 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I know this might be offtopic, but people on this list seem likely to be interested or know people who are. Please feel free to forward. Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to: * write code to try new ways to encourage people to edit Wikipedia (Growth engineer<http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag…>) * keep our users' data safe (operations security engineer<http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag…>) * make sure our designers and multimedia engineers build the right things (multimedia product manager<http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag…> ) * automate more of the systems that help developers test new code to find bugs early (Test Infrastructure Engineer<http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qSa9VfwQ&cs=9UL9Vfwt&pag…>) * like 19 jobs total - check out https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us (Many WMF workers, including me, telecommute. You might also like our Pluralism, internationalism, and diversity policy<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Pluralism,_internationalism,_and_diver…>.) And of course everything you make at the Wikimedia Foundation is freely licensed, so you can suggest your buddies use it to solve their problems, write public blog posts about it, talk about it at parties and conferences, and link to it on your résumé. Isn't open source nice? Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation P.S. We also list these jobs in the monthly engineering report which gets mailed to this list.

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GSOC-2014 project "A system for reviewing funding requests".
by Karan Dev 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

hi, I am B.Tech. (CS) 3rd year student from India. I have 4 years of programming experience. I am comfortable with c/c++ , Php, Javascript, HTML, MySql.I have developed some small web based projects in PHP and using MySQL in my 2nd year. As someone already is working on my previous selected project (Catalogue for MediaWiki extensions). After going through the ideas list again I found interest in project "A system for reviewing funding requests" as I am comfortable with the required skills. I am new, I need some guidance from the mentors for the procedure. And Let me know if I missed something. (Karan Dev)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android
by rupert THURNER 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey rupert! > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:21 PM, rupert THURNER > <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> hi brion, >> >> thank you so much for that! where is the source code? i tried to >> search for "commons" on https://git.wikimedia.org/. i wanted to look > > Android: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/apps%2Fandroid%2Fcommons.git > iOS: github.com/wikimedia/Commons-iOS > >> if there is really no account creation at the login screen or it is >> just my phone which does not display one, and which URL the aplication > > Mediawiki doesn't have API support for creating accounts, and hence > the apps don't have create account support yet. created https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53328, maybe you could detail a little bit more how this api should look like? rupert.

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