This drag and drop from a CSV and other mentions of VE neatness would make a great blog post. I would love see a post about being productive in VisualEditor. Tips and tricks as it were.
-Chris K.
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The MediaWiki/Wikimedia stand has been accepted for FOSDEM. The main
coordination point prior to the event will be
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106560 .
Thanks,
Matt Flaschen
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Subject: Your stand proposal for FOSDEM 2016 has been accepted
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:54:55 +0100 (CET)
From: FOSDEM Stands Team <stands(a)fosdem.org>
To: Matthew <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Matthew,
The FOSDEM stands team is glad to be able to inform you that your request
for a stand for 'MediaWiki' has been accepted.
There will be one table reserved for you.
Like most years, we received roughly twice as many requests for stands
as we have tables available. We have aimed to grant as many requests as
feasible and to increase the diversity of the accepted stands. Because
of this, we have unfortunately had to reduce the space available for a
number of regular attendees, as well as reject some projects that have
been present in previous years years.
You will receive further information about what's expected of you closer
to the event date.
Looking forward to seeing you at FOSDEM 2016!
Kind regards,
Wynke Stulemeijer
FOSDEM stands team
Hey all,
In the continued quest to make the search bar a better tool, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Discovery Department
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> has put a completion
suggester into Beta Features. The tool functions with search-as-you-type,
with a small tolerance for typos and spacing in finding results. Possible
matches are then displayed as you type in a drop down menu, hopefully
eliminating the need to perform a fulltext search with landing page and
all. You can read more details at mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester>
and use the talk page for now for feedback.
The tool is now available and will only be enabled for the article
namespace for now, and will progress into full production at some point
hopefully in early 2016, depending on feedback. It's going to be important
to get feedback from regular contributors who use search to make sure that
any of the basic feature requests for searching the main space can at least
be addressed while in Beta Features.
Thanks!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
For JS gurus - what is the best way to share JavaScript library code
between the NodeJS and browser? The shared library will need to use
$.extend()-like functionality, URL parsing and reconstructing, and logging.
How should the code be organized? What are the recommended tools to
automate the process?
Thanks!
The new Developer Relations Weekly Summary has been published. Sorry for
the delay.
Full version available in wiki splendor at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-17
== Developer Relations focus ==
* Google Code-in: 74 tasks completed by 44 students with the help of 30
mentors in its first week.
* Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016:
** Finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and
more)
** "Must have" sessions.
** Initial details about unconference tracks, keynote, wrap-up session, and
Meet & Code day.
** Coordinate Collaboration area
* Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016.
* Code of Conduct: seeking expert advice on legal, HR, and community
aspects.
More at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-17
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi Giles,
I regret I will probably not be available for the IRC office hours as scheduled.
In the discussion of shared hosting, I worry that en:User:Dispenser's
reflinks project, which requires a 20 TB cache, is being forgotten
again. He tried to host it himself, but it's offline again. This data
is essential in maintaining an audit trail of references as long as
the Internet Archive respects robots.txt retroactively, allowing those
who inherit domains to censor them, even if they have already been
used as a reference in Wikipedia. Keeping the cache is absolutely a
fair use right in the US, in both statutory and case law, and it is
essential to be able to track down patterns of attempts at deceptive
editing to address quality concerns around deliberately biased editing
such as paid editing. Because of the sensitivity of this goal, the
Foundation should certainly bear the risk of hosting the reflinks
cache. However, in the past, 20 TB was considered excessive, even
though the cost was shown to be less than $5000 without whatever Dell
NSA-enabled hardware you usually buy.
Would you please reach out to en:User:Dispenser and offer them the
20TB hosting solution they need for the Foundation to bear the risk of
the reflinks cache? Thank you for your kind consideration.
Best regards,
Jim
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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2015-12-19 4:45 GMT+05:30
Subject: OCR4wikisource
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
Released a program to link google OCR and books for wiki source.
Grab the python code from here and run in your GNU/linux machines.
https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource
It is based on
https://github.com/tshrinivasan/google-ocr-python
Reply here with your suggestions and improvements.
Thanks.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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