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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Subject for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015: CoSyne
by Rachel Farrand 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Yep, if you look at the Hackathon schedule you should see that it has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 2pm. Hope you can make it! On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Emeric Vallespi <emeric.vallespi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have planned a meeting during Wikimania about next Hackathon's > organization ? > I believe it would be useful to know who of us still want to organize, > after informations which was forwarded by former organizers, and how we > could collaborate to choose the next (co-)organizer. > > I will be around the Wikimania Hackathon this afternoon and tomorrow, let > me know if you're interested with this discussion. > (Jean-Frederic & Sylvain are also available) > > -- > Emeric Vallespi > Vice-treasurer > Wikimedia France > > emeric.vallespi(a)wikimedia.fr > Twitter: @evallespi > > > > On 16 juil. 2014, at 21:00, Emeric Vallespi <emeric.vallespi(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > WMFr is still thinking about organizing Wikimedia Hackathon in 2015. We > are currently identifying the technical, financial and especially human > resources needed to make it a success. > > > > Frans, could you provide me/us your documentation or the link (Meta ?) ? > It would be very useful. > > > > Wikimedia France really wants to organize an international event in 2015. > > > > Anyway, we believe that if another chapter wants to organize Hackathon > it could be a waste of time for one of us to position our proposals against > until the result. > > > > So if a sister entity positions herself clearly and seriously to > organize Wikimedia Hackathon we can discuss it. > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Emeric Vallespi > > Vice-Treasurer > > Wikimedia France > > > > emeric.vallespi(a)wikimedia.fr > > Twitter: @evallespi | Mob. +33 (0)6 61151312 > > > > On 14 juil. 2014, at 20:38, Frans Grijzenhout <frans(a)wikimedia.nl> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Balázs, WMNL hosted the international hackaton in 2013. > Documentation is > >> archived and thus still available and we are more than willing to help > you > >> in preparing the international hackaton in 2015. > >> Regards, Frans > >> > >> > >> > >> *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair > >> frans(a)wikimedia.nl > >> +31 6 5333 9499 > >> http://www.wikimedia.nl/ > >> > >> *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland* > >> *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:* > >> Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 > >> 3500 AD Utrecht 3511 LH Utrecht > >> > >> ABNAMRO NL33 ABNA 0497164833 - Kamer van Koophandel 17189036 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 2014-07-14 16:56 GMT+02:00 Balázs Viczián <balazs.viczian(a)wikimedia.hu > >: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> WMHU would be interested in *hosting *a Hackathon in Hungary > (anywhere) but > >>> we would need a couple of international volunteers to help filling the > core > >>> of event (finding topics and speakers or building up the content in > >>> general). In exchange, the rest (from side events to the smallest > details) > >>> can be left with us :) > >>> > >>> Balazs > >>> > >>> > >>> 2014-07-14 14:53 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout <frans(a)wikimedia.nl>: > >>> > >>>> Hi Romaine, this is to remind you that the CoSyne project was a > research > >>>> project, sponsored by the EU and conducted by different partners. The > >>>> research has been concluded and the results have been reported early > >>>> 2013..The technical infrastructure has sinds then been dismantled, so > it > >>>> will not be that easy to restart CoSyne. Regards, Frans > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair > >>>> frans(a)wikimedia.nl > >>>> +31 6 5333 9499 > >>>> http://www.wikimedia.nl/ > >>>> > >>>> *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland* > >>>> *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:* > >>>> Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 > >>>> 3500 AD Utrecht 3511 LH Utrecht > >>>> > >>>> ABNAMRO NL33 ABNA 0497164833 - Kamer van Koophandel 17189036 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> 2014-07-09 23:44 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com>: > >>>> > >>>>> I doubt if these tools are similar. But I do think they can benefit > >>> from > >>>>> each other. > >>>>> > >>>>> Romaine > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> 2014-07-09 16:03 GMT+02:00 Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr>: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Le 09/07/2014 14:33, Romaine Wiki a écrit : > >>>>>>> As a subject of one/more hackathons I would like to recommend > >>> CoSyne > >>>>> [1]. > >>>>>>> CoSyne is translation and multilingual synchronisation tool. The > >>>>> project > >>>>>>> was set up by Wikimedia Netherlands together with several > >>>> universities > >>>>>> and > >>>>>>> other partners, including the EU. The tool makes it possible to > >>>>> translate > >>>>>>> much more easier from one Wikipedia (etc) to another with much > >>> better > >>>>>>> quality translations than existing translating tools. It does not > >>>>> matter > >>>>>> if > >>>>>>> an article is already written, it is possible with this tool to > >>>> expand > >>>>>>> existing articles and to update articles with a new section when on > >>>> one > >>>>>>> Wikipedia this was added. It makes it possible to exchange > >>>> information > >>>>> in > >>>>>>> more languages and helps users to keep the articles up-to-date. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I have tested the Bèta version of this tool and these tests were > >>> very > >>>>>>> successful. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> [1] https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/CoSyne > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Romaine > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hello, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Seems it is very similiar to the content translation Wikimedia i18n > >>>> team > >>>>>> is working on: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Demo video: > >>> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:CX_Section_Alignment_Preview_and_Basic_E… > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> Antoine "hashar" Musso > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >>>>>> Unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >>>>> Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > , > >>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >

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"let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)
by Gryllida 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi all. WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look after the software that faces us everyday, and often work together. Could we please have some more people (potentially a dedicated ‘community’ team) who could do these things: - encourage feedback by absolutely /anyone/ about the next features they'd like, - run programming and documentation activities requested (or started) by community [there would be a lot of small projects, unlike the big ones the current Teams are working on], - encourage localising documentation for, and centralising the location of, all community-developed programming work, - raise awareness of community development efforts across all Wikimedia projects, - actively encourage members of community become MediaWiki and Gadgets hackers in the Free Software philosophy? This would be, in my view, a relatively small, collaboration-type team (with just half a handful of people for timezone coverage for IRC support). Open to brainstorming and suggestions. I would compile thoughts into a wiki page afterwards to continue thinking on the idea. Regards Gryllida.

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Snuggle, Huggle, and VandalSniper
by Pine W 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

I just saw a reference to VandalSniper for the first time [1]. Would there be any use looking at it for ideas or code that would benefit Snuggle or Huggle? I believe that Snuggle and Huggle are in active development while VandalSniper has stalled, but VandalSniper reminds me of Snuggle. Pine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers/VandalSniper

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MediaWiki for the third party community: get involved!
by Markus Glaser 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hello everyone, the Wiki Release Team invites you to get involved in a much needed effort to build a separate entity that cares about the third party use of MediaWiki. We ask for your involvement and participation because, as a community, we need to drive MediaWiki! Be a part of something big! 1. Join our mailing list of interested people on wikireleaseteam.org [1] 2. Attend our first meeting [2]: Wikimania London Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 11:30AM GMT Hammerson Room and/or webstreaming 3. Help us help you by providing feedback and comments as we work through an environmental scan and development roadmap With the formation of the release team, a first step has been taken to separate the releases from the deployment process. Now is the time to tackle the task of building and working our way towards an organisation that cares for MediaWiki as a software product. This organisation will foster the MediaWiki third-party community, facilitate the exchange of ideas and resources among the third-party users, advocate the third-party needs, and advise the MediaWiki development from the third party perspective. Spreading open knowledge is not just about content, but also about tools. However, third party users of MediaWiki have very specific needs that are naturally of minor interest to running Wikimedia sites. These include the installer, support for different platforms and databases, integration with other software, extension dependencies, and packaging, just to name a few. Our mission, far from being complete, is just beginning. With your help and involvement we can make an impact to improve MediaWiki for the third party community. Best, Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser Wiki Release Team [1] http://wikireleaseteam.org/ [2] https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_about_a_MediaWiki_…

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Wikimania Hackathon wants your signatures
by Quim Gil 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

1,6 days before the start of the Wikimania Hackathon... #impatient If you are planning to attend, there is something simple that you can still do. Please go to https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Topics and leave your signature in the sessions that you wish to attend. It's pretty straightforward and requires no commitment. Do it now! Why is this useful? 1. The sessions with a critical mass of signatures will be featured at the all-hands session opening the hackathon. We will call the promoters of each of these sessions and they will pitch their intentions and goals. This, in turn, might get them some more participants. 2. Having an approximate idea of the relative interest of each session will help everybody scheduling in rooms with appropriate size. Note that most of the scheduling will happen during and after this opening session. We have pre-scheduled just a few exceptions: sessions focusing on new contributors and sessions requiring the participation of remotes or other people with busy agendas. In other words, by adding your signatures now you are already starting to shape the Wikimania Hackathon program. See you soon! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠zirconium.wikimedia.org 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

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34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

WikiTeam[1] has released an update of the chronological archive of all Wikimedia Commons files, up to 2013. Now at ~34 TB total. <https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons> I wrote to – I think – all the mirrors in the world, but apparently nobody is interested in such a mass of media apart from the Internet Archive (and the mirrorservice.org which took Kiwix). The solution is simple: take a small bite and preserve a copy yourself. One slice only takes one click, from your browser to your torrent client, and typically 20-40 GB on your disk (biggest slice 1400 GB, smallest 216 MB). <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive#Image_tarballs> Nemo P.s.: Please help spread the word everywhere. [1] https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam

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Deploying a centralized questionnaire to all pages of a specific Category.
by Val Ingten 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hello, I'm trying to find if there's a way (extension or built in functionality) to create a list of questions on a specific page then deploy this set of questions on say every page of a certain Category. Also, when the questions are deployed to a specific category, i'd need to give users a way to answer those questions (a simple textbox would be enough). It doesn't need to keep track of who answered what, only the most recent update would be the "answer". Thanks

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J-mo's Wikipedia presentation
by Pine W 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Someone asked me in #wikimedia-tech for links to J-mo's video presentation a few days ago. I apologize for forgetting your IRC nick. The sides are still unpublished but the video clips are below. This presentation occurred at the University of Wasington during the monthly Seattle TA3M meetup. [1] The outline is roughly: # How Wikipedia works # Problems with Wikipedia # Attempts to address the problems Video files: # https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TA3M_July_2014_J-Mo_Wikimedia_pre… # https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TA3M_July_2014_J-Mo_Wikimedia_pre… # https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TA3M_July_2014_J-Mo_Wikimedia_pre… Pine [1] https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:seattle

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ExtensionDistributor updates on mediawiki.org
by Legoktm 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi, Tomorrow a major update[1] will be deployed for the ExtensionDistributor extension on mediawiki.org. We will start fetching branch information directly from Gerrit instead of relying on Github. Additionally, tarballs will be served from extdist.wmflabs.org[2] instead of using Github. There will be a few differences, namely that tarballs are only generated every hour, instead of on the fly like Github did. These tarballs will include submodules inside tarballs for extensions like VisualEditor (bug 44022[3]). If you notice any issues or have any ideas for enhancements, please file a bug in Bugzilla[4]. Additionally, I'd like to thank ^demon and YuviPanda for their help in putting this service together. -- Legoktm [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149474/ [2] https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/ [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44022 [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…

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