Wikitech-l September 2014

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Add release to special version page
by Florian Schmidt 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

The date comes from the git information, if there is no .git in the installation, then no date :) So tarballs don't have some iirc. Gesendet mit meinem HTC ----- Reply message ----- Von: "Isarra Yos" <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> An: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Add release to special version page Datum: Sa., Sep. 6, 2014 08:50 On 06/09/14 06:42, Chad wrote: > Don't we already pull the date from git if it exists? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version says yes. > > -Chad Oh neat, is that new? Or am I just that unobservant? Well, nevermind, then. What about the tarball ones, though? Do those do it? Seriously, I haven't used a tarball in... quite awhile. -I _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Add release to special version page
by Thomas Mulhall 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Can we add a section for release date of the extension or skin release. because it would be easer to view the release date in the special version page then go to the extension page and try to look it up.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments
by David Gerard 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

I asked this on wikimedia-l in the recent discussion with no answer. I was wondering what the status of this feature was ... - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Date: 1 September 2014 18:00 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On 1 September 2014 17:57, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The same, by the way, goes for VE, which should have had "bail and give me > what you have now as wikitext" from the onset, and Flow which needs a "bail > and convert this thread to ye olde talkpage thread" (which I fear will be > batted away as reactionary crank talk, and "by the time flow will be done > unneeded anyway") By the way: Is Flow going to support the use case of cut'n'pasting a piece from the article page to the talk page, as a lump of wikitext or as a piece of rich text from VE? 'Cos if it doesn't, I predict that will be the sticking point with the people who actually communicate on talk pages. - d.

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[x-post] Content Translation round-table on 5 September 2014, 1600 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

[X-posted announcement] Hello, The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a tool for easy translation of Wikipedia articles from one language to another. The Content Translation tool has been in development since early 2014 and in July it was deployed and opened for testing on beta labs. The tool currently provides an editing interface, limited machine translation capability, link and reference adaptation and dictionary support. The first rollout included machine translation support from Spanish to Catalan. Since then, the tool has been used to create more than 100 new articles for the Catalan Wikipedia. On 5 September 2014, the team will be hosting a round-table conversation with some of the editors from the Catalan Wikipedia who have been using Content Translation. The online event is scheduled from 1600 UTC to 1700 UTC. We would like to invite everyone to join us (please use the event url below) and add your questions to know more about this project. The same url can be used later to view an archived version of the event. Thank you. Event Details: ========== # Event url - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ckphmp2shtnc6hadsca95thshp4 # Date: September 5, 2014 (Friday) # Time: 1600 UTC (check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140905T1600) Project Details: ============ # Project Home: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation # Announcements: ## http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/16/first-look-at-the-content-translation-… and ## http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/26/content-translation-100-published-arti… -- regards, Runa Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[wiki co-op] Questions to address in tomorrow's user group meeting
by Mark A. Hershberger 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Quim asks a couple of good questions that I think we should discuss in tomorrow's meeting. "It would be good to clarify whether this group aims to work on anything related to mediawiki.org."[1] "Why not adding "MediaWiki" explicitly in the name of the group?"[2] If you missed the announcement of this user group meeting, you can find all the information you need to join it on MediaWiki.org.[3] Hope to see you there! Mark. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Groups/Proposals/Wiki_Co-op/Resp… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Groups/Proposals/Wiki_Co-op/Medi… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Co-op/Meetings/2014-09-05_Telco

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Wikitech upgrade and config changes
by Andrew Bogott 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Executive summary: Wikitech may be a bit different today. Please log any new issues here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs and select 'wikitech-interface'. The whole story: Since the birth of Labs, wikitech.wikimedia.org (formerly known as 'labsconsole') has been managed by hand by Labs operations staff. While wikitech was in rapid development it made sense to keep its off-the-cuff design, but now that it's become a (quite) essential and (fairly) stable part of our infrastructure, it was time to bring it into the fold. So, as of today, wikitech is running a wiki config that's managed by our deployment infrastructure -- Internally, this is know as being 'on the deployment train.' It's a good place to be -- wikitech will receive more timely updates, and can now be more easily configured by WMF staff and volunteers. But, be warned: since this entailed in a fresh build of wikitech from new code, there are bound to be unintended differences. I haven't found any serious ones, but I bet you will! Please be on the lookout for new bugs, unexpected changes of behavior, etc. When you find problems, report them using the bugzilla link above. If these issues are urgent (in other words, preventing you from doing stuff that you need to do) feel free to nag one of the involved people on IRC: coren, bd808, reedy, or me (andrewbogott). Many thanks to Bryan, Sam, Chad, Coren, and all others who helped with this endeavor! -Andrew

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Fwd: [talk-ch] Luftbilder Stadt Zürich
by rupert THURNER 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

aerial images from the city of zürich free .... rupert ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Von: "Simon Poole" <simon(a)poole.ch> Datum: 03.09.2014 00:33 Betreff: [talk-ch] Luftbilder Stadt Zürich An: "Openstreetmap Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra" <talk-ch(a)openstreetmap.ch > http://sosm.ch/high-resolution-aerial-imagery-from-the-city-of-zuerich/ Simon _______________________________________________ talk-ch mailing list talk-ch(a)openstreetmap.ch http://lists.openstreetmap.ch/mailman/listinfo/talk-ch

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Rachel Farrand joins the Engineering Community Team as Events Coordinator
by Quim Gil 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

For almost three years, Rachel Farrand has been a regular contributor in the organization of public and internal Wikimedia events since she joined the Wikimedia Foundation as an Admin Assistant and then Project Coordinator with the Engineering department. This past year, Rachel has been the lead coordinator at the WMF for the Architecture Summit in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich, the Wikimania Hackathon in London, most of the Tech Talks scheduled, and many on-site and off-site meetings. Those of us lucky to work with Rachel know that she is a reliable and patient team worker who excels at organizing activities for others to enjoy. For all these reasons and more, we have decided to evolve Rachel's role as Events Coordinator at the Engineering Community team. With this change, Rachel will be able to dedicate more time and attention to this area, where we are already playing good tactics but we need a more consistent strategy movement-wide. Rachel's current goals include merging our Architecture Summit, WMF Tech Days, and SF Hackathon into a single event this Winter; document a HowTo for hackathon organizers compiling our many lessons learned; and keeping a regular stream of online Tech Talks and on-site Wikimedia Tech meetups in San Francisco. She will also assist in the organization of our outreach programs (Google Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Google Code-in): time-based activities that share many aspects with our technical events. It’s been a great process to work with Lynette on Rachel’s transition into the ECT team, and we are delighted Engineering Community events will have the dedication and focus Rachel brings to the work!. Congrats and "Welcome" Rachel! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Lazy load - Lazy page rendering (for discussion)
by Thomas Gries 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

I recently found the idea of * "lazy rendering" (of tables, images, media objects) Has application of lazy load techniques ever been considered for MediaWiki pages? Here are some pointers: * https://github.com/ressio/lazy-load-xt Lazy load XT (fully featured version) * http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload Lazy Load is delays loading of images in long web pages. Images outside of viewport are not loaded until user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading <http://www.appelsiini.net/2007/6/sequentially-preloading-images> … Using Lazy Load on long web pages will make the page load faster. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load. * http://www.datatables.net/extensions/scroller/ Scroller is a virtual rendering plug-in for DataTables which allows large datasets to be drawn on screen every quickly. What the virtual rendering means is that only the visible portion of the table (and a bit to either side to make the scrolling smooth) is drawn, while the scrolling container gives the visual impression that the whole table is visible… * http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/extensions/Scroller/examples/s… DataTables' server-side processing mode is a feature that naturally fits in with Scroller perfectly. Server-side processing can be used to show large data sets, with the server being used to do the data processing, and Scroller optimising the display of the data in a scrolling viewport…

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Simplest UI for creating & editing Phabricator tasks
by Quim Gil 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi, Users of the future Wikimedia Phabricator will have a very simple and straightforward interface to create and edit tasks. Bugzilla's UI was one of the top complaints from new/casual users, and we can fix this in Phabricator easily. Currently we are testing this setup in fab.wmflabs.org, where you can see an example: http://fab.wmflabs.org/maniphest/task/create/ (imagine that the "Points" field is not there). Advanced users needing to prioritize tasks, assign them to someone, and resolve them can join the Triagers team in order to get the additional permissions: http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/view/74/ We are still fine tuning this process at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T64 -- your feedback is welcome. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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