Wikitech-l July 2014

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on July 9, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, July 09 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent activities around the Content Translation project[1] and taking questions. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: July 09, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140709T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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What's up with upload.wikimedia.org 's crossdomain.xml
by Brian Wolff 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hi all. Does anyone here know what the deal is with upload.wikimedia.org/crossdomain.xml ? I couldn't find it anywhere in the puppet repository. I was under the impression that it was so cortado java applet could play video files. However its current value is: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd"> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="*" /> <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="X-Range" /> </cross-domain-policy> And java (or at least some versions. Docs are a bit scarce. The old version I have installed - 1.6.0_12 follows this at any rate), seem to indicate that java doesn't support the "allow-http-request-headers-from" element, and will ignore the file if present. Thus if you get past the whole applet is unsigned (not easy on modern java), you will be burned by the same origin policy preventing loading from upload.wikimedia.org since java doesn't like the crossdomain.xml Thus I'm wondering what the "<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="X-Range" />" is for. What else do we use that looks at this file? (Flash would be the most obvious candidate for using such a file. ). Why would it want to allow an "X-Range" header anyways? Isn't the header named "Range" without the X- ? In my quick test, sending an x-range header did nothing. --bawolff

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reviews needed for pubsubhubbub extension
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hey folks :) Wikimedia Germany has been working with a team of students over the past months. They have among other things developed a pubsubhubbub extension. The idea is that we allow 3rd parties to easily subscribe to changes made on Wikidata or any other wiki. Wikidata's changes get send to a hub which then notifies all subscribers who are interested in the change. We'd like to get this extension deployed for Wikidata and possibly later other Wikimedia projects. For this they need some more eyes to review them. RobLa suggested I send an email to wikitech-l about it. The review bugs for this are https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67117 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67118 Thanks for your help getting this ready for deployment. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat
by Erik Moeller 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hi folks, We're hosting a conversation about standardization and continued development of front-end libraries in MW core on 6/25, 5:30 PM UTC, #wikimedia-office. This is driven by a recognized need for teams at WMF to work more effectively on user-facing features and reduce duplication of efforts and inconsistencies across extensions. We're willing to take a bit of a hit on the short term velocity of feature development to build a more robust, consistent and developer-friendly platform. Timo Tijhof, Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw have proposed a systematic effort to improve MW core's front-end libraries, building on existing efforts (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization for a messy but reasonably comprehensive overview of some of the inconsistencies and wheel duplication we need to solve). This will be done in partnership with other interested front-end engineers across the org and the community. We'll try to come up with a clear scope of work, such as: - having Mobile and VisualEditor depend on the same front-end libraries in MW core and use them effectively - eliminating dependencies on jQuery UI from all WMF-deployed code, to be replaced with a MediaWiki-native look and feel - creating a proper living style guide and UX standardization pipeline in partnership with the WMF UX team. This conversation is just a first step to ensure this effort has visibility from the start, and major architectural changes will go through the usual public conversations. Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikitech-l] tool for quickly uploading 10000 images with description
by Florian Schmidt 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hello! O think that is the right for you: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportImages.php Simply upload the images via FTP for example to the server and run the script like explainend on Manual page. Kind regards Florian Gesendet mit meinem HTC ----- Reply message ----- Von: "Yury Katkov" <katkov.juriy(a)gmail.com> An: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Betreff: [Wikitech-l] tool for quickly uploading 10000 images with description Datum: Mo., Juli 7, 2014 16:36 Hi everyone! Does anyone knows about the tool that can help to upload a lot of files and create the page for every file with a given description? I'd say that it should be a maintenance script since for some reason the API upload works pretty slow. I saw UploadLocal Extension but it's too manual and it doesn't work well when the amount of files to upload is very large. Cheers, ----- Yury Katkov _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Engineering Community Team - IRC Hour: July 8th @1600 UTC
by Rachel Farrand 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Please feel free to join the Engineering Community Team (ECT) tomorrow (July 8th) at 1600 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ECT+Office+Hours&i…> in #wikimedia-office on IRC. The ECT hosts office hours in #wikimedia-office the second Tuesday of every month. Relevant links will be added here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings/2014-07-…> before the meeting begins and minuets from the meeting will also be added after it is over. Thanks!

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Challenge: pass jshint on all extensions
by Antoine Musso 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hello, MediaWiki has JavaScript code conventions which is enforced on core and some extensions by running jshint in Jenkins: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CC/JS Unfortunately lot of extensions do not match that expectation yet and it would be rather nice to bring them on par. We have a tracking bug listing some repositories which are not passing jshint yet: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60619 It would be rather nice to have all extensions fixed :-] -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠zirconium.wikimedia.org 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

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Wikimedia email list settings
by Pine W 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hi, in my settings for the Wikimedia email lists I have activated the option to receive copies of emails that I send to the lists. I received these emails in the past but no longer receive them. I checked my settings and the lists still say that I should receive copies of emails that I send to the lists. Does anyone have ideas about how to fix this? Thanks, Pine

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Background color
by Jeffrey Barish 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Until two days ago, I was able to modify the background color of a Wikipedia page with a style sheet containing the following: body { background-color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important; } The line for color still works, but the line for background-color does not. Does anyone know what changed and what I have to do now to change the background color? If this is not the right mailing list for this question, could someone direct me to the right one? Thanks. --- Jeffrey Barish

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