Wikitech-l September 2014

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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 03 Sep '14

03 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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Watchlist and Echo
by svetlana 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi all. I've noticed Echo has a separate special page, Special:Notifications. Would we like to rewrite the extension so that it adds entries to the watchlist instead? (And add 'Edits' tab into echo itself - put the watchlist items there). There is a lot of Special: pages already and adding new ones doesn't - immediately - appear to help usability. svetlana

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Realtime common upload plugin - wordpress
by Nkansah Rexford 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi, Is there any way to display images uploaded into a particular category on Wikimedia Commons to be displayed in realtime on a WordPress site? Like a plugin that follows a particular category on commons and displays any images that are added to it? Kinda a feeder? Thanks Rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from Smartphone

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Bugzilla Weekly Report
by reporter＠zirconium.wikimedia.org 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

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