It would seem to me that the Collection extension, which provides 'books' for various sister projects, could be adapted for favorites: 'Book:<Username>' where a user can stick favorite articles and group by sections.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
Thoughts?
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Subject: [Bug 7148] Requesting watchlist for changes to category content.
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:43:14 +0000
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7148
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I hacked me around this by using favorites and filtering new pages by faved
categories.
Favorites is another thing MW misses...
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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 was going through idea page and found interest in "Catalogue for
MediaWiki extensions". Please someone guide me where to start ?
PHP 5.4 added a few important features[1], namely traits, shorthand array
syntax, and function array dereferencing. I've heard that 5.3 is nearing
end of life.
I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible.
- Trevor
[1] http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
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Subject: Fw: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
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Subject: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
Hello,
>From last response on proosal for Multilingual, usable and effective captchas; i figured out following few solutions to the points raised by the mailing list members:
1)Captcha on the basis of selection of particular object:In this type of captcha the questions will be shown as shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal6correction.png ;other possible questions can be:"Select the images in which man is wearing sunglasses",now problem i encountered while making such captcha request is that a bot could easily use Google images or third eye to find the look for images of man wearing sunglasses from the Wikimedia Commons .....so to encounter this problem we can use a random numbering over the images and then ask user to to select the images in order of numbering for example the only answer to the sample question i provided above is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal7correction.png ;one of the wrong answer to the given question is:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal8correction.png ; because it is not arranged in correct order which is 1,4,12 (in increasing numeric order).....ps:i did forgot to specify "increasing" numeric order in the question i provided but the plan is to provide the question as "Select human among the given photograph's and select it in increasing numeric order?".
Providing increasing numeric order might make bot guess wrong answer 90% of time,which is quite comparable to the current captcha system that uses OCR as provided in the given algorithm: http://www.gizmag.com/captcha-beating-ai/29559/ .
2)Ask User to click on the same image as provided:The question for this type of captcha looks like this:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal5correction.png we can ask user to click on the options showing equivalent image to that provided in the question.For the question provided the answer is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal9correction.png .Ps:we ca use more than four options probably eight options since it would be harder of bot to make a guess.
3)For blind and visually impaired users:We can use and audio captcha system which ask user to select the number as it is asked in the audio .For example the visual equivalent of the audio asked by the user will be : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal11correction.png .Now when audio asked user to select number "0" our user will use arrow key to move across different blocks like a slide show....with different voice speaking out the options and pressing enter will select the word spoken....hence verifying that the user is human.....although the above shown image is visual equivalent the actual image visible will be: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProposal4correction.png ;....to make the captcha reload we can user to by pressing key "r" which will be instructed in the audio while the captcha starts playing.
Please give your response to idea provided and also the idea is listed here:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA
Thank You
Aalekh Nigam
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Subject: Fw: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:35:51
To: "wikitech-l "<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Fw: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
Sent: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:37:42
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Subject: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
Hello,
I have been posting my proposal for as many as 3 time within 24 hours on mailing list but there seems to be no reply from any members.....please take few minutes out of your busy schedule and give your response to the project....the points i raised here it could be interesing for community to discuss and also includes solution to the points which community is raising its concern....in few previous mails.....i sincerely request you all to please have a look at it.
>From last response on proosal for Multilingual, usable and effective captchas; i figured out following few solutions to the points raised by the mailing list members:
1)Captcha on the basis of selection of particular object:In this type of captcha the questions will be shown as shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal6correction.png ;other possible questions can be:"Select the images in which man is wearing sunglasses",now problem i encountered while making such captcha request is that a bot could easily use Google images or third eye to find the look for images of man wearing sunglasses from the Wikimedia Commons .....so to encounter this problem we can use a random numbering over the images and then ask user to to select the images in order of numbering for example the only answer to the sample question i provided above is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal7correction.png ;one of the wrong answer to the given question is:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal8correction.png ; because it is not arranged in correct order which is 1,4,12 (in increasing numeric order).....ps:i did forgot to specify "increasing" numeric order in the question i provided but the plan is to provide the question as "Select human among the given photograph's and select it in increasing numeric order?".
Providing increasing numeric order might make bot guess wrong answer 90% of time,which is quite comparable to the current captcha system that uses OCR as provided in the given algorithm: http://www.gizmag.com/captcha-beating-ai/29559/ .
2)Ask User to click on the same image as provided:The question for this type of captcha looks like this:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal5correction.png we can ask user to click on the options showing equivalent image to that provided in the question.For the question provided the answer is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal9correction.png .Ps:we ca use more than four options probably eight options since it would be harder of bot to make a guess.
3)For blind and visually impaired users:We can use and audio captcha system which ask user to select the number as it is asked in the audio .For example the visual equivalent of the audio asked by the user will be : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal11correction.png .Now when audio asked user to select number "0" our user will use arrow key to move across different blocks like a slide show....with different voice speaking out the options and pressing enter will select the word spoken....hence verifying that the user is human.....although the above shown image is visual equivalent the actual image visible will be: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProposal4correction.png ;....to make the captcha reload we can user to by pressing key "r" which will be instructed in the audio while the captcha starts playing.
Please give your response to idea provided and also the idea is listed here:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA
Thank You
Aalekh Nigam
aalekhN
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN
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From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:35:51
To: "wikitech-l "<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Fw: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
Sent: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:37:42
To: "wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org"<mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
Hello,
I have been posting my proposal for as many as 3 time within 24 hours on mailing list but there seems to be no reply from any members.....please take few minutes out of your busy schedule and give your response to the project....the points i raised here it could be interesing for community to discuss and also includes solution to the points which community is raising its concern....in few previous mails.....i sincerely request you all to please have a look at it.
>From last response on proosal for Multilingual, usable and effective captchas; i figured out following few solutions to the points raised by the mailing list members:
1)Captcha on the basis of selection of particular object:In this type of captcha the questions will be shown as shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal6correction.png ;other possible questions can be:"Select the images in which man is wearing sunglasses",now problem i encountered while making such captcha request is that a bot could easily use Google images or third eye to find the look for images of man wearing sunglasses from the Wikimedia Commons .....so to encounter this problem we can use a random numbering over the images and then ask user to to select the images in order of numbering for example the only answer to the sample question i provided above is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal7correction.png ;one of the wrong answer to the given question is:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal8correction.png ; because it is not arranged in correct order which is 1,4,12 (in increasing numeric order).....ps:i did forgot to specify "increasing" numeric order in the question i provided but the plan is to provide the question as "Select human among the given photograph's and select it in increasing numeric order?".
Providing increasing numeric order might make bot guess wrong answer 90% of time,which is quite comparable to the current captcha system that uses OCR as provided in the given algorithm: http://www.gizmag.com/captcha-beating-ai/29559/ .
2)Ask User to click on the same image as provided:The question for this type of captcha looks like this:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal5correction.png we can ask user to click on the options showing equivalent image to that provided in the question.For the question provided the answer is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal9correction.png .Ps:we ca use more than four options probably eight options since it would be harder of bot to make a guess.
3)For blind and visually impaired users:We can use and audio captcha system which ask user to select the number as it is asked in the audio .For example the visual equivalent of the audio asked by the user will be : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal11correction.png .Now when audio asked user to select number "0" our user will use arrow key to move across different blocks like a slide show....with different voice speaking out the options and pressing enter will select the word spoken....hence verifying that the user is human.....although the above shown image is visual equivalent the actual image visible will be: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProposal4correction.png ;....to make the captcha reload we can user to by pressing key "r" which will be instructed in the audio while the captcha starts playing.
Please give your response to idea provided and also the idea is listed here:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA
Thank You
Aalekh Nigam
aalekhN
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN
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Hi
For the first time, we have achieved to release a complete dump of all
encyclopedic articles of the Wikipedia in English, *with thumbnails*.
This ZIM file is 40 GB big and contains the current 4.5 million articles
with their 3.5 millions pictures:
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all.zim.torrent
This ZIM file is directly and easily usable on many types of devices
like Android smartphones and Win/OSX/Linux PCs with Kiwix, or Symbian
with Wikionboard.
You don't need modern computers with big CPUs. You can for example
create a (read-only) Wikipedia mirror on a RaspberryPi for ~100USD by
using our ZIM dedicated Web server called kiwix-serve. A demo is
available here: http://library.kiwix.org/wikipedia_en_all/
Like always, we also provide a packaged version (for the main PC
systems) which includes fulltext search index+ZIM file+binaries:
http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_all.zip.torrent
What is interesting too: This file was generated in less than 2 weeks
thanks to multiples recent innovations:
* The Parsoid (cluster), which gives us an HTML output with additional
semantic RDF tags
* mwoffliner, a nodejs script able to dumps pages based on the Mediawiki
API (and Parsoid API)
* zimwriterfs, a solution able to compile any local HTML directory to a
ZIM file
We have now an efficient way to generate new ZIM files. Consequently, we
will work to industrialize and automatize the ZIM file generation
process, one thing which is probably the most oldest and important
problem we still face at Kiwix.
All this would not have been possible without the support:
* Wikimedia CH and the "ZIM autobuild" project
* Wikimedia France and the Afripedia project
* Gwicke from the WMF Parsoid dev team.
BTW, we need additional developer helps with javascript/nodejs skills to
fix a few issues on mwoffliner:
* Recreate the "table of content" based on the HTML DOM (*)
* Scrape Mediawiki Resourceloader in a manner it will continue to work
offline (***)
* Scrape categories (**)
* Localized the script (*)
* Improve the global performance by introducing usage of workers (**)
* Create nodezim, the libzim nodejs binding and use it (***, need also
compilation and C++ skills)
* Evaluate necessary work to merge mwoffliner and new WMF PDF Renderer (***)
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hello,
These are some approaches i can think of instead of a text based captcha.
The image idea where users are asked to spot the odd one out like
demonstrated or find all the similar images like mentioned in
here<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA>
.
Also a picture with a part chipped in could be shown and chipped pictures
could be given as options
like find the missing part from a jigsaw puzzle.
The image which would be shown is http://imgur.com/uefeb08http://imgur.com/KEJqCg3 is the picture which would be the correct option.
The other options could be rotated versions of this , which would not be so
easy for the bot to match. (unless it somehow worked some digital
processing algorithm and matched the color gradients or something like
that).
This is a good option for people who do not know english or are illiterate
and maybe would not understand questions like : is this a bird , plane ,
superman? after being shown a picture.
Tell me what you think
(Sorry to upload those images on imgur. i dont know how to put them on the
wiki .Hope that is ok)
have posted this on the CAPTCHA
page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA>also
Hi
Thanks for the help. I want to create a new property only, and am quite
clear that the existing properties can be edited with new values. The
procedure is clear to me now.
Thanks Lydia and GerardM for that !
From: "Aalekh Nigam"<aalekh1993(a)rediffmail.com>
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Subject: Captcha Idea Proposal for GSOC 2014
Hello,
>From last response on proosal for Multilingual, usable and effective captchas; i figured out following few solutions to the points raised by the mailing list members:
1)Captcha on the basis of selection of particular object:In this type of captcha the questions will be shown as shown here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal6correction.png ;other possible questions can be:"Select the images in which man is wearing sunglasses",now problem i encountered while making such captcha request is that a bot could easily use Google images or third eye to find the look for images of man wearing sunglasses from the Wikimedia Commons .....so to encounter this problem we can use a random numbering over the images and then ask user to to select the images in order of numbering for example the only answer to the sample question i provided above is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal7correction.png ;one of the wrong answer to the given question is:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal8correction.png ; because it is not arranged in correct order which is 1,4,12 (in increasing numeric order).....ps:i did forgot to specify "increasing" numeric order in the question i provided but the plan is to provide the question as "Select human among the given photograph's and select it in increasing numeric order?".
Providing increasing numeric order might make bot guess wrong answer 90% of time,which is quite comparable to the current captcha system that uses OCR as provided in the given algorithm: http://www.gizmag.com/captcha-beating-ai/29559/ .
2)Ask User to click on the same image as provided:The question for this type of captcha looks like this:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal5correction.png we can ask user to click on the options showing equivalent image to that provided in the question.For the question provided the answer is :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal9correction.png .Ps:we ca use more than four options probably eight options since it would be harder of bot to make a guess.
3)For blind and visually impaired users:We can use and audio captcha system which ask user to select the number as it is asked in the audio .For example the visual equivalent of the audio asked by the user will be : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposal11correction.png .Now when audio asked user to select number "0" our user will use arrow key to move across different blocks like a slide show....with different voice speaking out the options and pressing enter will select the word spoken....hence verifying that the user is human.....although the above shown image is visual equivalent the actual image visible will be: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProposal4correction.png ;....to make the captcha reload we can user to by pressing key "r" which will be instructed in the audio while the captcha starts playing.
Please give your response to idea provided and also the idea is listed here:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA
Thank You
Aalekh Nigam
aalekhN
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN
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