Wikitech-l October 2015

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Google Mail marking Phabricator and Gerrit notification emails as spam
by Greg Grossmeier 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Just FYI for those on Google-hosted email. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115416 TL;DR: Check your spam folder :) Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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GSoC 2016 Announced
by Alangi Derick 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hi everybody, I just had a discussion with the GSoC program admin: Carols and she said that the GSoC program for 2016 has been announced. Date of announcement is: 13th Oct, 2015. You can have a look at the news here for more information like the timeline - Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline - Announcement: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ Will keep you all posted if i get to have any information about this and up coming issues. Good luck to all prospective GSoC participants. Its on and hoping to see what Wiki will do this time around :) -- Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain

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Fwd: READ: Any/All deployments CANCELED rest of the week
by Greg Grossmeier 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

FYI regarding updates to WMF production the rest of the week. ----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> ----- > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:46:17 -0700 > From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: READ: Any/All deployments CANCELED rest of the week > > Due to two days in a row of outages while the Ops team is at their > offsite this week we (Mark and I) have decided to cancel ALL deployments > for the rest of the week. > > "ALL? Like even ....?" Yes, even that. No new code. No config changes. > No rolling of the train. We'll clean up the current situation and then > we'll be staying there until next week. > > Any questions please contact me (Mark is no very contactable, > obviously). > > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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Need a way to modify text before indexing (was SearchUpdate)
by vitalif＠yourcmc.ru 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

I've written about my problem ~2 years ago: http://wikitech-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/6G0YPmWQ/need-a-way-to-modify-text-… It seems I've lost the latest message, so I want to answer to it now: > With lsearchd and Elasticsearch, we absolutely wouldn't want to munge > file text into page content (with sql-backed search, you might maybe). Why?? Aren't these also just the fulltext search backends? As I understand they're much faster than sql-backed search engines. What would prevent them to store file texts? Personally I use Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com) with TikaMW, and of course everything is fine.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository
by Erica Litrenta 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

> > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:41:08 -0400 > From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Tools repository > Message-ID: > <CAF= > dyJjBJex05LGmB7HX61WE3Y-KvjFkg1ZOGgeBA1_h3b2DFw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I like the idea of a tools index. Bob Cummings was looking for some GLAM > tools that IIRC sounded perfectly reasonable but no one seems to know if we > have them. > > Pine > Other than the ones listed at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Resources/Tools ? E. > On Oct 13, 2015 6:52 PM, "Quim Gil" <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Ricordisamoa < > > ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Il 12/10/2015 18:56, Quim Gil ha scritto: > > > > > >> > > >> Interesting. Has there been any discussion about having an > authoritative > > >> and well promoted catalog of Wikimedia tools? > > >> > > > > > > Yes. > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-March/thread.html#3462 > > > > > > After reading the (short) discussion, I think it is worth creating a task > > to assure that at least this idea is not forgotten again in another > mailing > > list archive. Ricordisamoa, do you want to create it and associate it at > > lest with the #Developer-Relations project? > > > > I also believe that we need a catalog of tools. Even when some experts in > > our community know or can find what is available and functional, most > > potential users of those tools will have a hard time connecting with > them. > > > > -- > > Quim Gil > > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >

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Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?
by Isarra Yos 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

This strikes me as a rather good idea, but I don't really know that much about cirrussearch in the first place. Anyone know, or have any thoughts on this? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch? Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:12:18 +0000 From: Daniel Barrett <danb(a)cimpress.com> Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> CirrusSearch has so many wonderful keywords for advanced searching: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch. Has anybody created an "advanced" search form (a special page) that uses these wonderful options under the hood, to help less sophisticated users? That would make a great addition to MediaWiki. For example: Enter your search terms: Limit to category: Limit to namespace: (dropdown) Search page titles only (yes/no): Approximate matching (on/off): Search within wikitext source (on/off): etc... I looked on mediawiki.org but didn't see anything. Thanks, DanB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Deprecate $wgEnableAPI?
by Max Semenik 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Hey, I've created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115414 to remove $wgEnableAPI. Quoting the bug: By now, MediaWiki is severely crippled without the API, with most of interesting extensions relying on the API, it becomes more and more problematic to disable it. Now it's probably fair to say that wikis that do that are just shooting their own feet off for no good reason. Therefore, I propose to officially declare that MW does not support working without the API and remove this very setting. Please state your opinions on this. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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Re: [Wikitech-l] [discovery] WikiConference USA
by Pine W 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Yes, Andrew's talk was quite good. He and I recorded video at some of the other sessions, including a SWOT analysis and visioning exercise regarding Wikipedia culture, and a session about video on Wikipedia. Some of the videos (Andrew's) came out better than others (mine) due to hardware issues (my camera's video quality is mediocre although some of its stills are pretty good). Andrew will hopefully post links to the videos after they're uploaded. Pine On Oct 13, 2015 2:55 PM, "Trey Jones" <tjones(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > For those who didn't make it to WikiConference USA, you can watch > everything that happened in the biggest auditorium on YouTube. (Don't > forget the settings to play at higher speed—most people don't talk as fast > as you can listen.) > > While it isn't focused on Discovery, I found Andrew Lih's talk to be very > interesting: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6U22uJzGM&t=24m30s > > Links to the other National Archives recordings are on the schedule: > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Schedule > > Other talks were also recorded, but not by the National Archives. I'm sure > they'll pop up somewhere online eventually. > > Aaron Halfaker gave a very cool talk on AI bots that support Wikipedia, > and discusses a machine learning platform that could support other > tasks—and though he didn't mention it, I thought of detecting languages, > detecting gibberish queries (very similar to what they do to find gibberish > edits), and other things that may be useful to Discovery: > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Revscoring:_AI_support_f… > > See more on machine learning as a service here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service > > —Trey > > Trey Jones > Software Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > discovery(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >

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Re: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary (Alangi Derick)
by Erica Litrenta 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Congrats for your "monthiversary", d3r1ck, and thanks for your thorough report. Sounds like you're enjoying the experience of contributing to the Movement, so I certainly hope to read other enthusiastic updates from you in the future. Best, Elitre (WMF) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:20:08 +0100 > From: Alangi Derick <alangiderick(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] One Month Anniversary > Message-ID: > <CAKB+oNtWfGAXZKh0=ELciEdbXEyEm= > HyrpdDBn8_7tc2QEcrtw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Fellow Developers, > Greetings to all my fellow developers and contributors to the wiki > community. I am happy to write to you all and to pass my small piece of > information about congratulating myself for making One month in the wiki > community and for being and active contributor. > > I have been submitting patches to this organisation in for both the > wiki-core and extensions like; > Core > ==== > - WikiMedia Core > > Extensions > ========= > - Echo > - Thanks > - MobileFrontend > - Mailgun ( authoring with Tony Thomas ) > - WikibaseJavascriptAPI > - OOjs/UI > - VisualEditor > > Linking you to my gerrit account's merged patches: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:D3r1ck01+status:merged,n,z . > > I am very happy for familiarizing myself with the following people who have > been of very big help to me in making me learn the Wiki Media code base > - Brian Bawolf > - Reedy > - Quim Gil (for his great advices) > - Hoo Man (WikiData, for his inspiration) > - Tony Thomas > - jdlrobson (Mobile FE) > - Glaisher > - and more.... > > I wish to thank everyone who has helped me in one way or the other and i > will do all my possible best to make sure Wiki grows to the highest height > it can obtain. Wish you all the best Wiki Developers and contributors. > > Cheers Alangi Derick ( d3r1ck01, d3r1ck [irc] ) > > > ------------------------------ > >

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Research articles on MediaWiki spam/artificial intelligence
by cook879＠shoutwiki.com 12 Oct '15

12 Oct '15

Thanks Nick! Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: 12 October 2015 04:53 To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 22 ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:53:04 -0400 From: "Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" <nwilson(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Research articles on MediaWiki spam/artificial intelligence Message-ID: <CAGVJWn0yDe9-cO56KCB_r=+NExZoD3BPrYu9c+7CWfzn5dYrig(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:50 PM, <cook879(a)shoutwiki.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > As part of my Computer Science degree I have to do a project, which I’ve decided to do related to MediaWiki spam. > > I’m looking for any articles/papers/research about spam on MediaWiki. Likewise, anything about intelligent systems running on MediaWiki would also be helpful. If anyone knows of any articles, or knows of a website/journal which contains MediaWiki-related articles, it would be much appreciated! > > Best regards, > > Richard Cook > For past research, try searching the Research Newsletter backissues, i.e. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=spam&prefix=Research%… For more recent info, try asking on https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l For intelligent systems, I think this might be helpful. Start off with this video: https://youtu.be/Hj7o5d-OEis?t=139 and then explore the links from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service Hope that helps. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ------------------------------ End of Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 22 *******************************************

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