Wikitech-l March 2014

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[GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons
by Rainer Rillke 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions, both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a JavaScript front end. Spectra and analytical data, chemical crystallography and materials -- this is somewhat more complicated and I think; let's start it simple. If there is sufficient time to play with CML after implementing MOL file support, no one prevents us from doing so. But past experience has shown that even simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected resulting in software that is not ready to use till today. Curious about your opinion. Kind regards Rainer Rillke ---- [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068573.html [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rillke/Chemical_Markup_support_for_Wiki…

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[GSoC] Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons
by Rainer Rillke 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions, both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a JavaScript front end. Spectra and analytical data, chemical crystallography and materials -- this is somewhat more complicated and I think; let's start it simple. If there is sufficient time to play with CML after implementing MOL file support, no one prevents us from doing so. But past experience has shown that even simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected resulting in software that is not ready to use till today. Curious about your opinion. Kind regards Rainer Rillke ---- [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068573.html [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rillke/Chemical_Markup_support_for_Wiki…

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CentralAuth questions
by Teresa Cho 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi all, I’m trying to add a feature to Wikimetrics that will allow users to create a cohort with a username and find all accounts across wikis. I want to use the CentralAuth database, because as far as I can tell, it stores the global username and all the local usernames. However, I don’t see where it connects the globalusers to the localusers. Is it just the username? Does the username have to be the same across local wikis and you query the localuser table with what you think is the global username? If that’s the case, I suppose I don’t need to look at the global table. Thanks, Teresa

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MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.22.5, 1.21.8 and 1.19.14
by Markus Glaser 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.22.5, 1.21.8 and 1.19.14. These are regular security and maintenance releases. Download links are given at the end of this email. == Security == * (bug 62497) SECURITY: Add CSRF token on Special:ChangePassword. == Fixes made in all tarballs == * (bug 62467) Set a title for the context during import on the cli. == Bugfixes in 1.22.5 == * Fix custom local MediaWiki:Help values. * mediawiki.js: Fix documentation breakage. * (bug 58153) Make MySQLi work with non standard port. * (bug 53887) Reintroduced a link to help pages in the default sidebar, that any sysop can customize by editing [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] locally. The link now points to a mediawiki.org page which is guaranteed to exist. Nothing needs to be done on your end, but remember to adjust [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] for the needs of your wikis. Everyone can help with the shared documentation by translating: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Translate/agg-Help_pages . * (bug 53888) Corrected a regression in 1.22 which introduced red links on the login page. If you previously installed 1.22.x and have created a local page to make the red link blue, write its title as in [[MediaWiki:helplogin-url]] if you didn't already. Otherwise, you don't need to do anything, but you can translate the help page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in . Full release notes for 1.22.5: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22> Full release notes for 1.21.8: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21> Full release notes for 1.19.14: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19> Public keys: <https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html> ********************************************************************** 1.22.5 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.5.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.22.4): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.5.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-core-1.22.5.tar.gz.s… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.5.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.5.patch.gz.sig ********************************************************************** 1.21.8 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.8.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.21.7): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.8.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.8.tar.gz.s… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.8.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.8.patch.gz.sig ********************************************************************** 1.19.14 ********************************************************************** Download: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.14.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.19.13): http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.14.patch.gz GPG signatures: http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-core-1.19.14.tar.gz.… http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.14.tar.gz.sig http://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.19/mediawiki-1.19.14.patch.gz.sig Markus Glaser (Release Management Team)

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CSS Regressions
by Jon Robson 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

I just wondered if anyone doing MediaWiki development had any experience in catching CSS regressions? We have had a few issues recently in mobile land where we've made big CSS changes and broken buttons on hidden away special pages - particularly now we have been involved in the development of mediawiki ui and moving mobile towards using them. My vision of how this might work is we have an automated tool that visits a list of given pages on various browsers, take screenshots of how they look and then compares the images with the last known state. The tool checks how similar the images are and complains if they are not the same - this might be a comment on the Gerrit patch or an e-mail saying something user friendly like "The Special:Nearby page on Vector looks different from how it used to. Please check everything is okay." This would catch a host of issues and prevent a lot of CSS regression bugs. Any experience in catching this sort of thing? Any ideas on how we could make this happen?

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Customizing Vector (was Re:Typography update to Vector in core)
by Quim Gil 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

On Thursday, March 27, 2014, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Making Vector more easily skinnable would help A LOT, fwiw. If we want > the various WMF sites to maintain distinctness from third-party > installations, best way would be to make it really easy to do so. > Heck, some third-party sites get really eyegougingly horrible already This is my main motivation trying to find mentors for this GSoC proposal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cu… Sadly, I lack the skills. Volunteers welcome! PS: sorry for the pitch, in a few days the hunt for GSoC mentors will be over. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Square Bounding Boxes
by C. Scott Ananian 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Currently mediawiki constrains image size primarily by width, which doesn't work so well for images which are taller than they are wide. There is no way to ask for an image which has a height equal to the "default thumbnail size" (without explicitly specifying a size in px)! It would be nice to fix this. VisualEditor/Parsoid would really prefer to use a simplified model where all bounding boxes are square, including the default thumbnail size. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Square_bounding_boxesfor two concrete proposals for how this might be achieved, and discuss! Thanks... --scott -- (http://cscott.net)

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Typography update to Vector in core
by Steven Walling 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hey all, I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This was also mentioned in the last Tech News edition, and announced by Greg as part of the deployment roadmap. This will happen in the following order: 1. Test wikis and mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th. 2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 11th. 3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd. If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an extensive FAQ at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There will also be a post at blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning, and we have other messages to go out on-wiki. Wikitech-l subscribers: you may remember an extensive recent thread that mostly debated the use of non-free fonts like Helvetica Neue and Georgia as the primary fonts in the new font-family settings. We took this feedback to heart. Thanks to patches/testing led by Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba, we released a new version a couple weeks ago, which puts a set of fine FOSS fonts first (say that ten times fast). For the curious, the relevant patch is gerrit 120978. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Three GSoC projects about CAPTCHA improvements
by Thanuditha Ruchiranga 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi all I have submitted a proposal on captcha improvements as a GSoC project and i have come to know that I need to complete some microtasks assigned by a mentor in order to prove i am capable of handling the project. My problem is how to get somebody to mentor my project? How can i have the microtasks i should do? Thanks RuchirangaW

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Pronunciation Recording Gadget
by Rainer Rillke 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Pronunciation samples in Wiktonary, or even tools to ease creating them are a frequently requested subject on feedback pages [1]. There have been considerations about IPA -> voice solutions but I believe that audio recording and uploading through crowd sourcing has several benefits: Dialects can be recorded and the recording user is not required having knowledge about the IPA. Additionally, a voice-recording tool may be used for other purposes in future as well, for example spoken Wikipedia, provided that necessary free audio compression tools are developed. Now that UploadWizard[2], which a MediaWiki extension prototype[3] depends on, needs a lot of refactoring, I proposed developing a gadget with close community involvement. Future extension development will benefit from that by means of feedback, metrics collected and implementation. The goal is producing something that is actually working, intuitive to use and easy to deploy for Wiktionary administrators. Please share your opinion on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Finish_Pronunciation_Recording#D… -- Rainer Rillke https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Finish_Pronunciation_Recording#W… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PronunciationRecording

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