Wikitech-l January 2015

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Welcome Corey Floyd as Software Developer to the Apps Team
by Tomasz Finc 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

I am pleased to announce that Corey Floyd joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Corey is based in Philadelphia where he will be working remotely. He previously worked as a mobile consultant, during which he developed iOS apps for organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, Vimeo, and Johnson & Johnson. Before joining Wikimedia, Corey spent the last year helping to stand up the new mobile team at Urban Outfitters. Corey is passionate about creating great user experiences and building software that people love to use. Prior to being an engineer, Corey was a meteorologist in the Air Force and spent most days forecasting rain in Western Europe. When not working, he reads way too much Apple news, plays a little guitar, watches Scrubs on Netflix, and is learning to box. Both he and his wife love to travel. Corey is excited to join the Mobile Team as they take the Wikipedia apps to the next level. Please Welcome Corey --tomasz

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Welcome Brian Gerstle as Software Developer to the Apps Team
by Tomasz Finc 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

I am pleased to announce that Brian Gerstle joins WMF this week as a Software Engineer for the Mobile App Team. Brian comes to us from Spotify, where he worked as an iOS developer—with a brief stint as a Quality Engineer. He's really excited to join the team and contribute to the WMF mission by polishing and innovating on the Wikipedia iOS experience for both readers and contributors. He's also looking forward to working on an open-source project and hopes to get more involved in the FOSS community. Brian lives in Miami, Florida with his wife and 2 dogs. Among his many interests are: music (especially jazz), audio (was a recording studio technician in a former life), science, health, and sci-fi/fantasy (just started reading Name of the Wind). Please Welcome Brian --tomasz

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OCG-PDF-renderer: Support for <div> / css
by Bjoern Hassler 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello, not sure which list would be right for this, please re-direct as needed! We're experimentally using the OCG-PDF-renderer on our wiki, and we're hoping that it will render pages like this one: http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER4Schools/Questioning My main concern here is the use of CSS to: 1. Create boxes with "educator notes". These are divs with some css to provide borders around text. This was one of the major obstacles why the previous Collection extension never worked well for us. 2. We also use css to prefix the section numbers with an extra string ("2.2." in this case), which helps uniquely identify sections within the overall OER4Schools programme. 3. (On a tangent:) We extensively use SMW for navigation and various other things. Is there going to be a problem with that in OCG-PDF-renderer? I'm sure this has all been discussed in various places - would appreciate some feedback or links to where I can read up! Note that the above page actually fails with "Status: ! Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `linkcolorlinkcolor'.", and we'll start to submit bugs fairly soon. Thanks! Bjoern

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Stance on Social Media
by Rob Moen 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Currently our approach on social media is that "Social media websites aren't useful for spreading news and reaching out to potential users and contributors." [1] I challenge this though. Is it really true? Twitter has 254 million active monthly users, with 500 million tweets sent per day [2], Facebook has 1.35 billion active monthly users users. [3] I know there are many active Wikipedians who frequent both of these sites. Should we be more actively encouraging people to share? The history of the Social Media page indicates this was added as an ‘initial dump’ back in November of 2011. [4] But I wonder if it might be worth revisiting or refreshing this decision in light of the current world we live in. What do others think? What would the reaction be to a sharethis.com type service where any site could engage ? Would this be more valuable on mobile than than desktop? 1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media 2: https://about.twitter.com/company 3: http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info 4: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&diff=1318877&oldid…

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[x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

[x-posted announcement] Hello, Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the next IRC office hour on January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC on #wikimedia-office . We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects. You may have also read our recent announcement about making Content Translation available very soon as a beta feature[1] on a few Wikipedias. We will be happy to address questions you may have about this. Please see below to check local time and event details Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/> Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) # Time: 1600 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150114T1600 ) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation beta feature 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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Help with skin
by Thomas Mulhall 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hi I used metrolook as a skin and I also edit it. I am wandering can I have some help it fixing it the thing that needs to be fixed is sidebar I would like it to a have a scroll bar if it needs to have one if the content goes out of screen but I doint know how to make the sidebar go auto so the size stays the same and the scroll bars doesent get in the way of content. but as you see here http://www.pidgi.net/wiki/Main_Page the scroll bar goes into the content how do I get the scroll bar to go out of the content have a space for itself. and the scroll to have auto so if there is no need for a scroll bar the scroll bar wont show but also how do I move the content to the left how do I move it so that I moves with the scroll bar if it needs more room please. my site is at http://en.random-wikisaur.tk and the code is at https://github.com/paladox2015/Metrolook.

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Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of January 12th
by Greg Grossmeier 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_12th> A quick list of notable items... == All Week == * HHVM will be rolled out to the "jobrunner" servers == Monday == * Enable "In other projects" feature as default for French Wikipedia ** <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85971> ** This was a Beta Feature on French Wikipedia (and still is on the vast majority of wikis) * Soft launch of the Wikimania Scholarships App for 2015 application cycle == Tuesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group1 to 1.25wmf14: All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, and a few other sites) ** <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf14> == Wednesday == * MediaWiki deploy ** group2 to 1.25wmf14 (all Wikipedias) ** group0 to 1.25wmf15 (test/test2/testwikidata/mediawiki) Thanks and as always, questions and comments welcome, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Re: [Wikitech-l] maintenance.php files in symlinks context problem
by Manuel Schneider 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Running several wiki farms with central code repositories I know this. The fix is to set the environment variable MW_INSTALL_PATH, eg.: /home/wiki-site/www/wikifoo $ MW_INSTALL_PATH=$(pwd) php maintenance/update.php --quick /Manuel Am 09.01.2015 18:22 schrieb Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 18:51 +0100, Jefsey wrote: > > I have loaded 1.23 in /wiki > > I have symlinked it in my /home/wiki-site/www directories. > > It works without problem. However, when I try > > That sounds like a problem with configuring MediaWiki and better suited > for https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > Thanks, > andre > > [Please do not reply to random messages to start a new topic. It breaks > threading in email clients. Please start a new message instead. Thanks!] > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Re: [Wikitech-l] maintenance.php files in symlinks context problem
by Andre Klapper 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Hi, On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 18:51 +0100, Jefsey wrote: > I have loaded 1.23 in /wiki > I have symlinked it in my /home/wiki-site/www directories. > It works without problem. However, when I try That sounds like a problem with configuring MediaWiki and better suited for https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Thanks, andre [Please do not reply to random messages to start a new topic. It breaks threading in email clients. Please start a new message instead. Thanks!] -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Fwd: Unsolicited digital currency donations
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Website garnering registrations by "donating" few cents of dollar for each merged commit. They started a while ago but looks like it's expanding. Just FYI in case you've not received one yet. Nemo -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: You received a tip for your commit Data: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 07:36:52 +0000 Hello, Federico Leva! You were tipped 0.11 XPM for your commit on Project wikimedia/mediawiki. Please, log in and tell us your primecoin address to get it. Your current balance is 0.11 XPM. If you don't enter a primecoin address your tips will be returned to the project in 30 days. Sign In Thanks for contributing to Open Source!

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